“The old system, whatever its merits, is clearly and unequivocally broken and something new has to be built in its place. Something stronger, something more ready to use and comfortable using political power.”
Fantastic essay and wild alignment with Terrance Woodbury’s talk at #Persuasion2025
We invite the Times editors to engage with the actual arguments we're making, not with the flimsy versions reflected in some of the coverage of our #Persuasion2025 event. This talk from Terrance Woodbury and the two other videos in this playlist are a great starting point.
Lot of news in the Maine Senate race today, so here's @grahamformaine.bsky.social at our #Persuasion2025 even in DC two weeks ago.
When we started planning #Persuasion2025, Terrance Woodbury from @hitstrat.bsky.social was one of the first names that came up. Terrance has a unique ability to shape a story with data that will fire you up... and maybe scare you a bit. (in a good way)
We felt like some of the #Persuasion2025 coverage, while much appreciated, fell short of getting across the bigger themes and ideas discussed at the event. This thought provoking @qasimrashid.com piece gets into some of the systemic and structural issues driving these patterns.
This @perrybaconjr.bsky.social interview with @vanhollen.senate.gov was one of the #Persuasion2025 highlights. Don't miss the framing of the first question; that single question set the bullshit-free tone for the entire day.
“We need to go back to being a party that tells the truth. It’s the only way to rebuild the Democratic Party as the party of working people. In this race, the ground is fertile to build power locally and then build that into structural power.”
@grahamformaine.bsky.social #Persuasion2025
“Voters were struggling with an affordability crisis but had given up hope a mayor could do anything about it. Zohran wasn’t scared of naming villains and proposing solutions.” Morris Katz #Persuasion2025
“Why is it so hard to acknowledge clear atrocities? AIPAC should have the same connotation as the NRA in Democratic politics. I think this is the very purposeful ignoring of humanity. But when you have money coming in, you don’t want to jeopardize that.”
@katmabu.bsky.social #Persuasion2025
“There’s no polling [based stance to take] on genocide. Either you’re against it, or you’re one of the bad guys.” @bhavik.bsky.social #Persuasion2025
"There’s a concerted effort... to make sure that Democrats just focus on raising more corporate money, to engage in the failed strategy of then spending a ton of that money on mail and TV at the very last minute." Rep @gregcasar.bsky.social #Persuasion2025
"The thing Mamdani is doing, people think he cares about them. They’ll forgive him the other stuff. The reason they like Trump? They think Trump’s on their side... Democrats can say the right words but if they don't feel it, people don’t believe them.” @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social #Persuasion2025
"You say to voters, fire, fire, the house is on fire, this is a fascist threat. But then you refuse to go into the building with an extinguisher and pull them out, they are left either thinking you’re lying… or you don’t give a shit about them." @anatosaurus.bsky.social #Persuasion2025
Sen. Van Hollen on Kilmar Abrego Garcia: “There were a lot of pollsters and pundits who said I shouldn’t go because we shouldn’t talk about immigration... It’s a false choice to say we have to only talk about the price of eggs and we can’t talk about the assaults on our freedoms.” #Persuasion2025
Our inaugural #Persuasion2025 DC event has drawn praise and stirred up opinions across DC. We partnered with the ad testing platform Swayable and invited a spectrum of voices to join us for a day of new thinking and finding a path forward. A 🧵, and stay tuned for clips and session video.
