“Turnout” and “persuasion” have become ideologically coded as “progressive” and “moderate,” respectively—but that’s not how people decide who to vote for, or whether to vote at all.

Democrats should be much more ambitious about how many races are put in play when it could be a wave year. In 2006, Rahm Emanuel arguably cost Democrats seats by discouraging investment in a number of winnable races—including one candidate in Minnesota by the name of Tim Walz.

Discourse has been captured by a group of analysts and strategists who have lost sight of how you actually win elections and make big gains—as if the only thing that matters in football is extra points and field goals, not touchdowns.

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9️⃣ The way out starts with clarity.

Stop calling capture “jurisprudence.”

Stop conferring symmetry where there is none.

Stop laundering tyranny as “Supreme Court decisions.”

Name the hijackers, not the robes.

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8️⃣ Baldwin warned that nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Douglass reminded us that “the limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

Power concedes nothing without a demand, but demands and struggle require clarity.

7️⃣ Stop staring at the robes. Look at the hands casting the shadows: billionaires, corporate networks, white Christian nationalism.

When press coverage treats the Court’s rulings as natural disasters, it trains us to brace and endure rather than resist.

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6️⃣For 20 years, legal elites have met every Roberts Court usurpation of our freedoms with a jurisprudential explanation instead of a call to arms.

We rally to stop would-be kings but bow to the kingmakers.

5️⃣ Liberal faith in the Court began with Brown v. Board and curdled into obedience.

The real civil-rights victories came from movements that forced politicians to act.

Each time Roberts erased those gains—from Shelby to Brnovich—elites offered commentary, not confrontation.

4️⃣ Five of the six were nominated by presidents who lost the popular vote and confirmed by senators representing less than half the country.

The media still calls them “justices.” History will call them agents.

3️⃣ Dayenu—it should have been enough.

Enough that the Roberts majority intervened to ensure Trump could be elected.

Enough that their confirmation was uniquely partisan.

Enough that they were vetted and financed by the Federalist Society.

How much proof of capture is “enough”?

2️⃣ Name the hijackers, not the institution.

If the Voting Rights Act is gutted, it won’t be by “the Supreme Court.”

It’ll be by six Republican operatives installed through a billionaire pipeline.

Every time we say “the Court did X,” we launder power until it looks like principle.