Tonight, between Booker and the Florida results, is a night to remember that the unraveling of American democracy is not inevitable. Trumpism’s vision for the future is not inevitable. We have a voice—and a vote too.
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Now is the time to not only fight the destruction of our institutions but plan on how to restore them and make them robust against future efforts to do the same.
Not American, but from Europe, Wisconsin’s rejection of naked vote-buying by a multibillionaire seems a more significant and symbolic turning-point than Dems gaining ground in Florida.
And, by the way, great and very timely leadership from Sen. Cory Booker.
The more the people believe it & act upon it, the stronger their power becomes.
Belief along with positive actions, by the people for the good of the people.
Between now and Saturday, take a sign out to your nearest big intersection to advertise this. If we have just a dozen people doing this in each city every day, the turnout could be exponentially higher.
Between now and Saturday, take a sign out to your nearest big intersection to advertise this. If we have just a dozen people doing this in each city every day, the turnout could be exponentially higher.
Between now and Saturday, take a sign out to your nearest big intersection to advertise this. If we have just a dozen people doing this in each city every day, the turnout could be exponentially higher.
Sure, we lost in FL... but look at the margin... we are closing in the gap.
Wait for general elections. Now we have enough time to do more ground work and reach out to those we couldn't because this time we didn't have enough time and enough funding.
I donated to @booker.senate.gov & I hope others will donate to his party as well. BUT most of all, WE MUST ALL MAKE GOOD TROUBLE. If we don’t, the 25 hours will be in vain. IT WILL TAKE ALL OF US TO MAKE CHANGE.
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Dems lost in FL but margins were narrower. A sign that the tides might be shifting in the sunshine state. In Wisconsin, she won! Musk’s money was no good there, and no good anywhere.
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Ok, but we cannot assume a few votes are all we need. There needs to be a historic change in the culture to be determined democracy is here to stay. I am talking FDR numbers. The fact that fascism won in November is THE problem. Fascism is here. We got to this point for a reason.
I appreciate your positive spin - but you need to be more aggressive - talk about that we showed some fight - but GOP still won Florida - we need to fight more - louder, harder and with more teeth - Trump, his goons and his complacent GOP congress won't stop - so we have to not stop either.
Florida is... Florida
but the Supreme Court win in Wisconsin means they can get rid of the gerry mandering and then it'll likely be a blue state which will be helpful going forward
I think what we are witnessing is a potential civil divide between the states where the red states get more entrenched in conservative beliefs and the blue states are still thinking we are united. I wonder when we will start seeing states secede from the nation.
I agree. It was a pretty big win to me though. Listening to his speech made me feel heard and I am ready to fight on another day in this fresh hellscape. 💙🇺🇸
Those are the two things that Trump can't control, even though he is trying to control the vote. So far, he is losing that battle at every turn. So yes, we have our voice and our vote, two very powerful tools at our disposal. We must share our thoughts with others, and turn out the vote in 2026.
Any state that requires you to have an ID should make IDs free because in California getting your drivers license renewed is like $45 and not everybody can afford that so a state ID should be free
There was a 20 point swing in districts with 70% registered republicans. This means people are shifting. It’s not going to happen overnight. But republicans should be very scared for mid terms.
The Florida results are as useful as Beto O'Rourke getting close in Texas - ultimately it means nothing except the GOP is stronger in the house, especially when the odds of the next federal election being legitimate are almost zero.
What’s Beto running for? I must have missed an update as I don’t live in TX. I did see he was on stage with Gov Walz recently. Love them both. I REALLY wish Jason Kander would challenge one of the senators here in MO, but understand his reasons not to.
Beto isn't running for anything I'm just saying all the excitement about him getting close in his races didn't change anything. Not that we should quit trying by any means, but close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Ah gotcha. I’m not as tired as Cory Booker but it’s been a long week and it’s only Tuesday lol.
Of course you’re right, but I do believe that big of a gap closed is a good sign for swing districts going forward.
