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Chris Murphy 🟧 Profile picture
@ChrisMurphyCT
Dec 18, 2024 • 9 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
It's happening right in front our eyes. It's accelerated rapidly in the last 24 hours. Not sure why everyone doesn't see this.

1/ Can I take a minute to connect the dots - on how Trump is putting into action a plan to cripple our democracy in a way we may never recover from?
2/ He wasn't kidding when he said Democrats were the no. 1 threat to America and needed be dealt with by law enforcement and the military.

Today House Republican's referral of Liz Cheney for criminal prosecution - on made up charges - shows you the plan.
yahoo.com/news/key-repub…
3/ Who will stand in the way of Cheney and others being put in jail?

Not DOJ. Kash Patel was chosen to lead the FBI BECAUSE he wants to prosecute Trump's opponents.

Not the courts. Trump's pliant DOJ can handpick a jurisdiction with a MAGA judge.
rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
4/ Not every Trump opponent will fold, but many will. If you have a family at home, are you really going to stand up to Trump if there's a chance you could end up in jail?

History shows that selective prosecution of a regime's opposition has a broad chilling effect.
5/ The second part of Trump's plan is to use the White House to destroy the free media. Today's lawsuit against the Des Moines Register - just because they released a poll showing a close race in Iowa - is stunning. We shouldn't pretend this is normal.
nbcnews.com/politics/2024-…
6/ Already, you see how the big media companies are giving in. ABC paid Trump $15m even though his defamation suit had no merit. Bezos told the Post to not endorse against Trump. MSNBC is up for sale because Comcast doesn't want to get in trouble.
thehill.com/media/5042894-…
7/ Sometimes Trump will win these suits because he controls the DOJ and some courts, but other times he doesn't care. After he lost one case against a journalist, he said, "I did it to make his life miserable, which I'm happy about."

He gladly admits it's about intimidation.
8/ Trump has also said he will use the FEC and regulatory agencies - all of which will be run by his blind loyalists - to intimidate news orgs. Even if he uses this power rarely, media companies have already shown they are reluctant to put up a fight.
cnn.com/2024/10/22/med…
9/ Is there a chance this is all show and bluster? Maybe, but the developments of just the last few days - ABC's bogus settlement, the referral of Cheney for prosecution, Trump's suit against the Register - all point to this being very, very real.

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Jan 14
I spent all last year writing a REAL tough bipartisan border bill. So I know grandstanding when I see it.

1/ You need to know the truth about the Laken Riley Act, and how, if unamended by the Senate, it will make this country much less safe.
2/ I joined Senate colleagues in voting to begin debate on the bill bc I'm serious about making our immigration system keep us safe.

But the current bill does the opposite, and it's part of a GOP pattern - complain about a problem and then pursue policy that makes it worse.
3/ For instance, the bill says that anyone arrested of theft or shoplifting MUST be incarcerated by DHS.

But it doesn't apply that to people arrested for violent offenses. So DHS will have to RELEASE violent offenders to lock up non-violent offenders.

Bad idea!
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Jan 5
What? We don't have to treat conspiracy theorists like RFK Jr. with kid gloves.

It's simple. He's spent his career fighting school vaccine programs. If they atrophy, kids will get killed.

1/ Let me tell you why we need to be shouting this from the rooftops.
2/ First, let's not sugar coat the extent of RFK Jr.'s evangelism. The anti school vaccine organization he chaired is the nation's leading spreader of vaccine conspiracies and has filed dozens of lawsuits challenging vaccine mandates. npr.org/2024/12/03/nx-…
3/ And there is simply no question vaccines save lives. The WHO says the measles vaccine alone saved the lives of 20 million (20 MILLION!) kids over just 15 years. Many of those lives saved are right here in America.
unicef.org/eca/press-rele…
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Nov 10, 2024
That was a cataclysm. Electoral map wipeout. Senate D practical ceiling is now 52 seats. R's is 62.

Time to rebuild the left.

We are out of touch with the crisis of meaning/purpose fueling MAGA. We refuse to pick big fights. Our tent is too small.

1/ Some early thoughts:
2/ The left has never fully grappled with the wreckage of fifty years of neoliberalism, which has left legions of Americans adrift as local places are hollowed out, rapacious profit seeking cannibalizes the common good, and unchecked new technology separates and isolates us.
3/ The things that mattered are disappearing. We spend half as much time with friends as a generation ago. Hard work no longer guarantees economic mobility. Institutions (like churches) are delegitimized. Place based identity evaporates as we all become "global citizens."
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Sep 1, 2024
The story of how VP Harris worked to diffuse a transition of power crisis in Guatemala - while Trump undermined the U.S. by supporting the loser of the election - is both incredible and a sign of how ready she is to lead.

1/ Here’s the short story.
foreignpolicy.com/2024/08/28/gua…
2/ Biden gave Harris the job of reducing migration from Central America and by late 2023 her effort was showing remarkable success. Rates had come down 50%.

But a political crisis in Guatemala risked throwing that key country in chaos, potentially erasing many of her gains.
3/ President Alejandro Giammattei had just lost the election handily, but supported by Trump surrogates, he signaled he would refuse to give up power.

The inauguration of the winner, Bernardo Arévalo de León, was at risk. A Trump-backed Central American coup was at hand.
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Aug 10, 2024
1/ Later today I am departing on a brief but important trip to Kenya. With China and Russia increasing their investments in East Africa, the U.S.-Kenya relationship is of growing importance to Congress.

I want to explain why and tell you what I’ll be doing on this trip.
2/ In many ways, Kenya is the center of gravity in East Africa. The economy is booming, full of opportunity for U.S. and Connecticut companies. Dubbed "Silicon Savannah", Kenya is also home to Africa's largest wind farm. And it has a dynamic civil society and independent media.
3/ Kenya is also a key diplomatic partner. Kenya’s efforts to end conflict raging in East Africa are critical to address some of the most horrific humanitarian crises on the planet, prevent future atrocities, and eliminate the main driver of human displacement.
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Aug 8, 2024
Lost amidst Trump’s rambling incoherence about Afghanistan today is the fact that he negotiated the withdrawal of U.S. forces with the Taliban, not Biden.

1/ Here are the facts about how Biden was handed a giant mess from Trump in Afghanistan.
2/ Trump made a deal with the Taliban to completely withdraw U.S. forces by May 1, 2021. When Biden took office, he negotiated a short extension for full withdrawal to August 2021, but he could not alter the fundamental terms of the agreement.
nytimes.com/2020/02/29/wor…
3/ Trump had boxed Biden in. If Biden reneged on that agreement, Taliban attacks on American servicemembers would have restarted, forcing us to send thousands more troops back into the conflict. Very few Americans would have supported this endless commitment.
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