By my back of napkin math, VA6 now has at least 2x as many students as the next competitive district in the country.

TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there. Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.

A blockbuster investigation by the AP, out today. So much in it, give it a read, but starts with: "The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious."

“When the eight African American sheriffs took over the largest counties in North Carolina, it became a threat to the good ol’ boy system," the Charlotte sheriff told Bolts in 2023 to explain why the GOP was targeting him. This weekend, DHS announced the deployment of federal agents in Charlotte.

When travelers are stranded by canceled flights and long delays, the airline should compensate those impacted. The Trump administration just changed the rules to let airlines off the hook. I'm leading the fight in Congress to get the Department of Transportation to restore these vital protections.

With all ballots now counted for the 2025 #Virginia general election, here are the final numbers for statewide offices: Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger: 57.58% (D+15.36%) Lieutenant Governor-elect Ghazala Hashmi: 55.65% (D+11.56%) Attorney General-elect Jay Jones: 53.14% (D+6.68%)

The difference between conservatives crafting 'Project 2025' at the Heritage Foundation, and CAP thinking of going with Larry Summers (even before the disclosures), is very striking.

Dems are going to come pretty close to flipping an R+7 seat after seeing very high youth turnout. This was a seat that came on the radar late. Similar to HD 41 with Lily Franklin in 2023.

HD-41 voted for Trump by around 3% in 2024 Lily Franklin ran a textbook campaign on how to turn out young voters But she also persuaded them to back Dems after it was close last year A lot Dems can learn from her campaign about organizing on campus

Montgomery has been releasing its provisionals in bits, but got most of them just now Spanberger 1628-270 Franklin 1522-266 Franklin’s margin in HD41 is above 6.5% now

In HD 41, Franklin won provisionals(including a ton of SDRs) 1522(85%)- 266(15%) with a roughly 70 point margin!!!

One of biggest red flags for Dems in 2024 was barley winning provisionals in Virginia These are mainly same-day registrations from younger and less engaged voters Basically lowest propensity voters Spanberger winning them big this year Warning sign for Republicans now

Today election boards will meet in a lot of Virginia. @nextgenamerica.bsky.social three targeted house seats were 34, 41, and 71. Campus turnout in these districts is already sky high (higher than 2024 turnout in 34 and 41), but today SDR provisionals will be counted and that turnout will go way up!

Federal Fallout on how Dems flipped 13 seats in Virginia House of Delegates In NOVA, RVA, Hampton Roads, and SWVA Including suburbs, exurbs, rural, wealthier, working class, and diverse Candidates ran district specific campaigns which Dems can learn from podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

The Dem nominee Andrew Payton trails by 4.66% (1,282 votes) after PE votes from Harrisonburg. There are still PEs for Rockingham and provisionals for Harrisonburg and Rockingham. The Harrisonburg ones are key because of same-day voter registration at JMU. enr.elections.virginia.gov/results/publ...

Federal Fallout pod with lessons from Virginia elections Dems stayed focused on the economy GOP was a little too online and lost the plot Dems also organized to get out less engaged voters GOP had issue party in power often with lower turnout podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

They’re going to fire a US attorney because they couldn’t find evidence for a crime that was manufactured by the administration? Banana republic shit

I bet they were...👇

Young voters critical in at least 2 House of Delegates seats in Virginia this year HD-41 with Virginia Tech and HD-71 with William and Mary Dems narrowly lost both in 2023 But if they get students out this year, good opportunity for pickups

So, we did some polling... nextgenamerica.substack.com/p/we-did-som...

California Sen. Alex Padilla was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference and handcuffed. "I am Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary." Video from @Elex_Michaelson on X via Padilla's staff.

We feed you. They hunt us.

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

Summary of campaign finance info for VA HoD targeted seats fully reported Dem challenger outraised GOP incumbent and has more COH HD-41 HD-86 Dem challenger outraised GOP incumbent, but GOP has more COH HD-57 HD-73 Dem challenger slightly behind GOP incumbent in both HD-30

"which is why I propose state-administered literacy tests”

Glenn Youngkin vetoed a bill to "make two African-American history courses count towards the state’s graduation requirements for history": virginiamercury.com/2025/05/27/v...

“A construction worker in south Alabama says he was forcibly detained Wednesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who claimed his proof of U.S. citizenship was fake.” www.al.com/news/mobile/...

Project 2025 is erasing Indigenous history in real time. Navajo Code Talkers vanished from Pentagon records, tribal flags stripped from VA hospitals, and reports on missing Indigenous women deleted. Tribal rights are being rebranded as “DEI” to justify their dismantling.

I cannot imagine why Elon Musk would be interested in downloading internal data at the National Labor Relations Board.

Bonus episode of Federal Fallout this morning on the Wisconsin Supreme Court election What it means for Virginia and this November’s elections Dems are fired up after a big win and looking to the next contest It’s still early, but risk could slip away from GOP podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

Mark Cuban Welcome to Virginia Election Twitter

🚨 Musk is trying to buy another election for MAGA, and there's a LOT on the line! Workers' rights, abortion rights, & Constitutional protections are at risk! Follow, Volunteer, and/or Donate Today to support @crawfordforwi.bsky.social for Wisconsin Supreme Court Judge! app.sosha.ai/s/BMfm5m1E

Jahmai Mashack calls game on one of the biggest wins in Tennessee basketball history ⤵️

of all agencies to be so messy 🤦(www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...)

You should ask yourself why the GOP wants to impeach judges who rule against them but not Clarence Thomas, who failed to report millions of dollars in bribes, erm, “gifts” on his financial disclosures.

This is why you can’t conduct foreign policy in broad strokes. Everything you do as the President has reverberating consequences. This could allow another ISIS resurgence.

NEW: After enormous public backlash, Air Force officials are now insisting that recruits will indeed learn about the Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Air Force Service Pilots. The Air Force had previously taken steps to comply with Trump’s executive order targeting Diversity,…

Sen. Tammy Duckworth: "It is insulting to ask our servicemembers to uphold the absolute highest standards, only to turn around and lower the standards for Pete Hegseth to lead them."

North Carolina…

Trump: - said its going to be hard to lower grocery prices - is talking about joining multiple foreign conflicts - is already walking back his “largest mass deportation ever!!” plan - is nominating the most hawkish Cabinet I’ve seen MAGA, yall feel played? Or just happy the Black lady lost?

Suddenly, all the “no new wars!!!” crowd is just fine with their naked emperor threatening to take Greenland by military force, seize the Panama Canal, and potentially annex our NATO ally, Canada.

RIP President Carter. people.com/jimmy-carter...

WATCH: “Honor what everyone has said - to never forget.” Firefighter unions are upset after funding for a 9/11 health fund was stripped from the federal budget when Musk & Trump & Republicans killed the initial bipartisan bill.

Neyland North is real! Win tonight and Volifornia is up next

Not beating the “President Musk” rumors…

MUST-WATCH: “The very definition of a good ‘Medical Director’ was someone who could save the company a lot of money — the doctor with the highest % of denials got a BONUS.” A cruel, broken for-profit health care system. 🇺🇸 #MedicareForAll

ICYMI — Musk responded to criticism of him getting a provision removed from the CR that may have hurt Tesla’s business in China by attacking Rep. Delauro’s appearance. More: thehill.com/business/505...

a reminder — Elon Musk spent heavily to defeat the reform DA in Austin just earlier this year... but his target won easily (boltsmag.org/houston-aust...)

Not great