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SomeNYDude (he/him)'s avatar

Why battleground states only? DCCC is clueless. EVERY STATE needs to know. Fascism knuckledraggers. Their decorum is useless.

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Sarah Jones & Jason Easley's avatar

Because the goal is to win the majority and not waste money in red districts.—-Jason

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SomeNYDude (he/him)'s avatar

No, I disagree. That strategy is what got us into this mess. I live in a strong red district in Texas. People will lose healthcare. Kids will go hungry. They will pay more in taxes. The debt will explode. Hospitals will close where I live. Poverty will increase.

All of you fight for the battleground districts. We will fight in the red districts and cause them pain. At the local, state, and federal level.

The remaining 90% of the country will not be ignored. We are heavily gerrymandered and vote suppressed.

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Barney's avatar

The opposition needs to do town halls, soap boxes on the street to let everyone know what the Republicunts have done

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SomeNYDude (he/him)'s avatar

Amen! We are all the opposition now.

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Larry's avatar

The voice of reason. I would say that it depends on the percentage of red though, because the recent trends have shifted a lot since November 2024. However, there is a warning Jason. These maga's voted YES even though they all know that the polling is underwater on the billionaire bailout bill. Expect the same billionaires to openly call for NO ELECTIONS IN 2026... just wait for it.

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MPC's avatar

The elections are conducted by the states. Stop fear mongering about “no more elections.”

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Barney's avatar

Gerrymandering won’t mean a thing when the overwhelming majority is against them!

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Bluesmurf's avatar

While the DCCC is targeting Battleground states, it is up to the rest of US (We the People...) to inform everyone we possibly can. I put a list of names who voted yes on this Big Ugly Bill in my substack. It's a start to name the people who betrayed America.

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https://substack.com/@bluesmurf

https://bluesmurf.substack.com/p/breaking-news-well-they-passed-it

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Larry's avatar

Great. I will look at the very close house races in 2024 of like 2% and expand the margin to about 10%; should be enough for a landslide if we have elections in 2026.

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SomeNYDude (he/him)'s avatar

100% and thanks for your efforts.

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Brenda Doherty's avatar

You have to target the most vulnerable Republicans. You are not going to beat MTG. Her voters are as bad as she. We need to spend the money where we can succeed.

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SomeNYDude (he/him)'s avatar

At this point, every seat needs to be contested. Including MTG, every state position, every state judge. Congress has declared war on the American people.

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Brenda Doherty's avatar

Where would you suggest the money comes from to target every state? Let’s be realistic, Dude! How much are you giving?

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SomeNYDude (he/him)'s avatar

https://www.runfor.us/

All local, state, and federal seats need a D or I fighting the R’s. I don’t know where we get the money. But I know collectively we have more money and more people than they do. People need to hear the truth.

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Rosemarie's avatar

Must make sure EVERYONE knows

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Larry's avatar

Then stop blaming and start your own f'ing party!

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SomeNYDude (he/him)'s avatar

Ridiculous comment. DCCC’s vision is too narrow and too short.

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Larry's avatar

Oh, as I figured, you are too lazy or a False equivalent hogwash troll. block

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SomeNYDude (he/him)'s avatar

Toss me a billion and lets go. We need to clean out the establishment dems. You got the money big talker?

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donleishman@shaw.ca's avatar

Why does anyone need a billion for an election?

Repeal Citizens United.

Corporations are NOT people.

Get Big Money out of elections.

Tax the churches.

Don't like this? Get over it.

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Eva Seifert's avatar

And EVERY single thing you mention requires Congress. And requires a whole lot of money. I'm on a fixed income and now paying a lot more for rent than I had before (had a very good landlady who didn't increase the rent in 8 yrs). I have no extra funds. And I'm far from the only one here. Like it or not, changing Congress does cost money. Like him or not (and I despise POS), he had a gift for getting people who really couldn't afford it to send him money for his grifting products and rallies. And like it or not, that requires a national organization to figure it out. And a national figure that's the D equivalent of POS.

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donleishman@shaw.ca's avatar

Your condemnation is pointless.

It's you that is wrong thinking only battle ground states will be effected and hear the message.

Every citizen will know what the Repugs did to the middle class and the poor, regardless of you slurring the DCC.

Extra effort in some purple states is fine with me.

Do you have anything positive to contribute?

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Pat H's avatar

Don't ask me for money. SHOW ME WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND WHAT YOU PLAN TO DO!

