Since Matt Gaetz is doing his thing this morning, we wanted to take a moment to introduce you to Phil Ehr - a retired US Navy commander who is challenging Gaetz in
#FL01
.
If you’d like to boot Gaetz out of office, follow
@PhilEhr
and support his campaign!
The writers & editors at
@DemWritePress
are heartbroken about the
@capgaznews
massacre.
We, however, do not send our thoughts and prayers.
Instead, to honor the fallen, we resolve to try harder to expose corruption & buttress American democracy, via the written word.
#annapolis
Republicans are leading in voter registration in the 2020 swing states of Florida and Pennsylvania.
They are also showing net gains in states with 2019 governor races- Kentucky and Louisiana.
It’s time to register to vote!
#BREAKING
:
Senator
@DougJones
, gun safety advocate
@fred_guttenberg
, and youth activist & leader
@santiagomayer_
are joining the
#DemCast
Board of Directors.
This is a huge boost to our mission of fighting extremism online and pushing a pro-democracy agenda.
Buckle up!
Reminder: Elon Musk didn't found Tesla. He invested, then bullied his way to the top & took over. He ousted one of the founders behind his back. Took over from the next CEO & fired 25% of the employees. Now he's facing a lawsuit claiming his work spaces are full of toxic racism.
👀Watch MO Rep
@IanMack03007724
(HD87) destroy bigoted Republican Rep Chuck Basye's (HD47) LGBTQ+ Hate bill!
This bill goes against his OWN BROTHER! He doesn't see his bro as a "pedo," so why does he think that about every other gay person?
#DemCast
#LGBTQ
Sen Chuck Grassley (Q-IA) is running for re-election. He will be 89 in September. He’s been in Washington since 1975.
Who else thinks it's time for him to retire?
#DemCast
Watch
@RepSwalwell
call out MAGA members of Congress for their contradictory statements on how hard the Border Patrol works.
86% of those caught for smuggling fentanyl are American citizens.
MAGA GOP wants chaos not solutions.
#DemCast
"I believe they should go further to ensure record corporate profits mean record contracts for the UAW."
Its is so refreshing to have a president that values people over profits & the right to organize for their fair share this
#SolidaritySeason
!
Democrats must have those that deny the subpoenas taken into custody immediately. You break the law, you must pay the consequences.
If you agree, reply with
#EnforceTheSubpoenas
.
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We must act now so every vote counts, everyone is equal under the law, every election is trusted and power is built on ballots, not bullets.
That’s the America we fight for with the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
Tell your Senators,
#GiveUsTheVote
!
When the Senate comes back into session, it's critical that a fair trial is held.
DemCast is happy to announce that we have partnered with
#SwarmTheSenate
to send a loud and clear message to our Senators. No one, not even the President of the United States is above the law.
Protest, organizing, and activism helped make Trump's impeachment possible.
It's time to mobilize for his removal.
Swarm the Senate beginning Jan. 6 to demand Trump's removal from office.
The future is unwritten.
#ImpeachmentDay
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These long lines at
#WisconsinPrimary
polling places are brought to you by the Republican Party - where suppressing your vote matters more than your life.
#DemCastWI
🇺🇸 Sean Casten is vying to flip
#IL06
blue. He won the Dem primary in March, and will face off against incumbent Republican Peter Roskam in November.
Please follow!
@SeanCasten
Our
#NovemberDemocrats
series features Dem nominees in swing races:
Another PA Democrat,
@RepBradford
gets his mic cut off while calling out the GOP for their middle of the night antics on an abortion ban amendment. Thank you Pennsylvania Democrats for standing up against the MAGA Republicans!
#DemCast
#RoeVsWade
Pls RT to spread word!
Florida has *two* special elections *this* Tuesday 5/1. Dems need to flip 20 seats to take control of the FL House in 2018. Winning these two would help!
Support
@Javierfor114
and
@rickyshirah39
! Find out how. 👇🏽
The people of Washington, DC have no representation in Congress.
Passing
#DCStatehood
will correct a centuries old blight on our democracy.
Use the
#DemCast
Toolkit & join our social media storm in support of our 51st state today 10:30am - noon EST.
Stakes are high in November.
Presidency
Flip the Senate
Expand our House majority
Flip state legislatures all over the country
If you want to make the most of your valuable time, sign up to adopt a state and make a huge difference!
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#Focus14
President Biden reveals a new rule, all major federal construction projects over $35 million, will now require collective bargaining agreements with workers.
About 200K workers will gain collectively bargained wages & protections!
