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I don’t live in Texas either, but, you can’t help but notice how many folks told us to stay out of Maine’s Senate Primary race in order to defend the Blackwater Employee with the Nazi Tatoo…
But, now, everyone’s an expert on Texas.
Democratic Party Primary Voters deserve to have a contested primary just like anyone else. They deserve to have a CHOICE.
Christopher Webb
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I’m not a Texan, but it’s hard to ignore what’s happening in the Democratic Senate primary in the state. We’re all clocking it, right?Let’s start with what should be obvious: whoever wins the Democratic nomination, we Dems should support him or her.
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8:19 PM · Feb 4, 2026Christopher Webb
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Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico are both strong Democrats that we can be proud of. Debate is healthy. Competition is healthy. That’s how primaries are supposed to work.But what’s happened here hasn’t felt very healthy.
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8:19 PM · Feb 4, 2026Christopher Webb
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From jump, the moment Jasmine Crockett entered the race, I saw some deeply ugly, coded, and at times outright racist attacks. And not just from the right. A lot of it came from the far left, who suddenly discovered a set of “standards” they never seemed to apply to her opponent.
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8:19 PM · Feb 4, 2026Christopher Webb
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Enter the litmus test. A purity test that, strangely, only seems to activate when the candidate is a Black woman. Most of us saw what they were trying to pull.What makes this even more absurd is that Crockett and Talarico’s platforms are functionally the same.
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8:19 PM · Feb 4, 2026Christopher Webb
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Same priorities on healthcare, labor, climate, reproductive freedom, democracy protection, and opposing MAGA extremism. On policy, this is not a left-vs-center race. It’s vibes and targeting.
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8:19 PM · Feb 4, 2026Christopher Webb
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Here’s the real difference that keeps getting ignored.Jasmine Crockett has a congressional record.
She’s had to take real votes, under real pressure, with real consequences. She’s been in the arena, voting against MAGA abuses, calling out corruption, defending democracy, and taking heat for it.
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8:19 PM · Feb 4, 2026Christopher Webb
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Talarico hasn’t had to do that at the federal level. It’s easy to sound perfect when you haven’t had to cast hard votes yet.And there’s more history people seem eager to forget…
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8:19 PM · Feb 4, 2026Christopher Webb
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When TX Dems famously left the state together in 2021 to block quorum, Talarico was one of the first to return. It caused friction w/in his caucus. Not a moral judgment, but it’s relevant. It’s interesting how loudly people talk about “purity” while skipping over that part of the record.
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8:19 PM · Feb 4, 2026Christopher Webb
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Now let’s talk about money, since that’s where the hypocrisy really shows.Crockett has been dragged for her fundraising as if she invented Citizens United. In reality, she’s running the way most modern federal campaigns run: a mix of small-dollar support plus big checks…
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8:19 PM · Feb 4, 2026Christopher Webb
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…from people and PACs who want access, with public filings showing she rolled over major money from her House account into the Senate race and still pulled in millions more.Meanwhile, Talarico’s funding “purity” storyline is missing a big chapter.
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All of this is true. And, it’s the foundation of why people like me have absolutely no interest in finding ‘middle ground’ with these people.
This is about VALUES.
AND, MY VALUES ARE INCOMPATIBLE WITH THIS AND ANYONE WHO SUPPORTS THIS.
Brad
@BraddrofliT
If you’re still backing him now, it’s for 1 of 2 reasons:
1. You’re too weak to admit you were wrong;
2. The hate he feeds matches your appetite to watch others in pain.There is no middle ground.
2:41 PM · Dec 28, 2025
https://x.com/BraddrofliT/status/2005378710938288142?s=20
Another excellent piece by Jessica Valenti.
Debating Away Our Humanity
CBS News wants to know if “feminism failed women.” Here’s what they’re really asking.
Jessica Valenti
Dec 30
I drafted about ten different ledes for this column before realizing that nothing could beat the chilling absurdity of facts laid plain: CBS News, now led by one of the least talented women in media, plans to air a Bank of America-sponsored debate asking, “Has feminism failed women?”
The episode will run next year as part of the station’s new series, Things That Matter—which editor-in-chief Bari Weiss says will feature “honest conversation and civil, passionate debate.”
Civil and passionate debate…about whether equality is bad for women?
Given the regular slate of horrors I write about, you might think a single episode of television from an already-embattled media company wouldn’t rank high on my list of worries. But it’s not just CBS News asking this question.
Since Donald Trump returned to the White House, a growing number of publications, podcasts, and pundits are questioning feminism under the auspices of civil discourse. In recent months, I’ve been invited by half a dozen outlets to participate in similar ‘debates’ myself. The NPR-distributed series Open to Debate asked whether I’d weigh in on the question, “has feminism hurt women?” (NPR!) And earlier this year, I declined a “balanced and insightful discussion” on the wildly popular podcast Diary of a CEO—an episode they ended up calling, “Has modern feminism betrayed the very women it promised to empower?”
