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Fun Fact: Jim Jordan has been in Congress since January 2007. Nearly 20 years collecting a taxpayer-funded salary, and not ONE bill he's sponsored has passed the House or become law. Almost two decades of yelling, investigating, and performing for cameras. Zero bills passed.
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A spa company was close to bankruptcy. Then a fund tied to Don Jr. and Eric Trump invested $30 million. Conveniently, a subsidiary of that fund landed nearly $39 million in taxpayer-funded contracts to handle Ebola in Africa…despite having no Ebola or international experience.
The Trump family connections are hard to ignore.
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Scoop by me
"Bad faith, a deliberate attempt to mislead the Court, perpetuate a fraud on the tribunal, and violate obligations under Rule 11.”
Judge bars DOJ attorney from ever appearing again in immigration enforcement case.
justsecurity.org/163989/judg…
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Again, nothing our enemies can do to us hurts as much as what Hegseth has done. Everyone around the world who wants America weak and laughable will hope Hegseth is not impeached and convicted.
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.@realDonaldTrump after years of a submissive, invertebrate and constitutionally illiterate Republican Congress, it’s obvious you need a few reminders:
1. Members of Congress have a constitutional right and duty to conduct oversight of the Executive Branch. This is not a crime.
2. Democrats do not idly threaten people with impeachment nor do we take this constitutional power lightly. We impeach federal officials who commit high crimes and misdemeanors when we consider it the most effective constitutional tool to deal with a serious and continuing danger to the Republic and the people.
3. It is not a crime for someone to exercise their First Amendment rights to call for impeachment of a federal official. For all of your incessant and compulsive talk about the Democrats’ alleged obsessive focus on impeachment, the impeachment resolution pending in the House next week comes from a constitutionally-minded member of the Republican Party. And it is Rep. Thomas Massie’s absolute free speech right, and his Speech or Debate clause right to boot, to call for impeachment and trial of Secretary Pete Hegseth for his alleged war crimes and many other constitutional violations.
4. Unlike President Trump, Democrats defend the political free speech rights of all Americans and the right of all Americans to freely associate with the political party of their choice.
5. You have repeatedly demanded, and ordered, throughout your second term the criminal prosecution and imprisonment of American citizens whose political speech and activities you disfavor. You and your Attorney Generals have been humiliated when your handpicked political prosecutions have been rejected by grand juries and judges.
6. The best way for any president to avoid impeachment, conviction, removal and disqualification is to enforce the law, respect the law and not commit felonies and high crimes and misdemeanors.
Thank you for your attention, Sir!
Congress has the power to conduct traditional — even aggressive — oversight and threaten impeachment. Trump is ordering the Justice Department to criminally probe lawmakers for doing. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT…
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One excellent consequence of the Blue Wave Tsunami: 27 black women in 2027 House, less visible result? competent staff-we have suffered a decade of incompetent GOP politicians lacking any qualifications for their posts; our 2nd Reconstruction period begins
We need a stronger advocate than Jeffries as Speaker.
Axios: House Democrats "inundated" with anti-Jeffries calls
Democratic House members and members-elect are being bombarded with phone calls and emails urging them not to elect Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) as speaker, more than a dozen lawmakers and aides tell Axios.
An incoming House Democrat told Axios they are "getting inundated" and have received "about 150" calls since the election urging them not to vote for Jeffries.
axios.com/2026/11/06/jeffrie…
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Yes.
BREAKING: @DDFund_ , Public Integrity Project & @CommonCause are asking VA Tax commis. to audit border czar Tom Homan
Homan reportedly took $50,000 from undercover FBI agents in a CAVA bag So where is it?
DOJ closed its eyes --But income is income, even in a takeout bag👇 -TN
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Watching all these Republican attempts to explain why they lost the election is painful, because they cannot come out and say one simple truth. They handed the party to a corrupt, criminal, dictator-loving, economic and strategic idiot--who proceeded to be all of these things.
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Jeffries and Schumer bear responsibility for the astonishing passivity of Congressional Democrats in the last two years. They could have organized local and state resistance efforts to rescue programs killed by DOGE and Trump, to keep scientific research alive, to organize universities, law firms, media, and corporations to resist Trump's intimidation. They could have held press conferences and posted videos every single day to call out Trump's corruption and present an alternative vision for the country. Chris Murphy did it, others did it.
But not the leaders.
We will have no presidential candidate for 18 months. The task of presenting a vision that will lead America back from the darkness will fall to these two men. I wish I felt more confident they are up to the task.
nytimes.com/2026/11/04/us/po…
Yes!
There is much to celebrate this week, but I want to call specific attention to historic gains Democratic women made in representation:
- For the first time in history, over 100 Democratic women will serve in the U.S. House.
- At least 16 Democratic women will serve in the Senate.
- At least 14 Democratic women will serve as governors, a record high.
- A record of 2,600 Democratic women running for seats in state legislatures helped flip 12 majorities and break 11 supermajorities.
- Four states elected their first woman governor: Georgia, Minnesota, Ohio, and Tennessee.
- @KeishaBottoms will be the first Black woman to serve as a governor.
- @DebHaalandNM will be the first Native American woman to serve as a governor.
- @GinaHinojosaTX will be the first Latina to serve as governor of Texas.
- @peggyflanagan will be the first Native American woman to serve in the Senate.
I am beyond excited to see these extraordinary people and public servants tackle accountability, affordability, and our other challenges to make life better for everyone in this country.
Congratulations to everyone who ran: win or lose, fighting for what's right is always worth it.
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First bill for the new Democratic Congress: The Ban Congressional Stock Trading Act.
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Ahead of the election, a Connecticut FBI field office posted that the election was on Wednesday. As an old-school Southern Voting Rights lawyer, I've seen that tactic used many times to suppress the vote. The post was still up Tuesday morning. It's since been deleted. If it was an unintentional error, it would have been down in minutes. Serious investigation needed here. @jamie_raskin
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Dear Don Jr.,
Remember the $620M Pentagon loan to the company your firm bought into?
The new Congress will have subpoena power. Oh wait he can't see this, he blocked me.
Send your letter. It goes to your members of Congress, and takes 30 seconds:
actionnetwork.org/letters/te…
