Swing Left Howard County
@swinglefthocomd.bsky.social
Opposition to MAGA extremism will be different from 2016. We are better organized. All politics is local. Consolidate and build power at the state and local levels. Do what we can to limit damage at the federal level. Take back the House in 2026
Reposted by Swing Left Howard County
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Reposted by Swing Left Howard County
One of the quiet failures of our politics is how many people get skipped—skipped in the data, skipped in outreach, skipped in the story we tell about the country.
If we want a stronger democracy, we have to stop treating whole neighborhoods like they don’t matter.
If we want a stronger democracy, we have to stop treating whole neighborhoods like they don’t matter.
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
One of the quiet failures of our politics is how many people get skipped—skipped in the data, skipped in outreach, skipped in the story we tell about the country.
If we want a stronger democracy, we have to stop treating whole neighborhoods like they don’t matter.
If we want a stronger democracy, we have to stop treating whole neighborhoods like they don’t matter.
🍂🍁I hope everyone can spend some time in nature, spend time doing something peaceful, or share food with good people over the holiday. All the best to you and yours!🍁🍂🥧
November 27, 2025 at 3:59 AM
🍂🍁I hope everyone can spend some time in nature, spend time doing something peaceful, or share food with good people over the holiday. All the best to you and yours!🍁🍂🥧
Reposted by Swing Left Howard County
The special election in TN is Tuesday. MAGA super PACs are spending more than $3M in a district that voted for Trump by 22 points last year - they know the tides are shifting. We’re going all in to help her flip TN-07. Phonebank with us TONIGHT at 4pm MT, or 12/1 at 4pm MT. tinyurl.com/36c9zmfz...
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The special election in TN is Tuesday. MAGA super PACs are spending more than $3M in a district that voted for Trump by 22 points last year - they know the tides are shifting. We’re going all in to help her flip TN-07. Phonebank with us TONIGHT at 4pm MT, or 12/1 at 4pm MT. tinyurl.com/36c9zmfz...
I've seen several ideas circulating about boycotting businesses through the Thanksgiving-Black Friday-Cyber Monday period, but this strikes me as the simplest to follow! @indivisible.org has everything laid out clearly
indivisible.org/campaign/we-....
indivisible.org/campaign/we-....
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I've seen several ideas circulating about boycotting businesses through the Thanksgiving-Black Friday-Cyber Monday period, but this strikes me as the simplest to follow! @indivisible.org has everything laid out clearly
indivisible.org/campaign/we-....
indivisible.org/campaign/we-....
Reposted by Swing Left Howard County
Don’t forget that *Trump’s own lawyer’s argument* to the Supreme Court in the immunity case was that the check on the President using his immunity to order criminal acts was that those under him would not follow illegal orders. Now it’s a crime for lawmakers to remind servicemembers of that?
The President doesn't want you standing up and speaking out against him, so he's coming after me to intimidate all of us.
But I won't back down — and neither should you.
But I won't back down — and neither should you.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Don’t forget that *Trump’s own lawyer’s argument* to the Supreme Court in the immunity case was that the check on the President using his immunity to order criminal acts was that those under him would not follow illegal orders. Now it’s a crime for lawmakers to remind servicemembers of that?
Reposted by Swing Left Howard County
The Guardian asks, Will it work?
Yes, make your $ count: Don’t spend at companies that collude with the regime!
Don’t purchase from Home Depot, Amazon or Target black Friday through cyber Monday.
WE AIN’T BUYING IT indivisible.org/campaign/we-...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Yes, make your $ count: Don’t spend at companies that collude with the regime!
Don’t purchase from Home Depot, Amazon or Target black Friday through cyber Monday.
WE AIN’T BUYING IT indivisible.org/campaign/we-...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
What is the latest Black Friday boycott – and will it work?
While others scramble for deals on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, activists hope to leverage shopping behavior for societal change
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The Guardian asks, Will it work?
Yes, make your $ count: Don’t spend at companies that collude with the regime!
Don’t purchase from Home Depot, Amazon or Target black Friday through cyber Monday.
WE AIN’T BUYING IT indivisible.org/campaign/we-...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Yes, make your $ count: Don’t spend at companies that collude with the regime!
