Reminder to sign the @michiganmop.bsky.social petition by May 13th! (Link to find a petition to sign in the comments)

Nurses are the bedrock of our care community. Too often they go unsung, undercompensated, and overworked. This #NationalNursesWeek, let's thank them properly with a commitment to safe staffing, better wages, and sustainable shifts. It's time we care for those who care for us.❤️

I hate my health insurance. I don't want more people to have it. I want it replaced. I want guaranteed healthcare free at the point of service. I want to put patients over profit. I want Medicare for All.

Join me this Thursday in Lake City! Bring your friends and energy for an evening building the working-class revolution here in Northern Michigan. All are welcome, come as you are!

Imagine blowing off a candidate forum in your district after organizers made every effort to accommodate schedule. Imagine disrespecting voters and volunteers just to avoid answering their questions in contrast with your opponent. Now imagine doing it 13 times. Welcome to Michigan's 1st District.

May Day is a celebration of worker power and unions have always been the foundation of that power. We must continue to raise the standard for all Americans, judging success not by the privileges of a few, but by the prosperity of the many.

Someone caption this for us. ⤵️

April has been a great month for the campaign! Help us celebrate and finish strong with a donation of $17 (or less). Throw us a few bucks here: secure.actblue.com/donate/blomq...

Every human being deserves healthcare and housing. Every worker deserves living wages, paid time off, and a dignified retirement. Those aren't socialist policies nor are they radical. They are the norm in a functioning society.

ENDORSEMENT ALERT: Thank you to @miprogressive.bsky.social, @keweenawsocialists.org, and @dsa-northwest-mi.bsky.social for your faith and support! Together, we'll build a country that centers the American working class, cares for our neighbors at home, and ends U.S.-backed violence abroad.

Another day, another journalist killed by Israel in Lebanon. End U.S. aid to Israel. Full arms embargo. Economic sanctions.

We did it! Yesterday, we filed our nominating petitions for the August 4th primary. Thank you to dozens of volunteers that helped us collect 1,500+ verified signatures from 31 counties in our massive district!

It's time to elect candidates willing to do the most good (not just the least harm). Your government should start treating your basic needs as human rights, guaranteed to every American. Don't you agree?

Tariffs significantly inflated goods for American consumers, allowing corporations to not only pass through tariff costs but also obscure additional price gouging. Now those same corporations will have the tariffs YOU paid returned to THEM as additional profit.

"YOU let... YOU let... YOU let... YOU let..." So you're not gonna learn a fucking thing, eh?

Folks love to talk about 80:20 issues. In my district, there are three such issues: 🟢 Ending all aid to Israel 🟢 Blocking AI data centers 🟢 Decommissioning Line 5 I'm the only candidate - Democrat or Republican - willing to stand with my neighbors on each of those issues.

Northern Michigan is experiencing severe floods due to a combination of acute weather and aging infrastructure. Please continue to monitor your local situation, heed emergency orders, and stay safe. bridgemi.com/quality-life...

Go big or go home, eh! We're making one final push to guarantee our movement is on the ballot in August. This campaign leaves nothing to chance. Stop by one of these locations this weekend to sign our nominating petition. Share with your friends!

This Friday, join me in supporting the Aspirus Keweenaw Nurses at their rally in Houghton to advocate for fair contracts and safe staffing. Another action will be taking place at the Munson Medical Center in Traverse City on Thursday evening.

Rainy weather (and the general state of the world) got you down? Join us this Saturday in the Traverse City area for an afternoon talking solutions and building working-class power. Donations are appreciated but ALL ARE WELCOME. Special thank you to our host Gabrielle Bohrer-Zarafonitis! ❤️

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility to our trans & gender non-conforming siblings. Your lives matter. Your liberty, equity, and personal autonomy are sacred. Justice for you is justice for all. Trans rights are human rights.🏳️‍⚧️

I'm the ONLY candidate in MI-01 who will: ✅ Support Medicare for All ✅ Fund public clinics to fill rural service gaps ✅ Champion real Housing reform ✅ Abolish ICE ✅ End aid to Israel ✅ Call Gaza a genocide ✅ Unambiguously oppose war with Iran ✅ Lift the blockade of Cuba

Fight Injustice + Demand Progress Don’t let the righteous energy from today’s #NoKings dissipate when the sun sets. Use this opportunity to organize, build coalitions, and strengthen community for the real work ahead.

