July 4, 2026. Two hundred fifty years since 56 men signed a piece of parchment and staked everything on an idea. That's what today was supposed to be about. Trump turned America's 250th birthday into a MAGA rally. You're allowed to be pissed about that. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Ten thousand people. Five days. That’s the new ICE arrest total, and it landed one day after the Supreme Court told Trump birthright citizenship isn’t his to erase. The message is clear: lose in court, win on the street. 🧵

The same people who ended Roe are now lecturing us about protecting women. Pick a lane. You don’t get to invoke bodily autonomy only when it’s convenient. That’s not principle. I’m not backing down. I’m just done wasting time on bigots and trolls.

A profitable insurer just quit the ACA. A public program can't. When every private plan priced my family out, Medicaid caught us. I spent 15 years running these systems, then I needed one. https://bit.ly/4eOrFzv

Today was brutal. On the last day of Pride Month, SCOTUS told trans kids they don’t belong on the field. Becky Pepper-Jackson. Lindsay Hecox. Real kids, real losses. You deserve to be proud every day, not just when convenient. I will ride with you all the fucking way.

Six people in robes decided today that a trans child playing sports is a threat to my daughters. I coach youth sports and I know these kids — not one of them is a threat to anyone. The Supreme Court just looked every parent in America in the eye and lied. 6-3.

Cigna posted $1.65B in profit, then quit the ACA and dropped 369,000 people. The government says enrollment fell because it fought fraud. I worked inside this system 15 years. That's not what happened. https://bit.ly/4atddLU

Dangerous heat hits MD-06 this week. Heat index could reach 105° or higher. One protection that isn't on the heat advisory: your utility can't shut off your power on any day the 6AM forecast shows 95°+, temp or heat index, for the next 72 hours. Know it. Check on your neighbors. 🧵

Postmaster General David Steiner told the Senate last week: hand over your state's voter rolls, or we won't deliver your mail ballots. There is no reason the federal government needs those rolls — absolutely none. The federal government doesn't run elections. So why do they want the list? 🧵

Tonight, MD Dems kick off their sold-out “Fight Back & Win” summit. The logo is AI-generated. Maryland has graphic designers. Artists. Creatives who deserve a chance at recognition. They used AI instead. You can tell because the Maryland flag is wrong — it always is.

Pride looks good on Frederick. #HappyPride #FrederickMD

An unrecognized device was able to successfully login to my Instagram account around 1 pm today — despite having a complex password, 2FA, and enrolled in advanced protection. The location of said device? Baltimore. Hey, DHS if you’re surveilling me just come knock on my door and we can chat.

They call me the socialist. Trump's government owns 10% of Intel, took a stake in U.S. Steel, and now vets who gets to use OpenAI's newest models. That's not socialism. It's a king with a brokerage account. Read more. https://bit.ly/4g8VYDi

Several months ago, someone came to me for help — a temporary protected status (TPS) holder. Worked here legally for years. Paid taxes. Kids in our public schools. Today the Supreme Court ruled that ending protection for people like them can't be reviewed by any court. Here's what that means. 🧵

The 21st Century Road to Housing Act just passed Congress. 358-32 in the House. 85-5 in the Senate. Largest housing bill in 30 years. Then Trump canceled the signing hours before it was supposed to happen. Of course he did. 🧵

This campaign was something I'll carry with me. To Margaret & Emily: You were with me the whole time. You were calm when things got chaotic. I could trust you when things got hard. I don't take that for granted. Not for a second. We built something real. Thank you.

I’m super proud to have had the chance to vote for someone who I’ve known since he was very young, and someone who cares deeply about all of the issues that matter most! Obviously I had to wear my #Hokie hat!

The votes are still coming in, but the result for our campaign is clear, and I’m not going to wait to say the most important thing: thank you. Tonight didn’t go the way we worked for. I won’t pretend otherwise.

Carroll Manor Elementary — kids in the foreground, data centers in the background. That’s the race. 🗳️ #Maryland #MD06 #EthanforMD

From Cumberland to Williamsport — two communities that deserve better than they’ve gotten from Washington. Grateful for every conversation today. 🗳️ #Maryland #MD06 #EthanforMD

Election Day starts in the mountains of Maryland. Westernport, with local leaders, first thing this morning. 🗳️ #Maryland #MD06 #EthanforMD

Today is the day. First-time voters and seasoned vets. Immigrants and 10th-generation Marylanders. People who changed their registration just to be here. You heard something and chose to act on it. MD-06 has a voice. Today, go be heard. Thank you. We built this together.

This is the map our congresswoman used in a campaign video. She doesn’t live in this district. She can’t find it on a map. She represents it. I cannot. Vote tomorrow.

320 days. 15,000 miles. More doors and phone calls than I can count. All of it led here — to you, and to tomorrow. I'm not asking for your vote to win a race. I'm asking to deliver the future this district deserves. Tomorrow, June 23. #Maryland #MD06 #EthanforMD

Now it's up to you. Tomorrow is your primary election, make a plan, get to the polls, and vote for courage. @ethanformd.com @harrymd5.bsky.social @votewelch.bsky.social @kumar4ny.bsky.social

Being gay. Being bisexual. Being trans. Not a liability. That kid who knows they’re different but hasn’t told the world yet deserves to see someone who looks like their future. I’ll be proud to carry that banner. Primary tomorrow. June 23.

