Pulling Stefanik nom is a sign of GOP panic. If they think her R+20 district would be in play were she to leave, they realize they are in deep political peril re: 2026. As they are.
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Trump is primarying them with his democracy crushing EOs, his lawless actions destroying the essential services of a civil society, and the incompetence of those meant to protect us all. Making life harder everyday. May the GOP find their souls.
*which is why they're going to attempt to rig or legal-challange-swamp every election in sight or just find an excuse for martial law and we must be ready.
She represents an area that is and/or will be heavily impacted by the trade wars with Canada. The Democratic candidate there, a white male farmer, was coming on strong. I just hope people will run the next time around and defeat her. She is Gawdawful.
Just putting this out into the universe: If Democrats take control of the Senate in 2026 with 67 seats, they can impeach and remove the orange menace (and Shady and all the other criminals, if they don’t stop criming).
I HOPE you are right - that Dems sweep the mid-terms, as it's now our best hope to salvage what's left of the US Gov and Democracy; to defeat the illegitimate, anti-truth/post-truth, anti-American Putin/Trump/Musk/GOP Corporate Fascists. But we all know Putin has more fascist tricks up his sleeve.
IT'S MOSTLY RUSSIAN/TRUMP/MAGA DISINFORMATION: that the Democrats have "screwed up", "failed", are "just as corrupt as Trump/GOP", or that "they're all the same", "useless"- all tropes RU trolls have spewed for years to divide us. Putin knows: PATRIOTIC DEMS ARE THE ONLY THREAT TO PUTIN CRONY TRUMP.
THAT I do agree with. Schumer's heart is in the right place, but he's not a good orator; doesn't display the passion needed to rouse opposition. There are, however, many Democrats who DO; Crocket, Gonzales, Schiff, Kinzinger, Cheney, AOC, Ossoff, Sanders, Murphy, Bennet, Warren, Warnock & many more.
my gloves came off when they made fun of president Biden from the debate and VP Harris saying she slept her way to the top. when you talk the way, they do they come back oh
I thought dems were the peaceful party.
Well. I did not go that far. There is an ocean of differences between a Dem politician and a republican. But that Dems have been screwing up? Oh yes.
Voting with republicans to pass their spending bill? Was it a win? Hmm.
It was a CR shutdown of agencies in the near future, OR a likely permanent shut-down of all those same agencies NOW, and likely forever. THAT my friend, is not a "screw up", but a very unfortunate outcome of the naiveté of low-info Americans who were swayed by Putin/Trump/MAGA fascist lies & slander
AS FOR SCHUMER'S CAPITULATION to the GOP corrupt CR; Schumer knew that- a shut-down being his only play- would only further assist Trump/Musk gutting of all US agencies; would also likely become a permanent shutdown of all those same agencies he's fighting to salvage; & thus, that people would die.
The RU trolls use our own hubris and emotionalize opinions against us. The Dems lost 2016/2024 NOT due to any obvious massive failure on their part; but due to VAST years of RU/RW/Fox disinformation & KGB style radicalization tactics; + vast illegal campaign funding/media manipulation/extortion etc
They better start voting against some of this madness or it'll be a clean sweep in '26.
Or should I say we will mop the floor with them.
Oh heck, we will keel haul them.
Yep that’s why they’re seemingly unworried by anything. He’s going to use the insurrection act to cancel the midterms. Hopefully that’ll wake up the country to take to the streets in numbers he can’t stop.
Please don't say "this spring" as if the election day is weeks away!!!
Tell EVERYONE you know in Florida whether they live in the right district or not. They can still donate, they can still phone bank, they can knock on doors this coming weekend!!!
Gaetz seat is safe since Florida 1 is basically South Alabama, but Waltz old seat is definitely in play and that’s really bad news for the MAGAs, since Waltz won that seat by almost 30%.
Actually, there’s a lot of indication that even Gaetz seat is on pretty shaky ground! I mean, how many Republican congress members need to cro- i mean do we need to flip for Dems to have the majority again?
Winning FL 1 would be amazing. But I’d be thrilled with FL 5, even if we lost in 1. And of course winning the Wisconsin SC race is possibly the most impactful.
It's adorable that people still believe there will be future elections. We're barely past two months of this. There won't be any freedom left after two years.
Appreciate the sentiment, but as long as they are dumping umpteen-million dollars into swinging elections & pulling changes to shore up weakened candidates, voting still seems to hold some fear for them. While I don't take fair elections for granted, they don't seem over confident in winning.
I was questioning a chance at the Florida 6th seat and that seems plausible. But if polling in NY made them backstab Stefanik perhaps Florida 1 is in play.