And we need to send the message that just because you see joy and change, it doesn't mean it's okay to stay home. Nothing is certain if you don't mark a box on a ballot.
You think Florida’s results add to a night to remember?
We still lost in Florida. “Losing by less” is NOT winning. Florida is a waste of our time; it’s a cesspool of willful stupidity. It’s hopeless.
In some ways you are right. But there are still so many people there who did not vote for this. Who don't want this. And they're often people who can't afford to move.
Not to mention: all the steps taken to gerrymander, disinform, and make voting difficult for some but not all voters. We have a lot to overcome in red states to get the W so reducing the margin is, if not a victory, at least a step toward it.
I believe that. My concern is the Democrats. At this point the country will demand healthcare for all and taxing the rich. I hope reading the room is on the table.
So far, but the "white house" has already issued an Executive Order trying to seize control of the electoral system, and there's no telling what state and county officials will do to try and rig the electoral system against the democrats....
But we already know that their plan is to remove access to the vote, so stay vigilant. They will expend every effort to prevent a free and fair election in 2026.
Mainstream news is not covering this, so let’s be sure to share this everywhere and give people hope!!! Don’t tell me that felon 47 has a mandate when 350 million people watched & supported Corey Booker’s speech https://thehill.com/homenews/sen...
Today, we drag MilkSteak Options out of the Cynicism pub and over to the Optimism café. Tmrw, we'll be dragging me out of the Cynicism pub. And so on. We're gonna need stamina. And new boots. 😉
And may this be only a beginning of the decades ling resistance to MAGA and fascism necessary to stamp it out.
It’ll never disappear, as ling as white, Christians are allowed in the United States, but with diligence, and vigilance, we can suppress them back to the single digit percentages needed.
The florida elections went better than expected. The repukes still won, but both of them dropped 10 points to what Gaetz and Waltz got in November. In super red districts.
And Crawford was up 10 points over what trump got in Wisconsin.
The votes are going in the right direction, at least.
I'm hoping like hell, especially after they aren't able to afford essentials because of EVERYTHING going up.
It's not just going to be imports. If anyone believes that American companies won't jack prices to meet the rest of the tariffed goods, they havent been paying attention in the last few yrs
I am so proud of the Americans in Wisconsin. Im not worried about the folks in Florida. I mean they vote Gatz and Waltz in so its to be expected and they may have a change in heart as their retirements are consumed and their Social Security gets janked. Who knows. But a great day for democracy!
Florida will get their comeuppance very soon when hurricane season hits w/no FEMA & their SS checks stop coming! Then they get to the FO part of FAFO, & something tells me they will change their tune
don’t give him so much credit. he has no “vision”, simpletons never do. he’s a basic little bitch and greed is all he knows, no vision required just shamelessness
We had local elections today. Our township flipped from Republican to Democratic for the contested races. Democrats need to have candidates in every race.
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People need to unite and vote to WIN! Like it or not, the reality is there are only 2 parties that contend for power. Choose wisely and for the better good.
Finally someone with some cojones!
Not that stupid Fetterman who is full of baloney!
Cory Booker stands up to rail against the Lying King!
For hours and hours Cory did sing!
Now we need some more senators to stand up!
And drink from that big truth cup!
We have a voice, but who in the realm of Bluesky believes that in any state run by trumpers involved in the election process will cheat and cheat and cheat. How do we deal with that? This is a big worry- the spineless democrats did not contest the massive voter purges in NC and other fascist states.
We need to Fight! Literally. Against these stupid cowards. They will topple when you shove them w one finger in their wimpy non-hairy chests. Gasping. Hoping their new Military takes you out w Chinese AR17s stored in Trumpy s bunker. Don’t be afraid of wimps. Go America.
Maybe so today... are you 100% sure that will still be true tomorrow? Press no longer free; judges threatened; opponents locked up! Not encouraging. MAGA mob is going to get angry when things start to go tits up in 3 to 6 months.
I hope republicans in the US Senate paid attention. Just because Don-old backs a candidate, that doesn’t mean his candidate will win. Maybe tonight will allay some fears of being primaried.
