BIG NEWS: For the first time, the Florida governor's race is officially a toss up.
For over a year, we've been out on the trail, talking to Floridians, and building momentum for this movement. Change is here and we're going to win.
Be a part of it!
For the next 65 days, they’re going to tell us to hate each other.
But hate won’t lower your insurance bill. Division won’t improve your child’s school. Attacking your neighbors won’t make health care more affordable.
Floridians are asking for something better.
Leadership focused on housing, health care, and education. A state where the economy works for everyone, our rights are protected, and we remember that we have far more in common than our politics would have us believe.
The attacks will come fast and hard. We’re going to stay focused on you.
I believe we are capable of rising above the division. I believe in the goodness of the people of this state.
For the next 65 days, let’s Believe in Better.
This West Virginian believes voting for God & Guns is not the way to prosperity, voting for yourself and your community is. Status Coup's Jordan Chariton sat down with Pam Garrison of Poor People's Campaign.
Footage by Jon Farina
Video by Phillip Hawkins
EXCLUSIVE by Jim @DeFede: A state grand jury found $10 million in taxpayer money was “misappropriated” to Hope Florida and ultimately used for political purposes. Read the full story - https://t.co/bOiyLiUWX7
South Carolina screwed its deployed troops today.
Today, South Carolina Republicans are holding a runoff primary for a U.S. Senate nomination to replace the late Lindsey Graham. And in a state where one party dominates, that’s the whole ball game.
And almost nobody had a say in how that seat got filled in the first place.
Graham died on July 11. Two days later the partisan governor appointed his sister! A person who had never served in government—or in uniform. This was after the president and the Senate majority leader publicly chose her. She was sworn in on July 14.
Three days, start to finish. A Senate seat in a state of five million, resolved inside one family and one phone tree. A corrupt process that never involved a single voter.
THE PART THAT SHOULD BOTHER EVERY VETERAN ESPECIALLY
Federal law requires ballots reach service members and Americans abroad 45 days before a federal election. A Marine or Sailor on deployment near Iran cannot drive to a polling place.
South Carolina's calendar could not meet that requirement. The Trump Justice Department decided instead: ballots out August 1 for an August 11 election. Ten days to reach a destroyer in the Middle East (and everywhere else in the world) and come back marked.
And the United States government agreed not to sue over it. This is the apex of partisanship and party corruption.
A party's succession timeline on one side, the voting rights of deployed Americans on the other.
The deployed Americans lost. And, per usual, especially independent veterans.
And this is a veteran heavy state. South Carolina has roughly 345,000 veterans — 8.4% of every adult. Fort Jackson, Parris Island, Joint Base Charleston, Shaw–full of troops and vets
An estimated 165,000 independent vets.
AND THE DOOR IS CLOSING ANYWAY
South Carolina does not normally register voters by party. So the party switched the rules to rig the whole thing: anyone who voted in June's Democratic closed primary was barred from August's Republican one — where that primary is the deciding election.
Meanwhile the South Carolina Republican Party is in federal court, in a suit filed on July 4, asking a judge to close the state's primaries for good.
They are blocking us from voting today. And they want to block us forever.
That is why @IndyVetsAmerica exists. To call them out, fight back, and demand an equal vote for all independents. And especially independent veterans.
Most Americans have no idea!
SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING IN SOUTH CAROLINA
https://t.co/3JOuFRfygq
Share this with everyone you know in South Carolina. And with every patriotic American nationwide.
We are leading these critical fights. And supporting independent veterans leaders who will speak out and lead that fight.
And today, that battlefield is in South Carolina.
Stand with us. In South Carolina today. And in every battle to come.
Onward!🚨🇺🇸🗳️🐺
@KeanForCongress To represent your constituents would be to step down. Most of your voters would have to do the same with their jobs if they found themselves in a similar situation.
Be the change - advocate for recognition and better workplace support for this debilitating health condition.
@KeanForCongress I am sorry that you have had to go through this - with that being said, I encourage you to step down out of respect for the 48 mill. who also struggle with depression.
American society doesn’t allow most of us to take 4 months off to focus on our mental health, even if it should
Massie: Why am I hopeful right now? We have the younger demographic. You are patriots and you will inherit the country. You will make it better and I am hopeful because of it. We started out as an election and it turned into a movement. There is a yearning in this country for somebody who votes for principles of her party
One of the most profound effects Trump has had on Congress is that he convinced a giant portion of GOP voters that the establishment guys who fall in line are the heroes and the constitutional conservatives who challenge the system are the villains.
JD Vance is lecturing the Pope on Catholicism and Pierre Poilievre is lecturing Mark Carney on economics and RFK Jr is lecturing scientists about vaccines and Donald Trump is lecturing the world on tariffs and Pete Hegseth is quoting Pulp Fiction and thinking it’s the Bible
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a statement Wednesday pushing back at JD Vance after he said Pope Leo XIV should ‘be careful’ when speaking about church teachings:
“For over a thousand years, the Catholic Church has taught just war theory and it is that long tradition the Holy Father carefully references in his comments on war. A constant tenet of that thousand-year tradition is a nation can only legitimately take up the sword ‘in self-defense, once all peace efforts have failed’ (Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 2308). That is, to be a just war it must be a defense against another who actively wages war, which is what the Holy Father actually said: ‘He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war.’
When Pope Leo XIV speaks as supreme pastor of the universal Church, he is not merely offering opinions on theology, he is preaching the Gospel and exercising his ministry as the Vicar of Christ. The consistent teaching of the Church is insistent that all people of good will must pray and work toward lasting peace while avoiding the evils and injustices that accompany all wars.”
Good news for Kristi - today the Supreme Court struck down a conversion therapy ban.
Now that their “Christian union” has been exposed for the complete and total farce it always was…at least they have options to save their BS of a marriage 🤷🏻♀️
Secret double life of Kristi Noem's crossdressing husband Bryon: The pouting 'busty bimbo' photos and trove of explicit messages https://t.co/4GvCcfPK9j
Took a hard pass on the Grammys because I’m not interested in watching the stars vomit their political opinions, but the Internet allows me to pick and choose highlights, so I picked and chose this Ozzy tribute.