Trump breezed through the 60-day deadline for getting congressional authorization for the attacks on Iran, compounding the illegality of this disastrous war. Trump is brazenly defying congressional authority, and it’s time for Congress to take their power back. Email your elected officials.

time and time again the court holds that rules and maps - even illegal ones - cannot be changed because it is “too close to an election” if the changes would benefit Dems now, it is fine canceling *ongoing primaries* in order to rewrite maps in favor of the GOP

Not only does the Roberts Court selectively apply the Constitution, even when they determine something is unconstitutional, they selectively decide when that matters

We all deserve the freedom to have an abortion if we so choose, and everyone should be able to access the healthcare they need. It’s time to codify Roe and protect our freedom.

🚨BREAKING: A new lawsuit is challenging Louisiana’s decision to suspend congressional primaries already underway — arguing the state is illegally nullifying votes and plunging an active election into chaos following the Supreme Court’s gutting of the VRA. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

What is happening in Louisiana right now is both a redistricting power grab and a dry run for authoritarian election subversion this Fall. The governor has declared a state of emergency to suspend the congressional elections because he doesn't like the current map.

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I have two daughters and I think about this all the time. I don't know how I will explain it to them when the time comes. bsky.app/profile/carn...

One reason not to allow a 9-member super-legislature to arbitrarily veto federal election legislation it doesn’t like for purely invented non-legal partisan reasons is that it creates scope for authoritarians to go the next step & simply “postpone” elections.

An important day to talk about reforming — and expanding — the Supreme Court. If we want to stop this radical SCOTUS from eliminating civil rights protections, we’re going to have to act more boldly. (1/2)

My statement on the Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act.

This fight isn’t over. The bill to reauthorize Section 702 of FISA now heads to the Senate, which means there’s still time to stop it. Contact your senators and urge them to oppose warrantless, AI-driven mass surveillance.

This is interesting because it challenges two widely held political assumptions: 1) that people love it when everything at the supermarket is at least $8.99 and 2) that the easiest way to win voters over is to go on TV every day and say that you need to build a big event space or you'll die.

(WSJ) - The U.S. national debt now exceeds 100% of gross domestic product, crossing a once-unthinkable threshold, on the way toward breaking the record set in the wake of World War II. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-...

Suspension of elections in order to rig them sounds like something Grant would've sent troops to quell in the 1870s.

5 out of the 6 Supreme Court Justices who gutted the Voting Rights Act were nominated by a president who came into office having lost the popular vote. 70% of Americans support the John Lewis VRA. The Supreme Court is historically unpopular. It is not a democratically legitimate institution.

I've done this too, but we should be better at showing data - many people don't know the size of Congress.

The ability to cast a vote (already deliberately constrained given work day, restrictions on mail, registration, lines, etc) does not democracy nor even "representation" make. A "free and fair" election is one where you can actually choose leaders who represent you & act in your name.

Sorry, now, what? Cancelling an election underway? Now is it time to admit what's been true all along and realize it's speak now or forever hold our peace?

Thank you Senator Sanders, @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social and the other Senators pushing Democrats to keep dark money out of our primaries. I’m on board. (1/3)

what exactly is the challenge, he’s at 30% approval and 7 months away from being completely neutered, tell him to fuck off and reap good will

Republicans are literally the party of Death

ICE doesn’t deserve one more penny - or our praise.

They paused Oversight Committee hearings the minute we started getting answers about the Epstein files. Now it’s “roundtables”: no rules, no oaths, no subpoenas. You do the math. Because the moment accountability shows up, they shut it down. The survivors deserve better.

it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter

Republicans want to give ICE and Border Patrol up to $140 billion more (on top of the $170 billion that the GOP pumped into these agencies last year) to fund their concentration camps and militarized deployments to US cities. Tell your representative to vote NO on the reconciliation legislation.

“Not as long as Vietnam” is some truly top tier marketing for this war.

You can’t make this stuff up. The most corrupt first family of all time.

ICE detained over 70 of Minnesota’s children - ripping them out of school, forcing them into inhumane detention centers, and traumatizing them forever. We need to bring all our babies home. Then, the federal government must repair and restore all the harm they’ve done.

For too long, bureaucracy kept 7 child care centers across our city empty — spaces that should have been alive with laughter instead collected dust. We've run through that red tape. This fall, all 7 will open their doors, bringing an additional 240 free 3-K seats & real relief to working families.

Mills should resign or the House must move to expel him. This is about more than any one member — it’s about whether Congress is willing to uphold even the most basic standards of conduct. No one is above the rules, and no one should be shielded because of their party.

While we are glad that Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick is resigning from Congress, accountability cannot be selective. The serious allegations against Cory Mills, which describe a disturbing pattern of predatory and abusive behavior, demand the same level of urgency and action.

May Day has been declared a day of civic action in Chicago schools, which means buses will be provided for students and educators to join the rally in Union Park.

If you were moved, as I was, by this righteous display of patriotism and moral purpose, consider funding more of it!!! actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

With the result in Virginia, here's what we know about how mid-decade redistricting has shifted the landscape. Across the 7 states with new maps: —11 districts have shifted toward Democrats; —9 districts have shifted toward the GOP.

We’re almost ready to announce more endorsements as part of our largest-ever Democratic primary program — because the pro-democracy movement deserves leaders who are just as committed to defeating fascism as the activists out in the streets.

in the last week JD Vance has gone all in for a right-wing authoritarian movement right before it fully collapsed at the polls, failed to negotiate an Iran deal, and gotten heckled by the approximately six students who turned up to hear him speak at the University of Georgia

We love to see Ms. Rachel on Team @bradlander.bsky.social!

one of the biggest technological revolutions in history and it has nothing to do with crypto, AI, metaverse or any of the things the media relentlessly hypes

I’ve introduced Articles of Impeachment against Pete Hegseth for violating his oath, endangering U.S. servicemembers, and committing war crimes, including attacks on civilians and a girls’ school in Minab, Iran. Only Congress can declare war; his actions demand immediate removal.

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

MONTANA SUPREME COURT: “Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination,” and is subject to strict scrutiny under the Montana Constitution.

Schumer is out of step with his caucus and should step aside.

Great news: Renea Gamble has been cleared of all criminal charges for the costume she wore to a No Kings protest. You may remember that Renea was arrested in October after dressing up as a “dick-tator.” Renea’s message after her win in court: “As Alabamians, we dare to defend our rights.”

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

This is happening to tens of thousands of people. It is a disgrace. It is a parody of due process; after more than a decade, the government suddenly orders you to return to a court hearing in just days, thousands of miles from where you live. And it's tearing lives apart.

The American people do not want our tax dollars being sent to Netanyahu’s government that massacres innocent people in Lebanon and Iran, covers up a genocide in Gaza, and drags the US deeper into an illegal war. The days of Congress sending blank checks to the Israeli military are over.

40 Senate Democrats voted for Sen. Sanders’ bill to block arms sales to Israel, a 50% increase in Democratic support from the last Senate vote. But in yet another act of failed leadership, Schumer voted against the bill — along with Blumenthal, Coons, Cortez Masto, Fetterman, Gillibrand, and Rosen.

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