Democrats Might Want to Put Her in Charge

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Democrats face frustrated voters at raucous town halls

Republicans are not the only lawmakers facing confrontational town halls over the congressional recess. Democratic lawmakers are increasingly facing the ire of the party’s liberal base over their response to the Trump administration.

Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) clashed with pro-Palestinian attendees at a town hall on Wednesday, leading police to shut down the forum. That followed Rep. Glenn Ivey’s (D-Md.) town hall on Tuesday, where he faced criticism for being too “calm” in the face of the Trump administration. And in California, Democratic Rep. Gil Cisneros faced constituents angry about Social Security, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, potential cuts to Medicaid and fired federal workers.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5 ... wn%20halls

[ZoWie]

One more reason why the real revolt has to be within the Democratic Party.

No more mister nice Democrats.

[rainwater]

i think dems are letting the magat1/2 et al behave express act out assuming that they will hang themselves.
the way the magats are headed this surely will occur..

tween magat2 freely expressing his inner..child...and magat1 forgetting EVERYTHING HES SPPSD TO SAY...
i doubt hes gonna stand much longer.
no matter the drugs he takes with his countless soda cans...his body aint gonna take this much longer.
as well he dont sleep, his brain is fukin fried.

all he knows is....Anger.

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Democrats reject advice to ‘play dead,’ vow hard fight against Trump’s domestic agenda

A month ago, James Carville, the highly influential Democratic strategist, advised his party to “play dead” and allow President Trump and his Republican allies who control Congress to self-destruct under the weight of unpopular policies.

House Democrats are rejecting the strategy outright.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5221 ... nda-fight/

[ZoWie]

One does not play dead when a government is seriously and repeatedly threatening them with the real thing. Letting entire political alliances self-destruct as a strategy contains the strong possibility that the civil order will self-destruct along with them.

[bradman]

Or we could shoot ourselves in the foot like Michigan did. What were ya thinking? He moved the Embassy for fuck sake.

I'm all for showing up at Republican town hall meetings when the orders from above restrict their own representatives from attending. i can see filling that void. But if we're going to start burning shit again we will lose on why that order came down in the first place.

Near as i can tell it's the middle that's now splitting Trumps hold. Not quite sure if i want to piss them off quite yet.

There maybe something to letting them letting 'em shoot their own toes off for a bit.

We'll know come midterms.

Till then, keep your stick on the ice.

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Go for it David don't back down

Party vice-chair David Hogg wants to unseat some fellow Democrats by funding primary challengers

Democratic National Committee vice chair David Hogg says he wants to fund primary challenges against Democratic lawmakers who he feels are “asleep at the wheel” and not fighting President Trump hard enough.

“What we're looking for are people who are effective leaders to fight back against Donald Trump,” Hogg, the founder of Leaders We Deserve, said. “And I think good examples of what that looks like are like what our senator from Maryland is doing by going to El Salvador to say we need to do something about the fact that Donald Trump is disappearing people, members of families, for example, and taking them to El Salvador. And what we're trying to do right now is make sure that we rally our base and that we make sure that we have effective Democrats in our solid seats and we want to help win majorities as well in Congress, which is why we're not challenging people in more

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/04 ... atic-party

[ZoWie]

Good on David. He's becoming a potent activist. We need more of those. I'm down with No More Mister Nice Democrat.

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And we're going back to Square One.

DNC gives David Hogg an ultimatum

The Democratic National Committee is going to force David Hogg to decide: Get out of the primary game or lose his DNC post.

During a member call on Thursday, DNC Chair Ken Martin is expected to announce a proposal to change the party’s rules to mandate all DNC officers stay neutral in all Democratic primaries, according to a person directly familiar with the plan and granted anonymity to describe private discussions.

The move comes after Hogg pledged last week to spend millions of dollars funding challenges to “asleep-at-the-wheel” Democrats in primaries, igniting a firestorm inside the DNC.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/2 ... m-00307113

[ZoWie]

Hogg can always raise money the way Republicans do... under the counter. Surely there are consultants who can help him establish the right kind of laundering schemes. Might as well use the weapons that the righties perfected against the righties.

