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Chase Lindsey

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Helping good people get elected. 📍TN

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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Four years after splitting Nashville three ways and turning a 7–2 Republican delegation into 8–1, they came back for Memphis.
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Republicans Drew a 9–0 Map. Meet the Democrats Testing It.
Nine Democrats. Nine very different races. One congressional map Tennessee Republicans think they’ve already solved.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Tennessee voters need to understand something before they walk into a primary this year… because the state has not done a good job explaining it. And no one is talking about it. When you go vote, you’re going to be asked to sign a primary participation form. That part isn’t new.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
“Kitchen table issues” is one of the emptiest phrases in Democratic politics. It sounds grounded. It sounds safe. It sounds like you care.
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Stop Saying “Kitchen Table Issues”
If Democrats want people to understand the stakes, we need sharper language, clearer conflict, and less consultant-speak.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Jon Ossoff’s speech in Georgia was a blueprint for how Democrats can win in red terrain. He runs a sequence that actually moves people. Here’s what he did, why it works, and how to run it locally. If you’re trying to win where “Democrat” still gets said like a slur, this is usable. Read it here.
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A blueprint speech for Democrats in red states
respect that lands → reality people recognize → a bridge people can cross → a completed action that survives the week.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Inject this into my veins. 🇺🇸🦅 AOC at UAW today:
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The People’s State of the State is about the Tennessee that lives with power outages, underfunded schools, disappearing hospitals, rising rents, and leaders who call all of that “freedom.” Read it here: redstatebluevoter.substack.com/p/peoples-st...
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Two Tennessees
A People’s State of the State, and a plan to build the Tennessee we deserve.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Dropping this here because it’s aimed at red-district reality: how you move from “we’re right” to “we’re a factor.” Targeting + mobilization + consequences. If you’re building local muscle, I’d love feedback. redstatebluevoter.substack.com/p/persuasion...
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Stop Trying to Win the Argument
The win condition is turnout, local capacity, and pressure that doesn’t evaporate by Thursday.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
We keep seeing the same patterns... something terrible happens, we post, we vent, we get the rush… and then the system keeps moving like we were never there. That’s not because people don’t care. It’s because that feeling we get after posting isn’t power.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Trump’s brain is FRIED
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Tennessee Republicans filed eight immigration bills in one coordinated package.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
BREAKING | President Trump says he ordered US military strikes against ISIS targets in Nigeria.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas! 🎄 If you’re in one of the hard places, where “Democrat” gets used like an insult and showing up to a meeting feels like volunteering to be somebody’s punching bag… YOU are seen!
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
A FREE guide to help you get through the holiday 😩😂🎄 redstatebluevoter.substack.com/p/a-holiday-...
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A Petty Guide to Surviving Christmas Dinner With Your MAGA Uncle
(Without taking the bait, without ruining dinner, and without pretending prices aren't eating everybody alive)
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
You don’t fix a relationship by pretending the fight never happened. That’s basically where I’m at with the DNC right now.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
There’s a very specific kind of person who runs for office. You’ve seen them. The folks who think being everywhere is the same thing as being needed. The “it’s my turn” crowd.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The Republican VP says it was just “college kids joking around.” But a 2,900-page leak from Young Republican leaders shows the truth: this isn’t a group chat — it’s a curriculum.
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Not a Group Chat. A Curriculum.
The kids are not alright, and they’ve been taught that cruelty is leadership.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
They want you blaming your neighbor instead of noticing the hand in your pocket. But you know better. That badge you’ve worn your whole life is flashing red right now.
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A Letter to My Republican Neighbor: Don’t Let Them Sell You a Lie
This shutdown isn’t about immigrants. It’s about gutting protections for workers, veterans, and families while the powerful cash in.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
One bullet has tilted the ground beneath us. But before Charlie Kirk’s family could even plan a funeral, the right has already turned his death into a weapon.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Labor Day is about the choice in front of us: let the ticks keep bleeding us dry, or fight to build something they can’t buy, can’t silence, and can’t kill. redstatebluevoter.substack.com/p/against-us
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The War They Waged Against Us
Labor Day was carved out of blood and defiance. For seventy years they’ve tried to erase it, but the tick of what they stole is still with us. And so is the fight.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Nothing changes if no one runs. The ballot is a tool. Pick it up and use it. Read: If You Want Something Different, Run redstatebluevoter.substack.com/p/want-somet...