I'm running for Congress because the violence of my government disgusts me and drives me to desperate action. I'm running for all Yoopers, Northern Michiganders, and rural Americans who know what it's like to watch horrors in isolation, to feel helpless, to scream into the void. You are not alone.

Apropos of nothing: a 2026 "progressive" running against M4A and submitting a position paper to the pro-Israel lobby sure is... something.

Being America First 🇺🇸 means caring for the needs of our people at home, not funding violent foreign governments 🇮🇱 or starting costly wars of aggression.

We love this Upper Peninsula weather, but life could stand to get a bit easier. Let's start with living wages, Medicare for All, debt-free education, and truly affordable housing.

Last chance to supply up or shovel the roof. If you know of anyone who might need help, please make a connection now. This one's going to be brutal.

Maybe one of these days we'll initiate a two-week, $20B kinetic action against our housing crisis, eh?

We are proud to endorse Kyle Blomquist for Congressional District 1. Kyle is not only a DSA member, but a candidate whose values and policies align directly with our chapter priorities. Stay tuned for upcoming events as we collect signatures to get Kyle on the primary ballot!

Women make it all work. They carry our households, workplaces, communities, and culture. Let's honor, support, and empower them this International Women's Day by passing meaningful legislation to improve their lives, make the world safer and more equitable. 1/2

I'm honored to recieve the endorsement of the MDP Progressive Caucus! Together, we will fight for the prosperity of the American working class and more humane policy, at home and abroad.

Continuing to meet folks where they are across all 36 (!) counties in Michigan's 1st District. This week, we're swinging to the shores of Lake Huron in the eastern Lower then hitting the south, west, and northern edges of the U.P. for a series of candidate forums!

Congress must act now to pull us back from war with Iran. Then, we must dismantle this war engine, prioritizing the well-being of our people at home over violence abroad.

Send me to Congress and I'll support Ro Khanna's House version. Time to tax the ultra-wealthy and care for the working class.

No War with Iran

The first fucking thing we did was kill dozens of kids in a school. Right now, all I feel is rage and grief. I know I'm not alone. Don't ignore it. Let it be fuel for purpose and action.

30 years. This video should be on every network.

Join us this Friday in the Soo for the next candidate forum, hosted by UP North Advocacy, LSSU Student Government Association, and League of Women Voters of the Eastern U.P.! Bring your friends, regardless of partisan leaning. We're building working-class power.

No war with Iran. No war, period. We need to stop our endless military expansion & pivot away from a war economy. We should be spending our resources at home improving the lives of our people, not terrorizing the world & risking American lives to enrich a powerful, amoral few.

SCOTUS has ruled that Trump's tariffs are unconstitutional. U.S. companies not only passed those costs on to their customers, but in many cases, used tariffs as a smoke screen to raise prices even higher. We must fight to ensure any refunds go to consumers, not corporations.

The genocide in Gaza is still on-going. Human rights abuse and annexation is still happening in the West Bank. They never stopped and you're still paying for it.

Nurses know best: your basic needs go neglected while we fund ICE's violent spectacle. Enough is enough.

Join us this Friday in Gaylord for the firstin a series of candidate forums, hosted by Indivisible chapters throughout the U.P. & Northern Michigan! This will be a moderated, townhall-style event, open to public, with invites extended to all MI-01 Congressional candidates. See you all there!

At a bare minimum, the Democratic Party must: 1) Atone for their support of genocide & end aid to Israel 2) Stop allowing billionaires & corporations to determine party outcomes 3) Break with anyone named as a potential predator in the Epstein files

Valid work permit. Lived in the U.S. for 20 years. No criminal record. American spouse. In the final stages of a long legal immigration process. He is a conservative's platonic ideal of coming here "the right way". Yet, he's been in detention for 5 months. Who does this benefit?

50 years of tax breaks, austerity, and privatization has led to this. The tax breaks are for them. The austerity is for us. And now they own everything that the working class built.

The U.S. blockade is starving the people of Cuba. Conditions are growing more dire by the day. Their misery doesn't make your life in America better. It serves nothing but a twisted, imperialist vendetta. End the blockade. Lift embargos. Let Cuba live.

The existence of billionaires is not incidental to your life in the working class. Wealth built on exploitation & control is naturally used to exploit & control. Elon Musk spent $290M on the 2024 election. At $852B, his wealth grows by that much every day or so. Your democracy is a rounding error.

Join us for a casual meet up—come say hello and learn more about our chapter and what it means to be part of the largest socialist organization the country. We will also have petitions circulating for @blomquist4congress.bsky.social, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social, Mop Up MI, and Invest in MI Kids!