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[Our Revolution @OurRevolution]

“If the Democratic Party wants our support it must become a party of the working class—not of corporate America.” @BernieSanders

[Rebecca Katz @RebeccaKKatz]

Incredible energy and love for Graham in Maine tonight.

[VoteHub @VoteHub]

San Diego County 6/5 Drop

Candidate – Votes (Percent, Difference from 6/2 Votes)
🔵 Xavier Becerra – 22,737 (31.6%, +6.8%)
🔵 Tom Steyer – 19,155 (26.6%, +8.5%)
🔴 Steve Hilton – 17,797 (24.7%, -8.2%)
🔴 Chad Bianco – 4,699 (6.5%, -3.0%)

[Tarun Gautam @TARUNspeakss]

– balanced $12.2 billion budget deficit
– fixed 100,000 potholes
– released $124.7 billion budget for FY2027
– returned $9.3 million to workers, etc
– lowest crimes in history of NYC

NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani is doing more than the expected

[Our Revolution @OurRevolution]

Adriano Espaillat wants to talk about accountability?

Let’s talk about accountability.

His mega donors:

→ A hospital CEO who violated nurses’ union contracts 614 times

→ The American Medical Association PAC — which leads the fight against Medicare for All

He takes their money. Then he talks about honesty.

The district sees you, Adriano

[Adriano Espaillat @EspaillatNY]

Her lack of accountability, refusal to apologize shows that she doesn't respect voters enough to explain why she held those convictions and how she supposedly “evolved”… from four years ago.

Be honest with voters!

[Our Revolution @OurRevolution]

AOC beat Joe Crowley in a primary.
Mamdani beat Cuomo in a primary.

Both times, the establishment said it would divide the party.

Instead, the movement got stronger.

Don’t let anyone tell you primaries hurt the left.

They only hurt the people who deserve to lose them.

[Dan Rivoli @danrivoli]

Darializa Avila Chevalier here outside Marcus Garvey Park with over a dozen members of a Bernie-aligned progressive group

Group leader says Congressman Espaillat did “some positive things,” but AIPAC money was the breaking point

“He assured us he would not take AIPAC money”

[Our Revolution @OurRevolution]

Solidarity forever ✊🏽

[UAW @UAW]

The UAW is proud to endorse @AbdulElSayed for U.S. Senate.

UAW members in Michigan want a fighter in Washington, D.C. who isn’t afraid to push forward a strong working-class agenda with moral clarity. Having never taken a dime from corporate PACs, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is someone we can trust to have our backs, including when we need it most – like come May Day 2028. From Medicare for All to banning stock buybacks, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is ready, eager, and well-equipped to move our core issues in the U.S. Senate.

[Kai Newkirk for Congress @kai_newkirk]

If you’re in Philadelphia for @Netroots_Nation, come join @OurRevolution and me for a meet and greet this evening!

[Our Revolution @OurRevolution]

They did

[Zeteo @zeteo_news]

Did the New York Times Just Run an Anti-Platner Hit Job?

"The 'paper of record' centered its big scoop, on the leftist Senate candidate's 'unsettling' behavior with former girlfriends, on the uncorroborated accusations of a pro-Israel Republican activist."

[Joe @electionsjoe]

CALL IT THE MAMDANI EFFECT

[Dear White Staffers @dearwhitestaff]

Washington Post poll shows Janeese Lewis George leading not just on first-choice votes, but as a second and third choice too! JLG has a broad coalition across DC. That’s the reality.

[Ben Oreskes @boreskes]

Four Democratic hopefuls seeking to represent a key Manhattan House district clashed in the first debate of the race.

Here are some highlights.
https://t.co/O29HSjKtiB

[Aren LeBrun @arenrlebrun]

I’m hearing murmurs on the ground that Troy Jackson is going to win.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

It's kind of wild to find out that the Republican in the NYT story that says she had a toxic relationship with Graham Platner is Lyndsey Fifield. Having been in DC for too long, I know a decent number of people who know her quite well. For a long time she was the co-host of a podcast with her best friend Bethany Mandel, called Ladybrains, though she has also worked for multiple super PACs, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Heritage Foundation.

