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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4h
The midterms are being flooded with dark money & Trump is doing everything he can to suppress the vote. But remember — WE THE PEOPLE outnumber Trump and his billionaire backers. Keep phoning. Keep canvassing. Keep getting out the vote for candidates on the side of working people. It is essential.
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 5h
This perfectly encapsulates what seems to be happening in politics, something many of us have waited for for years: people who were seemingly brainwashed by a Trump cult coming out of it. Listen here to a Trump superfan in her own words: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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House Democrats @housedemocrats.bsky.social · 8h
Donald Trump cut healthcare and food assistance from millions. At the same time he has made BILLIONS from stock trades and shady crypto deals. His priorities are clear: Enrich himself while you struggle.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 9h
James Talarico walks out to a standing ovation from 50,000 Texans at the State Fair Classic.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 12h
James Talarico at the State Fair Classic 🔥
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h
The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 12h
Republicans are spending millions of dollars on ads trying to get Americans to forget that corruption in Washington has reached an all-time high, the cost of living is unsustainable, and they have accomplished next to nothing in office.
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Steve Schmidt @thewarningses.bsky.social · 13h
Iowa's governor's race is slipping away from MAGA while Trump can't stop the war with Iran. I break down how to see through Trump's lies and why MAGA will be obliterated in 34 days. youtu.be/t_TYK8WjoHY
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Donald Trump Will Face A Blue Wave | Steve Schmidt
YouTube video by The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23h
I hope this headline haunts Eric Schmitt for the rest of his pathetic political career.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 17h
The other day, Talarico leaned hard into the case for immigration as a positive good for our country in a way you rarely hear from Dems. He has a real theory of the case: Trump's cruelty and barbarism have opened space for new moral arguments, a new consensus. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1. Democrats win control of the House and Senate. 2. Investigations and prosecutions begin. 3. Impeachment and removal proceedings. 4. Take back the billions of taxpayer money corruptly taken by the Trump family and their accomplices. 5. Rinse and repeat.
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Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Prosecute Trump for his Crimes! youtu.be/2KwqETK-7oU?...
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Prosecute Trump for his Crimes!
YouTube video by Glenn Kirschner
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It is clear that Democrats are set to sweep control of Congress in free and fair elections. It is also clear that Trump and the GOP are working to make sure the elections are not free and fair. I founded Democracy Docket to help you stay informed to fight back. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 22h
Congratulations to this year’s @macfound.org fellows! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/a...
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MacArthur Foundation Announces 2026 ‘Genius Grant’ Winners
The 20 fellowship recipients across the arts, humanities and sciences will each receive an $800,000, no-strings-attached stipend for their work.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can we underscore that diversity is America’s strength, indeed it makes America stronger?
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A new Democratic Congress needs to investigate this hateful man.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump's Iran War has spiked food prices by raising the cost of fertilizer and fuel. His cuts to FDA and HHS have made foodborne illness outbreaks harder to contain. And his SNAP cuts have made it even harder for millions to feed themselves. He's making America hungry again.
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Donald Trump cares about one person: Donald Trump. Bribes from industry. Buildings with his name. Gold coins with his face. Americans are paying the price for a president who's completely consumed by his own vanity.
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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Trump is the most corrupt, out of touch President in our nation’s history. Senate Democrats will pursue every avenue to ensure that these funds are distributed as the law demands.
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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Donald Trump is illegally stealing $810 million from programs that support education, small business, and clean air. All while tripling his own net worth and spending billions more on ballrooms, reflecting pools, and an illegal war nobody asked for.
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Steve Schmidt @thewarningses.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
James Talarico is five points ahead of Ken Paxton in the latest poll for Texas's Senate race. With the Lone Star State poised to elect its first Democratic senator since 1988, I break down how Donald Trump and MAGA are eating themselves alive one month before the midterms. youtu.be/CO7ruOxa0yU
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Donald Trump and MAGA Are in Deep Water | Steve Schmidt
YouTube video by The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, the media, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101.
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House Democrats @housedemocrats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in our history. When Democrats get the gavels, we will investigate him and his family and get justice for the American people.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How A.I. Super PACs Are Trying to Influence the Midterms
See how groups aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have funneled major money into the fight for control of Congress.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 29/09/2026
NEW: In a win for Louisiana voters, a federal judge allowed a pro-voting lawsuit challenging the state's documentary proof of citizenship requirement to move forward. The court also wrote that pro-voters' claims that the law discriminates against voters based on national origin seemed plausible.
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Judge greenlights challenge to Louisiana anti-voting law, citing discrimination claims
The judge found that the pro-voting plaintiffs had plausibly alleged that officials in Lafayette Parish discriminated against some registration applicants based on national origin.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans cried that Trump needed money for the border and then he stole the money to pay for a millions in totally illegal, taxpayer funded campaign ads. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads
White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🍏Toxins out of our food 🧑‍🌾Farmers first, not chemical companies ❌Break up corporate concentration in agriculture 💧Clean water, guaranteed 🍽️School meals that nourish 💸Public dollars should buy public health ⚕️Food as medicine ⚖️Accountability for polluters, not immunity
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Donald Trump incited a violent insurrection to reject the peaceful transfer of power & deny the people's will. He never should have been able to run again. GOP senators condemning Jack Smith for conducting a fact-based investigation as politics & worse are engaged in treachery of the worst order.
