FANTASTIC conversation with @melodyoliphant.bsky.social of the @georgiayouthco.bsky.social and how the wild election results two weeks ago looked from the ground. First state level win for Dems in GA since 2006! 🍎 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c... 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vIN...

one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)

More celebrity backfire and anger at the lack of a primary.

A few clips regarding the perfection of the Harris campaign. These are from focus groups of 2020 Biden voters that skipped 2024. April 2025 with Lake Research. The economic message-overwhelmingly focused on tax cuts ($289.7M in ads at the Pres level)-didn't land for this voter, even at a rally.

Way To Win President Tory Gavito on the supposed Latino "realignment" of 2024: "...Trump is a unique beast who was able to persuade Latinos that he has their interests at heart. In the last 11 months, he’s done everything but think about Latinos’ interests.” www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

By the way! The basic point I make here is made in much more depth, with more quantitative rigor, in this Way to Win post. (Way to Win quite obviously has the best of this argument & yet they have trouble getting any attention or traction among MSM outlets. Odd, that. Quite odd. The oddest. Hmmm.)

@torygavito.bsky.social speaking TRUTH: “In the last 11 months, Donald Trump has done everything but think about Latinos’ interests.” Since Trump took office, Latino unemployment is up, the cost of living is up, health care benefits are down, & the rich are richer. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

JUST POSTED: Everyone Is Wrong, our response to the recent series of arguments that – based on the hypothesis that Harris lost and Dems underperformed in 2024 due to (summarizing broadly) voters’ perceptions that Dems are too far left – Democrats need to move right to win.

I genuinely can’t believe what a hack piece of shit Alex Thompson has become. The US is run by a fascist regime and you’re spending your short time on earth digging into the Instagram followers of a state senator. Truly pathetic behavior. No one should talk to this guy.

This weekend, the Texas Book Festival, which will gather some 250 authors in a bibliophilic tent city out front of the state Capitol, ironically the launching pad of myriad political attacks on supposedly intolerable tomes and sinful librarians.

A beautiful time to read!

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

"Sometimes strategic debates are overtaken by events..." Like winning from the boroughs of NYC to the red hills of Georgia!

Sharing this again because when Way to Win surveyed people who voted for Biden in 2020 and did not vote at all in 2024, "too far to the left" wasn't their critique.

Only after Tuesday's Blue Wave. Let's keep it up!

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate. Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections. buff.ly/nTvLlFI

Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.

Back when Trump's team concocted the idea of gerrymandering Texas to try to save his ass after 2026, you know they never, ever, ever contemplated Dems doing this as a response Trump didn't. Greg Abbott didn't. Miller didn't. None of them did well fucking played CA Dems

Passaic County is 43% Hispanic. Donald Trump won it. Mikie Sherril won it by 15%. That new Republican map in Texas? It only works for them if they keep their Hispanic numbers. Good luck.

Watching this Newsom speech after Mandani’s like being forced to listen to the shuttle bus directions to the parking lot after the fire works.

VOLUME UP

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

OH MY GOD, DDHQ CALLS IT AND DEMS FLIP BOTH STATEWIDE ELECTIONS IN GEORGIA

BREAKING: Johnny DuPree just won his election to Mississippi’s newly drawn SD-45! With nearly 40 years of experience in public service, Johnny is ready to take the fight to Jackson to help address the runaway cost of living and get the state’s public schools back on track.

AOC: We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. It's not about Progressive. It's not moderate, it's not liberal. This is about do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And the assignment is you come together…

Flames on the side of my face as I think of all the D men so quick to rush to misogyny. Claiming woke/broke, instead of focusing on the people are broke! Trump knocked them over with a feather. Trump has NO mandate. Don't force me to bend to his version of the world, when we can build our own.

Is that hope? YES it is...

In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system. Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.

Last week was a bit of a blur - we got the ep up but not the post, so: NEW FOCUS GROUP SOUND on this week's Charting the Way Forward!! We had on @caseyclowesaz.bsky.social and checked in with voters in AZ and NV - 🧵 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb1S... 🍎 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Americans still don't realize how bad it has gotten and how much worse it is going to get. Immense destruction, pain and suffering, and we're not even at the tip of it.

“The Chicago stuff should be more than a canary in the coal mine,” said @torygavito.bsky.social. “This administration is using extreme enforcement measures to distract from the fact that housing is still just too damn expensive, our rent is still too expensive.” apnews.com/article/lati...

Good article on the work that @waytowinus.bsky.social and other progressive organizations are doing to win back Latino voters who drifted to Trump or sat out 2024, by showing how Trump's economic promises have fallen short and his immigration crackdown has gone too far. @torygavito.bsky.social

The @nytimes.com argument that the path forward for the Democratic party is to field only moderate candidates is based on a statistical illusion. @adambonica.bsky.social 1/ data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...

This is the most willful, unlawful destruction leveled against a federal building since September 11, 2001 . . . and of the White House since August 24, 1814.

It’s far from the most important thing, morally right now, or in terms of the human stakes, but the ballroom thing is really breaking my brain.

The "partisans" (so many questions) are not wrong, moving to the center is not the Way to Win, and hello @nytimes.com Ed Board. Apparently we are at the phase of responding to an argument without responding to the actual argument. Our first time being subeditorialized! Fun. 🤩🧵

But “fiscally conservative” yada yada

Kevin Durant coming to Houston, may just be the consolation prize I need since Luka Doncic left Dallas.

NBA’s Tip-Off OKC v Hou is not disappointing!

🚨BREAKING: The State of Arizona filed a lawsuit accusing House Speaker Mike Johnson of violating the Constitution by refusing to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. The plaintiffs argue that Johnson’s delay has deprived hundreds of thousands of Arizonans of representation.

I like seeing KD in Rocket red. Tonight’s NBA tip-off only thing chasing away the trump blues.

The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024. Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay. The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year. Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M See the problem?

Trump thinks he can control the narrative. We can disrupt his story. The emperor has no clothes.

I’ve been to a lot of Austin events, from marches to 10ks, this felt closer to turkey trot numbers. 2026 is coming and I don’t think the TX GOP should be so smug… did y’all see Dallas? And Houston turn out…

Dallas didn’t disappoint. #NoKings

My mom has never protested in her whole life. And she’s a boomer! But she says- this shit is bananas, LFG! Rolling up on No Kings Austin!