Mamdani won NYC. Janeese Lewis George won DC. Nithya Raman made the LA runoff. Democratic socialists are winning and I’m MD-06’s candidate. 🧵

So why did you endorse a billionaire in his campaign to be Governor?

My Dad is why I got into politics. I’ve thought about him constantly during this campaign. He’s not here to see this, but I know he’d be proud. I carry him with me every day. Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there — including those who fill the role without the title.

Maryland's largest data center is rising on Adamstown farmland. I followed the money behind it. It runs to Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, and Singapore. The county doubled the zone — after the developers funded the vote. The story: https://bit.ly/4ezbG85

“These corporations, these billionaires — they’re what’s destroying us.” Trone. Delaney. $35+ million of their own money. Check out my conversation on Proud to Lead with Shawn Quintero. #Maryland #MD06 #EthanforMD

On June 18, the Trump DOJ quietly issued a 39-page legal opinion: the rule that keeps disabled people in their communities — not institutions — was never actually required by law. Almost nobody covered it. This is the thread you need. 🧵

Itamar Ben-Gvir said “all of Lebanon must burn.” He’s Israel’s National Security Minister. His government declared Trump’s peace deal “does not bind us.” Then Israel bombed Lebanon. 🧵

I've sat down for many interviews — but this was special because it was personal. Check out my conversation with The Carefullist where we talk about caregiving and how I want to transform how our country to properly care for our citizens when I get to Congress. https://bit.ly/3SQYjZK

Juneteenth is still a federal holiday — and no president can undo that alone. But this administration quietly pulled it from the national parks' fee-free calendar and added Flag Day, which happens to fall on the president's birthday. The small choices reveal the bigger ones. Honor the day anyway.

Juneteenth. On this day in 1865, Union troops reached Galveston and told the last enslaved people in Texas they were free — more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Freedom delayed, then finally delivered. Today we honor that long road, and the work still left on it.

I got this wrong. Per Wired’s latest reporting, Governor Wes Moore appears in Dialog’s public directory as a former speaker — but not as a member. The original post stays up. Errors belong on the record.

When you elect someone who takes no corporate money and owes no powerful people anything, you get a representative with no reason to look away — from anyone. That's the whole offer. No exceptions, no tribal loyalty, no protected friends. Just daylight. Early voting ends today. The primary is 6/23.

It’s all one fight. The Epstein files hidden. Data center deals built to dodge review. Financial disclosures that don’t add up. Arms sold without accountability. Powerful people evading scrutiny — and a system built to let them. One standard, applied to all of it.

Frederick — tonight's the night. As we hit the end of early voting, every conversation matters. No script, no spin, no pre-screened questions, no RSVP. 🗓️ Tonight, 5:00 – 6:30 PM 📍 C. Burr Artz Public Library, Programming Room 110 E Patrick St, Frederick, MD

Accountability that only applies to the other party isn’t accountability. It’s tribalism. Maryland Democrats have gone soft on the data center deals gutting our communities — the money’s bipartisan. I don’t hold a softer standard for power that shares my party. Everyone, or it means nothing.

Here’s what the self-funders don’t want you to believe: this is winnable. Grassroots campaigns beat personal fortunes when turnout is high and the movement shows up. We have the coalition. We have the issues. We have the candidate who actually lives here. What we need now is you.

Wes Moore didn’t just join Peter Thiel’s secret society. He used a personal email address to hide it from Maryland’s public records laws. In that room: Musk, Bessent, Cruz, and Palantir’s founder. This is a betrayal. #Maryland #MD06 #EthanForMD

Self-funding millionaires love to call their wealth “independence.” It isn’t. Independence means answering to the people you represent. A candidate accountable only to their own checkbook isn’t independent — they’re just accountable to no one. That’s not a feature. It’s the problem.

Strip away everything else and this race comes down to one question: who do you want your representative to answer to? Two candidates are spending $32.4M of their own fortunes. Only one is running on small-dollar donations and no corporate PAC money. That’s not a detail. That’s the whole choice.

Primaries are decided by tiny fractions of eligible voters. Your vote counts more here than almost anywhere in American politics. The people who want nothing to change are counting on you staying home. The most powerful thing you can do in this race is show up.

"They aren't data centers. They're AI Brain Supercenters." That framing is everywhere right now. I get the impulse, but renaming them doesn't tell us what policy actually stops them. 🧵

Elections feel abstract until you trace them to a kitchen table. A diagnosis that becomes a bankruptcy. A hospital that becomes a two-hour drive. A childcare bill that ends a career. This primary decides which of those stories get rewritten — and which keep happening. That’s what’s on the ballot.

Behind every endorsement is a person. The nurse who wants Medicare for All. The mom on the childcare waitlist. The Muslim family told to wait. The federal worker watching their agency gutted. Seven organizations backed this campaign because it backs them. Early voting’s open.

A Maryland State Senator told me to go where I could reach the most voters. This morning I went with a family to an ICE check-in instead. Because they needed me. Because no one else answered. You go where you are most needed. That’s why I’m running.