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“let’s celebrate the Brazilian people, who have refused to be bullied by Bolsonaro, by the American oligarchs, and by Trump — who imposed high tariffs on Brazil in 2025 because it put a traitor and insurrectionist (Bolsonaro Sr) on trial. ” Paul Krugman

“What so few Republicans seem to grasp is that for all his success, if you just look at the scoreboard, Trump is actually an extremely unsuccessful politician..” Paul Waldman

“Under Roosevelt, Democrats protected workers’ rights, provided government jobs, regulated business and banking, and began to chip away at racial segregation. New Deal agencies employed more than 8.5 million people, built more than 650,000 miles of highways,…” Heather Cox Richardson

“They provided a basic social safety net and regulated food and drug safety. And when World War II broke out, the new system enabled the United States to defend democracy successfully against fascists both at home— ” Heather Cox Richardson

“Under Roosevelt, Democrats protected workers’ rights, provided government jobs, regulated business and banking, and began to chip away at racial segregation. New Deal agencies employed more than 8.5 million people, built more than 650,000 miles of highways,…” Heather Cox Richardson

“It’s no longer Democrat versus Republican or left versus right. It’s now democracy versus dictatorship. Right versus wrong. It’s no longer a war on undocumented immigrants. It’s now a war on Americans.” Robert Reich

“No Democrat should be afraid of Elon Musk. Every Democrat running for president should tell him plainly: when the clock strikes noon on January 20, 2029, his personal access to classified information will end.” Steve Schmidt

“We desperately need an independent judiciary. Judges shouldn’t face threats, let alone intimidation, from the executive or legislative branches. They too have a constitutionally assigned role as a check on the other branches.” Joyce Vance

“control of Starlink must, one way or another, be taken away from Elon Musk. It’s a matter of national security: we cannot let private individuals make foreign and defense policy, ” Paul Krugman

“in a democracy, the rights of private property don’t and never have included the right to act against the nation’s interest — where democratically elected representatives of the people, not business owners, should decide what is in the nation’s interest.” Paul Krugman

“Already, this is the most sweeping campaign of election interference by a sitting president in American history. That’s the bad news. The good news is that it’s colliding with the most sweeping mobilization ever assembled to stop one.” Miles Taylor

“Donald Trump and his buddies don’t get to decide who serves in Congress and other elected offices. We do. It’s up to us. They have tried this before, bringing baseless charges and making untrue claims right before an election to try and snatch victory from the proverbial jaws of defeat” Joyce Vance

“The myth of massive noncitizen voting continues to circulate in the wake of the administration’s claims there and elsewhere. It’s not about actually finding voter fraud, and it never has been.” Joyce Vance

“It’s about making claims in advance of an election, like Sessions did in 2017, that are designed to intimidate, to prevent people who are entitled to from voting, and try to impact the outcome of the election with dirty tricks, ” Joyce Vance

“Every survivor watching this race just learned that if you tell the truth about what was done to you and then run for office, the other side will hand a camera to the person who chose your abuser over you.” Eliza Orlins

“While they may not be a majority and may be alienating the rest of the country, a paranoid, xenophobic, religious nationalist cult at odds with fundamental values like empathy and antagonistic toward mainstream positions on a host of issues…” Jennifer Rubin

“There are many terrible things happening in America right now, from the debacle in Iran to the depredations of ICE. But the healthcare disaster, which will ruin many people financially and in some cases kill Americans who can no longer afford essential care, ” Paul Krugman