Something to watch in relationship to stopping the warehouse gulags that Jay Kuo was posting about today:
"Per Prof. Steve Vladeck:
Late Friday night, in a ruling handed down just two days after oral argument, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit adopted the extreme minority view—holding that, yes, the government can indefinitely detain without bond millions of non-citizens who have been here for generations; who have never committed a crime; and who pose neither a risk of flight nor any threat to public safety. The Fifth Circuit’s opinion was written by Judge Edith Jones and joined in full by Judge Kyle Duncan—two of the most reactionary, right-wing federal appellate judges in the country."
My point is simple - we just have make clear where we stand on mass deportation. For it? Against it? We can be for reining in ICE and for humane treatment of all people and ending mass deportation. Need to be as clear as we can be here.
I read this substack today, devastating, and all the more reason to push for limiting ICE targets as Simon urges. Will make calls again tomorrow. Thanks for sharing the excellent ad.
This is beyond the pale and clearly a judicial mistake. I hope it's reversed on appeal. Absolutely unAmerican. By the end of WW2, the Nazis had "work camps" in nearly every city in Germany, and prisoners marching through the streets to factories were commonplace sights. Is this how we want to live? What in the hell is wrong with these people? My message today for Duckworth and Durbin is NO PRISON CAMPS IN AMERICA. Keep fighting friends.
Those detention centers could also be used to hold US citizens in the future. At least that is what Rachel Maddow has inferred on her shows in recent weeks.
The special election overperformances is actually quite encouraging when you think of the party's obstacles in performing well in Rural America in the Trump years. A greater use of rural outlets like The Daily Yonder, Barnraising Media, Investigate Midwest, AgriPulse, AgriWeb, Southerly, Ohio Valley ReSource, FarmFlavor, Manufacturing Today, and others can give quite a rare opening in rural communities for Democrats in 2026 and 2028 with the content that is out there.
Michael - it is not a far stretch for Trump to start to warehouse his enemies as well as immigrants. He sees all of us who oppose him in the same category. I agree with you that this doesn't end with immigrants. We must stop it now! I've been very encouraged by rural red communities fighting back against ICE building or buying in their communities. Nobody wants this anywhere!
Sharing a post by Linda Aldrich from The Downballot:
"Joaquin Castro (TX Rep fr SA) visited Dilley detention prison the other day and found that even people willing to be deported/ not fighting due to lack of resources or family in the U.S. are not getting deported for months and months. They are being held (I presume) so the private prison grift can count them as there and get more of a payout for detaining them."
And here’s her restack of Katie Phang’s interview with Joaquin Castro:
Deeply grateful as always, Simon, for your leadership. Here’s another important, urgent action for Hopium community members: the Republican voting rights bill (known as “SAVE America Act”) will first come up in the House this week as early as Tuesday. House Republicans are in rare alignment on this bill that will disenfranchise millions of Americans (heavily impacting young people and women). If it reaches the Senate, there’s huge pressure from trump and maga to get rid of the filibuster so it can pass. Please MAKE CALLS to all your representatives asap, before Tues 2/10 - even if you think they’re a safe vote. The message: VOTE NO on the “SAVE America Act”. Capitol switchboard makes it easy to reach all reps: 202.224.3121
Doesn't this bill have the potential to harm red areas more than blue ones? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but I thought part of the bill was that people who changed their names will find it harder to vote (this mostly affects married women), but that people with passports will be fine, since they have already proved their identity. Red areas have more women who changed their names and fewer of these women have passports. I'm sure the goal for some of these folks is to remove the vote from women, but I would think that it would make some Republicans queasy because it would weaken the GOP vote in their districts.
While it is impossible to predict the exact outcome of something like this, the reason maga is pushing so hard is that they believe it will help them. They are feeling pretty desperate about the midterms and given Simon’s latest post and others, rightfully so. Also, a surprisingly small number of Americans have passports. Young people would be affected because fewer have passports or Driver’s licenses( and some states haven’t rolled out Real ID yet and/or people haven’t signed up yet).As I understand it, the bill takes away using college ID too. For more details, listen to Marc Elias and Bryan Tyler Cohen’s recent discussion. I’ll try to post link. Thanks for your question.
