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$5,000— That’s the cost of admission to get in the room with Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is coming to Connecticut to headline a fundraiser this week. Not to listen. Not to learn. Not to respond to what people here are enduring.
$5,000— That’s the cost of admission to get in the room with Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is coming to Connecticut to headline a fundraiser this week. Not to listen. Not to learn. Not to respond to what people here are enduring.
Jillian Gilchrest: Your voice shouldn’t come with a price tag
If we want Congress to function again, to actually help people, restrain abuse of power, and meet moments of crisis, we have to change what it’s built around.
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February 10, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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$5,000— That’s the cost of admission to get in the room with Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is coming to Connecticut to headline a fundraiser this week. Not to listen. Not to learn. Not to respond to what people here are enduring.
$5,000— That’s the cost of admission to get in the room with Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is coming to Connecticut to headline a fundraiser this week. Not to listen. Not to learn. Not to respond to what people here are enduring.
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Starting a war without legal authority and abducting foreign leaders is a dangerous abuse of power. Congress needs to wake up before another generation of young Americans is sent to die in a fool's war over oil.
January 3, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Starting a war without legal authority and abducting foreign leaders is a dangerous abuse of power. Congress needs to wake up before another generation of young Americans is sent to die in a fool's war over oil.
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My Plan: Food on Every Table
It doesn't have to be so hard to feed a family
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November 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Hell yeah, we need more Dems running explicitly on an anti-corruption platform.
Corruption is the reason food assistance is expiring and health care costs are skyrocketing. But it isn't a new problem. Restoring trust and accountability to government has to be at the heart of how we fix Washington. #corruption #peoplepower
October 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Hell yeah, we need more Dems running explicitly on an anti-corruption platform.
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The religious devotion to money in politics has broken our democracy and sold out everyday people. Check out my latest Substack!
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New post! Read my plan to un-buy Congress. We can weaken the effects of money in politics, open doors for new kinds of candidates to serve, and FINALLY stop with all the f****** texts and emails!
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October 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The religious devotion to money in politics has broken our democracy and sold out everyday people. Check out my latest Substack!
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TODAY: @tomscocca.bsky.social and @mariabustillos.com have a chat about omnipresent pundit Ezra Klein. "Klein himself has now demonstrated, across thousands of words and with multiple interlocutors, that he himself is completely immune to persuasion."
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Ezra Klein Does Politics the Wrong Way
Tom Scocca: Ezra Klein has now recorded two podcast interviews and written a long introduction to a third podcast, all devoted to asserting that it was good and correct to for him to use his New York ...
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September 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
TODAY: @tomscocca.bsky.social and @mariabustillos.com have a chat about omnipresent pundit Ezra Klein. "Klein himself has now demonstrated, across thousands of words and with multiple interlocutors, that he himself is completely immune to persuasion."
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"What troubles me most is our leaders’ readily compromising the values they claim to hold to appear more cordial or bipartisan."
Spot on diagnosis of one of the major problems we're facing right now.
Spot on diagnosis of one of the major problems we're facing right now.
September 26, 2025 at 12:23 AM
"What troubles me most is our leaders’ readily compromising the values they claim to hold to appear more cordial or bipartisan."
Spot on diagnosis of one of the major problems we're facing right now.
Spot on diagnosis of one of the major problems we're facing right now.
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Why I Wouldn’t Have Voted to Honor Charlie Kirk
Congress’s obsession with appearances over principles is failing all of us.
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September 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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