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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

NEW: WJN Action is releasing a series of memos that provide public officials, candidates and other messengers with clear, research-backed guidance to drive winning economic messages on three core issues: 1⃣ Affordability 2⃣ Growth 3⃣ Taxes & Tariffs 🧵 wjnaction.org/talking-poin...

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Talking Points - Winning Jobs Narrative Action

Talking Points Affordability Talking Points Growth Talking Points Taxes & Tariffs Talking Points

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

This makes way more sense once you realize most voters don't really think about policy at all! Voting is a values expression exercise. "If I vote for this candidate, what does it say about me? What kind of person I am? What kind of country I want to live in?" That's how people process politics.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Exciting news: Politico’s Morning Score exclusively covered WJN Action’s new memo on aspirational populism this morning. The memo makes a simple case: We’re in a populist moment. But the question for Democrats isn’t just whether to embrace populism. It’s what kind.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Big personal update: I’m joining Winning Jobs Narrative as its first Executive Director.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

If Democrats want to return from the wilderness, we're going to have to start competing and winning in places where we haven't in a while. There's one under-the-radar target that could surprise you: UTAH. Learn why — and how we can do it — here: www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...

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Perspective: 'Blutah' is a long shot, but here's how Democrats could succeed in Utah

Here's what it would take for the reliably red state to turn blue.

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Rob Taber @robtaber.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

This is a great piece by @stevepiercedc.bsky.social on the shifts that give Utah potential as a political battleground and the investments and work needed to make it happen. #Blutah #utpol

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Perspective: 'Blutah' is a long shot, but here's how Democrats could succeed in Utah

Here's what it would take for the reliably red state to turn blue.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

"America is a little like a mosh pit right now—loud, chaotic, full of people crashing into each other. We’d all do well to remember the first rule of the pit: When someone falls, pick them up." Read my latest on what America can learn from @VansWarpedTour: www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...

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Perspective: Lessons from the mosh pit for a fractured America

I was at D.C.’s most raucous weekend gathering. It wasn’t the military parade — it was the Vans Warped Tour.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Donald Trump makes Neville Chamberlain look like Winston Churchill.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

With just hours remaining in his presidency, I took a look back at Joe Biden's complex legacy — marked by many significant successes, and at least one major miscalculation. Regardless of what the polls say, history will remember him more kindly than voters do today. www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...

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Perspective: History will treat Joe Biden better than voters

The impact of many of Biden's achievements won't be felt for years.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

As he prepares to exit the White House tomorrow, Joe Biden leaves a complicated legacy. But when all is said and done, I believe history will remember his presidency more fondly than voters do today. Read more in my latest column for the Deseret News: www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...

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Perspective: History will treat Joe Biden better than voters

The impact of many of Biden's achievements won't be felt for years.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Despite all his macho, strongman rhetoric, Trump remains a colossal wimp.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

You will never find a better cultural commentary of the 2024 presidential election than the voting scene in episode 3 of Squid Game 2. Pitch perfect.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

As Jimmy Carter is laid to rest today, take a minute to read my latest column on his real legacy: not as a one-term president, but as the ultimate example of what true faith looks like when put whole-heartedly into action. He was the very best of us. www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...

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Perspective: Jimmy Carter and the purpose of power

Carter gave us an example of what a life informed by faith looks like.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Millennials are an inherently optimistic generation because we spent our youth with Jimmy Eat World telling us that “everything everything will be just fine, everything everything will be alright.” Turns out, they were… incorrect.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a more insane brand partnership than Dominos doing a Squid Game-themed ad campaign. “If you were trapped in a sadistic scheme and forced to play children’s games for your life, we’d deliver you free pizza to temporarily stave off your demise!” is a WILD message.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

You know you have 3 boys when you've developed an intensely competitive version of "keepy-uppy," complete with an elaborate rules and scoring system, and someone has nearly injured themselves on the coffee table on multiple occasions. Bluey is spinning in her animated grave.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Jimmy Carter won a Nobel Peace Prize for his leading role in helping to eliminate a deadly disease that impacted millions of people worldwide, among many other accomplishments. He was a giant —and yet, this is how NYT chooses to memorialize him. Sad.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Jimmy Carter was the very best of us. Losing him at this moment, when we’re about to hand the reins back to the very worst this country has to offer, is truly tragic.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

You know you’re old when you take your kids to look at tacky Christmas light houses and your first thought is “I wonder what these people’s electric bills look like?”