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Morning Joe @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@markwarner.bsky.social, D-Va., vice chair of the Select Committee on Intelligence, tells Morning Joe the war in Iran is “a disaster on every front.” He highlights rising prices, a radical regime ruling over Iran and no end to the conflict in sight.
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar FTW here at the end. And Jack Smith maintains his composure throughout this charade.
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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Their bill still allows Members of Congress and President Trump to own and sell stocks, and it's loaded with voting restriction provisions. Not to mention, Trump has traded more stocks than all of Congress combined since his term began. It's designed to hide insider trading—not stop it.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power. The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever. But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/09/2026
Very funny this happened right after Axios was like "lots of buzz about Schmitt for VP" this morning.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/09/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Voters “are showing a growing determination to repudiate the Trump presidency,” Thomas Edsall writes. “Their most direct opportunity to express this determination is electing Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate.”
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Opinion | Trump’s Luck Is Finally Running Out
Voters are showing a growing determination to repudiate his presidency.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"...just go talk to people at the grocery store, I’m sure they’re going to tell you the same thing, that they’re just really struggling." A grocery store (or gas station) is a smart place to be for the news media and politicians alike. That is where life in America gets real, real fast.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Persuasion isn't about saying "I told you so" - it's about bringing people together to make things better.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 29/09/2026
Almost immediately after his second term began, Trump started taking steps to try to control elections. “This is his fixation,” Marc Elias says. “This is the unifying force that holds the MAGA movement together.” They're betting you'll stop paying attention. Don't: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump is running political ads on your tax dollars, including a recycled one from his campaign It's against the law, & it should make everyone mad My take w/ @arimelber.bsky.social on @ms.now👇 -TN
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And check out the book, "HOW RUSSIA WON: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America" at HowRussiaWon.com.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As I discussed last night with Rachel Maddow, after I published my book, "HOW RUSSIA WON," which exposes Russian disinfo ops aimed at the US to help Trump, the Russians dragged me into a disinfo op attacking Dems in the midterms. See my OUR LAND newsletter: link.motherjones.com/public/47685...
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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 28/09/2026
Trump just gutted nearly $1B in funding for kids, K-12, small businesses, & health and clean-air research Billions for his vanity projects? No problem Programs that help Americans? Apparently, that’s too far We will fight these illegal cuts. We will not let Trump rob the American people blind.
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Trump Proposes $810 Million in Education and Health Cuts, Defying Congress
The attempted clawback represents the second time in as many years that the White House has sought to cancel funding approved by lawmakers.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“All of a sudden—and, in my view, far too late for any version of redemption or forgiveness—rats are fleeing the sinking ship. They are jumping overboard in the vain hope that they won’t sink along with Trump.“ www.americaamerica.news/p/rats-are-f...
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Rats Are Fleeing the Sinking Ship
But they have waited too long and are still too few in number to change the outcome of a likely Democratic tsunami
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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Remember when Trump said his war in Iran would last only four to five weeks? We’re now in month EIGHT, and the American people and our troops are paying the price. Last week, the Senate GOP had the chance to vote to end this illegal war, and instead voted to keep it going. They are complicit.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When authoritarians get backed into a corner, they lash out and resort to fear-mongering. This is why Trump is running ominous taxpayer funded ads. But we’re going to organize our friends and neighbors, turn out to vote in November, and deliver a resounding blue wave. Spread the word.
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House Democrats @housedemocrats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
American servicemembers have died. Our weapons stockpile is depleted. Families are struggling to keep up with surging gas prices. Mr. President, this war is not “small potatoes.”
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨NEW EPISODE: The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can once again use a flawed database to help Republicans purge eligible voters from the rolls, just weeks before the midterms. Some are calling it a partial win. I see a warning. youtube.com/watch?v=wvhm...
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There is No Bright Side to Voter Suppression
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If Democrats retake Congress this November, a top priority should be investigating the Trump family's many shady business deals. Perhaps they can start with Eric and Don Jr.'s ties to defense companies receiving lucrative government contracts?
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Glendy and Nixon's children are now orphans," the archbishop said... "The family was a beloved member of our community; their children received their first sacraments in our parishes..." "This is not a gray area... What is happening is gravely immoral." www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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St. Louis Archdiocese wants end to 'mass deportation,' says immigrant treatment 'sinful'
Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski called for a path to legal status for those without documentation.
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House Democrats @housedemocrats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Democrats are fighting for hardworking Americans. Today and every day.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Trump [may] belong [to] the era of Marius and Sulla, the men who brought force and corruption into Roman politics on a scale nobody had yet seen...If America ends up an autocracy, Trump will not be its culmination but something closer to its forerunner." open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...
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America Can Pull Back From the Slippery Slope to Rome
The decline of the rule of law and our republic is not inevitable
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