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If #progressive, #leftist, or #liberal #Democrats want to make the coming flood of racist gerrymanders in the south backfire, they'd do well to study the betrayed and rageful ex-MAGA rhetoric in #CultCollege "Pink Phone" videos (where she shows how long-time and now-former #MAGA cultists are turning against Trump and his supporters).
Southern Democrats will need rhetoric taking that of Sanders, Talarico, and Platner a bit farther while advocating substantively similar policies in practical blue-collar language. They'll need more firefighters and retired military and working-class roots, even if some candidates have post-secondary education they got later. Where they run candidates of color, they'll need to address racial tensions more like Deeyah Khan or Daryl Davis than like Nina Turner.
DSA- or WFP-aligned Democrats will need to convincingly perform belief that most or all ex-MAGA had believed Trump's and his enablers lies: that it was about making housing and such more affordable (not making everything more expensive), about rooting out corruption (not becoming the most corrupt government in US history), about staying out of needless foreign wars (not starting a stupid and pointless war with Iran), about deporting cartel gangsters (not innocent nannies and gardeners), and about investigating and prosecuting #Epstein perpetrators (not protecting them).
They'll need to never say "white people" when they mean "white supremacy" or "white supremacists." They'll need to never say "men" when they mean "misogyny" or "misogynists." They'll need to never say "You were stupid" when they could say "They lied to us." They'll need to never say "It's all your fault" when they could say "Yeah, the same filthy rich liars telling me to blame it all on you are telling you to blame it all on me, when it's really always been them robbing us all along."
(Yes, racism and sexism were actually part of the motivation for many MAGA formers, but it's not effective in the months remaining before the midterm to tell them what they're not yet ready to hear. Bigotry is not unlearned through scolding: only through direct positive experience of the target, proving bigoted beliefs false. The first time it's effective for their racism or sexism to be acknowledged as such, in a context where they can hear or read it, is in first-person past tense. As for maintaining the urban vote the Democrats already had: anti-racists and feminists can use dog whistles too.)
NOW PLAYING == Black Agenda Report with Margaret Kimberley 5/7/26: The Struggle for Black Electoral Power in Louisiana
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"They Don't Care": Trump's Border Wall Construction Damages 1,000-Year-Old Sacred Indigenous Site http://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/8/border_wall_az
Construction crews in Arizona who are building President Trump’s expanded border wall have razed a portion of a Native American archeological site in the Sonoran Desert estimated to be at least 1,000 years old. Aerial photos reveal that bulldozers caused extensive damage to a 280-by-50-foot etching in the desert sand known as an intaglio, which holds special significance for the Hia-Ced O’odham people. Lorraine Marquez Eiler, co-founder of the International Sonoran Desert Alliance and an elder of the Hia-Ced O’odham, says locals informed both the work crews and Border Patrol officials about the significance of the intaglio. “On Thursday, late afternoon, they were still talking about how to protect the area and went home feeling that they were still working together. On Friday, for whatever reason, the contractors bulldozed the area,” says Marquez Eiler. “This wall cuts through sovereign ancestral lands that existed long before the U.S.-Mexico border,” adds Congressmember Adelita Grijalva, whose district includes the area. “The federal government is prioritizing this rapid construction of an unnecessary wall without any meaningful tribal consultation.”
Trump Pushes to Take Over Elections, Punish His Enemies: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter Ned Parker http://www.democracynow.org/2026/5/8/trump_elections
A new investigation by Reuters details how the Trump administration is seeking to gain federal control over elections in at least eight states, employing investigations, raids and demands for access to balloting systems and voter ID records for the campaign. “What we’re seeing is the Trump administration, in some ways, is seeking to relitigate the 2020 election, and they’re also seeking to impose federal authority over the administration of elections,” says investigative journalist Ned Parker. Parker also discusses the Trump administration’s campaign of retribution against the president’s perceived enemies, for which he and his colleagues at Reuters just won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. “What we found in our count of 470 targets was that it really cut across all aspects of American society,” he says.
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