It can’t be overstated how limited progressive media infrastructure is in this country.
It puts us at a massive electoral disadvantage.
There have been six Ilhan Omar articles on Foxnews dot com this week, and TEN about AOC.
There is nothing even remotely close on our side with that kind of reach or influence. Mainstream "objective" outlets maybe had one or two (often unfriendly).
If we want to understand why our policies are more popular than our identities, we have to start here.
The image most Americans see of the left has nothing to do with the reality of the policies we support.
Also shout out to the hundreds of amazing journalists who do left journalism at great outlets. The issue is not lack of talent, it's lack of scale and investment.
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I first really met @IlhanMN the night before swearing in.
She was already negotiating the Rules Package for the 116th Congress—ensuring that she would not only be allowed on the floor in a hijab, but that we would create a Select Committee on the Climate Crisis + more.
As most Minnesotans know, CD5 is the turnout engine of the Minnesota.
Thanks to @keithellison, we were able to keep Minnesota blue in 2008 and 2012 and keep turnout high during midterm elections
In 2018, Ilhan carried on that tradition, boosting turnout by over 100,000 votes—the highest voter turnout in MN and the highest of *any* new Member of Congress.
This helped usher in a majority in the MN House and a Democratic Governor.
Here are some of the GOP Members of Congress who just voted for a Farm Bill that slashes food assistance for 2 million people, while quietly profiting off the same bill cnn.com/2018/06/04/pol…
.@RepLaMalfa gets $1,747,174 in farm subsidies. He called the Farm Bill’s food stamp cuts “common sense.”
.@RepHartzler, who brags in her Twitter bio about working “to reduce big govt,” has received at least $986,789 in farm subsidies since 1995.