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If You Want Something Different, Run
Change isn’t coming from the top. The fastest way to break their grip is to walk onto the ballot yourself—and make them face you.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
This far, and no farther. When the line is crossed, the only question left is where you stand.
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This Far and No Farther? | Project Battleground
When the promises are broken and the harm is done, all that’s left is the choice of where we plant our feet.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
We keep hearing that voters in red states “vote against their own interests.” You can’t vote against your own interests if you’re never given a real choice.
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The Voters We Left Behind
Rural voters aren’t voting against their interests. They’ve been abandoned. If we want their support, we have to earn it — block by block, door by door, race by race.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Stop looking up the ladder. Start looking around. redstatebluevoter.substack.com/p/work-not-s...
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
It’s not enough. But it’s something, and something matters a hell of a lot more than nothing. This is what it looks like when we stop waiting for heroes and start doing the damn work. redstatebluevoter.substack.com/p/work-youre...
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Trump didn’t hijack anything. He just gave them permission to stop pretending. We have to name what we’re fighting. Because if we can’t… we’re already losing.
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"Call Them the Redskins, Dammit": Trump’s Tantrum Government, Fully Unleashed
He’s not trying to govern. He’s trying to punish. Over a team name. This isn’t small government... it’s authoritarian cosplay with real-world consequences. The mask is off. Now what are we gonna do ab...
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Tired of trying to figure out what’s real and what’s just loud? I made a no-fluff fact-checking toolkit… the sites I actually use. For your mom. For the group chat. For you. redstatebluevoter.substack.com/p/fact-check
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
For anyone who knows what it feels like to be alive in the breaking. Just something for the ones carrying more than their share.
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Let This Be Enough | Project Battleground
I spent the Fourth of July in Charleston, walking the streets where children were once sold, and sitting in a church painted with stars. This isn’t a prayer for salvation. It’s a prayer for the ones s...
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Being a Democrat in a state with a Republican supermajority doesn’t mean we don’t have power. It means we’re free to imagine something better. We don’t owe voters more slogans. We owe them real answers. A vision. A plan. A party that isn’t afraid to talk about why things are broken…
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Stop Settling: Imagining a New Way Forward for Southern Democrats
Southern Democrats keep losing because safe slogans aren't enough. Here's how we build power by being brave enough to imagine radical solutions.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Everyone’s talking about the 17–20 million people who will lose their health insurance if Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” becomes law. And yeah— That number should be a national scandal. It’s staggering. It’s cruel. It’s deliberate. But it gets a whole hell of a lot worse:
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Still Covered. Still Screwed. What Trump’s Bill Really Does to Your Health Care
Seventeen million people may lose their insurance, but the damage doesn’t stop there. Even if you keep your coverage, this bill guts what it means to be insured. Higher costs. Fewer options. More debt...
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I wish there was better news this morning. The Senate is still reading through Trump’s nearly 1000-page bill aloud, but it’s going to pass. Almost a trillion cut from Medicaid. Millions about to lose care. Nursing homes will close. Families will pay more for energy. Billionaires get more tax breaks
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We’re Losing More Than Healthcare. We’re Losing Our Humanity.
While billionaires cash in, millions will lose care. The only thing standing between us and disaster is each other.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
You can't plant nothing and expect a harvest. But that's what keeps happening. A race gets close. A seat opens up. A district shifts by a few points, and we act shocked we're not ready to win.
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We didn’t plant anything. And now we’re shocked when we can’t harvest.
A congressional seat just opened up in Tennessee. But what it’s really exposing is how little the Tennessee Democratic Party has built. Part 3 of The Race That Shows the Bones pulls back the curtain o...
