And don't let the other leadership off the hook either. Besides Schumer, there's Klobuchar (#2), Durbin, Warner, Masto... They all need to be held to account. Murphy, Sander, & Warren are also in leadership. They need to step up & help end this mess.

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

@indivisible.org From a friend in AZ who hasn’t been getting her military retirement pension but called her Senators to urge them not to capitulate to Trump:

Wow, they really know how to leverage their opposition party power! I guess they were out of the room when McConnell shut everything down to prevent a SCOTUS appt. The arrogance of assuming ordinary people just don’t understand “how Washington works”: oh, yes, we understand. Nauseatingly well

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

This is really telling! It doesn't work like that anymore, bud. None of it works like that — even if it did on Jan. 19.

I’m so sick of hearing “let me be clear” followed by total BS. If you actually cared so much, you would not have eagerly undermined all the work ordinary citizens have been doing to create the possibility of change.

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

Remember when they said the reason they caved in March was so they could get a better deal in September lmao

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people

can't wait to see this inspiring messaging incorporated into the DSCC fundraising appeals

This is the message of a failed, feckless, and leaderless party. We need a party with backbone, and the only path to it is through a cleansing primary season. If your Dem is up for reelection, and you aren't damn sure they're fighting the fascists with everything they've got, primary the bastard.

The least most politically engaged people I know are texting me before 8am to say, “we won’t forget.” So I don’t know man.

Just unbelievable capitulation

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

Went to repost this and then depressingly saw it was from 8 months ago. This is still true, and I am now convinced it will remain true until there are successful primary challenges nationwide to the "roll over and play dead" Dems.

I think a lot of the anger this morning stems from a feeling that we did our part, but they did not do theirs. This is an oversimplification, but my dudes, no wonder people are like, “OK, let’s try the democratic socialist, then.”

The eight Senate Democrats who caved tonight (including the indie who caucuses with them): Jeanne Shaheen Maggie Hassan Tim Kaine Jacky Rosen Catherine Cortez Masto Dick Durbin John Fetterman Angus King www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...

Sorry, say what you will, but @pelosi.house.gov would have figured a way to keep her caucus united in this fight. Senate Dems need new leadership

cc @senangusking.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov @sencortezmasto.govpeeps.us @fetterman.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @senatorhassan.govpeeps.us @shaheen.senate.gov @rosen.senate.gov

Caving for nothing means that Democrats are the ones responsible for the shutdown because they could have taken this shit deal weeks ago.

The 8 Dems who surrendered: @SenAngusKing @timkaine @SenCortezMasto @JohnFetterman @SenatorDurbin @SenatorHassan @SenatorShaheen @SenJackyRosen

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

I know this sounds mean but if you think that this is a coincidence you're more than a bit of a mark. If Kaine had been up next year, it would have been Warner, if Slotkin was retiring, Peters, etc.

Do you support a change in Senate leadership after this surrender? Not picking on Booker - we should ask this of literally all the no votes.

Warner is up for reelection. He was widely seen driving towards surrender behind the scenes, but he's voting no in public because it's unpopular. The real question is whether he supports a senate leadership change. If not, someone who supports senate leadership change should primary him.

Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”

Millions of Democratic voters on Tuesday: Fight these guys. Fight them. Senate Democrats: We heard you loud and clear and we will give in

Remember this SENATOR TIM KAINE. WTH are you and the others doing? We want AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE. What is so hard to understand? You have an assignment and we, the people give you an F MINUS.

You'd think standing up to a bunch of fascists who were gutting the economy and causing the suffering of tens of millions of Americans all in order to further enrich a bunch of billionaires would be pretty straightforward. They're the bad guys. We should be the good guys. But no...

On first round of voting on cloture for the cave, Baldwin votes no—she was part of the Gang of 8 talks. Rand Paul is also a no.

We polled Indivisible members over the weekend on whether Dems should take a deal or keep fighting for the ACA subsidies. Results: 98.67% said keep fighting. Dems who vote to surrender now are fracturing their own party in a way that will reverberate loudly in the primaries.

I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them

I'm looking to see not only which Senate Dem candidates oppose this surrender (all of them will) but also where they go beyond this with respect to senate leadership. I want to see concrete promises for a new fighting Dem Party, because the current one is broken.

Last week, we saw the best Democratic election night in a decade. The polling decisively supports the Democratic position. The public is rallying to the Democrats’ side — will they listen? We cannot afford a divided and weak opposition party when an authoritarian is invading our cities,

This “deal” is a surrender that all congressional Democrats should reject out of hand. It’s bad policy that will raise healthcare prices and bad politics that gives the regime more power to do more harm. Make no mistake: As some Senate Democrats consider surrender, Republicans are losing this fight.

Well, maybe you can talk some sense into Mark Kelly

Caving now will teach Trump and Republicans that they can win any fight simply by threatening to cause terrible harm to regular people. no possible way that could have future adverse consequences

The agreement to hold a vote on ACA subsidies is not a concession. It's worth literally nothing. It should be ignored when evaluating the merits of the deal

In March, after Schumer last surrendered, we called an emergency meeting of Indivisible leaders. 92% told us to call on him to step down from leadership (which we did). In a poll over this weekend, 98.67% said we should keep up the fight. Rank & file Dems are going to be PISSED!

Couldn’t you weasel Democrats just give us a full week to be a little bit heartened after we fought to get Dems elected all over the country?

I see @schumer.senate.gov is NOT caving, it is other senators like Tim Kaine who are ready to make the whole party look weak

@schumer.senate.gov If it’s true you are caving & getting nothing like an extension, just a pinky promise, you may as well pack it in for the midterms because you have made your party look weaker than ever, just after the country fought back. STAND FIRM AND QUIT ACTING LIKE IT’S BUSINESS AS USUAL!!!

I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave. It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.

Afternoon reports that some Democratic Senators may yield completely to Republican demands in return for the mere scheduling of a December vote to keep premiums affordable for those relying upon the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This would represent trading something for nothing.

This is part of the tragedy of a surrender now. It invites more pain and suffering by emboldening the regime. Why should they listen to a weak opposition?

And call your Dem senator even if they’re not on this list, so they understand that if they let these a-holes do this, they’ll go down w/ them.