It's important for all of us Democrats/liberals to realize that we should vote in each and every election up and down the ballot. Too many people are not voting.
These were both +30 trump districts in 2024. FL-6 is only +14 and FL-1 is +15. These districts are both RUBY red, so these results are quite noteworthy.
Trump will spin this as the American voter's acceptance of his policies. And worse, it will spur him on to speed up and increase his agenda. He is incapable of seeing any downside of any result; everything he does is the biggest and the best that anyone has seen, ever.
Sweet Pea-these seats were never going to be won by the Dems. The poor results for the Republicans were expected by trump and thus he pulled Elise Stefanik’s nomination to be the US Ambassador to the UN b/c her seat would’ve been won by the Democratic candidate in that special election.
I realise the Democrats wouldn't win. I was trying to stress that Trump would spin this as a win and use that spin to increase his agenda and justify it by saying that's what the people want—look at Florida, or some such rubbish. And we in the rest of the world look on in horror.
I understand you now. {Also, you might be in Australia interpreting all of this?} Again, these two seats were never going to be won by Democrats. Trump will say whatever delusional thing & push his delusional agenda no matter what. We march onward…
That is a stretch, it seems right now. The Trump backed candidates handily won in Florida. The message is not reaching the MAGA crowd yet. They are still winning.
While not the time to give up, this is not the time to take our eyes off the ball either. We have a long, long way to go!
Those districts are both heavily red and heavily gerrymandered. We were never going to win them, but substantially cutting their leads sends a huge message that we are making inroads even into their strongholds. It’s realistically the best results we were going to get, as unfortunate as that is.
There are no elderly afraid of losing social security? No veterans? No one on Medicaid? No universities losing funding? No research getting canceled? I don’t see how they won.
It will flip in MIAMI-DADE and Broward in those elections eventually. After what Diaz-Balart, Gimenez, Salazar, Rubio, Scott did to hispanics "they will flip."
The Florida results were not good. We got shellacked by 15 pts in an off cycle election where there is guaranteed to be a lot of GOP apathy. Essentially showed very little real erosion of GOP support.
It’s an alarm that, like a bad marriage, it’s time for divorce. Anyone who still supports maga at this point needs to go their own way rather than us continually trying to gain their favor.
I think he meant Wisconsin. Florida was just Florida. Although as I understand it, the GOP margin of victory in FL was considerably smaller than it would’ve reasonably been expected to be, which is also a plus.
Gerrymandering districts? I don't know, but it was certainly behind the GOP push for a conservative Supreme Court in Wisconsin. If the federal government can tell the states how they need to identify citizens, they should also be able to define how states are districted.
Some people came away with hope. Some things changed just by exposure to the information. If you want to ask what changed, try running it through a poll. You'll at least get good statistics to work from on what changed.
THEY WON AND THEY STILL WON BY A LOT .... Stop the massage therapy already! If Wisconsin which is a state of sanity doesn't totally destroy Trump then it is over and the Kingdom is His!!
This might explain why I couldn’t find poll info on these races and nobody wanted to post the results. Look, I appreciate cutting into the big lead, but unless we’re in the seat…it’s a loss. We’ve gotta be honest with ourselves and realize that these assholes will vote for the most horrific
human beings on the planet all in the service of an incompetent madman! Don’t hide bad news…we need to hear it all…good and bad. Don’t give us false hope only to have it dashed in a 30+ trump district! Makes me wonder what is going on in Wisconsin…I can’t find a single post about it.
I last saw that film in 1978 so it didn't register. My apologies for thinking you were actually that dumb. To be fair, I've seen things like that posted on social media that weren't a joke.
Again my apologies. BTW, I'm actually an ancient hippie.
And Florida hasn't even begun to feel the loss. Hurricane season, disease, and price increases are going to begin pounding them one after the other in coming months.
Not to mention all the tourists that won’t come. Think more layoffs, less work available, no caps on credit card interest or overdraft fees. No schools for kids, no food support for the starving, pregnant mothers dying, ice or whomever on the corner snatching people without cause or care.
