This is what putting South Carolina first looks like.
I’m honored to have the support of two former governors — Republican David Beasley and Democrat Jim Hodges.
We may not agree on everything, but we share a belief that matters most: South Carolina deserves leaders who will always put its people first.
I just early voted!
Have you cast your ballot to put an end to this MAGA-led shitshow yet? If not, don’t be a part of the problem - make your plan to vote today! 🏳️🌈🇺🇸
#BlueWave#Vote#Democrat@TheDemocrats@wvdemocrats
I sincerely hope that Mallory considers a civil suit and explores ways to press criminal charges. It would be a huge public service to do so.
I am sorry for what happened to her and always believed she would have been the best Michigan Senator.
Wedgewood polling caused Democrats to end up with the least electable of the three candidates running in the primary in Michigan, and it has cost our party tens of millions of dollars to try to protect what should be a safe blue seat. We need to know who was behind this poll, who was getting paid, and what the mission was overall.
Trump’s own appointees asked the government’s election security agency to secretly hack a voting machine and send the results to the White House. The career staff refused.
ProPublica broke this story. Early in this term, political appointees at Homeland Security went to CISA with a request. Buy a voting machine in secret. Break into it. Don’t tell the company that makes it what you find. Report back so it can go to the White House. That’s the opposite of how CISA works. When it finds a weakness, the whole point is to get it patched.
One former official said the plan looked like something they could keep in their back pocket to invalidate any election results they don’t like. The staff kept telling the appointees it couldn’t be done. Part of the reason? DOGE had already laid off the specialists who could pull it off.
This is the agency Trump created. In 2020 it called that election the most secure in American history, and Trump fired the director for saying so. Since then a third of its workforce is gone, states say they’ll never share information with it again, and its election security plan came out at thirteen pages after early voting had already started.
So the agency built to protect the vote has been gutted, and the people who gutted it asked what was left to hack a voting machine. I break it all down in today’s show (link in reply).
As one of the candidates featured in these polls - the infamous one in late June that showed me plummeting into single digits (which was at odds with our internals) - here's the impact of this "experiment"
- Donations dried up
- Volunteers were devastated and pleading for guidance on what to do
- Reporters hounded me with calls to drop out
Sure, a point was proven. Polling is broken. But tens of thousands of people poured their hearts, time, energy, hard-earned money into something they believed in - for a year-and-a-half, and it was treated like a game. Our volunteers gave their all. And then some. I felt like I had let so many of them down.
To be extremely clear, Michigan Democrats are locked in to beat Mike Rogers. We WILL send @AbdulElSayed to the US Senate.
But between crap like this, endless fundraising texts that drive supporters away with spammy fake deadlines and trash "match" claims, scam PACs run rampant for firms to grift without actually supporting candidates, undisclosed content creators pushing content out either misrepresenting themselves as residents of states they don't live in or hiding whether they were paid and by who so they could make a buck, and the tidal wave of dark money ads -- I hope Democrats are ready to blow up the system with campaign finance and transparency reforms.
Trust is already at an all-time low. We don't get out of this mess without rebuilding trust.
And media - who loves to ride the drama of a pollercoaster - needs to take a hard look at what's legitimate and what's not.
If this teaches us anything - DON'T GET COMPLACENT AND DON'T TRUST THE POLLS.
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NEW: The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter.
Until judges start tossing lawyers in jail for contempt of court and/or hauling senior government officials into their court rooms and demanding testimony under oath, none of this changes. The Trump DOJ views court orders as advisory, not compulsory.
Fuck Donald Trump.
He has cut off US intel sharing with Ukraine, putting Ukrainian lives at risk.
All over the price of oil.
He is a fucking coward, a traitor, and a selfish little man!
“If you don’t want to watch the execution, then don’t watch.”
Ok… let’s go with that.
Also, if you don’t support same-sex marriage, don’t have one.
If you don’t support drag shows, don’t go.
If you don’t support abortion access, don’t have one.
We can do this all day.
Im happy asf about this tbh. It seems like a step in ending the notion that one can’t be a professional and also have a kinky gay personal life that doesn’t need to be hidden!
Today, Russia expressed its thanks for the lifting of sanctions on diesel exports by dropping five glide bombs on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia. As of now, sadly, twelve people have been confirmed killed, including three children. My condolences to all their families and loved ones. Another fourteen people have been injured, and two of them are in critical condition – the doctors are fighting to save their lives. The status of twelve more people who may have been there is still being verified. All emergency services are at the scene, and search-and-rescue operations are underway. Overnight, thirteen of our regions came under attack. Residential buildings, infrastructure, and railway facilities have been damaged.
Last night confirmed once again that in Russia, they take any easing of pressure to mean they can keep fighting, to mean they can keep dropping bombs on cities. Different signals are needed. Russia must understand that it needs to stop the war, and for that to happen, Russia must feel its losses. Right now, it is our long-range capabilities that are ensuring this. And we will respond to Russian strikes. I thank everyone who is helping.
NEWS: Eight major U.S. allies—including Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan—have issued a joint rebuke of the Trump regime’s sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court.
They vow “unwavering support” for the ICC’s independence.
If you’re wondering why we’re talking about televised firing squads all of a sudden it’s because it was finally revealed we lost *an entire base* in Kuwait and our troops didn’t have enough bullets to defend it. A career ender for Hegseth in any other world.