Karen Fraser

Retired nurse and medical device professional. Registered independent who has voted across the parties. Loyal only to family, community and country.

[The Free Press @TheFP]

My Former Colleagues Are Destroying the Democratic Party

By @evanwch

From 2018 to 2023, I was a Democratic operative, working for a slew of progressive candidates. I taught DSA-aligned staffers how to build a money machine for the left; coached progressive politicians on how to speak to donors; and collaborated with billionaires to create a robust fundraising network. I chart this story in detail in my forthcoming book, Nothing Left, a dispatch from the inside of the left’s rise and takeover of the Democratic Party.

In late 2024, I decided to leave the party, disillusioned by a leadership class that I had watched drift further and further from the working-class Americans they purportedly represented. But my history means that I have worked directly with the people behind almost every victory in the recent socialist sweep, including New York City’s Brad Lander and Darializa Avila Chevalier, and Colorado’s Melat Kiros.

So believe me when I tell you: This far-left earthquake is only the beginning. It will not stop in deep-blue cities. What you just witnessed is only a preview of what is to come.

https://t.co/PnlOR6ougF

[Brit Hume @brithume]

Note the attempt by the NY Times's Jodi Kantor to soft-peddle the accusations that had been made against Platner. Remember: the NY Times had been told about the rape allegation that Politico reported today.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Mayor Nadia Mohamed of St. Louis Park (MN) spent her July 4th in the palace of Somalia's president:

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

If you don’t vote this November, you are doomed. You think Mamdani’s a nightmare, wait until this mob takes over…

[DSA Watch @DSA_Watch]

Governor Josh Shapiro (D-PA) says he does not support the socialist takeover of the Democratic Party and the beliefs they have

Josh Shapiro: “Our party has to have a battle over what we believe in.”

[Bob Woodson @BobWoodson]

"As America turns 250, the question is whether we still possess the spiritual resources to renew ourselves. Will we continue nursing our grievances, or will we choose the harder path of radical grace? America’s future depends on that choice."

From Bob's last op-ed, "The Architects of American Renewal": https://t.co/pYMi0VNJR4

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Queers for Palestine hasn’t said a word about this.

Nor has a single human rights organization.

Weird.

[Karen Fraser @kmfraser99]

Inadvertently admitting that the media is the scourge. As they lie and omit facts and stories. Question everything.

[Michael Smerconish @smerconish]

The polls say the world has a dimmer view of America. But here's the twist...

As millions of World Cup fans visit the U.S., they're leaving with a very different impression than the one they expected. From everyday kindness to uniquely American experiences, visitors are sharing stories that challenge the headlines.

On America's 250th birthday, Michael Smerconish asks: Does the world know America—or just the version it sees on television? Watch the full commentary https://t.co/wdFKhPgH3u

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Cathie Wood just explained why the establishment will never stop coming for Elon Musk.

And the reason is worse than they think.

Wood: “Tesla was an environmental move, which I think a lot of people attacking his cars… they’ve forgotten.”

They didn’t forget. You don’t forget thirty years of marching and petitioning and begging for the machine that saves the planet.

Someone built it. Forced every automaker on Earth to follow.

Then they turned on him the moment he delivered exactly what they asked for.

Not because he failed them. Because he made them unnecessary.

A solved problem is an existential threat to every institution built to solve it. Kills the funding. Kills the committee. Kills every career that exists to manage the crisis rather than end it.

Wood: “I think he’s the Thomas Edison of our age… he wants to do the right thing to transform the lot of most of humanity.”

Edison was hated too. By the people who sold candles. Every revolution looks like an attack to the people it makes obsolete.

Wood: “What we learn about material science and technologies… is going to help us here on Earth as well.”

SpaceX is not an escape. It is a forge. Build under the most brutal conditions in the solar system and every breakthrough comes home.

Most people at his level stop building and start protecting what they have.

Musk picks the hardest unsolved problem on Earth and runs straight at it.

That is not what terrifies them. What terrifies them is he does it without their funding, without their approval, without a single thing they can hold over his head.

A man you cannot buy is a man you cannot control. And a man you cannot control who keeps solving the problems you profit from is the most dangerous human alive.

They will spend their careers trying to tear him down.

Their grandchildren will live in the world he built anyway.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Marco Rubio:

"Radical Islam is a threat to the entire world and the U.S."

Can we make this video go viral?

[Karen Fraser @kmfraser99]

Truth bomb

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Minnesota Islamic scholar Abdul Malik:

“Americans are right to be scared that Muslims are here to replace them. We are the new kids on the block, this is our moment. They should be very scared.”

Americans should never have to be scared.

[Bannon’s WarRoom @Bannons_WarRoom]

JACK POSOBIEC: The Mamdani speech was the most anti-American thing I’ve ever seen in my life but at the same time it was pure, unadulterated Communism - cultural Marxism, where he said the rich have their money and we will take it and give it to the newcomers — he’s sitting there behind George Washington’s desk saying what is yours is mine. That was a throwdown.