For now.
Americans have the right to vote ‘now’.
Do you really think that Trump will take the chance that he loses the senate and the congress in the midterms?
He’ll go straight to jail and he knows it.
He is setting up the martial law.
During the martial law, no voting so, no midterms
There were near 20% swings from Rapepublicans to Democrats in districts that are home to inbred Florida man. The only thing those districts produce is well licked windows.
Those swings Florida wide would turn Florida bluer than New York and perhaps California.
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And, by the way, great and very timely leadership from Sen. Cory Booker.
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Wait for general elections. Now we have enough time to do more ground work and reach out to those we couldn't because this time we didn't have enough time and enough funding.
Sen. Booker did a great job with an amazing speech.
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What happened in WI?
Has it been decidedly determined?
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but the Supreme Court win in Wisconsin means they can get rid of the gerry mandering and then it'll likely be a blue state which will be helpful going forward
"Liberation Day", #America!
As of Yesterday, Decent #Americans had won FIVE Special Elections-Some In Red Districts.
The Good People Of #Wisconsin 'Booted #Musk, #DonJr, and #Trump!
#Floridians Voted +17 and +19 Back Towards #Democratic In Two Dead Red Districts.
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Strom Thurmond - opposing voting rights for black people
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Wisconsin on the other hand... That IS awesome!
Of course you’re right, but I do believe that big of a gap closed is a good sign for swing districts going forward.
We still lost in Florida. “Losing by less” is NOT winning. Florida is a waste of our time; it’s a cesspool of willful stupidity. It’s hopeless.
It is never a waste of time.
We fight.
Every. Single. Chance. We. Have.
NEVER GIVE IN. NEVER GIVE UP.
Sometimes you lose the battle, but you win the war.
It’ll never disappear, as ling as white, Christians are allowed in the United States, but with diligence, and vigilance, we can suppress them back to the single digit percentages needed.
Florida: Still punches itself in the crotch every election cycle.
YAY!
Take that musk & trump HAHA
But
Phew!
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You’ve got this 🇺🇸
Keep up the good fight ❤️🤍💙
And Crawford was up 10 points over what trump got in Wisconsin.
The votes are going in the right direction, at least.
And there was a very high turnout in Wisconsin.
Besides, do you think this won't hold given the atrocious shit trump is doing?
It's not just going to be imports. If anyone believes that American companies won't jack prices to meet the rest of the tariffed goods, they havent been paying attention in the last few yrs
What Florida showed us is that Democrats just won't fight, even enough to be bothered to get to the polls in a vital election
Seems like a stark contrast to Booker from where I sit
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does not believe that this administration’s vision for an America that is not a democracy, an American way of life different than the one we enjoy, is inevitable!
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Not one Democrat objected to unanimous consent to appoint unqualified Matt Whittaker as NATO Ambassador.
Its growing!
A glimmer of hope for the future 🤞
Not that stupid Fetterman who is full of baloney!
Cory Booker stands up to rail against the Lying King!
For hours and hours Cory did sing!
Now we need some more senators to stand up!
And drink from that big truth cup!
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Our local election had 11% turnout. The good news is my friends won for school board but they were unopposed. (Still a win)
And WI is just starting to come in & the Musk backed candidate is in the lead (at least for now).
While not the time to give up, this is not the time to take our eyes off the ball either. We have a long, long way to go!
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Seriously, what has changed?
Again my apologies. BTW, I'm actually an ancient hippie.
Americans have the right to vote ‘now’.
Do you really think that Trump will take the chance that he loses the senate and the congress in the midterms?
He’ll go straight to jail and he knows it.
He is setting up the martial law.
During the martial law, no voting so, no midterms
2 huge swings to D's from Rs in Florida. Swings that would put Florida bluer than New York.
Wisconsin defeated Elon Musk's billions.
This was an excellent night for the Democratic Party
Those swings Florida wide would turn Florida bluer than New York and perhaps California.