Mike Nellis

Mike Nellis

@mikenellis.bsky.social

Chicago's 32nd Ward Committeeman. Host of Endless Urgency. Exposing MAGA and defending democracy. Entrepreneur, husband, dad, semi-happy Cubs fan.

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Republicans have no answers for how this Illegal war in Iran is helping the American people. There are real issues at stake here that they should be focusing on, but they just won't.

I’m really tired of Republicans slandering Abdul and lecturing Jewish voters who support him. But not Trump having dinner with known antisemite Nick Fuentes or Trump’s father getting arrested at a KKK rally. Those are way more REAL and DISTURBING connections than anything in Abdul’s background.

Elon Musk has spent more on politics in two years than George Soros has in his entire life. Now he’s trying to buy Ken Paxton a Senate seat because he knows how easy it is to bribe that scumbag. It’s up to Texans to tell Musk their state isn’t for sale.

I spent most of the day in Georgia talking with students, and other than a handful of mildly annoying frat boys who kept asking me about trans athletes, basically all the kids are voting for Jon Ossoff. The future is bright, my friends.

Mildly amused at James Comey being charged again by the Trump administration days before the election. It’s bullshit, and I hope it gets tossed quickly, but the irony was not lost on me.

Republicans have nothing but the same tired playbook they've been using for decades. Every Democrat can't be a communist, they're just scared about how terribly they're about to do in these midterms...

The AI data center industry finally starting a super PAC one week out from the election and spending all its money to help Darline Graham says a lot about everybody involved.

Dying laughing at the pilot on my very delayed flight to Atlanta, who just said: “I’m sorry for the delay, everybody. I’ll be honest and tell you someone got their AirPod stuck under the seats, and we had to retrieve that for the guy. We’re good to go now.”

Nothing screams America First more than Trump partnering with Russia and China to try to install failed Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán as head of the United Nations. These people are nuts.

Not only is Hegseth reportedly planning to run for president, but he’s also been begging Marsha Blackburn to appoint him to the Senate if she wins the governor’s race in Tennessee. The man is delusional. Why would she do that?

Donald Trump and his Republican party have lied time and time again. They lied about lowering grocery prices, they lied about nuclear weapons in Iran, they lied about halting forever wars in the Middle East. Lies and deceit are all we can expect.

Dying laughing at NBC News asking Mike Rogers if a vote for him is a vote for Trump, and HE FAKED HIS MIC CUTTING OUT TO PRETEND HE COULDN’T HEAR THE QUESTION 🤣 These people are pathetic.

The guy I just debated on Newsmax said corruption has become the top issue in the polling ahead of the midterms because of Ilhan Omar, and I just started laughing at him. I can’t handle the spin anymore. They’re ridiculous.

Donald Trump has nothing more to offer than hollow promises and half-assed fixes. What the American people need are real solutions to the very real problems of affordability and livability that Republicans have no answers for.

Obama just SLAMMED Vivek Ramaswamy for the disgusting ad he ran using Amy Acton's estranged mother: “There is no office that is worth stooping that low.”

Obama: "Republicans are doing what they always do, running all kinds of scary ads about Democrats and how the woke police will arrest you and force-feed you tofu. We are not gonna fall for that. They run that same okie doke every election. It's tired. Tired!"

NEWS: Trump is weighing blanket pardons for his staffers so they can never be prosecuted for their crimes. He’s trying to wipe the slate clean to protect himself and his crime family before Democrats take back the House and Senate. Pathetic grifters.

So after all that, Vivek seems to be pulling the Acton ad with her estranged mother. Truly one of the dumbest, most desperate fucking things I’ve ever seen a campaign do.

"Vivek Ramaswamy is a grifter and a scam artist, a scumbag, and he should never have been in this position." The fact that the entire Republican party is rushing to downplay the severity of this attack ad on Amy Acton is appalling. And it again exposes their desperation heading into these midterms.

Not a single member of Vivek’s team has resigned over this disgusting Amy Acton ad. That tells you how deep the scumbaggery goes inside the Republican Party. There’s no coming back from this.

So apparently the scumbag who made Vivek’s disgusting ad against Amy Acton is married to prolific liar Tricia McLaughlin, who falsely attacked Alex Pretti and Renee Good after they were murdered by ICE. Here’s a video of me calling her a goddamn liar to her face ⬇️

If you think Trump ordering the Justice Department to stop the certification of an election that hasn’t even happened yet is bad, just wait. They’re scared as fuck right now and panicking. A wounded animal is dangerous. It’s going to get crazy.

"Democrats for Mike Rogers" turning out to be a completely astroturfed Republican operation that the media fell for is the most obvious development of the midterms so far. Saw that coming a mile away.

It seems like it should be a bigger deal that Jared Kushner reportedly had a secret Dubai bank account with hundreds of millions from Azerbaijan, and allegedly used it to pay a warlord, a mercenary, and a former hit man. We only know because Russia hacked his phone.

NEWS: MAGA’s top voter fraud crusader Scott Presler caught committing voter fraud, letting out-of-state GOP operatives register at his Pennsylvania home so they could vote there in 2024, including one who voted in Florida in 2020 and again in 2025. Every accusation from these people is a confession.

Not at all shocked Trump is preemptively trying to block the results of the Alaska Senate race. He wouldn’t do that if he thought the GOP could win. A weird election in what feels like a foreign place to most Americans is the ideal spot for them to steal a Senate seat. Democrats need to be ready.

Vivek Ramaswamy was caught on tape last night saying Amy Acton is “flawed” for being sexually assaulted as a minor. This was another failed attempt to defend the disgusting ad where he paid Acton’s estranged mother to call her a liar. These people are scumbags.

What we see with Vivek Ramaswamy and the rest of the Republican party is not a fluke. This is a pattern. They abuse, then they protect the abusers, then they attack the victims, like Amy Acton. Just absolutely disgusting stuff.

"Donald Trump doesn't give a damn about your personal finances, he only cares about himself. And that's why Republicans are going to get creamed in the midterms."

One way I gauge whether an issue is breaking through is if regular people back home in Nebraska start asking me about it. Multiple people who don’t follow politics at all have asked me about Vivek’s ad against Amy Acton. This is a real problem for Republicans in a way they don’t understand yet.

Republicans are being forced to spend BIG money in the Mississippi Senate race, which says more about the state of the midterms than any poll or pundit.

MS NOW: Can Democrats win the Senate race in Iowa? Me: I think Democrats have a great shot in Iowa. If you’ve watched this ad of Josh Turek literally dragging his wheelchair up a flight of stairs trying to knock on doors, how do you not root for a guy like that?

I feel awful for Amy Acton being forced to relive her childhood trauma on the campaign trail because of her scumbag opponent and the White House. The courage and character she has are off the charts.