It's ok. They are now giving DOGE access to all voter registration info...Do you know if Elon still has all those low orbit satellites he put up before the last election?
You know, for a guy who thinks Mexico mostly sends rapists and drug dealers - and then doesn't understand why so many people hate him - I can see how he'd be confused about why tariffs and extreme gutting of Federal Programs are making him unpopular.
Dems have out raised Republicans 9 to 1 in the Florida elections. These are still red districts but maybe Rep. are worried. Florida Dems have made 1.5 million calls in the last few weeks for candidates. Volunteers!
We did all that for Kamala, too. It didn't make a damn bit of difference. Florida has fooled me enough times. I'll believe it when the votes are counted and the Supreme Court has ruled.
Keep up the pressure! THIS IS OUR MOMENT for massive civic action. What we do… or what we fail to do will now matter unlike any other time in our lives. Read this if you are wondering why
Elise Stefanik (Republican Party) is a member of the U.S. House, representing New York's 21st Congressional District. She assumed office on January 3, 2015. Her current term ends on January 3, 2027
Well, honestly, it's a good sign they're worried about 2026 since up to this point it was looking like they weren't expecting to ever have another election ever.
They KNOW it would be in play. Farmers are effffing pissed. social Securiry recipients are pissed and Veterans are pissed. I bet Elise won’t do the 4 H fair next year.
To be fair, there was also a lot of talk and some NY legislation that was meant to help us hold the seat empty if need be, so arguably it's not necessarily her seat flipping that they're worried about, but it does indicate worry about other seats and in general.
Because it would be in play. I live here which is mostly rural or smaller cities/towns. Most people hate her. Now we can just boot her forever in her next election.
And what makes them think that even if Stefanik remains in that seat that it couldn’t still be won by a Dem in 2026 in light of the chaos they are causing in DC especially toward SocialSec? That would actually be better to see Stefanik lose that seat … come on NYer’s! Make this happen!
Yeah, but that doesn't matter, because in 2026 all the red states elections will be completely rigged. So losing a few seats in blue states won't matter, when Republican run states will be 100% red.
A fair and open election in 2026 is far from guaranteed. If the economy has crashed, and we're fighting wars in Canada, Greenland, and Panama, declaring martial law that summer is not out of the question. Especially if we are facing another pandemic for which worm-brain Jr has no solution.
This why they won’t allow for elections in 2026. And that should scare the f*ck out of all of us. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social what is you plan in 2025
as if there will be free elections in 2026. He already has bragged that Elon controls the machines.
How else would Every Single Battleground state suddenly flip?
It is delicious to see them entering panic after 65 days of torturing humanity with lies, tricks and cruelty.
Panic is the best they’ve got! Regret, guilt, shame, embarrassment are all outside of the GOP realm of being people. Why? Because they are so disordered. Panic is a fear response.
Yeah, except they are going to use every dirty trick they can come up with to block free and fair elections in 2026, 2028, and beyond, unless we can figure out how to take our power back.
Lindsey Graham said if the GOP nominated Trump, the GOP would be destroyed and they’d deserve it. He said that in 2016. They should’ve listened to him…hell, Lindsey should have listened to himself.
No ... the longer it goes on and the disgusting things he said about Joe Biden makes me now realize he was just attached to McCain who was a decent person.
None of of the decency or integrity belonged to Graham.
Ol' Lindsey is basically a sidekick. While McCain was alive, Lindsey was McCain's sidekick. People thought he was respectable because they respected McCain.
When McCain died, Ol' Lindsey attached hisself to trump, and the results were calamitous.
This is the first indication that they care about the election. They have acted with no regard for public opinion, as if there would not be a fair election.
We already know that they want to hold the seat till they can consolidate enough power to prevent a free and fair election from ever happening in the US. They're not there yet, they are very likely to be by 2026.
Republicans have always been very upfront about what they want. Law and order? Is using the law to create their own order; it is a stark absence of Rule of Law. Small government? Well, can't include hundreds of millions of people in a small government! They mixed religion and politics, it's a cult.
Poor poor Eloise! All the flip-flops & brown-nosing to a guy she must know is trash, and nothing to show for it. Go back to your safe(?) district. Maybe show a little spine now?
There are still 77 million people who voted for Trump in 2024 despite everything he has revealed about himself in the last 10 years. It may be possible to wrest individual districts back from the GOP, but unless at least one of those Fla. seats flips, I doubt wholesale change is coming.
call me a skeptic but I don't see the needle moving that quickly. I live in a deep red district R+12 and their flags are flying and truck bumpers and back windows full of stickers for the 🍑 🤡. My m a g a neighbor thinks elmo is a GeNiUs.
