Rachel Bitecofer
@rachelbitecofer.bsky.social
National political analyst/strategist. Author of Hit ‘Em Where It Hurts, co host of This is America on The Cycle on Substack 👇🦆🏈
I watch the news so you don’t have to. https://thecycle.substack.com/
I watch the news so you don’t have to. https://thecycle.substack.com/
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Hit 'Em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game
Hit 'em Where It Hurts: How to Save Democracy by Beating Republicans at Their Own Game, by Rachel Bitecofer with Aaron Murphy. A radica, urgent plan for how the Democratic Party and its supporters can...
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If you want to know why we lost in 2024 look no further than our failure to run a negative campaign focused on Trump’s dangerous plans for America.
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NEW with Cheri Jacobus
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes:
Democrats Need a Daily Truth Briefing
Plz share!
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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes:
Democrats Need a Daily Truth Briefing
Plz share!
thecycle.substack.com/p/a-lie-can-...
A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes
Democrats Need a Daily Truth Briefing
thecycle.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:43 PM
NEW with Cheri Jacobus
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes:
Democrats Need a Daily Truth Briefing
Plz share!
thecycle.substack.com/p/a-lie-can-...
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes:
Democrats Need a Daily Truth Briefing
Plz share!
thecycle.substack.com/p/a-lie-can-...
By far the most imp thing Dem candidates, consultants, party leaders, creators, centrists and progressives is to abandon the Obama Era identity politics strategy which left us with no brand.
NPS is our ONLY pathway to a senate majority.
NPS is our ONLY pathway to a senate majority.
January 19, 2026 at 9:36 PM
By far the most imp thing Dem candidates, consultants, party leaders, creators, centrists and progressives is to abandon the Obama Era identity politics strategy which left us with no brand.
NPS is our ONLY pathway to a senate majority.
NPS is our ONLY pathway to a senate majority.
NEW with Cheri Jacobus
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes:
Democrats Need a Daily Truth Briefing
Plz share!
thecycle.substack.com/p/a-lie-can-...
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes:
Democrats Need a Daily Truth Briefing
Plz share!
thecycle.substack.com/p/a-lie-can-...
A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes
Democrats Need a Daily Truth Briefing
thecycle.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:43 PM
NEW with Cheri Jacobus
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes:
Democrats Need a Daily Truth Briefing
Plz share!
thecycle.substack.com/p/a-lie-can-...
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes:
Democrats Need a Daily Truth Briefing
Plz share!
thecycle.substack.com/p/a-lie-can-...
Reposted by Rachel Bitecofer
🧵Dear Diary
The Wheel is Turning and You Can't Slow It Down
Dear Diary,
History is no longer echoes, it screams.
(Never a firewall, plz RP)
open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
The Wheel is Turning and You Can't Slow It Down
Dear Diary,
History is no longer echoes, it screams.
(Never a firewall, plz RP)
open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Dear Diary
The Wheel is Turning and You Can't Slow It Down
open.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:28 PM
🧵Dear Diary
The Wheel is Turning and You Can't Slow It Down
Dear Diary,
History is no longer echoes, it screams.
(Never a firewall, plz RP)
open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
The Wheel is Turning and You Can't Slow It Down
Dear Diary,
History is no longer echoes, it screams.
(Never a firewall, plz RP)
open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Reposted by Rachel Bitecofer
Gov. Walz to MS NOW:
"Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system … is a dangerous, authoritarian tactic.
"The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her."
"Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system … is a dangerous, authoritarian tactic.
"The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her."
January 17, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Gov. Walz to MS NOW:
"Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system … is a dangerous, authoritarian tactic.
"The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her."
"Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system … is a dangerous, authoritarian tactic.
"The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her."
Republicans were completely full of shit about big gov.
They like it so big it’s up your ass.
DOJ investigating Minnesota governor, Minneapolis mayor, who decry probe as intimidation tactic www.cnn.com/2026/01/16/p...
They like it so big it’s up your ass.
DOJ investigating Minnesota governor, Minneapolis mayor, who decry probe as intimidation tactic www.cnn.com/2026/01/16/p...
DOJ investigating Minnesota governor, Minneapolis mayor, who decry probe as intimidation tactic | CNN Politics
The Justice Department is investigating Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over possible obstruction of federal law enforcement, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
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January 17, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Republicans were completely full of shit about big gov.
