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#DemocratsFightBack
Call it the #TrumpShutdown or the #GOPShutdown because no matter how much #MAGAMedia desperately tries to blame Dems?
Why are Democrats are holding out?
To save the Affordable Care Act so that MILLIONS of US can still afford care
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A Guy Named Brian (he/him)Jun 26, 2025

“You can’t run a Zohran Mamdani in every district in America, but you can run a Zohran Mamdani–style campaign almost everywhere. These are the lessons centrist Democrats in purple areas could stand to learn. Both the electorate and the media environment are changing quickly, and Democrats need to adapt to a new way of doing business.”

#Politics #USPolitics #ProgressivePolitics #Mamdani4Mayor #ElectionLessons #DemocratsFightBack #DemocratsAdapt #FightFascism

https://newrepublic.com/article/197247/mamdani-versus-establishment-democrats-cuomo

Mamdani Did All the Things the Establishment Hates. He Won Anyway.

There’s a growing appetite for something new and innovative growing among the electorate—and an opportunity for Democrats to grow that electorate, as well.

The New Republic

Tuck The Frumpers Jun 13, 2025

Pritzker and Newsom are showing Democrats how to fight back—calling out extremism, defending rights, and refusing to stay silent. This is leadership. No more playing it safe. #StandUp #DemocratsFightBack

A Guy Named Brian (he/him)Mar 20, 2025

“The administration’s attempt to ignore the laws the Constitution charges it with executing amounts to an attack on the right of the American people to establish the rules under which we live.”

#Politics #USPolitics #DemocracyVsAuthoritarianism #USConstitutionalOrder #FightTrumpism #DemocracyVsOligarchy #DemocracyUnderThreat #DemocratsFightBack #DemocracyMatters #DemocracyVsDictatorship #LettersFromAnAmerican

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-19-2025

March 19, 2025

On the Fox News Channel’s The Five yesterday, the panel of Fox personalities expressed outrage that federal judge James Boasberg had ordered the Trump administration to stop its deportation of migrants based on the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.

Letters from an American

A Guy Named Brian (he/him)Mar 12, 2025

“Without the luxury of Republicans falling apart, Democrats in the Senate need to decide whether to prevent a dangerous and harmful budget that shrinks the power of Congress in the government. Since operating on principle goes against their ‘adults in the room’ mindset, they are wavering on what to do. But it should be an open-and-shut case.”

#Politics #USPolitics #PowerOfThePurse #USCongress #DemocratsFightBack #DemocracyVsAuthoritarianism #FightTrumpism

https://prospect.org/politics/2025-03-11-senate-democrats-block-republican-spending-bill-or-dissolve-congress/

Senate Democrats’ Choice: Block the Republican Spending Bill or Dissolve Congress

The House’s continuing resolution would effectively hand over spending decisions to Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

The American Prospect

A Guy Named Brian (he/him)Mar 4, 2025

“This is the paradox at the heart of the situation the party finds itself in: Democrats want the high voter turnout, committed pavement-pounding, and grassroots energy of an excited base but seem to resent that they should have to do anything to get it.” 😕

#Politics #USPolitics #DemocraticBaseAwakened #DemocratsFearTheirBase #FightTrumpism #PrimaryCentrists #DemocratsFightBack #DemocracyMatters #ElectionsMatter #DemocraticBase #DemocracyVsAuthoritarianism

https://jacobin.com/2025/03/democratic-party-trump-resistance-leadership/

There’s No Hope for a Party That Hates Its Own Base

Democratic Party leaders want the benefits of an engaged activist base like the one currently challenging Donald Trump without actually having to listen to or engage with it.

A Guy Named Brian (he/him)Feb 18, 2025

“We need to lose the theory that these Dems are ‘spineless’ and just don’t understand how to wage political war. ... It’s not that they cannot—they *will* not. When it was Sanders or an individual who demanded even a modest change in policy on Gaza, they brought out the knives. When it’s Musk and his apartheid army of incels, they wield sporks. Yet, as we keep seeing, spork fighting is demoralizing.“

#USPolitics #Politics #DemocratsFightBack #DemocracyVsOligarchy

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democratic-party-fecklessness/

Why Democrats Won’t Throw a Real Punch

Faced with existential threats from the right, the Democratic leadership remains timid; faced with demands for justice from the left, it goes on the attack.

The Nation