Why forgo all these opportunities to get in front of huge audiences and defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate. Once you concede that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s rights are a good thing, you’ve already lost.
And let’s be real, that is the question they’re asking. While there are plenty of vital conversations to have about feminism—even about its missteps—these shows and others like it aren’t interrogating if and how feminism delivered equality for women. They’re questioning whether equality itself was a mistake.
After all, when outlets ask whether ‘feminism’ has failed, the term is just a proxy for the issues they’re really targeting—like women’s right to work, vote, and control our own bodies. It’s a whole lot easier to debate ‘feminism’ than admit you’re challenging basic freedoms.
This sudden broad media interest isn’t some well-timed coincidence, either. We’re watching a deliberate conservative cultural push designed to undermine women’s rights. Some outlets are in on it, others are falling for it. Either way, the endgame is the same: treating our humanity like a thought exercise makes it that much easier to legislate away.
I have strongly, for the past 5+ years, told anyone who has a Mail Ballot, that if they don’t have the option of dropping their Mail Ballot off at a Election Authority Drop Box and if they must send their Mail Ballot back by mail..
1. DO NOT put it in a USPS Mailbox
2. DO NOT give it to your local Mailman.
YOU SHOULD GO LITERALLY INTO THE POST OFFICE AND WATCH THE POSTAL EMPLOYEE HAND STAMP YOUR BALLOT.
It’s January. Democrats need to start getting the word out for Mail Ballots. They have months to get organized and start on the local level.
James Tate
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Vote as soon as you can.The USPS just changed how postmarks work—and it will affect mail-in voting while hitting Americans with late fees on everything from tax payments to rent checks.
Starting in 2026, your postmark date won’t reflect when you actually mailed something anymore. Instead of stamping mail with the date you dropped it in a mailbox or handed it to a postal worker, USPS will now mark it with whenever their sorting machine gets around to processing it—potentially days later.
Please note;
1. IF you have an option for an Election Jurisdiction MAIL DROP BOX, USE IT.
2. IF you have to use the USPS to return your Mail Ballot, please note the changes.
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NBC News
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Bruce Springsteen’s protest song “Streets of Minneapolis,” a response to the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents, soars to the top of iTunes.
https://bsky.app/profile/nbcnews.com/post/3mdnrnvt3ef2f
All In with Chris Hayes
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WATCH– Tim Walz on his call with Trump officials: “Not once did they ever say Alex or Renee’s name. Not once did they ask how the people of Minnesota were doing. So look, I know who I’m dealing with, and I know the reason that he was calling me was he needed something from us.”
https://bsky.app/profile/allinwithchris.bsky.social/post/3mdjnfrebgc2j
The Atlantic
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Governor Tim Walz warns of a national unraveling in an interview with
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. “It’s worse than you think,” Walz says of the situation in Minnesota.
https://bsky.app/profile/theatlantic.com/post/3mdjr537qm72h
Tim Walz Fears a Fort Sumter Moment in Minneapolis
The Minnesota governor warns of a national unraveling.
By Isaac Stanley-Becker
… Walz bowed out of his reelection race earlier this month. The 2024 vice-presidential candidate said that he didn’t want politics to interfere with his work amid an intensifying federal probe into welfare fraud in his state. Two days later, his phone rang, and it was Jacob Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis. Renee Good had been shot and killed by an ICE officer, one of thousands of federal agents deployed to Minnesota as part of what the Trump administration declared the largest immigration-enforcement operation in history. “Get yourself prepared,” was the mayor’s message, Walz recalled to me. He had understood instantly that the kind of unrest not seen since the summer of 2020, in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, could be returning to Minneapolis.
Barely two weeks later, federal agents shot and killed a second Minneapolis resident. Walz still doesn’t know the names of the agents who unloaded their firearms into Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse. State authorities were blocked from investigating both killings. Instead, the governor was placed under federal investigation along with other Democratic officials. Meanwhile, the Justice Department is demanding access to Minnesota’s voter rolls, couching the extraordinary election-year request as a quid pro quo for restoring “law and order.”…
President Trump called Walz “seriously retarded” in a Thanksgiving post on social media. Yet the president reported having a “very good call” with the governor on Monday, saying the two were “on a similar wavelength.”
By the time of their conversation, senior advisers to the president had smeared Pretti as a “domestic terrorist” and “would-be assassin.” Trump declined to echo those characterizations in interviews and other comments this week. But in their phone call, Walz told me, the president didn’t say Pretti’s name, didn’t express condolences for his family, and didn’t ask how residents of the state were doing.
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