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Rip Stewart

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Global advertising / branding executive. Loving father of two. Lived / worked in the US, The Czech Republic, Australia, and Japan. Recently moved to Los Angeles from NYC (done with the cold). Searching for my second act career.

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@DemocracyHere @democracyhere.bsky.social · 1h
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 17h
Don’t get complacent. They’re still going to try to cheat. Check your registration. Vote early if at all possible.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 01/10/2026
Even in dark times, democracy can renew itself. That’s the quiet power of voting: every election is a chance to refresh the system, correct course, and begin again.
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Heather Thomas @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Many states have engaged in wrongful purging and there are just days left until those same states close voter registration. Please stay fierce and keep checking! www.dontgetpurged.org
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Verify Your Name is Still on Your State’s Registered Voter Roll
You have the power to beat voter suppression, glitches and Russian hacking!
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🍁Capt.John E. Rock @johnerock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Do not believe this shit. They want people to stay home!
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don't trust the polls… Trump will cheat. So… We still have to show up in overwhelming numbers. And… We still have to put in the work. Now, go VOTE! 😎✨
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Christine Justice @christinejustice.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Things they have already done, and it's not over. Trying to pass the SAVE act. Trying to nationalize voting through coercion from corrupt appointees at USPS. Closing polling places. Redistricting POC out of representation. Voter purging. Offering bribes. Phishing fake voters registration. #resist
Election interference closing polling places redistricting voter purging bribes to vote fake phishing voters registration
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"The Republican Party in particular must finally loose the chains of its practical & moral enslavement to Donald Trump & separate itself from the MAGA political party cult" A MUST-READ. It may be frightening, but it's crucial we are all prepared for the inevitable! shorturl.at/US1eU
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The Final Battle for America’s Democracy
Forget November 3. It’s January 3 when Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans might bury our democracy once and for all. Here’s how.
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Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: A Russian disinformation operation has turned its attention to the US midterm elections, unleashing a series of deepfake videos that depict celebrities attacking Democrats, researchers said. www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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Russian disinformation campaign sets sights on US midterms
A Russian disinformation operation has turned its attention to the US midterm elections, unleashing a series of deepfake videos that depict celebrities attacking Democrats, researchers said, with more...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Access to the ballot in the 2026 midterm elections now sits in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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This week at Democracy Docket: Final arguments on Trump’s mail voting order — plus a huge win for Missouri voters
The fate of access to the ballot in the 2026 midterm elections now sits in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE TOO......
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/09/2026
STOP SCROLLING Why I’m sounding the alarm: VoteSafe. org is run by Elon Musk’s America PAC, the same political operation working to turn out Republican voters in the midterms. The site collects voter and political info, and allows your information to be shared or sold to business partners.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We are less than two months until Election Day for the most important midterms of our lifetime. Ballots have already started to be sent out. The threats to free and fair elections are real and growing more serious by the day. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/here...
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Here is Trump's blueprint to rig the 2026 midterms
We are less than two months until Election Day for the most important midterms of our lifetime.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A union representing more than 200,000 postal workers alleged that a “catastrophic wholesale non-delivery” of hundreds of thousands of mail ballots will likely occur if states are forced to comply with the Postal Service’s new mail voting rule this November. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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‘Catastrophic’: Postal workers slam Trump’s mail voting restrictions, urge Supreme Court to uphold block
A union representing 200,000 postal workers said the restrictions "will inevitably grind the operation of the postal system to a halt."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/09/2026
Vote early. Election Day is the end of the election, not the beginning. With everything this regime is going to do to suppress our votes, it’s imperative that we leave plenty of time to correct any issues.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
REMINDER: There are now just 56 DAYS until the Nov 3 midterm. Saying this is the most important election in our lives is an understatement. This is the most important election in the life of our Republic. Our freedoms and our democracy hang in the balance. We must UNITE to win!!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/09/2026
Just an FYI: the judge didn’t block the USPS ballot scanning rule from going into effect, she blocked them from making it mandatory. Make sure you have a back up plan to vote.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 05/09/2026
If Trump can’t get USPS to disenfranchise voters through mail voting the way he wants, the story won’t end there. “He’ll escalate,” Marc Elias says. “He’ll do something even more extreme … because that’s what Donald Trump does.” Don’t miss a single update: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🚨 NEW: ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database: As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database. @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...
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ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database
As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: An immigrant rights group sued the Trump administration Wednesday over its escalating effort to screen state voter rolls for alleged noncitizens, arguing the campaign illegally threatens lawful voters just weeks before the midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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New lawsuit challenges DHS over unverified noncitizen voter roll claims
At the center of the case is the Trump administration’s claim that more than 190,000 people on California’s voter rolls may be noncitizens — a figure DHS has not publicly substantiated or explained ho...
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ShepGirl 💯💙🇺🇸 @shepgirl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Tarrant County in Texas just voted to cut 92 polling sites ahead of the midterms, in majority minority areas. Despicable!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Keith B Martin DC 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 🌎 @keithbdc.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Please read and repost. #Blues
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
My latest about the real risk that Trump is wiling to take down the entire vote by mail system and cause a failed midterm election. newsletters.democracydocket.com/trump-doesnt...
