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Brandon

@brandon714.bsky.social
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Hello, everyone. My name is Brandon. I'm a Twitter/X refugee that's happy to be here. I had to get away from that other place. I'm also a Democrat.

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MLC @chicyph80.bsky.social · 12h
We got our first report today out of Michigan with regard to mail ballots returned. And on the bingo card of things I wasn't expecting, early on, Wayne County is leading with return rate!! 🥳 Great early sign of momentum in MI!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12h
Thank you, America.gov!
Screenshot of America.gov answering a question about the highest diesel prices in U.S. history. It states that President Donald Trump was in office when the national average retail diesel price reached a record nominal high of $6.29 per gallon on September 14, 2026, according to the EIA.
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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 13h
The early vote's looking good overall in Virginia; let's keep this going (and, of course, if you haven't voted yet, please do so, if possible in person) bluevirginia.us/2026/09/tues...
"Unfortunately still no precinct data, but here are the statewide numbers through day 7 in VA VBM still being returned very fast (>140% of same-day 2025) - need some time to see where that settles"  - DJSokeSpeaking
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.bsky.social · 13h
Senate Republicans are preparing to depart Washington at the end of the week without approving President Trump’s request for $350 billion in defense funds, leaving the Pentagon to confront how much of its spending plan can fit into the regular budget.
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Senate Republicans Are Leaving Trump's $350 Billion Defense Boost in Limbo
“We have to just make the case to every single Republican and as many Democrats as will listen,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 13h
The White House's AI website refuses to answer questions about the Epstein files.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 13h
Children as young as 2 have been forced to represent themselves in immigration courts during Trump's time in office: “The kids who are unrepresented, they can’t read the form, much less figure out how to file it.... No one is asking a single question — who will you go to? Will you be safe?”
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Active Transportation Alliance @activetransportation.org · 13h
"The Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA) wants to hear from you! Your input will help shape how we invest in our transit system. Please take a few minutes to tell us what matters most to you for the 2027 Regional Transit Operating Budget" @nitachicago.bsky.social
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What Moves You? Help Shape the 2027 NITA Budget
Polco is a secure and reliable place to provide input directly to local and state leaders, as well as other socially minded organizations.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 15h
Via David Paleogos at Suffolk: the latest Suffolk poll numbers in Ohio #OHGov Acton 50 Ramaswamy 41 Kissick 3 Undecided 5 Who is running the more negative campaign Ramaswamy 48 Acton 23
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ashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MARIST OHIO
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MLC @chicyph80.bsky.social · 16h
I have this hunch that other pollsters are finding what Marist is but they’re fudging with the numbers in case of a miss. It would make sense why we keep hearing R internals are worse than public. We’ll know more in 5 weeks 🤷‍♂️
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
Dems may be positioned to take back the House, but this is no time for complacency. Jeffries is right to put healthcare front and center. Medicaid, healthcare costs, and who government actually works for are going to be major issues in this fight. Nothing is won yet.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 28/09/2026
i am not sure an ad that says "paid for by the U.S. government" is going to have the effect the president wants it to have...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 28/09/2026
I have built a novel dataset of news headlines that get shared by the press that updates daily and stretches back to 2016. Looking at data over the last month, Trump's first-ever midterm convention failed to change the news agenda. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09-28...
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Iran, prices, ICE, and Epstein are the biggest stories of 2026
In a new database of news headlines stretching back to 2016, I show Trump's midterm convention failed to change news agendas
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Dan Shafer @danshafer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Democrats are favored to flip the Wisconsin State Senate for the first time in 16 years. www.therecombobulationarea.com/p/2026-elect...
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This. goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/the-gop-go...
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The GOP Governing Collapse
In Iran and elsewhere. Plus all the links.
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I love the optimism about Dems winning in November - I share it! And: I'm a tiny bit nervous that winning will free folks of the urgency to fix deeper structural problems in our party that will fuck us in the long-haul if we don't grapple with them.
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Our nation is under attack by the very people who are supposed to be leading it. Gas prices are through the roof. Groceries just keep going up. SNAP and Medicaid are being ripped away from families. And who's stood by Donald Trump through it all? Darren Bailey.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 27/09/2026
Wisconsin 🧀 Governor Mail requests as of Sep 25, 2026 Modeled margin if all returned: 🔵 David Crowley – 171,517 (62.4%) 🔴 Tom Tiffany – 100,550 (36.6%) ~10% of mail ballots requested have been cast. We forecast a final contest margin of Crowley +6.2.
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Thomas HD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Detroit Free-Press endorses Abdul El-Sayed!
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Abdul El-Sayed or Mike Rogers? Freep's pick in U.S. Senate race | Endorsement
The Free Press endorsement in Michigan's U.S. Senate race.
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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 27/09/2026
All the YIMBYs came to my neighborhood to knock doors for @patgilsenan.bsky.social!
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 27/09/2026
NEW: GOP Georgia U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Mike Collins says he's "fine" with sending federal troops to the polls, and idea floated often by Trump officials. Problem with that is this is illegal and a form of voter intimidation.
democracydocket.com
‘Fine with me’: GOP Senate candidate Mike Collins backs federal troops at polls
Rep. Mike Collins (R), the GOP candidate for Georgia’s U.S. Senate seat, said he was “fine” with sending federal troops to the polls, though this is illegal.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 27/09/2026
The next No Kings is right around the corner! Find (or organize) your local event to drive unprecedented early voting and recruit volunteers to help protect our elections: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
(around a map showing the more than 1,000 events planned for the next No Kings on October 17) NO KINGS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17
MAKE A PLAN TO VOTE EARLY!
