David Rosen
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Progressive strategy, political psychology, generational theory, and the dangers of gerontocracy. Not a work account.
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David Rosen
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House Republicans have added 325 poison pills to spending bills this year
So far this year, House Republicans have added more than 325 poison pill riders to their draft spending bills. I know, because right now I’m the guy in all of...
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My family history is directly downstream of an 1871 policy rider in the Texas Legislature that shaped the geography of North Texas.
I think about this often, because I help lead the coalition that fights off harmful policy riders in the annual spending bills.
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I think about this often, because I help lead the coalition that fights off harmful policy riders in the annual spending bills.
www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...
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The fact that not a single member of the Senate Dem caucus has called for Schumer to be replaced shows you how deep the rot is. This includes Sanders and Warren.
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The fact that not a single member of the Senate Dem caucus has called for Schumer to be replaced shows you how deep the rot is. This includes Sanders and Warren.
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Every senator let through the unanimous consent to make the whole thing take 5 minutes. Every one of them is lying to you about their opposition
November 11, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Every senator let through the unanimous consent to make the whole thing take 5 minutes. Every one of them is lying to you about their opposition
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We just launched the biggest primary program in Indivisible’s history. Help us (literally) send Schumer and the surrender caucus a message. open.substack.com/pub/ezralevi...
Democratic leaders failed us again. Time to get some new leaders.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
We just launched the biggest primary program in Indivisible’s history. Help us (literally) send Schumer and the surrender caucus a message. open.substack.com/pub/ezralevi...
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America’s chickenshit elites problem continues to be the biggest obstacle to fighting Trump www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
America’s chickenshit elites problem continues to be the biggest obstacle to fighting Trump www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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This is the entire thing. They ended up with nothing on their PR point and nothing on the real discussion which was submerged. The way they shut down RIFs showed they understood how to stop the power grab and chose not to.
prospect.org/2025/11/10/m...
prospect.org/2025/11/10/m...
November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This is the entire thing. They ended up with nothing on their PR point and nothing on the real discussion which was submerged. The way they shut down RIFs showed they understood how to stop the power grab and chose not to.
prospect.org/2025/11/10/m...
prospect.org/2025/11/10/m...
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Primary the entire Dem Senate Caucus. We all see right through this political theater. I'm done.
Democrats have been fighting for months to address America's healthcare crisis
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Primary the entire Dem Senate Caucus. We all see right through this political theater. I'm done.
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"Our constituents want us to take this vote" really tracks well with shielding anyone up for re-election from taking this vote.
November 10, 2025 at 3:46 AM
"Our constituents want us to take this vote" really tracks well with shielding anyone up for re-election from taking this vote.
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Any Democratic senator, at any moment, could've derailed this by calling for Schumer's replacement and casting their colleagues as MAGA collaborators, thereby shifting the Overton window. But they're all in on it. This was always a team effort.
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Any Democratic senator, at any moment, could've derailed this by calling for Schumer's replacement and casting their colleagues as MAGA collaborators, thereby shifting the Overton window. But they're all in on it. This was always a team effort.
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Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
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EIGHT Senate Democrats have voted to advance the funding measure so far after the deal was reached:
Cortez Masto
Durbin
Fetterman
Hassan
Kaine
King
Rosen
Shaheen
If the existing 52 Republicans hold, that's 60 — enough to advance this agreement. Final vote still to come.
Cortez Masto
Durbin
Fetterman
Hassan
Kaine
King
Rosen
Shaheen
If the existing 52 Republicans hold, that's 60 — enough to advance this agreement. Final vote still to come.
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
EIGHT Senate Democrats have voted to advance the funding measure so far after the deal was reached:
Cortez Masto
Durbin
Fetterman
Hassan
Kaine
King
Rosen
Shaheen
If the existing 52 Republicans hold, that's 60 — enough to advance this agreement. Final vote still to come.
