Nate Blouin

Lame duck Utah State Senator. Former Congressional candidate. Still fighting for a stronger working class and a healthy environment.

[jae holzman @jaeporeon]

ai art is a cancer upon our society. a rot. a profound waste of humanity. evidence in an argument that our evolution was a mistake

[Nate Blouin @NateForUtah]

@Glockist19 the House GOP actually threw out the "establishment" choice and elected a Christian Nationalist as speaker. i guess we'll see if Dems stand up to Jeffries and put in someone with a spine.

[Nate Blouin @NateForUtah]

Voters just sent one of the loudest rebukes imaginable to politicians & the first two major votes are marked by Democrats helping to pass a bill that will enable data centers & failing to whip the votes to move Hegseth's impeachment forward. We've had it.

[Nate Blouin @NateForUtah]

@Econ_Marshall close enough

[Nate Blouin @NateForUtah]

@Glockist19 Republican leaders have widely acknowledged they went too far on immigration and other issues. So no, opposite problem.

[Nate Blouin @NateForUtah]

this is more important than centrist vs. leftist

[Andrew Solender @AndrewSolender]

One thing that is becoming clear: This incoming freshman class of House Democrats is going to be, on the whole, more unpredictable and untethered to leadership than returning members.

"Rome is burning," said Rep-elect Don Leonard, telling @axios they need a leader who "shares our sense of urgency for transformational change."
https://t.co/9EbZqOLuwV

[Deep Singh Badhesha @DeepNotShallow]

Missing a vote is one thing. Giving an explanation for it that doesn’t add up will cost a lot more.

Several folks are already interested in challenging Pettersen. If you know someone, or you’re interested yourself, send me a DM.

[Isi Breen @isaiah_bb]

Am I missing something here because I have gotten this email approximately 50,000 times in my career.

[Nate Blouin @NateForUtah]

No one thought you'd have to go to Provo to find Utah's Mamdani (a phrase which should be retired, by the way).

[Nate Blouin @NateForUtah]

ON MESSAGE

[Nate Blouin @NateForUtah]

ON MESSAGE

[Robert Gehrke @RobertGehrke]

How wild was the 2026 election? Utah County sent its first Democrat to the Legislature in more than three decades — and not just any Democrat.

@davidforutah is 27 and a Democratic Socialist.

Here's how it happened and what he hopes to accomplish.

https://t.co/1qmWtJqSkP

[Nate Blouin @NateForUtah]

how do I get my piece of the pie?

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Got this text unprompted from a friend who's a liberal influencer.

Anti-BAAJA groups are offering tens of thousands of dollars to moderately-sized accounts to spread anti-BAAJA talking points. I've almost never seen anything like this.

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

Jeffries opponents on the left are making a meal of this - members who just ducked out for a pointless post-election reception are getting their AIPAC tracker number shot back at them, accused of secretly supporting the Iran War, etc.

Skip the reception, go to work! Simple as.

[Andrew Solender @AndrewSolender]

NEW: I caught up w/ Rep-elect Don Leonard on Capitol Hill yesterday

- He told @axios he was told by "folks who have been on the Hill for a really long time" that "the leader is going to pursue his message and agenda as he sees fit, and [said], 'Don't be insane. How could you possibly stand in the way?'"

- He wants Jeffries to commit to supporting a Constitutional amendment to ban super PACs, in addition to ending all U.S. funding to Israel

- He said he is "confused and frustrated" about the Democratic caucus' committee selection rules that largely exclude freshmen from the most coveted panels: "When we're less democratic than the Republican Party ... that raises questions for me."

- He met Jeffries for the first time on Tuesday and "shook his hand and I asked him for six minutes"

"I'm going to hope that I can persuade him in the six minutes that we don't have to cross that bridge, but my constituents aren't bluffing and neither am I."

More here:
https://t.co/391DBke0zw

[barbarism critic @barbarismcrit]

Craziest thing about dems fucking up the hegseth impeachment vote is that impeaching this guy is like a free bingo square. Makes people happy and doesn’t impact their donors and they couldn’t even do that.

[Nate Blouin @NateForUtah]

we don’t want you

[Adam Wren @adamwren]

Exclusive: Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir who bet big on Trump 2.0 and has reaped billions in government contracts, now tells me he is open to backing a Democratic presidential candidate in 2028.

Inside the tech right’s pivot left for @playbookdc:

[Nate Blouin @NateForUtah]

delusional

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Alex Karp now says that Palantir is progressive, he’s always been a Democrat, Trump went too far on immigration and his primary commitment is to economic justice. LMAOOOOOO

[Maj. (Ret.) Richard Ojeda @Ojeda4America]

We gotta stop throwing America’s sons and daughters into the damn meat grinder of war just so Raytheon and the military industrial complex can make a shiny penny.

[Nate Blouin @NateForUtah]

oh my god i just got the mayo pete joke

[Louis Riel @theGhostOfRiel]

Tasked with undermining the m4a push, she is a leading democratic figure behind the scenes. When her candidates won't commit to medicare for all like mayo Pete, now we know why.

People have been asking the question...

who is LIS SMITH?

steal this graphic and share yourself!

[Nate Blouin @NateForUtah]

no more excuses

[Kyle Clark @KyleClark]

NEW: Rep Brittany Pettersen (D) missed the Hegseth impeachment vote as absent Dems doomed the effort. Pettersen says she was "denied" the ability to vote.

She was at an event but her team won't say which one. They said she got stuck in traffic and Rs should have held the vote.

[Bharat Ramamurti @BharatRamamurti]

What do the Americans with Disabilities Act, the last minimum wage increase, and significant expansions of the Clean Air Act and civil rights laws have in common?

They were passed by D Congresses despite an R President.

A thread on how Ds should approach the next 2 years. 1/

[Bharat Ramamurti @BharatRamamurti]

@igorbobic The way to demonstrate responsiveness to voter concerns isn't via a series of backroom negotiations that produce narrow and technical bills the public doesn't follow or understand. 13/