They like it so big it’s up your ass.
DOJ investigating Minnesota governor, Minneapolis mayor, who decry probe as intimidation tactic www.cnn.com/2026/01/16/p...
They like it so big it’s up your ass.
DOJ investigating Minnesota governor, Minneapolis mayor, who decry probe as intimidation tactic www.cnn.com/2026/01/16/p...
Former DHS Chief of Staff: This admin continues to say they have seen no instances of ICE agents operating against DHS policy. They are lying through their teeth. We have daily documentation of ICE officers not just violating DHS policy, but violating the law and the Constitution.
January 16, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Former DHS Chief of Staff: This admin continues to say they have seen no instances of ICE agents operating against DHS policy. They are lying through their teeth. We have daily documentation of ICE officers not just violating DHS policy, but violating the law and the Constitution.
🧵Dear Diary
The Wheel is Turning and You Can't Slow It Down
Dear Diary,
History is no longer echoes, it screams.
(Never a firewall, plz RP)
open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
The Wheel is Turning and You Can't Slow It Down
Dear Diary,
History is no longer echoes, it screams.
(Never a firewall, plz RP)
open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Dear Diary
The Wheel is Turning and You Can't Slow It Down
open.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:28 PM
🧵Dear Diary
The Wheel is Turning and You Can't Slow It Down
Dear Diary,
History is no longer echoes, it screams.
(Never a firewall, plz RP)
open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
The Wheel is Turning and You Can't Slow It Down
Dear Diary,
History is no longer echoes, it screams.
(Never a firewall, plz RP)
open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. I can't sneeze or cough bc it's dangerous to. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.
January 15, 2026 at 9:22 PM
I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. I can't sneeze or cough bc it's dangerous to. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.
People think I enjoy being right.
I don’t. I fucking hate it
President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke an 1807 law and deploy troops to quell persistent protests against the federal officers sent to Minneapolis
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I don’t. I fucking hate it
President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke an 1807 law and deploy troops to quell persistent protests against the federal officers sent to Minneapolis
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Trump threatens to use the Insurrection Act to end protests in Minneapolis
President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke an 1807 law and deploy troops to quell persistent protests against the federal officers sent to Minneapolis to enforce his administration's mass...
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January 15, 2026 at 7:09 PM
People think I enjoy being right.
I don’t. I fucking hate it
President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke an 1807 law and deploy troops to quell persistent protests against the federal officers sent to Minneapolis
www.aol.com/articles/fea...
I don’t. I fucking hate it
President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke an 1807 law and deploy troops to quell persistent protests against the federal officers sent to Minneapolis
www.aol.com/articles/fea...
Armed, masked fake police are running around asking people for their papers and brutalizing everyone they come across.
The WH press secretary has a Nazi slogan on her podium
Tick tock America
The WH press secretary has a Nazi slogan on her podium
Tick tock America
January 13, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Armed, masked fake police are running around asking people for their papers and brutalizing everyone they come across.
The WH press secretary has a Nazi slogan on her podium
Tick tock America
The WH press secretary has a Nazi slogan on her podium
Tick tock America
You take this and slam him in ads.
2026 ain’t complicated DCCC and DSCC
Trump: Over the past 12 months, almost every promise I made in 2024 has been kept. I've kept all my promises, and much more.
2026 ain’t complicated DCCC and DSCC
Trump: Over the past 12 months, almost every promise I made in 2024 has been kept. I've kept all my promises, and much more.
January 13, 2026 at 8:28 PM
You take this and slam him in ads.
2026 ain’t complicated DCCC and DSCC
Trump: Over the past 12 months, almost every promise I made in 2024 has been kept. I've kept all my promises, and much more.
2026 ain’t complicated DCCC and DSCC
Trump: Over the past 12 months, almost every promise I made in 2024 has been kept. I've kept all my promises, and much more.
Reposted by Rachel Bitecofer
🚨🧵“We’ll Have Our Home Again”:
The Trump Administration is Going Full White Nationalist
In the wake of the murder of Renee Good the MAGA masks came off: official U.S. government accounts promoted recruitment imagery declaring, “We’ll have our home again.” tinyurl.com/The-Cycle-on...