Absolutely! I think about my 84-year-old dad, whose drivers license and passport will soon expire. Should we expect seniors with significant health challenges to go into the DMV to get ID?! All of this stuff is infuriating, unnecessary, and deeply undemocratic. It reminds me of the excellent book "Wilmington's Lie" about the 1898 Wilmington race riots. White supremacists went out of their way to create new laws to disenfranchise black voters. I have refused to use the term "grandfathered in" since I learned what the Grandfather Clause really meant! Pure evil.
A last comment! I think some people believe that the Senate Republicans won't do away with the filibuster - which would be a huge precedent that could come back to haunt them - and therefore we don't have to be concerned enough to make calls about this bill. I believe that if we've learned anything, an argument that starts with "oh they wouldn't do that . . . " is not a good bet. Better safe than sorry! They are feeling desperate and cornered, who knows what methods they might resort to in order to not lose in Nov.
Simon, thank you for the good information -- that Louisiana election is great news! I watched Ossoff's speech and it's very good. Ro Khanna has been talking about the Epstein Class for a while and I was glad to see Ossoff adopt that language. It's good framing and I hope more Democrats start to use it.
There was another Democratic down-ballot win yesterday. Na’Cole Thompson trounced her two Republican opponents to become Mayor of Leander, Texas. This is a town that Trump won by 4 points.
It's great to see what states and cities are trying. There's some talk here in Boston that barring ICE agents from local police jobs wouldn't be constitutional (on 1st amendment grounds), but it's worth testing. Stuart Stevens wrote today that ICE agents will be an unemployable underclass because the liability would be too high, as in, if they harm someone and get sued, no employer would be able to claim it wasn't predictable.
While I understand the goal of ICE narrowing its targets, I am of the belief that ICE should be completely abolished so I have trouble being enthusiastic with this goal. For me ICE is a completely lawless agency that is based on a lie that Trump, the Republicans and right wing media have yelled for years, that immigrants are criminals. This is utter bullshit. Of course there are some examples of criminal immigrants, but a para-military force of thugs funded with billions of taxpayer money is insane and evil. Again, I understand we need to fight for realistic goals. I'd also like to see Democrats and Americans standing up for the rights of immigrants, rather than just trying to limit those that are deported or sent to concentration camps. I believe we have to start defining the debates on our terms, rather than giving ground to their lies and abominations that become our lived reality.
I've shown you a great deal of polling this week and what it shows is that we are on firmest ground with the most people by being for reining in and reforming ICE not abolishing it. We do not have power, and we are trying to do something very hard and very important. We have to fight from the strongest position to increase our chances of victory.
We are now having the debate we all wanted to have. Our team has put forward a serious initial proposal. Now we have go fight like hell to get as much of this as we can. I am making recommendations on how I think we straighten our arguments, and do much of what you say. But just cannot let disagreements over language or policy distract from the basic reality here - we've drawn a line, are fighting hard for something that matters, and we all need to be in the game fighting as hard as we can.
100% agree with Simon. Rationally I support Immigration and Customs Enforcement. What I don’t support is a militarized, lawless goon squad violating Constitutional norms, loyal to an incompetent, criminal narcissist, and terrorizing people , especially for political gain.
I understand and fully support this. At the same time I remain frustrated that we fight on terms dictated by opposition lies. I hope Democratic leadership holds firm on the principles you set forth in the coming week. Once we regain power, I hope we set the record straight on immigrants in America, and abolish ICE forever.
If the administration doesn’t make a deal to fix this now, and continues to abuse its power, and we all work really hard in the coming months and years, you might get your ultimate wish. But in the present, legislating a deal to reform is the best option for immediate relief.