Don’t purchase from Home Depot, Amazon or Target black Friday through cyber Monday.
WE AIN’T BUYING IT indivisible.org/campaign/we-...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Reposted by Swing Left Howard County
Sometimes we have to laugh to keep from crying. [Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad]
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Sometimes we have to laugh to keep from crying. [Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad]
Reposted by Swing Left Howard County
We ain't buyin' it this season! Join us in boycotting purchases at Amazon, Target and Home Depot between Nov 27th-Dec 1st. Shop small, shop local, and donate to community organizations if you can! #weaintbuyinit #donate
November 18, 2025 at 1:53 AM
We ain't buyin' it this season! Join us in boycotting purchases at Amazon, Target and Home Depot between Nov 27th-Dec 1st. Shop small, shop local, and donate to community organizations if you can! #weaintbuyinit #donate
Reposted by Swing Left Howard County
You can help flip Congress NOW by making calls from anywhere for Aftyn! If you’ve got an hour or two to help, sign up here: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/... Tools & training provided at the start of each virtual phonebank session, so don’t worry if you’ve never done this before! Every vote counts.
November 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
You can help flip Congress NOW by making calls from anywhere for Aftyn! If you’ve got an hour or two to help, sign up here: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/... Tools & training provided at the start of each virtual phonebank session, so don’t worry if you’ve never done this before! Every vote counts.
Reposted by Swing Left Howard County
Enten: "This is probably the worst 10 day period for the president in the polls his entire second term. The numbers are just atrocious ... when your best poll has you 14 points underwater, you know it's truly bad and it's as bad as 26 points underwater ... -43 with independents! They despise him."
November 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Enten: "This is probably the worst 10 day period for the president in the polls his entire second term. The numbers are just atrocious ... when your best poll has you 14 points underwater, you know it's truly bad and it's as bad as 26 points underwater ... -43 with independents! They despise him."
Reposted by Swing Left Howard County
I was at the Capitol on January 6th when they built a gallows outside and chanted "Hang Mike Pence."
We cannot sit by as Trump riles up another crowd and lifts up new calls for violence.
We cannot pretend we don't know how serious President Trump's actions are.
We cannot sit by as Trump riles up another crowd and lifts up new calls for violence.
We cannot pretend we don't know how serious President Trump's actions are.
November 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I was at the Capitol on January 6th when they built a gallows outside and chanted "Hang Mike Pence."
We cannot sit by as Trump riles up another crowd and lifts up new calls for violence.
We cannot pretend we don't know how serious President Trump's actions are.
We cannot sit by as Trump riles up another crowd and lifts up new calls for violence.
We cannot pretend we don't know how serious President Trump's actions are.
Reposted by Swing Left Howard County
Very important piece here - we really need to escape the pundit-brain thinking that imagines voters think about politics in the same ideological way people who think about politics all the time think about politics. Because they don't.
Good morning. I've got a banger new post out today that develops a new method for placing voters on the left-right ideological spectrum, and adds a new, "non-ideological"/affordability axis to usual way we chart & think about US voters (esp swing voters). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-l...
Not just left vs right: Most voters think about affordability and material wellbeing, not in ideological terms
Most voters want a party that emphasizes cost of living issues and makes the world a better place. Few Americans think in solidly ideologically terms. "Moderates" are mostly non-ideological.
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Very important piece here - we really need to escape the pundit-brain thinking that imagines voters think about politics in the same ideological way people who think about politics all the time think about politics. Because they don't.
Reposted by Swing Left Howard County
Spot on & why the factional fights drive me up a wall: Most people don’t have coherent ideologies - they just have problems they want solved!
Good morning. I've got a banger new post out today that develops a new method for placing voters on the left-right ideological spectrum, and adds a new, "non-ideological"/affordability axis to usual way we chart & think about US voters (esp swing voters). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-l...
Not just left vs right: Most voters think about affordability and material wellbeing, not in ideological terms
Most voters want a party that emphasizes cost of living issues and makes the world a better place. Few Americans think in solidly ideologically terms. "Moderates" are mostly non-ideological.
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Spot on & why the factional fights drive me up a wall: Most people don’t have coherent ideologies - they just have problems they want solved!
