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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. ~ Booker T Washington

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Fox is buying Roku.
Ellison bought CBS and CNN.
Bezos owns WaPo.
ABC and NBC owners support Trump.

We need to grow independent, pro-democracy media. Support Democracy Docket now. https://t.co/0StGlWz45f

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

I fear we have a cruel month ahead of us: the future of campaign finance law, the definition of Election Day, the fate of birthright citizenship. While I remain hopeful, I am prepared for democracy to leave this month weaker than it entered. https://t.co/WKWGn1CznF

[TiffinOhio.net @TiffinOhioNews]

Gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy's three signature tax proposals — eliminating the income tax, repealing the capital gains tax, and rolling back property taxes — would shift $9.8 billion in annual costs from the wealthy and corporations to working and low-income Ohioans through higher sales and property taxes, according to analyses by the Ohio Legislative Service Commission, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Policy Matters Ohio, and Innovation Ohio. Ramaswamy reported $1.1 million in dividends and capital gains in 2025, including $768,968 from a stock sale that would be tax-exempt under his own proposal.
Read more: https://t.co/SDdSuPNoAX

[Cxspxxr✘🧸 @_6signxxx]

Mamdani is the Democrats’ worst nightmare because he’s living proof that they’re simply not doing their jobs.

[ACLU of Ohio @acluohio]

Ohio already has the strictest photo ID law in the country, and this effort is nothing more than a transparent ploy to manipulate the democratic system and impact the governor's race.

https://t.co/1A6KU0WKPz

[The Hill @thehill]

"Trump has turned Republicans into the anti-Black party" (@TheHillOpinion)
https://t.co/2khY4lHH2s

[TiffinOhio.net @TiffinOhioNews]

GOP gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy holds personal investments across every tier of Ohio's data center sector — from chip makers to cloud operators to real estate trusts — sectors he would regulate as governor, according to a new Innovation Ohio report based on his 2025 financial disclosure. Read more: https://t.co/4QrKHUkj0T

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Samuel Alito’s son has worked as a lawyer inside Trump’s Treasury Department since early last year. The administration hid it.

No public resume, no LinkedIn, no mention on the Treasury website, outdated bar listings. Four former officials confirmed it.

The public was never told.

Here is why that matters.

Philip Alito served as an attorney-adviser in Treasury’s general counsel office, briefed on department matters across the board, while the Supreme Court took up a case in which the Treasury Department was a named defendant.

The department never disclosed the connection in court.

Justice Alito did not recuse.

The federal recusal law is plain. A justice must step aside in any case where his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.

That is the test.

Not whether anyone can prove influence but whether a reasonable person looking at this would doubt it. A justice ruling on cases involving the very agency that employs his son fails that test on its face.

And Treasury sits at the center of many upcoming issues, including the fight over Trump’s $1.776 billion dollar fund to reward the January 6th rioters he pardoned. That fight could be headed to the Court too.

This is exactly why the honor system has failed.

The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no enforceable code of conduct. I support withholding funding from the Court until the justices adopt a binding code with real recusal review.

Congress holds the power of the purse.

We should use it.

https://t.co/t2aZrXpaoU

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

“If we erase January 6th, it didn’t happen”

“If we don’t release certain inflation data, there’s no inflation”

“If we don’t measure food insecurity, no one’s hungry”

“If we delete research on right-wing violence, there’s no right-wing violence”

“If we stop Covid testing, we’ll have fewer cases”

The Trump administration wants you to believe their propaganda is fact, and control the majority of mainstream media and social platforms to reinforce their lies.

This is what authoritarianism looks like.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

“I will not cozy up to tyrants and dictators…They know he is easy to manipulate with flattery and favors. They know Trump won’t hold autocrats accountable, because he wants to be an autocrat himself.”

[NBA Courtside @NBA__Courtside]

Charles Barkley thinks all these different streaming services to watch NBA games is disrespectful to NBA fans:

“I think Adam Silver has to get a hold of this thing. I think the games are too disjointed right now. NBC, Peacock, Amazon, I think we have disrespected the fans. They don’t know when the games are on. I just think that’s really unfair to the fans.”

(Via @SInow)

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

They will celebrate ethnic cleansing and then tell you with a straight face Ben Gvir does not represent who they are as a nation.

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

COMMENTARY: Let’s say it plainly: There has never been a president as corrupt as Donald Trump.

There is no close second in our history.
https://t.co/RRV6gbiZi1

[James E. Clyburn @RepJamesClyburn]

You can tell who will benefit from Trump’s $1.8B “weaponization” fund by who's celebrating it.

Election deniers, Jan. 6 rioters. Trump’s happy to give relief to his supporters, but is doing nothing to help everyday Americans struggling with costs.
https://t.co/W7tHz6hXjm

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Trump stole money from your Medicaid for these freaks to cash out, and any elected representative who isn't loudly opposed to his slush fund is helping him rob you.

[Dead Wrong History @deadwronghist]

Richard Pryor in 1977: capitalism needs racism to function. Keep people separated by race and they never figure out who the real problem is.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The President is now exempt from our tax laws while everyone else has to obey them.

Got it.

It's just mind blowing that is what's happening in America.

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

Big news.

[Thomas Massie for Congress @MassieforKY]

I did not see this coming, but my election has become an inflection point for our whole country. Today we make history.

Will you be part of this historic day by voting, calling friends who can vote, posting to social media, or making a donation?

Spread the word fellow patriots!

[Brian Cardone 🏴‍☠️🇺🇦 @cardon_brian]

Marc Elias is forecasting exactly what is likely to go down in the midterms and he isn’t sugarcoating it. We have to get every one we know in the game y’all. Complacency has no place in a Democracy, LFG!!