Karen Finney

CNN Political Commentator, Senior Strategist, dog lover; @IAmPowerRising @BlackWomensLC #1MBlackVotersRising @StopBigMoney, @karenfinney1 on substack

[Karen Finney @finneyk]

Sharing my story about how I survived brain surgery, offer my gratitude and share a few insights about leaning on friends, family & faith and leaning into my own vulnerability: I survived brain surgery--and the American health care system (opinion) - CNN https://t.co/veoevQhpww

[Karen Finney @finneyk]

TRUMP’S EXTREMISM ON BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP SMACKED DOWN America was never meant to be a place where a president could change the Constitution with the stroke of a pen. https://t.co/aP4w5DKjex

[KSAT 12 @ksatnews]

McAllen nun to be released after being detained on her way to Mass, legislators say https://t.co/la1Lw7Wctq

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

WWII Veteran and Purple Heart recipient Robert Hilliard:

"Next week I'll be 101 years old. In February 1944 when I was 18 years old I was inducted into the army and what they taught me to do there was to kill people who set up detention camps. Can you imagine how I felt earlier this year when they announced that one of the future detention camps would be at that same camp landing in Florida? We have a fascist, a fascist government, that allows innocent people to be put in detention camps and incarcerated."

Source: @tomaskenn

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

NEW: Trump openly admitted he asked a federal prosecutor to investigate California’s primaries after his preferred candidates fell behind — a blatant abuse of executive power.

Our democracy is being dismantled in plain sight, but that's not how national media is treating it, Marc Elias writes.
https://t.co/TG84xsGlFo

[Mario @PawlowskiMario]

Hey Proud MAGA veterans, listen to this, and listen carefully👂🇺🇸

WWII Veteran and Purple Heart recipient Robert Hilliard about ICE detention camps:

"Next week I'll be 101 years old. In February 1944 when I was 18 years old I was inducted into the army and what they taught me to do there was to kill people who set up detention camps. Can you imagine how I felt earlier this year when they announced that one of the future detention camps would be at that same camp landing in Florida?

We have a fascist, a fascist government, that allows innocent people to be put in detention camps and incarcerated."

Source: @ tomaskenn

[World Central Kitchen @WCKitchen]

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[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

The Trump administration is set on removing many of the very people who helped bring Springfield back.
https://t.co/IGvu2bmhLx

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: I never want to hear these two pretend they give a damn about working people again.
Because while hundreds of thousands of Georgians lose their health care, Mike Collins builds Trump a ballroom. They worked harder burying the Epstein files than they ever did lowering your grocery bill.

[Jesse Ferguson @JesseFFerguson]

NEW NYT: Trump uses the power of the U.S. government to cut a billion-dollar mining deal. His sons stand to profit. Lutnick's sons stand to profit. Taxpayers foot the financing.

That's not policy — that's a family business.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Welcome to trump fascism 2.0

[Karen Finney @finneyk]

@AlexWitt Adding my love and appreciation for your iconic journalism, your grace, and your kindness. You helped give me my start as a commentator, and I’m forever grateful. Congratulations on an extraordinary career, and wishing you joy in your next chapter. ❤️

[Karen Finney @finneyk]

@jljacobson @harrisonjaime Jodi, I really have no idea what you are talking about. I am not an “establishment Dem” criticizing anyone. And like you, I’ve been doing the work on the ground with voters. Not the same ones as you but equally important voices.

[NAACP @NAACP]

#BREAKING: Today, the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to strip Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from more than 350,000 Haitian immigrants, putting them at immediate risk of deportation to a country still in crisis.

“The Supreme Court has given the green light to deport over 350,000 people, jeopardizing their safety, all while ignoring clear equal protection principles. It’s a shame that this is the America we’ve come to be.” —President and CEO @DerrickNAACP

Read our full statement. https://t.co/NuPem6DEhb

[Karen Finney @finneyk]

GOP led voter fraud:

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 The Utah Republican Party paid a firm $4.3 million to falsify the signatures of dead people.

The election fraud was conducted in an attempt to legalize gerrymandering in Utah.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1888, Abolitionist Frederick Douglass received one vote from the Kentucky delegation at the Republican convention in Chicago, making him the first black candidate placed in nomination for U.S. president.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

WATCH: Trump’s Postmaster General David Steiner confirms under a new rule the U.S. Postal Service will refuse to deliver mail-in ballots in states that don’t hand over their voter lists to Trump 🤔

We are very far off the cliff, folks 🇺🇸

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Nancy Lacore, who was fired by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, won a Democratic House primary in South Carolina. https://t.co/s3sLeji4fY

[Karen Finney @finneyk]

@cmclymer 💯

[Karen Finney @finneyk]

Hold up. No idea why you think my comment is about you. Before rolling up on someone - check yourself. I’m speaking to years of doing this work—inside and outside formal party structures—while wrestling with many of the same frustrations others have with the Democratic Party. Im speaking to my experiences fighting for civil rights, social justice, mutual aid, and a more inclusive and responsive democracy. As a Black woman living through Trump 2.0, this is literally life and death survival of our communities, civil rights, social justice, mutual aid, and building a more inclusive and responsive democracy/Democratic Party. For me it has meant helping create and grow efforts like State of the People, All Roads Lead to the South National Day of Action, Freedom Summer 2026, and One Million Black Voters Rising. My comment is rooted in that broader reality and the work of building power.