I met with my Rep. Laura Friedman over the weekend. She spoke to our civics group, and shared a ton of important information, and insight. The bottom line: we MUST win the House with a significant majority.
I’ve paraphrased her responses to the most asked questions.
Q Why isn’t Jeffries doing anything.
A Minority parties have very little legislative power. He is laser focused on the midterms because if we lose the House, Republicans could refuse to sit a Democratic president. It’s Pelosi’s greatest fear.
Q But they can obstruct, stop voting for Republican bills and nominees. Grind things to a halt.
A Again, the goal is to keep as many Dems in their seats as possible. There are a handful of Dems in swing states, who must represent their constituents. Many of them are demanding they vote on things. Going against them may weaken their position and would jeopardize the seat.
Q Are Dems fractured or united?
A They are incredibly united. They understand why Jeffries is “allowing” some to vote the way they have to.
Q Why aren’t Dems making more noise?
A Many are. But between the media downplaying anything Dem, and the Republicans having a massive media silo, THEY amplify what works for THEM, not for us.
Q There are SO many issues that are critical. Why aren’t Dems fighting harder for them.
A Poll after poll, nationwide, shows that there are only 3 issues that MOST Americans agree on: healthcare, food prices, housing prices. It doesn’t mean Dems don’t care about LGBT, Gaza, corruption, immigration, privacy, loss of rights, etc. But all those issues are secondary, in a must-win-the-House scenario. Again, the goal is to win the midterms, and we can’t do that with highly local, passion issues.
Q What can we do?
A GOTV. Register people. Help them focus on the big picture. NONE of their issues will get solved in the totalitarian state the Rs are close to achieving. The daily chaos is a technique that’s extremely effective and divides us. We are fighting over issues we don’t agr…
This weekend I had the great pleasure and privilege to meet my Rep. Laura Friedman. @friedman.house.gov.
My group asked a bunch of questions and I'm sharing her insight in the hopes it helps people understand the Dem strategy, and focus on the goal: we MUST win back the House, MASSIVELY.
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That poor man. He must have been so scared. WTF are wrong with Republicans? You own this. You spineless, ballless, pricks.
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Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo.
A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.
He was almost completely blind and didn't speak English.
They dropped him off at night 5 miles from his home in NY in FEBRUARY and didn't notify his family or lawyer.
He's dead because of them.
www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
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The Trump tariffs are the highest tax increase on the American public since World War II
Yes, you read that correctly
What's worse, he did it while taking health insurance away from 20 million people
And giving $75 billion to ICE so they can hunt US citizens
#TrumpTariffChaos
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Kash Patel spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of our money so that he could get drunk on our dime at a hockey game.
Meanwhile we still don’t have all the Epstein files.
Are you ok with this? I’m not
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Hey Missouri folks, vote for Fred. Dude has been fighting this administration for years, give him support so he can fight for y'all even harder. He'll look out for you way better than any Republican.
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Ms. McQuade Made This Insightful
Statement on Lawrence O'Donnell's Show,In 2020........
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Robert DeNiro tells Nicole Wallace that Trump will not leave at the end of his term and it will be up to the people to get rid of him. He says Trump jokes about a 3rd term but he’s dead serious. We have to have massive turnout for Democrats in the midterms to rebuke this tyrant.
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Tariffs are a tax on the American people.
Pass it on.
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#ProudBlue #Voices4Victory
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More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes.
Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted.
Beautiful and devastating all at once.
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My health insurance went up 21% this year. Nearly every American is paying more, because Republicans in Congress cut our health care to pay for tax breaks to billionaires. #TrumpAffordabilityChaos Pass it on
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There are concentration camps in the USA. People are being disappeared. One facility has 3,500 people, most of them children.
Now, what are we going to do about it?!
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The “have you said ‘thank you’ once?” school of government: nothing is about the merits of the policy or the national interest; everything is about the feelings of the leader. lnk.thebulwark.com/4694wEk
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Happy Presidents' Day?
Not much to be happy about this year, but the good news is that we only have 2 more max under this monster.
Meanwhile, volunteer for Democratic candidates.
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#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
Who knew, that all along there was a 4th Little Pig
Who built his house out of lies.
16.02.2026 22:02 —
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In one year, the U.S. is being left in the dust.
All because Republicans surrendered to fascism.
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‘The Dow Is Up! Who Cares If We Snatch Your Kids?’ Tim Dillon Eviscerates Pam Bondi Over Epstein Testimony
‘The Dow Is Up! Who Cares If We Snatch Your Kids?’ Tim Dillon Eviscerates Pam Bondi Over Epstein Testimony Mediaite
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He Wants to Deport 100 Million “Third World Savages.” He May Win Statewide Office in Texas.
He calls his opponents “gay” and “retarded,” and he wants to deport 100 million “third world savages.” Naturally, he’s running for railroad commissioner.
Meet Texas Republican, Bo French.
One of his favorite phrases is “third world savages”—which he has applied to Afghan asylum seekers, Muslims, and even Native Americans, who he also wants deported.
He might win statewide office in Texas.
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15.02.2026 08:29 —
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I'm not even kidding about this. This is a really fucking good idea.
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LAVA. Excellent idea.
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Rep. Angie Craig: “The attacks on Black and brown people in Minnesota have been egregious. In the end, they wanted us to riot. Instead, this will be remembered as a powerful example of peaceful resistance from an entire community.”
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Raw Story: Pam Bondi has faced a “MAGA media backlash” after deflecting from a question about Jeffrey Epstein by pivoting to the strong performance of the economy, a backlash so fierce that one political expert suspects she might get the boot from Trump.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
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Bishop Swan absolutely nails it!
These trump supporters need to just own it - they are racists, period, full stop.
#ProudBlue
#MAGAEqualsRacism
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YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
Barack Obama BREAKS SILENCE on Trump's ape video, Bad Bunny, and 2028 election
📌Barack Obama was a damn fine president, yes, but he is an even a better man.
He still believes in all the good, while the abhorrent, racist monster currently in our WH dines off of all the bad.
The difference is stark.
Who you vote for doesn't build character, but it damn sure reveals it ...
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#ResistanceUnited #ONEV1 #Pinks #ProudBlue
We are going to arise from the ashes of the attempted destruction of democracy, Rule of Law, Rights and Freedoms in America.
It will obviously be without help from Republucans.
Repubs in Congress are complicit with Trump and Heritage Foundation and
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Lone Star Left Endorses Joe Jaworski For Texas Attorney General
This race is about how Texas uses power.
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#LoneStarLeft with a huge endorsement late Saturday, Feb 26, 2026!!! 🔥
Please READ 🎁
Please repost!!! 💙🙌
#OV1
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EU foreign policy chief criticises ‘fashionable euro-bashing’ by US
Kaja Kallas says other countries ‘look up to us’ and rejects idea Europe faces ‘civilisational erasure’
European leaders are now pushing back against the "great replacement theory" and other "White Christian Nationalist" propaganda that JD Vance spewed at the Munich security conference.
Good for them.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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