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Alan Elrod

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We are kicking off our first-ever @PulaskiInst conference at 9 a.m. October 19 at Hendrix College! Feat. @jmhorp @OrrellAEI @anthonypipa @JessPish @kmilligan24 @caryaspinwall @NateBell4AR Matt Campbell (Blue Hog) and more! Read about it at @ArkTimes

Healthy heartland democracy will be the focus of October summit at Hendrix - Arkansas Times

Freedom, pluralism and prosperity are especially vulnerable in places that can feel disconnected. A summit at Hendrix next month will address the state of democracy in the mid-South.

arktimes.com

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Alan Elrod

@aselrod

4 years

The people at @ProjectLincoln absolutely body this president with such frequency and consistency that I feel like every video should start with a classic DJ Khaled “another one!”

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@caitlinmoriah *Looks at Suella Braverman*: “This is punk.” *Listens to Ben Shapiro*: “This is punk.” *Watches suburban parents scream about pronouns at a school board meeting*: “This is punk.”

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4 months

There was wall-to-wall coverage, angst, and hand-wringing when Hillary called some people “deplorables.” But since launching this campaign alone, Trump has called people “vermin,” “poison,” and “human scum,” just to name some highlights

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I get that American troops fought and died to defend our freedoms, including freedom of speech (for which we should all be profoundly grateful), but I still think this isn’t what they had in mind. And I don’t get why anyone wouldn’t be appalled by this.

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Alan Elrod

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2 years

Chris Jones probably ran the best statewide campaign a Democrat has run here since Beebe. Ultimately, Arkansas just isn't a state where Democrats can win these kinds of offices.

AP Politics

@AP_Politics

2 years

BREAKING: Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders wins election for governor in Arkansas. #APracecall at 7:30 p.m. CST.

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4 years

@jbouie From a lifelong progressive southerner: thank you, Jamelle. It genuinely sucks to spend time fighting the fights we do down here (where there are lots of progressives and religious and racial minorities!) only to get these sort of “of course the South is bad” takes from on high.

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Alan Elrod

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My governor has spent her whole term avoiding tough interviews and calling her critics here “far left” and “radicals” who want to destroy her and the country. So I don’t take her thoughts on this very seriously.

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Team Harris thinks Kamala needs a new babysitter. I think America needs a new President.

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1 year

@janecoaston Aside from brushing off the Depression, I like the casual assumption that he’d fight in the BOTH of the two bloodiest wars in human history and live.

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Alan Elrod

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4 years

I couldn’t agree more. My 86 year-old Southern born and bred has never displayed this symbol and would never display it. She knows what it means. We all know what it means.

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Alan Elrod

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11 months

This @ThePlumLineGS interview with Dean Phillips, and especially *this* part, drive home the point @SarahLongwell25 and @Timodc have also made: the only wedge Phillips has is Biden’s age. His whole campaign rests on hammering a key GOP talking point. It’s incredibly reckless.

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

11 months

Dean Phillips also told me that Biden is "perhaps the only Democrat who could lose to Trump." That's just absurd, for the reasons outlined below. But when I pressed Phillips, he dug in. Very hard to see why he's going here. 5/5

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Alan Elrod

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2 years

@SequoiaN @TheLincoln I find it really upsetting when two people who are still in their underwear lay side by side with the covers partially pulled up and breathe a little bit faster.

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Alan Elrod

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8 years

Standing in line w/public school teachers, law students, & business owners. This is what democracy looks like @SenTomCotton #CottonTownHall

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Alan Elrod

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1 year

Personally, I think my governor should denounce these remarks made by her father, a former governor of the same state, in defense of her former boss’s attempt to overthrow American democracy.

Right Wing Watch

@RightWingWatch

1 year

Mike Huckabee warns that if Trump's legal problems prevent him from winning in 2024, "it is going to be the last American election that will be decided by ballots rather than bullets."

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Alan Elrod

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5 months

WW2 gets all the credit as “the good war,” but smashing the Confederacy was a win for humanity.

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5 months

The Battle Hymn of the Republic is a song written by a psychopath advocating religious violence and holy war that comes with a side of genocide.

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Alan Elrod

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8 months

We most certainly do not

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

@SarahHuckabee

8 months

If President Biden won’t defend us, states will have to defend themselves. Arkansas stands with Texas.