President Trump responded saying ‘America stands for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. Communism stands for death, tyranny, and the pursuit of evil.

You can be a Communist or you can be a Patriot. You cannot be both. @JackPosobiec

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

My hope for America is that it stops electing politicians who hate it.

[Peter Schweizer @peterschweizer]

There have been 4 major revolutions in the past 250 years: American, French, Russian, and Chinese. Only one led to individual rights and prosperity. The others led to mass death and tyranny. The US revolution was unique because it said two things: 1. Our rights come from God not from the govt. 2. Humans are power -hungry so we need to limit govt power. So the next time someone attacks the nation of one revolution that succeeded and recycles the the idea of those that miserably failed, you can ask them: are you ignorant, or malicious?

[CONSTITUTION X 🇺🇸 @ConstitustionX]

🚨 SHOCKING POLL JUST DROPPED — Even CNN can’t hide it anymore!
76% of BLACK Americans DEMAND nationwide Voter ID!
85% of White voters
82% of Latino voters
EVERY major group is OVERWHELMINGLY saying YES to the SAVE Act!
Senator John Thune — these numbers need to get through your thick skull RIGHT NOW. America has spoken. Stop the excuses.
PASS THE SAVE ACT TODAY or explain to every voter why you’re ignoring 80%+ of the country!
This is NOT optional. 🇺🇸🔥
Tag @JohnThune @SenateGOP @GOP
RETWEET if you want real election integrity!

[Karen Fraser @kmfraser99]

@RonDeSantis Hate bring voters to the polls.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Reminder that if you are fully vaccinated and up to date on boosters, you are allowed to celebrate the Fourth of July.

Those vaccinated are even permitted to have a very small backyard barbecue. Five person maximum.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

Patriotism is love for your country’s culture and people. It is defensive.

Nationalism is love for your country’s state. It is power-based.

This is the essence of the distinction Orwell drew between the two terms.

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

I hadn’t read the Declaration of Independence since high school history class. Ah, yes, history class! In fact we had American history throughout the tenth grade, then world history during our junior year. When I listen to the TikTok crowd spew the nonsense they champion today, I think how easily their knuckle-headed thinking could have been cured with a few good history classes. Alas, I don’t see much hope for the future, as long as the teachers in our urban areas are in the clutches of politicians and unions with a far different agenda from real education.

Now rereading the document for the first time in decades (shame on me for taking so long), I had forgotten that the bulk of the text is a list of grievances suffered by the American colonists at the hands of the king and various elements under his tyrannical regime. What has truly stunned me these 250 years later, however, is how familiar these grievances feel in our contemporary situation. Let’s take a peek at the exact text, and see if anything feels uncomfortably close to home (the “He” refers to King George, of course, and I will use the original spelling and punctuation):

“He has refused to Assent to Laws”

Hmm, every “sanctuary state” governor today for starters…

“He has made Judges dependent of his Will alone”

Hmm, activist judges anybody?

“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people”

Hmm, 87,000 new armed IRS agents. Ring a bell?

“For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent”

Hmm, ever looked at your tax bill?

“…transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny…”

Hmm, thirty million military-age males pouring across our open borders from 2020 to 2024…

“He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us”

Hmm, BLM and Antifa riots…

SHORT VERSION: LEAVE US ALONE!

The very essence of the Declaration of Independence is a concerted celebration of God’s gift of our “unalienable” right to “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” It was argued, researched, debated yet again, drafted by Jefferson, then edited by Adams, Franklin, and others. Together the bravest men stood together against the storm of tyranny and gambled it all. As I reread it today, I literally shed tears at those miraculous words:

“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortune and our sacred Honor.”

And then, of course, there were those who shed more than tears. They shed their blood, watched their homes burn, and too many gave the ultimate sacrifice. Whether they formed local militias or joined the Continental Army, colonists now dedicated to the cause, gambled their very lives. One of those Americans was my ninth generation ancestor. He fought in one of the most consequential battles of the American Revolution, the Battle of Cowpens. I am forever honored that his blood runs in my veins.

I know that this will be a joyful and glorious weekend for all of you, God willing. It should also be, if I may presume to say, a solemn one as well. The sacrifices made by simple men and women those many years ago have made these precious rights and this glorious day possible. Take a moment and honor them in your heart. I know I will.

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

America is a place, merged with an idea. Americans are those here who agree to this idea. The idea is that anything is possible and that you can live your life the way you want, so long as that way does not impinge on others’ ability to live the way they want.
As the current custodians of America, we will keep this idea sacred, so that it is healthy and alive for those who come after us. Just like those of the past 250 years did for us. Happy 4th of July.