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Democrats embrace the f-bomb

Democrats are embracing the f-bomb in congressional campaign messaging as they seek to tap into their party’s anger.

In recent weeks, a number of newly launched Democratic hopefuls for key House and Senate seats have pledged to “unf‑‑‑ our country” or have urged their party to “drop the excuses and grow a f‑‑‑ing spine.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5 ... profanity/

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Democrats make long-shot effort to stop Trump cuts to Medicaid and Snap

House Democrats are making a long-shot attempt to stop Republicans from downsizing federal safety net programs including Medicaid to offset the costs of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and tax cuts.

The Democratic House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, on Tuesday announced that his lawmakers are circulating a petition which, should a majority of the chamber sign on to it, would force a vote on legislation preventing cuts to the Medicaid health insurance program and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap).

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... -snap-cuts

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How to ‘Fast-Track’ David Hogg’s Removal: DNC Moves Forward With Vote to Void Vice Chair Elections

The Democratic National Committee is moving forward with a proposal to void the elections of David Hogg and Malcolm Kenyatta as vice chairs of the DNC, putting the question to the full committee “as soon as practicable.”

If successful, a revote would likely remove Hogg from party leadership.

https://www.notus.org/democrats/dnc-vot ... m-kenyatta

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DNC infighting threatens to throw party into ‘chaos’

Infighting at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is threatening to consume Democratic leadership just as the midterms are starting to kick into gear.

The tensions come after a DNC panel moved forward this week with the potential ouster of two elected officials, including gun control activist David Hogg.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watc ... allengers/

[ZoWie]

Meanwhile the Democrats are silent about the revisionist history being hammered in the press regarding Biden's mental state, as if it matters.

Democrats: it's time to rebel against this tired and superannuated leadership.

[Motor City]

Meanwhile the Democrats are silent about the revisionist history being hammered in the press regarding Biden's mental state, as if it matters.

Democrats: it's time to rebel against this tired and superannuated leadership.

A good article that gets to the heart of it and what Marianne Williamsons 2024 run for president taught us about the democratic party

When a political party silences its dreamers, it silences its own future. 2024 made that painfully clear.

Silent No More: The Suppression of Marianne Williamson and the Crisis of the Democratic Party

In 2024, the Democratic Party faced a choice: embrace renewal or cling to control.

It chose control — and today, it is paying the price.

Record-low approval ratings, disillusioned young voters, alienated progressives, and a deepening sense that the party has lost touch now define the Democratic brand.

The decision to sideline Marianne Williamson didn’t just silence a candidate.

It exposed a party unwilling to hear the very voices it needs to survive.

If Democrats hope to rebuild trust, energy, and purpose, they must first reckon with why they chose silence over renewal — and why they cannot afford to make that mistake again.....


....By shutting down debate, Democrats fed the very narrative they claim to oppose:

That they are elitist, dismissive, and more interested in protecting power than earning trust.

The lesson is brutal but clear: Managing dissent does not build unity. It breeds alienation.

more at link

[ZoWie]

The Democratic leadership is tired and anachronistic. It must go. People with a newer and more relevant view of the situation need to be in control. It's the duty of Democrats to contact their representatives and keep reminding them of that.

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Democratic Party is at risk of becoming ‘roadkill,’ warns Tim Walz

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz harshly critiqued the Democratic Party and its failure to connect with the working class in coast-to-coast appearances on Saturday, warning in a speech here in California that the party is at risk of becoming “roadkill” after its steep losses in the 2024 elections.

In one of the clearest signs yet that he is seriously weighing a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028 after serving as Kamala Harris’s running mate in 2024, Walz spent the morning addressing Democrats in the early primary state of South Carolina before dashing across the country to close out a gathering of state party delegates in Anaheim.

https://archive.ph/tFfo4#selection-453.0-461.359

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CA Dems soul searching on how they lost Latino, young voters

Boos. Heckles. Accusations.

At the California Democratic Party convention in Anaheim over the weekend, some Latino Democrats waged a contentious referendum on their leaders — and won.

https://calmatters.org/newsletter/calif ... ewsletter/

[ZoWie]

Judging from the weekly rallies downtown, the Chicano romance with drumpf was a short one. Something about seeing your friends captured by masked secret police and sent to torture prisons overseas does not sit well with ethnic identity groups.

This is not to say that the Democrats don't have problems. They have BIG ones. The problem has been clear since Ray Gun hypnotized the public. A persuasive line of propaganda was dispensed by news media taken over by a financial class wanting tax breaks and less government spending except for massive weapons contracts for their corporations.

The problem is starkly clear now. The Democrats are irrelevant. They alienated just about everybody, including constituencies that they used to own completely. We all know that this is what happened, so the question centers more on what we intend to do about it.

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Tim Walz encourages SC Democrats to redefine the party with action on policy, not promises

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called for a shift in Democratic Party values and making concrete changes during a meeting of South Carolina Democrats on May 31.

Thousands of voters and political leaders crammed into the Goodman Building at the state fairgrounds to hear Walz at the South Carolina Democratic Party convention, a two-day event in Columbia.

https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/ ... 964464007/

[ZoWie]

Action would be nice. It always does beat DC policy debate, though right now the Democrats lack the means of achieving very much from either.

It's obvious to me that we have a new historical cycle going, and US politics will have to be redefined to reflect this. The present struggle is less about civil rights, even though that campaign did not achieve all of its goals. Furthermore, the unpopular military draft a la Viet Nam doesn't figure at all. I would imagine that the course of history has made older policies regarding economic equality, wealth distribution, and social safety nets (or lack thereof) to be the big issues going forward. "Everything old is new again."

I'm weird, so for me the turning point seemed to be when the FCC was neutered and broadcast news no longer had to follow the Fairness Doctrine. That and Citizens United redefined the US class struggle by putting it back into economic terms. The upper class turned broadcast media into an instrument of policy, and made rich people's tax cuts more important than uplifting the poor. As a result, Supreme Court nominations became weaponized for class warfare. We've been in that ball game for years now, since politics always lag history.

I had a brief flash of hope when the "oligarchy" became the subject of the many protest signs that for a time were everywhere in this country after Trump Inc's attacks on Social Security and other Federal programs. It died down after Musk imploded, but still, maybe we're seeing the early stages of something historic.

[ZoWie]

Action would be nice. It always does beat DC policy debate, though right now the Democrats lack the means of achieving very much from either.

It's obvious to me that we have a new historical cycle going, and US politics will have to be redefined to reflect this. The present struggle builds on but transcends civil rights, even though that campaign did not achieve all of its goals. Furthermore, the unpopular military draft a la Viet Nam doesn't figure at all. I would imagine that the course of history has made pre-WWII policies regarding economic equality, wealth distribution, and social safety nets (or lack thereof) to be the big issues going forward. "Everything old is new again."

I'm weird, so for me the turning point seemed to be when the FCC was neutered and broadcast news no longer had to follow the Fairness Doctrine. That and Citizens United redefined the US class struggle by putting it back into economic terms. The upper class turned broadcast media into an instrument of policy, and made rich people's tax cuts more important than uplifting the poor. As a result, Supreme Court nominations became weaponized for class warfare. We've been in that ball game for years now, since politics always lag history.

I had a brief flash of hope when the "oligarchy" became the subject of the many protest signs that for a time were everywhere in this country after Trump Inc's attacks on Social Security and other Federal programs. It died down after Musk imploded, but still, maybe we're seeing the early stages of something historic.

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‘You essentially destroyed any chance I have,’ DNC chair told David Hogg in private meeting

Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin told party leaders in a recent private conversation that he’s unsure about his ability to lead the party because of infighting created by Vice Chair David Hogg.

“I’ll be very honest with you, for the first time in my 100 days on this job … the other night I said to myself for the first time, I don’t know if I wanna do this anymore,” he said in a May 15 Zoom meeting of DNC officers, according to a recording obtained by POLITICO.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/0 ... g-00393517

[ZoWie]

Oh, please quit. Your party is over collaborators like you.