If you haven’t figured this out already, I’m running for Congress because I care. I’m honestly not a fan of “party politics.” That includes backdoor deals, hidden agendas, and corruption of any kind – whether or not it threatens our democracy.
This kind of corruption does. 🧵 /1
While we were busy celebrating Kamala announcing Tim Walz as her running mate, the Georgia Election Board passed a new rule that could give Trump loyalists a free pass to reject the election results in November.
What does this mean? /2
The new Georgia Election Board rule is so vague that all we know for sure is it gives partisan election officials an easier path to send the election to the courts. And the officials who voted for it talked to Donald Trump first. /3
I was raised Republican. I became a Democrat largely because I realized the party didn't reflect my real values and I couldn’t vote for Donald Trump. I didn’t want to be a part of a movement that was focused on hating people instead of helping them. /4
I knew a lifelong con artist would con the country, and I realized early on that the GOP leaders would help. That the party I thought had my back was only in it for power… It was a sobering realization.
But I DIDN'T know that dark money and extremist think tanks ran the GOP. /5
Before Trump, we didn’t think an election could be stolen or democracy could end or militias would show up at state capitols to fight MASKS.
Now it’s all most of us think about in regards to government: desperation, the destruction of our rights, and threats to democracy. /6
The dark money donors that control the GOP want us hopeless. It doesn’t help anyone: not me, not you, not Democrats, and not even Republican voters. I’m over feeling hopeless. Aren’t you?
Kamala’s right. We aren’t going back. But you know what else… We aren’t staying here. /7
We don’t have to feel hopeless any more.
Help me defend us from the corrupt Trump crony in OH-12’s seat, and I swear I will use this power to help you and your family as if it were my own, and I will make myself dark money extremists’ #1 enemy. /8
🧵Donald Trump is done making vague threats to arrest Democrat donors. Now he’s being direct that he’d send the military after people who don’t support him – and you know what?
It wouldn’t be the first time Trump sent federal agents to arrest or even execute Democrats. /1
In September 2020, U.S. Marshals executed a Black Lives Matter protester named Michael Reinoehl.
They said Michael pulled a gun when they went to arrest him. Witnesses said he didn’t.
Trump told supporters that he sent the Marshals in and “they didn’t want to arrest him.” /2
Trump even told Fox News that him sending agents in "to go get" Michael is just "the way it has to be.” So when he says he’d use the military to arrest Democrats, believe him.
Thanks to @TrumpFile for the video, I couldn’t find it on YouTube or Fox. /3
Last year, FEMA was responding to 82 major disasters at once & running out of money for disaster relief. Biden urged Congress to pass $16 billion to help, and Republicans IGNORED it.
They can lie about FEMA, but we know the truth. Their "leadership" leaves Americans dead. 🧵
Instead of being transparent about why FEMA can't do more to help Americans impacted by hurricane season, Republicans are pushing conspiracy theories that Democrats stole from FEMA’s disaster relief fund to illegally house immigrants. It's an obvious lie. nj.com/politics/2024/…
Over 200 Americans are confirmed dead after Hurricane Helene, and we are just a day or two away from another deadly hurricane.
Communities have been destroyed. Families are devastated. In some areas, families whose homes are still standing are living without water or plumbing.
Surprise everyone! Donald Trump, my opponent Troy Balderson, and Christian nationalist Speaker of the House Mike Johnson are LYING THROUGH THEIR TEETH to stop Ohioans from protecting our state and our rights.
Turns out they suck too bad not to cheat.🧵 /1
Issue 1 for Ohio will END gerrymandering in our state by putting a group of citizens in charge of redistricting - not politicians with reason to cheat.
Republicans are so afraid of losing their best weapon against Ohio voters that they say it will CREATE gerrymandering. Dumb /2
Trump’s Stop The Steal movement was the driving force behind his 2020 lies and J6. They’re invoking it now to bring out disillusioned Republicans, stop Issue 1 from passing, and give Ohio to Trump.
But using “Stop The Steal" might also inspire MAGA extremists to violence. /3
I know National Voter Registration Day was yesterday, but I need to share some scary shit Republicans have been planning so you can’t vote this year.
Let’s talk about Cleta Mitchell, ALEC, the CNP, and why you need to check your voter registration RIGHT NOW. Please share! 🧵 /1
Cleta Mitchell is an attorney who has represented the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee, and the proud sponsor of school shootings, i.e. the NRA.
She also represented “political outsider” Donald Trump way back in 2011. /2
Since 2012, Cleta Mitchell has become the go-to attorney for Republican efforts to thwart democracy.
She was even on the January 2021 call when Donald Trump pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to change the state’s vote count. /3 washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
Children locked inside homes, families terrified, teachers and city officials afraid to go to work.
This is what we might expect in a town taken hostage by terrorists, in another country.
But the country is ours, the town is my family’s, and the terrorists are American. /1 🧵
I have family in Springfield. It’s where my grandma spent her final years, and I still visit to see family members.
Before this past week, everyone was fine. Now people are living in fear. /2
The Springfield City School District had to close for two days after extremists who heard Trump’s comments at the debate made BOMB THREATS against an elementary school and several city offices. /3