If you haven’t figured this out already, I’m running for Congress because I care. I’m honestly not a fan of “party politics.” That includes backdoor deals, hidden agendas, and corruption of any kind – whether or not it threatens our democracy.
This kind of corruption does. 🧵 /1
While we were busy celebrating Kamala announcing Tim Walz as her running mate, the Georgia Election Board passed a new rule that could give Trump loyalists a free pass to reject the election results in November.
What does this mean? /2
The new Georgia Election Board rule is so vague that all we know for sure is it gives partisan election officials an easier path to send the election to the courts. And the officials who voted for it talked to Donald Trump first. /3
I was raised Republican. I became a Democrat largely because I realized the party didn't reflect my real values and I couldn’t vote for Donald Trump. I didn’t want to be a part of a movement that was focused on hating people instead of helping them. /4
I knew a lifelong con artist would con the country, and I realized early on that the GOP leaders would help. That the party I thought had my back was only in it for power… It was a sobering realization.
But I DIDN'T know that dark money and extremist think tanks ran the GOP. /5
Before Trump, we didn’t think an election could be stolen or democracy could end or militias would show up at state capitols to fight MASKS.
Now it’s all most of us think about in regards to government: desperation, the destruction of our rights, and threats to democracy. /6
The dark money donors that control the GOP want us hopeless. It doesn’t help anyone: not me, not you, not Democrats, and not even Republican voters. I’m over feeling hopeless. Aren’t you?
Kamala’s right. We aren’t going back. But you know what else… We aren’t staying here. /7
We don’t have to feel hopeless any more.
Help me defend us from the corrupt Trump crony in OH-12’s seat, and I swear I will use this power to help you and your family as if it were my own, and I will make myself dark money extremists’ #1 enemy. /8
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