I second this and suggest it as a tack for our elected leaders. Take the extra funds away from enforcement and detention and apply them to expedite the application of law.
This is a somewhat slippery slope as well, there was some recent reporting discussing newly incoming immigration judges (who work within the DHS infrastructure) are basically being trained to follow the trump admin policy rather than normal law. So I feel like ICE/DHS
hiring more judges (and having control over how to judges are instructed and operate) risks entrenching the trump policy.
I looked for the link to where I’d read this but now I can’t find it. Anyone else come across this? Sorry will keep looking.
Like most Hopium members, I am fully expecting a Blue Tsunami this November! Democrats have consistently overperformed in one Special Election after another – and usually by double digits. The recent flips in Texas and Louisiana are causing panics throughout the MAGA-Republican Party.
NEW: Axios has posted a very nice interactive graphics that shows how many Congressional Districts are flipped based on over-performance relative to Kamala Harris’ 2024 Presidential Election results.
You can move a bar to change the percentage of the Democratic Wave, and it immediately shows you how many seats each party would have in the House. The map shows precisely which seats in which states are flipped. (If you’re morbidly curious, you can even map out a Red Wave.)
That map’s a lot of fun. It doesn’t go higher than a 15 point overperformance (266 Dem seats) so I wasn’t able to see what a 30 plus point overperformance, like we just had, would accomplish. I could live with 15 tho :)
In her February 7th “Letters from an American”, Heather Cox Richardson wrote “Yesterday two right-wing circuit judges signed off on the Trump administration’s new mass detention policy: the extraordinary assertion that vast numbers of noncitizens throughout the country can be arrested and held in detention centers without the right to release until they are deported.”
Of course lots of judges have ruled against such inhumane and unAmerican policies, but the ghouls in the trump regime waited to appeal those decisions until they had a case that could be heard in a circuit presided over by these MAGA extremist judges.
The good guys will be appealing this, but it’s just jaw-dropping to me that anyone trained in the law (like, presumably these two judges) could use their training to say, “Yep, you build those detention centers and I’ll make sure we fill ‘em up”.
I don’t know what legal groups will be appealing this circuit court heinousness, but I’ll be sending a donation when I figure it out.
Also, does anyone know about lawsuits against the terrible conditions in the detention centers? We have laws against cruel and unusual punishment in this country, right? Yet I can’t recall any coverage of legal actions that are underway against the substandard conditions.
First of all, I can hardly believe how much I have learned about US law just to try and keep up with all the trumpian garbage— if you had asked me a year ago about en banc hearings, I would have said, “huh?”
But now I’ll give the slightly more helpful response and quote Steve Vladeck who says “The appellees in these cases, who were released on bond after they won their habeas petitions, have two options: They can petition for rehearing before the full Fifth Circuit, or they can go right to the Supreme Court. For what it’s worth, I think the answer ought to be the latter.”
Simon, late last evening a friend in Canada texted the good news about Dem Chasity Martinez trouncing her GOP opponent Brad Daigle in a Louisiana House election 62% to 38%!! This comes a week after Dem Taylor Rehmet won in a heavily red district in the Texas House race. At least Mr. Daigle was gracious and congratulated Ms. Martinez on her win. Hmmmm. A certain thin-skinned sociopathic fascist could learn a thing or two from Mr. Daigle about not being a sore loser. For that to happen, we will have to wait for hell to freeze over, pigs to fly or the sun rising in the west and setting in the east. Ain't gonna happen.
Simon, I attached an article several days ago, an editorial from The Nation urging the Democratic party to have a coordinated plan to go after the farming community. Many of those farmers have to be disgusted with the current administration, even more so now that Trump just announced another big purchase of Argentinian beef. Are you aware of any coordinated effort in the DNC to target the agricultural community. Even picking up just a small percentage will help our cause. Thanks
Something to watch in relationship to stopping the warehouse gulags that Jay Kuo was posting about today:
"Per Prof. Steve Vladeck:
Late Friday night, in a ruling handed down just two days after oral argument, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit adopted the extreme minority view—holding that, yes, the government can indefinitely detain without bond millions of non-citizens who have been here for generations; who have never committed a crime; and who pose neither a risk of flight nor any threat to public safety. The Fifth Circuit’s opinion was written by Judge Edith Jones and joined in full by Judge Kyle Duncan—two of the most reactionary, right-wing federal appellate judges in the country."
