Is this supposed to be what winning looks like? Maybe those of us raised in Maine have different standards, but this seems like a clear loss for the American people if you ask me. We desperately need Congress to grow a conscience and start helping the people they represent.

Good grief.

Heh, after all that went before, this should've been the clarion call of complete ineptness to end it all, but it wasn't.

Yep.

Amid ICE attacks, L.A. community orgs call on the Dodgers not to accept a White House visit.

Being reported all over the place: November SNAP Benefits to go out, in full, today. Anyone seeing anything firm about payments for subsequent months? #SNAP #USDA #CrazyPolitics

Gov Janet Mills, 10/31: Maine delivering $1.25M to food supply agencies and programs. "Meanwhile, I encourage you to contact your local food bank, make a donation, and check on your neighbors as well. Let's support each other and support our communities during these hard times." #Maine #MEpolitics

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol's pay in 2024 = $95.8 MILLION Median Starbucks barista pay in 2024 = $14,674. That's $1000 LESS than US poverty level, 2025. We don't have a Starbucks closer than 30 mins away here in rural Maine, I won't buy from them anyway, and fully support a Starbucks Strike.

Goooood Friday, Mainers! =============== MAINE RESISTANCE FRI, NOV 7, 2025 =============== #NonViolenceIsPower #WhenWeVoteWeWin - still lots of work to do! #EveryEffortCounts #RESIST If you appreciate the calendar, please LIKE, REPOST, & SHARE! Updated NOV 7, 4:50AM #Maine #MEpolitics p1/3

Belfast area, please step up! #BelfastMe

I’m running because I want my kids to grow up in a better world than the one we’re currently living with. One where they can thrive and belong to communities that encourage and protect them. Where respect for individual freedoms and healthy disagreements mean we still eat together as Americans!

Today, as U.S. Rep. Jared Golden announced his decision to not seek reelection, Maine State Auditor Matt Dunlap released the following statement:

“This Court has once again paved the way for the immediate infliction of injury without adequate (or, really, any) justification,” Jackson wrote. Further proof that cruelty is the point with this administration. This change helps no one and only serves to hurt an already vulnerable community.

=============== SAT, NOV 8, 6PM ET ASK ME ANYTHING with Tucker Favreau, Maine candidate for U.S. Senate If you haven't, check out @tuckerforcongress.bsky.social's page. He's posting a few times a day of late. It's a great way to get his take on things as he vies for Susan Collins' seat. #MEpolitics

Maine's SNAP benefits for November will not be issued due to the federal government shutdown. It's tearing me up that so many people will lose their nutritional assistance benefits. Here's where #Portland and surrounding towns can get food. Please add where to go for your part of #Maine.

It's a wrap! Sandwich guy found not guilty. wapo.st/4nL899o

Graham Platner campaign collecting dried/canned food for Bath food bank at tonight's town hall. This is the kind of community-geared, mutual aid-linked campaigning some folks on the left have talked about for years. We haven't seen much of it in practice. #MEpolitics h/t @pinetreeactivism.org

It's Thursday, Mainers! Sunny, high 47º, breezy, gusts up to 35mph. Good day to get out and resist - lots of work to do! =============== MAINE RESISTANCE THUR, NOV 6, 2025 =============== #NonViolenceIsPower #EveryEffortCounts #RESIST REPOST & SHARE! Updated NOV 6, 8:50AM #Maine #MEpolitics p1/2

When wandering North America like I have, I often stop to linger at local memorial walls, plaques out front of court houses honoring the fallen, memorial murals, and sometimes national cemeteries. I'm always touched, reminded of how unfair conflicts are, sending off youth to fight rich men's wars.

#NoOn1 & so much more won, Mainers! Green today for #GoAmerica! #WhenWeVoteWeWIN Cloudy, high 49º, 30% rain after 5p. =============== MAINE RESISTANCE WED, NOV 5, 2025 =============== #NonViolenceIsPower #EveryEffortCounts #RESIST REPOST & SHARE! Updated NOV 5, 8:35AM #Maine #MEpolitics

It's possible for democrats to win nationally because we embraced a diversity of approaches and candidates.

===================== WED, NOV 5, 5:00-6:30PM ZOOM on CRUISE CONTROL ===================== Join Portland Cruise Control to discuss concerns about growth in cruise tourism, cruise ship pollution, and work on solutions like a scrubber wash ban. FMI: [email protected] #Maine

This will be all of America in 2026, and 1000x this in 2028. We MUST protect our voting rights AND elect Dems & Independents to shutdown the GOP. Winning the Midterms in 2026 started Voting Day 2025.

Success here, wins there –– lots to show Americans are getting out, voting, and standing up. Winning the Midterms in 2026 started today. #WhenWeVoteWeWin #Elections2025 #VOTE

Oh my! Damned good news from from Tucson, AZ in today's electoral results. Hurrah for more women in office! What local election results are YOU proud of tonight? Winning the 2026 Midterms started today. #Elections2025 #WhenWeVoteWeWin #RESIST

Citizens! What local election results are you proud of tonight or hoped would happen but weren't sure would? I'd love to hear what local efforts are being rewarded by communities turning out and standing up. Winning in the 2026 Midterms started today. #Elections2025 #WhenWeVoteWeWin #RESIST

================== PREDICTIONS: Accurate! ================== All below have been confirmed. Congrats to Abigail Spanberger, VA's 1st woman Gov, Mikie Sherril, NJ's new Gov, Zohran Mamdani, NYC's new mayor, & especially to CA for passing Prop 50, potentially gaining 5 more D seats in the U.S. House.