#SolidaritySeason
Just spitballin’.
But
@RepAdamSchiff
and investigators might want to cross-reference the members of the
@GOP
#SCIF
mob with known communications coming out of Ukraine & Russia. Just sayin’.
#DemCast
This is the line to meet
@ewarren
, 2 hours after she ended her speech.
This is what Democratic enthusiasm looks like.
Join us at to help build the wave into 2020 and beyond!
Speaker Pelosi makes it clear that the infrastructure bill will be transformative in addressing climate change and enabling women to rejoin the workforce.
It truly is about building our country for an equitable and economically sound future for all.
Every GOP retirement gives us an opportunity to flip a seat blue! AL, GA, IN, MI, MT, TX, UT, KS, TN, WY will all lack incumbents in 2020.
Make sure to subscribe to Political Charge for more updates and news
Three more GOP Reps announced that they'll be retiring from Congress; that includes 2 of the 13 women the GOP have in the House.
Here's the full list of retirements:
When you really think about it, Democrats running for the House in swing districts are the Rescue Squad riding in to save American Democracy.
We nominate
@ShariceDavids
for Squad Captain. Catch her inspirational vid, and read her exclusive op-ed. Thread.
Since taking office, Biden has made it a point to restore strength to unions because as he says ‘the middle class built America, and unions built the middle class.’
Glad to see our union workers showing support.
#UnionsForAll
BREAKING—
@LIUNA
, the Laborers' International Union of North America, has endorsed President Biden for re-election in 2024. They cite President Biden’s historic creation of jobs and commitment to union workers.
This is huge!
Spread this far and wide!
Please amplify this message from our new Board member,
@fred_guttenberg
.
He highlights the importance of digital organizing, owning the narrative online, and explains why he just joined the
#DemCast
Board!
While heroes like Captain Crozier are being relieved of command, feckless cronies like Jared Kushner are being elevated.
This administration is a disaster.
#COVID19
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!
Veterans, including DemCast Board member
@travisakers
, declare it is time for responsible gun owners and dealers to speak out and work to stop further instances of gun violence.
Gun owners must demand Congress pass the Background Check Expansion Act.
This is a turning point for our nation.
Will we move forward to protect our freedom to vote & ensure we all have a say in key decisions that impact us or will we allow a minority of politicians to take away our rights?
#DemandDemocracy
#PassFTPA
4 in 5 Americans now blame corporate greed & price gouging for record profits as a major driver of inflation - a 15-point increase since January 2022. Americans are done with companies using inflation as cover.
#UnionsForAll
This is what the GOP wanted for Kate Cox.
If we don't
#VoteBlue
in 2024, up and down the ballot, this is the future for ALL woman.
Vote accordingly.
#DemCast
We're all on the same team here.
Don't let outdated social norms & wage thieving companies dictate whether American workers earn living wages.
#UnionsForAll
💪
Never forget, these are Republicans that Rudy Giuliani tried to call on January 6th, 2021 -
Rep Jim Jordan (OH)
Sen Marsha Blackburn (TN)
Sen Tommy Tuberville (AL)
Sen Bill Hagerty (TN)
Sen Lindsey Graham (SC)
Sen Josh Hawley (MO)
Sen Ted Cruz (TX)
#DemCast
#Jan6Justice
58,000 Ford workers are getting profit-sharing checks of up to $10,400, because their union negotiated it. Remember this next time your boss says unions don’t work!
#UnionsForAll
We need your help! Please support
#DCStatehood
today by sharing these posts.
More than 700,000 people in D.C aren't able to elect people to represent their interests in Congress.
#DemCast
"Former Trump economic advisor Larry Kudlow conceded that his prediction of a looming recession was wrong and admitted that the U.S. economy is doing much better than expected under President Joe Biden." — Newsweek
#BidenHarris4More
Did you know during Joe Biden's first three years in office, our economy has grown stronger and had faster drops in inflation than Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the European!
If not - Now you Do!
#BidenomicsIsWorking
CASE CLOSED: There is no case here.
Special Counsel Hur, a Republican and former Trump appointee, did an exhaustive 15-month investigation, interviewed 150 witnesses, and reviewed millions of pages of records & concluded there’s nothing here.
Time to move on.
#BidenHarris4More
📢The House votes tomorrow on the
#January6Commission
📢
Use this handy tool to tweet at your Reps urging them to vote YES!
We will be doomed to repeat this if we fail to fully understand what happened that day.
We have the perfect response to the
#MAGABomber
!
