Mike Nellis
@MikeNellis
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Democratic strategist. Former Senior Advisor to Kamala Harris. Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at @Authentic_HQ. Long-suffering @NotreDame sports fan.
Joined August 2008
Since launching #WhiteDudesforHarris last Friday, I have faced a barrage of right-wing attacks on Twitter, bizarrely focused on my weight rather than the actual message of what we're trying to accomplish. There have been countless posts about my body shape, with people zooming in
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Yeah, no shit—Michelle Obama tried to do this and Republicans called her a radical communist.
Bring back the presidential fitness test in schools. Serve healthier food in the cafeteria & start physical education earlier in school. The best way to save on health costs in the long run is to create a healthier population in the first place.💪🏼🇺🇸.
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Every single fucking Republican president in my lifetime has crashed the goddamn economy. How many times are we going to let this happen?.
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Zelenskyy calling Putin a “fucking terrorist” on live TV is the energy I’m bringing into 2025 and 2026.
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I'm insanely jealous of @KamalaHQ for renting the Vegas dome. I've pitched multiple clients on it. Came close once—so, so cool.
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I just realized that I was so busy on Monday that I forgot to make a donation to @KamalaHarris during the call, so. I'll join in on the trend: . I will donate $.10 for every like on this tweet, $0.50 for every retweet, and $1 for every follow. (30,757 followers at the start).
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We scared @elonmusk and @DonaldJTrumpJr so much tonight they suspended our account and won't let us back in . These guys are running scared of the success we've had tonight, but we're not going to quit. More coming tomorrow (unless they shut down my account too!)
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Kamala Harris is going on Fox News and, potentially, Joe Rogan in the closing weeks. She's fearless. Donald Trump canceled on 60 Minutes and is too afraid to debate Harris again. He's a coward. Vote accordingly, folks.
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I said I would do this one more time before Election Day, so here we go. I will donate to @KamalaHarris and downballot Democrats $.10 for every like on this tweet, $0.50 for every retweet, and $1 for every follow. (73,093 followers at the start) . P.S. I will cut you folks.
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Donald Trump doesn't have the balls to go on MSNBC and do a hostile interview like that. Kamala Harris is fearless. He's a coward.
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Booker's team just told MSNBC they’ve gotten 14,000 voicemails from people supporting Cory’s filibuster and sharing their stories—and another 280 million people have liked his speech on TikTok alone. A masterclass in capturing attention. Well done.
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Your company was fined $1.7 billion for defrauding Medicare, so maybe shut the fuck up about our money.
As a founding member of the Senate @DOGE Caucus, I’m working with President @realDonaldTrump and @ElonMusk to hold our federal government accountable and ensure EVERY American taxpayer dollar is used wisely.
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Last time I did this I almost went bankrupt. but since I'm close to 60,000 Twitter followers. I will donate to @KamalaHarris and downballot Democrats $.10 for every like on this tweet, $0.50 for every retweet, and $1 for every follow. (59,880 followers at the start).
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JD Vance should never be booked on another cable news show after admitting Trump world completely fabricated the hoax about Haitian migrants in Ohio eating cats and dogs. What a shocking admission on live TV.
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Musk has no idea what he’s doing. He paid some kid to play video games for him, and now he’s paying some kids to cut government spending for him too. Musk admitted today that he didn’t even know these kids are illegally cutting things like cancer research. The guy is a
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Not a single Democrat under 30 truly appreciates how good this fucking tweet is. We have to teach the classics.
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Lloyd Austin was confirmed 93–2. Mark Esper was confirmed 90–8. James Mattis was confirmed 98–1. Ashton Carter was confirmed 93–5. Leon Panetta was confirmed 100–0. Robert Gates was confirmed 95–2. Pete Hegseth will likely be confirmed at 50-50. Most unqualified nominee in.
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Adam Carolla took over $300K in government-backed PPP loans during the pandemic. He never paid them back—yet now he's preaching that everyone should take care of themselves without government help. Want to pay the taxpayers back, Adam?.
I have a thought. How about everyone take care of themselves and their families and not rely on the government.