The Trump Administration is Going Full White Nationalist
In the wake of the murder of Renee Good the MAGA masks came off: official U.S. government accounts promoted recruitment imagery declaring, “We’ll have our home again.” tinyurl.com/The-Cycle-on...
“We’ll Have Our Home Again”:
The Trump Administration is Going Full White Nationalist
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January 12, 2026 at 6:45 PM
🚨🧵“We’ll Have Our Home Again”:
The Trump Administration is Going Full White Nationalist
In the wake of the murder of Renee Good the MAGA masks came off: official U.S. government accounts promoted recruitment imagery declaring, “We’ll have our home again.” tinyurl.com/The-Cycle-on...
The Trump Administration is Going Full White Nationalist
In the wake of the murder of Renee Good the MAGA masks came off: official U.S. government accounts promoted recruitment imagery declaring, “We’ll have our home again.” tinyurl.com/The-Cycle-on...
🚨🧵“We’ll Have Our Home Again”:
The Trump Administration is Going Full White Nationalist
In the wake of the murder of Renee Good the MAGA masks came off: official U.S. government accounts promoted recruitment imagery declaring, “We’ll have our home again.” tinyurl.com/The-Cycle-on...
The Trump Administration is Going Full White Nationalist
In the wake of the murder of Renee Good the MAGA masks came off: official U.S. government accounts promoted recruitment imagery declaring, “We’ll have our home again.” tinyurl.com/The-Cycle-on...
“We’ll Have Our Home Again”:
The Trump Administration is Going Full White Nationalist
tinyurl.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:45 PM
🚨🧵“We’ll Have Our Home Again”:
The Trump Administration is Going Full White Nationalist
In the wake of the murder of Renee Good the MAGA masks came off: official U.S. government accounts promoted recruitment imagery declaring, “We’ll have our home again.” tinyurl.com/The-Cycle-on...
The Trump Administration is Going Full White Nationalist
In the wake of the murder of Renee Good the MAGA masks came off: official U.S. government accounts promoted recruitment imagery declaring, “We’ll have our home again.” tinyurl.com/The-Cycle-on...
I remember a couple certain someones who told me I was gonna ruin my career by insisting on teaching and speaking the truth about the threat from Trump and MAGA and that I should stop.
I took the path of cold, hard truth and I’ve never regretted it for a second.
I took the path of cold, hard truth and I’ve never regretted it for a second.
January 11, 2026 at 11:59 PM
I remember a couple certain someones who told me I was gonna ruin my career by insisting on teaching and speaking the truth about the threat from Trump and MAGA and that I should stop.
I took the path of cold, hard truth and I’ve never regretted it for a second.
I took the path of cold, hard truth and I’ve never regretted it for a second.
Reposted by Rachel Bitecofer
Reposted by Rachel Bitecofer
🧵Dear Diary
Notes from Inside a Collapsing America
January 10, 2026
Dear Diary,
I have be honest, those are words I never expected to write, because I’m way too lazy and uninteresting to keep a diary But as most of you guys know, I’ve been researching… open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Notes from Inside a Collapsing America
January 10, 2026
Dear Diary,
I have be honest, those are words I never expected to write, because I’m way too lazy and uninteresting to keep a diary But as most of you guys know, I’ve been researching… open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Dear Diary
Notes from Inside a Collapsing America
open.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:17 PM
🧵Dear Diary
Notes from Inside a Collapsing America
January 10, 2026
Dear Diary,
I have be honest, those are words I never expected to write, because I’m way too lazy and uninteresting to keep a diary But as most of you guys know, I’ve been researching… open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Notes from Inside a Collapsing America
January 10, 2026
Dear Diary,
I have be honest, those are words I never expected to write, because I’m way too lazy and uninteresting to keep a diary But as most of you guys know, I’ve been researching… open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Reposted by Rachel Bitecofer
FOX: Where’s the protest against the regime that's killing people in the street right now?
Trent: They are doing those today. It’s called the ICE protests
FOX: Are they talking about Iran at the ICE protests?
Trent: No, I think they are talking about the regime that is shooting people in the face
Trent: They are doing those today. It’s called the ICE protests
FOX: Are they talking about Iran at the ICE protests?
Trent: No, I think they are talking about the regime that is shooting people in the face
January 11, 2026 at 5:44 PM
FOX: Where’s the protest against the regime that's killing people in the street right now?
