Texas Redistricting case is blocked!! www.texastribune.org/2025/11/18/t...

Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the presidency. They should have negotiated with us and put forth a funding bill that protected health care. Instead, they chose to skip town. Republicans own this shutdown. #RepublicanShutdown

Without an extension of the Affordable Care Act's health care tax credits, premiums will spike by thousands of dollars. That is unacceptable, and our constituents know this. @housedemocrats.bsky.social are holding the line because the people we represent are demanding it. #RepublicanShutdown

These maps may change the lines, but they don’t change who I represent or why I serve. I’ll keep standing up for North Texans, no matter what number they put next to my name. #tx32 #imwithjulie #txlege #redistricting #lameduckdonald #powertothepeople #elections2026

Democrats must make clear that, of course, we believe in changing government for the better - and show how different that is from Trump's destruction of government's capacity to protect workers, consumers, and families.

BREAKING: U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan temporarily blocks OMB's effort to stop funding of current federal grant contracts. She orders an administrative stay of OMB's pause on open awards — set to go into effect now — until 5p. Monday, Feb. 3. There will be briefing this week; hearing Monday.

Wow. Caroline Kennedy breaks her silence on RFK Jr in a message to Senators: “We grew up together. It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because Bobby himself is a predator. He enjoyed showing off by putting baby chickens & mice in a blender to feed to his hawks.”

They've already had to issue a memo spinning this as "not an across the board freeze", saying individual benefits will be paid out, and very desperately trying to assert this isn't an impoundment

“The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve.” www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

As has been said time.. and time again. Your friends who vote republican? they're not your friends. No one likes dems. But every time you vote for a republican because you're " open minded and have conservative & liberal values" You're just a liability to any person in a vulnerable population

It occurs to me that now the rest of sane America will get to say what Dems in red states have for decades…”We’re not all like that”

That Trump press conference was like learning at 30,000 feet that the pilot of your jumbo jet is drunk and possibly suicidal.

Hey North Carolina, you all OK with Trump/Vance pulling your disaster recovery $ to keep the Dems from any wins? They are politicizing your pain.

Photoshop can only do so much…

Texas is killing women. www.propublica.org/article/pors...

I can govern in any House — all of my experience legislating has been under a GOP majority. I’ll do it again in the U.S. House. Let’s go. Watch my interview with Jack Fink of CBS 11 📺 www.cbsnews.com/texas/video/...

On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, I’m reminded that many in our various communities feel scared, fearful &/or vulnerable right now. I also know many don’t trust police & for good reason Please screenshot or save these resources who are there to help & DO NOT involve police You are not alone🫂

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Each year, the trans community loses too many lives, especially trans women of color, to hate and violence. More than ever, we must stand by our trans family and support them, hold space for them, and insist the scapegoating and targeting stop. Now.

Map du jour: If “eligible to vote but didn’t vote” were a candidate.

If House Republicans really wanted to protect women, they'd release the Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz' alleged sex trafficking - not try to ban their colleagues from using the bathroom. Stop the bigotry and release the report.

I asked two Millennial friends if they were familiar with the Princess Bride. They answered “sorta” and “I’ve heard of it.” We have failed.

There you have it. Texas is the first state to officially offer up their state for the concentration camps

All of this.

So some background that is in the story, a right winger added some over the top “accountability” amendments to the city charter that allow anyone (agrieved or not) to sue and to hire 900 new police officers. Sounded good…passed. Oops…

Oy. Kadir Nelson’s amazing artwork for the cover of the New Yorker in the event of a Harris win.

This is a proposed law targeting exactly one person: Incoming trans Congresswoman Sarah McBride of Delaware. Nancy Mace is a transphobic, hateful troll who voted with teen rapist Matt Gaetz to depose her own party’s speaker, but the bathrooms. That’s where she’s focused.

I would like to speak up today for the trans community. You see, I know a bit of what it’s like to be politically scapegoated. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, suddenly anyone in America who had any amount of Japanese ancestry became suspect. Politicians preyed upon ignorance and fear. /1

just block them

Having received hundreds to thousands of fan mail each week, it's only fitting to honor White with a postage stamp.

Mitch McConnell had polio. Mitch needs to be absolutely spiking RFKs nomination, but…. Nah

Blocking Nazis, trolls, and fascists doesn’t make it an “echo chamber.” People need to stop gaslighting us into thinking we have to listen to Nazis and debate trolls in order to be informed.

Be vigilant about keeping abusive right-wing trolls off your accounts by reading replies and blocking. We all have a responsibility to keep this platform from becoming the toxic sewer that the other one is. Don’t look to others, do your part.

Michael Li is THE authority on redistricting.

Do yourself a favor and read this from Fox News contributor Ben Domenech. I’d like to report a murder

Mental break…here’s a whale I saw

The Senate has a Constitutional obligation of advice and consent for presidential nominations. Trump wants them to abdicate & give loyalty to him, not the Constitution. If he succeeds, he owns them. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Y’all, Lambda Legal has a plan. It’s a realistic look at a path forward. www.youtube.com/live/HiQF6UV...

This morning, we get to meet all of the incoming freshmen. It’s hard to know what to say to them in a moment like this…all I got is be ready to FIGHT!

Q: What happens when you overpay for a social media platform, drive away most of your advertisers, alienate half its users, making it worth less than a third of what you paid for it within a year? A: You get put in charge of government efficiency.

Meanwhile in Texas…