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Please share this video of @Tim_Walz calling Elon Musk a "dipshit" before Twitter bans it 😆
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I don’t use the term lightly, but Trump outright refusing the Supreme Court’s order to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an *actual* constitutional crisis.
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You really have to give @PeteButtigieg his flowers. He's made the most of what's not an especially sexy cabinet appointment. Constantly making news. Excellent surrogate for @KamalaHarris. Heck, even my Trump-loving dad has praised Pete a few times. He's an impressive guy.
Great news tonight for workers, shippers, and our economy as ports reopen with an agreement on a major wage raise. I'm thankful to the ILA union & USMX companies for reaching this deal. DOT will continue engaging at every level in the supply chain as operations return to normal.
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Drop a 💙 if you believe @KamalaHarris will win tomorrow. I'll follow back as many of you as I can.
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I'm obsessed with @Tim_Walz singing the Menards theme song and then ranting about keeping your receipts to get the rebate. Incredible content.
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There it is: @KamalaHarris just launched her policy page ahead of the debate. Good stuff, from her housing plan to affordable child care and lowering energy costs. Can't wait for the media to move the goalposts once again for Harris' campaign.
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House Republicans are frantically canceling town halls after voting yesterday to take away your health care, close rural hospitals, and shut down addiction clinics. They're terrified of facing the American people, but we need to keep chasing them wherever they go. Make them.
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If Tim Walz accidentally broke the national championship trophy at the White House, he would’ve fixed it himself right there on live TV.
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I agree with Carville that we're about a month or so away from a larger collapse in Trump's support. They badly misjudged why they won the election—grievance politics isn’t a viable governing strategy. Most Americans don’t like what they’re seeing from Washington right now.
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I've been talked into doing this again before Election Day, so here we go. I will donate to @KamalaHarris and downballot Democrats $.10 for every like on this tweet, $0.50 for every retweet, and $1 for every follow. (84,726 followers at the start). P.S. I will cut you folks.
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Okay, the people have spoken—I will donate to @KamalaHarris and downballot Democrats $.10 for every like on this tweet, $0.50 for every retweet, and $1 for every follow. 💙. I will focus my donations on local Democrats in close races where the money can do the most good. I will.
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UPDATE - . Our tweets are back (@dudes4harris) but our account remains suspended and according to Twitter our account is “permanently in read-only mode.”. We’re asking people to keep donating to @KamalaHarris and to keep sharing our tweets on this and other platforms. Don’t let
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@adamcarolla You took over $300K in government-backed PPP loans during the pandemic. You never paid them back—yet now you're preaching that everyone should take care of themselves without government help. Want to pay the taxpayers back, Adam?.
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Making housing more affordable and not crashing the fucking economy.
What would Kamala be focused on at this point in her presidency?.
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Damn, this is a great ad from @KamalaHarris: "My husband is in the military. He volunteered to serve. We are patriots and we go where he is assigned. What if we end up in a state where IVF is no longer legal?". Really smart way to frame the issue. 👇
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Look, I can only speak for my experience working for @KamalaHarris. She was smart, warm, funny, and yes, at times tough—but in the best way possible. She asked the right questions, cared about getting it right, and listened to the experts in the room. She was great with my
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You are the company you keep.
BREAKING: Comedian and actor Russell Brand has been charged with rape. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Instead of taking away Harvard's tax-exempt status, maybe we should take away Trump's.
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Conor McGregor lost a civil rape case just a few months ago, and Donald Trump invited him to the White House today. Disgusting.
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BREAKING: We have just received a subpoena from Jim Jordan and the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee. This is yet another abuse of power, aimed at promoting a baseless right-wing conspiracy theory that links our company, Authentic, to Donald Trump’s fraud trial. We are
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Liz Cheney accomplished something most of us could only dream of—convincing our Republican dads to vote for a Democrat 👇
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A lot of right-wing trolls mocking my weight today, throwing hurtful comments my way. Here’s the truth: when you’ve struggled with suicidal ideation and obesity like I have, there’s nothing anybody can say or do that’s worse than what I’ve done to myself. Nobody can hurt me
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I'm getting throttled like crazy again. If you're out there and you voted for Harris, will you do me a favor and respond with a 💙. Trying to unfuck whatever they did to my account. Thanks.