This conversation is about special elections that already happened this year, where Dems won (& came close to winning) in VERY red districts; & other special elections already scheduled for 2025, including two in Florida NEXT TUESDAY.
We have a chance to move the needle significantly on April 1st!
You assume the Republicans will allow an election, much less a free and fair one, in 2026. Citrus Caligula and his brood are just chomping at the bit for a reason to declare martial law so they can prevent any elections from happening.
That’s why they’re in such a hurry to consolidate power first.
The Democrats need to hold a convention of the blue state to talk about declaring independence and forcing Trump out of office. Play hardball, play dirty, take bold action!
I think that is their plan, you can't register if you don't have an actual address. Sooo they kick us seniors out in the snow with this SS rubbish and voila no more pesky senior voters. Also Vets, also families with disabled family members. Ya, they think they are so clever.
Wasn’t the Pennsylvania state senate seat won by Democrat with like a +23 point swing? Yeah they are scared!! I hope we can pull upsets in Wisconsin and Florida on April 1- it would send a loud message!
That Florida district is very red. Trump won it by 30 points. Randy Fine, who is running for the Republicans, has leaned heavily into Trump. But Josh Weil, running for the Dems, has raised $10 million while Randy has only raised $1 million. If Dems win that seat it'll be brutal for the GOP in 2026.
Our job as Dems is to help encourage others to vote in all elections no matter who won it the last time. I understand ppl look at this. But look at how many ppl were complacent to vote in the Pres. Election. 90 million ppl just decided yup im not voting. Imagine if republicans think they have it in
The bag, but get out voted bc dems didn’t care what the previous years numbers were. Plus I see a lot of disgruntled repubs that are not happy with the way things are going right now. We just need more Dems to show up and vote. Encourage them.All it takes is a post.Better to try, then not try at all
Gebdebien sucks. Not nearly as much as Stefanik, but he's one of those Schumers and worse. The Dems need to quit nominating rich, elite, out of touch folks who dont know and dont care about their consitiuents. Yet they do it again and again because they know the opposition is psychotic.
Is it possible that GOP only spent $1 million because muskrat is so good with computers? And Dems could spend 100 million & it wouldn’t matter. Genuinely asking
Oh wow! That’s amazing!! Ppl are speaking out! We have to push ppl to get out on April 1 to vote DEM to narrow the Republican lead in the House, which would make it harder for them to pass laws! It would bring some balance back to this craziness happening
I think there are a lot of ppl not happy about how the country is being run. In fact a lot of my republican friends that used to be nasty to me right after he won have now backed off of me and are like wow we didn’t think it would be this way. I tell them I tried to tell them in the nicest way
I know a lot of Maga, none of them give two shits about any of this. Trump makes them feel proud to belligerent, politically incorrect and racist. It doesn’t matter what he does or associated with, he makes them feel good about who they are.
You are 100% right. They do not care and in fact are cheering the hatred, the vileness and the disregarding of judges orders. But they are hypocrites when it comes to political correctness and cancel culture and they are incredibly Agnorant. It describes them all perfectly.
I’m sure they thought the same thing in Pennsylvania but a dem just won yesterday with a 23+ swing. And someone educated me that the last time a dem had won that seat was during Reagan’s years. Maybe we will get lucky and it’ll happen. I have to have hope.
I’m not going to give myself false hope. Florida has been deep red for a very long time and the Republicans have had such a tight grip on the state and the people seem to be perfectly fine with it. People always want it to flip blue but it never happens. I wish people would give it a rest already.
What I find crazy are these discussions which show truly how sick our Democracy is. In a functioning government they’d be changing course on policies to meet their voters - ya know, being public servants. Instead it’s protecting their agendas. We are a very ill country. We need more public servants
The WI race is a VERY important state supreme court seat.
But if Gay Valimont & Josh Weil win in FL next Tuesday, they become members of the US Congress IMMEDIATELY, making the tiny Rcon majority in the House RAZOR thin!
Tell EVERYONE you know in Florida, no matter where they live!
I def am! I post to vote for them daily and have reposted Obama’s call to vote in Wisconsin for the Supreme Court seat. Plus that one will send a huge message to musk that seats can’t be bought if we can win it. I feel like we need this win to lift our spirits. Though a State SC seat still important
I think the plan was “wreck the government and make the 2026 midterms irrelevant/not happen” - what if they didn’t factor in losing every special election?
This is why I roll my eyes at doomers. The current admin is scared shitless. They’re chaotic and reckless but we can fucking steamroll them if we have the courage.
