Senior Fellow at Center for American Progress @amprog. Democracy crusader. Former Senate chief of staff, DOJ. Opinions my own, retweets aren’t endorsements.
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This is hugely important and cannot get lost. As Liz Cheney said, Jim Jordan was the congressman most involved with Trump’s plans to steal the election. Not only is he unfit to be Speaker, he should be expelled from the House, as I wrote in an @amprog report last April.
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My flight to DCA had to circle outside DC airspace for 30 minutes because of this
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🧵Gaming out an Alaska Senate Dispute
With things in Alaska heating up, I'm going to do my best to walk through some of the big questions if an Alaska Senate dispute unfolds....
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Much attention has been paid to potential hardball on January 3rd in terms of seating the new House and disputes over election outcomes.
Very little attention has been paid to the Senate, but the new DOJ lawsuit in Alaska raises the specter. Unlike the House, the Senate is a continuing body. 67 of its members will still be in office on January 3rd.
34 currently caucus with Democrats
33 currently caucus with Republicans
BUT, If Brown prevails in Ohio, he will be sworn in in December. Bringing Democrats to 35. Florida is the other special election, but even if Republicans win, they're still at 33, as Moody is already in their column above.
Could get messy very fast, but not clear that Republicans have the advantage on the floor.
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Hey @RichardAAttard, I love that picture. It was taken a few months after my wife ended her chemotherapy treatments during her battle with cancer. Hey hair was starting to come back, and I think she looks gorgeous here. And yes, I proudly stand with the LGBTQ+ community. Thanks
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The Alabama Governor race is now within the margin of error. If you've got friends or family in the state, call & encourage them to vote for the guy who knows what the three branches of government are.
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New - Senate poll - Michigan
🔵 Abdul El-Sayed 51%
🔴 Mike Rogers 43%
Verasight (C) - 10/23
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Once again, the President is focused on the core concerns of the American people. Not the cost of living, but… golf.
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We continue to see record turnout for a midterm. We saw a 26% increase in vote on Wednesday compared to 4 years ago. We will surpass the entire early vote cast from 22 today. One strong recommendation...if you are planning on voting early, do it today. Friday will be a monster turnout and there will be lines. Make a plan. Go Vote!
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The Trump administration is rolling back protections on a whopping 87% of America's protected ocean waters—opening up more than 1 million square miles to industrial fishing and potential deep-sea mining.
CAP talks to conservation expert Angelo Villagomez about how Trump is dismantling America's bipartisan ocean legacy, and how we can ensure durable, long-term ocean conservation that outlasts future administrations 🌊
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A warning to Donald Trump:
I’m deploying election lawyers to key battleground districts in California to protect every vote.
And I just made it a FELONY to illegally seize ballots.
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OMG Susan Dell showed up pushing Senator Mitch McConnell in a wheelchair at the High Heel Race and they were the talk of the night. These are by far the best costumes I’ve seen all year
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You’ve said nothing about your pal Cenk trying to screw over AES in Michigan with about a week to go til Election Day. Blame the guy who has an ad supporting AES in the campaign that is antisemitic. Not the primary opponent who endorsed him.
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REMINDER: The Trump administration and election deniers have tried to sow doubt about the security of election infrastructure, mail ballots, election results, and the citizenship of voters for the past decade.
These claims do NOT hold up to scrutiny, and in the rare instance that someone is under oath, election deniers often walk back their claims.
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Obama tonight on his Cheesecake Factory line: "They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke. The White House even called the Secretary of the Treasury. This is the man who is in charge of the economy. The person who's supposed to be figuring out how to make your life more affordable. The guy who's supposed to be figuring out how to lower inflation. And reduce interest rates. They told him he should hold a press conference in front of the Cheesecake Factory."
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Whatever happens, I want to plead with media, pundits, and strategists gaming 2028 not to simply look at Michigan results through standard Right vs Left / Left vs Center paradigms. If you asses this race and don’t account for the unrelenting racism, you’re engaged in malpractice
Vance on El-Sayed: We have to understand what happens when our nation gives into these kinds of people with zero attachment to its land or to its history.
What we saw in France, the hatred, the ingratitude, the desire to destroy rather than a desire to build, that exact same cancer that has corrupted El-Sayed.
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If federal employees take actions that impede how states administer elections, they face the potential for considerable criminal and civil liability under both federal and state law. ampr.gs/4iLjCq4
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New private GOP poll confirms that @VivekGRamaswamy was right: his end of campaign child rape ad was indeed a game changer axios.com/2026/10/28/gop-pol…
