Another Powerful Ossoff Speech, Jo Mendoza's Inspiring New Ad, Heather Cox Richardson Joins Us Tomorrow At 2pm ET
Tuesday is the last day of the quarter - let's rally for our candidates everybody!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Sunday all. The knock out round of the World Cup begins today at 3pm ET with South Africa taking on Canada. One thing to note as we leave the group stage has been the remarkable success of the African teams so far - 9 of the 10 teams from Africa have have moved on from the group stage of 64 teams to knock out round of 32.
As the US Men’s team plays Bosnia Wednesday night at 8pm ET our weekly paid subscriber talk will begin at 630pm this week. Let’s root our boys on Wednesday night!
Tomorrow the inspiring historian Heather Cox Richardson will be joining us live at 2pm ET to reflect on our Founding and offer her thoughts on where our pro-democracy movement goes from here. Click here to join us live and feel free invite friends and colleagues. The more the merrier!
Senator Jon Ossoff gave another barn burner of a speech last night that is getting a whole lot of buzz on social media. I share it below, and encourage you to donate to Senator Ossoff if you haven’t yet. He has emerged as one party’s most powerful orators and inspiring leaders - and we need to do everything we can to ensure he returns to the Senate next year.
Here’s another video that has gained a great deal of attention on social media in recent days, this one from Senator Chris Murphy - “500 Days of Trump’s Corruption.”
Early candidate fundraising means our candidates can go up on the air earlier, and begin to defining the race before their opponents do. Here is a new ad from Jo Mendoza in AZ-06. This community has raised over $100,000 for Jo so far, helping ensure that she had the resources to begin communicating early. Enjoy Hopium world. You helped make this happen……
Here’s another kind of media coming from our wonderful candidates:
Here are two in-depth discussions we had this week about the current state of things:
My weekly talk and written analysis, Trump Is Weakened, Diminished, And Growing More Unhinged And Desperate By The Day
My in-depth look at what happened in Tuesday’s election with Katie Phang over the Contrarian, Big Night For Mamdani, House Dems Get Important Wins in NY-17 & UT-1
Our friend Phillips O’Brien has a terrific new analysis that dives into Ukraine’s expansion of their “long-range” sanctions from Russia’s energy infrastructure to its industrial war machine. It features this new Tweet from Zelenskyy:
Happy Sunday all, and yes, my friends, the filing deadline for the 2nd quarter is Tuesday night - let’s keep rallying for our courageous candidates across the country!
Yes, It’s Time Get To Work Everyone!!!!!!!!!!
Winning The Midterms, Competing In Red States and Red Places, Expanding The Map, And Voting Early!!!
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Winning The House
Hopium’s Winning The House Campaign - $816,100 raised, $1,000,000 goal (new ambitious, audacious even, q2 goal) - Donate to all twelve of our endorsed 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 win, the House will flip, no matter redistricting madness the Rs execute in the coming days. So eyes on the prize here everyone!
Winning The House - The Second Wave Fund - $117,500 raised, $250,000 goal - We’ve launched a second House fund, one targeting candidates who’ve recently emerged from primaries or have to run in new districts. Our initial crew is Rebecca Bennett (NJ-07), Bob Brooks (PA-07), Cait Conley (NY-17), Johnny Garcia (TX-35), Bob Harvie (PA-01), Denise Powell (NE-02), and Bobby Pulido (TX-15).
A donation to the Second Wave Fund is split evenly among these seven, 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 all of seven of these intrepid leaders here. We are off to a great start here everyone!
Winning The Senate
Our New Winning The Senate Fund - $349,300 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), Mary Peltola (AK), Graham Platner (ME), James Talarico (TX), and Josh Turek (IA). The $349,000 figure is what we’ve raised for these six so far, as you see will below.
You can also continue to contributions to their individual campaigns here:
Roy Cooper For NC Senate - $124,100 raised, $250,000 goal - Donate | Learn more through my new discussion with Gov. Cooper
Mary Peltola For Alaska Senate - $107,100 raised, $250,000 goal - Donate | Learn more through my uplifting conversation with Mary Peltola as she fights to turn Alaska blue
Graham Platner For Maine Senate - $4,300 raised, $250,000 goal - Donate | Learn more and volunteer
James Talarico For Texas - $92,100 raised, $250,000 - Donate | Learn more from my inspiring interview with Rep. Talarico as he fights to turn Texas blue
Josh Turek For Iowa Senate - $22,200 raised, $250,000 goal - Donate | Learn more and volunteer | Watch my wonderful new interview with Josh Turek
Jon Ossoff For GA Senate - $191,100 raised, $250,000 goal - Donate | Learn more through my uplifting conversation with Senator Ossoff
Expanding The Map - Investing And Winning In Key Expansion States
Winning Iowa - $8,400 raised, $100,000 goal - We’ve also set up a new Winning Iowa campaign that splits a contribution three ways - to Turek, to Gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand, and to the Iowa Democratic Party and its great chair, Rita Hart | Watch my new interview with our great gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand
Winning Ohio - $164,100 raised, $250,000 goal - Our new campaign splits contributions evenly among Sherrod Brown, the Acton/Pepper ticket, and the Ohio Democratic Party | Donate today and help us turn this critical 2026 battleground blue
Hopium’s Audacious Expansion Fund - $604,100 raised, $1,000,000 goal (new stretch goal) - 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 | Catch interviews with the five intrepid state chairs leading their troops into battle this year - will get you fired up! and use the link to make contributions to any of the state parties directly | Contribute to all five state parties with one contribution split evenly among these five critical battlegrounds.
Winning In An Evolving Political Battlefield, Voting Early!
Learn more about winning in an evolving political battlefield and why we must be leading the charge to get every good Democrat to vote early this fall.
Some Things To Call Congress About This Week
Yes to making American oligarchs pay for Trump’s failed Iran war - not every day Americans
Yes to the Ukraine Support Act, get it passed through the Senate and to the President’s desk
No to the ballroom, the Arch, the gilded statues, the slush fund, the corruption, self-enrichment……
Hell no to Todd Blanche as Attorney General, and yes to very tough questioning of the new DNI nominee, Jay Clayton
Hell hell no to the new OMB regs that will destroy government-funded science in America. Join the new Stand Up For Science campaign to Stop Vought. Save Science today.
See the Hopium Agenda Project for what we can and should be fighting for now….
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Keep working hard everyone. We have a country to save, and elections all across this great country to win, together! - Simon
Ossoff is the best rally speaker since Obama. He is so good in that format.
OMG, Ossoff! OMG, Murphy! OMG, Mendoza--her ad was fantastic!!! So proud to be supporting these folks and many other virtuous patriots. Will try to dig deep into the wallet for more money before the June 30 deadline. As Robert Strauss, former DNC Chair during the Nixon Reign of Terror used to say, "give 'till it quits hurting." That's what we need to do. Give until Trump and the MAGA Rs quit hurting us and our country.