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This is why US citizens should vote for #Democrats this midterm.
Balance in the public service and private equity sectors of the "US Economy".
You either have it or you don't!
#Vote
#election2026
#2026election
#NoKings
#theZone

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United we bargain
Divided we beg

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Memphis rallies for progressive Democrat after four fatal shootings by taskforce: ‘Fight of our lives’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/17/justin-pearson-memphis-rally-progressive-democrat-aoc #UsPolitics #UsNews #Tennessee #Democrats #AlexandriaOcasiocortez #UsCongress

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If you are not progressive left — which is the only way we save this country — I don’t want to hear from you anymore.

I will vote progressively or not at all. It is not up for debate or discussion.

I will not support pedophile Nazis or their sympathizers or collaborators. Unity is not more important than accountability and change.

Unity without accountability is just a hostage situation. We’ve spent decades watching conservatives move the goalposts and moderates tell us to be grateful for the new, worse 'normal.' Stop calling it a compromise when the only thing being sacrificed is progress. I’m voting for systemic change, not for a seat on a bus that only travels right.

I’m done accepting 'unity' as a substitute for change. The current cycle is predictable and toxic: conservatives break the system, and moderates ask us to 'compromise' by accepting the damage as the new baseline. True compromise requires a move toward progress, not just a slower crawl toward the right. I refuse to fall in line with a system that demands my silence while it protects the very people who should be held accountable.

If my unwillingness to continue to capitulate to that nonsense any longer makes you feel afraid, then be afraid, and do something about it.

#Democrat #Democrats #VoteBlue #DNC #DCCC #UnitedStates #America #USA #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Vote

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This week's comic on the folly of triangulating with oligarchs

#comic #cartoon #voting #uspol #oligarchy #democrats #elections #authoritarianism #corruption

The trouble with oligarchy-curious Dems

Actual Democrats aren’t inspired to vote for them

Politician on TV: I’m so open-minded, I voted for all of Trump’s nominees, and I love data centers!

Woman in chair: I’m staying home.

Republicans won’t vote for them

Voter at ballot box: A demon-CRAT?

No way!

Low-info swing voters aren’t concerned with performative “centrism”

Guy walking out of convenience store with case of Brapp Lite: I just like the guy who yells.

Triangulation: It finds the sweet spot!

Consultant: We’ve zeroed in on one voter named Gus.

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"Ahmed doesn’t merely document the decisions that led President #Biden and his aides to arm and rationalize what leading human rights organizations and legal scholars now consider a genocide. He also illuminates the habits of mind that underlay those decisions — habits that will require a political revolution if the #Democrats want to uproot them."

Peter Beinart reviews #AkbarShahidAhmed's #CrossingTheRedLine

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/books/review/crossing-the-red-line-akbar-shahid-ahmed.html?unlocked_article_code=1.C1E.qp3O.FPUTe7QxoNOE&smid=url-share

#Gaza #Palestine #USpol #GazaGenocide #books @bookstodon

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You may need a subscription to read this, so I'll summarize: Democratic Party apparatchiks have taken control of the Troy Jackson for Senate campaign in Maine, are maddeningly centrist, and are trying to stifle questions at town halls. I can tell you for a fact that party officials do not respond when constituents contact them with concerns. These people never, ever learn. #Politics #Democrats #Democracy #Maine #Senate #US #USpol https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/maine-senate-democratic-party-troy-jackson-graham-platner-susan-collins.html

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Key Texas county votes to cut polling sites ahead of the midterms

Officials in Tarrant County, the third most populous in Texas, approved a plan to reduce the number of polling locations by 92 compared with the 2022 elections.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/tarrant-county-texas-votes-slash-polling-sites-midterms-rcna595338

#TopNews #News #TarrantCounty #Texas #Democrats

Key Texas county votes to cut polling sites ahead of the midterms

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46d

Say you have 2 districts

1. votes 60-40 for #Republicans

2. votes 55-45 for #Democrats

So you move district borders around

Now you have

1. 54-46 for Republicans

2. 52-48 for Republicans

This is #gerrymandering

This is the #USA's stupidity

But!

What if you have a deeply unpopular president?

If you never moved the districts, #voter sentiment swing might leave one Republican district

But *now* you lose both districts

This might happen in #Texas:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ar-AA2cPu5W

#VOTE

Republicans may have gerrymandered their way into a Texas-sized Latino problem
Story by David Hood-Nuño and Evan Garcia • 1d • 5 min read

Bobby Pulido, a Latin Grammy winner and Democratic candidate for Texas 15th Congressional District, performs during a quinceanera celebration in Edinburg, Texas, U.S. August 1, 2026. REUTERS/Gabriel V. Cardenas
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I have been banging my fucking drum about #voting since forever. Nonvoters are just helping us slide right. #Vote!

My thesis is simple: follow the #Mamdani template

Take over the #Democrats from the left. Turn out in the #primaries. Get 50 Mamdanis. Then in the general #election push them over the finish line

Perhaps I'm too optimistic? It can't happen anywhere else except #NYC?

Well, take a look now...

