LewFrederick

Writer/Communications Consultant Specializing in Science, Politics and Strategic Planning

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

As Democrats prepare to take the majority in Congress, we should note some of the legislation they've introduced over the past 24 hours

Including a stripping of some funding from I.C.E.

(Bill won't pass this year, but lays down a marker for 2027)

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

Josh is talkin’.

[Lara reads banned books in Florida📚🇺🇸 @MadeInTheUSANJ]

PUT PETE HEGSETH ON TRIAL!!!

[Acyn @Acyn]

PabloReports: What do you make of Donald Trump saying that he’s willing to work with Democrats, basically, to get some pathway to citizenship for some migrants? Is that something that you’d be willing to work with the White House on?

Ansari: In theory, I would, of course, but I just don’t believe anything Donald Trump says. He’s a pathological liar. He also told the American people two years ago that he would bring down costs and end forever wars, you know, make life better for working Americans. And he did the exact opposite. And then the midterm election was a massive rejection of his agenda.

So, you know, he’s saying that now. He also has dementia. So, again, Donald Trump is not somebody I trust.

[Governor Tina Kotek @GovTinaKotek]

Governor Kotek will continue standing with Oregon’s immigrant and refugee communities and pushing back on unlawful federal overreach.

[NAFO JOYFUL BASTARD STEVE🇩🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸🇮🇷🇬🇪🇹🇼 @stevenaltepete1]

Fellas, if you’re not following this man, you have to. This man is one of the new members of Congress, and he is very supportive of Ukraine, and he supports aid to Ukraine

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

The Legendary American Civil rights activist and Statesman John Lewis who passed away in 2020 said that “If the State of Georgia becomes Blue along with the State of Texas they will not be able to hold us down”. So let’s make him proud of us all.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Massie: I also find it offensive that Hegseth somewhere said I impugned the service of these members. No, the members aren't the problem. It's their leader that is the problem, and they deserve a better leader than Pete Hegseth.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Every word of this.👇

[Yoni Appelbaum @YAppelbaum]

A first excerpt from Joe Biden's memoir:

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

A husband and wife were killed by a bomb placed under their bedroom, on Christmas night, on their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.

They ran the NAACP in their state.

Nobody was ever prosecuted. Guess the year.

1951. Harry T. Moore and Harriette Moore. Mims, Florida.

He had been a schoolteacher. He was dismissed for his civil rights work. He then organised full time — registering tens of thousands of Black voters in Florida, and investigating lynchings and police shootings when nobody else would.

On Christmas night 1951, a bomb detonated beneath the bedroom of their home. It was their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.

He died on the way to hospital. The nearest hospital that would admit Black patients was over thirty miles away.

She died nine days later.

They are often described as the first martyrs of the modern civil rights movement — killed four years before Emmett Till, thirteen before the Civil Rights Act.

The FBI investigated. Florida reopened it more than once, most recently in the 2000s, and investigators named Klan members long dead as the likely perpetrators.

Nobody was ever prosecuted.

Most people date the civil rights movement from Montgomery in 1955. The Moores were organising, and were killed for it, before that — and the reason the date surprises people is that the story was not taught.

[Team Hakeem @teamhakeemhq]

BREAKING: Leader @HakeemJeffries announces support for impeaching Pete Hegseth:

“The so-called Secretary of Defense has abused his power, undermined national security, and engineered this reckless and costly war of choice which has skyrocketed prices on the American people and made the country less safe.

Pete Hegseth has got to go.”

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Very interesting stats.

[LewFrederick @LewFrederick]

@JamesTate121 Enlightening

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

There is much to celebrate this week, but I want to call specific attention to historic gains Democratic women made in representation:

- For the first time in history, over 100 Democratic women will serve in the U.S. House.

- At least 16 Democratic women will serve in the Senate.

- At least 14 Democratic women will serve as governors, a record high.

- A record of 2,600 Democratic women running for seats in state legislatures helped flip 12 majorities and break 11 supermajorities.

- Four states elected their first woman governor: Georgia, Minnesota, Ohio, and Tennessee.

- @KeishaBottoms will be the first Black woman to serve as a governor.

- @DebHaalandNM will be the first Native American woman to serve as a governor.

- @GinaHinojosaTX will be the first Latina to serve as governor of Texas.

- @peggyflanagan will be the first Native American woman to serve in the Senate.

I am beyond excited to see these extraordinary people and public servants tackle accountability, affordability, and our other challenges to make life better for everyone in this country.

Congratulations to everyone who ran: win or lose, fighting for what's right is always worth it.

[Claire D. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @3rdtimewalter]

If you are not following Rabbi Jeff... you should be.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: Our job is not to lecture Americans on the choices that they've made. Our job is to listen, and then our job is to lead, and now we have the opportunity to lead with a mandate the likes of which we haven't seen in our country for generations, and that is an opportunity to deliver the kind of change that Americans can feel…

[Acyn @Acyn]

Beshear: We’re going to have 30 governors in January who are Democrats. That’s the most we’ve had since 1992, so it’s our best election night ever.

The other thing we’re going to have is a Democratic governor in every single swing state. So no matter who our nominee is in 2028, our map just better.

[Chuck Grassley's Pidgin @ChucksPidgin]

In 2018, Brian Kemp ran for governor of Georgia. He was also the man running the election.
As Secretary of State, his office had canceled nearly 670,000 voter registrations in 2017 alone. Then, weeks before Election Day, it froze 53,000 more under a rule called "exact match." A missing hyphen. A dropped initial. That was enough. Nearly 70% of those frozen applications belonged to Black Georgians, in a state that's about 32% Black.
Stacey Abrams lost by about 55,000 votes.
She didn't wait for the next race. She built Fair Fight and went to work in every one of Georgia's 159 counties. She recruited poll watchers, ran registration drives, and took the system to court.
Georgia organizers registered more than 800,000 new voters.
Two years later, Georgia went blue for president for the first time since 1992. Two months after that, it sent two Democrats to the U.S. Senate and handed them control of the chamber.

Last night Jon Ossoff won re-election. Keisha Lance Bottoms became the first Democrat elected governor of Georgia since 1998. Tanya Miller became the state's first woman attorney general.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Christian nationalists: “We need to take women’s right to vote away in America and they shouldn’t be in any positions of leadership.”

Women in America: “Hold my coffee.”