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iowa expat / Finance Director @AVindman

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@AVindman
Alex Vindman 🇺🇸
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In the first 24-hours of the campaign we raised over $1.7 million from more than 36,000 donations – all without taking a single cent of corporate PAC money.
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@AVindman
Alex Vindman 🇺🇸
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I’m Alex Vindman and I’m running for the U.S. Senate. Chaos, corruption and sky-rocketing costs are crushing ordinary people, while the billionaires and career politicians profit. I stepped up when my country needed a soldier, I reported corruption at the highest levels of
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@RedditCFB
RedditCFB
2 months
The Midwest is primarily defined by the geographic region occupied by the Big Ten, and so it extends from New Brunswick to Los Angeles.
@AndrewSolender
Andrew Solender
2 months
nobody wants to admit it, but buffalo and pittsburgh are both culturally midwestern
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@TheStalwart
Joe Weisenthal
2 months
New Zach Bryan album is out. Every song sounds exactly like every other song he’s done. So it’s good.
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@HawkeyeFootball
Hawkeye Football
3 months
Black Friday Special.
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@equine__dentist
horse dentist
5 months
the state fair goes so hard
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@BenCNelson
Benjamin
6 months
God is Good
@DecisionDeskHQ
Decision Desk HQ
6 months
Democrat Catelin Drey wins the IA-01 State Senate Special and flips the seat blue. This win breaks the Republican supermajority in the Iowa State Senate.
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@TheStalwart
Joe Weisenthal
8 months
There’s some new Zach Bryan songs out. They sound exactly like his old songs. So they’re really good.
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@allymutnick
Ally Mutnick
8 months
BIG campaign finance news: SCOTUS has taken up NRSC v. FEC This case is wonky but seismic. It could allow party committees (like NRSC/DSCC) to coordinate freely w candidates & buy TV ads at the much lower rate given to candidates It benefits Rs most & could affect midterms
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@corey_cubs
Corey Freedman
8 months
How today feels as someone born in the 90s
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@historycalendar
History Calendar
9 months
Upon seeing this Iowa farmer during his visit, Khrushchev patted his belly, exclaiming, “Now there’s a real American!” 1959.
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@BenCNelson
Benjamin
10 months
Is the reason the NRCC can't afford more Comms staffers because they're broke?
@JakeSherman
Jake Sherman
10 months
DCCC topped NRCC in fundraising again. Dems raise 8.1M compared to Rs 7M. DCCC has $13M more on hand.
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@seungminkim
Seung Min Kim
10 months
💨 💨 💨 VATICAN CITY (AP) — White smoke pours from the Sistine Chapel chimney, signalling a pope has been elected to lead the Catholic Church.
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@BenCNelson
Benjamin
10 months
The Two Popes is a superior movie to Conclave in every way. It even has double the amount of conclaves
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@FionaSmall
Fiona Small
11 months
Pope Francis W
@thedailybeast
The Daily Beast
11 months
Vance had an “an exchange of opinions” with Cardinal Pietro Parolin that touched on migration, the Vatican said. https://t.co/PXapjRSx5X
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@IAPolls2022
InteractivePolls
11 months
Senator John Fetterman Job Approval 🟢 Approve: 50% 🟤 Disapprove: 35% ✨ Fetterman's highest approval rating by Morning Consult. His net approval was +1 in December '23 vs +15 in March '25 @MorningConsult | January - March https://t.co/p4ggRDXuiV
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@hankgreen
Hank Green
11 months
"I became a Trump supporter because I couldn't buy access to the democrats" is definitely something I would expect someone to think in their head rather than say out loud.
@TheChiefNerd
Chief Nerd
11 months
.@chamath: “I was a megadonor to the Democrats … I couldn't get a phone call returned from the White House to save my life … The Trump administration is totally different. There's not a single person there you can't get on the phone and talk to.”
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@socaasanti
Patricia Socarras Santiago
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Shot, chaser: Trump tariff edition
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@daveweigel
David Weigel
11 months
The Democratic Party is doomed and dead, and also powerful enough to win an Amish country state senate race and spook Stefanik out of vacating her seat. Contains multitudes.
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@JStein_WaPo
Jeff Stein
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Relative to some of the discourse, one thing I was surprised by, reading @ezraklein @DKThomp’s book, is that they are explicit that unions are NOT the cause of high public costs/building delays — they explicitly point out countries with far higher union density also build far
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