Perry O'Brien

Afghanistan veteran / Senior Campaigns Director @commondefense / Author, Fire in the Blood (Random House)

[Perry O'Brien @Perry_OB]

Veterans who attack each other's service are weird.

Thrilled to have fellow veteran @Tim_Walz on the ticket, and proud to be one of millions of #VetsForHarris!

[Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @RepYassAnsari]

Trump just blamed Pete Hegseth for a war crime in Iran.

I’ve introduced Articles of Impeachment against Hegseth. I urge my colleagues to join us.

[Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan]

I’m running for the U.S. Senate for the mom in the checkout line who asked her kid to put something back on the shelf because they didn’t have enough money to pay for everything in their cart.

[Piper French @PiperSFrench]

National media coverage of Platner and Maine "has been so bad that it has made me question a lot of the coverage I’ve done of states that I don’t live in," says (Mainer!) Rebecca Traister

https://t.co/1eU7dPJjld

[Common Defense @commondefense]

The VA saved this veteran's life.

Burn pits. Chronic pain. PTSD.

Trump signed the PACT Act.
Then, gutted the system that delivers it.

You cannot do both.

#VANotForSale #BurnPits #PACTAct

[Common Defense @commondefense]

Maine veterans brought 168 lunchboxes to Susan Collins' door. One for each schoolgirl killed in the Minab school bombing. She was forced to go on record.

That is what organizing looks like.

Thank you @VeteransForPeace.

No more forever wars.

[Ta-Nehisi Quotes @steady_drumbeat]

Platner wrote a ton about his political beliefs on Reddit. He didn’t think it’d be read. He was a woke BLM guy who talked about the struggles of LGBT marines & got into arguments with Holocaust revisionists. There is no Nazi on earth who would talk like this. It’s dispositive.

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

For the record, I consider myself somewhat well-read -- including about the Holocaust, which my grandpa survived -- and I hadn't heard of a totenkopf before Platner's scandal. I knew the SS used a skull sigil, but I couldn't have picked it out of a line of other skull icons.

[Ashleyy @dontsippy]

Notice how republicans are focused on winning and not looking for dirt to take down Paxton?

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

ZETEO: “A Marine who served with Graham Platner in Iraq and got matching tattoos: ‘No, we did not purposely get hateful fucking shit because we’re racist people. We got matching tattoos because we were in our 20s, drunk in Croatia, and that’s it.’” https://t.co/CRtF3EC3KR

[Brendan McPhillips @BrendanMcP]

Leading the Platner coalition fresh off his primary win, @laborvoters and @commondefense are out with this ad hitting Collins for repeatedly sending Americans to die in forever wars while cutting basic needs at home. Endless war while she gets richer. People are sick of this shit

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

The work to retire @SenatorCollins, take back the Senate and put an end to MAGA starts now.

Love this ad from @commondefense and @laborvoters:

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

I found it pathetic how many people tried to push Platner out of the race based on their own biases without considering the views of Mainers. We live in a democracy, everybody gets a vote not just the Washington Post.

[naomi @lachancenaomi27]

“I have been willing to die for my country there is nothing that I will not do for the state of Maine” - Democratic nominee Graham Platner

[Acyn @Acyn]

Platner: The national pundits, the political establishment, they keep looking for that one story, that one headline, that one moment in my life that they can define the campaign by. But in trying so hard to understand me, they failed to understand that this is not about me at all.

This is a movement about us.

[League of Labor Voters @laborvoters]

League of Labor Voters is proud to be partnering with @commondefense to launch this ad in support of @grahamformaine. Susan Collins votes to bomb schools and hospitals a world away — Graham Platner will fight to build them here in Maine. That’s why vets like Jimmy are with Graham

[Jacob Thomas @JacobThomasMPLS]

Mainers were loud and clear tonight. We have one shot at defeating Susan Collins and it’s @grahamformaine. Let’s get this done!

[Common Defense @commondefense]

As bombs continue to drop in Iran from Trump’s illegal and unjust war, Common Defense Action Fund is proud to partner w/ @LaborVoters to launch this ad supporting an anti-war veteran like @GrahamForMaine! See why Jimmy and so many Mainers just propelled him to victory tonight:

[Perry O'Brien @Perry_OB]

RT @grahamformaine: I’m humbled and proud to officially be your Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate to take on Susan Collins and the bil…

[Caroline McCaughey @TheCarolineMc]

I hung out at a polling place in Kittery, Maine. Predictably almost everyone I spoke with voted for Platner.

Calling @grahamformaine a Nazi is backfiring. Voters don’t believe it and so question every other negative report about him. Supporters most disappointed by the sexting.

[Tina Smith @TinaSmithMN]

Graham Platner is gonna win because he has connected with Mainers on what they really care about: How this country can work for them, not just the wealthy.

He’ll win because he’s not part of the Washington establishment.

If I voted in Maine he’d have my support, no question.