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Alan Elrod

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7 months

@GregTSargent Yeah it’s gross and awful

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Alan Elrod

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6 years

Max Boot, near-lifelong-and-now-former GOP member and voter, says, “Vote against all Republicans. Every single one.” He is right. Listen to Max.

Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸

@MaxBoot

6 years

I’m sick and tired of a president who cares so little about right-wing terrorism that, on the very day of the synagogue shooting, he proceeded with a campaign rally, telling his supporters, “Let’s have a good time.” My latest in @PostOpinions :

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Alan Elrod

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8 years

When a candidate for POTUS calls the press "the lowest form of life," worry. A free press is critical for democracy

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8 years

Trump is at it again, saying he'll only lose Pennsylvania "if cheating goes on." Journalists must challenge this.

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1 year

@scottlincicome Montana is full, Scott

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Alan Elrod

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10 months

@bernybelvedere One of the most stunning stories in @TimAlberta ’s new book is David French having one of his most heinous trolls introduce himself at church and gladly announce his handle. This kind of crap is seeping into offline life in pathological ways.

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Alan Elrod

@aselrod

8 months

Straight daggers here from @GregTSargent

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

8 months

Trump and Mike Johnson are killing the House vote on the border deal because (1) they know it would pass; and (2) this would wreck their strategy of claiming Biden alone owns what happens at the border. To MAGA, that's an unacceptable outcome. 1/ Link:

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Alan Elrod

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3 years

Love for Ukraine from the Mid-South (Arkansas-Tennessee bridge)

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3 years

I-40 bridge in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Alan Elrod

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1 month

I wrote a whole thing @BulwarkOnline about how one of the worst aspects of red state/blue state politics is the idea that certain places are only for certain people. I love Arkansas, too, and I’m staying.

In Arkansas, a Vision of Single-Party Democracy

Even some conservatives are starting to feel alienated by the partisan priorities of Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the GOP-controlled state legislature.

www.thebulwark.com

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1 month

@aselrod What is your problem? Feel free to move to Cali with the communist.

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Alan Elrod

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1 year

If you aren’t familiar with this kind of thinking, these sort of insights might shock you. But I grew up surrounded by fundamentalist evangelicalism, and this view of the world is widespread. Now it’s thoroughly part of the wider political ecosystem.

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Alan Elrod

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2 months

I also appreciated @ruthbenghiat ’s observations about how Orbán’s Hungary has rendered trans and non-binary people “non-persons” bureaucratically. I’ve written on this as well, but in my home state of Arkansas

For Non-Binary Arkansans, No ID, No Entry Into Public Life

The governor of Arkansas has intentionally demeaned minority communities in a state where their position is already precarious.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Alan Elrod

@aselrod

2 years

@jmhorp So obscuring that Australia uses ranked choice voting and not showing the two-party preference is pretty misleading. And comparing the Westminster system to the Electoral College in terms of being an indirect way to elect an executive is also pretty misleading. Is that your goal?

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Alan Elrod

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4 months

“is it really a leap to suggest that Trump is broadcasting the idea that liberals should feel threatened en masse by a second Trump term?” ⁦ @GregTSargent ⁩ with a vital piece directly confronting Trump’s lurid, violent attacks on his fellow Americans

Trump’s Ugly, Hateful Attacks on Media Suddenly Take a Dangerous Turn

His posting of a video of a man cursing at Joe Scarborough sends a broader message: If elected, he’ll use state power to come after countless other Americans.

newrepublic.com

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Alan Elrod

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1 year

Obviously Sanders has the right to defend herself, but it would be nice if the biggest and richest paper in Arkansas was doing more to hold the state’s governor accountable. Instead, it’s independent writers and smaller media outlets doing the heavy lifting.

AR Democrat-Gazette

@ArkansasOnline

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Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders reiterated Wednesday that the state's purchase of a $19,000 lectern "is something that wasn't paid for by taxpayers."

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Alan Elrod

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4 years

@hunterreis Greetings from Conway, AR (suburb of Little Rock with a pop. of 66,000).

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Alan Elrod

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4 years

Honestly hilarious that he thinks this fixes the quote.

