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30 Apr, 13 tweets, 5 min read
🚨 Trump endorsed Ron Johnson for reelection this month—and Johnson’s fundraising shot up. We’ve got to ramp up our organizing against him. We need 275 new monthly donors to reach our goal for April, and the deadline is midnight tonight. Can you chip in?

secure.actblue.com/donate/defeat-…
It’s no wonder that Trump loves Johnson: Ron Johnson is like a more extreme and shameless version of Trump himself. Which is saying a lot.
The Washington Post reported yesterday that when the FBI told Ron Johnson that he was a target of Russian disinformation—which he was spreading through his sham Senate “investigations” to help Trump—he found the warning “completely useless and unnecessary”
washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
It’s hard to escape the conclusion that Johnson was completely fine with being used by Russia to spread lies to boost Trump. And that Trump loves it so much that he’s already actively pushing Ron Johnson for another term.
Johnson’s response to Trump’s endorsement has been to grow even more extreme in pushing fringe conspiracy theories—even refusing to get vaccinated himself and calling for vaccines to be “limited.” More on that here→
There are less than 12 hours until midnight. A monthly donation of any size makes a *big* difference.

Help us scale up and organize across the state.

secure.actblue.com/donate/defeat-…
The monthly donations are coming in! If you start a monthly today—or have in the past—comment below 👇. I want to follow you.
⏰Just about 6 hours until our midnight deadline.

Have you started your monthly donation yet?

wisdems.org/Defeat-Trump-J…
UPDATE: Five hours left and this is what our online fundraising portal has looked like over the past hour.

If this keeps up, we'll hit our goal. Start your monthly donation right now and help us keep this momentum!

Here's the donation link: wisdems.org/Defeat-Trump-J…
Four hours until our deadline—I want to share this message from Majority Leader @chuckschumer.

"One of our very best chances to win another Senate seat in 2022 is by beating Ron Johnson in WI"

Listen to what he says and then start your monthly donation: wisdems.org/Defeat-Trump-J…
🚨 Three hours until our midnight deadline, and we've mainly maintained our momentum. There's been a little bit of a slowdown in the last few mins, and I'm hoping this tweet will reverse that.

Start your monthly donation: wisdems.org/Defeat-Trump-J…

And help amplify this thread!
***Two hours until our midnight deadline***

Speaker Pelosi made this statement last year and it's just as relevant today.

"It's all riding on Wisconsin."

With a massive ground game, we can defeat Ron Johnson. Start your monthly donation; help us do it: wisdems.org/Defeat-Trump-J…
🚨 FINAL REMINDER 🚨

One hour until midnight CT. We're *so* close to our goal. Start your monthly donation and let me know in the comments below 👇

I want to personally thank and follow you!

wisdems.org/Defeat-Trump-J…

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30 Apr
On 4/8, Trump endorsed Ron Johnson for ‘22. Johnson’s response was to get even more extreme—with anti-vax & anti-mask conspiracy theories. We have to ramp up. Our April goal deadline is tonight & we still need 293 new monthly donors—can you be one of them?
wisdems.org/Donate-Defeat-…
Ron Johnson has pushed anti-science extremism for years. But he’s taking it even further now. On Friday, he went on a right-wing radio show to say he’s “getting highly suspicious” of the “big push to make sure everyone is vaccinated.”
Ron Johnson’s megaphone is big enough that it fell to Dr. Fauci to explain on TV that Ron Johnson is entirely wrong. Johnson asks “what is the point?”—and Fauci responds, “we’ve had 567,000 people who’ve died... That is a really, really good reason.”
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26 Apr
WISCONSINITES: Maybe you’ve volunteered. Maybe you’ve chipped in. You want to be more deeply involved, and want a voice in the future of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. It’s time to take the next step: officially become a party member! Here’s why: 1/
wisdems.org/joinus
The Democratic Party of Wisconsin is a small-d democratic organization, built from the grassroots up. Our leadership, at every level, is chosen by our members, because the grassroots power our electoral victories across the state.
The foundation for our state party is our county parties. They’re all over the state. Become an official @WisDems member & you’ll join your county party (& vice versa). Want to plug in to politics? There’s no better way than going to county party meetings.
wisdems.org/get-involved/c…
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23 Apr
Ron Johnson is "highly suspicious" of this big push to get everyone vaccinated.

Can we all get together and end this guy's political career, please?

Sign up here to give monthly to the @WisDems, and then pass this along:

wisdems.org/Donate-Defeat-…

Publicly, Johnson is undecided on whether he's running again. But Trump has already endorsed his reelection. And, gruesomely, Johnson's fundraising exploded last quarter. As bad as he is, don't underestimate the fight on our hands.

politico.com/news/2021/04/0…
The Senate is 50-50. If we don't beat Johnson in 2022, a single GOP flip would put Mitch McConnell back in charge, and Ron Johnson would have the tie-breaking vote on every single thing you care about.

Political prognosticators are calling WI "Lean R."

centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/20…
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21 Apr
THREAD: My first term as the chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin concludes this June. I’m running for another term, alongside Vice Chairs @LadyHawkeLesia & @SnodgrassforWI. This thread lays out our values, our record, and our plan for what’s next: BADGER. Let's do this. BADGER: Build the bench and build the party Advocate for d
In 2019, First Vice Chair (and Milwaukee County Supervisor) Felesia Martin @LadyHawkeLesia and Second Vice Chair (and now State Rep) Lee Snodgrass @SnodgrassforWI and I ran together on a ticket. We’ve worked together every step of the way ever since.
Our platform—and the core of our political value system—spelled out FIRE: Fight, Include, Respect, & Empower.
An homage to, and expansion of, the Obama campaign’s REI mantra, adding in the Fight.
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8 Apr
On Tuesday, in the first statewide election of the Biden presidency, the progressive won. Dr. Jill Underly beat the Walker/DeVos crowd & was elected Wisconsin’s Superintendent of Public Instruction. It wasn’t close. This is an appreciation thread for those who made it happen. 1/
Before getting into the appreciations—bear in mind that this victory wasn’t remotely inevitable. Scott Walker endorsed. Betsy DeVos’ SuperPAC poured six figures into digital ads in the final days. Early internal polling found the race wide open.
thenation.com/article/politi…
On top of all that—there’s a well-established pattern in politics where the newly-elected president’s party loses ground soon after Inauguration Day. Think of the first wave of Tea Party protests in April 2009. Think of the Women’s March in January 2017. This could've been rough.
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8 Apr
The GOP’s road to a House majority goes through Wisconsin. Derrick Van Orden, who came close to flipping WI-03 in 2020, announced this morning he’s running for the House again. He’s *terrible.* Watch this video. Then chip in to help beat Van Orden: wisdems.org/defeat-DVO
Let’s talk about the math. The GOP only needs to flip five house seats from blue to red in 2022 to win a majority and stall critical planks of Biden’s urgent legislative agenda. There are only seven House seats that went for Trump and a Dem. WI-03 is one of them.
So the GOP just has to win five of the seven Trump/Dem House seats to put insurrectionists in charge… which is why they’re gunning so hard for Wisconsin’s third Congressional District, where @KindforCongress ran 6pts ahead of Trump.
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