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Alex Harper

@harperforjustice.bsky.social
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Girl Dad, State Prosecutor, and Former Democratic Candidate for South Carolina's 5th Congressional District.

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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I often think about how insane it is that the Trump administration tried twice in a year to acquire Greenland. But I have no time to be nostalgic about a possible war with the Danes because we have to worry about canceled elections and the Straight of Hormuz. I yearn for precedented times.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Y’all think Kristi Noem was fired because they actually thought she was bad at her job, or because they knew the story about her husband was gonna leak. My money is SOLIDLY on the latter.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Credit where it’s due: SC’s Tim Scott teaming up with Elizabeth Warren on a bipartisan housing bill to modernize factory-built housing and curb large investors buying single-family homes. Good policy. Broad support. Congress actually doing something useful for once.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Trump says he won't sign another Bill into law until the Unconstitutional SAVE Act is passed. Oh no, what is he going to do? Stop this historically under performing Congress from continuing to under perform and rule by Executive Orders instead? Can't imagine what that would look like.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The only thing I could think of when I heard that scientists got one step closer to nuclear fusion tech today using tritium.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I don’t care what y’all say or what you call me. I’m not giving up my slim fit jeans.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
It was a great day to be at the Statehouse!
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Trump did an exclusive interview with NBC yesterday where he said that he and his team have real PR problems and that's why nobody likes his policies. Hours later, he posted a video of Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys. Way to tackle the problem, bud.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Pluto and now this? Scientists, man.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Donald Trump posted on Truth Social today to endorse a candidate for the South Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture race. It was for a candidate that has not announced their candidacy. I just find that odd.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
It’s giving ✨ petulant toddler ✨ but with nuclear codes.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Credit where due to the Republicans who backed limiting Trump’s war powers after Venezuela, and House Republicans who voted to extend ACA subsidies for 3 years. Both likely fail—but it takes real courage to fight for what’s right even when you expect to lose. Hope it spreads.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Congress will be considering just two pieces of Legislation on their first day back: 1. The SHOWER Act which will amend the definition of a showerhead, and 2. The Affordable Homes Act which will prohibit the Secretary of Energy from enforcing energy efficiency standards. Nothing on Venezuela.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Two days ago, btw
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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations
Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
100,000 federal workers are set to resign on Tuesday. “Federal workers stay for the mission. When that mission is taken away, when they’re scapegoated, when their job security is uncertain, and when their tiny semblance of work-life balance is stripped away, they leave.” -Anonymous FEMA employee
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Observing the bumper sticker evolution from faded “terrific kid” to brand new “student driver” is one that really makes me feel connected to other drivers on the road in a way that I feel like needs to be talked about more.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Day 5 of a child SA trial got me like...
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
If a judge found out that I threatened to send someone to Eswatini if they didn’t plead guilty, two things would happen: 1. I’d be asked if I made that country up. 2. I would be disbarred for prosecutorial misconduct. This justice department is a disgrace to the profession.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I know this is like so not the point of RFKs testimony or existence, but his ties are entirely too thin. It’s sartorial malpractice and I don’t know why he continues to get away with it.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
It’s rare that I get to read a 150-year-old law originally enacted to limit federal interference in the post-Reconstruction South—and even rarer when the brother of the late Justice Breyer uses that law to curb a so-called limited government Republican’s executive overreach. But today is that day.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
As members of Congress return from their month at home, I was reminded of my favorite Nancy Mace quote (there aren't many). It’s something she and I agree on deeply, and I’m sure she will remember her convictions as Trump is likely to sign the 200th executive order of his second term this week.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
I’ve been thinking about this for a while: There is so much discourse on what the Democratic Party needs to do, what we want from our elected officials, that we shouldn’t have purity tests, etc. But what I want to know is this: why are you a Democrat? Please repost so there are more responses!
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
And energy independence is the key to America’s global future. We could be energy independent today had Ronald Reagan not killed off solar panel manufacturing in the 80’s. It’s not too late to correct that mistake, but we have to start now.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Democrats will say its guns, Republicans will say its mental health. But Dems have worked to fund mental healthcare while Republicans have crusaded to end it. We've tried to come for the guns, but Republicans have sat on their hands. We're the only ones acting to end a solvable issue.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
That’s over 1/3 of recipients for those keeping track at home. The attack on public education embarrassingly sloppy and is being carried out by people trying to bring “competency” back to education.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
If the midterms were held today, a new poll from The Economist has independents voting for the democratic candidate by TEN points. If this redistricting war continues, the GOP is going to have to eat their own shoes. The wave is blue, and it is coming.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
My statement ending my campaign for Congress. It has been an honor to even be considered as a candidate, and I hope that you will read my final statement. I'm not gone forever, I'll run for something again. But the reality is that this race deserves a candidate that can do what it takes to win.
