Charlie Close

Writer. Very short stories. Longer stories. Michigan, USA. #veryshortstory

[Charlie Close @CharlieClose]

X hides converts the link to a short link. The phonebank site is go dot abdulforsenate dot com slash phonebank.

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@headintheoffice I'm a Michigander who's been phone banking for Abdul El-Sayed. I just want to say it's fun, they run a training every shift, the script is easy and you can make it your own,

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P.S. Thanks for the good work, HITO boys. Keep at it.

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@SenatorSlotkin Trump and Musk are attempting a coup of the entire government, including Congress. You should be sounding the alarm, not just making normal selfie videos.

Your idea of what a senator should be is getting in the way of what you need to do here and now in this emergency.

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What if this picture of Badass Ladies was to be accompanied with telling the American people the stakes of this moment?

We all need joy and we all need friends. But your constituents also need you to focus on the mission of protecting the public.

[Sen. Elissa Slotkin @SenatorSlotkin]

Had the Badass Ladies over to the Senate Dining room for Galentines 🫶 @RepSpanberger @RepSherrill @RepHoulahan

[Senator Gary Peters @SenGaryPeters]

I'm live on the Senate floor opposing RFK Jr.'s nomination to serve as our Secretary of Health and Human Services. https://t.co/1oCDeOp6iO

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Democratic senators speaking up for our constitution and our nation against attempts by Musk and Trump to destroy it. Slowing Republicans down to head off damage. Here's my senator, Elissa Slotkin of Michigan.

[Sen. Elissa Slotkin @SenatorSlotkin]

Good morning!

Tune in as I take to the floor of the U.S. Senate to talk about the dangers of Russell Vought, how his ideas will hurt Michigan and discuss the threats to our democracy and our Constitution.

WATCH: https://t.co/NTr2bxs05o

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@SenBrianSchatz @SenatorSlotkin @SenatorSlotkin I hope you will post a video like this one showing your solidarity with Senator Schatz and others to keep Russ Vought and others out of government. Thanks.

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@SenBrianSchatz @SenatorSlotkin Are you joining them on the floor, @SenatorSlotkin?

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@SenGaryPeters What actions are you going to take to knock this stuff down?

This isn't a natural disaster that needs empathy and resource coordination. This is an attempted takeover of the government that needs fierce resistance from our leaders.

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@SenGaryPeters Thanks for speaking up, Senator. If you had an account on the new platform I'd repost this message there too. - A Michigander.

[Senator Gary Peters @SenGaryPeters]

Hundreds of people committed violent crimes at the Capitol on Jan 6.

President Trump's decision to pardon those criminals is a slap in the face to the officers who died or were wounded because of the attack, their families, law enforcement across the U.S., and the rule of law.

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@TheAtlantic @RonBrownstein Interesting article as always, and thanks. But I think Biden doesn't fit your pattern because there is no regime that Biden is the end of. It's been a hard tug of war for 30 years and the next dominant party hasn't emerged.

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@JoshDStewart @SenatorSlotkin Hi, Josh. Welcome aboard. First suggestion: the senator needs an account on the other place. I've mostly abandoned this platform. Good luck in your work. - A Genesee County constituent.

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Also understand that the people who coin terms like “identity politics” very much have economic interests that they’re trying to protect - from your constituents.

- A Michigander.

[Charlie Close @CharlieClose]

Lot to like here, but let’s understand that the biggest reason people practice “identity politics” is to protect their pocketbooks and their kids from economic exploitation. Don’t punch people uniting for their own freedom and prosperity. Work with them.

[Elissa Slotkin @ElissaSlotkin]

The Democratic Party needs to focus on the kitchen table issues that keep people up at night: their pocketbooks and their kids. It’s become harder to get in and stay in the middle class, and if we don’t address that — as a complicated experiment in democracy — we’ve got a problem.

[Charlie Close @CharlieClose]

@drvolts Thank you! Already following you on the other side.

[Charlie Close @CharlieClose]

This is an extremely disappointing thing to hear from my senator-elect, Elissa Slotkin. Adopting Newt Gingrich's language will produce Newt Gingrich results, which is not what I voted for.

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

At a post-election DSCC briefing with winning Dem candidates.

Elissa Slotkin: “I personally think that identity politics needs to go the way of the dodo.” Dems should take language “not from the faculty lounge, but the assembly line.”