That must have stung..telling her that " you better not lose your seat". No more MAR A LAGO visits. She will lose...NEW YORKERS know a SNAKE when they see it!!
Cut the head off!
Louder for the people in the back. We need you to catch up. THEY WILL NOT HAVE MIDTERMS! IF THEY DO, THEY WILL BE SH ELECTIONS WHERE THEY STOP/CHALLENGE ALL DEMOCRATIC VOTES! WE NEED A PLAN FOR THAT BECAUSE IT IS COMING!
One of the first of this group of Trump protégés to fall. She won’t be the first. He cares about NO ONE. She’s not as bright as people thought, is she, putting her future in his hands.
Thoughts and prayers to her. I believe her constituents have a wanted poster out for her in regard to town hall meetings. She's gonna have her usual pissy attitude for a while
I don't dare to believe anymore, after Krasnov was chosen last year and the way some Dem candidates turn out to be Reichpublican plants, it's difficult to trust the US voting system and voters (at least from here abroad)
Headline The Villages newspaper
Trump rushing to tele-town hall to bolster imperiled candidate in special election.
President Trump will take part in a tele-town hall at 6:30 p.m. today (Thursday, March 27) in an effort to bolster Fine’s campaign. The number to call in at is (833) 380-0653
Just think. These are the people that wants to destroy SS, Medicare, and Healthcare for everyone without hurting their election chances!
She should still be defeated!
I’ll believe it when I see it. The one and only thing the GOP is good at, is gaslighting and with Trump, fascist Fox News, gerrymandering, and voter suppression, these races are STILL CLOSE. 🤮
It’s part of a bigger picture. Watch and see. There is no way trump allows any Dem to be seated, especially if it means losing majority. Gotta give musk time to manipulate the machines or some other ridiculous thing.
How distressed must her electorate have been when she morphed into a MAGA politician. Wonder how they feel about her begging T. not to do it before he announced he was keeping her in congress (or so I read). Saw photos of the huge NYC apt. that would have been hers. With staff of course.
One of the anomalies is that the GOP Pres candidate highly over performed while the Senate candidate info was typical of votes for that areas party numbers.
There are at least two groups of staticians who have the data from some of the swing states and used that detailed information to graph the results. The graphs indicate highly unusual patterns.
Check out Election Truth Alliance. If you know statistics you will be interested in their data on Clarke county in Las Vegas. Their website has links to some interviews and has posted the data on two of the swing states. They are trying to get data from other swing states.
Don’t worry. They will hack the ES&S tabulation voting software again and win slightly so it’s not challenged. ESS is owned by a right wing PE firm McCarthy Group. If you think they didn’t have any open doors for software hacking you are living with your head in the sand.
This is exactly why I am not hopeful that the incompetence, corruption, etc of this administration will get them voted out. We need paper ballots again.
Many swing states had paper ballots but they are fed into tabulators that were likely compromised. All swing states used same two tabulators. All had similar results with just enough of a lead to beat the threshold of needing a recount.
No, that's not how it works. Not in Pennsylvania anyway. There's no way to compromise the machines. And if there was, it would be caught during the audit.
Any machine can be hacked. Anywhere. Connect that to the Internet which voting tabulation does and it’s easy. Companies like JPMorgan spending 100s of millions to protect them and get hacked. You really think someone doesn’t get paid millions at ESS to get source code and show how this gets done ?
only a few states have jurisdictions that don't entirely use paper ballots. that's been the norm for quite a while ever since the 2010s era of districts wanting to use ~advanced tech~ realized that paper was better for auditing, security, etc. DREs have VVPATs in most locations that still use them
I worked at the polls one time it was Nixon-vs-Mcarthy & we had punch card ballots (Collin County, TX). I watched them being counted in a machine @ the county seat and it was flitttt and they were done, the clerk doing it said "How about a recount", flitttt and there you go. Simple, accurate.
They sure have, voting was just punching the candidate's hole in the card in a cubicle & handing in the card.
Small community hardly on the map back then, now swallowed by Dallas,TX & we still had to chase off a guy campaigning too close to the polling place, even with clear signs posted. So crazy
It’s a good sign but I worry they’ll get desperate & panic so they start openly cracking down on voting in free & fair elections so they can stop this momentum.
That was always the plan but they thought they had another year to implement it.
Given their proven incompetence normally, rushing it gives a better chance of them failing and failing hard.
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That’s what worries me. If they try to ramp up their outright voter suppression plans now will they be successful? Will anyone finally fucking stop them already? If they try & get away w/ it I think we can 💯 give up on the idea that midterm elections will be allowed to maybe save us
They have known all along that they are going to get their asses handed to them in 2026 midterms. Susie Wiles all but said so recently herself. That is why the sense of urgency to burn it all down as quickly as possible.
