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Jeff Timmer

@jefftimmer.bsky.social
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Strategist. Michigan. Erstwhile GOPer. Senior Advisor @ProjectLincoln, Co-Host A Republic, If You Can Keep It. Skilled in smartassery.

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stuartpstevens.bsky.social @stuartpstevens.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Could not be more excited and honored that Mathew Dowd has joined the Lincoln Project. I wrote this about Mathew a few months ago: open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...
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The Matthew Dowd I Know
He spoke truth to power. In Trump's America, that's a fireable offense.
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Center for Ballot Freedom @centerforballotfreedom.org · 01/06/2026
What gives us hope? Movements that expand democracy instead of shrinking it. We support fusion voting, which gives voters more choices, encourages coalition-building, and creates a politics that’s less polarized and more representative. @msifry.bsky.social theconnector.substack.com/p/what-gives...
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What Gives Us Hope?
Seventeen organizers, politicians, academics and media makers from my "This Old Democracy" on how they are coping with our challenging times.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 02/06/2026
Welcome to the team, @matthewjdowd.bsky.social! 🏴‍☠️
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stuartpstevens.bsky.social @stuartpstevens.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
It's understandable that Stephen Miller is cool with his wife's relationship with Elon Musk. Elon is trying to help him return home to Mars.
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Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Guys, @ronfournier.bsky.social is always worth reading and listening to. This piece is 🔥🔥🔥 Do yourself a favor. Read it. Now would be good. Innocence Seized by Evil open.substack.com/pub/convulsi...
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Innocence Seized by Evil
Trump's Gestapo-like forces hit new lows in Minnesota and Texas; suburban Detroit mayor draws red line: 'Fuck that."
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Veterans For Responsible Leadership @vetsforrl.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
VFRL is proud to be a leading veteran's voice in the fight for democracy. If you are a veteran and believe that your oath to the constitution has no expiration date then please consider joining or donating to support us today. Donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/veter... youtu.be/4D1OhbYoGIA
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VFRL No Kings Alliance
YouTube video by Veterans for Responsible Leadership
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Mario Nicolais @marionicolais.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Haven't seen a Truth post about this yet and its been an hour. We just assume he is in the middle of his old man mid-afternoon nap, right? No one wants to wake him? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...
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Indiana Lawmakers Reject Trump’s New Political Map
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Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
This piece by @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social is piece is a must-read. So, read it. Now would be good. Il Duce Ha Sempre Ragione open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Il Duce Ha Sempre Ragione
Trump’s Mussolini moment.
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Mario Nicolais @marionicolais.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
I’m in London while so many of you are marching in #NoKings. But when I saw this bust of George III, it put everything in perspective. Declaring “No Kings” today is as American and patriotic as it was 250 years ago. Democracy is a never ending struggle and each of you is protecting it today.
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Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
This is more true today than it was when I wrote it in June. open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...
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Why I Finally Went to my First Protest
It took 58 years, but I showed up — because the bastards are counting on us not to.
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Cliff Schecter @cliffschecter.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
World Leaders Laugh at Trump; Escalator & Teleprompter Join in www.blueamp.co/p/world-lead... Sinclair/Nextstar ICE Shootings James Comey Zelenskyy
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Ryan Wiggins @ryan-n-wiggins.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Melania is all of us.
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Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
After my youngest son died, my dad bought a new Subaru SUV, and he and I set off on an epic road trip that I chronicled on Twitter under #2DudesisaSubaru. My co-pilot seat is now empty, and I've gotta log the rest of my journey solo, but having learned from a master how to navigate the road ahead.
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Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Kirk’s Assassination Brings Trump’s Authoritarianism into Even Clearer Focus By blaming his enemies, Trump seeks to mobilize his followers, discredit his critics, and justify repression. - my latest column @lincolnsquare.media open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...
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Kirk’s Assassination Brings Trump’s Authoritarianism into Even Clearer Focus
By blaming his enemies, Trump seeks to mobilize his followers, discredit his critics, and justify repression.
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Trygve Olson @trygveolson.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
When Violence Comes Home — we have to start with asking ourselves who are we and what do we want us to be as a nation. My latestest on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...
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When Political Violence Comes Home
We all need to take a moment to reflect on who and what we are and want to be.
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Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Navy SEAL Dan Barkhuff shreds the clownish faux-toughguy facade of insecure, weak fools like Trump and Hegseth and their lethality-war fighte-buzzword-spewing delusions about what makes the US military the most powerful and deadly force the world has ever witnessed. open.substack.com/pub/dbarkhuf...
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Pete Hegseth is a dork
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Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Hey Dems and others in the pro-democracy majority in the U.S., read this by @stuartpstevens.bsky.social . Right damn now would be good. My Plea to Democrats: Stop Being Polite, Go Nuclear www.lincolnsquare.media/p/my-plea-to...
