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1. The paperback of my book on the rise of authoritarianism, After the Fall, is out. It's the backstory of a world unravelling, extraordinary people fighting back, and my personal journey through the rough currents of politics and identity today.
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If you don't impeach and remove a President for staging a coup, what's the point of impeachment.
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Looking at Black voters in Milwaukee, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta, it's striking that people who have been treated the worst by our democracy consistently do the most to save it.
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Guess what they don’t do in South Korea? Make fun of people for wearing masks in a pandemic. They’ve had 300 deaths.
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The fact that Mitch McConnell - a man with an unrelenting commitment to undermine America's first Black president - could lose his veto power over American democracy bc of Raphael Warnock, John Ossoff and Stacey Abrams is some kind of American justice.
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Trump being defeated by Obama's Vice President is the most appropriate way for this to come to an end.
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It's not just Trump. None of this - the 100,000 dead, the tens of millions unemployed, the social fabric shredded, the global reputation collapsed - would have happened without the full support of the Republican Party.
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It’s telling that the last two Democratic Presidents began their presidencies with a “Recovery Act” and a “Rescue Plan” because their inheritances were so catastrophic.
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When you hear that China did a better job containing COVID-19 because it’s authoritarian, remember South Korea. The issue is competence, not democracy.
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Vote for Joe Biden like your life and democracy depends on it.
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No President can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you.
Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!
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Reminder that the Republican Party is the only major political party anywhere in the world that denies the reality of climate change.
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Getting an 8pm curfew alert on my phone during a pandemic and Depression while Trump invites Putin to the US is about where I thought we'd be in year 4 of Trump.
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Donald Trump demands long form birth certificates but can’t produce his negative tests.
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Trump is lying. I was there for all 8 years. Obama never sought a meeting with Kim Jong Un. Foreign policy isn’t reality television it’s reality.
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It is not partisan to point out that it's profoundly disturbing that the former President of the United States was calling Putin a genius on the eve of the largest invasion in Europe since World War II. It's a fact. This isn't normal but we have become numbed to it.
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Obama left Trump a growing economy, a shrinking deficit, an office on global health security to manage pandemic preparedness, and an Iran Deal.
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George W. Bush and Donald Trump both lost the popular vote and appointed five of these judges who will shape American life (and, on climate, life on Earth) for decades. Some democracy.
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Trump, Kushner and their circle will walk out of government knowing a tremendous amount of very classified and very valuable information. Does anyone really think they won't try to monetize that knowledge?
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My three year old daughter just did an outdoor ballet class in 80 degree heat where all the kids wore masks the whole time. Three year olds being more responsible than the White House.
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In a world of narcissistic authoritarians, we got saddled with the absolutely dumbest one.
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The strangest thing about this epoch of American history will always be that tens of millions of grown ups decided to form a cult like devotion to, of all available people, Donald Trump.
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I don’t have the words to convey how important it would be for Mitch McConnell to not be in charge of the Senate. For Americans. For democracy. For the planet.
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Trump's weird obsession with the Nobel Prize seems entirely rooted in the fact that Obama won it.
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Donald Trump is doing whatever he can to ensure that Hillary Clinton wont win the 2020 election
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It says a lot that’s not good about American politics and society that $7.5 trillion for a decade on defense gets almost no debate while less than half of that investing in people and saving the planet is so hard to pass
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It has not gotten enough attention that Trump literally closed down the White House office created to deal with global pandemics two years ago for no good reason.
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I helped plan all of President Obama’s trips for 8 years. There is always a rain option. Always.
Two words: contingency plans.
Previous White Houses made them.
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This is not a democracy. It's also the Republican strategy for November.
This drone footage shows a long line of voters waiting to cast ballots in Atlanta on Tuesday. Georgia election officials, poll workers and voters have reported major trouble with voting in Atlanta and elsewhere.
Read the latest.
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Stacey Abrams would have won a free and fair election to be governor of Georgia. If this was happening in other countries we'd insist on independent monitors.
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Imagine fighting for this democracy for almost 250 years. All the lives lost and sacrifices made. And giving it away for Donald J. Trump.
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Trump launched his political brand 8 years ago saying the first African American President was born in Africa. It has always been about racism, and the fact that this has ever been a controversial thing to say is part of the problem.
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It wasn’t a good idea to elect Donald Trump President of the United States of America.
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It’s really beyond parody that the entire Republican Party could vote against Senate confirmation bc of tweets after four years of backing up Trump. Just bottomless hypocrisy.
