The old rulebook is gone. It's not coming back and we all need to accept that. The DOJ is weaponized. the GOP is rigging elections. Trump is literally bulldozing the White House. Democrats need to operate under this new reality, fight hard, and play by the same rules.

🥳🗳️💪⚖️ www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.

It is what you think it is… they mean to starve the poor folks.

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Texas dismissed a GOP lawsuit against California’s new congressional redistricting plan ruling that the plaintiff, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), had no right to sue over another state’s election laws. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Their time is ending. Democracy's reckoning is coming. And no rigged map, no stolen vote, no erased record can stop a people who refuse to be silent. We're just getting started. #NoKings #NCPolitics #DefendDemocracy #TheyreAfraid

Yesterday, truth was spoken. Today, they're still trying to silence it. Tomorrow, we rise louder than before. The fight continues. The promise endures. And every desperate attempt they make to silence us only proves we're saying exactly what they fear most: 

They were so afraid of the truth, they voted to erase it from history. That tells you everything about the weakness of their cause and everything about the power of ours.

So we get louder. We organize harder. We fight fiercer. They can block words from a journal, but they cannot block the march of justice. They can erase speeches from the record, but they cannot erase the promise from the hearts of a people who refuse to bow to kings.

Their fear means we're winning. Their desperation means our movement has power. Their need to erase us from the record means they hear us perfectly, and what they hear terrifies them.

Because every time they silence a voice, ten more rise up. Every time they rig a map, a thousand more people organize. Every time they betray democracy, a million more Americans understand: this is the fight of our generation, and surrender is not an option.

This weekend, millions marched saying "America has no kings." Yesterday, North Carolina Republicans proved exactly why those marches were necessary. They rigged our elections, tried to erase any record of opposition, then went home thinking they'd won. They have no idea what's coming.

Not today's vote, they won that. They got their rigged maps. They'll steal their seats. They'll cling to power for a few more years. But they're losing the war that matters. The war for legitimacy. The war for history's judgment. The war for the hearts and minds of the next generation watching.

You don't vote on party lines to block routine motions unless you're terrified of what they represent. You don't abandon decades of Senate courtesy unless you know, deep in your bones, that history will not be kind. They are losing, and they know it.

And now millions more will hear about it, because their attempt to silence it only amplified the message. They tried to bury the truth. Instead, they proved it. Their fear is our proof. Their shame is our vindication. You don't try to erase words from the record unless those words have power.

But you can't erase truth by blocking it from a journal. You can't make democracy's defenders disappear by parliamentary procedure. You can't memory-hole a movement by refusing to record it. Those words were said. Thousands watched online. The press reported it. North Carolinians heard it.

They know they stole voices and rigged maps and betrayed their oaths. And they're so ashamed, so terrified that future generations will read what was said and render judgment, that they won't even let the words stand in the record.

That's not the behavior of people confident in their principles. That's the behavior of people ashamed of their actions. If what they did was righteous, they'd want it documented. If their cause was just, they'd welcome debate for the permanent record.

They weren't blocking the record to protect themselves, they were doing it because they know history will judge them harshly for what they did yesterday. They voted to rig our elections at Trump's command, and then, in the very next breath, tried to memory-hole anyone who dared to say it out loud.

They rigged the maps. Then they voted to erase any record of someone calling them out for it. This isn't about me. This is about what their fear reveals. They weren't afraid of my words because they were false, they were afraid because they were true.

The Republicans immediately objected. They forced a vote. And on a straight party line, they voted to keep my words out of the permanent record. In my entire time in the Senate, I have never seen this happen. Let that sink in for a moment. 🔗 to full speech: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2bK... 

Senator Grafstein moved that my remarks be spread upon the journal, entered into the permanent record of this body. This is routine. It happens constantly. It's almost always done without objection, a simple courtesy extended across party lines for speeches on both sides.

They Were So Afraid, They Erased the Words. Yesterday, I spoke truth about what happened in North Carolina. About democracy being stolen in broad daylight. About rigged maps and broken promises. About betraying every sacrifice ever made for the right to vote. Then something extraordinary happened.

This is amazing!!

🚨 oh look! Jack Smith is calling Marsha Blackburn’s bluff. Surely she should want him to testify publicly if she isn’t entirely full of 💩, right? Right?? www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/p...

Merkley: "What we've seen is that democracies no longer die bc men w/guns go in and take it over. Instead, it's electeds who erode the separation of power. If you have a rubber-stamp Congress & courts that deliver more power to the executive, suddenly you have an authoritarian state. It's here now."

JUST IN: The ENTIRE East Wing of the White House has officially been DEMOLISHED, per AP.

Arguing with neighbors is never the right thing to do. I support Canada 🇨🇦 www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/p...

NEW: A former red-state chief election official who has falsely claimed the CIA stole the 2020 contest is playing a key role in the conspiracy theory-fueled effort by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate the vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom

Great Mr. Wolff,Sue In The Language of The Chump's,Money

Our national parks are increasingly stressed because of the government shutdown. With a large portion of National Park Service staff furloughed, there are fewer personnel available to enforce rules or care for the land. Across parks, reports are emerging of trash accumulating,

“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right, and laughter becomes a weapon.” — Albert Camus

a live look this morning at the demolished East Wing of the White House

The East Wing was built in 1902 & rebuilt in 1942, long after asbestos was used as a fire retardant. So, I’m sure the White House took steps to prevent a known carcinogen from entering the air during the current willy-nilly demolition. Kidding! These irresponsible assholes don’t care who they kill.

Trump's little Johnson👇

This is such an insane thing to say.

Feels like a statement from a bipartisan group of former first ladies about the destruction of the east wing could capture some attention ...

Heads up Bay Area.

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." — Socrates

Don’t let Republicans rig another election‼️ Prop 50 is about fairness and power; giving California voters the final say on congressional maps, not politicians. Your vote isn’t just a choice this time, it’s a defense. Stand up and use it. #YesOnProp50

Imagine claiming "all life is sacred" while cutting SNAP benefits & cheering the extrajudicial murder of foreign ppl in boats.

Mike Lindell says he only has 5 more days to file an appeal of the defamation case he lost last month, but he only has half the money so he needs people to send him money right away.

The funniest part is the notion that ranchers and farmers get to set their own prices. They probably got a decent laugh out of that one. 🤡

The war zone in Portland was getting out of control at the ICE facility last night.