🚨COMPARE & CONTRAST: Democrat Policy Positions to DSA policies — then tell me if you think this is a *new* socialist take over 🤨 ✔️ Tax the Rich — Starting in 1909- 1913’s progressive taxation against “concentrated wealth” dates to Woodrow Wilson, and again in the 1930’s under FDR’s 1935–1936 “economic royalists” campaign and tax messages. ✔️ Universal Healthcare — In 1935, FDR considered including national health insurance in the original Social Security Act, but dropped it. In 1945, Harry Truman formally proposed a national health program and campaigned on it in 1948. ✔️ 32-hour workweek — in 1933, the Democrat led Senate passed a 30-hour week bill; but the 40 hour workweek was set in the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938. ✔️ Living wage for all — Since the 1930’s, living wage & wage increases have been a long standing and a core Democrat platform. It was a cornerstone of President FDR's New Deal agenda, & it translated into specific platform language and legislative since the 1930s. ✔️ Housing for All — Since the 30’s, FDR’s 1937 Wagner-Steagall Housing Act created public housing & in 1944 FDR introduced the “Second Bill of Rights” that included “the right of every family to a decent home.” ✔️ Expand Supreme Court — In 1937 FDR’s introduced the “Judicial Procedures Reform Bill”, aka the court-packing plan, after the Supreme Court struck down key New Deal economic programs. ✔️ Eliminate Electoral College — In 1969 a majority of House Democrats passed a popular-vote amendment; it died in the Senate. Similar effort was made in 1979. After 2000 & 2016, Democrats and Democrat run states backed the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. ✔️ Reduced U.S. military — McGovern 1972 platform, Post-Vietnam ✔️ Federalizing School Funds & Abolish School Choice — In 1965, under LBJ, Democrat federal financial support began with “The Elementary & Secondary Education Act” (1965). By 1979, Democrats w/ support from teachers unions, established the U.S. Department of Education as a full Cabinet-level agency. By ‘92 Democrats Opposed private-school vouchers & tax-credit scholarships over reducing students attending public school. ✔️ Feminism/Queer liberation — By late ‘72 Democrats began talking about including Gay-rights lang. into the Equal Rights Amendment, that passed in early ‘72 with bi-partisan support, cooling the bi-partisan support & becoming a Democrat platform talking point through the 80s. In 2010’s “queer liberation” and gender-identity became the present platform. ✔️ Reparations — In 1989 the effort ‘to the study of reparations’ began. Rep. John Conyers introduced HR 40 “the study commission”. In 2016, Democrats started talking about studying reparations again. Cash payments have not been a Democrat official platform, despite the rhetoric. ✔️ Green New Deal — In 1990’s Climate Action became as a Democrat policy with Al Gore. In 2019 the “Green New Deal” non-binding congressional resolution solidified Democrat support. If passed the estimated funding was between $7 trillion upwards of $93 trillion over a decade. ✔️ "Undocumented"/Illegal amnesty — In the 2000’s Democrats pushed for illegal immigration reform with a path to citizenship & became standard Democrat language, under the DREAM Act 2001 onward ✔️ Free public pre-k to college & Student debt cancellation — In 2013-2015 universal public pre-K was an Obama/Biden-era expansion, a scent pre-school alternative providers. In 2016, free college and debt-free 4-yr college became prominent platform. ✔️ Ending mass incarceration — in 2016 this reform language begins in the late Obama years, a late reversal after Democrats built the mass incarceration system when they passed or co-authored the 1984, 1986, and especially 1994 crime bills, under Clinton/Biden ✔️ Abolish ICE — in 2018 “Abolish ICE”, against Trump/GOP, became a Democrat policy after family-separation policy, committed under Obama) but was ✔️ Abolish Police — in 2020 after George Floyd

🚨🚨 THE DEMOCRACY FILES / ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK, PART 11: NOT-SO-INDEPENDENT SENATE CAMPAIGNS OF DAN OSBORN (NE) AND BRIAN BENGS (SD) 🚨 Two Senate candidates running as independents have ties to Renew American Democracy, the project ran by ex-USAID workers to restructure American governance. And one of them admits on video they've been "coordinating." According to the polls, "independent" Dan Osborn is in a toss-up race with Ricketts in Nebraska. Emerson has South Dakota "independent" Brian Bengs within single digits of Mike Rounds. The strategy is to elect enough independents to deny either party a governing majority—and use their votes as leverage for structural reforms. Osborn's 2024 field director, Austen Campbell, laid out the plan: "We have a goal for 2026 to run a slate of independents and deny both political parties the majority in the House of Representatives in hopes of getting an independent speaker." Bengs said echoed that on a September 2026 Renew to Thrive call: "We don't need to get 50 or 51 to change things. We just need a handful." In their words, this handful is to do "arm-twisting" to get the structural reforms they want. ➡️ Paul Zeitz's May 2026 Concept Note: open primaries, ranked-choice voting, and "independent" redistricting. ➡️ RAD's Constitution Emergency Response draft: an Article V convention with amendments on "campaign finance and voting rights restoration, healthcare, education, and economic security, and ecological rights and climate accountability." The draft calls that the MODERATE strategy. And the political objective extends beyond reforming elections. In 2023, Walt Roberts told the man who now runs the Independent National Convention that stopping the MAGA GOP was "job one." As for ending the two-party duopoly? "That's very secondary right now." Put those statements together. A plan to deny both parties a majority. Candidates running as independents. A small voting bloc positioned to extract concessions. A documented list of proposed constitutional and electoral changes. And a stated priority of stopping the MAGA GOP. The question for Nebraska and South Dakota voters is whether they know what these candidates' political allies have been planning... and whether Osborn and Bengs share those objectives.