1. Go to
2. Pick a random Dem from our list of competitive races.
3. Click $ link to donate $5+, in honor of one of the bomber’s targets.
4. Reply here & tag who you donated to & on whose behalf.
5. RT
Congressional Recess Call To Action!
We need to show up at Town Hall Events in huge numbers
This is our time to ACT
Get your GOP reps on video about impeachment 😡
Support your Dem reps 😍
The DemCast team will be retweeting
#DemCast
tagged posts.
NEW VIDEO:
#GoodTrouble
Artist
@crysmatthews
gets us ready for Saturday's John Lewis Day of Action with this beautiful rally cry for voting rights.
Please watch, share & join us on Saturday at a local event:
Time for some
#GoodTrouble
. Who's in?
The House just passed
#DCStatehood
, which would enable over 700,000 people the right to vote for Congressional representation and state government.💥
Click below and share your support!
It’s clear: we will not get through the
#COVID19
crisis with any semblance of help or competence from the Trump Admin.
We will get through it, though - together - in spite of them.
Watch this beautiful message of hope. Share it with others.
#DemCast
Democrat Lauren Underwood won her primary and is intent to flip
#IL14
blue in November.
Follow:
@LUnderwood630
Find out how you can help Lauren, in the 1st installment of our
#NovemberDemocrats
series! 👇🏽
Minnesota Congressmen
@PeteStauber
@tomemmer
&
@JimHagedornMN
should be banned from Delta for flying while knowing they’d been exposed to COVID and lying about it to the airline.
If Republicans want to kill themselves, go ahead. But keep away from us!
Over a dozen of Trump's closest GOP allies in the House skipped Friday's votes, signing letters that they can't attend "due to the ongoing public health emergency."
Those same members are listed as speakers at CPAC.
Did they think we wouldn’t notice?
This is a turning point for our nation. Our leaders must exercise their majority, eliminate the filibuster, and pass laws that protect our lives, our rights and our freedom to vote.
It's time to end minority rule.
#DemandDemocracy
#PassFTPA
Kate Cox's situation is GRIM.
No pregnant woman should ever have to go to court to face extreme MAGA Republicans who are hell-bent on controlling women and deciding their destinies!
Thank you
@cardon_brian
for stepping up in this fight.
#HandsOffOurHealthcare
I just want Kate Cox to know we see you. To every woman I know on this platform and IRL I will work my ass off to register and turn out voters to get you your rights back. Men we must stand up for the women in our life. LFG!
#wtpBlue
#DemVoice1
#DemsAct
The Biden administration pulled us out of the wreckage left behind from the insurrection and the mismanagement of the COVID pandemic by the former MAGA president.
We are so much better off now.
#BetterWithBiden24
😡MAGA Republicans have rejected Biden's offer of $14 BILLION for border security.
They don't want a solution & won't take "YES" for an answer. They want CHAOS and SELFIES!
#GOPOnBlast
Listen to Johnson try to talk his way around refusing Biden’s offer to spend 14 Billion on the Southern Border.
Remember, Republicans don’t really want to make a deal. They just want to keep hammering Democrats for a problem they refuse to solve!
🔊Up!
Biden: “As I tell every world leader, whether an adversary or ally, it’s never ever been a good bet to bet against the American people.”
He bet on us, so we will
#BetOnBiden
.
The
#ForThePeopleAct
provides a North Star for democracy reform. It is a bold, comprehensive package that offers solutions for our democracy. This is necessary to advance racial justice & ensure the government works for all people.
#DemandDemocracy
With the SCOTUS ruling today, continuing the assault on voting rights, it's time to get LOUD and demand that the Senate pass the
#ForThePeopleAct
Use this tool and email your Senator today. Republican or Democrat, they need to hear from us.
The energy from organizers around the country is infectious.
JUST IN: Workers at the Hopewell Starbucks just voted unanimously to become the 1st unionized store in New Jersey! 💪
@SBWorkersUnited
#WorkersRising
🚨WE HAVE A FLIP TO REPORT🚨
Democrat Tom Keen has FLIPPED Florida State House District 35 in tonight’s Special Election!
Ron DeSantis won this district by 13 points just over a year ago!
Another humiliation for Ron/GOP, another win for Democrats!
It’s time to lift up the Black, Latinx, Asian, Indigenous, & immigrant women who do the majority of home care work in our country.
Congress must pass Biden’s plan to invest $400B in home-based services, create more than 1M jobs and make home care affordable to all.
#CareCantWait
DemWrite Press has been up for a couple weeks now. We’ve had over 10,000 visitors! Not too shabby.