BTW, I live in Florida. This used to be a Purple State. We voted TWICE for Obama. What will you do to help us win back the majority of voters. We have a long term Congressman in my district (Vern Buchanan) who has always voted the party line, even when his own surveys tell him they do not support what he votes for! Help us get him OUT!

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Larry's avatar

Well, sounds like you want to blame Us Democrats. I call bullshit. WE ARE NOT THOR OR SUPERMAN! America was warned like a flare gun in 2024 about this maga pit viper snakeshit but "The AI Internet" had it's plan for conquest via human "crack algorithms" of racism.

GDP is dropping, unemployment is rising, prices are NOT coming down, global temperatures are still rising and the new Pharaohs of wall street have just stolen another $3 Trillion from the Poor and Middle Class to buy more yachts, drugs, hookers AND VOTES!

Only two ways out now, Florida's Alcatraz Auschwitz or lengths of short ropes for the billionaire bastards and minions. Oh, and a special French Solution to the AI Social Media Moguls too.

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Scared But Angry's avatar

Yes exactly what I told them after election when they sent me request for money! No more money till they have a solid plan to win elections. Fix real issues to majority of voters and they will vote for you. Focus on people who do not vote but get screwed over by politics. They need better plan and out reach via communication.

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Larry's avatar

Where do we reach out? The billionaires own the internet, gaming sites, airwaves, radio and newspapers with AI snakeshit. Maybe a podcast? Our Democratic Group has been calling and walking neighborhoods to avoid the false snakeshit on the internet and it worked in 2024 for our local location. But, we are only 150 strong, we can't go coast to coast and we are not psychologists either.

Oh, and those people that do not vote yet get screwed; they still don't vote because of the "mean" people on both sides arguments from social media. I can't tell you how many times I have heard that. Yes, they still complain.

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Scared But Angry's avatar

You are right is hard to reach some people. Those hard core MAGAs especially. My family tried hard to persuade one’s in our family they will not listen to reason. They will find out in long run by how if affects them personally! Might be only way some learn lessons on republicans now. I have long thought some of us Americans take our freedoms for granted and have had it too good for so long. We think we suffer? We are to going to FAFO the hard way . We may look like Haiti before some realize error of their ways.

Take away all safeguards for public good and see what happens. Learn at your own peril.

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Sarah Jones & Jason Easley's avatar

You don’t want Democrats spending in every district. It would be a waste of money. ——Jason

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Larry's avatar

Our local congress bastard won in 2024 by a 60/40 vote. Do you think we have a chance?

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Semolina Pilchard's avatar

MAGA is evil personified

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Larry's avatar

Bingo!

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Mishelle Henson's avatar

Will we even have a midterm election? They’re putting barricades and fencing around the capital the White House. As soon as the Republicans passed the bill, Donald Trump was on the phone to Putin. I need some reassurance. This is grim This is really really grim.

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Bluesmurf's avatar

For the many MAGAs that support drumpf and no more elections, there are millions and millions who do not. Hold onto that! No democrats in Congress, any State, County, City or local government will support no more elections.

At the moment, elections are controlled at the state level and the Supreme Court upheld that position. We have to show our support no matter what we 'think' might happen. We have to show our discontent on what has already happened, and we have to show up and voice our anger (peacefully) when called.

Hold on to that until we hear more from the people with power.

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Mishelle Henson's avatar

I live in Ohio. Very red very gerrymandered very much ignoring their constituents. So this is good news it’s hard to get quality news here. Thank you. I will always go down fighting💙💪🏼

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Bluesmurf's avatar

I also have a substack with a whole lot of additional information, news, and articles I wrote on how our government works and a lot of other subjects. I am currently going through the Big Ugly Bill and breaking down each piece and reporting on that. Check it out if you are interested.

https://substack.com/@bluesmurf

Articles by Bluesmurf - https://bluesmurf.substack.com/p/articles-by-bluesmurf

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Larry's avatar

The supreme court is filled with maga whores and will do anything to keep power.

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Larry's avatar

Good question, I am afraid the answer is NO. I mean 65% of the country is against this bullshit bill and maga went ahead and voted YES anyway. That is your clue.

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Deanna V's avatar

“battleground” Really? WTF why are we even using that word? How about the dems send people to run in EVERY STATE including all rural areas.

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Larry's avatar

In my district we have. And, we have lost every 2 years since 1993. You have to pick your battles.

