Awesome stuff! We raised over $2,000 for @GreenfieldIowa off this tweet alone. Can we get to $4,000 to oust Joni Ernst?
Y’all are amazing — and BLEW past the goal, raising $4,500+ for @GreenfieldIowa to combat Joni Ernst’s lies. This is a winnable seat that’d secure the senate majority for Democrats, and donations like this matter tremendously.
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Cory Booker has taken the Senate floor and plans to filibuster as long as he’s physically able to protest the complete disregard for the rule of law by Trump and Musk.
Cory Booker on the Senate floor: “I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able. Our constituents are asking us to acknowledge that this is a crisis. So I am going to stand here until I no longer can.”
Chris Murphy confirms he’s joining Cory Booker in solidarity on the Senate floor all night to protest Trump’s lawlessness and corruption.
It’s about time the Democratic Party come to terms with the fact that a vast majority of the American public lives in a media environment — from Fox to Twitter to podcasts — that functions as a Republican propaganda machine. Ignoring this reality is no longer a tenable solution.
Republicans aiming to dismantle the social safety net for a tax cut have poured billions into buying and building the most influential media platforms to spread fear and bolster their agenda. Democrats must get serious and invest in alternative media to counter this influence.
For more on the the asymmetry of partisan media ecosystems, worth reading this reflection from @brianbeutler.
It’s time for Senate Democrats to realize that they were given an explicit governing mandate by voters, and exactly zero of those voters will accept the filibuster as an excuse for legislative inaction.
Cannot emphasis this enough: Georgia, a historically Republican state, was given a choice between Democrats controlling the Senate to enact Joe Biden’s agenda, or divided government. Voters deliberately chose to give Democrats a mandate.
Senate Democrats are enabling Republican gridlock in a way that voters clearly and unequivocally chose to prevent just three weeks ago. It’s an insult to voters who expressed their desire for Democrats to control government and enact their agenda.
In the years after 9/11, every time there was a terrorist attack the media would ask ‘Where were they radicalized?’
Why is that question no longer asked? Fox News, OANN, right wing talk radio, Parler. That’s where today’s white supremacist terrorist is being radicalized.
The biggest national security threat facing our country today comes not from foreign-born assailants but from American-born white men. Yet police and press struggle to even call this threat what it is and call out the platforms radicalizing them.
If we are ever going to “unify” this country we need to be honest about what’s tearing it apart. An entire political party has been rotted to its core by nutjob conspiracy theories instigated by its propaganda outlets and bad faith elected officials.
Funny that the same pundits who spent four years urging Democrats to ‘understand’ Trump voters have no similar request for Republicans, after a majority of the country soundly rejected their politics.
In the weeks following the 2016 election, the press churned out dozens of sympathetic Trump voter profiles, chastising Democrats for failing to ‘speak to their issues.’ Where are these same profiles of Biden voters?