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Wes Moore watching the Army-Navy game in the stands with cadets, while Trump "watches" from a suite with billionaires, perfectly captures the energy Democrats need to bring over the next four years. Wes Moore gets it.
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Can we get 500 retweets today on this video of Kamala Harris saying that Donald Trump is too weak and unstable to lead America?
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All these protests around the country are massive. Democracy ain’t dead yet.
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🚨 BREAKING - . I am objecting to the subpoena issued by Jim Jordan and the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee in its entirety. This subpoena serves no legitimate legislative purpose—making it invalid, unconstitutional, and unenforceable. It relies almost entirely on the
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A friend of mine sent me these photos of the INSANE line to vote early in Omaha right now. Took them four hours to vote, which is wild. LFG! 💙
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If you’re voting for Kamala Harris and you’re still on Twitter, let’s be friends. Respond to this tweet and share it with your friends and I’ll follow you back. We have to stick together to organize on this hell site. Inspired by @karlykingsley.
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🚨 New poll from NYTimes/Siena:. 🔵 Kamala Harris 50%.🔴 Donald Trump 47% . It's just one poll, but it's from an A+ rated pollster. Trump has no path to victory without PA. Let's turn down the bad vibes. It's close, but Harris is going to win. Do the work.
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Folks, ignore the polls. There's no way @KamalaHarris is up 6% in Wisconsin and 5% in Pennsylvania. This race is going to be close. It's always close. We have to keep doing the work and earn every vote. Knock doors, make calls, donate if you can. That's how we win.
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Wow—incredible turnaround for @KamalaHQ on this new ad hitting Trump for secretly sending Putin COVID tests instead of sick and dying Americans who needed them👇
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These protests are fucking massive, and they’re only going to get bigger and bigger. We’re in the first inning of this movement—and there’s a lot more of us than them.
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Keep calm, folks. It's closer than any of us wanted. I'm sad about it, too. But it's not over. Lot of votes left to be counted. 💙.
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Wow, @KamalaHQ just dropped a video of Trump saying: "We have to cherish Mark Robinson." I’ve never seen that clip before—it’s absolutely devastating (especially after today's news.) That needs to be turned into a digital and TV ad immediately. 👇
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Anybody acting like TikTok going offline isn’t a political disaster for Democrats is deeply unserious. Most political issues never touch people’s daily lives—but 170 million Americans just had their favorite social media platform taken away from them. And Trump is going to
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I just listened to the Pod Save America episode with VP Harris' leadership team, reflecting on what went wrong in the 2024 presidential election. Here are some quick thoughts on what stood out to me. 🧵.
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Senator Van Hollen threatening to go to El Salvador to check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia is good. What’s happening to him is wrong, and we need Dems to draw attention to it: "If Kilmar is not home by midweek–I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and
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Right-wing trolls—and even Trump campaign staff this morning—love to mock my weight on this platform, as if they could say something that might actually hurt me. But as I’ve said before: when you’ve struggled with suicidal ideation and obesity like I have, there’s nothing
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Don’t sleep on how massive the upset in Omaha was last night. Jean Stothert wasn’t just any mayor—she was seen as unbeatable. She won her last race with 65% of the vote. Last night, she got thumped by the Democrats. That’s a political shockwave. Republicans are panicking.
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Trump is lying. India and Pakistan both say the United States wasn’t involved in negotiating the ceasefire.
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Cory Booker's speech might be the most viewed Senate speech in the history of this country. Nearly 200 million likes on TikTok alone since he started. Hell of a thing.
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The poetic justice of Cory Booker breaking Strom Thurmond’s filibuster record would be incredible. That racist bastard would be livid.
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Mike Waltz was on Fox News THIS MORNING and clearly had no idea he was about to get fired. Incredible stuff. 🤣.
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I had the pleasure of firing Tulsi Gabbard as a client back in 2017 at my old job. She was one of the worst, most selfish clients I've ever had. Didn't listen to anybody. Clearly had an agenda out of sync with reality. Trump can have her.
