Jake Kohn

Husband, DC Politics Junkie, Lawyer, GymNerd

[Jake Kohn @jkohn89]

@MarcACaputo What does it mean where @JoeBiden has to fight to protect our democracy while @realDonaldTrump relentlessly fights to undermine it?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Q: On the checks, we have $40 trillion in debt. If your economic policies are working, why do you need an incentive for people to turn out to vote?

TRUMP: I'm doing it as a reward for people having to put up for five years and four years of a horrible situation caused by Biden

Q: You also offered tariff refund checks--

TRUMP: Not you. Not you

Q: And that didn't happen

TRUMP: Not you. You're the worst

[Acyn @Acyn]

CNN put together multiple instances where Trump promised rebates and dividends that never materialized.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

The Texas House passed a bill to create safety standards for buildings in Houston.

61 Republicans voted yes, but Ken Paxton – who is a landlord – voted no.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

SANCHEZ: Back in 2022, you argued giving Americans $1,400 checks under Biden's American Rescue Plan fueled 'waste and inflation.' Now you support Trump giving more than 3 times that amount. How is that consistent?

REP. BUDDY CARTER: It's apples and oranges

SANCHEZ: How exactly? Are you just supportive now because the president is a Republican?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BAIER: What about the president's pledge to give every American adult citizen a $5,000 dividend if Republicans maintain control of Congress -- where are you on that?

PAXTON: I clapped. This is way to help people with higher gas prices.

BAIER: But on your site it says you're a strong fiscal conservative

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

LOL -- Fox News ticks through all of Ken Paxton's scandals with on air graphics during an interview with Ken Paxton and Bret Baier says, "there's a long list here"

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

Unearthed footage of Ken Paxton caught on camera fleeing to Utah to go on vacation during Texas’ deadly winter storms in 2021

Q: Do you have anything to say about the failure of ERCOT this past week?

Paxton: *runs away*

Q: Sir, what are your plans going forward in terms of litigation to to hold these people accountable?

Paxton: *keeps running away*

Q: We're just asking you to comment to Texans? They want to hear from you, sir.

Paxton: *keeps running away*

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

NEW AD: Why is Ken Paxton refusing to debate James Talarico?

Because his billionaire handlers won't let their favorite puppet answer questions in public.

Go ahead, @KenPaxtonTX. Prove us wrong. 🐓

[Jewish Insider @jewishinsider]

A co-founder of “Jews for Abdul” said El-Sayed's refusal to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state and his opposition to Iron Dome funding are making it hard for him to make any inroads with Jewish votes..

@matthewkassel reports: https://t.co/jSoqD0ZDPJ

[(((Jew))) @JoshMalina]

If you are considering changing the date on which you've chosen to honor an antisemite because it falls on Yom HaShoah, perhaps it it time to consider not honoring an antisemite altogether...

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Some in the party still want Hasan Piker on the stage. Rep. Summer Lee and Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed have held rallies with him.

Meanwhile, look at who has said no:

✅ Sen. Jon Ossoff (GA)
✅ Sen. Elissa Slotkin (MI)
✅ Sen. Cory Booker (NJ)
✅ Sen. Jacky Rosen (NV)
✅ House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY)
✅ DNC Chair Ken Martin
✅ Reps. Josh Gottheimer (NJ), Susie Lee (NV), Ritchie Torres (NY), Brad Schneider (IL), Hillary Scholten (MI), Jake Auchincloss (MA), Brad Sherman (CA), Jared Moskowitz (FL), Greg Stanton (AZ), Debbie Dingell (MI), Dan Goldman (NY)

That is the Senate, the House leadership, and the head of the party. It is not a fringe.

For Jewish Democrats, this is the question that matters most: whether you can belong without first apologizing for who you are. Seventeen of the party’s leaders just answered told them that they can.

[Max 📟 @MaxNordau]

Hasan Piker says that Abdul El-Sayed agrees with him and any disavowal is purely tactical.

[Jewish Insider @jewishinsider]

Rep. Jared Moskowitz, a pro-Israel Jewish Democrat named as the top Dem on the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Middle East Subcommittee, said he will "work to strengthen America’s relationships with Israel and our Gulf allies."

@marcrod97 reports: https://t.co/dqMRicvvkC

[Jewish Insider @jewishinsider]

A new poll found that nearly half of voters in Pennsylvania view Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Jewish Democrat mulling a presidential bid in 2028, as “about right on support of Israel,” even as has faced skepticism from the far left.

@matthewkassel reports:

https://t.co/BAYRyxxgRh

[Peter Savodnik @petersavodnik]

Stunting affects a little more than 12 percent of children under five in Gaza, according to UNICEF.

It affects 20 percent across the Arab world.

And 22 percent worldwide.

If @NickKristof were a journalist, he would include this context -- and acknowledge that the accusations of "famine" and "genocide" lodged against the Jewish state have always been a lie, and he would acknowledge that he played no small part in helping to promulgate that lie.

But that would require integrity and a commitment to the truth. That would mean setting aside (or growing out of) one's inane, adolescent predilections, the narcissism, the self-righteousness, the self-preening, and becoming a serious person.

[Norm Eisen @NormEisen]

BREAKING: the administration is now threatening in federal court to LEVEL the Kennedy Center if Trump does not get his way

His path of destruction knows no bounds & he will answer for it in court @DDAction_ @WLG -TN
https://t.co/gyUgFd15RX

[Seth Mandel @SethAMandel]

Incredible.

[Bulwark Clips @BulwarkClips]

Tim Scott: "The original sin of costs in America in the last eight years goes back to Joe Biden."

Welker: "President Trump has been in office for two years."

Tim Scott: "Let me finish. Let me finish. Let me finish. Let me finish. President Trump has brought inflation down."

Welker: "Inflation was at 3% when President Biden left office. It's at 3.4% right now…Gas prices are over $4 a gallon, up over a dollar from a year ago. President Trump's tariffs have cost American households nearly $2,000."

[Jonah Platt @JonahPlatt]

“I’m not anti-Jew. The majority of Jewish people & institutions tell me I am and explain precisely how my words & actions constitute obvious hate towards them, but since they’re Jews (who I don’t hate), they’re wrong, and I, the guy who definitely doesn’t hate Jews, is right.”

[Chuck Ross @ChuckRossDC]

NEW:

CAIR, the pro-Hamas group, has quietly pumped $175,000 into the largest PAC supporting Abdul El-Sayed.

Unity & Justice Fund, which CAIR launched in 2024 in response to Oct. 7, is funding Fighting for Michigan PAC.
https://t.co/bKPZZ8O6gi