Ted Cruz

@tedcruz

4 years

@kasie Kasie, if you’re going to use my quote, pls use the entire quote (don’t selectively omit the last two words): Q: “Is what we saw at the White House last night an abuse of power?” A: “By the protestors, yes: THE VIOLENCE.”

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Alan Elrod

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4 years

@KevinMKruse Jimmy Carter guaranteed to be more alive at 98 than the Republican Party’s commitment to democracy and basic ethics.

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Alan Elrod

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3 years

@RadioFreeTom This kind of move from Stefanik really does reinforce the whole there’s no good GOP left argument. If this is what the party’s once-moderate rising star is saying, it’s done folks. Party’s over—literally.

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Alan Elrod

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4 years

My mom tested positive today for COVID. She’s a fit woman but over 60 and has been a type 1 diabetic since childhood. Her symptoms are mild, but it is absolutely insane how miserably @AsaHutchinson and the rest of Arkansas’s leadership has failed us. Total, abject failure.

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For @BulwarkOnline , I wrote about Arkansas, the Huckabee Sanders administration, and the perils of single-party democracy

In Arkansas, a Vision of Single-Party Democracy

Even some conservatives are starting to feel alienated by the partisan priorities of Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the GOP-controlled state legislature.

www.thebulwark.com

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Alan Elrod

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2 months

This is a softball question that a normal person would just answer with “my family” or “chocolate cake” or “when my sports team wins” Instead, Vance just turns into another attack on “the media”

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@PhilipJGermain

2 months

Another tough outing for #JVVance . Reporter: "What makes you smile? What makes you happy?"

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Alan Elrod

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8 years

This is evil. It is wrong. It is unacceptable. There should be no tolerance, understanding, or grace for these views or any support of them

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8 years

Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies.

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4 years

I was just handed this pen to use to sign my receipt at the bar at the Conway Zaza (yes that’s my wedding)

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Alan Elrod

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2 years

Just in case you think I’m being overstated in my constant comparisons of the Republicans to the European far right, Hungarians voted in a referendum today with strong parallels to the anti-lgbt legislation happening in places like Florida and Idaho.

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Alan Elrod

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2 years

Honestly remarkable that Sarah Huckabee Sanders can use her own cancer survival story to dehumanize a man who lost his own son to the disease. #SOTU23

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Alan Elrod

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9 months

Will Stancil, @RadioFreeTom convergence

Will Stancil

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9 months

What period in US history was more materially affluent than the present? Give me dates and at least a couple numbers to support your claim, rather than vaguely gesturing at the cultural memory of mid-century suburban affluence or whatever.

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Alan Elrod

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3 years

@LarrySabato I’m not sure it’s even limited to Trump. If this iteration of the GOP were to gain unified control in, say, 2024, I’d be very skeptical that we wouldn’t see serious democratic backsliding

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Alan Elrod

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2 years

In my new piece for @ArcDigi , I wrote about the pattern on the American right of describing those they don’t like as “sick,” “infected,” and “deranged.”

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Alan Elrod

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2 years

Man. @Timodc ’s Why We Did It is incredible. Scorching. Unsparing, especially with himself. Possibly the best book around on the Trump takeover of the GOP. It’s an absolute tour-de-force in the kind of self-reflection that’s almost non-existent in professional politics.

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Alan Elrod

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5 months

Tom Cotton says that we in Arkansas would simply assault protesters blocking a bridge. He makes it sound like this is just salt-of-the-earth common sense. It’s not. My piece at @LiberalCurrents

For Tom Cotton and the Right, Violence and Cruelty Are Common Sense

The American right frequently takes unreasonable and anti-social behavior and presents it as commonplace and normal.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Alan Elrod

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7 months

This analysis is spot on. Far too many talk about Trump’s disparagement and abandonment of our allies like it’s a function of his impulsiveness and ignorance. But it’s actually part of his international vision, which is pro-strongman and actively against the post-WW2 order.

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

8 months

This short description of the disastrous consequences that could unfold if MAGA Republicans succeed in blocking aid to Ukraine is profoundly disturbing. Rep Jason Crow really nails the bigger stakes here. It's from our pod discussion. Please watch:

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Alan Elrod

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1 year

“The anti-woke right is increasingly wielding heavy-handed tactics — including state power and violent threats — to block corporations from making their own decisions about how to adapt to social change.” ⁦ @ThePlumLineGS ⁩ sums it up well here

Opinion | Target’s surrender to MAGA rage shows how anti-wokeness really works

A right-wing campaign against Target captures an essential truth about our culture wars.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Alan Elrod

@aselrod

4 years

She’s utterly unqualified and unfit and will absolutely be running on two things that are automatic big nopes from me: her time in the Trump admin and the Huckabee name. Arkansas is better than anything she has to offer. And we deserve so much more in a governor.

