A Really Bad Jobs Report, Encouraging New Texas Poll, Senate Votes On Blanche Today - Make Your Calls Everyone!

We LOST jobs last month. Our failed President just keeps failing......

Morning all. The confirmation of Todd Blanche is likely to come up for a vote in the Senate today. Senators Collins and Murkowski are nos. With McConnell not voting we need just one more Republican to vote no and Blanche goes down. Make your calls everyone, particularly those of you with Republican Senators!

The big news of the morning is that our failed President just keeps failing. We got a really bad jobs report today - 23,000 jobs lost in July, May and June revisions took another 103,000 jobs off the books. So total job loss in this report is 126,000 jobs from the previous report. Ugly stuff.

There is no question that Trump’s policies - war, tariffs, mass deportation, big ugly bill - have not just caused costs to rise for our workers and businesses and real income growth to turn negative, but they have dramatically slowed the economy too, creating less opportunity for the American people:

Over his two terms Trump has the worst jobs record of any President since Hoover:

Note that since WWII job growth has been three times faster under Democratic Presidents. Three times.

Here’s an updated version of that chart that Bill Clinton referenced at the Democratic Convention in 2024:

Yes, in every way imaginable our failed President keeps failing…..

As I discussed in my weekly talk this week, Fed Up With Trump’s Failures And Betrayals, The American People Are Giving Us A Chance To Lead Again. It’s An Opportunity We Must Seize, Together, Trump’s ongoing failure has caused the election to move even further away from them and encouragingly towards us. Here’s confirmation of that movement in a new, high-quality poll in battleground Texas:

Statewide Races: Remain Close, With Movement Toward Dems Since June

US Senate: Talarico 47% Paxton 43% (from 46–46% in June)

Governor: Abbott 46% Hinojosa 45% (from 49–43% in June)

Attorney General: Middleton 46% Johnson 44% (from 45–40% in June)

Lt. Governor: Goodwin 48% Patrick 46% (from Patrick 49–44% in June)

Generic Ballot: GOP 47% Dem 45% (from 49%-42% in June)

We have a wide selection of new interviews of our top candidates available fresh and ready for your weekend listening and viewing pleasure:

• Senate - Sherrod Brown (Ohio), Troy Jackson (Maine)

• House - Rebecca Bennett, (NJ-7), Christina Bohannan (IA-1), Rebecca Cooke (WI-3), Sarah Trone Garriott (IA-3), Sean McCann (MI-4), Jo Mendoza (AZ-6), Dr. Richard Pan (CA-6), Denise Powell (NE-2), Manny Rutinel (CO-8)

And yes, it that time again, everyone, time to……

Fight With Everything We Got For Freedom And Democracy People!!!!!

Winning The House and Senate In 2026

Special Fund To Rush Troy Jackson $100,000 By August 10th - Donate Today! | $83,100 raised, $50,000 original goal, $100,000 new stretch goal | Friends we hit our original $50,000 goal in the first 24 hours of this new campaign to get Troy Jackson the resources to staff up, build out his campaign, and beat Susan Collins. Amazing - thank you all!

We aren’t stopping here - this early money really matters, and I want to now try to get to $100,000 by Monday, August 10th. Be sure watch our new interview with Troy.

Our Winning The House Campaign - $1,058,300 raised, $1,250,000 goal (new stretch goal) - Donate | Donate to all twelve of our initial wave of House challengers with a single contribution split twelve ways | Get to know Jamie Ager (NC-11), Christina Bohannan (IA-01), Paige Cognetti (PA-08), Rebecca Cooke (WI-03), Elaine Luria (VA-02), Sean McCann (MI-04), Jo Mendoza (AZ-06), Chaz Molder (TN-05), Jonathan Nez (AZ-02), Janelle Stelson (PA-10), Shannon Taylor (VA-01), and Sarah Trone Garriott (IA-03) by watching our recently recorded Hopium interviews.

