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This is something I have been considering for a long time [10 years or so] and the events of January 6th 2021 are slowly coalescing my thoughts on the subject. Or maybe I’m just slow. An article in the FT written in 2008 The new Russo-Chinese model is authoritarian and...

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  • February 3, 2021
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Impeachment and insurrection part deux on deck for next week, even as there’s now mixed messaging on the part of Pence invoking the 25th Amendment. Lots of banality of evil around and about. x 🇺🇸 Impeachment 🔵@SpeakerPelosi / #Democrats House Can ✔️Submit Articles of Impeachment ✔️Put it in Permanent Record...

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  • January 10, 2021

Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, the jarvanka of Roger Stones tried a new scam to suppress votes with a robocall in major cities to misinform Black voters. The Trumpian bamboozle is strong with them. Trump had an average audience of 21.6 million viewers Thursday. Biden’s final total was 24.6 million...

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  • August 29, 2020

Received this e-mail from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) organization, Powered By People: In 2018, Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (TX-16) — along with Beto's Senate campaign, the El Paso Democratic Party, and End Citizens United — organized the first Border Bus Tour. The tour was a chartered bus...

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  • August 19, 2020

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 expansive efforts yet. Powered by People is joining the Texas Democratic Party and the Texas Coalition of Black Democrats to reach out and contact every...

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  • July 28, 2020

Trump’s incompetence is not simply inaction, it has a theory for his brand of failure, namely “’executive underreach’ as a species of leadership failure that’s as destructive as executive overreach”. Much like sandbagging and the repeated absence of actual policy formulations, Mango Mussolini’s fascism is fiat(s) in a failed state. Underreach is...

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  • July 17, 2020

Received this e-mail from the Pennsylvania Democratic Party: Today we launched a campaign with @PADems to text over 400,000 voters and encourage vote-by-mail. This is just a part of our expansion of our digital organizing efforts to talk to voters during these unprecedented times and work to make sure Donald...

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  • April 24, 2020

Latest news out Pennsylvania courtesy of Fox News’ latest poll: With most Pennsylvania voters concerned about catching coronavirus and nearly six-in-ten believing the Trump administration was too slow to act, Joe Biden leads Donald Trump in that battleground state. Biden is preferred over Trump by 8 percentage points (50-42 percent),...

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  • April 23, 2020

I’m liking this: x As she often does, @SenWarren provides a cogent summary of how federal policymakers should be thinking about the pandemic in the coming months. https://t.co/zkX0E7ncK5— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) April 6, 2020 Click here to read Warren’s interview with Ezra Klein. Click here to read Warren’s first plan...

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  • April 6, 2020

Mark you calendars, Florida Kossacks: Rep. Cindy Polo and former Miami-Dade Democratic Party Chair Juan Cuba will campaign for Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren at a Miami event this weekend. The Warren campaign will also hold a series of events in Jacksonville ahead of Florida’s March 17 primary election. Polo and Cuba will attend a Cafecito con...

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  • February 27, 2020

Even during the struggle with having Dixiecrats in its midst, the modern Democratic party has stood for social justice, however compromised because of the nation’s conflicted constitutional history. The “social democrat” media frame must offset name-calling of “socialist/communist”, since America’s mixed regulatory economy does resemble economies which the US falls behind...

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  • February 25, 2020

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 race for Governor of Wisconsin in 2018, I knew it was because of progressives in state and nationwide, including the critical support of DFA members....

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  • January 27, 2020

Received this e-mail from former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D. WI): A hyper-partisan Republican judge in Wisconsin just ordered the state to suppress more than 200,000 voters. Mere weeks later, a top Trump advisor said, “Traditionally, it’s always been Republicans suppressing votes” — then he promised “it’s going to be a much...

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  • December 28, 2019

Admitting you have a problem is probably the first step, but Tucker Carlson’s race-baiting served an audience niche, however problematic. What Carlson reveals to Elaina Plott in an Atlantic story is a proto-fascism not unique to the 21st Century. She captures Carlson’s Trumpian sociopathology, which might demand that you go to the...

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  • December 15, 2019

I received this e-mail today from former Governor Terry McAuliffe (D. VA) on behalf of the People For The American Way: I’m writing today to ask for your help in next month’s critical elections in Virginia (now just two weeks away). I am proud of what we accomplished in Virginia...

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  • October 22, 2019

Received this e-mail today from Democracy for America: This is a big deal. After progressive Tiffany Cabán clinched the nomination for Queens District Attorney two weeks ago and declared victory in the national spotlight, a review of paper ballots determined that her out-of-touch opponent was ahead by just 16 votes. You know...

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  • July 11, 2019

Received this e-mail today from Rep. Ro Khanna (D. CA-17) on behalf of the organization, Our Revolution: Rep. Ro Khanna (D. CA-17)   There is a dangerous new policy designed to keep progressives out of Congress. The worst part? It's coming from within the Democratic Party. Cheri Bustos, the Democratic Congressional...

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  • March 31, 2019

Received this e-mail today from Democracy for America: Stacey Abrams made history with her historic 2018 campaign for Governor of Georgia, a race she narrowly lost to a Trump-supporting opponent who engaged in stunning levels of voter suppression. And this Tuesday, February 5th, she’s about to make history again —...

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  • February 3, 2019

Received this e-mail today from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee: x Democrats can do so much better than callously defending this blackface and Klan picture, Dick Saslaw. This kind of mentality is exactly why I’m running for office. It’s time for a change. https://t.co/ibrkS6E6p8 — Yasmine Taeb (@YasmineTaeb) February 1,...

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  • February 3, 2019

First, apologies. Earlier today I mentioned Ann Coulter in a diary, even though I’m well aware that the appropriate number of times to mention Ann Coulter is approximately zero times per eternity. And I’m also aware that if Nietzsche’s theory of eternal recurrence is true, you are now doomed to repeat the moment...

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  • December 20, 2018

Received this e-mail today from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee: This week, House Democratic leadership is considering whether to put progressives or corporate Democrats on key committees that control the fate of priorities like Medicare For All, challenging Big Pharma, and a Green New Deal.   Vice News reports, “Alexandria...

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  • December 13, 2018

Received this e-mail today from Democracy for America: If this November’s elections showed us anything, it’s that people are ready for fresh, bold, progressive leadership in Congress — and Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez embodies that. January hasn’t even begun and already Alexandria is making waves on Capitol Hill by shining a...

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  • December 9, 2018
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