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Newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate showed that Donald Trump not only knew about his sex trafficking operation—Epstein said that Trump “spent hours” with one of the victims.

That’s why on Wednesday, Trump tried to strongarm multiple House Republicans who had signed the Epstein Files discharge petition to force a House vote to release the full files.

Trump failed. The discharge petition was filed with 218 signatures and a House vote is now expected next week.

That means Florida is once again ground zero for the Epstein scandal.

THE HILL:

Epstein discharge petition succeeds: What's next?

After the House votes, the Senate is Trump's last line of defense to prevent the release of these files. Florida’s unelected MAGA Senator Ashley Moody is expected to vote to kill the bill to release the files if/when comes up for a vote in the Senate.

If Moody votes against releasing those files, or obstructs the Senate to try and protect Trump, voters will crucify her.

This will become a devastating line of attack that we can use to bring her down.

If—more like when—this happens, we need to be ready to hit Moody for protecting pedophiles by launching a merciless broadside of attack ads and billboards across the state.

Florida can flip the Senate this election - the Epstein scandal and Trump’s coverup will absolutely be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

We need your support to be ready to hit Moody hard for siding with Epstein and his predator friends instead of victims. Will you make an urgent contribution of $25 or more to help us rapidly scale up to attack Moody for her betrayal with an all-out blitz of ads and billboards?

November 15, 2025 at 5:31 AM

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The Epstein emails are out — and they confirm what women have known forever: predators stick together.

Epstein wrote that Trump “knew about the girls”, lingered with victims, and was “dirty” long before the public caught up. The irony is that the proof is in emails. (But his emails!)

We’re done with the fu*king gaslighting. We’re done watching powerful men guard abusers while survivors are left to shoulder the pain.

Women’s March is launching an emergency media blitz to put these receipts in front of the whole country — billboards, digital ads, public screens across the country. If they want to bury the truth, we’ll put it on the highway. If they want to hide behind each other, we’ll drag their asses into the light.

November 15, 2025 at 5:18 AM

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Last week, we helped score a massive win for our democracy. Voters in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and California turned out at historic levels to reject Trump’s authoritarian regime. But, we’re not done yet. There’s still one more race to win this year -- a Tennessee election that could very well be our first (and only) red to blue flip of 2025.

Aftyn Behn, a social worker, state House Representative, and former Indivisible organizer, is running in a special election to flip Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District. Aftyn is a smart, clear-eyed, young leader and she's got an incredible grassroots campaign that's energizing disaffected voters across the district. She's running to feed kids, fix roads, and fund hospitals -- Aftyn is exactly the type of fighter TN-07 deserves and a voice we desperately need in Congress.

This won’t be an easy race to win -- Trump won the district by 22 points in 2024 -- but we’ve seen districts swing by that margin just last week and Aftyn has won challenging races before. She’s done it by building grassroots coalitions, speaking directly to people’s needs, and taking on tough fights when others refuse to. At a time when many leaders in the Democratic Party prefer mere performative resistance and too often cave under pressure (cough…shutdown…cough), she’s proven to be a real fighter for her constituents and our democracy.

November 15, 2025 at 5:14 AM

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If you haven’t seen, Senate Democrats surrendered. What I am about to write may sound calm and collected, but know that I am channeling my searing hot incandescent rage in an effort to explain what went down, and what it requires of all of us next.

1. This was a surrender.
We didn’t just get a “bad deal” -- we got essentially nothing. The original Dem demands were threefold:

- Permanent extension of the ACA subsidies
- Medicaid funding restored
- No more blank checks for the regime (rescission/impoundment restrictions)

Democrats dropped the Medicaid funding demands immediately after making them. They then stopped talking about rescission and impoundment. They dropped from “permanent” to “multi-year” to, finally, “one year” of ACA subsidies this week. A one-year extension -- Schumer's offer on Friday -- is actually the same demand as front-line Republican House members scared about reelection. But they couldn’t even hold the line there -- they surrendered without even getting that.

2. The vote itself was a bit of Kabuki theater.
Conveniently for them, none of the eight Senate Dems who voted for this are up for reelection next year. That’s by design. There’s going to be a lot of well-deserved anger directed at those specific eight Dems, but make no mistake -- this vote was stage-managed.

The way this works is that a critical mass of Dems within the caucus decides they’re going to surrender, they look at the number of votes they need to do it (eight), and they agree on eight Dems who don’t have to face voters anytime soon. That’s why Senators like Mark Warner can vote against it, even though they were widely known to be drivers behind the surrender.

This is not true of literally every Senate Dem -- we know that a bunch of folks, like Elizabeth Warren, Chris Murphy, Bernie Sanders, and Chris Van Hollen were arguing strongly against it behind closed doors. But many who voted no publicly helped engineer this surrender privately.

$3. Schumer and Dem Senate leadership broadly failed. Chuck Schumer, Brian Schatz, and Kirsten Gillibrand all voted for the March surrender, but voted against this surrender. Is that a meaningful shift? No. Even aside from the Kabuki theater aspect of all this, it's the leadership's job to unify the Dem caucus to fight the fascists. That’s it. Their individual votes are irrelevant. If the Dem caucus fractures and fails to unify against the Bad Republican Bill, then that’s a failure of both the individual senators who caved and leadership for failing to lead the caucus. We do not know now and will never know for sure if Schumer orchestrated this (my suspicion) or if he simply lacked the leadership skills to prevent it (also possible). But we don’t have to know the reason -- it is just factually true that he and the rest of the leadership team failed to hold their own caucus together. Combine #3 with #2 above, and it leads here: If you’ve got a Senate Dem who is not calling for new leadership, they’re part of the problem. We should no longer trust Senate Dems who decline to come out against the leadership that led us here. Until proven otherwise, we should assume they were in on the game to fool their own supporters. It is easy to disabuse us of that assumption -- they just have to publicly make the popular call for new leadership. 4. This is bad policy. The Republican budget guarantees that healthcare premiums will continue to skyrocket, rural hospitals will close, more people will go without healthcare, and more people will die. It does nothing to stop Trump from treating the federal budget as his personal piggybank. The “win” some Dems are claiming is bullshit. They got a pinky-promise agreement from Republicans for a vote on ACA subsidies 40 days from now. They do not have the votes to win on that with serious concessions in both the House and Senate. It’s fake.$