Laura Johnson

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

thinking back to when eric cantor got knocked out in a primary in 2014

what's there to say, really?

This Is What Evil People Do….

The President of the United States was ordered by the court to feed starving kids and he’s fighting it. Let that sink in.

This is the unfortunate truth of Minneapolis that too many lefty/DSA/whateveryouwannacallit keep ignoring.

You don’t even need a candidate that works for most of those white SW residents, but you do need one that gets at least a few more 1st ranked votes!

I don’t want to memory-hole Betsy Hodges’ 2013 win. It definitely wasn’t DSA but it was last successful center-left alliance. Folks should re-read this September Racket piece, where she describes the alliance but — I know this will chafe — the need to appeal to SW. racketmn.com/minneapolis-...

Pass Voter Reform, Voter ID, No Mail-In Ballots. Save our Supreme Court from “Packing,” No Two State addition, etc. TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER!!!

speaks volumes that Trump's response to tonight's resounding defeat is to demand Republicans redouble efforts to rig elections

This was a Blue Tsunami and a reckoning against Trump and MAGA's failed policies.

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

Zohran was polling at six percent in January. Nothing is impossible

There are more of us than there are of them.

The whole Third Term Project isn’t actually about Trump. The people behind it know he will likely be dead or enfeebled by 2029. It is about them, the vastly unpopular group around Trump, wanting to grift us forever without elections.

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

The judge is there to ensure it's apolitical. You can tell it's removed from politics because the previous judge in that role, Toddrick Barnette, was climbing the ladder to the highest paid employee under Mayor Frey, the guy made into a strong mayor by Barnette's appointees to the commission.

It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.

Reading this made me cry.

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

It's amazing that the Dems aren't showing pictures of Trump tearing down the White House East Wing everywhere. The fact Trump is doing his best to hide it should tell them something.

A very incomplete list of things we wouldn't have done if we waited for the normies to care:

- abolish slavery
- child labor laws
- votes for women
- social security
- fdic
- welfare
- medicare
- medicaid
- desegregation
- women's sports

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

He bulldozed the White House during a government shutdown to build himself a ballroom, then sent a letter to the states saying that SNAP benefits for 42 million people may not go out in November to those who rely on it to eat.

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

Any American medium that fails to cover the largest protests in American history is failing in the basic mission of informing the public about the facts.

Happening now: Here’s a view of the “No Kings” protest in Washington, DC

The antifa terrorist marxists are out

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

Andrew, we're voting you off the island and back to the suburbs.

Our new ad just aired during Survivor.

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.