“I’ve been called a maverick; someone who marches to the beat of his own drum. Sometimes it’s meant as a compliment and sometimes it’s not. What it really means is I understand who I work for. I don’t work for a party, a special interest, or myself. I work for you.” -John McCain
Rep. Ken Buck on not running for reelection:
“I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate, on behalf of my party. And I'm very sad that others in my party have taken the position that as long as we get the White House, it doesn't really matter what we say.”
posting the names, photos, and salaries of Legislative Assistants and Correspondents like they have any influence on DiFi’s decisions is incredibly bad actually
BREAKING: Jon Stewart just completely destroyed Republican State Senator Nathan Dahm of Oklahoma on gun reform in America. Each and every point that Dahm tried to address was completely debunked by Stewart. Stewart made Dahm look as foolish as he and his republican colleagues really are.
My favorite quote was: “In every other place your life you want to bring order, but guns are the outlier for you.”
Let all your republican friends see this video! https://t.co/qOlU187LHx
@WandaAzevedo4 @TravelQueen72@libsoftiktok Lol we got two RUSSIAN BOTS HERE your daughter does “self government” and your son is trying to keep teens from “mainstream prison”? Lol learn to tweet English better
For virtually all of human history, almost everyone alive (95%+) was subsistence farmer-level poor. When I was born, that had fallen to about half the world’s population. Today, we’re down to ~10%.
This “everything sucks now” worldview comes from a place of incredible privilege.
Rep. Jamie Raskin whips out receipts — Jim Jordan's own words — to prove that Republicans planned to weaponize Hunter's laptop to help Trump win in 2024.
Absolutely brilliant.🔥
Fox host on GOP Speaker chaos: "This is not democracy, this is a televised hijacking ... They are intent, simply, on blowing up the party which they are doing – and this Congress. They do not care." https://t.co/VjybxojvPS
Is there a better commercial for Rank Choice Voting than what is going on with the Speaker's vote in the House ? The current system, from primary to generals to speaker voting, empowers the extremes to the expense of constituants. Time to change