Reposted by Swing Left Howard County
This article's well-designed graphs and visualizations make a compelling case that the standard wisdom that "most voters are moderates" overlooks the essential distinction between "moderate" and "null" ideology. "Null" voters may *ignore* left/right: "Give me practical help for folks like me?"
Good morning. I've got a banger new post out today that develops a new method for placing voters on the left-right ideological spectrum, and adds a new, "non-ideological"/affordability axis to usual way we chart & think about US voters (esp swing voters). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-l...
Not just left vs right: Most voters think about affordability and material wellbeing, not in ideological terms
Most voters want a party that emphasizes cost of living issues and makes the world a better place. Few Americans think in solidly ideologically terms. "Moderates" are mostly non-ideological.
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
This article's well-designed graphs and visualizations make a compelling case that the standard wisdom that "most voters are moderates" overlooks the essential distinction between "moderate" and "null" ideology. "Null" voters may *ignore* left/right: "Give me practical help for folks like me?"
Reposted by Swing Left Howard County
Remember a few weeks ago when Trump brought in a couple bulldozers and demolished about a third of the White House? That was weird.
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Remember a few weeks ago when Trump brought in a couple bulldozers and demolished about a third of the White House? That was weird.
Reposted by Swing Left Howard County
It's important to understand what this ad does and why it is so threatening to the Trump admin. It gets to social identity theory, which posits that we have many identities, and the one which is salient in a given context will dictate how we think/behave in a particular situation. 1/
WATCH: After six Democratic lawmakers posted a video urging members of the military not to follow illegal orders, Trump erupted online, accusing them of “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” Sen. Elissa Slotkin, one of the senators in that video, joins Chris Hayes to respond.
'HANG THEM': Trump melts down, accuses six Dems of ‘seditious behavior’
YouTube video by MS NOW
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It's important to understand what this ad does and why it is so threatening to the Trump admin. It gets to social identity theory, which posits that we have many identities, and the one which is salient in a given context will dictate how we think/behave in a particular situation. 1/
Reposted by Swing Left Howard County
🚨🚨NEW AD:
Trump betrayed our military.
Republicans backed him.
Cuts to healthcare. Cuts to VA services. Cuts to veteran jobs.
TN-07 needs a defender, not a follower.
That's @aftynbehn.bsky.social
#TN07 #Tennessee #Tennessee07 #AftynBehn
youtu.be/aS3fZZtn5eg
Trump betrayed our military.
Republicans backed him.
Cuts to healthcare. Cuts to VA services. Cuts to veteran jobs.
TN-07 needs a defender, not a follower.
That's @aftynbehn.bsky.social
#TN07 #Tennessee #Tennessee07 #AftynBehn
youtu.be/aS3fZZtn5eg
DEFEND THE BRAVE: Vote Aftyn Behn
YouTube video by The Seneca Project
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
🚨🚨NEW AD:
Trump betrayed our military.
Republicans backed him.
Cuts to healthcare. Cuts to VA services. Cuts to veteran jobs.
TN-07 needs a defender, not a follower.
That's @aftynbehn.bsky.social
#TN07 #Tennessee #Tennessee07 #AftynBehn
youtu.be/aS3fZZtn5eg
Trump betrayed our military.
Republicans backed him.
Cuts to healthcare. Cuts to VA services. Cuts to veteran jobs.
TN-07 needs a defender, not a follower.
That's @aftynbehn.bsky.social
#TN07 #Tennessee #Tennessee07 #AftynBehn
youtu.be/aS3fZZtn5eg
Reposted by Swing Left Howard County
"I hope I can earn the vote of the TN-07 district voters [on December 2nd] to address the cost of living." @aftynbehn.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"I hope I can earn the vote of the TN-07 district voters [on December 2nd] to address the cost of living." @aftynbehn.bsky.social
Reposted by Swing Left Howard County
"The only minority destroying this country is the top one percent."
No wonder Trump's Super PAC has poured a million bucks into this race. Win in Tennessee, win anywhere, win everywhere.
Election, Dec. 2. Help @aftynbehn.bsky.social win!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
No wonder Trump's Super PAC has poured a million bucks into this race. Win in Tennessee, win anywhere, win everywhere.
