Denver guy, here. That's not @MelatKirosCO's argument. In this clip, she says Medicare for All isn't happening because people like DeGette rhetorically claim to support it but then take cash from Medicare For All's corporate opponents & don't use their power to actually enact it.
It's not just DeGette, of course. It's the standard Lucy-With-The-Football game that the entire Democratic Party establishment plays and that people like you, @AJentleson, think voters are too stupid to catch onto. Well, guess what? They've caught on.
Just my two cents before bed… if we had to target the next Colorado Congressperson to pick off… I think the easiest would be Brittany Pettersen. Just throwing that out there. Would be even easier if Netanyahu were to be arrested… in New York City. 😁
DeGette has used her super-delegate status for decades to back opponents of progressive politicians (Obama and Bernie) during presidential primaries when her district overwhelmingly favored them. She’s rarely out in front on progressive issues. Denver has long deserved better.
I grew up in Diana DeGette's district. Maybe she'll get booted on Tuesday. But I would note that she's been a pretty standard progressive for about as long as I've followed her career. Longtime supporter of Medicare for all, member of the progressive caucus, etc. She is not as far left on Israel, but also doesn't want to sell offensive weapons.
If she loses, I think it's more in the @daveweigel theory that voters are just pissed at establishment.
Today, the East Coast, next week the Mountain West.
Melat Kiros is facing AIPAC and moneyed special interests. More than fundraising, right now, her campaign asks that you make calls to reach Colorado working class voters.
Sign up to phonebank —https://t.co/QHTrBJg8eL
Hey @kenmartin73! Aren’t @thedemocrats supposed to be building a big tent party? Why is it okay that one of your “representatives” call anti genocide protestors a cancer? Polls show that Democrats want to see an arms embargo. When are you going to get Brittany Pettersen on board?
BREAKING: Rep. DeGette gets heated with a constituent pressing her on why she voted to send bombs to Israel:
"If this the only issue that you care about is this issue, then you should not vote for me"
DeGette, who's 68, is facing a primary challenge from @MelatKirosCO.
Let me explain what’s happening in Denver: 30 year incumbent Diana DeGette just got rocked at the Denver County Assembly and now only has 33% of CD1 delegates.
If she drops to 29.9%, she’s OFF the ballot.
DSA backed Melat Kiros would win automatically. Just flipping 6 voters...
Part 3 of our comments to Diana DeGette.
We have met with her. Written letters. Placed phone calls. Talked with aides. Questioned. Petitioned. Protested.
Now we disrupt.
You don't receive peace when you deliver war.
NO to Diana DeGette for Colorado District 1! #copolitics
Members of cd7🍉 and @thelp100 disrupted Senator Michael Bennet as he was speaking at a local fundraiser. We were there to remind him NO FUNDRAISING DURING GENOCIDE! NO JUSTICE NO PEACE!
DO NOT LET THIS MAN BECOME OUR NEXT GOVERNOR!
#copolitics#lakewoodco
🚨Colorado Sen. John @Hickenlooper has been Senate Democrats' "number one outlier, voting with Trump’s agenda almost twice as often as would be expected, based on the state’s electorate."
Now Hickenlooper faces a 2026 Democratic primary challenge from @SenadoraJulie.
genuinely difficult to overstate how hilarious, ridiculous & cynical this is - I'm in awe of how shamelessly dishonest this pretend pivot is, a truly sociopathic commitment to pretending to be absolutely anything at any time in order to try to win an election & remain in office.
This is like a human personification of a bag of cash suddenly pretending to be angry about money in politics.
Democrats have near SUPER MAJORITIES in Colorado and still can’t pass anything meaningful for the working class.
Democrats run every major blue city and rents STILL skyrocket.
At some point you have to admit it. Corporate Democrats like you ARE THE PROBLEM.
We are honored to have worked with @ClimateDefiance on this disruption. @SenatorBennet and @pweiser attended this fundraiser. We ask them both to publicly condemn the violence inflicted on our comrade. #copolitics
What an incredibly arrogant take. This moment demands that Dems nominate candidates who always put the working class first. We had the biggest fight for workers rights in decades in CO this year and Hickenlooper was silent. We have to end the era of big money and small ideas.
⚡️NEW: How to Monkeywrench a Genocide
Palestine Action, condemned as a terrorist group in the UK, has embraced property destruction as a means to undermine the arms pipeline to Israel.
Story for Drop Site News by @cketchamwild
https://t.co/kB1Wd9V1jF
Unfortunately, AIPAC is only part of the problem. In the case of @RepPettersen, she called the charges of genocide unfounded, equated anti Zionism with antisemitism, voted to supply 🇮🇱 w/weapons, gave Bibi a standing ovation, and asked the ICC to reconsider his arrest warrant. 🧵
Hickenlooper has been voting with Trump more than almost any Democratic senator, but now that primary rumors are swirling, he’s suddenly trying to gaslight everyone into thinking he’s a fighter. He apparently thinks everyone is stupid.