Chase Lindsey

Stop looking up the ladder. Start looking around.

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It’s not enough. But it’s something, and something matters a hell of a lot more than nothing.

This is what it looks like when we stop waiting for heroes and start doing the damn work.

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"Call Them the Redskins, Dammit": Trump’s Tantrum Government, Fully Unleashed He’s not trying to govern. He’s trying to punish. Over a team name. This isn’t small government... it’s authoritarian cosplay with real-world consequences. The mask is off. Now what are we gonna do ab...

Trump didn’t hijack anything. He just gave them permission to stop pretending.

We have to name what we’re fighting. Because if we can’t… we’re already losing.

Tired of trying to figure out what’s real and what’s just loud? I made a no-fluff fact-checking toolkit… the sites I actually use.

For your mom. For the group chat. For you.

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Let This Be Enough | Project Battleground I spent the Fourth of July in Charleston, walking the streets where children were once sold, and sitting in a church painted with stars. This isn’t a prayer for salvation. It’s a prayer for the ones s...

For anyone who knows what it feels like to be alive in the breaking.

Just something for the ones carrying more than their share.

This piece is about what it means to be a Democrat in the South, and how we stop bailing water and start rebuilding the ship.

Let’s talk about what comes after settling.

…and how we rebuild from the ground up.

We can stop settling. Stop slapping a new band-aid on the same old problems every election cycle. Stop pretending that politics-as-usual is enough when it’s failing everyone outside the top.

If we’re not winning, why are we still playing it safe?

Stop Settling: Imagining a New Way Forward for Southern Democrats Southern Democrats keep losing because safe slogans aren't enough. Here's how we build power by being brave enough to imagine radical solutions.

Being a Democrat in a state with a Republican supermajority doesn’t mean we don’t have power. It means we’re free to imagine something better.

We don’t owe voters more slogans. We owe them real answers. A vision. A plan. A party that isn’t afraid to talk about why things are broken…

Still Covered. Still Screwed. What Trump’s Bill Really Does to Your Health Care Seventeen million people may lose their insurance, but the damage doesn’t stop there. Even if you keep your coverage, this bill guts what it means to be insured. Higher costs. Fewer options. More debt...

This isn’t health policy.
It’s a punishment.
And it’s going to hit every corner of this country—rural, urban, red, blue, all of us.

We need to be sounding the alarm now.

Full breakdown here:

So if you’re thinking,
“Well I have insurance, I’ll be fine”—
ask yourself:

What good is that card in your wallet
if you’re too scared to use it?

This bill doesn’t just target the uninsured.
It targets everyone.

A 60-year-old couple making $82k?
Their premium could jump from $3,500 to over $20,000 a year—
For the same plan.

A working mom in Arkansas?
“Covered” on paper.
But choosing between rent and her daughter’s X-ray.

If this passes, you could still be “insured” and end up paying more for less.

▪️ Premiums: up
▪️ Deductibles: way up
▪️ Benefits: slashed
▪️ Rural care: gutted
▪️ Peace of mind: gone

This isn’t a rollback.
It’s a rewrite of what it means to be insured in America.

Because this bill doesn’t just go after the uninsured.
It goes after the people who keep their insurance.

It guts the very things that made ACA plans usable for working families:
▪️ Caps on out-of-pocket costs
▪️ Income-based subsidies
▪️ Basic protections for rural hospitals and nursing homes

Still Covered. Still Screwed. What Trump’s Bill Really Does to Your Health Care Seventeen million people may lose their insurance, but the damage doesn’t stop there. Even if you keep your coverage, this bill guts what it means to be insured. Higher costs. Fewer options. More debt...

Everyone’s talking about the 17–20 million people who will lose their health insurance if Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” becomes law.

And yeah—
That number should be a national scandal.
It’s staggering.
It’s cruel.
It’s deliberate.

But it gets a whole hell of a lot worse:

And what do we get? We get to hold each other up. We get to keep fighting, exhausted and angry, because that’s all there is.

It’s easy to feel so damn tired. But we’re still here, doing whatever we can because that’s all we have left. No light at the end of the tunnel. Just each other.

We’re Losing More Than Healthcare. We’re Losing Our Humanity. While billionaires cash in, millions will lose care. The only thing standing between us and disaster is each other.

I wish there was better news this morning. The Senate is still reading through Trump’s nearly 1000-page bill aloud, but it’s going to pass.

Almost a trillion cut from Medicaid. Millions about to lose care. Nursing homes will close. Families will pay more for energy. Billionaires get more tax breaks

The truth? We never did the groundwork.

We haven’t invested in the counties. We haven’t built the trust. We havent trained the people. And now we're standing in a field, looking around, wondering why nothings grown.

It's the pattern Democrats keep repeating.

We didn’t plant anything. And now we’re shocked when we can’t harvest. A congressional seat just opened up in Tennessee. But what it’s really exposing is how little the Tennessee Democratic Party has built. Part 3 of The Race That Shows the Bones pulls back the curtain o...

You can't plant nothing and expect a harvest.

But that's what keeps happening. A race gets close. A seat opens up. A district shifts by a few points, and we act shocked we're not ready to win.

RFK JR: “My vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within 4 years.” Can you imagine if a Democrat said they wanted to track every American?

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These are REAL tweets.

Thomas Massie is a Republican Congressman.

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Yesterday was the largest protest in American history.

You’re Not Safer in a Crouched Position Thousands of protests are happening across the country on Saturday, June 14. Find one near you - and show up so someone else knows they’re not alone. Your presence matters more than your comfort.

There are thousands of protests planned across the country tomorrow, Saturday, June 14.

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If it’s not for you, do it for someone else. So they know they aren’t the only one seeing what’s happening - and that they’re not alone.

They Called It Rebellion. And Then Sent the Troops. Trump’s memo didn’t declare martial law -  it didn’t have to. It redefined protest as rebellion, federalized 2,000 National Guard troops, and gave the green light for active-duty deployment. This is h...

This is not what’s coming.
This is what’s here.

And it didn’t arrive with boots on your doorstep.

It came in a memo.

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He didn’t invoke the Insurrection Act — yet.
But he invoked the language.
He invoked the mechanism.

This is a test balloon wrapped in legalese.

Trump is moving faster than Orbán ever could in his wet dream.

He’s not copying authoritarians.
He’s outpacing them.

Not violence.
Not insurrection.
Protests.

Peaceful or not — he’s labeling them “rebellion.”

That’s not just overheated rhetoric. That’s a legal trigger.

I don’t know if y’all saw the memo Trump just put out…

The one federalizing 2,000 National Guard troops AND opening the door for unlimited active-duty military to be used against protests.

There’s always a damn tweet. 👏👏👏

Did states’ rights stop mattering the second her authoritarian got the pen?
Did the Constitution become optional once she got a seat at the table?

Or were all those big, patriotic speeches just empty noise?

None of them get to pretend they’re defending liberty while helping dismantle it.

Kristi Noem warned that if Biden federalized the National Guard, it would be a dangerous, unconstitutional power grab.

Now Trump’s done exactly, she’s not just silent. She’s all in.

So what happened??

And they’re counting on the rest of us being too tired, too broke, or too distracted to stop them.