Election, Dec. 2. Help @aftynbehn.bsky.social win!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
November 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
"The only minority destroying this country is the top one percent."
No wonder Trump's Super PAC has poured a million bucks into this race. Win in Tennessee, win anywhere, win everywhere.
Election, Dec. 2. Help @aftynbehn.bsky.social win!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
No wonder Trump's Super PAC has poured a million bucks into this race. Win in Tennessee, win anywhere, win everywhere.
Election, Dec. 2. Help @aftynbehn.bsky.social win!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Reposted by Swing Left Howard County
Another #TN07 early vote on the books for @aftynbehn.bsky.social.
Check out both of Goose's posts in his thread below.
Republicans are resorting to pathetic scare tactics, and they are not working.
bsky.app/profile/goos...
Check out both of Goose's posts in his thread below.
Republicans are resorting to pathetic scare tactics, and they are not working.
bsky.app/profile/goos...
Went ahead and voted early in our TN-07 special congressional election this morning and threw my vote behind the radical candidate who declares “better things are possible”
November 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Another #TN07 early vote on the books for @aftynbehn.bsky.social.
Check out both of Goose's posts in his thread below.
Republicans are resorting to pathetic scare tactics, and they are not working.
bsky.app/profile/goos...
Check out both of Goose's posts in his thread below.
Republicans are resorting to pathetic scare tactics, and they are not working.
bsky.app/profile/goos...
Reposted by Swing Left Howard County
Tennessee, this is HISTORY in the making! 💪 On Saturday, Nov 29 volunteers from 95 counties are uniting for the biggest Day of Action ever to send @aftynbehn.bsky.social to Congress!
Join team Aftyn in Davidson, Montgomery & Williamson—Let’s make #TN07 unstoppable!
#ProudBlue
#Voices4Victory
Join team Aftyn in Davidson, Montgomery & Williamson—Let’s make #TN07 unstoppable!
#ProudBlue
#Voices4Victory
November 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Tennessee, this is HISTORY in the making! 💪 On Saturday, Nov 29 volunteers from 95 counties are uniting for the biggest Day of Action ever to send @aftynbehn.bsky.social to Congress!
Join team Aftyn in Davidson, Montgomery & Williamson—Let’s make #TN07 unstoppable!
#ProudBlue
#Voices4Victory
Join team Aftyn in Davidson, Montgomery & Williamson—Let’s make #TN07 unstoppable!
#ProudBlue
#Voices4Victory
Reposted by Swing Left Howard County
“What it’s gonna take to win is absolute turnout. And so I’m asking you all for the next two weeks, as you are able, to make this election your entire personality.”
Sign up for a phonebank to help @aftynbehn.bsky.social flip a GOP district in Tennessee: mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Sign up for a phonebank to help @aftynbehn.bsky.social flip a GOP district in Tennessee: mobilize.us/indivisible/...
November 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
“What it’s gonna take to win is absolute turnout. And so I’m asking you all for the next two weeks, as you are able, to make this election your entire personality.”
Sign up for a phonebank to help @aftynbehn.bsky.social flip a GOP district in Tennessee: mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Sign up for a phonebank to help @aftynbehn.bsky.social flip a GOP district in Tennessee: mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Reposted by Swing Left Howard County
We mourn the lives taken by hate, especially Black and Brown trans women. And we fight. For safety. For dignity. For the freedom to live openly and fearlessly. Remembrance must become action. Not one more.
November 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
We mourn the lives taken by hate, especially Black and Brown trans women. And we fight. For safety. For dignity. For the freedom to live openly and fearlessly. Remembrance must become action. Not one more.
Reposted by Swing Left Howard County
"Perry announced that she will propose legislation for the 2026 General Assembly session to address the "extensive corruption, instability, and governance failures that Purcellville residents have been forced to endure.""
Perry Condemns Purcellville Town Council 'Corruption'
Sen. Russet Perry (D-31), whose district includes the Town of Purcellville, released a statement Wednesday night condemning recent actions by the Town Council.
www.loudounnow.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:09 AM
"Perry announced that she will propose legislation for the 2026 General Assembly session to address the "extensive corruption, instability, and governance failures that Purcellville residents have been forced to endure.""