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15 Apr, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Scoop: Democratic Reps. Jimmy Gomez (Calif.) and Veronica Escobar (Texas) used a DCCC-sponsored call with donors to seek help fending off progressive challengers. huffpost.com/entry/house-de… via @HuffPostPol
This was a call for Frontline members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

Reps. Mike Levin, Charles Gonzalez and Antonio Delgado fit that description.

Gomez and Escobar do not. dccc.org/dccc-announces…
But thanks to California's top-two, nonpartisan primary system, Gomez came within 6 points of losing to a left-wing lawyer, David Kim, in the general: nytimes.com/interactive/20…
On the call, Gomez speculated that white progressive voters see Asians as more of a minority than Latinos in the district, which is 60% Latino and 20% Asian.
In March, the DCCC ended its blacklist on vendors that work for primary challengers.

But it did not deny the details of this story or suggest that it does not help incumbents against progressives through fundraising calls of the kind I reported on ...
... “We are going to ensure Democratic incumbents have the resources they need to return to Congress to continue delivering for the American people,” a spokesperson told me.
*Vicente Gonzalez, my mistake

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14 Apr
New: Rana Abdelhamid, a progressive activist and founder of a women's self-defense group, is challenging Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) from the left. huffpost.com/entry/rana-abd… via @HuffPostPol
Abdelhamid, an Astoria, Queens, native, told me that the pandemic exposed inequities she's experienced her whole life.

“It’s time for ... a representative who will fight for all of us ― not just certain groups or certain neighborhoods.”
Abdelhamid had to move six times as a kid due to rising rents and her dad had to give up on a deli he owned for the same reason. Her mother was hospitalized with COVID.

She wants to focus on housing. "It’s an issue that impacts gender justice, racial justice, climate justice." Image
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11 Apr
New for @HuffPost: How New York progressives raised taxes on the rich to up public school funding, provide emergency rental assistance, and give unemployment benefits to undocumented immigrants.

It took a decade to defy Cuomo's opposition to tax hikes: huffpost.com/entry/new-york…
This story is a sequel to my January piece looking at the comparatively conservative fiscal policy of blue states in contrast with their leaders' rhetoric.

At the time, Cuomo was holding the line against tax hikes: huffpost.com/entry/budget-c…
How much has Cuomo been forced to change his tune since first taking office in 2011?

Back then, he compared his insistence on letting a millionaire's tax expire, despite the tax's popularity, to his father's principled opposition to the death penalty: nytimes.com/2011/10/18/nyr…
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9 Apr
Yes, @EricLevitz, looking at the source material now, it was a debate over whether the Brooklyn Commons, a private venue, should host an anti-semite. Nathan makes all the maximalist free-speech arguments I still believe in ...
... The public square now consists largely of private spaces, so even if constitutional, encouraging professed open fora to pick and choose is harmful; who gives authority to censors; nothing to be feared from bad ideas; good speech defeats bad. currentaffairs.org/2016/09/let-th… ImageImageImage
Nathan's free to change his opinions. But there's a lack of self-awareness in going from lamenting his firing from The Guardian -- and mobilizing colleagues against it -- to poo-pooing Substack's openness ... without acknowledging the parallels to Brooklyn Commons. Image
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5 Apr
.@ninaturner has raised $2.2 million since announcing in mid-December, including $1.55 M since Jan. 1.

Cash on hand: Over $1 million

Average contribution is $28.
Turner's main opponent @ShontelMBrown announced a total $500k haul on March 24. In the final week of the month, Brown says her total since announcing her run grew to $680k.

But Brown is more keen to emphasize local proportion of donors, claiming 55% are from northeast Ohio.
Turner says she has 400 donors from Ohio. It's unclear what her total number of donors is. Her total contributions are nearly 78k.

Turner has also burned through more than $1M.

FWIW, Brown has held a *greater share* of her cash. Her campaign says she has over $500k on hand.
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5 Apr
New: Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) is running for a second term against three Black candidates.

I did a deep dive on his record as governor on questions of racial justice, civil rights, civil liberties and criminal justice reform: huffpost.com/entry/terry-mc…
News: @ACLUVA's @changeservant says that after McAuliffe vetoed a bill limiting mass surveillance, “He looked me in the eye and said, ‘Claire, you just need to know, I’m always going to side with the police.’”

McAuliffe denies it. (They're at odds over blame for C'ville in '17.)
The debate over McAuliffe versus @jcarrollfoy or @JennMcClellanVA is a fight over the future for Dems in Va.

Are Dem gains so tenuous they need a guy who's shown he can win? Or do they want to make history -- first Black woman Gov in the country -- with someone more progressive?
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5 Apr
Full write-up of Odessa Kelly's run with background on Rep. Jim Cooper here: huffpost.com/entry/odessa-k…
For all those noting that the Twitter handle is nonexistent, here's evidence that it used to be Kelly's.
Facts on Tennessee's 5th:
--Nashville and suburbs
--It went 60-37% for Biden
--Last primary challenge to Cooper got 40%
--Black pop. = 24% of district. Total Black, Latino, Asian = 37%.
--Cooper uncontested in '20 general, but primary challenger got 40%.
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