Appreciate the constructive convo here... just noting that in our qual, we found a lot of Biden skippers were actually pretty tuned in and decided not to vote for a multitude of reasons, but it wasn't sheer apathy. More here: chartingthewayforward.substack.com/p/what-we-kn...
If you don't understand how grassroots organizing works... or you do and want inspiration, drink in some wisdom from Todd Zimmer of Down Home North Carolina. Also, don't sleep on NC!
Charting the Way Forward Ep 65 - with Down Home North Carolina's Todd Zimmer, from the front lines of one of the spiciest swing states. (and it's not just the bbq sauce) Stick around towards the end for Todd's personal story. 🤯
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We got takes, hot takes re special elections this week!
Should be a flashing red warning sign for Republicans...
I called my members of Congress to urge them not to let a president commit war crimes in my name. Please consider doing the same. The least we can do is be on record saying 'not in my name.'
US Presidents need to fear international law. I don't know what else to say in this moment. I feel sick to my stomach about what might happen.
This. If you've got time during the day, an in-person visit to their offices--local or in DC. When I worked in a district office, people rarely showed up in person. Actually showing up there makes a big impression. Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121 for voice calls and (202) 224-3091 for TTY calls
"What makes this slim comparative Democratic advantage—disliked, but slightly less disliked—noteworthy is that it’s the first time since right before Trump took office in January 2025 that congressional Democrats have had a higher net favorability than congressional Republicans."
@dhmontgomery.com
Force of nature...
5 stars—Don't sleep on LaTosha Brown!
Reupping: The Daily Mail provided more detail to complaints about Stephen Miller (including the effect of his demand for quotas).
Of particular note: He ordered up confrontation just before Alex Pretti was murdered.
He tried to override Trump's exemption on snatching Ag workers.
When I spoke to Emily Gregory on @siriusxmprog.bsky.social, I asked what she was hearing from voters on the doors. She knocked a lot of doors!
First was affordability. Then, she said ICE. In Trump's Florida House District, voters were angry about ICE
Here's a clip - and congrats again Emily!
“'Today is my wedding anniversary,' said one Sandy, Utah resident. 'But this is my priority. I cannot stand for there to be a concentration camp in my state.'
"Another resident said this was her first time participating in a protest..."
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Huh. Glad to see NYT finally admitting to this.
The president who fired hundreds of thousands of federal workers is nonetheless spending far more every day than his predecessors. www.pbump.net/o/trump-like...
Credit to the @inquirer.com for the clarity of this statement.
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BALTIMORE—In surprise testimony in federal court Thursday, an immigration officer revealed that more than 100 asylum seekers were wrongfully deported in violation of a court-ordered settlement agreement in a long-running case that has gotten national attention.
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JUST POSTED: Charting the Way Forward Ep 61, covering the Illinois primary (particularly Kat's race), some war talk, and some profound hilarity going on in Texas, with a bit of a leitmotif of moral rot. Enjoy n' share!
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Every day, I talk to earnest liberals who describe to me, in great detail, problems that have resulted from this ... but they won't name the cause! "Turns out, all the sudden the public is obsessed with trans girls trying to play sports." Oh? Any thoughts about why? Any at all? No? No thoughts?
... of that last half-century, upstream of virtually any other problem that you can identify, and yet in mainsteam political discourse we *never talk about it*. It's the biggest, most salient political fact of all, just sitting there, looming, and no one fucking speaks it aloud.
I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane:
The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...
"Stunning Interference": Heather Cox Richardson details what looks to be an epic cover up by Trump/DOJ of a specific DEA investigation into Epstein that suddenly "disappeared."
“We can’t last 34 more months of what we’ve seen in the last 14. We’re fucked if this guy serves out his term. He’s gonna trash everything once and for all.”
mind-boggling to me that i still have yet to see a single democrat utter the phrase “every republican president of your lifetime has destroyed the economy and started a war”
Honestly wonder if Wyden is in smoking gun territory here
NEW: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is blocking the DEA from releasing an unredacted document from the Epstein files about an investigation involving drug trafficking & money laundering, according to a letter @wyden.senate.gov sent to Blanche Tuesday
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Kash Patel refused to deny that the FBI is buying up Americans' location data. This is a shocking end run around the 4th amendment and exactly why we need to pass real privacy reforms NOW.
The President of the United States said I insulted Jesus.
You want to know what insults Jesus?
Kicking the sick off their healthcare.
Bombing schoolchildren in Iran.
Deporting moms and babies.
Covering up the Epstein files.
Kinda prefer actual analysis from @gelliottmorris.com and @jongreen.bsky.social than hot takes from the "we hate the groups" bros
