David Schafer 🇺🇦🌻

Native Kansan. TX Dem. Retired NPS park ranger. Husband. Stepfather. Methodist. KC Royals & Chiefs fan. Co-wrote a book about abolitionist James Montgomery.

[Senator Sarah Eckhardt @SarahEckhardtTX]

🇺🇸 HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY 🇺🇸 What a beautiful day to celebrate liberty and justice for all! 🦅

Earlier today, I got to visit some great folks in Fredericksburg and honor 250 years of Americans working hard to create a more perfect union.

This is also the first installment of our #SummerScrapbookSeries, so tune in daily for content from some of the counties we’ve visited across this great state!

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Happy Fourth of July from Willie and me!

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Amen. @TimothyDSnyder is right

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Thank you TX Democrats for the warm welcome at your convention.

You’re doing difficult but enormously important work of transforming Texas from an anti-worker, anti-environment state to one that will protect the health & well-being of working families.

Keep up the great work.

[Texas Democratic Party @texasdemocrats]

A new identity for a new chapter of the Texas Democratic Party.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@JamesTalarico: As our state seceded from the Union, the Texas legislature removed Sam Houston from office because he refused to swear an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy. Sam Houston is a Texas hero because he did right and suffered the consequences.

What would Sam Houston, who put Texas before himself, say about Ken Paxton, who puts himself before Texas? What would Sam Houston say to all of us at this critical moment in Texas history?

I think he would say, ‘Do right and risk the consequences.’

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@JamesTalarico: Billionaire mega donors had to look out of state to find puppet politicians who are willing to do their bidding. That's why they picked Ken Paxton, the most corrupt politician in America.

Ken Paxton was born in North Dakota, raised in California, and has a place in Hawaii.

Listen, I believe anyone can be a Texan. It doesn't matter if you're an 8th-generation Texan like me, or a California transplant like Ken Paxton.

What makes a Texan is not in the boots or in the truck, it's deep in the heart. These billionaires and their puppets have the wrong state of mind. Their hearts and their dreams are just not big enough.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

200 years ago, my ancestor signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. He wrote:

“Any duty that would advance the cause of Texas I feel anxious and ever ready to perform…”

As I accept your nomination for the US Senate, I make that same commitment to you.

[Texas Democratic Party @texasdemocrats]

Greg Abbott cares more about his Data Center Donor money than he does Texans.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@jamestalarico: This election shouldn't be about the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. It should be about chasing a vision of what our state can be: Texas schools that are the envy of the nation, a Texas economy that is second to none, and Texas families that are stronger and healthier than ever before. It won't happen overnight. But a giant state deserves giant dreams.

We are bigger than extremism, we're bigger than partisanship, we're bigger than corruption. Texas is bigger than all of those things. Because it's not just a state. It's a state of mind. It’s a cause. Texans don't like tyrants, and we don't surrender easily.

Tonight, standing before you to accept your nomination for the United States Senate, I make the same commitment to you that my ancestor made 200 years ago: "Any duty that my bodily strength would enable me to perform, either in public or private, that would advance the cause of Texas, I feel anxious and ever ready to perform."

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

“The election deniers, they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing to tell, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission.

Another great line+speech from @ossoff.

Ossof, Talarico, Mamdani, AOC, Dems have some great young orators.

[Texas Democratic Party @texasdemocrats]

Today we celebrate the fathers and father figures who guide, support, and show up every day. Thank you for the strength, love, and example you set.

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

The MOU is all carrots, no sticks. And the administration lied all week claiming the leaked versions weren’t the actual deal because they knew it was so terrible. Trump’s only choice is to blame Vance, which he’ll happily do.

Ben Shapiro called it a “disaster.” Bill Cassidy called it “the worst foreign policy blunder in decades.”

The agreement includes sanctions relief, oil export waivers, the release of frozen assets, and a $300 billion reconstruction commitment, while many of the administration’s original objectives remain unresolved or discarded. It’s bad!

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

O'BRIEN: Trump believed Ukraine had no cards, that he could bully Ukrainians into giving Putin very good deal.

He didn't understand that Ukraine was developing their own capabilities and their willingness to fight.

So, Trump failed for two reasons. First, Ukrainians adapted, and that wasn't expected by him.

You can see there have been some changes in his rhetoric lately, where he has to grudgingly admit that Ukraine has actually done better.

The United States completely underestimated Ukrainian resilience.

Secondly, Trump thought Europeans would bully Ukraine along with him because they would be afraid of United States leaving NATO.

He thought he could use NATO to push Europeans to force Ukraine to take a bad deal. Europeans eventually helped Ukraine more than he thought.

They seem to understand that it's actually better for them to have Ukraine fight the war the way Ukraine wants.

Trump didn't understand what Ukraine was capable of and he misjudged what Europeans would do.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Destroying confidence in the electoral system and other pillars of democracy (media, courts) is their goal, it’s not just pathetic whining. Then they use that lack of confidence to push strongman powers, restrictive voter suppression laws, and other crackdowns.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

@CazadorDeWulf I said it was a choice, one they are fully accountable for. And I'm happy to insult the intelligence of said voters who put personal power and hatred over national interests and global security and prosperity by elevating a delusional and corrupt showman.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Trump is exactly what we knew he was. The harshest questions and criticisms of journalism today and history tomorrow are about how a generation of Republican politicians, partisan media, and US voters willingly chose to ignore it for power.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

When this war is over, and Ukraine is victorious and whole again, and every innocent victim, every fallen defender, every destroyed city and town is documented, let no one say they did not know. These Russian crimes against humanity are happening in full view in real time.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

Reporter: Ken Paxton has taken to calling you ‘Talafreako’

@JamesTalarico: If Ken Paxton is worried about freaks, he should stop giving Epstein-style sweetheart deals to pedophiles. This is the guy who just released Adam Hoffman from jail, an admitted child rapist, after one of Ken Paxton’s wealthy lawyer friends got involved in the case.

Ken Paxton even kept him off the sex offender registry. Adam Hoffman was supposed to serve 25 years to life, but instead he served less than a month. As of this week, he’s now back on our streets because of Ken Paxton’s corruption.

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America, and it is costing Texans, it’s endangering our children, and it must end. The Epstein class has no place in Texas.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America. 

He embodies the broken system we’re running against.

It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton