I just got off the phone with @ezralevin.bsky.social who tells me this potential emerging deal is a "total surrender" from some Senate Democrats. This gives you a sense of how the organizing faction of the left will respond to a shutdown agreement if Democrats end up right where they started.
@evamckend.bsky.social - This is interesting, there seems to be a school of thought emerging by some on the right that WES lost because she wasn't sufficiently MAGA. That does not track with what I heard over the last many months from voters on the ground…
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Are Democrats Already Fumbling a Win?
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Democrats in Virginia’s legislature are launching a complex redistricting push to counter Republican-led efforts around the country. The party’s nominee for Virginia governor isn’t talking much about it. www.cnn.com/2025/10/27/p...
Virginia Democrats are set to join the redistricting war. Their candidate for governor is staying out of it | CNN Politics
Democrats in Virginia’s legislature are expected on Monday to launch a complex redistricting push to counter Republican-led efforts around the country, according to two Democratic lawmakers familiar w...
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As the Democratic Party tries to find its way after last year’s loss to President Donald Trump, progressives are also engaged in an internal struggle over what disqualifies a candidate they like. Our latest on Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner 👇🏾 www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/p...
As he remains defiant, Graham Platner’s candidacy for Maine Senate becomes a progressive litmus test | CNN Politics
Speaking at a town hall following days of negative revelations about his online posts and a tattoo that resembled Nazi imagery, Graham Platner was defiant.
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"It's been a hell of a week," says Graham Platner at his town hall in Ogunquit. "I went from being a communist on Thursday to a Nazi on Monday." Audience laughs. "If anybody has done any of the reading, that's a pretty hard political trajectory to navigate."
Graham Platner's mother just got on stage in Ogunquit to introduce him at the town hall
I wonder who this red headed man playing sad acoustic guitar love songs is at the Graham Platner town hall... this is my kind of music
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Mary Harris@maryharris.bsky.social · 11mo agoThanks to @evamckend.bsky.social for laying out exactly what's happening in the VA gubernatorial race - and how it fits into a bigger picture for the Dems: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
Our latest on how the debate over transgender rights is playing out in the Virginia Governor's race including from actual trans folks who say they feel forgotten. www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/p...
Republicans double down on trans issues as a wedge with Virginia voters | CNN Politics
It’s early on a Thursday evening and Winsome Earle-Sears, Virginia’s Republican candidate for governor, is in a familiar place. She’s standing outside of a school board meeting to call attention to po...
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The federal government shutdown — and the escalating battle over which party bears the most blame — has injected a major new question mark into the governor’s race in Virginia, home to hundreds of thousands of federal workers. Our latest👇🏾 www.cnn.com/2025/10/01/p...
Shutdown hits hard in Virginia, home to 300,000 federal workers | CNN Politics
The federal government shutdown — and the escalating battle over which party bears the most blame — has injected a major new question mark into the governor’s race in Virginia, home to hundreds of tho...
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Jalique Wiseman, a 20-year old, is sentenced to 27 years in prison for his role in a robbery spree (six incidents) on and near the Metro Branch bike trail in Washington D.C. over the course of a month and a half in 2023, according to U.S. Attorney Pirro's office.
Over the course of the DC crackdown, people in underserved communities say the level of scrutiny has not been equally applied. Vincent Tyree was jailed for four days. Now the government says they don't even have the evidence to prosecute him... Read & Share 👇🏾 www.cnn.com/2025/09/12/p...
DC mayor’s handling of Trump deployment roils residents who want more pushback | CNN Politics
Jawanna Hardy, founder of a group that works with victims of gun violence as young as 3, said many in her community were hopeful when President Donald Trump announced a federal takeover of law enforce...
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Remember that they/them ad deployed against Harris in 2024? Republicans keep going back to the well on this issue in hopes conversation about transgender rights in America will divide Democrats. Dems say it's not working Our latest from Virginia 👇🏾 www.cnn.com/2025/09/08/p...
Virginia governor candidates duel over transgender participation in youth sports | CNN Politics
As Democrats continue their internal debate over transgender rights, Abigail Spanberger, the party’s nominee for governor of Virginia, is directly responding to Republican ads that echo the commercial...
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Mamdani critics trying to make DSA affiliation political liability ahead of November, so far jabs haven’t landed DSA says socialism not scary to new generation of voters “Younger folks really see capitalism is not working out for them.” Our latest 👇🏾 www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/p...
Mamdani faces pressure in NYC mayor’s race over his ties to democratic socialists | CNN Politics
The Democratic Socialists of America held their national convention this summer in the afterglow of arguably their biggest electoral victory to date: Zohran Mamdani’s triumph in the Democratic primary...
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A significant turn of events in Minneapolis. The democratic socialist candidate, Omar Fateh, who won nomination from city Democrats last month at their convention had his endorsement overturned by the state party after the incumbent Democratic mayor's supporters filed challenges. Story coming.
This is a pretty devastating turn of events for a much celebrated Black owned business >>> Whiskey Maker Honoring an Enslaved Distiller Is in a Fiscal Bind www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/d...
Whiskey Maker Honoring an Enslaved Distiller Is in a Fiscal Bind
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Mayor Bowser’s response to the federalization of the DC police illustrate how she’s often trying to communicate multiple messages at once as she faces perhaps the biggest test to date of her leadership. Our latest 👇🏾 www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/p...
DC Mayor Bowser changes her tone on Trump as crackdown ramps up | CNN Politics
After Donald Trump won the presidential election, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser flew to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate to see him.
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NEW: Less than a month after Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City’s mayoral primary, some of Mamdani’s allies are coalescing around another democratic socialist challenging the incumbent Democratic mayor of Minneapolis. www.cnn.com/2025/07/24/p...
Democratic socialists fresh off Mamdani victory see opportunity in Minneapolis | CNN Politics
Less than a month after Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City’s mayoral primary, some of Mamdani’s allies are coalescing around another democratic socialist challenging the incumbent Democratic ma...
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Former VP Kamala Harris will travel from California to Minnesota to attend Saturday’s funeral services of Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, per a source familiar with her plans. Governor Walz extended an invitation on behalf of the family.
As Democrats work to figure out how to rebuild a winning coalition, they say the message is clear: Democrats need to be more bold. If they regain power, they must act decisively because the second Trump administration has shown the rules of engagement have changed. #politics #democrats #trump
Tonight, talking “Kamala” the photo book and Kamala the human being. Plus, politics, visual expression and all the rest with @evamckend.bsky.social
After public outcry, the USDA has reopened an HBCU scholarship program. CNN previously reported about the suspension of the program as part of the assault on diversity programs www.cnn.com/politics/liv... If you go to the USDA site today, the program has been restored
It appears the organizer driven campaign to pressure Senate Democrats to block all of Trump's nominees has stalled. While all Dems voted against Kennedy for HHS and Gabbard for DNI, the Senate voted 72-28 to confirm Brooke Rollins as Secretary of Agriculture.
