Hoping that all the Dem strategists & @democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social read this thread and take the right messages from it. We can’t “bipartisan” w/racists but we CAN offer the country sound programs & address flaws that allowed Trump et al to plunder the US—& hold ‘em to account!
Rebecca Rauber
Rebecca Rauber
@defeatthefascists.bsky.social
Former ACLU comms director, current fascist fighter #ImpeachTrump #NoFascistUSA
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#AbolishICE #AbolishDHS #LorenzoSalgadoAraujoPresente #VoteBLUE #NoFascistUSA
Apparently, some Houston voters are putting their I Voted stickers on the Lorenzo Salgado Araujo memorial. Stephen Miller is ALREADY trying to scapegoat others for losing whatever races they lose in Texas and elsewhere. This is a vivid testament that for some voters, his murder squad is the reason.
So sick of this thieving, traitorous, corrupt warlord. Nov. 3rd can’t come soon enough, nor Nov. 7, 2028 after that. #Nuremberg2.0 #ExpandSCOTUS
This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.
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GREAT explainer on how the US democracy works. Don’t like it? Work our asses off IN THE PRIMARIES to elect like-minded folks (cf Mamdani, Raskin, etc.). Our one job now is to excise the fascist MAGA powerhold so we can begin to right the destruction Trump et al have wrought. #NoFascistUSA
"The past two years are all the proof you need that sitting out an election because the better candidate happens to not be perfectly to your liking is completely stupid and self-destructive."
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The question's not whether Musk or Trump are responsible for hobbling Starlink; they both are. The cooperative scheme, by the National Socialist Regime and one of its oligarchical clients, to aid Russia's attempt to snuff out a European democracy is a measure of how rotted our government has become.
1. The Wall Street Journal and CBS News confirmed that Elon Musk was involved in the decision to stall out Starshield, the military version of Starlink, when Ukraine needed it most. www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-mu...
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“I think America is big enough for all of us. [JD Vance’s] view of America is small. It's small like him.” A lot of money quotes in this @gregsargent.bsky.social interview with @abdulelsayed.bsky.social, but this is the best one in my view.
Abdul El-Sayed on JD Vance: "I think America is big enough for all of us. His view of America is small like him. It's about pointing to other people and making the argument that the reason *you* don't have is because of *them.*" El-Sayed came on our pod. It's good: newrepublic.com/article/2168...
This clarifies how corrupt and complicit #Google was in renaming the other bodies of water, as if US presidents by virtue of the office have that right. This one was so egregiously stupid they had to expose their past kneel-to-the-dictator decisions. #GulfOfMEXICO #LakeONTARIO #NoFascistUSA
According to the Business Insider (www.businessinsider.com), Google rejected trump's plan to rename the Atlantic Ocean to Trump Ocean. I'm going to give myself a headache if I keep shaking my head like this.
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THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)
Republican lawmakers are incensed about Trump's dismissal of Ukraine — and powerless to stop him. That frustration hit a new peak on Monday as they sought to address Trump’s decision to purchase Russian diesel, waive sanctions on Moscow, and potentially stop sharing intelligence with Ukraine.
The most openly corrupt individual in the history of the US is seeking to sell out Ukraine to Russia. Not on our watch! #SlaveUkraine #NoFascistUSA
1. During the president's first term, it was impossible to get his supporters to accept that the Russians really did help him defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016, and that the late Robert Mueller's investigation proved it.
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A new app lets you find out who’s behind the political mailers you receive, which comes in handy for people who don’t want to be manipulated by self-interested billionaires. Learn all about it from @juddlegum.bsky.social who created the “paidforby” app. joycevance.substack.com/p/paid-for-b...
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One of the more remarkable graphs of the cycle, from Ipsos/Reuters: www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
See @democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social, it’s not so hard to message clearly, accurately, and compellingly. Please copy. #NoFascistUSA
Ossoff: "At a rally earlier this week in Ohio, the president egged on supports who assaulted a woman demanding the release of the Epstein files. Because if you can count on one thing from this White House, it's their tireless commitment to war, inflation, and covering up sex trafficking."
Great Jacob thread on the Times’ now years-long decision to fail to accurately report on the threat Trump and his entire admin pose to our democratic republic. #NoFascistUSA
Healy defended the NYT’s hesitancy to use the word “lie” in Trump coverage. He said frequent use of the word would change “the people’s sense of our own fairness” and ”lose the potency of the word itself.” “So you’re saying you want to retain the potency of the word ‘lie’ by not using it?” I asked.
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I will not stoop to their level. I will not stoop to their level. I will not denigrate this woman based on her immutable characteristics, speaking style, or apparent illiteracy. I will not stoop to their level...
