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Our fundraiser for SwingLeft’s Blueprint for Democracy Fund directs money to often underfunded grassroots orgs & down-ballot candidates. These funds build voter power, strengthen in-state infrastructure & support Dems for state office. Click for details & to give now. swingleft.org/fundraise/sl...

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Please volunteer with WisDems to stop Elon’s threat! Less than 6 weeks to go in this campaign for Supreme Court Justice.

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You can also phonebank for this race from anywhere. If you can get to Wisconsin, you can knock doors. swingleft.org/p/wisconsin-...

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The ongoing and far-reaching cuts to USDA, FEMA and SBA (which reportedly lost 20% of its workforce to recent layoffs) are already impacting Maryland farmers. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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As I told @maddow.msnbc.com, we're fighting Trump and Musk's illegal power grabs everywhere we can — in Congress, in the courts, and on the ground in Maryland and across the country. They're counting on us to sit quietly while they tear our government and our country apart. We will not.

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS @democracyforward.org request to allow expedited discovery in lawsuit challenging DOGE access to Department of Labor data. First instance of discovery being permitted in the Trump accountability cases. Visit Democracy Docket for more info. www.democracydocket.com

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Our fundraiser for SwingLeft’s Blueprint for Democracy Fund directs money to often underfunded grassroots orgs & down-ballot candidates. These funds build voter power, strengthen in-state infrastructure & support Dems for state office. Click for details & to give now. swingleft.org/fundraise/sl...

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Over the weekend, Elon Musk and MAGA super PACs announced their intention to spend millions of dollars to take over the Wisconsin Supreme Court to push through their right-wing agenda. Together, we can stop them. Visit Swingleft.org/WI to take action now!

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🚨 Your House representative is now back home through February 23. That’s where we come in. With Trump and Elon Musk pulling off a billionaire coup in real time, this congressional recess is about turning up the heat like never before. Let’s get to work: indivisi.org/muskorus

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Informative, helpful article from the folks at @baltimorebeat.bsky.social about our MD General Assembly session this year.

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Swingleft has lots of actions to help Wisconsin elect the liberal candidate running to fill a retiring judge's seat. This court has been an important check on the republican legislators' gerrymandering & led to the fairest legislative election Wisconsin had had in years in 2024. Sign up today!

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The first big election that could put a real check on the Trump agenda is the Wisconsin Supreme Court race on April 1st. You can take strategic action right now. Join us in volunteering or donating to help liberal Judge Susan Crawford win. Join us now: swingleft.org/wi

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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

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Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash apnews.com/article/doge...

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Richest man in the world muses about Jailing reporters, nothing to see here

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The Richest Man in the World Says We Can't Afford Any More Cures for Cancer talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/nih-a...

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taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?

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We mock the egg price discourse but if Harris had won rising prices would have been the crisis cited as killing her presidency before it got started.

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The Prince George’s County special election primary is March 4 and a candidate has dropped out. 😳 With the way we vote now, that leave voters who have cast their ballot without a voice on the remaining candidates. See how RCV works better: app.rankedvote.co/rcvmd/PGCEX/vote

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If there's snow on the ground, that means it's a good day to knock on doors for Susan Crawford for Wisconsin Supreme Court! Join (you can also phone bank from wherever you are, from indoors): WisDems.org/volunteer

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Swingleft has lots of actions to help Wisconsin elect the liberal candidate running to fill a retiring judge's seat. This court has been an important check on the republican legislators' gerrymandering & led to the fairest legislative election Wisconsin had had in years in 2024. Sign up today!

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We have 57 days left before the 2025 General Assembly session ends and we are nearing important deadlines for legislation. Join us on Monday, February 17 at 6:30 p.m. for our 2025 Legislative Briefing & Action Call. RSVP: www.rcvmd.org/legislative_...

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Question for any legal minds out there. A US district judge handed Musk’s DOGE a win on accessing data at three agencies. His decision is based on classifying DOGE itself as an “agency.” As an agency, is DOGE now subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests? abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...

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The Republican budget cuts taxes for their billionaire donors, while cutting off Medicaid from older Americans in Nursing Homes. Every single Budget Committee Democrat voted against it. And now the battle moves to the House Floor.

