It is so rare to see #Democrats refute the media's conservative framing and respond with compelling messaging about defending people's rights, it is kinda shocking when you do see it.
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In Battle for #Congress, #Virginia #Democrats to Begin Votes to Redraw Maps
State lawmakers are convening to take a vote that would allow #redistricting before next year’s #midterms, though the process would take months.
#law #ElectionLaw #gerrymandering #FireWithFire
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/us/virginia-redistricting-vote.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
"Our Constitution was not designed to… improve lives of American people. Instead, it was designed to make it hard… to engage in #socialReform projects that might infringe on #PropertyRights.
#Democrats and #Republicans ALIKE became more interested in #wealthGeneration than in addressing an ever-widening #wealthGap."
Neither #Democracy nor the #RuleOfLaw can be built or endure in places with radically and persistently UNEQUAL distributions of wealth.
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/21/no-kings-missed-the-mark-heres-how-we-can-fix-that/
#Democrats have to win big in November.
#Senate rejects resolution to block #Trump from striking #Iran
The #WarPowers resolution was the fourth to fail in the chamber since the war’s start — but some #Republicans expressed fresh concern about the conflict as it approaches the two-month mark.
#IranWar #TrumpsWar #MafiaState #WarMonger #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #economy #inflation #EnergyCrisis
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/15/iran-war-powers-trump/
The push back against the corporate media narrative is us, slapping back against their toadying up to #Trump and #Republican fascism.
No pessimistic rhetoric.
No whining.
Get organized, get out the vote and leave everything on the road.
💯 percent voter turnout for #Democrats must be the goal.
If you can, #volunteer.
If you can, #donate.
Just as #Ukraine is struggling against #Russia, #America is now in an #existential struggle against #fascism
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The Nation magazine, August 26, 2025: "Graham Platner is the real deal."
October 2025: One unflattering revelation after another about Graham Platner, including horrifying, macho-white-male comments about women and Black people, and the bit about the Nazi tattoo.
The Nation magazine, October 29, 2025: "It's precisely in his flaws that I find Platner most appealing."
Rep. Al Green Files Resolution to Impeach President Trump for Abuse of Power and Incitement of Violence and Death Threats Against Lawmakers and Federal Judges
https://algreen.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-al-green-files-resolution-impeach-president-trump-abuse-power-and
#Representative #RepAlGreen #AlGreen #Democrats #DonaldTrump #Impeach #Trump #Impeachment #POTUS #ImpeachTrump #House #Congress #USPol #Politics #News #Press #US #USA #UnitedStates #America
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Projection
#Trump says he 'won't be extorted' by #Democrats seeking #healthcare for the people
The government #shutdown is poised to become the longest ever this week as #Republicans continue to refuse to negotiate with #Democrats. Millions of people could lose #FoodAid benefits, #health #care subsidies are set to expire & there are few real talks between the parties over how to end it.
#PublicDisservice
https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-longest-trump-democrats-senate-filibuster-1f147746aab58daffd8a8cb578df0b81?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-03-No+end+to+the+shutdown
As they should, #Democrats hold out for #healthcare talks as Thune says 'time is now' to reopen government
Senate Majority Leader John Thune asked Democrats on Friday to “end these weeks of misery” without offering anything in return, which is the way of democratic government: compromise.
Dems pledged to vote against reopening the government until #Trump & #Republicans negotiate with them on an extension of #health #care benefits.
#RepublicansDontGiveAShitAboutYoy
https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-democrats-trump-senate-7cc1938d861b396fab07b5d2b7b28e62
I have said from the beginning that #Hamas #Oct7 attacks were timed for #ElectionInterference in #US #Election2024.
Never has this been more obvious than now.
Members of BOTH #Arab and #Jewish diaspora in #US have ratcheted up their attacks on #Democrats since #KamalaHarris became the presumptive nominee.
I have noted at length Rashida #Tlaib's role under that hashtag. Below, I note some from the #Israeli side.
BOTH groups are holding #Harris hostage to extract concessions for their side.
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#Democrats flip #SocialMedia *#censorship* complaints on #Musk, #GOP
#ElonMusk’s #X is facing #impartiality questions after he endorsed #Trump & the *platform* restricted pro-#Harris account.
#Republicans have spent the better part of a decade accusing #SocialMedia companies of “censoring” *#conservative* viewpoints & skewing their platforms to benefit Democrats.
#VoteBlue
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/13/democrats-flip-social-media-censorship-complaints-musk-gop/
Raw Story:
'You're gonna lose this!' Trump fans rebel against him over 'A.I.' Harris rally claim
Donald Trump is getting pushback on Sunday on his latest conspiracy theory from an unlikely source: his own MAGA supporters.
@Deplorable59 ... told Trump to "STFU about the crowd size."
"She's getting bigger crowds now face that fact. You're gonna lose this!" the user wrote on Sunday. "Stop with this bulls--- - ..."
https://www.rawstory.com/maga-fans-rebel-against-him-over-fake-rally-claim/
RS:
Conservative mom of 6 says Dems better on family policy
Even a former Heritage Foundation writer is now saying that Democrats are the better party when concerning policies that are most beneficial to parents.
In a recent op-ed for Newsweek, conservative activist Bethany Mandel... admitted that the Democratic Party has consistently been a better ally of working-class Americans... better for families...
https://www.rawstory.com/republicans-family-values/
#Senate Passes Deal to Reopen Government
The Senate, with the help of Democratic defectors, passed a bill to end the longest government #shutdown WITHOUT the #HealthInsurance subsidies #Democrats long demanded. The earliest the House will vote is Wednesday.