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Trump doesn’t think mail-in voting is "too big to fail"
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Also, I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you receive a text about signing up for a No Kings rally or signing an impeachment petition it’s most likely a Trump effort to put you on a terrorist list. So send those to spam.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social Heads up—Trump moves closer to national emergency declaration.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Weeks before Michigan voters headed to the polls in a closely watched primary, the Trump administration and prominent election deniers pounced on the key battleground state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election deniers bombarded Michigan with voting conspiracies during Democratic Senate primary
As primary season wraps up, cementing the key matchups in multiple battleground states, the wave of lies targeting Michigan is poised to grow larger.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump signaled Tuesday he’s willing to declare a national security emergency in an attempt to take over American elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump signals openness to unconstitutional plot to take over elections
"Stranger things have happened,” Trump said after a far-right media host implored him to declare a national security emergency on elections.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"‘We're not going to let them do it in the shadows’: Hundreds rally at site where Haitians required to check-in, get monitors after end of TPS..." www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/hundre...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A Republican-dominated panel met for the first time Friday in Georgia to lay out the next steps in a monthslong process to propose a new voting system for the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP-dominated panel launches overhaul of Georgia’s voting system
The committee's work will directly affect how voters in the crucial swing state cast ballots in future elections.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
NEW: President Trump is taking aim at birthright citizenship again, this time with a narrower order aiming to deny citizenship to four groups of children. This new order is far less sweeping than the original, but may also violate the Constitution. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Continuing to Protect the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home where they...
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Feed their family or pay rent. Fill a prescription or pay rent. Tough decisions are being made across the country as families are being kicked off SNAP and their wallets are getting even tighter. How one food pantry in Ohio is trying to keep up with the demand. #ConnectwithJacob
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‘BUSIER THAN EVER’: Families KICKED off SNAP are turning to food banks
The realities of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act are kicking in. It’s millions of families – kids – being kicked off of critical SNAP benefits. States are now scrambling to meet a September deadlin...
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Part D subsidy changes hit in 90 days. Seniors pay more at the pharmacy, pharma companies pay nothing. Trump admin says it's not a "cut" — tell that to retirees whose copays just tripled. Call your rep: block Medicare cost-shifting now. #Pinks #SheShed #ProudBlue #OneV1
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 29/07/2026
Dr. Anita Patel speaks about the conditions she witnessed at the Dilley detention facility: “I am not here as a politician or an activist. I am here as a doctor… We are not just harming the children inside detention. We are traumatizing an entire generation of children.” #SheShed
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
CAN'T MAKE IT UP: ICE deported a man to Mexico in violation of a court order in Nov., acknowledged the error and returned him to the U.S. Then they deported him to El Salvador, in violation of court-ordered torture protection. He's currently imprisoned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
If you are the DOJ, it is unprecedented to lose 17 straight voting cases in 17 different courts without winning a single one. It's even more remarkable when 8 of them were decided by judges appointed by Trump. How long will the networks ignore this? How long will Trump?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
It should be clear by now that Trump does not actually care about "election integrity." If he did, he wouldn't have made cuts to the government agencies tasked with protecting our elections from foreign influence.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Extremist anti-voting candidates are running for the GOP nominations for governor, secretary of state, and attorney general, raising the danger that the 2028 elections could be run by officials eager to erect barriers to the polls and undermine a fair vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election deniers are running for Arizona’s most powerful offices in high-stakes primaries. Here’s what we’re watching
Extremist anti-voting candidates are running for the GOP nominations for governor, secretary of state, and attorney general, raising the danger that the 2028 elections could be run by officials eager ...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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ICE Quietly Arresting More People Than Ever According to Latest Data
NEW DATA ALERT 🚨 After months of data silence, ICE's new numbers show 65,765 people in immigration detention, deportations near 1,250 a day, and arrests now at 1,473 a day.
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PoliticalNash @politicalnash.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
What election cheating looks like, it’s not the democrats, it’s not Obama, and it’s not Biden. It’s Donald J Trump. He lost the popular vote, he lost the electoral college, and he lost all his court challenges. We cannot let him try again, #ShutTrumpDownNow #DV1 #ProudBlue
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
RED FLAG: Trump's Justice Department has informed Michigan officials it intends to send election monitors to three cities in the state for the Aug. 4 primary.
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DOJ says it will send election monitors to 3 Michigan cities
The Detroit News obtained a copy of a letter sent by the U.S. Department of Justice to Chris Swope, Lansing's city clerk.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/07/2026
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
4 MONTHS FROM TODAY are the Midterm Elections. Make sure you & everyone you know are registered to VOTE. VOTE for Dems to take back the House & Senate. VOTE to hold the most corrupt individual ever to occupy the WH accountable! VOTE to let our country to begin to heal. 🇺🇸 On 11/3/26: VOTE BLUE 🌊
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Jack Smith on MS NOW: "I'm very concerned of what's going to happen in the next election, absolutely."   "I think the state attorney generals have a tremendous role to play here … And I would also say that I think a thing that all of us can do is support election workers and election officials."
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
the egg price thing under biden was all fake lol
From mid-2022 to early 2025, the egg producers communicated with each other to coordinate bidding activity on a widely used pricing service, according to a complaint filed in a federal court in Iowa.
The complaint details instances of executives for the companies calling and texting each other in an effort to push prices higher.
Under the settlement, the state DOJ says the three companies must end their price coordination, adopt compliance measures and cooperate with
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🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 24/06/2026
The heritage foundation is at it again, folks. They're sending Mass Deportation "Ballots" out to people. A naturalized citizen, who is a family memeber of Erica Kopps'(D) who is running for a seat in #VA1 received one of these offensive af "ballots". Watch the video for details. #SheShed
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
1/ New rule for 2026: when a primary suddenly fills with $ & noise, do not ask "who is right." Ask "who benefits in November." GOP operatives are now running fake progressive PACs to pick our candidates for us. The call is coming from inside the house. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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