Trent: They are doing those today. It’s called the ICE protests
FOX: Are they talking about Iran at the ICE protests?
Trent: No, I think they are talking about the regime that is shooting people in the face
Trent: They are doing those today. It’s called the ICE protests
FOX: Are they talking about Iran at the ICE protests?
Trent: No, I think they are talking about the regime that is shooting people in the face
RIP to a real gunslinger.
Fare thee well Bobby
Best Bobby song:
I’m going Me and My Uncle
Fare thee well Bobby
Best Bobby song:
I’m going Me and My Uncle
January 11, 2026 at 12:44 AM
RIP to a real gunslinger.
Fare thee well Bobby
Best Bobby song:
I’m going Me and My Uncle
Fare thee well Bobby
Best Bobby song:
I’m going Me and My Uncle
🧵Dear Diary
Notes from Inside a Collapsing America
January 10, 2026
Dear Diary,
I have be honest, those are words I never expected to write, because I’m way too lazy and uninteresting to keep a diary But as most of you guys know, I’ve been researching… open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Notes from Inside a Collapsing America
January 10, 2026
Dear Diary,
I have be honest, those are words I never expected to write, because I’m way too lazy and uninteresting to keep a diary But as most of you guys know, I’ve been researching… open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Dear Diary
Notes from Inside a Collapsing America
open.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:17 PM
🧵Dear Diary
Notes from Inside a Collapsing America
January 10, 2026
Dear Diary,
I have be honest, those are words I never expected to write, because I’m way too lazy and uninteresting to keep a diary But as most of you guys know, I’ve been researching… open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Notes from Inside a Collapsing America
January 10, 2026
Dear Diary,
I have be honest, those are words I never expected to write, because I’m way too lazy and uninteresting to keep a diary But as most of you guys know, I’ve been researching… open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Unearthed angle of ICE shooting reveals final exchange at the scene
Renee Nicole Good: “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you.”
ICE officer after shooting and killing Good: “Fuckin’ bitch”
Renee Nicole Good: “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you.”
ICE officer after shooting and killing Good: “Fuckin’ bitch”
January 9, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Unearthed angle of ICE shooting reveals final exchange at the scene
Renee Nicole Good: “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you.”
ICE officer after shooting and killing Good: “Fuckin’ bitch”
Renee Nicole Good: “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you.”
ICE officer after shooting and killing Good: “Fuckin’ bitch”
Q: Do you see any checks on your power on the world stage? Is there anything that could stop you?
Trump: My own morality, my own mind. It's the only thing that can stop me
Q: Not international law?
Trump: I don't need international law.
Trump: My own morality, my own mind. It's the only thing that can stop me
Q: Not international law?
Trump: I don't need international law.
January 9, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Q: Do you see any checks on your power on the world stage? Is there anything that could stop you?
Trump: My own morality, my own mind. It's the only thing that can stop me
Q: Not international law?
Trump: I don't need international law.
Trump: My own morality, my own mind. It's the only thing that can stop me
Q: Not international law?
Trump: I don't need international law.
"The storm is here! [...] No one can stop what is coming! [...] We executed one of you yesterday!”
January 9, 2026 at 12:44 AM
"The storm is here! [...] No one can stop what is coming! [...] We executed one of you yesterday!”
Who does this quote from Hitler’s #2 Herman Goering remind you of???
January 8, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Who does this quote from Hitler’s #2 Herman Goering remind you of???
Reposted by Rachel Bitecofer
✅ Bookmark This!
It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Don't Feel Fine)
This is how it starts. Not with earthquakes, birds and snakes and airplanes, not with declarations, not with Congress voting, but with extrajudicial kidnapping and regime change
open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Don't Feel Fine)
This is how it starts. Not with earthquakes, birds and snakes and airplanes, not with declarations, not with Congress voting, but with extrajudicial kidnapping and regime change
open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Bookmark This!
It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Don't Feel Fine)
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January 7, 2026 at 8:25 PM
✅ Bookmark This!
It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Don't Feel Fine)
This is how it starts. Not with earthquakes, birds and snakes and airplanes, not with declarations, not with Congress voting, but with extrajudicial kidnapping and regime change
open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Don't Feel Fine)
This is how it starts. Not with earthquakes, birds and snakes and airplanes, not with declarations, not with Congress voting, but with extrajudicial kidnapping and regime change
open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...