#healthcare #ACA #Medicaid
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/10/us/trump-government-shutdown-news/heres-the-latest?smid=url-share
Bullshit
Enough #Democrats voted with #Republicans to allow a spending deal that would reopen the government without the extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies they had originally sought.
#ACA #Healthcare #HealthInsurance
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/09/us/trump-news?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#JeffreyEpstein Alleged in Emails That #Trump Knew of His Conduct
#House #Democrats on Wednesday released emails in which #Epstein wrote that Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of Epstein’s victims, among other messages that suggested that the convicted sex offender believed Trump knew far more about his abuse than he has acknowledged.
#criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #felon47 #EpsteinFiles
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/politics/trump-epstein-emails.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0k8.5Xpw.eV8ZST0R2omh&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
had to mute Robert Reich for their social media managers’ insistence on not adding AltTxt to their images BUT! i think y’all should read this for one thing:
Reich was Bill Clinton’s Labor Secretary during his first administration, and economics advisor to Barack Obama. so Reich is an OG Clintonista; which makes this slapdown of both of them, as corporatist bootlickers, spot on.
» We are finally witnessing the decline of corporate #Democrats | Robert Reich
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/20/corporate-democrats-decline
I’ve heard it said that if you don’t vote with whichever party then you are a coward. I think that’s exactly backwards, and even reflects poorly all the person making that argument. It doesn’t take much courage to go with the group.
Instead I go the other way: no matter which party you might prefer in general, it takes courage to say they nominated a moron, and fortunately the other party also nominated a loser, so no matter what the US is going to slog through these next few years.
In my opinion the courageous position is to say no, you nominated a moron, and I’m not going to give you my vote. We’re going to be okay I guess, whether you win or not, but I’m not going to let you assume that you have my vote if you insist on nominating a moron. You should have nominated someone better. You should have nominated someone worthy of my vote. Do better next time.
That’s the state of #USPolitics . As South Park said, big douche versus turd sandwich. So screw both #Democrats and #Republicans. Neither of you managed to nominate someone worth voting for, so I’m voting for my dog.
To give either party our votes is to sign on to their nomination of garbage people. Let’s not. Let’s say that they need to actually nominate worthwhile administrators.
But more practically, let’s focus on #Congress. No matter who wins this election, they’re going to suck, but we can still express ourselves through our representation in Congress, and that’s honestly how it should be anyway.
Check out your representatives. See how they have actually been voting, and vote them out if they have been letting you down. That’s really where our focus should be anyway.
Not on which jerk ends up in the Oval Office.
(But thank God #Biden is on his way out, as he has been terrible for #science in the US, which has not gotten nearly enough attention from the press.)
Trump Agenda: Himself and His Rich Friends
Harris Agenda: Working Americans and Middle Class Families
Vote accordingly
#Election2024 #Economy #Freedom #USPol #USPolitics #Harris #KamalaHarris #Democrats #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Abortion #RoeVWade
The US Democratic party has been abjectly failing in so many ways. This is such a sad and frustrating read on the failures with respect to cryptocurrency regulation: https://lpeproject.org/blog/inside-the-failure-to-regulate-stablecoins/
What was and still is at stake is the balance between technology and humanity struck by the US federal government. The same incoherence that led us to where we are with crypto is almost surely also at play with the apparent lack of movement around generative AI.
#USPol #democrats #DemocraticParty #crypto #cryptocurrency #StableCoins #ShadowBanking #regulation #AI #GenAI
What was and still is at stake is the balance between technology and humanity struck by the US federal government. The same incoherence that led us to where we are with crypto is almost surely also at play with the apparent lack of movement around generative AI.
#USPol #democrats #DemocraticParty #crypto #cryptocurrency #StableCoins #ShadowBanking #regulation #AI #GenAI
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The U.S. Senate has advanced a resolution that would bar President Donald Trump from further military action against Venezuela without congressional authorization, a rare rebuke of the Republican leader. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/09/world/politics/us-senate-trump-war-power/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #venezuela #republicans #democrats
The fight for the #House & #Senate: Where things stand
Will both chambers flip? #Congress may once again have to work under the strain of divided government.
With <4 weeks to go, #Republicans appear poised to win the Senate, which is currently controlled by the Democrats. The #Democrats, meanwhile, seem to have a slight edge in the race for the Republican-controlled House.
#Election2024 #Vote #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/09/senate-house-race-who-wins/
#LGBTQ+ #voters in these 4 #states could swing the 2024 #presidential #election.
LGBTQ+ voters strongly #vote for #democrats
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Politics #Election #Representation #Culture #DemocraticParty #Allies #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate #Megathread
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bear with me for a second:
a million reasons, but a big reason the #democrats lost is because the center of gravity for #media has moved to #socialmedia
where the #trolls and #disinfo play. enough dum dums bought the lies
the democrats didn't play that game. because what game can they play in that shit?
it's literally owned by #plutocrats and #fascists
so... how do we fight?
we need our own
and what do we have
#mastodon and the #fediverse
we need to grow like a fucking weed
am i wrong?
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Zohran Mamdani promises ‘new era’ for New York City in first speech as mayor https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/01/zohran-mamdani-inauguration-speech #ZohranMamdani #NewYork #AlexandriaOcasiocortez #BernieSanders #Democrats #UsPolitics #UsNews