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Just read @KamalaHarris' housing plan. It's excellent & really simple, too. Democrats usually hurt themselves with complicated plans that are hard to explain. This is easy to sell: .↳I'm going to build millions of new housing units.↳I'm going to take on corporate landlords
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Please drop a 💙 or a comment if you’re still here and ready to keep fighting for our values—I will follow back as many of you today as I can.
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So the White House is announcing what appears to be a fake deal with China on tariffs—just like yesterday, when they fake-claimed credit for an India-Pakistan ceasefire that lasted approximately three hours. They really think the American people are this stupid, don’t they?.
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Stop fucking mocking people like this woman who came forward to admit she was duped by Trump’s lies. It’s brave of her to speak up. I genuinely feel bad for her because IVF is so damn expensive and such a painful experience to go through.
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If I were @KamalaHQ, I'd turn this headline into a powerful new ad and get it in front of as many voters as humanly possible. People need to know that major corporations are already planning to hike prices because of Trump's proposed tariffs:
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I’m not fucking going anywhere. I’m not going to panic. I’m not playing the blame game. I’m going to fight. There’s work to do. You in? 💙.
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MAGA world just tried to dox my personal address. It's creepy, gross, and a violation of Twitter's terms of service, not that I expect @elonmusk to do anything about it. They're claiming to post photos of my home, putting my family in danger and trying to intimidate me so they.
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We need generational change at every level of our politics. This photo. my God.
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I’m totally here for the DCCC dropping the F bomb lol.
Republicans inherited one of the strongest stock markets in history and in 1 month they've fucked it all up.
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Trump and Bukele never would have let Van Hollen see Kilmar if they didn’t feel the political pressure from the American people, who are pissed about this man’s due process being taken away. Don’t tell me people don’t care.
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Anybody mad about Pete Buttigieg going on Andrew Schulz's podcast is not serious about winning elections. You have to meet people where they are—not expect them to come to you. The question you should be asking is why your favorite Democrat isn't going into the lion's den and
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MUSK-BESSENT DISPUTE ERUPTED INTO WEST WING SHOUTING MATCH: AXIOS.
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Trump is helping an accused human trafficker, a rapist, and a man who formed an organized crime group to exploit young women. I’ll say it again: . This is the most corrupt administration in American history.
Trump administration pressures Romania to lift restrictions on Tate brothers
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UPDATE —. The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee has no valid legislative purpose for the documents they are requesting from Authentic. Our response to Jim Jordan can be found in full below. We are asking the Republicans to stop wasting taxpayer resources harassing us. We
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She cooked him good here: "Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people. Clearly he is having a very difficult time processing that." #Debate2024
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Musk: THE DEMOCRATS ARE STEALING THE ELECTION!!!. Also Musk: I’ll pay you a million bucks to vote for my candidate!. The hypocrisy is wild.
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My engagement is shit on here now. Not sure if it’s the algo or everybody left for bluer pastures—likely both. Regardless, if you’re still here and voted for @KamalaHarris, respond with a 💙 and I’ll follow you back. I’d like to stay on here if there’s enough of an audience.
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OMG—Musk has been cutting things like cancer research so the government can pay him $400 million to make an “Armored Tesla.” . Holy shit.
🚨New from @DropSiteNews: Tesla is forecast to win the largest State Dept contract of 2025 -- $400 million for "Armored Tesla" -- according to procurement documents we reviewed. (And @elonmusk before you accuse us of doxxing, the docs are public).
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@JDVance As the estimable JD Vance once said, "We are living in a banana republic where the President is using his Department of Justice to go after his enemies.".
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Trolls: "KaMaLa cAn'T HaNdLe a LiVe InTeRviEw.". Harris: Crushes live interview with Charlamagne tha God that's broadcast live on CNN and MSNBC. Here's a great clip from it👇👇👇
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An excellent interview with @KamalaHarris on Philadelphia's local ABC station. She shared her story, talked about supporting the middle class, and offered a new generation of leadership. I especially liked her focus on tackling today’s challenges—helping families afford
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It’s early, folks. I know you’re nervous. I’m with ya. But we’ll be okay. Keep the faith. 💙.
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Hegseth genuinely seems like he needs help. Look at his fidgeting here. What do you see?
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