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There's a protest at Stonewall. (This didn't go well for the haters last time around.)

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This coming Mon: RCV will brief virtual attendees on several Ranked Choice Voting bills before the MD Gen Assembly for this legislative term. Sign up using RSVP link below. There's also a google form so you can pose questions you want addressed at the briefing.

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Looking for an action to take this eve? Sign up for a short virtual training on how to gather signatures to put Abigail Spanberger on the ballot for the VA governor's race. Her campaign is offering this training tonight and on subsequent Tuesdays from 6-6:30 pm. www.mobilize.us/spanbergerfo...

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Today's lesson in "it's important to vote in every election" and "it's important to vote in every race on the ballot." Miyares got only 26,536 more votes in 2021's election than the Democratic incumbent, Mark Herring.

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Southwest is one of the companies, like Costco and Delta, that reaffirmed their commitment to DEI in the face of pressure to drop it.

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This coming Mon: RCV will brief virtual attendees on several Ranked Choice Voting bills before the MD Gen Assembly for this legislative term. Sign up using RSVP link below. There's also a google form so you can pose questions you want addressed at the briefing.

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Interesting thread about the potential effects of the President's attacks on federal government employees on VA politics this year and going forward.

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One thing I've been wondering about ever since Musk and co. took over is whether Virginia Republicans may be in extreme trouble in November. A lot of government employees live in NOVA. Youngkin had made some serious inroads in that region in his 2% win — and they may revert fast.

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This is the richest man on earth bragging about destroying an agency that’s returned BILLIONS of dollars to working Americans who were cheated by big corporations. Well guess what - the CFPB is protected by law and we will fight to ensure it can continue to fight for consumers.

submitted 15 days ago • 51 comments

Trump and Musk are slashing funding for lifesaving cancer research and much more. More Americans will die as they take a sledgehammer to decades of medical progress and cripple research institutes in Maryland and nationwide. We are fighting this with everything we’ve got.

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The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

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this is the sort of thing people like aaron and myself see all the time and we understand the msm is sanewashing him, as the great @parkermolloy.com noted, when they clean all this up and present him like he's a normal boy. for example, look at the ap report and compare it to the absolute shit

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Musk’s attempt to reduce the federal workforce by offering a ‘buyout’ is falling short of the mark. The White House set a goal of getting 5 to 10 percent of federal employees to take the deal. So far only 1 percent have opted in. Many are suspicious, rightly so. The deal expires today at midnight.

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Research by an immigration lawyer and a tech expert shows that ICE is gaming Google by updating time stamps on links to articles about raids that occurred years ago. The tactic pushes the articles to the front.The goal is to spread disinformation and sow fear in immigrant communities. It’s working.

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To me, it's simple. I'm not going to vote for or expedite a single Trump nominee while this constitutional crisis persists and deepens. That's just a component of real opposition, but it has to be the starting point. No complicity. Fierce opposition.

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“In 2022–23, the number of students ages 3–21 who received special education and/or related services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was 7.5 million, or the equivalent of 15 percent of all public school students.” nces.ed.gov/programs/coe....

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Republicans ran into the room to SHEILD Elon Musk from having to come and speak to Congress. They want their billionaire takeover done behind closed doors. The people deserve transparency. No one elected Elon Musk.

submitted 18 days ago • 526 comments

#Pennsylvania #Protest #Trump #Elon #50501protest #Democracy

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It’s not entirely clear what the purpose of these raids is, but from the outside it appears that DOGE is mainly concerned at this point with amassing huge stores of data, from payment information to private personnel records. @mattbaidc.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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People are still arriving. Even with rain. Austin, TX #3E #USProtests #r/50501 #feb5

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Brilliant, important piece.

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Understand that Trump and Musk are off doing their own thing. The base has outlived its usefulness.

submitted 18 days ago • 67 comments

Judge Kollar-Kotelly seems prepared to block Musk's two DOGE allies detailed to Treasury from sharing any Treasury records with Musk or others outside the department. She wants a filing from DOJ by tonight to see if the government will agree to that plan.

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