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Rep. Jermaine Johnson @drjljohnson.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
🚨BREAKING: This Tuesday! Join us for a reception in support of our Exploratory Committee. To get the word out to the masses we need YOUR help. If you can't make it, please donate here: secure.actblue.com/donate/jerma...
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Let’s not forget the 600 million to develop a bird flu vaccine that he canceled already.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Control of Congress is in the balance, and MAGA knows that, and they know they’re losing popularity. Their solution? Cheat.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
I was asked this on a fundraising call today. Make no mistake, I support a nationwide ban on racial and political gerrymandering. But if the GOP is going to start redrawing lines mid census cycle so they don’t lose in the midterms, Democrats cannot afford to “go high.”
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Pathetic. Greg Abbott and the GOP in the TX legislature are dismantling democracy before our eyes under the guise of passing flood relief funding. Never forget that democrats tried to pass flood relief, but the GOP insisted that they vote on the gerrymandered map if they wanted it.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
When Sunday scaries meet Monday blues, you get Nancy Mace running for governor of your state.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Stop the count! Stop testing for COVID! Fire the non-believers! It would be so boring if it wasn’t so awful.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This is my new opponent, and it looks like he’s running to be the most conservative Congressman. In his kickoff, he said that he agrees with every single Trump policy, does not believe in climate change, and he has consistently been the worst enemy of public education in SC. SC cannot afford him.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Netanyahu nominated Trump for a Nobel peace prize last month. This month, Pete Navarro says that Trump deserves a Nobel prize in economics for his tariff practices. These are the most messed up and confusing participation trophies I’ve ever heard of.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Of the 60,000 people killed in Gaza, half of them are women and children. 20,000 Gazan children have been treated for acute malnutrition since APRIL as Israel uses starvation as a weapon of war. Both are war crimes and genocide. It’s not complicated. Even MTG gets it.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I thought DOGE was supposed to have gotten rid of all the waste, fraud, and abuse, but instead it looks like they’ve invented NEW ways for federal employees to abuse their co-workers.
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Trump memo allows federal workers to persuade coworkers their religion is ‘correct’
The Trump administration released a memo Monday that aims to protect religious expression among federal workers, outlining that employees can attempt to persuade co-workers about why their religious b...
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I only looked up because I thought the clap was coming.
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Moms Demand Action @momsdemandaction.org · 24/07/2025
A 1-year-old baby girl named A’Zouri was shot and critically wounded in Southeast D.C. in a drive-by shooting. She is on a breathing tube and needs multiple surgeries. Guns are the leading killer of children and teens in this country. We are failing them by allowing this scourge to continue.
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‘Wish I could take her spot': 1-year-old girl in critical condition after DC shooting
A 1-year-old girl shot in Southeast D.C. Monday evening is breathing with the help of a tube and needs multiple surgeries. Three people drove by and opened fire near where the toddler, A’Zouri, was si...
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
This race just got blown wide open. I was ready to win already, but now we have an even better chance of flipping SC5 back to blue. If you’ve been holding back, now is the time for real action. Get involved, make a donation, and most of all dream of a better future and know that it is possible.
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SC Congressman Ralph Norman enters race for governor. Here are 5 things to know
The Republican U.S. representative from Rock Hill was first elected to Congress in 2017.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Since #MeToo and Epstein, more survivors are speaking, more abusers are being punished, and people are leading with belief now more than ever. But the fight isn’t finished. In Congress, I’ll fight tirelessly until every child has access to equal justice.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
This contrast is amazing. Today, the UN court at The Hague declared that a healthy environment is a human right and that climate inaction may violate international law. The EPA, on the other hand, declared today that it’s considering revoking its finding that greenhouse gases harm human health.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
This guy openly admits to being a Nazi and a fascist, says he’s proud of it and unashamed, then complains when he gets fired from his job. The worst part? He started a GoFundMe after he lost his job that has already crowd funded tens of thousands of dollars.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
….oh.
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US begins organ-transplant reform as 'signs of life' found before some retrievals
By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — The US Department of Health and Human Services said Monday that it’s undertaking an initiative to reform the country’s organ donation system, after a federal investigat...
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Because Republicans' cuts to SNAP, 1.4M children will lose their free lunches this year. And they tried to take it away from 18 million more with changes to the universal free lunches program. Meanwhile? $182B more for defense. Always enough for bombs, never enough for hungry kids.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Meanwhile, we have had 205 mass shootings in this country this year. So far.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
“May every day be another wonderful secret” might be a really sweet birthday message if it wasn’t written by Donald J. Trump to Jeffrey. Fucking. Epstein.
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Alex Harper @harperforjustice.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
55 years ago and 240 thousand miles from home, three of our bravest souls soared beyond earth’s cradle and into the unknown. Apollo 11 wasn’t just a mission, it was a reminder that humanity is meant to explore. We are meant to rise. We are meant to continue reaching for the impossible.
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