Gary Pearce
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Retired D strategist still talking politics at https://t.co/9zchL0ct3B
Raleigh, NC
Joined October 2009
Trump and Republicans in Congress make natural disasters even worse.
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While deadly floods hit Texas and North Carolina, Trump is gutting the National Weather Service, gutting FEMA and aggravating climate change, which causes more calamitous storms. He golfs while...
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Senator Thom Tillis is the single best validator of Democrats’ single most powerful issue against Trump and Republicans: the deep, devastating and life-threatening cuts in healthcare they rammed through Congress last week.
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Democrats have been gloating over Senator Thom Tillis' political demise. We should be quoting him. Tillis is the single best validator of Democrats’ single most powerful issue against Trump and...
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This July 4th, Thom Tillis and Roy Cooper have the opportunity – no, the obligation – to stand up against a fascist dictator.
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Thom Tillis and Roy Cooper now have the opportunity - no, the obligation - to turn the tide of history against Trump. Tillis made a political decision not to run for reelection. Now he should make...
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The most powerful weapon in politics is a positive message.
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Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist, won the mayoral primary in New York City on the same message Trump won on in 2024: things cost too much and we need to get prices down. Trump, of course, has...
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Politicians drop f-bombs in private all the time. But rarely in public. Why did Trump?
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On the White House lawn Tuesday, Trump told reporters that Iran and Israel “don’t know what the fuck they’re doing." Rather than repeat the word, The New York Times decorously referred to his...
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As a legislator once said, "This bill doesn't conflict with my interests."
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Why doesn't Speaker Destin Hall call out his party and President for their violent rhetoric?
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It was poor judgment for Democratic state Rep. Julie von Haefen to post a picture of a “beheadings” protest sign. She had the character and courage to admit it and apologize on the floor of the...
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He was embarrassed last weekend. So this weekend, he started a war.
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Trump did what he said he’d never do: get us in a war. He lied again. Last weekend, he was embarrassed by his less-than-impressive military parade - the squeaky tank, the ragged marching and the...
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Governor Cooper has the best chance to unseat Senator Thom Tillis next year and become the decisive vote and voice in Washington that reins in Trump.
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“It’s not that Roy Cooper should run for Senate,” my friend Sam said over lunch. “He has to run.” He’s right. America’s house is on fire, and we all have to pick up a hose or a bucket. Governor...
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"Reading is the most subversive thing you can do.”
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“There is a reason that fascists burn books. They are afraid of critical thinking. They are afraid of thought. What you have learned here at Wesleyan is how to read…. Reading is the most subversive...
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Trump got his parade, but not the pictures he wanted.
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Trump got his parade, but not the pictures he wanted. The Army put on a grand show, but the weather was dreary, Trump looked dejected at times and the crowd was unimpressive. More impressive were...
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Trump uses troops as political props while he slashes veterans' healthcare.
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Trump uses troops as political props, orders them to parade before him on his birthday and deploys them to “quell” protests against him. Meanwhile, he’s gutting healthcare for veterans. He treats...
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Our 250th is coming. We still don't want a King.
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There’s a big difference between Trump’s America and 1930s Germany: Americans are fighting back. As in Germany, jackbooted, helmeted government thugs are rounding up people the Leader deems...
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Trump and Musk are right about each other. And wrong for America.
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Trump and Musk are right about each other. Musk is right that Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” would bankrupt America, like Trump has bankrupted everything he’s ever done. Trump is right that Musk...
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A poll said the Democratic Party's approval rating is the lowest since 1990. Two years after 1990, Bill Clinton defeated President George H.W. Bush, carrying 38 states and winning the electoral vote 370-168.
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Democrats shouldn’t minimize our problems. Nor should we exaggerate them. The New York Times, in an article headlined “Six Months Later, Democrats Are Still Searching for the Path Forward,” said...
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