Thanks for sharing this. Yes, saw.
My point is simple - we just have make clear where we stand on mass deportation. For it? Against it? We can be for reining in ICE and for humane treatment of all people and ending mass deportation. Need to be as clear as we can be here.
I read this substack today, devastating, and all the more reason to push for limiting ICE targets as Simon urges. Will make calls again tomorrow. Thanks for sharing the excellent ad.
Yes... Just read Heather CR; she has a full report about this as well. Let's make a lot of noise, people. This is beyond the beyond.
This is beyond the pale and clearly a judicial mistake. I hope it's reversed on appeal. Absolutely unAmerican. By the end of WW2, the Nazis had "work camps" in nearly every city in Germany, and prisoners marching through the streets to factories were commonplace sights. Is this how we want to live? What in the hell is wrong with these people? My message today for Duckworth and Durbin is NO PRISON CAMPS IN AMERICA. Keep fighting friends.
Now if we can get North Louisiana moving toward truth and justice..and turning off FOX.
Those detention centers could also be used to hold US citizens in the future. At least that is what Rachel Maddow has inferred on her shows in recent weeks.
The special election overperformances is actually quite encouraging when you think of the party's obstacles in performing well in Rural America in the Trump years. A greater use of rural outlets like The Daily Yonder, Barnraising Media, Investigate Midwest, AgriPulse, AgriWeb, Southerly, Ohio Valley ReSource, FarmFlavor, Manufacturing Today, and others can give quite a rare opening in rural communities for Democrats in 2026 and 2028 with the content that is out there.
Michael - it is not a far stretch for Trump to start to warehouse his enemies as well as immigrants. He sees all of us who oppose him in the same category. I agree with you that this doesn't end with immigrants. We must stop it now! I've been very encouraged by rural red communities fighting back against ICE building or buying in their communities. Nobody wants this anywhere!
Sharing a post by Linda Aldrich from The Downballot:
"Joaquin Castro (TX Rep fr SA) visited Dilley detention prison the other day and found that even people willing to be deported/ not fighting due to lack of resources or family in the U.S. are not getting deported for months and months. They are being held (I presume) so the private prison grift can count them as there and get more of a payout for detaining them."
And here’s her restack of Katie Phang’s interview with Joaquin Castro:
https://substack.com/@lindamaetx/note/c-211358688?r=1r6229&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
(Shared by permission from Linda.)
Deeply grateful as always, Simon, for your leadership. Here’s another important, urgent action for Hopium community members: the Republican voting rights bill (known as “SAVE America Act”) will first come up in the House this week as early as Tuesday. House Republicans are in rare alignment on this bill that will disenfranchise millions of Americans (heavily impacting young people and women). If it reaches the Senate, there’s huge pressure from trump and maga to get rid of the filibuster so it can pass. Please MAKE CALLS to all your representatives asap, before Tues 2/10 - even if you think they’re a safe vote. The message: VOTE NO on the “SAVE America Act”. Capitol switchboard makes it easy to reach all reps: 202.224.3121
Doesn't this bill have the potential to harm red areas more than blue ones? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but I thought part of the bill was that people who changed their names will find it harder to vote (this mostly affects married women), but that people with passports will be fine, since they have already proved their identity. Red areas have more women who changed their names and fewer of these women have passports. I'm sure the goal for some of these folks is to remove the vote from women, but I would think that it would make some Republicans queasy because it would weaken the GOP vote in their districts.