Friends, if these twelve courageous candidates win, the House will flip, even with Callais and their rancid mid-decade redistricting. So eyes on the prize here everyone!

Winning The House - The Second Wave Fund (Newly Expanded) - $256,100 raised, $500,000 goal - Donate | We’ve launched a second House fund, one supporting candidates who’ve emerged from recent primaries and need a bit more help. Our newly expanded list now features Rebecca Bennett (NJ-07), Bob Brooks (PA-07), Cait Conley (NY-17), Johnny Garcia (TX-35), Bob Harvie (PA-01), Dr. Richard Pan (CA-06), Denise Powell (NE-02), Bobby Pulido (TX-15), Manny Rutinel (CO-8), Dr. Amish Shah (AZ-01), Randy Villegas (CA-22), and Marni von Wilpert (CA-48).

A donation to the Second Wave Fund is split evenly among these twelve, and more as other worthy candidates emerge from their primaries. Our total above includes money we’ve raised for directly for each candidate. You can watch interviews with those who’ve interviewed so far here. We are off to a great start here everyone!

Winning The Senate - $643,100 raised, $1,000,000 goal - Donate | This new fund splits a single donation to our six candidates must likely to flip a Senate seat this November - Sherrod Brown (OH), Roy Cooper (NC), Troy Jackson (ME), Mary Peltola (AK), James Talarico (TX), and Josh Turek (IA). Our working total includes what we’ve raised for these six so far through direct donations to their campaigns. You can watch our interviews with each of these great candidates and/or contribute directly to any of them directly here.

Expanding The Map - Investing And Winning In Key Battleground And Expansion States

Winning Georgia - $29,400 raised, $300,000 goal - Donate | This new fund splits a contribution three ways among Senator Jon Ossoff, gubernatorial candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms, and the Georgia Democratic Party

Winning Iowa - $31,800 raised, $300,000 goal - Donate | Our Winning Iowa fund splits a contribution three ways - to Josh Turek for Senate, to our gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand, and to the Iowa Democratic Party

Winning Maine - $79,600 raised, $75,000 goal - Donate | We set up this fund to help the Maine Dems get through our nominating process. With this community’s strong response we put up almost a third of the resources needed for what became a very successful process to pick a nominee. We had a big return on this investment - thank you all!

Winning Ohio - $186,100 raised, $300,000 goal - Donate | Our campaign splits contributions evenly among Sherrod Brown, the Acton-Pepper ticket, and the Ohio Democratic Party and its terrific Chair, Kathleen Clyde

Hopium’s Audacious Expansion Fund - $644,600 raised, $1,000,000 goal - Donate | Join our campaign that has helped expand our map by investing in the Democratic Parties of Alaska, Florida, Iowa, Maine, and Texas, all now central battlegrounds in the 2026 election | Contribute to all five state parties with one contribution split evenly among these five critical battlegrounds | Catch interviews with the five intrepid state chairs leading their troops into battle this year - will get you fired up!

A Few More Things To Do

Let’s work to make sure everyone you know is Voting Early this year. Learn more about how we can best protect our elections this November and ensure a peaceful transfer of power in January. Bring our Resolutions Project to your community. Fight for Hopium’s Agenda and let’s also embrace Leader Jeffries’ new agenda, “Fighting For An Affordable America.” Become a paid subscriber to Hopium to help us grow this community of proud, plucky patriots.

Many are asking about the news coming from the DNC these days. Strongly recommend that folks read Chair Ken Martin’s new memo, The DNC Is Building a Democratic Party That Can Win the Moment and Win the Future. While the DNC has done important things under his tenure, including the adoption of a new Presidential primary calendar, I think Chair Martin would be wise now to shake up his team and make big changes there. For things simply must get better at the DNC.

I’ve set up a new page to help us learn more about the Democratic Socialists Of America (DSA). Check it out and let me know what you think, offer other articles or resources you think I should include.

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Keep working hard everyone. We have a country to save, and elections to win, together! - Simon