INTEL: In the last 12 hours, I've been talking with congressional staff, including some who work for senators who continue to vote for Trump's nominees. I just wanted to understand the calculus. Here's what they're telling me...
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Ezra Levin
UPDATE: 8 Dems voted today to confirm yet another Trump nominee during Musk's coup: Bennett (CO), Gallego (AZ), Hassan (NH), Heinrich (NM), Hickenlooper (CO), King (ME), Lujan (NM), Shaheen (NH). If you're a constituent, don't just call - write an op-ed, protest their office, make clear you care.
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zero excuses!
Sometimes you need to take a fucking stand because it’s THE RIGHT THING TO DO regardless of whether it’s popular back home or not
The staff tell me: If we want blanket opposition, we have to raise the temperature on their bosses back home.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cru6DBkH5gadq3S-mVhiSU72mC2ZeDHXG93jeiemFH0/mobilebasic#h
Is my only option to show up in person?
Not only that but I will work to get them voted out of office. Their argument for doing it is weak and very much puts @thedemocraticpartt.bsky.social at risk. Unbelievable
Could Indivisible also maybe publish a scorecard to track how Senators have voted on Trump nominees? These nominations move so fast it’s easy to miss them.
https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/26976/chuck-schumer
Do they really think that Trump’s nominees will care if they voted for them? They want to put every Democrat in jail!
They aren’t taking this seriously
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We are stronger when we stand together.
Poisoning our Personal Information! He is eating our Social Security!!!
South Africa is emptying their Mental Institutions and sending them here illegally!
Get to work ICE