Steve Collins with the most important Maine political column of the year.
Big credit to him for covering a dark story the rest of the Maine press is studiously ignoring. Couldn't have been easy for him -- he was boosting Susan Collins as recently as last year. #MEpolitics
One of the saddest developments of this year’s U.S. Senate campaign in Maine has been watching Susan Collins, a senator once renowned for civility and decency, embrace the Maine Wire’s sickening racism and vulgar politics.
www.pressherald.com/2026/10/26/s...
“Georgia Without Ivanishvili!”
Thousands have gathered in Tbilisi to protest Ivanishvili’s one-party rule and the ban on opposition parties.
Day 697 of uninterrupted protests in Georgia. #GeorgiaProtests ✊🇬🇪🇪🇺
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Lula:
"We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world.
We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."
Early voting ends in FOUR DAYS on October 29th! Don't wait until the last minute, get out to vote now! And bring people along with you so we can vote to have a government that works for us! ✊🗳️
Thank you for bringing the energy we need to get out and vote, @aoc.bsky.social.
Racism and xenophobia are key ways poor and middle class people are recruited and used to benefit the elite. I hope this backfires, as it sometimes does, with stronger turnout by Somali Americans and an array of Mainers protecting the right to vote and electing pro-democracy candidates. #mepolitics
Steve Robinson of the Maine Wire said this is why they're filming interpreters for voters in Lewiston:
The interpreters, Robinson said, are part of a “busing operation that is bringing in jobless Somali bums to vote.”
This is clearly racist and xenophobic voter suppression.
#mepolitics
“LePage was no friend to the citizens of the Second Congressional District when he was governor.” A letter from Bangor lays out Paul LePage’s record as governor, blocking Medicaid expansion and cutting funding for Meals on Wheels and other services seniors rely on.
ACTION: Spread the word and get to Rockport this Sunday at 5 PM to Peaceably Assemble to Petition Senator Collins for Redress of Grievances while she parties with wealthy donors at the Samoset Resort.
Details at audacitycat.com/action-while...#MEPolitics#SusanCollins#Rockport#Maine#Democracy
MAGA media "reporter" (who doesn't speak the Somali language) claims a translator was telling immigrant voters who to pick (and implies they might want candidates from the party who harasses Somali immigrants). This is attempted voter suppression. #mepoliticsmainebeacon.com/maine-wires-...
The BBC is doing something important, refusing to be intimidated by a powerful person trying to use the legal system to punish criticism and discourage scrutiny. They’re schooling the American press on what the 1st Amendment means. Read about it here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-bbc-st...
US military needs ‘urgent revolutionary institutional change’ to prepare for modern war, Petraeus says - https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2026/10/23/us-military-needs-urgent-revolutionary-institutional-change-to-prepare-for-modern-war-petraeus-says/
Susan Collins’ closing messages are “Troy Jackson is a big meanie” and “Troy Jackson’s family is trash.”
Seems contradictory and not about Mainers’ needs, no? #mepolitics
Trump’s trade wars have made life harder and more expensive for Mainers. Susan Collins enabled this chaos, voted to confirm the people behind it, and now wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put out the fire.
And it was actually a prisoner exchange in which we gave them an actual Russian criminal and we also gave them diplomatic cover in a war of aggression — not only morally shameful and personally humiliating but as a negotiation absolutely laughably unequal.
Let's just make this clear: Witkoff calls the bloodiest dictator, indicted war criminal, and child murderer, Putin, a "humanitarian" not for some massive concession, not for agreeing to stop the war, but for releasing a person they captured in a foreign country where that person was simply living
There's a reason Press Herald and even Susan Collins's normally deferential hometown paper ran this story a month ago today:
It's credible, damning and includes e-mails to support it's bombshell claims.
Challenge anyone to read it and not come away thinking Collins is corrupt as hell. #MEpolitics
If there's a Mainer in your life on the fence about ME-SEN (or ME-GOV or CD-2) or who disagrees with you on #MEpolitics but there's even a tiny chance might be persuadable...now is the time to reach out.
This is coin toss race! Every vote will counts.! No Wednesday morning November 4 regrets!
What an amazing endorsement by @aoc.bsky.social today in Portland.
"The most important thing we can do for women in Maine is vote for Troy Jackson. Because Troy believes in our reproductive freedom, Troy stands up for my and your right to choose. . .
#VOTE 🔥 #JACKSONforMAINE 🔥 #MEpolitics
Make your plan to vote today. 🗳️
📬 Request a mail-in absentee ballot before October 29th
🗓️ Vote absentee in-person through October 29th
📍 Vote in person at the polls on November 3rd
Visit maine.gov/vote for more information.
ERIC HOLDER, U.S. attorney general from 2009 - 2015 (remember those years?) endorses Troy Jackson, U.S. Senate candidate from Maine.
Mr. Holder has a message for Mainers.
#VOTE#JACKSONforMAINE#RetireSusan#MEsen#MEpolitics
Unlike Susan Collins's events yesterday with a widely-disliked lobbyist/has-been, Troy Jackson is campaigning today with a popular political figure of national stature.
So all the press coverage will be as positive as it was yesterday for Collins, right?
Haha there's no chance of it! #MEpolitics
So honored to share the stage with @aoc.bsky.social and take questions at the Students vs. Billionaires Town Hall.
When we come together, we can take on the rich and powerful and win this seat back for Mainers.
“.. The filings pull back the curtain, in vivid detail, on how billionaires like Mr. Zuckerberg — whose net worth stands at $247 billion — are navigating the risk posed by California’s proposed tax.”
@nytimes.com$METAwww.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/t...
If Susan Collins could not have anticipated Kavanaugh’s opinion and vote, then she’s at the very least incompetent, hires incompetent staff, and/or ignores any competent staffers. And that alone is reason she’s gotta GO! Mainers: vote her OUT!
#MEpolitics
Great evening in Presque Isle yesterday. With two weeks to go until Election Day, moments like these matter more than ever. The County deserves a voice that actually gets it.
Heather Cox Richardson weighs in on Susan Collins's claim that, "there was no way for me to anticipate that [Kavanaugh would vote to overturn Roe]." #MEpolitics
Two weeks, people!
Really think this is the closing message. Paint it on the side of a barn. Print it up and hand it out in front of the grocery store. #MEpolitics
Clip is embarrassing for Susan Collins but also Manchin's claim here that she votes based on qualifications is flagrantly false. And not just her votes FOR Kimberly Guilfoyle, RFK Jr and Oz show this.
Also routinely sides AGAINST highly qualified Dem nominees -- e.g. dozens under Biden! #MEpolitics
Susan Collins is betting dark money attack ads will win an election for her so she can continue to stay in office and poo poo about dark money will doing absolutely nothing substantive about it.
DON’T LET HER!
#MESen#mepolitics#VoteBlue