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
RFK JR: “My vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within 4 years.” Can you imagine if a Democrat said they wanted to track every American? redstatebluevoter.substack.com
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
These are REAL tweets. Thomas Massie is a Republican Congressman. redstatebluevoter.substack.com
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Yesterday was the largest protest in American history.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
There are thousands of protests planned across the country tomorrow, Saturday, June 14. Find one near you. redstatebluevoter.substack.com/p/not-safer-... If it’s not for you, do it for someone else. So they know they aren’t the only one seeing what’s happening - and that they’re not alone.
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You’re Not Safer in a Crouched Position
Thousands of protests are happening across the country on Saturday, June 14. Find one near you - and show up so someone else knows they’re not alone. Your presence matters more than your comfort.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I don’t know if y’all saw the memo Trump just put out… The one federalizing 2,000 National Guard troops AND opening the door for unlimited active-duty military to be used against protests.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Kristi Noem warned that if Biden federalized the National Guard, it would be a dangerous, unconstitutional power grab. Now Trump’s done exactly, she’s not just silent. She’s all in. So what happened??
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Trump doesn’t give a damn about the deficit. Elon doesn’t care about the future of your job or your kid’s school. They are not on opposite sides of anything real. They’re just pissed off the other one tried to steal the spotlight. Read the full piece: redstatebluevoter.substack.com/p/trump-elon...
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The Billionaire Breakup That Should Scare the Hell Out of You
They’re not fighting for you. They’re fighting over control, while Medicaid gets gutted, AI takes your job, and your kid’s school loses funding. Don’t mistake this for entertainment.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
People will tell you to run for office like it’s a dare or a compliment. But running takes more than a name on a ballot. It takes more than being mad at the way things are.
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The Questions No One Asks (But Every Potential Candidate Should Answer)
Thinking about running for office? Start here. These 7 gut-check questions go deeper than a checklist - they help you figure out if you're really ready to lead, especially in red and rural places.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
THIS IS THE ISSUE. A Democratic staffer was handcuffed by DHS agents inside Rep. Nadler’s office, and when asked how Democrats would respond, Jeffries had nothing. No plan. No urgency. If this is the response, we have a bigger problem: our leaders may not be built for this moment.
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Anderson County Democratic Party @andersoncountydems.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
🏳️‍🌈 This Pride Month, we honor every thread of courage that dares to live out loud. Here in Anderson County, we push back against the rising chorus telling LGBTQ+ folks: “Hide who you are. You’re not welcome here.”
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
What we’re fighting isn’t just bad policy. It’s a complete rewrite of reality. And if we don’t start learning how to tell the truth in a way people feel, we’re going to lose more than a news cycle.
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Where Half-Truths Win, the Truth Gets Quiet
Skittles. U.S. Steel. A tax bill wrapped in lies. This isn’t polished, but it is personal. A raw reflection on how we’re losing the story and the stakes.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
This is part of the problem. Americans have no idea who actually lives in this country. We massively overestimate how many people are rich, gay, trans, or immigrants, and underestimate the folks who make up the real majority. That disconnect isn’t harmless. It’s political.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
He almost sounds sane if you stop reading after “Happy Memorial Day”
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
The political right doesn’t have a monopoly on disinformation.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
He’s doing the meme again.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I’ve seen the stories from veterans on my feeds - reflecting on what 250 years of the U.S. Army really means. It’s humbling. A reminder of how many have served, how many have sacrificed, and how deep that legacy runs.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
AOC: When you wake up in the morning, you will realize that you voted to defund planned parenthood and take away health care from 13.7 million Americans and when this country wakes up there will be consequences to pay for this
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
If you're just waking up - Speaker Johnson had a good night - the rule passed. Chip Roy and hardliners voted yes, Massie opposed The budget bill is expected to pass the House around 6am.
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Chase Lindsey @benjaminchase.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
It’s May of 2025 - and people from all walks of life are asking: “Should I run for office?” But the truth nobody says out loud: Not everyone should.
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Not Everyone Should Run for Office | Project Battleground
In red and rural America, a bad campaign can do real damage. If you're going to run, run like it matters. This is the story of how one local race got it right—and the start of a field guide for everyo...
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