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16 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Real accountability means owning what you do, not just what you say.

Rep. Mike Gallagher claims “President Trump has lost my support — permanently.”

But he voted to shield him from impeachment. So we’re holding Gallagher accountable, with this TV ad running statewide in WI:
Gallagher has voted with Trump 86.7% of the time. He voted against impeaching Trump despite obvious high crimes and misdemeanors—twice. He’s seeking media attention for criticizing Trump, but when it counts, Mike Gallagher has Trump’s back.
projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump…
As a profile in political courage, Rep. Gallagher is right up there with Betsy DeVos. After 3 years & 50 weeks on Team Trump, she resigned from the Cabinet after the insurrection, instead of pushing for the 25th. Gallagher shakes his head about Trump—and votes to protect him.
This is Rep. Gallagher’s political happy place: having it both ways. When Trump led a crowd to chant “Send her back!” about Rep. Ilhan Omar, Gallagher called it “abhorrent.”

But on the bipartisan resolution condemning the chant as racist, he voted no.

postcrescent.com/story/news/201…
Gallagher talks up his concerns about Trump, polarization, and the future of the country to any reporter who will listen. And then he makes the case against impeachment. He creates space for purple-district Republicans to stick with Trump and against the Constitution.

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Want to feel old? The @TheWebbyAwards are celebrating their 25th year. The Webby anniversary theme is “overwrite tomorrow”—to spur thinking on what in our society we need to overwrite. Here’s one thing: let’s stop overwriting political infrastructure, and build long-term instead.
Campaigns and viral moments come and go. Institutions and people endure. So over these next 25 years, let’s invest in institutions and people. Let’s invest in institutions and people who can lift up and energize campaigns, undergird movements, and shape moments.
The cultures and business models of our institutions shape the outcomes they produce and the the people they touch. And the values and mindsets of the people within them shape our institutions. Let’s focus on those.
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This year, we beat Trump. On November 9, 2022, we fight to beat *Trumpism.* And ground zero will be the battle for the office that served, in the last decade, as the proxy: Wisconsin’s governorship.

Become a monthly supporter & help reelect Tony Evers: wisdems.org/evers
The Trump era began in 2010 in Wisconsin with Scott Walker’s election. The lawlessness. The reckless disregard for democracy. The all-base-all-the-time provocation, relentless and intentional division, the sheer destruction.

The GOP here wants to bring it all back.
In a sense, the Trump era began to end right here in 2018—when Tony Evers beat Scott Walker, and began the hard work of restoring the soul of Wisconsin. Tony Evers is a fundamentally decent and kind human being. That, plus a massive voter uprising, won the day. Kinda like 2020.
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14 Dec 20
BREAKING: The Wisconsin Supreme Court just ruled against Trump's attempt to steal the election w/ a 4-3 margin.

We might not have won this case if we hadn’t defeated the Trump-backed Supreme Court judge in April.

Help us continue to organize year-round: wisdems.org/2021
Thank you to Justices Jill Karofsky, Rebecca Dallet, Ann Walsh Bradley, and Brian Hagedorn for doing the right thing by your oaths to defend our Constitution!
Read the ruling.
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THREAD: 2020 showed how the long-term survival of American democracy depends on Wisconsin.

The next two years—crucial, history-shaping Gov & Senate races, redistricting, more—require a party fighting year-round. Be a part of it. Become a monthly donor: wisdems.org/2021
We beat Trump here by 20,682 votes. The 4th time, out of the last 6 races, where the presidential margin has been under 1%. (No other state’s done this more than twice.) We won by starting early, building relationships, working flat out, year-round. We can’t lose that lesson.
Now, we’re in deep debrief mode, listening to local candidates & county parties, drawing lessons from the data and our staff & volunteers who’ve been on the front lines.

One thing that’s crystal clear: now is not the time to demobilize. This fight will only ramp up.
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18 Nov 20
NEWS: Trump campaign says it's filing to recount Milwaukee & Dane Counties. But as Trump said in 2016, “The people have spoken and the election is over.” Wisconsinites chose Biden. The history of recounts suggests the win is insurmountable. Trump is kicking up dust. We’re ready.
Staffing recounts costs money. The highest-impact way to support our work is to sign up as a monthly donor—even a few bucks a month—to help ensure that we’re in a strong position for the fights to come, no matter what happens: wisdems.org/recount
Just in case Trump wanted to waste the nation’s time so he can keep grifting, our organizers have been working with county parties and neighborhood action teams to recruit and train volunteers all over the state.
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THREAD: The Biden win over Trump in Wisconsin is the result of thousands of heroes, working in the trenches for years.

To everyone who made this possible—THANK YOU. Here's one story of the path to this victory, and some of the people & groups involved. Everything mattered.
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The @WisDems collaboration with him allowed us to scale our state party in an unprecedented fashion. And boy did we need to scale. Here's why:
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Ignore polls: You have to run like you’re two points behind.
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