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Losing to Obama’s Vice President is going to do wonders for Trump’s Obama inferiority complex
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John Brennan was the point person for the Obama White House on the operation that killed Osama bin Laden. He knows a lot more about defending our nation than someone who uses security clearances to punish his political adversaries.
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I’m sorry but no one who came of age with Bush v Gore (eg anyone under like 50) has ever seen the Supreme Court as “apolitical”
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The breakdown in civility and our politics occurred when a sitting President couldn't even get a hearing on a Supreme Court nominee for 8 months. Not when someone couldn't eat at Red Hen.
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The thing about Trump is everything leads back to one thing: how profoundly unfit he is for the job. And that’s awkward because of what it says about America and how someone like him ever got close to the presidency in the first place.
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There was an entire campaign built around dunking on Joe Biden for wearing a mask, not allowing big crowds, and doing virtual events from his home.
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It started with lies about crowd size. That’s the reality we’ve been living ever since.
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What's happening in the Senate has nothing to do with polarization. It's a far right attempt to overthrow an election and institute authoritarian rule. The frame of "polarization" absolves Republicans of being an extremist, far right, authoritarian movement.
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How would Fox, Lindsey Graham, and the GOP react if any other President knew for months that Russia was paying bounties on our troops, did literally nothing about it, praised Russia, invited Putin back to the G-7, and used our military for campaign photo ops? Vote them all out
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If you want to understand how catastrophically Trump has failed in this response, consider that the first cases were in the US and South Korea on the same day. And because of testing, honesty, and a swift government response, South Korea has already flattened the curve.
The first coronavirus case in the U.S. and South Korea was detected on the same day. By late January, Seoul had medical companies starting to work on a diagnostic test — one was approved a week later. Today, the U.S. isn’t even close to meeting test demand
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Yoho is a reminder that Trump did not takeover the Republican Party, he is a product of where it’s been headed for a long time
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Whoever is doing this fascist secret police stuff in Portland should be prosecuted under a non-Barr DoJ.
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I think Biden will win. I also think the problem in this election is not the polling industry getting it wrong, it's the fact that this many Americans took a hard look at Trump and determined "yeah, I want four more years of that"
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I worked on the Obama campaign and we would never, ever, have held a meeting with a foreign power to "get information on an opponent." It doesn't happen "all the time in politics" - it's immoral, unpatriotic and part of a broader effort that was illegal.
Fake News reporting, a complete fabrication, that I am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son, Donald, had in Trump Tower. This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics - and it went nowhere. I did not know about it!
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So weird how the Tea Party isn’t rising up in opposition to all this government spending.
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The most uncomfortable thing about Trump's presidency has always been what it says about America. He is basically all of our worst and most absurd traits manifest in one person.
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None of this would be happening without Senate Republicans. They are worse than Trump bc they know just how extreme this is. Vote them out.
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A Black man was shot in the back by police in front of his kids, a Trump-inspired vigilante shot peaceful protestors and the propaganda network of the Republican Party is celebrating it. This. Is. Happening. Wake the fuck up people.
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Pretty remarkable how much more commitment to democracy the Georgia Secretary of State has than almost the entire House and Senate Republican caucus
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What kind of person goes along with their Party calling something a hoax while they dump millions in stocks because they know they're lying?
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It would be good to have someone who isn’t a complete moron as President
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Republican leaders knew better. They knew this man was not at all up to this job, and yet they've supported him, defended him, literally voted to keep him in office despite that knowledge. And now here we are in this dystopian nightmare, without a mature adult to run the country.
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If Biden wins, he is going to inherit a Great Recession and no money to do anything. This time it only took them 4 years instead of 8.
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News analysis: “Democrats argued that Kansas City is in Missouri. But they failed to convince Republicans that it is not in Kansas.”
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People like Giuliani and Gaetz are being investigated because they’re criminals not because they’re Republicans.
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Things Obama did and Trump didn’t:
- won over 50 percent of vote (twice)
- rescue economy
- initiate longest stretch of job growth in history (still going)
- extend health care to 20 million Americans
- set example for our children we can be proud of
- respected around world
Did you hear the latest con job? President Obama is now trying to take credit for the Economic Boom taking place under the Trump Administration. He had the WEAKEST recovery since the Great Depression, despite Zero Fed Rate & MASSIVE quantitative easing. NOW, best jobs numbers....
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Bibi backsliding. Boris flailing. Hong Kong rising. The authoritarian trend is not inevitable. Fight back. It will work.