Cortez Masto
Durbin
Fetterman
Hassan
Kaine
King
Rosen
Shaheen
If the existing 52 Republicans hold, that's 60 — enough to advance this agreement. Final vote still to come.
From Politico:
"Even if senators break a filibuster on Sunday, progressives could drag out passage of the deal for days. Speeding it up would require consent from all 100 senators. The House would then need to come back to Washington to pass the agreement before the government would reopen."
"Even if senators break a filibuster on Sunday, progressives could drag out passage of the deal for days. Speeding it up would require consent from all 100 senators. The House would then need to come back to Washington to pass the agreement before the government would reopen."
November 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
From Politico:
"Even if senators break a filibuster on Sunday, progressives could drag out passage of the deal for days. Speeding it up would require consent from all 100 senators. The House would then need to come back to Washington to pass the agreement before the government would reopen."
"Even if senators break a filibuster on Sunday, progressives could drag out passage of the deal for days. Speeding it up would require consent from all 100 senators. The House would then need to come back to Washington to pass the agreement before the government would reopen."
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The Clinton/Obama/Biden/Pelosi era of Democratic politics has reached it's end. We need to move on. Someone tell Chuck Schumer.
November 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The Clinton/Obama/Biden/Pelosi era of Democratic politics has reached it's end. We need to move on. Someone tell Chuck Schumer.
This country and the Democratic Party would be better off if Nancy Pelosi, undisputed queen of the gerontocracy, had stepped aside at the end of 2010 or 2012.
November 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This country and the Democratic Party would be better off if Nancy Pelosi, undisputed queen of the gerontocracy, had stepped aside at the end of 2010 or 2012.
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Along with everything else, Trump admitting the shutdown led to a bloodbath for Republicans should at an absolute minimum lead Dem Senators to shelve their apparent plan to prematurely cave. He's admitting he and the GOP are in a weak position, Dems. Exploit that!
Trump to Republican senators: "I thought we'd have a discussion after the press leaves about what last night represented and what we should do about it and also about the shutdown and how that relates to last night. If you read the pollsters, the shutdown was a big factor, negative for Republicans."
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Along with everything else, Trump admitting the shutdown led to a bloodbath for Republicans should at an absolute minimum lead Dem Senators to shelve their apparent plan to prematurely cave. He's admitting he and the GOP are in a weak position, Dems. Exploit that!
This is the first time there's been an election during a federal government shutdown.
Whether or not the shutdown had any effect on the results, it went very badly for the party that voters blamed.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Whether or not the shutdown had any effect on the results, it went very badly for the party that voters blamed.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
thehill.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This is the first time there's been an election during a federal government shutdown.
Whether or not the shutdown had any effect on the results, it went very badly for the party that voters blamed.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Whether or not the shutdown had any effect on the results, it went very badly for the party that voters blamed.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
This is how both parties evade accountability for casting bad votes.
Sen. Rounds tells us Dems want to put up more than 60 votes, “so that the far left doesn’t attack the individuals who are number 59 and 60.”
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Senate Democrats wrestle over whether to cut a shutdown deal
What Republicans have offered would make it tough for them to end the affair with a concrete policy victory.
www.semafor.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
This is how both parties evade accountability for casting bad votes.
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Trump Wants to Abolish the Filibuster? Please Proceed, Degenerate … talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
Trump Wants to Abolish the Filibuster? Please Proceed, Degenerate …
As you’ve probably already heard, Donald Trump went on Truth Social late...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Trump Wants to Abolish the Filibuster? Please Proceed, Degenerate … talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
This piece is well worth a read.
Republicans have studied all of the Democratic ecosystem's ideas and strategies. They've directly copied every major left institution and then honed their own ideas in key ways:
1) Republicans use their money efficiently. They build institutions rather than rent them.
1) Republicans use their money efficiently. They build institutions rather than rent them.
What Republicans Know (Full Book) | Flux Community
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October 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This piece is well worth a read.
There's a reason pollsters generally avoid asking these questions.
Most of the time, the responses would reveal an astonishing level of ignorance that would discredit the rest of the poll's findings.