While it is impossible to predict the exact outcome of something like this, the reason maga is pushing so hard is that they believe it will help them. They are feeling pretty desperate about the midterms and given Simon’s latest post and others, rightfully so. Also, a surprisingly small number of Americans have passports. Young people would be affected because fewer have passports or Driver’s licenses( and some states haven’t rolled out Real ID yet and/or people haven’t signed up yet).As I understand it, the bill takes away using college ID too. For more details, listen to Marc Elias and Bryan Tyler Cohen’s recent discussion. I’ll try to post link. Thanks for your question.
In general, I believe that anything that makes it harder for Americans to exercise their right to vote isn't good.
Absolutely! I think about my 84-year-old dad, whose drivers license and passport will soon expire. Should we expect seniors with significant health challenges to go into the DMV to get ID?! All of this stuff is infuriating, unnecessary, and deeply undemocratic. It reminds me of the excellent book "Wilmington's Lie" about the 1898 Wilmington race riots. White supremacists went out of their way to create new laws to disenfranchise black voters. I have refused to use the term "grandfathered in" since I learned what the Grandfather Clause really meant! Pure evil.
A last comment! I think some people believe that the Senate Republicans won't do away with the filibuster - which would be a huge precedent that could come back to haunt them - and therefore we don't have to be concerned enough to make calls about this bill. I believe that if we've learned anything, an argument that starts with "oh they wouldn't do that . . . " is not a good bet. Better safe than sorry! They are feeling desperate and cornered, who knows what methods they might resort to in order to not lose in Nov.
Just saw an ICE ad on MSNOW. Disgusting!!
Perhaps it will inspire more viewers to call their representatives and get involved!
Simon, thank you for the good information -- that Louisiana election is great news! I watched Ossoff's speech and it's very good. Ro Khanna has been talking about the Epstein Class for a while and I was glad to see Ossoff adopt that language. It's good framing and I hope more Democrats start to use it.
I'm continuing to write postcards to NC voters.
There was another Democratic down-ballot win yesterday. Na’Cole Thompson trounced her two Republican opponents to become Mayor of Leander, Texas. This is a town that Trump won by 4 points.
🔵 Na’Cole Thompson (D) – 3,372 (57.1%)
🔴 Mike Sanders (R) – 1,531 (25.9%)
🔴 Kathryn Pantalion-Parker (R) – 1,001 (16.9%)
https://x.com/VoteHub/status/2020547167300034987
Shouldn't we be advocating for NO additional funding for ICE (given how much was approved in the Big Ugly) in addition to reforms needed?
Advocate for ICE to be abolished. It's the Gestapo. stephen miller wants concentration camps. I refuse to apologize for being that blunt.
This is an excellent summary of the changing political reality in Colorado about ICE:
https://www.denverpost.com/2026/02/08/colorado-ice-protest-bills-immigration/?share=2w2p2oditisl0nletsin
Let's keep up the pressure!
Please keep sharing articles like this. Thank you.
has a paywall, couldn't read it.
I was able to read it. Maybe try again?
Try it again, I edited it.
That helped. Thank you for sharing!
It's great to see what states and cities are trying. There's some talk here in Boston that barring ICE agents from local police jobs wouldn't be constitutional (on 1st amendment grounds), but it's worth testing. Stuart Stevens wrote today that ICE agents will be an unemployable underclass because the liability would be too high, as in, if they harm someone and get sued, no employer would be able to claim it wasn't predictable.
While I understand the goal of ICE narrowing its targets, I am of the belief that ICE should be completely abolished so I have trouble being enthusiastic with this goal. For me ICE is a completely lawless agency that is based on a lie that Trump, the Republicans and right wing media have yelled for years, that immigrants are criminals. This is utter bullshit. Of course there are some examples of criminal immigrants, but a para-military force of thugs funded with billions of taxpayer money is insane and evil. Again, I understand we need to fight for realistic goals. I'd also like to see Democrats and Americans standing up for the rights of immigrants, rather than just trying to limit those that are deported or sent to concentration camps. I believe we have to start defining the debates on our terms, rather than giving ground to their lies and abominations that become our lived reality.
I'm going to respond to this.....
I've shown you a great deal of polling this week and what it shows is that we are on firmest ground with the most people by being for reining in and reforming ICE not abolishing it. We do not have power, and we are trying to do something very hard and very important. We have to fight from the strongest position to increase our chances of victory.
We are now having the debate we all wanted to have. Our team has put forward a serious initial proposal. Now we have go fight like hell to get as much of this as we can. I am making recommendations on how I think we straighten our arguments, and do much of what you say. But just cannot let disagreements over language or policy distract from the basic reality here - we've drawn a line, are fighting hard for something that matters, and we all need to be in the game fighting as hard as we can.
100% agree with Simon. Rationally I support Immigration and Customs Enforcement. What I don’t support is a militarized, lawless goon squad violating Constitutional norms, loyal to an incompetent, criminal narcissist, and terrorizing people , especially for political gain.
I understand and fully support this. At the same time I remain frustrated that we fight on terms dictated by opposition lies. I hope Democratic leadership holds firm on the principles you set forth in the coming week. Once we regain power, I hope we set the record straight on immigrants in America, and abolish ICE forever.
I support that too Barry. I remember when ICE was created thinking this could go very wrong. And boy howdy, has it. In spades.
If the administration doesn’t make a deal to fix this now, and continues to abuse its power, and we all work really hard in the coming months and years, you might get your ultimate wish. But in the present, legislating a deal to reform is the best option for immediate relief.
Why is nobody talking about focusing ICE funding on hiring more lawyers and judges instead of detention?
I second this and suggest it as a tack for our elected leaders. Take the extra funds away from enforcement and detention and apply them to expedite the application of law.
This is a somewhat slippery slope as well, there was some recent reporting discussing newly incoming immigration judges (who work within the DHS infrastructure) are basically being trained to follow the trump admin policy rather than normal law. So I feel like ICE/DHS
hiring more judges (and having control over how to judges are instructed and operate) risks entrenching the trump policy.
I looked for the link to where I’d read this but now I can’t find it. Anyone else come across this? Sorry will keep looking.
MAPPING THE COMING BLUE WAVE
Like most Hopium members, I am fully expecting a Blue Tsunami this November! Democrats have consistently overperformed in one Special Election after another – and usually by double digits. The recent flips in Texas and Louisiana are causing panics throughout the MAGA-Republican Party.
NEW: Axios has posted a very nice interactive graphics that shows how many Congressional Districts are flipped based on over-performance relative to Kamala Harris’ 2024 Presidential Election results.
You can move a bar to change the percentage of the Democratic Wave, and it immediately shows you how many seats each party would have in the House. The map shows precisely which seats in which states are flipped. (If you’re morbidly curious, you can even map out a Red Wave.)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/06/congressional-map-redistricting-vote-share-2026
PS. Yes, waves always have uneven peaks. Nonetheless, Axios gives a good idea.
That map’s a lot of fun. It doesn’t go higher than a 15 point overperformance (266 Dem seats) so I wasn’t able to see what a 30 plus point overperformance, like we just had, would accomplish. I could live with 15 tho :)
I hope that anti ICE ad will run during the Super Bowl…? Probably too expensive
In her February 7th “Letters from an American”, Heather Cox Richardson wrote “Yesterday two right-wing circuit judges signed off on the Trump administration’s new mass detention policy: the extraordinary assertion that vast numbers of noncitizens throughout the country can be arrested and held in detention centers without the right to release until they are deported.”
Of course lots of judges have ruled against such inhumane and unAmerican policies, but the ghouls in the trump regime waited to appeal those decisions until they had a case that could be heard in a circuit presided over by these MAGA extremist judges.
The good guys will be appealing this, but it’s just jaw-dropping to me that anyone trained in the law (like, presumably these two judges) could use their training to say, “Yep, you build those detention centers and I’ll make sure we fill ‘em up”.
I don’t know what legal groups will be appealing this circuit court heinousness, but I’ll be sending a donation when I figure it out.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-7-2026
Also, does anyone know about lawsuits against the terrible conditions in the detention centers? We have laws against cruel and unusual punishment in this country, right? Yet I can’t recall any coverage of legal actions that are underway against the substandard conditions.
I would imagine they will ask to have this reheard en banc, wouldn’t they?
I think that's the next step considering it was a 2-1 decision. Not an attorney, but I hope so. Beyond that, I wonder how the Supremes would rule?
First of all, I can hardly believe how much I have learned about US law just to try and keep up with all the trumpian garbage— if you had asked me a year ago about en banc hearings, I would have said, “huh?”
But now I’ll give the slightly more helpful response and quote Steve Vladeck who says “The appellees in these cases, who were released on bond after they won their habeas petitions, have two options: They can petition for rehearing before the full Fifth Circuit, or they can go right to the Supreme Court. For what it’s worth, I think the answer ought to be the latter.”
https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/208-the-fifth-circuit-jumps-the-immigration?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web
"We have laws against cruel and unusual punishment in this country, right?"
Yes we do. It's the 8th amendment to the U.S Constitution.
"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted"
The detention centers are meant to scare all of us-not just immigrants
Simon, late last evening a friend in Canada texted the good news about Dem Chasity Martinez trouncing her GOP opponent Brad Daigle in a Louisiana House election 62% to 38%!! This comes a week after Dem Taylor Rehmet won in a heavily red district in the Texas House race. At least Mr. Daigle was gracious and congratulated Ms. Martinez on her win. Hmmmm. A certain thin-skinned sociopathic fascist could learn a thing or two from Mr. Daigle about not being a sore loser. For that to happen, we will have to wait for hell to freeze over, pigs to fly or the sun rising in the west and setting in the east. Ain't gonna happen.
Yes, good news, and prominently featured in Simon’s post today
Simon, I attached an article several days ago, an editorial from The Nation urging the Democratic party to have a coordinated plan to go after the farming community. Many of those farmers have to be disgusted with the current administration, even more so now that Trump just announced another big purchase of Argentinian beef. Are you aware of any coordinated effort in the DNC to target the agricultural community. Even picking up just a small percentage will help our cause. Thanks
can you repost the link here again?
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Vote out these Republicans who can be beaten:
SENATE IA: OPEN, BC:OPEN, TX:John Cornyn, AL:Dan Sullivan, OH:John Husted, ME: Susan Collins.
HOUSE: NJ:Tom Kean Jr.-07, AL: Nick Begich, TN: Andy Ogles, ID: Mike Simpson, NB: OPEN-02,
CO: Gabe Edwards-08, WA: OPEN-04, OR: OPEN-05, KY: OPEN-06,
VA:Jen Kiggans-02, Bob Whittman-01
NY: Mike Lawler-17, OPEN-21,
NC: Greg Murphy-03, Chuck Edwards-11, Virginia Foxx-05
MI: Tom Barrett-07, Bill Huizenga-04, OPEN-10,
AZ: Eli Crane-02, OPEN-01, JUAN CISCOMANI-06,
PA-Robert Bresnahan-08, Brian Fitgerals-01, Ryan Mackenzie-07, Scott Perry-10,
CA: Ken Calvert-40, Mike Garcia-27, Young Kim-40, John Duarte-13,
Darrell Issa-13, David Balado-22,
TX: Hal Rogers-05, OPEN-35, OPEN-22, OPEN-19,
Monica De La Cruz-15,
FL: Maria Elvira Salazar-27, Cory Mills-07, Laurel Lee-15, OPEN-06,
Anna Paula Luna-13, Vern Buchanan-16, OPEN-02.
Simon, article on going after the ag community support
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/the-farmland-revolt/
thx Gary