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Thomas Avant/Cultural Musings's avatar

This is a great piece and excellent advice for Democratic messaging going forward. The message has to be simple enough to take hold for the average working class voter considering their options…great work!

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Carol's avatar

What if we don’t have anymore free elections?

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Joy Reynolds's avatar

I'm more concerned about fair elections. I don't trust the last several we've had, especially not 2024. https://electiontruthalliance.org/

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James Rankin's avatar

I wish they would soon get out their findings on North Carolina, Wisconsin & Iowa, which I believe were the next states they were going to look at following Pennsylvania.

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Carol's avatar

Yes, all that money that went into the swing states and maybe somehow manipulating something. Oops.....not that I believe in conspiracy theories.

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Diane Lee's avatar

Joy, 💯🎯

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Kiwiwriter47's avatar

That could happen. But I subscribed to you.

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George in Atlanta's avatar

An excellent question. I think the way would then be clear for one of two things. Either they will declare the Fourth Reich, with the only 'free' citizens being slavish loyalists to the crown. Or, something decidedly unpleasant.

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Thomas Avant/Cultural Musings's avatar

Let’s hope the system holds, somehow. It is looking bleak at this point.

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Michelle's avatar

I agree Tristan, yet retirement for Seniors has to be mentioned too! People don't realize how much cost goes into signing up for Medicare and that the money comes out of your SS check, plus having to have a supplemental insurance besides a prescription drug plan. Seniors are struggling because eventhough they've worked 40 yrs., they might not have had high paying jobs to get more than $1,000 a month. By time us seniors have to pay out for government and private supplemental insurance, their SS checks are now reduced to sometimes half. How can they expect seniors to make it? Talk about sticker shock, jeez. Seniors are reliable voters so they must be included in campaign promises.

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Vickie Berry's avatar

And we get hit with taxes on that social security.

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Donald Sinclair Richardson's avatar

Damn straight.

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Homi Hormasji's avatar

Of course, all of this presupposes that we will have free and fair midterm elections. What are the odds that Trump will ginny up some sort of "emergency," declare martial law and cancel the elections?

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Laura Pizzicara's avatar

Thank you Mr. Snell for your patriotic service. It’s pretty obvious that 3/4ths of the Country hate his orange guts—as I do.

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Murray Smart's avatar

No more money for billionaires!!! And that is just what the Project 2025 thugs and goons are working to do. Give MORE of OUR money to the Billionaires!!! And make US pay, by losing OUR services and money, for their GIVE AWAY to the Billionaires of OUR MONEY!!!! Every single back stabbing Republican in America should be pounded day and night with this message......

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Juli killgore's avatar

this is so good, Tristan - plan, yes - complicated, no - great short list of the things that are hitting folks in their personal lives. I will be repeating your strategy in my ongoing calls to Congress. thanks!

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George in Atlanta's avatar

Sure, all good. Except for one teeeeeny detail. The DNC, in its idiotic arrogance, ONCE AGAIN wants to ride the opponents' failure to victory. They're treating us like their little set pieces to be manipulated and taken for granted. They are paying no attention to that which will bring the whole thing down on THEIR unworthy heads: the resounding fuck-off they're getting from us. Y'know, the voters. The little people. That people shifted quite a while to a spectrum of fight-capitulate rather than just Left-Right has already become a cliché. Yet the DNC continues to gear up for two wars ago.

Listen carefully, DNC: we want Van Hollen and Pritzker. We do not want Schumer (why is he still there?). We do not want most of your compliant congresspersons who adhere to your "discipline" (a joke, by the way, we're Democrats, Fuck You). We want rude, crude and socially unacceptable. Please pay attention to the protests in every major city. Please fire your 'smart' advisors and stop the poll-tested bullshit.

Look, it's already being taken apart, let it go. You're playing tug-of-war with assholes, let go of the rope. Take the people's lead and become ungovernable. Jam your bodies in the gears and stop

everything. It's that, or slow-walk to the prison camp they're building for us.

Center-Left and Center-Right are linking up as we speak. That coalition will be a mass that will blot out the political sun. It doesn't have to last forever, just long enough to bring the whole shit-show down, and you with it. New parties will arise to replace the dinosaurs, and it won't even matter what the names are.

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Jose Bad Hombre's avatar

Maybe a fourth pillar: the fact that we are now living in a police state with secret police included (arrests without due process, forced exile, disappearances, raids in the private homes of innocent people, etc.). And speaking of which, why are the NRA and the Don’t Tread on Me folks suddenly so quiet?

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Leonard McGee's avatar

Good ideas. Stay away from immigration, except to pound the idea of due process.

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Vickie Berry's avatar

I think the democrats need to bring up that a bipartisan emigration reform bill was drafted but trump order Speaker Johnson to not bring it to the floor.

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Dorothy Li Calzi's avatar

I just hope we can vote, the gerrymandering and GOP corruption is vast, 2024 should have been investigated. Arguments and msg might be great but if you can’t vote…..

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Scott's avatar

If Americans don’t get off their lazy entitled ass and run to the street and shut shit down, you’re not gonna have free and fair elections. Your country is already a trash bin fire, and the fire sale is next. Too many of you think that because you’ve always had democracy you always will. You couldn’t be more wrong.

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Kiwiwriter47's avatar

The single most important thing the Democrats have to do between now and 2026 is make sure the Bloated Yam doesn't throw their candidates and leaders in prisons in El Salvador.

That's it.

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SLMontgo's avatar

Republicans filibuster? Then we will know who to barrage with "shame on you" letters.

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Carl Selfe's avatar

Still it is a coup here full of deceit. Narcissism is characterized by a lack of empathy. Any empathy. Trump and Musk are afflicted. They live in a game of conning others. There is little input from the DNC. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/hornswaggling-over-100-days?r=3m1bs

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Megan Rothery's avatar

Use this spreadsheet to call/email/write any of our representatives as often as possible. Not just your own state reps, reach out to those in other states. Be as loud as you can and share this. Use your voice and make some “good trouble.” 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13lYafj0P-6owAJcH-5_xcpcRvMUZI7rkBPW-Ma9e7hw/edit

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