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Aaron Parnas

@aaronparnas.bsky.social

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM

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Bock Sam

@bocksam.bsky.social

This is an interview everyone needs to pin and watch again and again. Rep Ann Johnson - she is my new shero!!! Love her answer as she smacked Cruz and Abbot.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Aug 6

“Are you abandoning your jobs?”

🔥 🔥 TEXAS DEM REP. ANN JOHNSON: “Yeah no — abandoning your job is going to Cancun in the middle of a deadly freeze…”

A+ answer from Rep. Johnson here. @texasdemocrats.bsky.social

August 7, 2025 at 2:33 AM

Pastor J

@dr-rev-ds-jmoney.bsky.social

Our new tradition for the 4th- read the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America. Thank you Mr. Rold (even though you were a real jerk) for having our 5th grade class memorize this important piece of history. Let freedom ring from the highest places and let me be part of that.

The Preamble of the Constitution of the United States of America

July 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM

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Rhuta Bhayga

@rhutabhayga.bsky.social

@schumer.senate.gov
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

You are powerless in either chamber. But @aoc.bsky.social and @sanders.senate.gov are showing you how to EFFECTIVELY fight back.

Get out there and connect voter's pain to #DOGE'S cuts to reward billionaires.

open.substack.com/pub/newrepub...

One thing that Sanders seems to understand is that Democrats are, at least in part, fighting a content-creation war. Politics is being fought in a skewed information environment that favors people who can reliably feed the beast with conflict and controversy. There is probably no quicker path to good, cheap conflict than, “President Deals and his ketamine-addled freak sidekick are screwing you over.” And Sanders is not the first liberal lawmaker to note that GOP lawmakers have been ordered to retreat from their own town halls after they got shouted down by their own voters. Expect to see more of this: As Democrat Maxwell Frost recently vowed, “We’re filling a void.”

That void exists because Republicans don’t actually govern: They don’t pass laws, don’t earmark funds, and have given up the power of the purse to an executive branch that isn’t spending money on anything besides a single Tesla for a president who doesn’t drive. So when Republican electeds end up in a room full of people who can’t pay their bills with whatever notches their representatives have carved into their ideological bedposts, things turn south and Republicans turn tail. Democrats can fill this vacuum by taking over these spaces. As they say, when there’s blood on the street, buy property.

Beyond that, they have an intimate awareness of the potential damage being done by every dollar that DOGE strips from the government, and the flesh-and-blood humans who are on the receiving end of every bit of punishment that Trump doles out. Today it might be families with loved ones who desperately need the fruits of cancer research. Tomorrow it might be vulnerable families who depend on the government to provide affordable housing. Next week it could be communities impacted by foodborne illnesses that arise from a decimated FDA. This is an administration that’s pursuing criminal charges against Habitat for Humanity, while letting measles go untamed.

And if Democrats need help finding the victims of Trumpian chaos, there’s an app for that: your news browser. At TNR, putting a human face on the policies imposed by Washington lawmakers is part of our bread and butter. In recent weeks, my colleague Grace Segers has tracked the impact of the Trump administration’s policies on public health, rural economies, and food prices, to name a few. The Washington Post recently featured a story about a park ranger who, having voted for Trump after hearing him promise to make her desperately needed IVF treatments free, was fired by his administration instead.

March 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM

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E. Rosalie

@erosalie.infoepi.com

The Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande received a letter from Trump's DHS today, accusing them of human trafficking for operating a migrant shelter—partly funded by DHS. This is an attack on religious freedom.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wl...

Bishop Michael Hunn Responds to Department of Homeland Security: Defending Our Border Ministry

Bishop Michael Hunn Responds to the Department of Homeland Security: Defending Our Border MinistryIn this video, Bishop Michael Hunn of the Diocese of the Ri...

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March 15, 2025 at 2:47 AM

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Jamie Carter

@jctheresistance.demcast.com

We have put a simple letter to your Rep to THANK THEM for standing up, or to TORCH those that lost their damn courage. (Yes, we also have a special message for Republicans as well).

You can email all 3 of your Reps with this: Flood those inboxes!
action.demcast.com/a/fightforus

Stand up. Speak out. Fight for us

action.demcast.com

March 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM

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Jodi Picoult

@jodipicoult.bsky.social

Rhea Young, director of
Libraries in Montgomery Cty TX, was fired for refusing to accept a conservative book
banning agenda. Help fix this with me? Actionable steps here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #booksky

Call To Action

🚨 CALL TO ACTION 🚨 Contact your county commissioners and demand answers. We deserve transparency and accountability in decisions that impact our community. Here’s what you can do: 1. Call and email ...

docs.google.com

February 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM

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Andy Behrman

@electroboyusa.bsky.social

This country is in the midst of a fucking shitstorm.

And if you don't like those words or are for some reason too scared to repost this, then you're just not ready to do battle with Trump, MAGA and Musk.

We're taking this battle to the streets.

Follow me electroboyusa.bsky.social for updates!

February 1, 2025 at 1:58 AM

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amy brown

@amybrown.xyz

@corybooker.com hello I used to run the Wendy’s Twitter account and I am begging you to let me help you with the dems social media strategy, I will literally do it for free at this point

January 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM