Nancy Hicks

The day after Election Day knowing the ACLU would be very busy for 4 yrs I made a donation. Since then to: Public Citizen Democracy Forward American Oversight ProPublica Indivisible The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington (CREW)

I don’t think we should get used to a man this wealthy, this full of hate and this willing to demonize a small minority having so much power in our economy and in our politics. To defend democracy, we must defeat the oligarchs.

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

In his talk at Princeton, @marcelias.bsky.social noted that the election suppression he worried about was less ICE at the polls and more ICE putting up traffic checkpoints and other things that made access to the polls much harder. And it looks like we’re seeing a version of that in Brazil.

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

Any politician who’s willing to throw away one group’s rights is willing to throw away everyone’s rights. It’s that simple. Every single consultant, pundit and candidate who’s shown a willingness to abandon trans rights needs to be shunned from the party forever

Look how many Floridians get that climate change is driving their home insurance crisis. Big majorities; nearly half of Trump voters!

The Arch, The Golf Course, The Election, The Free Press, & something you may have forgotten about entirely, Trump’s former NSA John Bolton gets sentenced this week. Everything you need to know is here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

“Here is a story that would have ended any other presidency in American history, and instead it will get a shrug, a Truth Social rant about the Failing New York Times, and a Fox segment about Hunter Biden’s laptop.”

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The next 10 days will test our democracy. Trump hasn’t been able to suppress votes systemically like he wanted to & now there's a lot going on, especially in courts. Get caught up on what you need to know now, like recent developments in California and Alaska. joycevance.substack.com/p/trumps-las...

California, Alaska, and more. Here’s what you need to know to understand Trump’s last-ditch efforts to avoid losing. joycevance.substack.com/p/trumps-las...

“I mean, not *you* … but I’m making a fucking killing. These things are great! As long as you don’t live near them, am I right?”

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The “ice cream window” is open at DOJ for MAGA to drive up and get taxpayer money. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“Several conservative organizations …— including the Heritage Foundation and American Moment — have pressed White House counsel to either prepare pardons or put in place funding for the legal fees necessary to defend junior staffers from criminal and congressional probes or potential lawsuits.”

This from the guy who got Lindsey Graham’s sister appointed to his seat, and this 62 year old woman who has happily been “Darline Nordone” for 20 years suddenly turns back into “Darline Graham”. You think that’s because she’s suddenly had a change of heart?

Trump admits that he told the DOJ to sue Alaska over the election

This admission alone is an impeachable offense

Also, studies show that when we improve a space or system for the disabled, the benefits actually spread to everyone. You’re not just helping yourself later; you’re helping yourself right now.

This is an urgent problem. I don’t see anyone else explaining it except Senator Sheldon Whitehouse.

Top Ten Fun Facts about what climate change is doing to Florida’s home insurance market: Fact #1 is that it’s already the most expensive in the country, and predicted to double or triple in years ahead. 🧵

Is that Bobby Jindal’s PAC? I’d love to read a deep dive on its funders and leaders

This is the kind of thug behavior creepy billionaires and their government stooges resort to when it looks like the people are going to reclaim their power. Democracy? Or government-by-billionaire? That’s the choice. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

President Trump's super PAC has spent about $277 million to back Republican candidates in the upcoming midterms, a staggering amount of spending "with no parallel in American history."

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...

White AG said it was ok for cop to kill baby, but when the body cam footage comes out, the cop resigns. news3lv.com/news/nation-...

On this day in 1909, a white mob attempted to lynch a Black man near the U.S. Capitol, dispersing only after the police department promised to hand the man over to the mob the next day.

Glad to see more Democrats recognizing that if Elon Musk donates to your opponent, it is an absolute *gift* to you as long as you draw attention. He's a deeply unpopular, dorky white supremacist asshole who's using his billions to try and buy off politicians. Light. Him. Up.

The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

If you were waiting for your sign to donate to an insurgent campaign for Congress in Missouri...this is your sign. I'm current polling 5 points ahead of 14 yr incumbent Ann Wagner in a seat held by the GOP for 34 years. I need you now. We can take this across the finish line and change Missouri.

Fred's good people, help him out!

Democrats should really feature these creeps their extensive ties to this administration.

A new data analysis shows that delays resulting from the U.S. Postal Service’s cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots cast in rural areas across the country. The rates of primary ballots rejected for arriving late has doubled or tripled in some areas compared to 2022.

As was the plan

On this day in 1946, a Holmes County, Mississippi, court freed five white men charged with killing a Black man named Leon McAtee, even though one of the defendants had confessed to his own involvement in the murder and implicated the other four men.

When ICE “warns” noncitizens they can’t vote, it’s not a benign experience. It’s frightening; meant to intimidate lawful voters. That’s the lesson the civil rights movement & a failed prosecution Jeff Sessions conducted as US Atty teach us. Read about it here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-reoccu...

Carte blanche for Trump

On this day in 1835, a white mob angered by abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison's anti-slavery activism dragged him by a rope through the streets of Boston, threatening to kill him.

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

If this is accurate, Elon lied about not having control over Starshield, and he lied about the administration making the decision. More importantly, why is a private citizen even *able* to make decisions that could hinder US military operations?

On this day in 1870, a Black politician named Wade Perrin was assassinated by a white mob one day after he was re-elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives.

The Trump administration has seen relative success seizing ballots. This year, the FBI seized 2020 ballots from Fulton County, Georgia. But that probe focused on a past election. Experts say the DOJ has no reason to seize ballots before they’re counted and certified: https://demdock.com/4sinCBQ

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

Outstanding. More of this, please. Elon Musk is a white nationalist troll using the billions he made off government contracts to destroy this nation. Light. Him. Up.

Team Paxton appears to have sent out fake mailers to Texas voters impersonating a trans student group and claiming to want to help kids secretly transition. The actual group said they had nothing to do with it, despite the mailers copying their aesthetic, and the address traces to a random UPS box.

Taxing the billionaires could *literally* provide free lunches for school children, among other things, so let's give it a try!