C Neumann

Mother. Seattlite. Sudoku Freak.

[Stuart Stevens @stuartpstevens]

This sounded better in the original North Korean.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Let me say something that is controversial because our brains are broken:

Vaccines are a miracle and amazing

[Deb Haaland @DebHaalandNM]

I rocked my mocs my first day in Congress, because I wanted kids to see that anything is possible.

Our mocs remind us of the shoulders we stand on and the strength we have engrained in us to step into our future without forgetting our past.

[Kyle Clark @KyleClark]

Rep Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has returned to Congress with a laser-like focus on the issue Coloradans sent her there to solve: underwater space aliens. #copolitics

[Stuart Stevens @stuartpstevens]

I've been involved in winning presidential races and races that lost. One common thread is that everyone seems to have a reason why you won or lost which usually reflects a personal perspective or agenda.

So here's mine: I think VP Harris ran a very good campaign that operated at a high level. She had a great convention, crushed Trump in a debate, and put on a series of big event rallies that were the best I'd ever seen.

As a Republican operative, I spent years pointing out flaws in the Democratic Party and I'm not here to say it doesn't need to go through a period of questioning and self-reflection. Those are much larger questions than one election and one campaign. But the Republican party is an anti-democratic movement, attacking the pillars of American democracy from elections to the judicial system.

I understand those who say that if there had been a "normal" Democratic primary, the results would have been better. Maybe. But think about it. In modern political history, every time a sitting VP has run for the nomination, that VP has won. Perhaps it would have been different this time and the eventual nominee would have emerged stronger for the process. But more likely there would have been a bloody primary fight that left the nominee broke and trying to patch together a fractured party to face a Republican party that has become Donald Trump's party. In all probability, VP Harris would have won that primary and been in a weakened and vulnerable position when it was finally resolved in May or June.

I would say to my Democratic friends to go through this post-election process with open minds and hearts but never doubt that the Democratic party is the only pro-democracy party in America. No one will have a position in Trump's administration who is not an election denier adhering to the Big Lie. That's toxic to a country's sense of self and the damage will take a generation to repair, if it is possible to heal.

Losing an election does not mean that you were wrong and they were right. It means you lost an election. I grew up in Mississippi watching my parents back candidates opposed to segregation. When those candidates lost, and they did for a long time, my parents didn't question if they were on the right side. They didn't ask themselves if the majority who supported segregation had proven the justness of their cause by winning.

The mid-terms start after the Super Bowl. It will likely be a good election for Democrats and then the 2028 presidential race will be upon us. After a loss, the days seem long but the months will pass quickly. Reflect, rest up, but come back prepared to fight. Fight not because victory is assured but fight because not to fight is to give up. And if we do that, we no longer deserve to call ourselves Americans.

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[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger just announced her campaign to take back the Governorship in Virginia from Glenn Youngkin. Make sure every American sees Abigail’s powerful introduction.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Gaetz and Gabbard?

The senate needs to stop these. Faith leaders? Maybe speak out

[Trae Crowder @traecrowder]

ON ALL THE TAKEAWAYS IN THE WEEK SINCE TRUMP WON

[Amy McGrath @AmyMcGrathKY]

Everybody says he can’t do something like this… until he does.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Friedrich Merz shows Trump how to talk to Putin.

[C Neumann @CNeumann19]

@YVindman Congratulations

[Tara Setmayer 🌻 🇺🇸 @TaraSetmayer]

Today on @Acosta
My reaction to Stephen Miller being named Deputy COS + what an affront Trump’s election is to our military and the oath they take.
God help us.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Now is the time

[Freedom of the Press Foundation @FreedomofPress]

John Oliver implores the Senate to pass the PRESS Act! It's already passed the House unanimously.

It would protect journalists across the political spectrum from spying and the threat of jail time for doing their jobs.

[Brittlestar @brittlestar]

DEMOCRACY CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS DEPARTMENT

[Just Jack @7Veritas4]

I, like many of you, have been contemplating our predicament since election night.

We are in a losing war for our democracy and I'm not sure we collectively know who our true adversary is.

It's not the voting blocks...white women, Latinos, Gen X. It's not MAGA. It's not even Trump.

It's an insidious power that has been hiding in the shadows for some time...and when the stakes were at their highest in this election, it fully revealed itself.

The American Oligarchy.

They control our Supreme Court, much of Congress, and the flow of information to the masses via legacy, mainstream and social media.

They decide the national conversation, how to keep us at each other's throats while they continue to amass wealth and power completely unchecked.

They put their thumbs on the scale of justice and poured billions into this election. They chose Trump because he was desperate and would capitulate to their demands. They chose a running mate to replace him in case he became too unhinged to control.

Consider how many disqualifying facts about Trump never saw the light of day...or didn't get the attention they deserved...or got drowned out by propaganda. They took a mentally spent buffoon and presented him as a hero to the masses.

Despite Biden successfully steering us out of a global recession and strengthening our economy, they maintained the national tone about the price of groceries being too high. Despite Trump's obvious mental decline, their media outlets remained reticent to press the issue.

We struggle to unite as a nation because they're too good at keeping us divided. We are drowning in disinformation because they control all of it.

They have successfully created imaginary villains for us to fight...each other.

It seems like we are a democracy careening towards fascism, when the reality is they're using the specter of fascism to keep us on edge while they turn America into a compliant oligarchy.

Whether you are a democrat, republican, independent or MAGA, we have a common foe.

Some of us just don't know it yet.

[Just Jack @7Veritas4]

Read it slowly. Carefully.

They're not even hiding it anymore.

[Doug Jones @DougJones]

Candidly folks, you can point fingers all you want, but @JoeTrippi is right here: this defeat has been decades in the making because of the inability - or refusal - of Democrats to seriously try and counter this disciplined rage maching of the other side

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

Watch this man BRILLIANTLY explain why Donald Trump's tariffs plan will be a complete DISASTER for hard-working Americans.

🚨This is EXCELLENT.
https://t.co/JtLXAm1qkJ

[The Katie Phang Show @katiephangshow]

"I am prepared to face the consequences simply for telling the truth." @OliviaTroye on Trump threats of retribution. "I will continue to be a person out there standing up for our country and for the Democratic values I believe in..."