Gebe Martinez
@gebem.bsky.social
Former DC journalist, strategic comms consultant, writer, and member of #DemocracyPartners. Lifelong lover of music, piano, and politics.
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Rep. Adelita Grijalva's smile and strength make me so hopeful for our near and long-term future. Anyone who can negatively influence Trump's mood is A+ on my list.
A Latina makes history and changes Trump's mood! democracypartners.substack.com/p/democracy-...
DEMOCRACY WEEKENDER: Trump's bromance with pedophile Epstein & his indifference to consumers' anxieties about "affordability" sink his poll ratings; and Rep. Grijalva comes to Washington
Democrats's bad week saw infighting after eight senators caved and voted with GOP to end the longest-ever government shutdown. Democracy Partners' Mike Lux writes how "DC Moderate" may not be moderate
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November 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Rep. Adelita Grijalva's smile and strength make me so hopeful for our near and long-term future. Anyone who can negatively influence Trump's mood is A+ on my list.
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Five Days After Historic Election Victories, Senate Democratic Centrists Snatch Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
Democratic Centrists Vote With GOP Senators to Reopen Government in Exchange for Future Vote on Health Care Tax Credits, And Blow A Rare Political Opportunity
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November 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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This is not going to e d the shutdown because republica s are not in favor of extending aca tax credits. A vote on MTP is not the same as approval of a deal that Rs in S ate and House do not want.
If this is true, we will all remember which Senate Democrats buckled and caved. 😡
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This is not going to e d the shutdown because republica s are not in favor of extending aca tax credits. A vote on MTP is not the same as approval of a deal that Rs in S ate and House do not want.
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What happened today in the Senate:
November 8, 2025 at 2:49 AM
What happened today in the Senate:
JUSTICE! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Jurors Find Sandwich Hurler Not Guilty of Assault
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November 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
JUSTICE! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi will not seek re-election. She was the best Speaker of the House I ever knew, and she will certainly be honored as the best House Speaker in modern history, perhaps only surpassed by Sam Rayburn of Texas. As Speaker, she was effective, strategic, charming, and tough.+
November 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi will not seek re-election. She was the best Speaker of the House I ever knew, and she will certainly be honored as the best House Speaker in modern history, perhaps only surpassed by Sam Rayburn of Texas. As Speaker, she was effective, strategic, charming, and tough.+
Latino voters are running away from Trump!
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For Latinos, 2024 vote for Trump turned out to be a bad blind date
In key elections Tuesday, Latinos rejected Trump, turned off by his policy failures and harsh deportation enforcement.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Latino voters are running away from Trump!
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Check out #DemocracyWeekender! Lots to talk about: SNAP, New ACA insurance premiums mean those tax credits Dems are holding out for better be extended before the end of the year, or the avg. cost increase will be 114%!!! Also ElectionDay on Tues & what we'll learn!
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Democracy Weekender: Oh SNAP! Trump wrongly claims Dems are “hurting their own people” during the shutdown that has run out of SNAP food aid for 42 million Americans. WRONG! (& voters agree)
Also, higher health care costs are alarming, raising the stakes on shutdown stalemate; we look at elections on Tuesday & #2026 midterms; plus: Heather Booth on how to feel hopeful in chaotic times
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November 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Check out #DemocracyWeekender! Lots to talk about: SNAP, New ACA insurance premiums mean those tax credits Dems are holding out for better be extended before the end of the year, or the avg. cost increase will be 114%!!! Also ElectionDay on Tues & what we'll learn!
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Meet #JohnLira, Dem candidate in #TX CD35, one of 5 new districts ordered by Trump. Lira, an MC Vet, grew up in the district along the eastern edges of San Antonio. "This is the district in TX where we can make the (Trump) gerrymandering plan backfire,” Lira said in DC.
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Meet #JohnLira, the Democratic candidate in the new TX CD 35, one of the five ordered by Trump. John grew up in this district and is ready to fight for it. “This is the district in TX where we can mak...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Meet #JohnLira, Dem candidate in #TX CD35, one of 5 new districts ordered by Trump. Lira, an MC Vet, grew up in the district along the eastern edges of San Antonio. "This is the district in TX where we can make the (Trump) gerrymandering plan backfire,” Lira said in DC.
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Lamenting the continuing losses of local newspapers that inform us, hold local governments accountable, and chronicle our local histories.
October 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Lamenting the continuing losses of local newspapers that inform us, hold local governments accountable, and chronicle our local histories.
Great read from #SteveSchmidt: "Donald Trump has destroyed the White House to demonstrate to the whole world that he can do what he wants, whenever he wants, to whatever, or whomever he wants."
Trump's answer to No Kings Day open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...
Trump's answer to No Kings Day open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...
Trump's answer to No Kings Day
PLUS: Updates from the Save America Movement + my conversation with MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace
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October 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great read from #SteveSchmidt: "Donald Trump has destroyed the White House to demonstrate to the whole world that he can do what he wants, whenever he wants, to whatever, or whomever he wants."
Trump's answer to No Kings Day open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...
Trump's answer to No Kings Day open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...
Trump's demolition of the East Wing of the White House, a historic structure that is NOT HIS, is a metaphor for how he has ruined our nation. He ruins everything he touches.
October 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Trump's demolition of the East Wing of the White House, a historic structure that is NOT HIS, is a metaphor for how he has ruined our nation. He ruins everything he touches.
I suspect that he would say he pardoned because they shared the same political views (as he did with Santos.) Views on which subject? corruption? lying? grifting? pedophilia? serving as beauty pageant judges for free?
This doesn’t even include the ones who had pending case but he had their charges dropped.
October 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I suspect that he would say he pardoned because they shared the same political views (as he did with Santos.) Views on which subject? corruption? lying? grifting? pedophilia? serving as beauty pageant judges for free?
Please remember to wear YELLOW tomorrow. Even if you can't make it to a rally, show your support by wearing something yellow, even if it is just a ribbon or a cap. #NoKings because our democracy was built on the principle of "We, the people."
Authoritarian watch! and a reminder to wear YELLOW in support of the #NoKings historic day of action.
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DEMOCRACY WEEKENDER: Trump continued destroying democratic norms as millions of Americans readied for peaceful "No Kings" rallies across the U.S. this weekend
AUTHORITARIAN WATCH: Anti-Trump “No Kings” rallies rattle MAGA as Trump issues kingly edicts
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October 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Please remember to wear YELLOW tomorrow. Even if you can't make it to a rally, show your support by wearing something yellow, even if it is just a ribbon or a cap. #NoKings because our democracy was built on the principle of "We, the people."
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Authoritarian watch! and a reminder to wear YELLOW in support of the #NoKings historic day of action.
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DEMOCRACY WEEKENDER: Trump continued destroying democratic norms as millions of Americans readied for peaceful "No Kings" rallies across the U.S. this weekend
AUTHORITARIAN WATCH: Anti-Trump “No Kings” rallies rattle MAGA as Trump issues kingly edicts
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October 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Authoritarian watch! and a reminder to wear YELLOW in support of the #NoKings historic day of action.
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Extra! Extra! 10/12
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Jess, thanks for the reminder of how, when we organize with love at the center, we win! (as the great #HeatherBooth of #DemocracyPartners reminds us.)
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Jess, thanks for the reminder of how, when we organize with love at the center, we win! (as the great #HeatherBooth of #DemocracyPartners reminds us.)
Extra! Extra! 10/12
Wins! Wins! Wins!
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October 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Extra! Extra! 10/12
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Jess, thanks for the reminder of how, when we organize with love at the center, we win! (as the great #HeatherBooth of #DemocracyPartners reminds us.)
open.substack.com/pub/chopwood...
Jess, thanks for the reminder of how, when we organize with love at the center, we win! (as the great #HeatherBooth of #DemocracyPartners reminds us.)
October 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Oh, this is so sad. #RIPDianeKeaton, who was a real kick to watch in film or on interviews. She had a great range of abilities as an actor, and surprisingly, her vocals too. She probably is telling the angels, "La la. La ti da."
October 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Oh, this is so sad. #RIPDianeKeaton, who was a real kick to watch in film or on interviews. She had a great range of abilities as an actor, and surprisingly, her vocals too. She probably is telling the angels, "La la. La ti da."
Quite a week. Gaza, Trump autocracy on fast speed from Chicago to a VA courtroom for the indictment of the NY A.G. and more. Ck it out in the #DemocracyWeekender
October 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Quite a week. Gaza, Trump autocracy on fast speed from Chicago to a VA courtroom for the indictment of the NY A.G. and more. Ck it out in the #DemocracyWeekender
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize!
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P.S. Machado's pro-democracy work is beyond courageous. Before VZ's 2024 so-called presidential election, the Women's Foreign Policy Group held a "fireside chat" with Machado, who spoke of +
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P.S. Machado's pro-democracy work is beyond courageous. Before VZ's 2024 so-called presidential election, the Women's Foreign Policy Group held a "fireside chat" with Machado, who spoke of +
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised her as a key unifying figure in the opposition, advocating for free elections and...
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October 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize!
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P.S. Machado's pro-democracy work is beyond courageous. Before VZ's 2024 so-called presidential election, the Women's Foreign Policy Group held a "fireside chat" with Machado, who spoke of +
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P.S. Machado's pro-democracy work is beyond courageous. Before VZ's 2024 so-called presidential election, the Women's Foreign Policy Group held a "fireside chat" with Machado, who spoke of +
One of the most disgusting tactics by #AGBondi arrived at #SJC oversight hearing armed with a negative accusation about each Dem senator to throw mud at them when they press her on issues she doesn't want to discuss. #SnarkyImmatureShow
October 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
One of the most disgusting tactics by #AGBondi arrived at #SJC oversight hearing armed with a negative accusation about each Dem senator to throw mud at them when they press her on issues she doesn't want to discuss. #SnarkyImmatureShow
Whenever Bondi refuses to comment, that means "Yes."
Pam Bondi refuses to say whether the White House consulted her before deploying the National Guard to U.S. cities.
October 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Whenever Bondi refuses to comment, that means "Yes."
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Sen. Dick Durbin presses Pam Bondi on FBI personnel reportedly being asked to flag instances of Trump's name appearing in the Epstein files.
Bondi says she's "not going to discuss anything about that with you."
Durbin: "Eventually, you're going to have to answer for your conduct."
Bondi says she's "not going to discuss anything about that with you."
Durbin: "Eventually, you're going to have to answer for your conduct."
October 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Sen. Dick Durbin presses Pam Bondi on FBI personnel reportedly being asked to flag instances of Trump's name appearing in the Epstein files.
Bondi says she's "not going to discuss anything about that with you."
Durbin: "Eventually, you're going to have to answer for your conduct."
Bondi says she's "not going to discuss anything about that with you."
Durbin: "Eventually, you're going to have to answer for your conduct."