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Deanna V's avatar

I agree you have to pick your battles, but we've been picking poorly, based on what we *think* we'll win and the strategists have been wrong. For an excellent rural perspective see @jesspiper on substack

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Larry's avatar

I live in a rural area and have talked with the maga cultists eyeball to eyeball; they are gone and are NOT American any more. However, what "they have picked" are billionaire bullshit artists that lie on an hourly basis. They lie via their pimped social media platforms, newspapers, airwave stations, gaming sites, and more, 'bout f'ing everything being Joe Biden's fault or the fault of brown people. Guess what, the billionaire bastards have another $3 Trillion Dollars to pay for even more VOTES on their social media "snakeshit" crusade sites now.

Homo Sapiens have done this for ten's of thousands of years. They build a society, someone cons them into being "their leader" and the next thing you know the peasants are building golden pyramids, golden temples or golden castles for some rich jerks and making sacrifices of virgins; or the get slaughtered. Yet, here we are again under the boots of these same bastards that have no empathy expecting a different outcome.

If there is another true nationwide election in America, AND Democrats win back our government. We will bring back the Fairness Doctrine to ALL media and Apply the same rule to the Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act too; No More Lies and stiff penalties for the offenders.

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Bluesmurf's avatar

I've read through the bulk of the few comments here and one thing is for certain - we are all really MAD! YES.WE.ARE!!!! Take a few days off - it isn't going to change anything. Enjoy your family and the holiday. Take a breather. When you are one step past the MAD, get back on here and let's fight this thing.

It isn't over until it's over. We just have to work harder to fight back. For those of you giving up today - please re-think this. We need everyone to stick together no matter how bad it gets. There are people living in authoritarian regimes right now and they are standing together and standing tall and fighting back. We haven't completely lost our country as of today or even next week. As long as that is true, then we can still fight with all the others who are fighting. Passing that bill DID NOT TAKE AWAY OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS!

I have posted a list of all the turncoats who passed that bill in my substack. If there is someone on that list you can campaign against, then please plan on doing that. Get the word out that they need to go. We have 17 months until the next election (and I believe there will be one, even if there is a big WAR to make sure we do) - so we have to campaign every day against these people so voters' short memories do not falter.

Of course by then some of the Medicaid cuts will take effect and it is going to hit the red states very hard - except the ones that Lisa Murkowski bargained out of them for her vote.

Hang in there everyone! We are not beat yet!

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https://substack.com/@bluesmurf

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Larry's avatar

The supreme maga court is to blame for taking away our CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. As Crazy at it sounds, we need a Strong Member of the Military to Step Forward Now. But, based on the situation with ICE and "Homeland Security" nationwide, it is a long shot. I think most of them would just nuke Blue cities and States to bring on the "rapture" and be done with us "woke people."

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Martha Kenne's avatar

I think it's a good plan! However, I doubt that GOP-voting (or Magat) people will believe it until something in the BBB personally affects them negatively.

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Kevin mcclary's avatar

Bingo! They have a complete lack of knowledge or empathy until it bites them personally in the ass! Shame on every last one of them!

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Larry's avatar

It has bit them like a cobra and they still don't get it. It's a death cult now.

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Eva Seifert's avatar

No, it hasn't bitten them yet. Yeah, they complain about gas prices, grocery prices, rents and the like. But they have little understanding about who actually sets those prices. But medical costs - when hospitals start closing, when doctors disappear from their areas, when their insurance bills go through the roof, and Ds can actually point to the what the Rs have done - then they might notice.

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Larry's avatar

"The magas" complain about 16 million jobs created by Job Biden too and now they cheer because we are loosing jobs. It's like they are Russian or something.

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Martha Kenne's avatar

Yep!

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Larry's avatar

Not going to happen for the lost maga's that are about 35% of "the people." Everyone now hates this bill but somehow could not vote for a Black Woman in 2024. Racism is still alive and well in America and that can't be fixed any time soon.

Expect the Trillions the bastard billionaires just got, literally, to go absolutely SCORCHED EARTH in 2026; even calling for no elections at all. Wait for it.

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Kevin mcclary's avatar

They certainly have the ball and will most certainly run with it.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely!

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Larry's avatar

Yep. The tell is when muskrat comes crawling back to maga.

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Kevin mcclary's avatar

Let’s hope both their egos will cancel them both out!

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Larry's avatar

Hope doesn't work,

Organizing at City, County and State Levels Work

Door to Door Works

Targeted Boycotts Work

Large Protests Work

Vehicle Horns Work

Labor Slowdowns Work

Knowing Personal Rights Work

Passive Civil Disobedience Works

Knowing and Teaching History Works

Photographs and Video Works

Doorbell and Security Cameras Work

Drones With Cameras Work

Protection Training for Dobermans, Shepherds and Rottweilers Works

Rotten Eggs, Tomatoes, Stinky Dog Crap, Raid, Skunk Essence Works

Personal Mace Works

If all else fails Know Your 2nd Amendment Rights.