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My Plea to Democrats: Stop Being Polite, Go Nuclear
What the Dems must do if they win back the House next year, including defunding the entire executive branch and nationalizing SpaceX.
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stuartpstevens.bsky.social @stuartpstevens.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Putin meets alone with Trump. A week later, US intelligence is gutted by Tulsi Gabbard. FBI goes after John Bolton. Had Putin ordered it through Amazon, could not have been more efficient.
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Trygve Olson @trygveolson.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Everywhere I go right now, I hear the same thing: “I’m exhausted.” People who care about democracy feel like they’re in a permanent crisis loop. But here’s the truth: Democracy building isn’t regime change. It’s a long-term investment in a better world. open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...
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You don’t win democracy like you win a campaign. You sustain it like you build a forest.
The Long-Term Game: Democracy as a Generational Investment
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Trygve Olson @trygveolson.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
In the early 2000s, I worked in countries where democracy was fragile, new, or still just an idea. We didn’t talk about “election years” or “get out the vote.” We talked about survival Strategy. Coalition Courage We didn’t always win. But we learned what worked open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...
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The Democracy-Building Toolbox — And Why We Need It Here Now
Tools we used to export. Now we need to use them to save ourselves.
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Ryan Wiggins @ryan-n-wiggins.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
My latest for @lincolnsquare.media is a reminder why we can't let the Epstein scandal die, based on personal experience. Please consider giving it a read and a share. ❤️ open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...
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We’re Missing the Point on the Epstein Scandal
We are spending our time talking about the wrong people.
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Trygve Olson @trygveolson.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
One Thing That Made America Great For all our flaws, one of the things that truly made America exceptional — and made us trusted — was this: We didn’t cook the books. open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...
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One thing that made America great: we didn’t cook the books.
The Day They Fired the Economist for Telling the Truth
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Mario Nicolais @marionicolais.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
What is the title of the new Maxwell show? How about: "Pedo is the New MAGA" Thoughts? Suggestions?
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Cliff Schecter @cliffschecter.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
www.youtube.com/live/ksg_m8p... Great show with @johnfugelsang.bsky.social & David Shuster! Check it out, and get John's great new book, "Separation of Church and Hate"(!!) (Epstein Lindsey Graham)
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John Fugelsang: How RWers Weaponize Religion & Hilarious Trump/Epstein Line
YouTube video by CLIFF'S EDGE
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Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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Mario Nicolais @marionicolais.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
RIP Ozzy. Apparently there can be only one Prince of Darkness at a time and it seems Stephen Miller has locked up the title. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/a...
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Ozzy Osbourne, ‘Prince of Darkness’ Turned Reality TV Star, Dies at 76
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SlamDunkRicky @slamdunkricky.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Spot on @jefftimmer.bsky.social ! You nailed it!! “This piece isn’t about the true believers. It’s about the Quisling converts. The ones who once winced when Trump called the press “enemies of the people,” and would now cheer if he arrests them.” open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...?
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The Complicity of the Gutless, Self-Gelding Beltway Barnacles
There is no Trump 2.0 without these Vichy collaborators.
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JAG in YYC 🇨🇦 @jagyyc.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
“…They checked the wind, saw the authoritarian weather forecast, and chose to sell umbrellas…” Gold. Incredible piece by @jefftimmer.bsky.social Wake up America. 🇨🇦
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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 20/07/2025
The Complicity of the Gutless, Self-Gelding Beltway Barnacles: Read the latest from @thelincolnprojects.bsky.social COO @jefftimmer.bsky.social for Lincoln Square: www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-compli...
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The Complicity of the Gutless, Self-Gelding Beltway Barnacles
There is no Trump 2.0 without these Vichy collaborators.
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Center for Ballot Freedom @centerforballotfreedom.org · 14/07/2025
A sneak preview from our forthcoming podcast: Guest @perrybaconjr.bsky.social gives his take on better ways to bring new parties into our democracy than just a party in Elon Musk's image.
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Trygve Olson @trygveolson.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Stillbirth is a different kind of loss. You’re not just grieving a child — you’re grieving the future you imagined. The milestones never come. There’s no timeline to anchor the pain. It’s a life unlived, and a version of yourself that disappears with it. open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...
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My daughter's Life was Never Lived, and Today she would have Turned Nineteen.
For Vilte — And For Anyone Who’s Lost a Child Before They Were Born
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Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
My latest column is at @lincolnsquare.media. Read and subscribe. Now would be good. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 'The Complicity of the Gutless, Self-Gelding Beltway Barnacles' www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-compli...
