They’ve got an escalator meddler to catch! Priorities…

Four bags of groceries. Lunch box items. Produce. Yogurt. Juice. No meat, no coffee. $224.99 This is not sustainable.

The Trump Show wants us to believe we're powerless – either cheering fans or cowering enemies, trapped in the bleachers while they perform for us. But that's a lie, designed to keep us in our seats – watching, not doing. Friend, the show may go on, but we get to decide what role we play in it.

All true - and also. “Good mothers” will be expected to endure pain during pregnancy without any possible relief (Tylenol being one of the only pain relievers approved for use during pregnancy).

What “news programming” will Sinclair run? In ‘21 it launched The National Desk, which now airs on more than 80 stations and on the internet. This year, a woman who spent 14 years as a Fox News producer and the last 5 at Newsmax joined The National Desk. She is now its Director of Content.

Oh wow. He really did say the vaccines in the current schedule are “too much liquid” for a baby. Hand on heart I thought that was a joke. We are living in a strange timeline.

Reminder that Tylenol is one of the only approved pain relievers for use in pregnancy. It just seems like they want women to suffer.

Perhaps because there are millions of parents of autistic kids who understand this space far, far better than these two politicians, and know what RFK and DJT are spouting is dangerous anti-science propaganda. And I’d bet some of those parents are reporters.

My version of taking the high road is to take every road. Let’s go, friends. Let’s go. 💙

Answer: never.

Darn delightful to see @piperformissouri.bsky.social and @fpwellman.bsky.social, State Rep Rachel Proudie and 6th district candidate Josh Smead at the Lincoln County Dems! So glad to be working arm in arm with folks trying to make this state and country better. Community matters, friends. 💙💙

Your vote matters each and every time. Sitting on the sidelines has led to the crisis America is now facing. #BlueDotsMatter

Last thing on a long to-do list - done! Picked up the buttons just in the nick of time. Being the ED of an org that supports Red state Dems isn’t glamorous. It’s always busy. Sometimes sweaty. Often resource-scarce. But always, always, always rewarding. Ps - let me know if you want a button. 💙

This is why we organize in red states, friends.

You mean book bans, comedian silencing, women's health care rights ended, tax breaks for corporations, and military policing? I may have missed something...

Red states are often canaries in the coal mine. We're the testing grounds, the petri dishes, the cauldrons for the GOP to cook up their most extreme MAGA policies – and then take them out for a spin. We fight back nationally by fighting nationally– especially in their Red State testing grounds.

These novels were intended to be warnings. Not how-to manuals.

These national, partisan owners of local affiliates are too powerful. That's the lesson from Kimmel. Yes, ABC/Disney fired Kimmel, but it all started because Nexstar, which owns dozens of local ABC affiliates, pulled the show from their local stations. The Chair of the FCC applauded them. 1/

Unfortunately, this piece just became more timely. This week I wrote about the right-wing media ecosystem and Sinclair’s dominance of local affiliates. Now Nexstar, which owns two dozen ABC affiliates, has preempted Jimmy Kimmel indefinitely because of comments he made about Kirk’s assassination.

As I was saying:

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

"There are no easy answers, no clear solutions. There's only what each of us is willing to do." ~Robert Redford

If we want to spread a Democratic message, we need an opening. That means we need the messengers to do it – especially in smaller communities. That’s where local political candidates can help, because they can drive, or at least influence, local conversations.

If you're thinking about running for office, but aren't sure of next steps, join me (Every State Blue) and the National Democratic Training committee tomorrow night for a free virtual training: So You Think You Want to Run? Hope to see you there!

It’s a puzzling thing that happens in Red States. Progressive policy issues–abortion access, recreational marijuana, Medicaid expansion–pass with wide margins while the GOP sweeps statewide offices and secures state legislative supermajorities. What's going on? Well, let's talk about "the news."

🚨BREAKING: The Missouri Senate gave final approval Friday in a 21-11 vote to a gerrymander designed to rig the 2026 election by creating an additional Republican seat in Congress, at the expense of Kansas City voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

To put this in perspective, calling the PQ is considered so extreme that they couldn't get Mike Moon to sign on. Moon is famous for, among other things, beheading chickens on a campaign video. Even he found this a bridge too far. That should tell you something.

Listen to this: "Just hours after hearing from President Donald Trump during a caucus meeting, Republicans in the Missouri Senate showed they are ready to please him by shoving a new congressional district map to passage over opposition from Democrats." MO GOP is "ready to please him," eh? 1/

All voters are hurt by gerrymandering. In MO, of 143 statehouse races the GOP contested, only 40 had GOP primary challengers. The rest (103) became the GOP nominee *by default.* But 20 of them didn't have a Dem challenger either. So 20 Republicans had no primary OR general election opponent.

Breaking:

There was a post the other day of one person baffled that anyone thought their city (Seattle?) was dangerous because of the 2020 protests. I had to stare into the St. Louis distance for a while. Like, welcome to the club. They (gestures) do this on purpose.

There's a reason some folks want to sow division. Of '24 voters: 28,485,453 people (1 in 5) both voted for Kamala AND were residents of a "red" state (excluding purple states like MI, GA, PA, WI) ~2 of every 5 votes for Kamala came from a "red" state. The divide is rural/urban, not red/blue

Just discovered that a fellow who literally wrote a book about empathy is also encouraging cutting off Red States and that just feels like peak 2025.

"Democracy isn't a zero-sum game between regions. It's a collective project that requires all of us – urban and rural, coastal and heartland, Blue and Red – to make it work. The moment we start writing each other off is the moment we lose what makes America worth fighting for in the first place."

This. All of this.

Last week I read an article about cutting off red states (like mine) entirely. It took my breath away. Over the weekend, I saw three more. So I took some time to explain why that reaction is destructive – even if I understand the emotions that lead to it. This piece comes from the heart.

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

A bit ago I reposted a video of salt trucks in Chicago -which the original poster presented as being used to thwart ICE. Chicago does use salt trucks as barricades, but I can’t find confirmation of this beyond that one video. I don’t want to mislead anyone so I’ve deleted my repost. Sorry friends.💙

Exactly this. This is not a joke. It's a gleeful, enthusiastic threat.

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

I really, REALLY wish people would internalize the absolute stranglehold voter suppression and gerrymandering have over many red states with high BIPOC populations (who reliably vote blue) before consistently writing off these entire states and saying shit like “they deserved it”.

We must expand the Dem electoral map by running even in places we won't win immediately. Good news/bad news is that the very obvious damage being done to the country and world by the MAGA GOP makes the job a little easier. @hornish.bsky.social

Let’s get some of that energy over here yall! BlueTennessee.org

GOP playbook: can't win fair and square? Rig the rules in your favor. The legislation's sponsor said: “The voices of those voters in less populated counties were not heard and were overwhelmed by the few heavily populated counties." In other words, they lost. They're not interested in democracy.

This is why we can’t just keep talking about purple districts and battleground states. We’ve given the GOP an open runway in plenty of these states. We don’t have to keep that runway open. Run everywhere. Every election. With everything we’ve got.

Glad to see this. But and also: more evidence that the GOP is more than willing to drain public resources to curry favor with Dear Leader.

LOVE THIS! To steady an arch, you increase the load

This is wonderful -- thank you so much for joining! We can rebuild #Ohio together 🇺🇲 BlueOhio.org

Ohhhhmygod!!! Look how many people are supporting down-ballot Democratic nominees in Missouri. This is just within the last few weeks. We are taking the fight to them. Scroll through the list for a little balm for your soul. ❤️

Blue #Missouri is on a roll!