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Counterpoint: The person whose nametag on the Oversight dais says "ranking member" has had little to no impact on the larger trajectory of the Democratic Party whatsoever — and we do ourselves a disservice by fixating on it.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The lesson of 2024 isn’t that the Democratic Party is fundamentally flawed. It’s that political fortunes are cyclical—and the pendulum always swings back. It's our job to be ready when it does. Read my latest Deseret News column begging everyone to PLEASE CHILL OUT: www.deseret.com/opinion/2024...

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Perspective: The path forward for Democrats after the 2024 election? Just wait

The Democrat Party doesn't need to make wholesale changes, but wait for the pendulum to swing back.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

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Perspective: The path forward for Democrats after the 2024 election? Just wait

The Democrat Party doesn't need to make wholesale changes, but wait for the pendulum to swing back.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

This is what the internet was made for.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Oh man, I hate seeing spoilers for the next season of “America” before it even starts.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

"A hard-line critic of the bureau" is a really interesting way to say "a sycophant who will use the powers of the bureau to do whatever Trump asks, regardless of whether its legal or not."

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

This makes nominating Gaetz to be AG look *almost* reasonable by comparison. Patel is certifiably insane. We are truly through the looking glass.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Trump only chooses the best people.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

You know you’re old when you get excited to buy yourself fancy earplugs on Black Friday.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

This has to make Bolsonaro the early frontrunner in the 2028 Republican primary…

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I made this video in 2016. It was the culmination of 2 years of work developing a values-based Democratic brand narrative that would appeal to a supermajority of Americans. I thought it was the right message then, and I still think it's the right message today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZLq...

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Democratic Brand Narrative

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The States Project @statesprojectus.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

“It’s not rocket science that dollars, tactics and message are potent ways to communicate with voters." Our own Daniel Squadron in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

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Reasons for hope as Democrats prevent Trump-led red wave in state races

Democrats had braced for a disaster but state results show a much more nuanced picture than the party had feared

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

It’s astounding how much the economy has improved just in the last two weeks!

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Gaetz’s resignation confirms that Trump isn’t prioritizing diversity in his cabinet. Trump now only has nominees who have been accused of sexually assaulting women of legal age — and a gaping hole among those who have been accused of sex trafficking minors. Representation matters.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This is how the GOP misreads the room — yet again! — and somehow winds up losing a Senate seat in Florida of all places.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

It’s truly heartbreaking to see this happen to such a morally upright and highly competent public servant. He would have done great things in the role, I’m sure.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

There is no political sin that will get you in hot water with voters faster than screwing with Medicare. Putting a daytime TV host with no experience running anything of substance in charge of a program that millions upon millions of Americans rely on seems... ill-advised.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I've successfully conditioned my 8-year-old and 6-year-old boys to derisively shout "Ugly truck! Ugly truck!" whenever a Cybertruck passes us, and honestly, I think that's beautiful.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Proof that there are *A LOT* of these people, in one chart:

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The two most iconic rock songs of the 2000s are “Mr. Brightside” and “Seven Nation Army” — and it’s not particularly close. And given how the rise of Pitchfork-esque snobbishness defined so much of that decade, I think those two songs being the ones with actual staying power is beautiful.

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

You gotta give Trump credit: Of all the absolutely unhinged stuff I had imagined he would do, “Attorney General Matt Gaetz” is WAY more insane than anything I could have dreamed up — and he’s not even in office yet!

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Hold on. You mean they DIDN'T background check the sex offender they nominated for AG or the Russian asset they picked for DNI? Can't imagine why not!

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

He's running for the Democratic nomination in 2028, huh?

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Steve Pierce @stevepiercedc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Rather than tearing each other apart, may I suggest another option for Democrats: JUST WAIT. Time for my first thread... 🧵

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