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Authoritarianism in plain sight.

Texas Rep. Nicole Collier was forced by police to hang up on a press call after being threatened with a felony arrest—for daring to speak.

She can’t be in the bathroom, can’t be on the floor, can’t even talk to the press without GOP cops breathing down her neck.

Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:

ACTION: Ask your Republican family & friends to call both AZ Senators to say they OPPOSE the sale of public lands. If they hike, fish, hunt, or camp there, they don't want this!

Fancy speak: Democrats need stories from Republican constituents to prove bipartisan opposition to public land sales.

The terrible Trump Regime had time today to spread hatred and cruelty, but made zero mention of Juneteenth.

I'm your Shadow Press Secretary and here is the truth:

The Big Bullshit Bill will not only decimate Medicaid (something that *no* congressional district supports by more than 15%), it will also codify the Trump administration's proposed changes to the ACA and allow its federal subsidies to expire. Millions of Americans will lose coverage.

TODAY WE MOBILIZED OVER 3 MILLION PEOPLE ACROSS THE NATION!!!

This movement has entered the next chapter: the people will mobilize again, and again, until we make a difference.

It only takes 3.5% of the population in a sustained resistance in order to make a difference.

#50501movement

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

RFS feel-good update (3/17): A new generation of leaders It's time.

The 24 hours after Schumer announced his vote made up one of @runforsomething.net's biggest candidate recruitment days since Inauguration - as of this morning, we’ve exceeded 31,000 new people in the pipeline since the election. That’s more than in all of 2017 or 2018 combined. Read the rest.

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.

☎️: (202) 224-3121

Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.

The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.

Call retiring Senators too!

“Friends - I would do it again!”

We just walked out of the state of the Union. My shirt showed Trump an important message: NO KINGS LIVE HERE.

In the spirit of student protestors from the Civil Rights Movement, I’m proud to have protested and walked out with many of my colleagues. This is NOT a normal time.

They pardoned the guys that beat police officers and smeared their shit in the Capitol but they’re removing the Black member of Congress, who is elected and standing up for Americans

Rep @algreen.house.gov always keeps it real! @ministter.bsky.social looking for him right now to discuss!

This address is an obscenity even by Trump's standards.

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I’m not going to the Joint Address. I will be live posting and chatting with you all here instead. Then going on IG Live after.

In addition to being wrong, this is against our own self-interest. If Russia is not stopped in Ukraine, they will simply continue to advance. Increasingly, that seems to be the point: Trump/Musk/Vance are aligned with Putin's interests & not ours.

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) America hurt itself badly today.

Here I react to the shameful behavior of American leaders and media toward the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
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Winston Churchill at the White House wearing a one-piece garment known as a siren suit.

Zelenskyy's character can be judge more directly by how he treats others and whether you think he's protected his country. From what I've seen, he has treated Americans with respect. His attire is to remind people he's at war, not unlike Churchill wearing a siren suit to the White House in 1942.

What a shameful day. 😔

Mark Kelly points out how Trump, in trying to look tough, is doing Putin’s bidding

Thank you, Senator Kelly!

This is what a deal with the devil looks like👇

@housegop.bsky.social JUST VOTED TO CUT Medicaid, SNAP benefits, school meals, & housing assistance all in exchange for giving corporations & billionaires a tax cut all at the  expense of the middle class.

Nervous Musk, Trump, Vance have all been outclassed in public arguments these last few days. Government failure, stock market crash, and dictatorial alliances are not popular. People are starting to realize that there is no truth here beyond the desire for personal wealth and power. (2/2)

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

Message from Meidas Founder: Trump Collapsing Written by Ben Meiselas

For the first weeks, Americans seemed frozen, expecting institutions to do something. Americans were used to “checks and balances” and “guardrails” working. That didn’t happen. People realized that they had to take matters into their own hands.

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YouTube video by CBS Boston JFK Library closed until further notice: Joe Kennedy III reacts

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YouTube video by CBS Boston JFK Library closed until further notice: Joe Kennedy III reacts

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Rep. Cliff Bentz fields questions at emotional Union County town hall LA GRANDE — Oregon’s U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz tried to make it through his usual routine Wednesday, Feb. 19, at his town hall in La Grande. But the crowd was

"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump
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