Good Luck

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Kevin mcclary's avatar

I agree with your comments although hope is what creates most of the other things you mentioned. If we truly didn’t have hope at all, there would be no effort toward improvement.🙂

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John Berdahl's avatar

WE need to be LOUD AND PROUD. So many people hurt. This CANNOT STAND. The campaign to reverse this STARTS NOW!!!!!!!!

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Tom Halstead's avatar

They must attach this monster to individual, named Repugnicans, not just a broad, amorphous party, or their efforts will be for naught.

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Larry's avatar

Name names but watch out for the $3 trillion in AI internet social media billionaire bombs about to fly to your screen soon saying even more lies and snakeshit.

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retrofocus80's avatar

Our Democratic representatives will be traveling to red states in those districts of reps who don’t hold town halls and inform these voters what was in the bill that was voted

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Joan Behr's avatar

I understand that the republicans have carefully orchestrated this Big Ugly Bill so that the actual painful cuts and consequences of this bill won't take place prior to the 2026 midterms--and then after the midterms, the hammer comes down on the electorate. How do we propose to inform American citizens of this subterfuge and what is going to befall them??

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Larry's avatar

Door to door.

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Elizabeth's avatar

Sadly, maybe 20%of those illuminated will care. The rest need to suffer the consequences of their limited beliefs B4 they grasp reality.

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Kristie's avatar

They need to go to every state, city and town! This is now war! Letting the entire country know exactly what the Republicans have done is the only way dems will win back the house and begin to pave the way to the White House!

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Larry's avatar

Now you are talkin' 2nd Amendment.

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Sara K.'s avatar

That's just more finger-pointing. The Dems or any other party needs to start at the local & state level to tell the people what they CAN DO to get us out of this mess.

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Larry's avatar

Simple, tell The People to Vote For Humanity and Against Insanity. The problem is getting through the billionaire "media" walls of normalized bullshit everywhere you turn around or yells out "SQUIRREL!" every 5 seconds on "media" platforms that distract People from the obvious:

The People Want Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.

The People Want Protections From Decease like Polio, Rabies, The Plague & Cancer.

The People Want a Functional Federal Government.

The People Like Mexico and our NATO Allies.

The People Know Rampant Tariffs Are Costly.

The People Want to Raise The Minimum Wage.

The People Want Corporations & The Trillionaire Club to Pay a Fair Tax Rate.

The People Want Women to Control Their Own Bodies.

The People Want to Limit Political Money In Our Elections.

The People Want Affordable Housing, Day Care & Education.

The People Want Ukraine to Defeat Russia.

The People Know The Pardons for January 6th Were Wrong.

The People Want a Clean and Safe Environment.

The People Want to Protect National Parks and Lands.

The People Want Sensible Weapon Checks and Safeguards.

Worldwide Democracy, not just Democrats needs some sort of Global Bullhorn.

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jill_uss's avatar

Every state needs to know what this bill did to the lower income families. Democrats must do town halls in all Red States not just battleground states. They have to get on Substack, Bluesky Tic Tok, flood the zone.

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Andrea R's avatar

The problem is that most people don’t go to town halls and the people we need to reach aren’t on Substack or Bluesky. Good for organizing the resistance but how do we get info to people who only watch Fox News or no news? Maybe we need to start jamming flyers in people’s mailboxes. I did hire an arborist who did that so it occasionally works. But we all need to be thinking more out of the box as to how to get info out of our own bubbles.

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Larry's avatar

Democrats are and have been doing Red town halls for months. What Democrats do not have are $3 Trillion Dollars in free money via the big bullshit bill, to attack magas with because we are low middle class or poor that have to work instead of steal money for a living.

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jill_uss's avatar

Something broke through because the Big Ugly Bill is the most unpopular bill ever passed. Dems have to keep the message out there.

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Larry's avatar

Why the hell do Democrats have to keep saving the f'ing World from morons? And we don't even get a thank you. We've been cleaning up maga snakeshit since 1933 and here we are again.

I do thank my Democratic Grandparents that lived through the Crash, that lived through the Dust Bowl, that lived through WWII for my strength. I also thank them for warning me that "republicans" sell you nothing but bullshit and never believe a word of what they say.

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