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The Complicity of the Gutless, Self-Gelding Beltway Barnacles
There is no Trump 2.0 without these Vichy collaborators.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 09/07/2025
It's officially day 90 of Trump's '90 deals in 90 days' bullshit tariff policy. He has 0 deals implemented.
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Trygve Olson @trygveolson.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
What This Series Is This isn’t a primer on AI. It’s a field manual for people trying to protect democracy from the systems that now threaten it, digitally and psychologically. open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...
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AI vs. Autocracy: Seven Lessons in the New Battle for Democracy
Introduction + Lesson 1
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Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Our freedoms and liberty are receding. It isn't too late. Yet. My latest column. The Chimes of Freedom Grow Faint www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-chimes...
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The Chimes of Freedom Grow Faint
We’re not teetering on the edge. We’re in the abyss.
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Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
$4 trillion in new debt spending. On top of $8.4 trillion in first term. Thats a whole lotta trillions. Fiscal responsibility. Huzzah! All while closing 90 trade deals in 90 days and ending the war in Ukraine. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 03/07/2025
Alligator Alcatraz is more than a prison. It’s a demonstration project. Read the latest from @therickwilson.bsky.social :
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Build Alligator Alcatraz: A Modest Proposal
Come for the cruelty...stay for the...well, you'll see.
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Trygve Olson @trygveolson.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Authoritarians erode democracy by isolating people from their values — and by mocking the idea that we still share any. They win when people say, “We’re too divided.” They lose when we demonstrate that shared values still exist—and still matter. open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...
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Lesson 6: Values Are the Bridge. Use Them.
Ten Lessons for the Resistance in a Fear-Based System
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Trygve Olson @trygveolson.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Three Things You Can Do Today 1. Get brutally honest about your own purpose. Ask yourself: What are you actually trying to do? Are you trying to feel good? Be right? Or win power for democracy again? Reframe your work around that. open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...
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Lesson 4: The Goal Must Be Shared — and Clear
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Trygve Olson @trygveolson.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Lesson #3 Trump Sucks IS Not A Winning Platform Democratic opposition groups all agree ‘(Insert Dictator’s Name) sucks.’ Unfortunately, I can’t think of how to turn that into a winning campaign motto in any country open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...
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Lesson 3: “Trump Sucks” Is Not a Winning Platform
Ten Lessons for the Resistance in a Fear-Based System
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Trygve Olson @trygveolson.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Survival is not a strategy. Unity is. If fear isolates, unity is the antidote. If chaos fragments, unity gives form. If the regime wants you to fight each other, your first move is to stop handing them the win. open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...
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Lesson 2: Survival Isn’t Strategy. Unity Is.
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Mario Nicolais @marionicolais.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
See the hypocrisy here? They wear masks and no identification so they don’t get doxxed … So that people wearing masks and without identification don’t show up at their doors, beat them, and drag them away from their families. This circular logic is what happens when #RuleOfLaw dies.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 24/06/2025
Trump doesn't know what the fuck he's doing. He's old, weak, and out of his depth.
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Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I didn’t show up on June 14 because I discovered a late-in-life love for pithy signs or patchouli. I’m not suffering from adult-onset hippie syndrome. I showed up because the stakes have changed. This isn’t politics as usual — it hasn’t been for a decade. open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...
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Why I Finally Went to my First Protest
It took 58 years, but I showed up — because the bastards are counting on us not to.
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Mario Nicolais @marionicolais.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Let's be clear: this is a red state healthcare executive telling people that rural red states will be gutted. “The further the cuts that are made, the more devastating it is,” said Shantel Krebs, president and CEO of Avera St. Mary’s, a hospital in South Dakota. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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Hospitals stunned by Senate GOP’s Medicaid plan
Republicans want to curtail taxes states have imposed to increase payments to hospitals.
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Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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Mario Nicolais @marionicolais.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I was in Littleton, CO for #NoKings. Unlike Denver, it is a small town, suburban area with lots of Trump supporters and MAGA. There was nothing small about that crowd, though. Here are some of my favorite signs/pictures.
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Mario Nicolais @marionicolais.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
We the People will have #NoKings @lincolnproject.us
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Mario Nicolais @marionicolais.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Did we invent a Time Machine to bring back the same armed men who hunted Jews in Germany? Because that is EXACTLY what this looks like.
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Trygve Olson @trygveolson.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Lesson 7 — Hope is a Choice and so is Extremism. Extremism says, “You can’t.” Hope says, “We still can.” Extremism demands purity. Hope invites complexity. Extremism justifies cruelty. Hope insists on humanity. You don’t get to pick both. You never could. open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...
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Lesson #7: Hope Is a Choice — So Is Extremism
Part 7 of a 7-Part Series on Political Extremism: This is the fork in the road. We don’t get to sit this one out.
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