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A few takeaways from this good analysis by The Economist - Red counties are only growing because of migration - Significant more mortality during COVID in Trump land (to own the libs?) - Maybe the 2030 census map will look better for Dems than anticipated www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
In MAGA-land people are dying faster than they are being born
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The Economist @economist.com · 26/09/2026
Reliably Republican counties skew older, but they have significantly higher death rates even after adjusting for age, as our charts show
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In MAGA-land people are dying faster than they are being born
Our analysis suggests Trump country is only growing because of migration
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The Economist @economist.com · 24/09/2026
Deaths now outnumber births in reliably Republican counties for the first time since at least 1982. We explain how this may already be affecting voting patterns in America bit.ly/471apDL
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For decades Americans in Republican counties have died sooner than those living in Democratic ones Now they’re dying faster than they’re being born These are policy choices
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“.. “We need to get some other voices in there to push back a little bit on this stuff,” said Nancy Danner, who farms thousands of acres of corn and soybeans with her husband, Kevin, in western Iowa. “We need as many changes as we can get.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bottoms is locking in
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 26/09/2026
If you're in Georgia and you're focusing more on Jon Ossoff than Keisha Lance Bottoms, it's time to recalibrate. Ossoff is likely to win #GASen. Bottoms is in a knife fight to win #GAGov. Democrats *NEED* to win that Governorship.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sorry but if you doom or say why Republicans are actually favored you need to post actual essays like this. At least say it with your chest like Chris
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 26/09/2026
We are more organized and informed than we’ve ever been before — and that’s why we’re going to win the midterms.
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MLC @chicyph80.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I say this respectfully... A LOT of folks on here are way too certain about particular races IMHO. And this coming from the eternal optimist lol Like, no, Georgia Gov is not Likely D Bottoms is MAYBE the slightest of favorites based on the environment but I do think some people need to chill a bit
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#BREAKING: #SCOTUS once again freezes the lower federal courts’ rulings in the Missouri redistricting case—and affirms that, as the Missouri Supreme Court held earlier this month, Missouri will use the 2022 map in the November elections. There were no public dissents.
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maria_from_ga @mariafromga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Exactly Trump’s immigration policies & deliberate economic destruction is reminding young ppl at age of ideological calcification, minorities removed from Civil Rights Generation, the working class long removed from the New Deal why they don’t vote GOP but Dem-> that’s how you get realignments
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 25/09/2026
Absolutely brutal ad just dropped against Roger Marshall in #KSSen. Just watch.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As objectionable as this is, it allows only individual searches. Mass purges at this point in the cycle are prohibited under existing statute. Congress under Dems needs to begin defunding all these menacing devices that threaten privacy and voting rights.
nytimes.com
Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Nathaniel Rakich @baseballot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Supreme Court's ruling on the SAVE database shouldn't affect the 2026 election. Under federal law, you can't systematically remove voters from the rolls within 90 days of an election.
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Brandon @brandon714.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you're dooming about today's Supreme Court ruling, please don't. It isn't final. it's just an emergency stay.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a dangerous decision for voters, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized and deeply flawed database of personal information to initiate registration purges. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Supreme Court revives DHS use of flawed immigration database for voter purges
The decision lets the administration move forward with a key provision of President Trump’s first anti-voting executive order.
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MLC @chicyph80.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
....I cannot stress how literally fucking insane it would be if Dems take the Texas House. We're talking political earthquake if that happens.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wu on redistricting if Dems get control: "You do the exact same thing that they did to you until they say mercy" and agree to national, bipartisan reform.
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Texas dem minority leader Gene Wu at Texas Tribune Fest: "I think we can take the (Texas) House."
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 25/09/2026
Millions of Americans will take action on October 17 to make it clear to the regime that we won’t sit by while they threaten to sabotage the midterms. Join a No Kings event to drive massive early voting and recruit tons of volunteers to help protect our elections: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
(around a map showing the more than 1,000 events planned for the next No Kings on October 17) NO KINGS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17
MAKE A PLAN TO VOTE EARLY!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Republicans have dumped a staggering $160 million into Texas — and James Talarico is still leading. At the Texas Tribune Festival, the moderator went through the last 10 public Senate polls. Talarico led in all 10. That’s not a blip. That’s a huge warning sign for the GOP.
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MLC @chicyph80.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm just gonna say, I love that many on here have turned to yelling at, scolding, and mocking doomers. We don't need that shit....
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 25/09/2026
Despite having a huge cash advantage in nearly every contested Senate race in the country, Republicans are begging for more in Alaska, Iowa and Ohio. Is this a sign that the environment is so toxic for the GOP that their money justmight not matter? www.axios.com/2026/09/24/n...
axios.com
Scoop: NRSC pleads for $9M to defend three red seats
The Senate GOP campaign arm is making an extraordinary late ask for three red states.
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MLC @chicyph80.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I sincerely hope today was a good reminder to people to not react strongly to any singular poll (but I doubt it will be) Like 95% of polls have been TREMENDOUS for Dems. And still, a number of y'all had a complete meltdown about one poll. ...meanwhile Collins was down in 2 polls the same day.
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MLC @chicyph80.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Univ of NH just dropped a massive poll with lots of races! Couple of highlights: Pappas +8 in NH Senate Ayotte +4 in NH Gov (!!) Jackson +4 in ME Senate Dunlap +6 in ME-02 (!!!!) Overall, just a fantastic poll for Dems in the Northeast!!
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