😬 Katie Zacharia's first press briefing was brutally bad 😬 Trump managed to find a press secretary who can barely read, but she does have the number one qualification -- looking like Ivanka Here's a supercut from Zacharia's first briefing, which made Karoline Leavitt seem like Ronald Reagan
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Today would be a good day for top editors in our major news organizations to call a meeting to announce to their staff that yes, this is fascism, and they should report and write accordingly. From August 2024: presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
This is, what, the third constitutional crisis today? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/10/12/judge-blocks-trump-administration-airing-taxpayer-funded-campaign-style-ads/
Add this slide to your ad deck @democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social @electdemocrats.bsky.social #TrumpHatesYou
Says the lazy slob who shows up to work midmorning, spends the rest of the day watching TV, and golfs every weekend.
Key quote for these times: “Identifying where the actual radicalism in American politics lies at this moment is important.” It’d be nice if US media were up to the task. E.g., the illegal DOJ raid on Omar’s home is treated as a legit crime story rather than her being the victim of a vindictive AG.
October 12, 2026
This is all pure gold. Especially: “a very powerful man is explaining to a camera that the prize is rigged, that we're corrupt, that he'll win it next year, and he genuinely might, we're only five idiots and we've been wrong before, Kissinger is still on the wall.” #TrumpWarmonger
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Judge Reyes: “I said [to the plaintiff ], the Government won't lie. And now they did.” Trump bulldozed 500 trees he was specifically ordered not to, to create an uglier golf course in his image. Judge Reyes, the ball is in your court. Permanent injunction, sanctions, jail time, disbarment. LFG!
AUSA: I don't think there was a conscious decision not to tell the court- Judge Reyes: There WAS a conscious decision! You didn't tell the court. Do you know why I am furious right now? The plaintiffs said this could happen and I said, I trust the government
This thread frames the Trump admin’s raid on the home of a sitting US member of Congress correctly and succinctly. Read, share, and call your own reps and news outlets to insist that they do the same. #NoFascistUSA
There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.
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Corporate Media has two choices here: either cover this immigration raid on Rep Omar as if it were a normal action within the rule-of-law OR call it out as an insane attack by Trump on his political enemies. Yet even @huffpost.com is choosing collaboration in this article.
www.huffpost.com/entry/ilhan-...
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Real talk thread, but for me this piece was key. Don’t let the pundits or Serious Democrats talk you out of your outrage and desire/need for these Nazis to see consequences for their anti-American actions. #NoFascistUSA
"If they don't want to be called nazis they should stop doing nazi shit, and the media should ask themselves why heated language bothers them more than nazi shit."
They’re all gestapo monsters. #AbolishICE #AbolishDHS #NoFascistUSA
The @houstonchronicle.com posted this video and it's pretty jarring. No matter that he was fleeing, law enforcement officers may not use deadly force on someone who poses no significant risk of death or serious injury to others. Deliberately hitting someone with a car is a use of deadly force.
The entire Trump era in one thread, lowlights version. #NoFascistUSA
🧵🧵🧵 I was going to write a simple sentence about the madness of the moment, but I got distracted by the U.S. president’s complaint that he was screwed out of the Nobel Peace Prize after bombing multiple countries, and then he bolstered his case with a plan to execute a guy in a wheelchair and ...
Just in case any of you still thought Newsom might make a good candidate for 2028…it’s a big fat NO. #Yeson40 #YesOn44 #NoOn41 #NoOn42 #NoOnGavinNewsom
Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.
This column captures the outrage so many of us feel about the US press corps’ failure to rise to the moment. It’s as if they see a 5-alarm fire and are instead covering it as a cat-stuck-in-a-tree. #NoFascistUSA
Major media’s weak responses to Trump’s abuses encourage even more abuses. I wrote about that a couple weeks ago in my Stop the Presses newsletter (which you should subscribe to).
Trump is supporting Russia, who is arming Iran to kill US troops in a war he started and refuses to end, instead of a US ally, to whom Congress has committed military aid and support. Pretty sure this qualifies as high treason.
Trump really is on Russia’s side. He wants the kind of dictatorship that Putin has.
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One key point @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social makes here is that if Dems win the midterms (and win in 2028), deploying congressional power creatively to unwind Elon Musk's sway over the government (contracts, etc) will be essential to any reconstruction: www.ms.now/opinion/elon...
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Tadai Me:i Camp calls supporters to join in prayer and protest on the Tohono O’odham Nation as border wall construction is set to begin this Monday, on Indigenous Peoples Day.
⚠️ Border wall contractors to remove thousands of sacred saguaros (ha:ṣañ) on sovereign O'odham land starting Monday — Indigenous People's Day.