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Lorri Blankenship
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Arizona RE Broker, avid reader, politically middle left leaning.
April 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Elections have consequences!
March 5, 2025 at 5:24 AM
March 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
"Democracy really is on the line.

That means liberals and other Trump opponents have a duty to welcome defectors, converts and the politically unmoored into the fold." Jill Filipovic
Opinion: Why You Shouldn’t Shame MAGA Voters Who Are Just Coming to Their Senses
Donald Trump has barely been back in the White House for a month, and it already appears that many MAGA voters and politicians are having buyer’s remorse. Unfortunately, there’s no return policy on th...
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March 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
NEW: Today, The Daily Beans podcast will run without any ads in solidarity with the 2/28 economic blackout. We'll be forgoing any advertising revenue for the day. You can listen and subscribe for free: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Happy Blackout Day (feat. John Fugelsang)
Podcast Episode · The Daily Beans · 02/28/2025 · 1h 10m
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February 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Any media outlet hanging on to a shred of journalistic timber should televise these hearings.
Arizona AG Kris Mayes, New Mexico AG Raul Torrez, and Oregon AG Dan Rayfield will begin holding Community Impact Hearings — a national series of townhalls "to hear from the public about the impact of federal firings and DOGE funding freezes across the country."

The first will be in Phoenix March 5.
February 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority.” Lord Acton
February 19, 2025 at 4:43 AM
February 19, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Reposted by Lorri Blankenship
"Democrats who want to save the nation — and their party — need to end their malaise, mobilize their supporters and fight for something that matters. If our constitutional democracy doesn’t matter, I don’t know what does."
#SaveOurDemocracy

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Opinion | Democrats, forget 2024. Defending democracy in 2025 is what matters now.
The republic is under siege. What can be done?
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February 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM