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Van Hollen to Newsome

“Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind, ‘What's blowing this way? What's blowing that way?’ And anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead,”
April 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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March 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
F’ing Chuck Schumer is a disaster. The harm he has done to democrats and democracy cannot be overstated

NEWS — Schumer told Dems during closed-door lunch that he would vote for cloture tomorrow morning.

Schumer is YES on Clouture
March 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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March 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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I wrote about how Trump is destroying American democracy, along with eight crucial lessons about how to counteract it, drawing on my 14 years of studying brave pro-democracy opposition movements in authoritarian regimes across the globe. We’re in serious trouble, but there’s still hope.
Is American democracy doomed?
How to understand the concept of "competitive authoritarianism" and why it's crucial to push back now to avoid it.
www.forkingpaths.co
March 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
9 Senate Democrats have voted against every Trump cabinet nominee (except Rubio, who was confirmed unanimously

Chris Murphy (CT)
Mazie Hirono (HI)
Tammy Duckworth (IL)
Chris Van Hollen (MD)
Ed Markey (MA)
Elizabeth Warren (MA)
Jeff Merkley (OR)
Ron Wyden (OR)
Patty Murray (WA)
March 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Jeffries: "Let me be clear -- House Democrats will not provide a single vote to this reckless Republican budget. Not one. Not one."
Good, they better not
February 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Dems are still operating in a political paradigm where the public has a set of concerns, roughly reflecting the reality of life in America, and elections are about who addresses them better.

But that is not the political paradigm we’ve lived in, for a long time, and we’re getting further from it.
January 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Ben Wikler understands how to organize and communicate. www.wisn.com/article/wisc...
Wisconsin Democratic Chair Ben Wikler launches bid for DNC Chair
WISN 12 News Political Director Matt Smith confirms Wikler will announce his bid Sunday morning
www.wisn.com
December 1, 2024 at 12:03 PM