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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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),...
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/zkX0E7ncK5â” Barack Obama (@BarackObama) April 6, 2020 Click here to read Warren’s interview with Ezra Klein. Click here to read Warren’s first plan...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 IâÂÂm running for office. ItâÂÂs time for a change. https://t.co/ibrkS6E6p8 â Yasmine Taeb (@YasmineTaeb) February 1,...
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...
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...
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...