" #Socialism's Positive Rating Tops 40% for First Time"

https://news.gallup.com/poll/714653/socialism-positive-rating-tops-first-time.aspx

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In the #USA important #midterms are coming up

" #Trump is going to mess with the #election"

"On a particular issue, both sides don't offer me anything"

"The #Democrats are going to win, they don't need me"

etc

#Perfectionism and #cynicism, as well as #MAGA, is how we creep towards #fascism

Another country earlier this year was facing similar/ worse prospects of meddling

The people showed up

And look at #Hungary now:

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/09/25/8055020/

We can kill Trump's agenda for 2 years: #Vote

Hungarian president urges support for Ukraine, which "fights for freedom just as we did in 1956"
Olha Romanska, Iryna Balachuk — 25 September, 13:40
Hungarian president urges support for Ukraine, which fights for freedom just as we did in 1956
Hungarian President András Baka. Photo: sandorpalota.hu

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https://youtu.be/5DCGmIcZ_7k
⛔️🇺🇸Tim Snyder: America Has Chosen to Self-Destruct - And Russia’s Real Problem Is Just The Beginning (Decoding Geopolitics Media VIDEO) #Ukraine #Press #Media #VOTE #VOTE2026 #America #USA #US #News #Brussels #CoE #PACE #France #UK #London #Germany #Democrats #Republicans #Headlines #USAIsAStateSponsorOfTerror
#12yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiansAreBabyKillers

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https://youtu.be/srjRJAqLuac
⛔️🇺🇸Own a Tesla? Your car company’s owner is a lying scumbag Russian agent: Elon Musk and Starlink guilty of sabotaging Ukrainian defense systems (CBS News VIDEO) #Ukraine #Press #Media #VOTE #VOTE2026 #America #USA #US #News #Elon #ElonMusk #Musk #Tesla #BoycottTesla #BoycottMusk #Starlink #X #Brussels #CoE #PACE #France #UK #London #Germany #Democrats #Republicans #Headlines #USAIsAStateSponsorOfTerror
#12yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiansAreBabyKillers

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Many #Democrats are essentially just #MAGA lite

Some react "all Democrats the same, nothing matters, why #vote"

Others "so we better show up and vote them out"

The first reaction only helps centrist turds stick around. That's the only real value of #cynicism

So #ElSayed beat #HaleyStevens in the #primaries

Today she goes full #MAGA

Does the disgusting display move you not to vote?

Why?

We vote El-Sayed over the finish line

Replace the shit with real leftists

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/haley-stevens-endorses-gop-mike-rogers-michigan-senate-race-el-sayed-rcna606831

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https://youtu.be/TBLhE1EStYI
⛔️🇺🇸 Fact check: How Kremlin terrorists are helping Republicans to influence US midterm elections with disinformation (DW - German Media VIDEO) #Ukraine #Press #Media #VOTE #VOTE2026 #America #USA #US #News #Brussels #CoE #PACE #France #UK #London #Germany #Democrats #Republicans #Headlines #USAIsAStateSponsorOfTerror
#12yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiansAreBabyKillers

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There's still #midterm results coming in

Here's an awesome one:

" #NithyaRaman Projected to Win #LosAngeles #Mayor’s Race, Defeating #KarenBass"

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/nithya-raman-wins-los-angeles-mayor-race-2026-1236748184/

Raman is a member of the #DemocraticSocialistsOfAmerica #DSA

I think of this as the #Mamdani template:

1. run as an outsider within the #Democrats
2. just fucking beat them anyways

We can replicate this across the country, and replace the shitty #DNC

👏 👏 👏

#LA #California #midterms #midtermElections #election #elections

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BREAKING: A Navy helicopter pilot who rose to Chief of Navy Reserve, and was fired by Pete Hegseth, just won a seat in Congress. Nancy Lacore, a 35-year Navy veteran who says she was removed “without cause,” took Nancy Mace’s South Carolina seat in a district Trump carried by 13 points. She’ll arrive in a Democratic House with subpoena power, and Hegseth picked the wrong admiral to push out.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6192130-lacore-wins-south-carolina-house/
#BlueSky #MedSky #LawSky #press #Hegseth #NancyLacore #Midterms2026 #Democrats

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a message to #democrats:

🗣KEEP PUERTO RICO OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MOUTHS

you are acting like parasitic colonialist garbage, talking about #statehood without even spending a second to talk about the Biden-Obama brainchild of La Junta, a dictatorship by #WallStreet #finbros that has been ruling La Isla since Obama’s second term.

🗣 DON'T FUCKING TALK ABOUT #STATEHOOD IF YOU WON’T TALK ABOUT YOUR CORPODEMS #FINBROS DICTATORSHIP IN #PUERTORICO

🇵🇷 😡🖕🏽

#LaJunta #fascism #gringolarchy

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ELON MUSK'S HALF A
BILLION-DOLLAR FAIL 💎

Elon #Musk has spent nearly half a billion dollars trying to influence the American #midterm elections, and the results are extraordinary.

Of the 43 #Republican House candidates he backed, only three had won when #Reuters reported the results. Six of his seven #Senate candidates had lost, with the remaining race still undecided.

In #Texas, home to #Tesla and #SpaceX, Musk spent almost $230 million on the Senate contest alone. Yet the Democrats won both the Senate race and the governorship.

Now, with #Democrats taking control of #Congress, Musk faces the prospect of investigations into his government contracts, political activities, and his involvement with #DOGE.

None of this means his businesses are finished. Tesla and SpaceX remain enormously significant enterprises, and Musk remains an extraordinarily wealthy and influential man.

But something important has happened.

One of the richest people on #Earth has discovered that spending vast sums of money does not guarantee the political outcome he wants.

Wealth can buy advertising, access, and influence. It cannot guarantee the consent of the electorate.

And perhaps the most interesting question now is whether America's political institutions can hold extraordinarily powerful individuals accountable, regardless of their wealth.

MONEY IS POWER. BUT IT ISN'T EVERYTHING, ELON.

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