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not defending Tapper, and 2020 Super Tuesday results are a hypothetical if other candidates dropped out beforehand, so who knows.
But in February 2017, Obama and aides like Valerie Jarrett did make calls to install Tom Perez as DNC chair:
hillheat.com/2017/02/26/e...
prospect.org/power/tom-pe...
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Dactyl Nightmare (1991)
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Just to reiterate, there was a debate in 2021 b/w progressives and centrists. The former wanted to vote on the Build Back Better Act *first* and its more-tangible programs, like universal child care & paid family leave; the latter demanded infrastructure first.
Biden and Pelosi sided with latter:
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When voters in swing Senate states began to tune into elections last year, they saw pro-Republican TV ads funded by Griffin, Schwarzman, and Singer via super PACs.
Investment wealth can remain untaxed, nonpartisan tax experts told us, whereas Biden had proposed a Billionaire Minimum Income Tax.
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Not to mention Elon Musk, whose net worth increased by a whopping 1604% from the end of 2017 to March, per Americans for Tax Fairness, rising from $20 billion to $348 billion. Last year, he spent $291 million backing Republicans.
More names of billionaires backing the GOP as their tax law moves:
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It's certainly "in question"
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Manchin and Sinema claimed to oppose changing parliamentary rules in the Senate, where the filibuster threshold was last changed in 1975. They blocked Dems' agenda as much-needed bills died in 2021-22.
The two centrists were "dark money" Third Way's ( @thirdway.bsky.social ) honorary co-chairs:
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In February 2021, the Senate parliamentarian ruled a $15 minimum wage out of order for the American Rescue Plan.
Manchin & Sinema, two of Third Way's honorary co-chairs, opposed the Democratic legislation and later voted nay.
@thirdway.bsky.social's known funders include Big Business lobby groups.
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Manchin and Sinema were the poster children of the dark money Third Way ( @thirdway.bsky.social ).
They proclaimed that the filibuster rules were sacrosanct, and now their close friend John Thune has nuked it so the GOP can give another handout to fossil fuels.
Their lobbying shops must be happy.
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During the Obama years, Democrats lost a net total of 13 governorships and 816 state legislative seats, the most since Eisenhower. They lost the House, the Senate, the Electoral College in 2016, and again to Trump in 2024.
Maybe corporate consultant Anita Dunn should not have been a senior advisor!
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Democrats need to debate who was responsible for the Biden age disaster because they need to free up new leaders.
The last W.H. and congressional leaders missed their window to pass a reconciliation bill that would have established social spending programs to help working families' pocketbooks.
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If the Democrats want to ensure that voters decide on party nominees, and not billionaire-funded super PACs or dark money groups, they have an opportunity before the midterms: DNC members can finally ban dark money in primaries.
What will the opaque party leaders do on dark money for 2026 and 2028?
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The Biden coverup was so embarrassing that people have forgotten — Politico reported last July that Donilon had not been briefing the Bidens on the full extent of the polling data. The president's guy, who started getting paid $15k a month in March, would not do it.
www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
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The Fairshake super PAC network, funded in large part by Andreessen, spent over $40 million last year to knock out former Banking Committee chair Sherrod Brown, who argued for stronger consumer protections in the industry.
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You can feel free to click, or not, on our coverage of the climate crisis and the fossil fuel industry's influence since 2018:
readsludge.com/tag/climate/
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I can't tell from your responses if you've read our reporting on DNC rules and primaries since 2018. Here's some of it:
readsludge.com/tag/dnc/page...
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Click through to read the post and see the May 16 tweet from Ammar Moussa, former director of rapid response for the Harris campaign, who has been debating on Twitter.
The post also links to public statements by Harris on topics like Trump's foreign policy, but not on U.S. aid to Israel's gov't.
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Democrats could have voted on stock trading limits in March 2021 as part of the For the People Act. Pelosi blocked the votes.
Dems could have called up bipartisan bills before the end of 2022. Pelosi blocked the bills.
In the Senate, Schumer bottled up bills in 2021-22. Dems did not vote on them.
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If Democrats in Congress are worried about Trump White House officials getting stock tips, well, they could have already voted for legislation banning executive branch officials, and themselves, from owning individual stocks.
Instead, they have not advanced the 2018-introduced Anti-Corruption Act: