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Dedicated to electing candidates who will protect the freedom to vote and ensure everyone has a voice in our democracy

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Defend The Vote @dtvpac.bsky.social · Nov 28

Our democracy is worth the fight.

Right now, our only option is to continue to work to defend the freedom to vote, protect the voice of every American, and fortify our rights and liberties so our government serves all the people.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15h

Baldwin: Our farmers are facing incredible headwinds. A lot of the fertilizer inputs come from Canada. Those have shot up because of tariffs. About a quarter of all farmers use the ACA for their health care coverage. This president is just contributing to the headwinds that our farmers are facing.

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Defend The Vote @dtvpac.bsky.social · 19h

Expensive Halloween around the corner. It’s the cost of corruption.

Axios reports that cocoa prices have doubled under Donald Trump.

He said he would bring prices down, but he’s only helping corporate lobbyists and billionaire donors. The rest of us pay the price.

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Defend The Vote @dtvpac.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Johnson should apologize - we need to tone down the charged rhetoric like his that’s leading to political violence.

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties.

Hello?

Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party.

Enough of the false equivalence.

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Defend The Vote @dtvpac.bsky.social · 2d

It’s 100% designed to protect the cover up of the Epstein files.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress over two weeks ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in.

Why the delay?

Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 2d

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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Defend The Vote @dtvpac.bsky.social · 2d

Donald Trump is deploying troops to the streets of his own country to attack its citizens and he wants a Nobel Peace Prize?!

Wild.

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2d

⚡️The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Maria Corina Machado.

The Nobel Peace Prize committee awarded it for "her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela."

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Defend The Vote @dtvpac.bsky.social · 3d

The Cost of Corruption is that the Trump regime spends resources weaponizing government for retribution — leaving less law enforcement resources to keep you safe.

CherieAnne @cherieanne.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder that this baseless indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James is part of Donald Trump’s corrupt weaponization of the criminal justice system against anyone who has sought to hold him accountable.

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Defend The Vote @dtvpac.bsky.social · 4d

We’re more than a week into this Republican shutdown.

Trump shut government down because he’d rather close the government and threaten to fire people than lower health care prices.

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Defend The Vote @dtvpac.bsky.social · 5d

Did Tom Homan keep the $50,000?

Pam Bondi may be covering up the facts.

This is more corruption that costs taxpayers money, while the politically connected get away with crimes.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

WATCH — @whitehouse.senate.gov : “What became of the $50,000 in cash in that Cava bag? Did the FBI get it back from Homan?”

AG PAM BONDI: *LASHES OUT aggressively, avoids answering entirely* 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Defend The Vote @dtvpac.bsky.social · 6d

Corruption.

They make money.

The rest of us pay the price.

The system is rigged.

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 7d

Jared Kushner is going to the Middle East to negotiate a deal on behalf of the U.S. government days after Kushner announced a $55 billion deal between his private equity fund and the Saudi government

One of the most brazen conflicts in history.

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Defend The Vote @dtvpac.bsky.social · 7d

Speaker Johnson is taking unprecedented steps to keep the Epstein files covered up.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7d

Welker: They say the house is not in session because you don't want to swear in the newly elected democratic congresswoman who would be a critical vote to releasing the Epstein files.

Johnson: It's totally absurd. This has nothing to do with that. It's another red herring.

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Defend The Vote @dtvpac.bsky.social · 8d

We need to fix this broken system to level the playing field for working people.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8d

The wealth of the richest 1% in America just hit a record $52 trillion. These are the people getting huge tax cuts — paid for by cuts to health care for millions of Americans. Every lie Trump and Republicans are telling right now about the shutdown is meant to distract you from this.

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Defend The Vote @dtvpac.bsky.social · 9d

It’s time for Republicans to open the government.

They’ve kept it shut down for too long already.

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Defend The Vote @dtvpac.bsky.social · 10d

Higher prices ahead, thanks to Donald Trump

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Defend The Vote @dtvpac.bsky.social · 10d

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canopyguy.bsky.social @canopyguy.bsky.social · 11d

And they are also keeping it shut down so that they don’t have to bring in the 218th vote for the Epstein files

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Defend The Vote @dtvpac.bsky.social · 10d

This doesn’t bode well for Republicans

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Defend The Vote @dtvpac.bsky.social · 10d

Voters gave Republicans full control of government. Full control.

Instead of lowering grocery prices, they’re up from a year ago.

And now Republicans are making things worse by shutting down the government instead of lowering health care costs.

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Defend The Vote @dtvpac.bsky.social · 11d

Republicans need to open the government.

They are keeping it shut down to avoid funding health care. Bonkers.

Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 11d

All we're asking for is funding to let people keep their healthcare.

According to the White House, Trump heard that demand and literally said, "Go f*ck yourself."

(Seriously, look it up.)

They gave tax breaks to billionaires but they're refusing to give us our healthcare.

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Defend The Vote @dtvpac.bsky.social · 12d

Watch @markwarner.bsky.social set the record straight

Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 12d

These lies are pissing me off.

This isn’t about health care for undocumented immigrants – that’s already against the law.

It’s about the fact that Republicans are intentionally skyrocketing your premiums.

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Defend The Vote @dtvpac.bsky.social · 13d

Voters have had it with Trump and Republicans.

Now Dems must effectively share their vision with Americans.

That must begin with lowering costs and cracking down on corruption.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 13d

Media and Dems are still getting this badly wrong: Trump is deeply unpopular! Recent approval numbers:

38-54 (Quinnipiac)
39-60 (AP)
40-56 (Gallup)
41-58 (Reuters)
39-56 (Economist)

On the pod, @lakshya.splitticket.org explains these numbers brilliantly. Listen:
newrepublic.com/article/2010...

Trump Is a Weak, Failing President. These Brutal New Polls Confirm It.

As new national polls show Trump’s approval tanking, a leading analyst explains how the data shows that Trump is far more unpopular than is commonly acknowledged—and details why this matters for 2026.

newrepublic.com

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Defend The Vote @dtvpac.bsky.social · 14d

Evidence our system is broken.

Corporate lobbyists have too much control and influence over politicians.

Corporations benefit and the rest of us pay the price.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15d

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15d

Unreal. The casual reader of this @nytimes.com hed and subhed will have no inkling whatsoever that Trump's "characterization" is wildly false and that it's a bad faith *pretext.* Time to get better at conveying the fundamentally pretextual nature of these authoritarian decrees already.

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Defend The Vote @dtvpac.bsky.social · 15d

Wow. Big news!

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Defend The Vote @dtvpac.bsky.social · 16d

Rep Joe Morelle’s plain and simple description of just about anything Trump says: “It’s baloney.”

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16d

Morelle: Here’s the problem whenever the president speaks—and I hate to make light of this because he’s the president—but it’s almost always just fantasy.

This week he’s suddenly a scientist, telling us what we should do for a fever if you’re a pregnant woman.

It’s an endless series of baloney.

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