We have multiple
#BlueWave
candidates prepping pieces to contribute, so stay tuned! Thanks for reading!
Debate begins tomorrow on the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act.
We will be doing rapid response as well as factchecking the GOP.
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We showed up in 2020. Now they’re trying to make it harder.
That’s why we’re marching August 28th at the March On for Voting Rights. And that's why
#DemCast
has signed on as an official sponsor.
#VotingRightsMarch
Join us:
Thank you
@RepSwalwell
for calling this BS out! 🔥🔥🔥
Watch as this witness tries lie about what an abortion is. Republicans are trying to gaslight our sitting congress members while there are medical experts in the same room!
#DemCast
#Abortion
The Gaetz/Greene roadshow has moved their venue for the second time because of public outcry against their message of hate and incitement.
It's now planned for the Anaheim Event Center. The owner is Elizabeth
@tgtanaheim
.com. You know what to do.
We need to ensure this is a nation where every American can cast a ballot and every ballot is counted.
Join
#DemCast
tomorrow, 5/12, as we push to
#PassFTPA
.
We'll be focusing on the 4 key components that ensure we all have
#TheFreedomToVote
.
Greed has been screwing American workers for decades.
We must hold billionaires & corporations accountable & support our workers if we want change.
#UnionsForAll
We Must End The Filibuster to Protect Our Democracy.
Join us today from 1-2pm ET for a social media storm to spread the word. Toolkit👉🏽
🔥And let us know you support ending the filibuster by replying to this with👉🏽
#FilibusterFriday
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📣Join our SOCIAL STORM now!
Joe Biden is committed to helping Ukrainians defend their democracy from Russian invaders while MAGA Republicans continue to BLOCK aid they need to succeed.
Mike Johnson has been playing games with Ukrainian lives for too long!
#PassUkraineAidNOW
🇺🇦
OK State Sen Warren Hamilton thinks aborting ectopic pregnancy is "murder" and shouldn't be allowed.
He also thinks that there shouldn't be an exception rape or incest just because "daddy is a rapist or incestial creep."
Excuse me, what?!?!
#DemCast
Do you
#StandWithUkraine
?
Help fight disinformation in Ukraine by sharing from this toolkit tonight 7PM -9PM ET. Then, bookmark this post as this toolkit is being constantly updated.
#DemocracyNotAutocracy
Another billionaire, making record profits, trying to gaslight us into believing their class aren’t to blame and that the unions, who are working to improve wages, benefits, workplace safety & more, are the bad guys.
It’s called ‘greedflation’ for a reason.
#SolidaritySeason
CEO Barry Sternlicht has amassed $3.8 billion.
But he's going on TV to tell you that unions are driving up inflation.
When really it's corporate greed, driven by people like him.
Tell us why you're voting Blue! Share info about the races and candidates you support. RT & reply with
#VoteBlueIn22
🗳️ Roe
🗳️ climate
🗳️ gun safety
🗳️ voting rights
🗳️ education
🗳️ living wages
🗳️ health care
🗳️ social security
🗳️ medicare
🗳️ democracy
👀Trump's own vice president, Mike Pence, will not endorse him. 🧵
Listen to how the people who worked closely with Trump describe him. It's incomprehensible that he is the Republican nominee for president.
🗯️ "Like a defiant 9-year-old kid."
/1
#BidenHarris4More
BREAKING: CNN just played a montage of all the Republican leaders from Trump’s past administration voting against him. Retweet to ensure all Americans know the individuals who worked closest to Trump know enough to vote against him.
Today, help spread the word on how
#TheAmericanResuceAct
is helping us recover from the pandemic and how the
#TheAmericanJobsPlan
will provide good paying jobs that modernize our infrastructure and protects our planet for future generations.
Take action⤵
🔥🔥🔥
@valdemings
calls out Marco Rubio for being anti-abortion, even in cases of rape & incest! As a former investigator, Val Demings has seen first hand the trauma that is caused by these dangerous cases!
#DemCast
#MobilizeForMidterms
Hotel workers across the Los Angeles region just voted to authorize a strike by 96%.
15,000 workers represented by
@UNITEHERE11
could walk out in the largest strike in the U.S. hotel industry in 50 years.
👀👀 Mazi Pilip, the GOP nominee for
#NY03
Special, has been *subpoenaed* in a lawsuit over $70K in back rent and a whopping $500K lease dispute.
Time to choose wisely: Tom Suozzi, the dedicated public servant, or another grifter?
#LetsFixThis