Democracy: Start Here

She’s an icon, she’s a legend and she is the moment. Now come on now.

Fight the Trump Takeover: Thank you for breaking quorum and fighting for our rights! Governor Abbott is using the special session to push Trump’s political agenda rather than addressing the real crises Texans are facing. While families recover from the devastating Central Texas floods...

If you are following what is happening in TX with the extreme gerrymandering by the TX gop, you can follow @texasdemocrats.bsky.social for updates.

You can also send a thank you to Texas House Democrats for standing up to the gop cheat to win scheme.

Texas Democrats have tried this before

Each time they caved-and Republicans gerrymandered the state more and more

Now the Democrats must do whatever it takes to stop the GOP’s corruption

With the DNC and major Democratic donors backing them-completely

Our entire democracy just might be at stake

🚨 Ken Paxton wants Dems arrested for refusing to help rig an election.

That’s rich coming from a guy indicted on three felony counts of securities fraud, accused by his top deputies of bribery, abuse of office, while allegedly using burner phones, secret emails & fake names to dodge accountability.

💙 They asked for it and we gave it to them! 💙

Texas Democrats Leave the State to Block GOP Congressional Map Read more here.

"It should send a chill down anybody’s spine that federal agents would be able to exercise such control over state legislators"

I’m disgusted by what our democracy has become, but there’s no time for that because we have to fight every battle with all that we’ve got. Please don’t just doomscrolling and complain. You must do something. Start with 5calls.org

Georgia State Election Board continues raising eyebrows with recent moves — The Current GA For most of its life, the Georgia State Election Board has been a sleepy bureaucratic body little-known outside the State Capitol, charged with making rules to help carry out Georgia election law.

Republicans are taking steps to insure that Democrats will have almost no chance of being elected.

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Can I get an AMEN 🙌??

📉 GDP: lower than expected
📈 Inflation: higher than expected

The Trump effect in action

I Am Suing the Department of Justice for the Epstein Files Training Videos On July 20th, I was the first to report the existence of training videos instructing FBI personnel how to flag mentions of Trump and others in the Epstein files. Today, I'm suing for those videos.

BREAKING: I am suing the Department of Justice for the training videos instructing FBI personnel to flag mentions of Donald Trump in the Epstein files. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/i-am-suing...

Republicans slam Trump’s firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics chief President claimed that recently released figures showing jobs slowdown were ‘rigged’ to make him look bad

Partial spines witnessed

We have had stable, professional, vouchsafed information about the physical & economic world for so long that we entirely take it for granted. It's going to be truly wild to operate in a world where quite literally no one knows for sure what is happening, where there is no fact of the matter.

Trump is doing exactly what MAGA has been ranting about for years—covering up Epstein ties, protecting elite pedophile rings, silencing victims, and giving safe harbor to child sex traffickers.

And he’s doing it in plain sight.

Trump plans massive renovation of White House The $200 million effort will add a state ballroom to the White House grounds.

Building a $200 million ballroom instead of supporting children and the disabled with healthcare via Medicaid is a tragedy. Tell your reps to push back on this in every means possible.

Communicate your outrage by texting "SIGN PBSZJB" to 50409 and follow the prompts.

I'm writing letters to voters in Georgia with @voteriders.bsky.social

You can join us: www.voteriders.org/volunteer/

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Does anyone know what the Democrats in Congress and the DNC are doing to fight this authoritarian takeover of our country? Your peeps are seeing not much to nothing. It is now or never!

Martin Niemöller: "First they came for the Socialists..." | Holocaust Encyclopedia Learn about the origins and legacy of Pastor Martin Niemöller's famous postwar words, “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out…”

@daniel-hunter.bsky.social
The man you were asking about was Pastor Martin Niemöller

No Kings On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...

Thrilled to be on zoom with 19,999 other organizers for session 2 of the One Million Rising: One Million Trained, Millions More Empowered webinar. You can still watch the live stream. Go to www.nokings.org

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I sincerely hope that California, a leader in climate change innovations, will continue to push back on this administration’s attempt to pretend that our planet is not in serious danger.

That means more and higher impact natural disasters, more asthma for people who live near polluting industries, and no incentive to develop alternative forms of energy.

This news is extremely terrifying because it will essentially remove most of the government regulations on any sort of pollution related to climate change.

E.P.A. Plans to Revoke the Legal Basis for Tackling Climate Change

This article in The NY Times was marked in red as “breaking news” but…it appeared well below the fold, as in hitting the “page down” button 5 times on the digital edition of the Times.

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
There is no line and there is no sand.

YouTube video by ABC News (Australia) Bagpipes drown out Donald Trump | ABC NEWS

Don't you just love the Scottish people!

How we went from Obama to Trump is still beyond comprehension.

Innocent people don’t pardon criminals to protect themselves.

Like most bullies, Trump can be constrained only if everyone stands up to his bullying.

Protest. Go to town halls. Protect the vulnerable in your community. Keep speaking out.

The fight against authoritarianism will take all of us — and we can't relent.

Did you know that YT removed this video?

Opinion | José Andrés: People of Good Conscience Must Stop the Starvation in Gaza

“If you extend your soul to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light shall dawn in the darkness,” it reads. If we want to light the darkness, we need to extend our soul to the hungry. And we need to do it now.