I am, too. I have a long time pal who has said on occasion about various projects I've undertaken, things similar to "You can feel smug about what you've done." I've wondered, "Is smug the right word for what I feel?" Well, tonight, after busting my butt for hours every day for 9 months . . . 1/

Some late night thoughts from Joanne Freeman on an important lesson from today's electoral results. "Think of (today's results) as fuel. . ." It's not over! In saying yes and no on what matters to you, we are standing up, we say OUR beliefs MATTER! #Election2025 #VotingMatters

Some of these updates on AP w/results from #Election2025 are brutal. Top Dems celebrate major victory over Trump, Trump is crying/blaming, VA flips Governorship, Cuomo loses in NYC (will he move to FL like he said?), Clinton congrats Mamdani (tho Cuomo was his Sec'y HUD), man oh man, what a night.

Woot woot! Election Night Live updates: Democrat Zohran Mamdani is elected New York City mayor. #ElectionResults #Election2025 #Mamdani #NYMayoralElection apnews.com/live/2025-el...

Maine in the news, again. Here's hoping that–– in all sorts of elections today fighting the establishment of billionaire-backed referendum questions and candidates –– as goes Maine, so goes the nation. I get the feeling this is going to sting the GOP pretty good. #Elections2025 #Maine #MEpolitics

D’s are having a good night. This is the momentum that is needed all the way through to next November. Stay involved. Register Democrats with @fieldteam6.org Support D candidates @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov Volunteer, donate and get everyone you know to do the same.

This victory belongs to the thousands of volunteers, many of them with our campaign, who left it all on the field to save absentee voting in Maine. ✅ 2,400 Canvass Shifts ✊ 49,000 Voters Contacted

AP calls Maine's Question 2 on adding red flag law to existing yellow flag law as Yes, passed, with 56% of votes counted. "Yes wins. AP race call at 9:55 p.m. on Nov. 4, 2025." #YesOn2 #Maine #MEpolitics #RedFlagLaw

Election Results From Around the Country: SCROLL BELOW the Maine results on this page for election results from around the U.S. AP News is always a great source for this. Some *very* interesting and positive results in various places! Nov 4, 2025 #ElectionDay2025 apnews.com/projects/ele...

Bangor Daily News has called Question 1 for #NoOn1. Phew. Here are results and live race maps for the general election. You can select each town's results, as well. #Maine #MEpolitics #VotingDay #SaveAbsenteeVoting www.bangordailynews.com/maine-electi...

Question 1, Maine, looking good for #NoOn1 as of 9:30PM, with 39% reporting. #Maine #MEpolitics

LOCAL MAINE RACES AND REFERENDUMS In addition to Questions 1 & 2 statewide, local voters will decide issues on Portland minimum wage, Augusta school board members & trans rights issues, and Greenville child care. Here's a closer look at each from @mainemorningstar.com. #Maine #MEpolitics #VOTE

============== TUES NOV 4, 2025 VOTING DAY, USA ============== #ProtectAbsenteeVoting from the grips of dark money billionaires to ensure students, veterans, seniors, military, Indigenous, disabled, and those working away can vote. TWO MAINE STATEWIDE PHONEBANKS Join from anywhere. #MEpolitics

IT IS VOTING DAY, Mainers! Sunny, high 53, gusts up to 45mph. Time to get out, VOTE, and #VoteNoOn1! =============== MAINE RESISTANCE TUES, NOV 4, 2025 =============== #NonViolenceIsPower #EveryEffortCounts #RESIST REPOST & SHARE! Updated NOV 4, 6:15AM #NoOn1 #Maine #MEpolitics

========= TUES NOV 4 VOTING DAY ========= Canvass for #NoOn1 - #SaveAbsenteeVoting #Maine #MEpolitics

One week from today! More details to come shortly for our event in Bangor. Today’s important task is to get out and #VoteNoOn1 #MEPolitics

He wants to kill Obamacare, but has no other plan. He is not satisfied with his deportation operation because his ICE agents are not abusive enough. He plans to continue murdering people in the Caribbean Sea because the law and these humans are of no concern to him. All this thanks to John Roberts.

Mainers have until tomorrow to reject a voter suppression effort pushed by Leonard Leo’s money and the unrelentingly deceitful Yes on 1 campaign. Vote No on 1 and help get out the vote. #mepolitics open.substack.com/pub/amyfried...

"Concealed behind layers of dark money fronts funding Question 1 are the far-right billionaires & Christian nationalists who fueled the rise of President Donald Trump & MAGA" ~Maurice Cunningham, retired politics professor & author of Dark Money and the Politics of School Privatization. #MEpolitics

This should go without saying, but let's not make it harder for Maine people to exercise their right to vote. Thanks to all the volunteers on the doors this weekend encouraging voters to reject Question 1 at the ballot box on Tuesday.

And again, a pattern of putting out statements accusing people of serious Federal crimes and then releasing them hours or days or weeks later with no charges. And no retraction.

After the vid Q&A, this article has interesting info about, and comments/responses from, other leading Maine candidates/campaigns in the U.S. Senate race, including Mills and Collins. #Maine #MEpolitics #MaineSenatePrimary www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

THE KEY TO WINNING THE MIDTERMS IN 2026 & taking back *OUR* government is to vote NOW for our voting rights! JOIN the FIGHT to help neighbors learn the importance of #VoteNOon1 this Tues to #SaveAbsenteeVoting. Canvass events and phone banks are happening all over Maine. #Maine #MEpolitics pg4/5