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1. I have trouble believing it, but as someone who got the presidential daily briefing for more than 7 years the idea that a POTUS wouldn’t be briefed on a Russian bounty on US troops is even more alarming.
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Stacey Abrams and Beto O'Rourke didn't stop organizing and registering voters in Georgia and Texas after the 2018 elections. Now those states are in play in a presidential election for the first time in a generation. Such a great example of what's needed to change things.
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It will never not be insane and devastating that 40+ percent of Americans are totally cool with junking democracy.
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It's very strange in a democracy that a President can't be charged with a crime.
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We would think it was really dark if Germany had monuments to Hitler, Goebbels, and Himmler all over. This is not complicated. Take them down.
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What you’re watching in South Dakota needs to be the last gasp of a dying order.
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Trying to imagine the GOP reaction if 17 blue states sought to invalidate the will of the people in red states based on an insane conspiracy theory. Polarization is asymmetrical in this country bc only one side plays by recognizable rules.
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This is a lie, offensive, obscene and an absolute disgrace. This man and his boss have destroyed America’s reputation and made a shambles of Iran policy in part because of their pathetic obsession with Barack Obama who they will never, ever measure up to.
Pompeo: "In 2015, the Obama-Biden administration essentially handed power to the Iranian leadership, and acted as a quasi-ally of theirs, by underwriting them, underwriting the very militias that killed Americans." Wow.
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This should not exist in a functioning democracy.
Dan Crenshaw’s (R-TX) district is what we mean when we say gerrymandering is a problem.
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The speed of all this info coming out about Trump’s corruption is a good reminder that treating everyone like shit ultimately catches up to you.
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It’s going to look totally insane to history if we end up losing democracy bc a couple of people wanted to protect the filibuster.
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The irony of the Trump era may be that it leads to a much more progressive America. Let's make that happen.
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Terrible attack today in Iran. Whether in Tehran or London, we should stand in solidarity with innocents who are targeted by terrorists
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Stacey Abrams should have been Governor but for voter suppression. A lot of people would have been turned off politics. Instead she went back to work and here we are.
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No other country on Earth calls it the China virus. Hard to overstate how dumb, racist and pointless this must look from abroad - like Trump’s entire presidency. Damage to US standing incalculable.
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So the Barr DoJ was suppressing a whistle blower complaint that apparently implicates Barr in Trump’s Ukraine scheme. The corruption is everywhere in this Administration.
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The whole point about putting people under oath is that it’s about a million times more credible than an anonymous source.
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Why does anyone even pretend like we have a normal government?
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I doubt there’s been a more flattering picture of a Speaker of the House in recent in American history.
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Imagine what Republicans would say if Obama was President and we had 22 percent of the world’s deaths from a pandemic. Reminder: 2 people died in the US from Ebola.
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Turns out a weekend FBI investigation that talked to almost no one wasn’t the best way to vet someone getting a lifetime appointment to the most powerful court in the world.
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The President of the United States is threatening to do away with the rule of law. His press secretary didn't get served at a Red Hen. One of these things matters and the other doesn't.
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Republicans should not be in any positions of responsibility for other people. Vote them out.
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It’s still amazing to see how a rambling, semi coherent and contradictory presser from Trump gets repackaged into headlines, stories and tv clips that turn him into a normal President.
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An incoming Biden Administration should give serious thought to breaking up DHS.
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Why on Earth would we trust these people to protect the country when they can't even protect themselves?
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The President having a secret Chinese bank account and paying hundreds of times more taxes in China than the US seems like it should be a bigger thing.
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Strange that the media isn’t all over the caravan story anymore.
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It's almost impossible to get your mind around how much is currently being sacrificed in favor of a Senate procedural rule that appears nowhere in the Constitution and emerged to buttress segregation.
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It’s very strange to see all these GOP condemnations of attacks on Catholicism when I haven’t seen any attacks on Catholicism and the Democratic nominee is Catholic.
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This is a lie. McConnell refused to sign a bipartisan statement opposing Russian interference in the fall of 2016 and is refusing to protect our elections today.
I spoke on the Senate floor today about my extensive record of standing up to Russia, election security, and why we won’t let some Democrats exploit this crisis to push unrelated partisan priorities that have been on their wish list long before 2016.
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Imagine if we had a system where the candidate who got the most votes in the election became President.
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There is an unmarked militarized federal police force operating in an American city against poltical protestors over the objections of local officials. This is happening.
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