REQUIRED READING - we need to stop trying to reason our way through narrative and instead recognize that we are emotionally-driven beings and design our narratives accordingly. open.substack.com/pub/antiauth...

Our year = protests, posts, pressure, power. Your recap = #ResistanceWrapped. Get your Resistance Archetype. www.resistancewrapped.com Drop your results 👇

A really great lookback at wtf happened in 2024 from @waytowinus.bsky.social out today 👇

The right and Republicans understand this. The broader left, center, and Democrats could. Today we are releasing Towards Strength, a summary of a year of research into the losses of 2024, chronic Democratic underperformance, and what voters are thinking as we head into 2026.

Here's what the media narrative around "record sales" this Black Friday is hiding: 1) People actually bought less stuff. They just spent more money because shit is more expensive. 2) People are shifting their money to small businesses. 3) Target + Home Depot stocks have felt the impact of boycotts.

RESOURCE: Just saw a great presentation by @jiggygero.bsky.social from The Defiance Dispatch Substack on "Using Narrative to Build a Culture of Defiance to Beat Fascism." Here's one of their slides that nicely summarizes some key elements of the anti-fascist narrative we should all be building.

You can walk away. Before the shame follows you home. #StopICE

“ICE is abducting people” is a message. A video of it happening? That’s narrative power. New pod w/ @jiggygero.bsky.social on messaging, emotions, fascism & how we fight back. substack.tcspod.com #NarrativeStrategy #Advocacy #TheCampaignStrategist

After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run. We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader. If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇

“.. As the raids have continued, consumers have started to question whether the company’s silence makes it an accomplice to the sweeps rather than merely the backdrop. .. A backlash is coming for the company.” @bloomberg.com $HD www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I'm going to lose my fucking mind.

#GVerse MoveOn calls for Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov to step down from leadership. “Around 80% of MoveOn members that the group surveyed said that Schumer should quit his leadership position.” It is time to let someone else take the wheel & lead!

Well if Senate Dems won’t shut this regime down, we will! Don’t buy from Target, Home Depot, or Amazon from Black Friday through Cyber Monday. Let’s inflict some pain on those capitulating to Trump.

Money is always the reason.

It is looong past time to oust Schumer. And any Dem who doesn’t call for leadership change should be primaried. We need an actual opposition party, not a bunch of cowardly losers cosplaying as fighters.

LESS. THAN. A. WEEK. Took them less than a week to take one of the most visible public repudiations of the GOP in my lifetime and turn it into hog slop. I’m so mad my temperature is higher than my ACA premiums.

Dems: We are winning elections and winning the shutdown, you know what all this winning feels uncomfortable. Let’s go back to our safe space of losing and being hated for being cowards.

Someone please jam this chart into the brains of the Dem party. Being anti-establishment and ready to fuck shit up is a winning strategy.

remember all those hot takes during the primary about how Mamdani was the candidate for rich white liberals? a "champagne socialist" ? yeah, about that

THIS IS A DAYCARE. WITH CHILDREN INSIDE. The ICE gestapo is now traumatizing children by invading a daycare and disappearing one of their teachers during school drop off. (Not that this matters, but the teacher is here legally.)

This person took this when they called the race

Re-upping this from 4 months ago because it is still true

Earlier this year, we published an article headlined “10 Ways to Enrich the Trumps and the MAGA Movement.” We failed, though, to consider that the president might simply force the US government, i.e. us taxpayers, to straight-up pay him hundreds of millions of dollars.

> @newyorker.com

MIT deserves some love for not capitulating to Trump. More of this please! www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

MAGA in disarray 🍿

Feel like it’s pretty clear that people want: 1. CHANGE, and not incremental change, but big new revolutionary ideas 2. SOMEONE THAT FIGHTS to make their lives better Establishment Dems insist on being cowards who want to protect the status quo. So they’ll keep losing unless they learn from Zohran.

Generational change is coming: Since Zohran Mamdani won on Tuesday night, more than 1100 young people have reached out to @runforsomething.net to explore a run for local office -- one of our biggest spikes of the year yet.

I’m back from maternity leave and it has been a very strange time to be away from the world of politics. The fascist takeover has moved more quickly than I anticipated tbh 😬

people keep arguing about whether the dems should move right or left but I feel like a larger takeaway from the past several cycles isn't policy, it's that people's politics are deeply inconsistent and we're all highly susceptible to marketing, advertising and propaganda

Between electing Trump and celebrating the killing of CEOs, what is clear is that Americans are very pissed at the status quo + systems that are continually screwing them over. If Dems don’t recognize this and continue to be the party of “institutions” and “norms” and “civility,” it’s over for them.

It seems like the party that’s supposed to be about healthcare should be able to figure out how to tap into the very clear rage that people feel toward their experiences with the healthcare industry. But Dems are somehow yet again missing the moment. (But are we surprised?)

Dem voters fear Dem leaders will not stand up to Trump. More from our post election findings.

I keep seeing sickening amounts of smugness from our side as Trump voters realize some of the horrors to come. “I told you so” and “haha stupid” and “you’ve got it coming” are the exact elite, preachy, judgey vibes that people hate about Democrats. Maybe try empathy and treating people like humans.

Democrats are not ready for this moment. It’s so fucked up. How do you campaign on a guy being a dangerous fascist for MONTHS and then turn around and continue to abide by institutional norms like they won’t be destroyed on day one. I’m infuriated. I really am. We don’t deserve this horseshit.

I mostly quit twitter after Elon destroyed it so I am excited to try fluttering around this bluesky with you all!