Some background, presented without judgment: In 2014, Fifield began work as digital director for American Action Network, a Republican Super PAC that oversees House races. The next year she became social media manager for the Heritage Foundation, where she stayed for the next seven years.

In 2022, she joined the Super PAC backing Nikki Haley for president, switching to the official campaign side the next year, and staying until the campaign flamed out. She now lists herself as a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, a prominent dark money group that is best known for helping usher Brett Kavanaugh on to the Supreme Court and giving Susan Collins the talking points she needed to make her decisive speech in his favor.

The NYT breezed past all this, saying she was "a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns."

In an interview for a news outlet called Red Alert Politics that named her to a “30 under 30” list back in 2016, she said that she wanted to “emulate the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart’s approach to online activism.” Breitbart, known for pushing the boundaries when it came to political combat, is perhaps best remembered for having exposed Anthony Weiner’s penchant for sending nudes to young girls, and for his work elevating James O’Keefe.

That she worked for Independent Women's Forum recently is even wilder since IWF played a critical role in Kavanaugh's confirmation and in persuading Collins to support it.

Heather Higgins, chair of IWF, laid out the group’s role in a talk several years ago. “We wrote a memo. It was used by a lot of members of the Senate and the House, Fox News, and elsewhere. Most important, Susan Collins told me that without that memo, she would not see how to support him,” Higgins said. “And if you look at the speech she gave on the Senate floor, it’s entirely the playing out and architecture of how we said to structure the argument — what to say and how to say it, which is just so gratifying. We’re watching TV and we’re like, ‘That’s ours! That’s ours!’”

Meanwhile, the timeline Fifield gives of their relationship is confusing, because during at least some of that time she was actually dating a different person, her longterm boyfriend who became her fiancee before she called off the wedding in 2018. We all know this because she and Mandel did a podcast episode on it that went mega-viral in Republican circles back then. Apparently this is the kind of thing the NYT thinks is important now, so I guess it requires more reporting. I'll report back.

Here is Heather Higgins celebrating IWF's role in getting Susan Collins to confirm Kavanaugh:

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

The establishment lost to Donald
Trump twice and created the conditions for Trump's rise.

That is why mainstream Dems outside the Beltway are frustrated with the party as weak & out of touch.

The old guard needs to go and we don't need recycled faces from the past.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

This from The Economist magazine is a good reminder that corporate media is not “objective” — it is an explicit and focused political project with a clear ideology.

Pass it on.

[Zachary Donnini @ZacharyDonnini]

WinCast thought highly of Steyer’s performance today. In five major counties with drops on both Wednesday and Thursday, late ballots moved toward Steyer vs. Hilton by an average of 2.3 points.

He needs that trend of bluer late mail to continue over the next week.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Within a corrupt political system, here is an inspiring story which speaks to the beauty and strength of democracy and what we can accomplish when we work together. 

In April 2025, as part of our Fighting Oligarchy tour, I held a rally in Missoula, Montana. As we almost always do at our rallies, we invited local union leaders to address the crowd and say a few words about issues impacting their communities.  One of those local union leaders was a National Forest firefighter named Sam Forstag, who discussed how Donald Trump and Elon Musk's DOGE had just fired thousands of federal employees — including many in Montana.  

As a result of that rally and the 9,000 people there who responded very positively to his remarks, Sam, who had never run for public office before, decided to take on the Establishment and run for the U.S. Congress as a proud member of the American working class.  

Guess what? On Tuesday, June 2, after putting together a strong grassroots coalition, Sam Forstag won the Democratic Party’s primary in the First District of Montana. And, with our help, he’ll soon become Congressman Sam Forstag.

[Patrick Svitek @PatrickSvitek]

Statement from Ro Khanna, who’s scheduled to visit Maine tomorrow for a rally with Graham Platner and other candidates: