The Threats to American Democracy
I don’t know if this statement has been diarized, my apologies, but it bears repeating often, so if anyone missed it. The Threats to American...
On Velshi: Roland Martin admonishes Democrats to get off their a$$es as GOP rigs 2022 Election.
Roland Martin has a wake-up call one hopes that the Democratic Party heeds sooner than later because it is existential for many of us. Roland...
Redistricting and Representation
The addition of the 1982 amendments to the Voting Rights Act was a turning point in terms of minority representation. Redistricting is the process of...
Sen. Cornyn promotes WaPo story about GOP's plan to seize power via gerrymandering
Good gourd, did he only read the headline? Or is he really this cynical about the GOP’s ongoing campaign to rule with an iron fist over...
No disabusing us that “Republicans won't seize an election” is Neville Chamberlain stuff
Who could believe that Republicans would actually use a provable voter fraud fallacy to distract from institutional interventions that suppress votes. Why would they divert...
previous guy lies low because he really wants back on Facebook, not because of snitches
Previous guy always expects the loyalty of mob silence Omertà, even when he throws everyone under the bus, it’s part of his personality disorder. The real...
WI-Sen: Dr. Fauci Goes After Another Idiot Anti-Vaxxer, RoJo The Traitor
Dr. Anthony Fauci is on a roll. First, he went after this clown: x“You can get infected, and will get infected, if you put yourself...
Don’t buy the mainstream media noise Here’s why census data likely better for Democrats
Matthew Dowd analyzes the Census and concludes with something I agree with. While the noise on the mainstream media is that it is a net...
Pennsylvania Democrats Continue To Gear Up To Fight Back Against GOP Gerrymandering
Received this e-mail today from the Pennsylvania Democratic Party: The fight for fair electoral maps kicked off in earnest today, when the US Census Bureau...
Pennsylvania Democrats Launch Two New GOTV Phone Banks To Register 125K New Voters
Received this e-mail today from the Pennsylvania Democratic Party: This Saturday and next, we're teaming up with our friends from Turn PA Blue to call...
Sen. Mark Warner (D. VA) Helps His Fellow VA Democrats Keep The General Assembly Blue
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D. VA): We've all seen the headlines about Republican state legislatures passing outrageous voter suppression laws...
PA-Sen: Toomey (R) Wants PA To Adopt GA's Jim Crow Laws Because He “Thinks Black People Do Drive”
Can’t wait to see this asshole go: https://twitter.com/Matt_Maisel/status/1379777588009271304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw In an interview with York, Pa.’s WPMT television station, U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Lehigh) was asked about the...
PA-Sen: Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) Rakes In $3.9 Million Q1 Fundraising Haul For U.S. Senate Bid
Here’s some big news today out of Pennsylvania: https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1377607062734131205?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Lt. Gov. John Fetterman said he raised more than $3.9 million for his U.S. Senate bid...
MD-Sen: “It may come down to this: protecting democracy or ending the filibuster”
Received this e-mail from U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen’s (D. MD) re-election campaign: The last four years have dramatically demonstrated just how much work we...
'Q' is for Quisling
For those that are unsure of the meaning. Quisling: Traitor or Collaborator Synonyms : traitor, turncoat, betrayer, informer, back-stabber, double-crosser, double-dealer, renegade, defector, deserter, apostate,...
GOP Bill To Gerrymander Pennsylvania Courts Has Been Shelved… For Now
The New York Times shed some light on this on Monday: G.O.P. legislators, dozens of whom supported overturning the state’s election results to aid former...
“Kevin McCarthy claims he's received private assurances Greene no longer wishes Pelosi death”
'GQP' - Republicans announce themselves as a Trumpist party We cannot ignore the growing threat of right-wing extremism and its enablers any longer. x“McCarthy claims...
Quelle FuQking Surprise
Well this is all too bloody predictable. The Return of the FuQk AmeriQa ProjeQt with added “Qs”. The “Q” Party having watched the events on...
Pennsylvania Democrats Are Gearing Up To Stop The PA GOP From Gerrymandering The PA Supreme Court
Received this e-mail today from the Pennsylvania Democratic Party: Pennsylvania Supreme Court candidate, Superior Court Justice Maria McLaughlin (D. PA) Pennsylvania's Vote By Mail request...
Common Cause Pennsylvania Builds Momentum To Squash PA GOP's Plan To Gerrymander The Courts
Received this e-mail today from the organization Common Cause Pennsylvania: I’m going to be honest with you -- I’m deeply concerned. The Pennsylvania House Judiciary...
60 Minutes Republican-appeasing Leslie Stahl creates false equivalence in Nancy Pelosi interview
The 60 Minutes interview between Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Leslie Stahl exemplifies the mainstream media's bias against Democrats. Unfair 60 Minutes Nancy Pelosi interview x...
at 51:40, Trump's cheese gets cut
The inner parts of the machines replaced with other farts… We are now left with fart jokes as punctuating the revelations of Trumps attempt to...
GA-Sen A & B: Eric Holder Makes The Georgia Runoff Elections A Referendum On Voting Rights
Received this e-mail today from former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on behalf of his organization, All On The Line: Rev. Raphael Warnock (D GA)...
did Republicans cement their grip on power for the next decade, there's much more work to do
First things first: elect Warnock and Ossoff Much like urging Georgia Republicans to write in Trump on their ballots, there likely is an unintended consequence...
No, Florida is not a red state. Democrats there are just remarkably inept
As the election postmortem fight begins, Democratic leaders are consoling themselves with the narrative that Florida was already lost. It’s really a red state, Democrats...
'barricaded' Trump as classic counterintelligence risk: deeply in debt, angry at the U.S. government
Trump sells off his private helicopter after losing the election, so perhaps he’s cash-short, even as he’s running another grift, claiming he’d run again in...
MOTHER-F'in OBAMA! Check this out!
My Twitter was blowing up with one-liners from Barack Obama’s speech all day, but the coolest thing he did had nothing to do with a...
PCCC Shifts Focus On Flipping State Legislative Seats In PA, NC, IA, MI, WI & WV
Received this e-mail from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee: The election experts at The Cook Political Report just UPGRADED ratings for Democrats chances to win control over...
Beto O'Rourke Launches Virtual GOTV Phone Bank On October 28th To Flip The Texas State House Blue
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) organization, Powered By People: We know how important the presidential, senate, and...
Last call to help: State legislatures most likely to flip
In 2010, while Democrats completely focused on national races, the GOP—along with dark money from the Koch brothers and others—poured millions into the state legislative...
Beto O'Rourke Brings In Some Big Names To Help Flip Texas Blue
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) organization, Powered By People: xTexas-sized voter phone bank with (get this!!!) @WillieNelson,...
North Carolina has everything riding on this election. Democrats need your help
Once the Democrats broke the Republican gerrymandering of Virginia districts and fair elections were held in 2019, Virginia became a blue trifecta—meaning the Democrats controlled both...
Tom Steyer Sets His Sights On Flipping The North Carolina State Legislature Blue
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, businessman Tom Steyer (D. CA): Flipping North Carolina is going to be key to this election. That’s...
NC-Sen: NYT, “Not the Convention, or the Election, North Carolina Republicans Hoped For”
The New York Times has a great piece out about the upcoming Republican National Convention in Charlotte and the state GOP’s history gerrymandering North Carolina...
Newsweek, “Texas Democrats Reached More Voters Than Ever—That Could Be Good News for Biden”
From Newsweek: As an election during a pandemic continues to unfold, Texas Democrats touted a new record Monday: Two million voter contacts this past weekend...
YES!!!! Bernie Sanders Joins Obama's Call To Abolish The Filibuster!!!
THANK YOU!!! xPresident Obama is absolutely right. It is an outrage that modern-day poll taxes, gerrymandering, I.D. requirements, and other forms of voter suppression still...
Beto O'Rourke Launches GOTV Events Focused On Black Voter Turn Out In Texas
Received this e-mail from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) organization, Powered by People: Today, we're excited to share one of our most...
AZ-Sen: After Telling People To Wear Masks, McSally (R) Attends Event With No One Wearing A Mask
From Dan Desai Martin at The American Independent: Sen. Martha McSally (R. AZ), Rep. Paul Gosar (R. AZ) & Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward...
Oregon Gov Accuses Trump of Stirring Up Violence to Help his Reelection [Update * 2]
Several stories are up about what’s going on in Portland OR right now. I’m writing this to highlight what Gov. Kate Brown is saying about...
NC-Sen: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D. NY) Helps Cal Cunningham (D) End Moscow Mitch's Majority
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D. NY) in support of Cal Cunningham’s (D. NC) U.S. Senate campaign: Today, I want to...
Eric Holder Helps The Wisconsin Democratic Party Put An End To GOP Voter Suppression
Received this e-mail from former Attorney General Eric Holder on behalf of the Wisconsin Democratic Party: I am appalled at what happened in Wisconsin on...
darn that hyperarousal – 2016 can still repeat, despite Trump blowing it in 70-days of deadly delay
2020 will again be about margins in marginal areas. xHere is Trump's approval rating in each of the 50 states converted into Electoral College format,...
NC-Sen: Former A.G. Eric Holder Keeps Up The Momentum For Cal Cunningham's (D) Campaign
Received this e-mail today from former Attorney General, Eric Holder, in support of Cal Cunningham’s (D. NC) U.S. Senate campaign: Our democracy is based on...
What If Congress Increases the US House to 500 Members to Give Large States More Electoral Votes?
en.wikipedia.org/… California has about 40 million people and Wyoming has 577,000. It takes nearly 70 Wyomings to equal one California, though both are represented by...
Gov. Tony Evers (D. WI) Teams Up With DFA In The Fight To End GOP Gerrymandering In Wisconsin
Received this e-mail yesterday from Governor Tony Evers (D. WI) on behalf of Democracy for America: I have to thank you. When I won my...
Eric Holder's NDRC Doubles Down To Help Dr. Eliz Markowitz (D. TX) Flip The Texas State House Blue
Received this e-mail from former Attorney General Eric Holder’s National Democratic Redistricting Committee in support of Dr. Eliz Markowitz’s (D. TX-HD28) special election: The GOP...
Mark Meadows Is Third North Carolina Republican to Announce Retirement from the US House
Freedom Caucus leader and major Trump fan Mark Meadows of North Carolina’s CD-11 announced he is leaving Congress possibly to join the Trump Administration. time.com/......
No, Joe: One party is pro-America, the other is pro-Russia, and we don't need both
Former Vice President Joe Biden voiced a unique concern about the 2020 election results at a campaign event in Iowa on Friday. The presidential hopeful stated...
Friendly Reminder: We Have A Big Special Election In January To Flip The Pennsylvania State Senate
Received this e-mail today from the Pennsylvania Democratic Party: Flipping both chambers of the state legislature is a top priority in 2020. On Tuesday, January...
Beto O'Rourke Launches Major Voter Registration Push To Flip The Texas State House From Red To Blue
Received this e-mail today from former Congressman and Presidential candidate, Beto O’Rourke (D. TX): Last year 17 Texas State House Republicans won their election by...