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I thought dems were the peaceful party.
Voting with republicans to pass their spending bill? Was it a win? Hmm.
Or should I say we will mop the floor with them.
Oh heck, we will keel haul them.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-envoy-steve-witkoff-signal-text-group-chat-russia-putin/
If that how it is, we throw the mfs out
Every federal elected position is for a specific amount of time.
They lose their office at the end of that time.
No elections just means no one in that office.
Not. Holding. Elections. Does. Not. Extend. Anyone's. Term.
The offices would literally just be vacant.
Please don't say "this spring" as if the election day is weeks away!!!
Tell EVERYONE you know in Florida whether they live in the right district or not. They can still donate, they can still phone bank, they can knock on doors this coming weekend!!!
Veterans are being dragged out of town halls by thugs now.
Please read this. It is excellent.
https://bigthink.com/the-present/the-3-5-percent-solution/
Someone maybe ought to tell Elon.
https://mobilize.us/s/CFVFn9
SS Medicare/aid
Immigration
👉🏽 https://www.facebook.com/559835551/posts/10162576826495552/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Flip NY-21 in 2026
#Vote
Elise Stefanik (Republican Party) is a member of the U.S. House, representing New York's 21st Congressional District. She assumed office on January 3, 2015. Her current term ends on January 3, 2027
either way her politics career is done and gone.
Until we win back the house our country will suffer.
Hit their efficiency in get things done, discourage sychopants and unmask their agenda in the media.
They're playing a high stakes game, probably THE highest stakes of all time, and they should not feel complacent or safe.
SHE WOULD NOT EVEN SAY HIS NAME IN 2016:
"Trump's insults to women, promises to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and temporarily halt Muslims entering the country appear antithetical to Stefanik's 'big-tent''
Republican image"
https://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-local/article/Elise-Stefanik-won-t-say-Donald-Trump-s-name-but-7396796.php
How else would Every Single Battleground state suddenly flip?
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He's such a dumbass.
Panic is the best they’ve got! Regret, guilt, shame, embarrassment are all outside of the GOP realm of being people. Why? Because they are so disordered. Panic is a fear response.
They just don’t know it yet
And that explains why he has been on basically every side of basically every issue at some point in the last 10 years.
But, those days are long gone. He's gotten lazy and needs to go.
He is such a sycophant I can't even bear to look at him.
None of of the decency or integrity belonged to Graham.
I think he genuinely cared about McCain and Biden.
I think Trump has something on him. I keep thinking about how all it took was 1 day on the golf course for him to betray everything he stood for.
Something happened. But what?
Ol' Lindsey is basically a sidekick. While McCain was alive, Lindsey was McCain's sidekick. People thought he was respectable because they respected McCain.
When McCain died, Ol' Lindsey attached hisself to trump, and the results were calamitous.
https://www.ncsl.org/resources/details/supreme-court-rules-for-south-carolina-republicans-in-voting-map-dispute
Hum. Could all those government cuts be having an impact?
Do you have a congressional election this year?
We have a chance to move the needle significantly on April 1st!
The Democrats need to hold a convention of the blue state to talk about declaring independence and forcing Trump out of office. Play hardball, play dirty, take bold action!
Stand up!!
Impeach the orange felon
Now they don’t care because some orange Baffoon tells them it’s ok to be a complete asshole.
That's why I deliberately said tract of land.
But if Gay Valimont & Josh Weil win in FL next Tuesday, they become members of the US Congress IMMEDIATELY, making the tiny Rcon majority in the House RAZOR thin!
Tell EVERYONE you know in Florida, no matter where they live!
#VoteEveryYear
Cut the head off!
Maybe stop firing doctors? Maybe don't invade Canada?
There's a lot they could choose from.
I imagine a trade war would hit it hard.
Trump rushing to tele-town hall to bolster imperiled candidate in special election.
President Trump will take part in a tele-town hall at 6:30 p.m. today (Thursday, March 27) in an effort to bolster Fine’s campaign. The number to call in at is (833) 380-0653
Badly.
She should still be defeated!
https://saveworkingamerica.com/?en/articles/blog-20250321-spelect.ssi
We need WI in April and Florida or it is over for good. UGH
If the GOP was going to steal elections in those states, they would've stolen them for their senate candidates too.
Small community hardly on the map back then, now swallowed by Dallas,TX & we still had to chase off a guy campaigning too close to the polling place, even with clear signs posted. So crazy
Given their proven incompetence normally, rushing it gives a better chance of them failing and failing hard.
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IMHO
I'm in the UK btw.