StrangeSox

No I don't agree that a conservative tilt in the judicial system is a good thing. Don't want "flash in the pan" emotional cases like...equal rights for women, racial minorities, gay people, or anyone besides white men, really. Those silly, emotional people should be fine with waiting decades or centuries for the same rights, since the Constitution is pretty perfect after all!

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Non whites aren't US citizens under this administration

Paul Ryan's Super PAC got a hold of highly confidential personal information on a Dem opponent via her security clearance application for a job at the CIA and are now using it to smear her. The SPAC is claiming they got it from a FOIA request to the US Postal Service This is a pretty egregious fuck up on the USPS's part.

gonna love the inevitable capitulation on Kavanaugh as much as the midterms and 2020 are important, we're locked into conservative judicial hellworld for 30+ years now. any remotely progressive legislation will just be torn apart in the courts as more and more rights are given to corporations as they're taken away from actual people

It's hard to imagine a worse opposition leader than Schumer

hooooo boy off to a good start in the FL gov general

Yeah, primary turnout isn't a reliable predictor of general turnout/results.

it's good that we elected a dumb racist conspiracy nut as president

Mulvaney is deliberately undermining the CFPB he's running to funnel more wealth to big banks.

Many states have restrictive absentee rules where you have to have a documented reason on the approved list of reasons. Otherwise, sorry, only can vote on election day! This generally favors one party. States like Oregon and Washington are 100% mail in ballots

Seems like musk might be in a world of legal and financial trouble over a dumb weed joke

These threads have historically always been threads for Democrats, Progressives etc to post in, not a thread about Democrats necessarily. Same for the Republican thread

e.g.:

There's no direct temporal limit in the language of Art 2 Sec 2: " he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment" I'm not saying it's not a stretch, but I also wouldn't hold my breath against Trump trying something that dumb and the hack Roberts court upholding it, either. It's not a formally defined process outside of that single sentence.

They might have targeted lists so you're only going door-to-door to registered democrats. My local dem org figured that out a couple of years ago so that rather than canvassing the whole area and reminding everyone that there's an important election coming up, you're focusing on turning out your voters. You're not trying to convince a Roskam voter to switch in an argument on their doorstep, you're trying to make sure Casten or potential Casten voters show up to the polls! Not sure if the campaign is focusing on it, but Illinois makes absentee voting by mail very easy. Some states have very high hurdles, but in Illinois you just fill out a request and they send you a ballot. Here's the one for DuPage, which is where I think a majority of Roskam's district lays. Other county clerks' offices have similar pages. Hopefully the campaign is pushing the idea of early or mail/absentee voting, turnout turnout turnout! https://www.dupageco.org/Election/Voting/37064/ For the phone banking, I got the idea from a progressive primary challenge in Delaware, could look to that as a model. https://www.kerrievelynharris.com/phonebank/

So not exactly settled. re: Trump's CFO

Ford's pardon of Nixon came before Nixon was ever indicted.

There are phone banks and canvassing for Casten that you can sign up for: https://events.mobilizeamerica.io/castenforcongress/ Unfortunately I don't see the option that a lot of campaigns are doing where you can phonebank from home. Hopefully they add that as the election draws closer.

good news: bad news: ever since Roberts and the rest of the SC conservatives pretended that the 15th Amendment didn't exist and wrote Shelby County, one of the worst decisions morally and legally in decades, nearly 900 polling sites in formerly pre-clearance counties have been shuttered. Still, good that there is at least some resistance to Republican voter suppression and electoral rigging via gerrymandering that's gaining traction. There's still a solid possibility that Democrats win the overall vote in the House by a decent margin but R's still retain control this fall. A great "democracy."

They'll never turn on Trump so long as the conservative base supports him. That base has shown zero signs of cracking. The AP poll out today shows 86% approval among conservative republicans.

The publisher of the NE had recording devices in his office as well, and just received an immunity deal.