Most of the time, the responses would reveal an astonishing level of ignorance that would discredit the rest of the poll's findings.
I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?
October 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
There's a reason pollsters generally avoid asking these questions.
Most of the time, the responses would reveal an astonishing level of ignorance that would discredit the rest of the poll's findings.
Most of the time, the responses would reveal an astonishing level of ignorance that would discredit the rest of the poll's findings.
They need us. We do not need them.
Block them liberally.
Block them liberally.
The White House and other government entities are joining Bluesky as I type. That will bring a new group to bsky that many have not dealt w before. Don't engage, just block their asses. Give them no oxygen, starve them out.
💙✌🏻💙
They may arrive tomorrow
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They may arrive tomorrow
October 17, 2025 at 11:14 PM
They need us. We do not need them.
Block them liberally.
Block them liberally.
🧵 People can be understandably skeptical about predictions of medium- or long-term party control of either chamber of Congress.
This hasn't been our country's experience in recent decades.
But when you look at the grand sweep of U.S. history, it happens more often than you might think.
This hasn't been our country's experience in recent decades.
But when you look at the grand sweep of U.S. history, it happens more often than you might think.
October 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
🧵 People can be understandably skeptical about predictions of medium- or long-term party control of either chamber of Congress.
This hasn't been our country's experience in recent decades.
But when you look at the grand sweep of U.S. history, it happens more often than you might think.
This hasn't been our country's experience in recent decades.
But when you look at the grand sweep of U.S. history, it happens more often than you might think.
Hypocrisy doesn't even begin to cover it.
Republicans spent years raging at Obama's IRS for allegedly targeting right-wing groups.
When Democrats proposed new rules to prevent a recurrence, Republicans outlawed those rules with a rider in the annual spending bill.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_tar...
Republicans spent years raging at Obama's IRS for allegedly targeting right-wing groups.
When Democrats proposed new rules to prevent a recurrence, Republicans outlawed those rules with a rider in the annual spending bill.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_tar...
Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.
And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.
And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.
October 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Hypocrisy doesn't even begin to cover it.
Republicans spent years raging at Obama's IRS for allegedly targeting right-wing groups.
When Democrats proposed new rules to prevent a recurrence, Republicans outlawed those rules with a rider in the annual spending bill.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_tar...
Republicans spent years raging at Obama's IRS for allegedly targeting right-wing groups.
When Democrats proposed new rules to prevent a recurrence, Republicans outlawed those rules with a rider in the annual spending bill.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_tar...
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That would really be the end of majoritarian democracy in the United States.
It would represent the effective death of the republic. Horrifying to think they would leave people no political recourse to address their concerns or be heard.
Truly frightening place we’re headed in America.
It would represent the effective death of the republic. Horrifying to think they would leave people no political recourse to address their concerns or be heard.
Truly frightening place we’re headed in America.
If the Supreme Court strikes down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which has been interpreted to require the creation of majority-minority districts, Republicans could eliminate upward of a dozen Democratic-held districts across the South. Here's how.
The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans
Democrats would be in danger of losing around a dozen majority-minority districts across the South if the court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act.
nyti.ms
October 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
That would really be the end of majoritarian democracy in the United States.
It would represent the effective death of the republic. Horrifying to think they would leave people no political recourse to address their concerns or be heard.
Truly frightening place we’re headed in America.
It would represent the effective death of the republic. Horrifying to think they would leave people no political recourse to address their concerns or be heard.
Truly frightening place we’re headed in America.
As I told my family a decade ago, the only young people who want to be Republicans anymore are outright fascists.
This is who they are -- and who they are going to be -- for a very long time to come.
This is who they are -- and who they are going to be -- for a very long time to come.
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
@politico.com
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October 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
As I told my family a decade ago, the only young people who want to be Republicans anymore are outright fascists.
This is who they are -- and who they are going to be -- for a very long time to come.
This is who they are -- and who they are going to be -- for a very long time to come.