Josh Dawsey

@jdawsey1

4 years

NEWS: Sarah Huckabee Sanders, former press secretary for President Trump, will announce tomorrow that she’s running for governor of Arkansas. She’s seen as leader in the polls and the president’s preferred candidate in a GOP state. Expect video announcement of her bid. Yeah but I

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Alan Elrod

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11 months

This @ThePlumLineGS piece needs to be shared as far and wide as possible. It’s a detailed, to-the-point look at what is coming in a Trump White House 2.0 And it’s the sort of stuff that ought to leave any decent, freedom-loving American completely shaken.

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

11 months

Trump's plans for giant detention camps, a new Muslim ban and mass expulsions of millions is a test. Trump and Stephen Miller are testing the public's willingness to accept an agenda built on white nationalist sadism. 1/ (free link)

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Alan Elrod

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8 months

A lot to enjoy in today’s @GregTSargent column at @newrepublic . A great examination of the downward spiral of Republicans’ defenses of Trump’s degeneracy, including this excellent kicker.

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Alan Elrod

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10 months

@BeijingPalmer If you’d told me a year or two years ago that I’d be cheering Stancil this hard, I’d have been utterly baffled.

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Alan Elrod

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1 year

@NGrossman81 People are rightly mentioning the treatment of Obama and swift boating of Kerry. But Republicans also insinuated that the Clintons murdered their friend who committed suicide. It’s just insane.

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2 years

For @ArcDigi , I wrote about how our politics has developed its own form of hooliganism

Political Hooligans

When the issues matter far less than brawling for your team

www.arcdigital.media

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Alan Elrod

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1 year

McCarthy isn’t negotiating from a position of strength but one of madness

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

1 year

Here's another reason Democrats can't trust Kevin McCarthy: Incredibly, he's demanding that Dems support the far right GOP border agenda as part of the next package of aid for Ukraine. I'm not sure people appreciate how extreme this demand truly is. 1/

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Alan Elrod

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Everyone needs to listen to @GregTSargent ’s pod on Trump calling for Liz Cheney to be tried for treason. In light of the immunity decision, this is a terrifying situation

Nicholas Grossman

@NGrossman81

3 months

Trump calling for Liz Cheney to be tried for "treason"—defined as "told the truth about Trump in public"—should be seen in light of SCOTUS ruling he'd be immune from ordering DOJ to do blatantly corrupt actions like that. Unsettling pod from @GregTSargent .

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Alan Elrod

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@lionel_trolling Joe Biden cleverly sending his only living son the jail to own MAGA

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I think this is important. Harris was absolutely a qualified VP pick and is a qualified candidate for the presidency. But there’s nothing inherently wrong with celebrating what her selection for VP meant and what her election to the White House would mean for our society

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“In the South, men don’t generally emote…” Ok.

Just Mindy 🐊

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In the South, men don’t generally emote and flail and kick and punch the air all the time. They also don’t skip.

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My wife is from Texas, and a lot of her extended family lives across the state. It’s long been an elusive state for Dems, but I’m excited to see someone like Allred poised to take on Ted Cruz. People should listen to this conversation, especially Texans!

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

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Colin Allred tells me he'll make a big pitch to rural voters in taking on Ted Cruz: *GOP blocked Medicaid expansion *Rural hospitals in trouble *Teacher shortages at rural schools *Cruz helped Trump on 1/6 (rare for Ds to say this in red areas!) Listen👇

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Phenomenal ⁦ @ThePlumLineGS ⁩ interview with ⁦ @rickperlstein ⁩ about the substance of Pat Robertson’s extremism and the harm it’s done.

Opinion | How Pat Robertson created today’s Christian nationalist GOP

A conversation with historian Rick Perlstein about the world Robertson made.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Alan Elrod

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4 months

@BeijingPalmer Absolutely. The extent to which even pretty banal interactions on here involve someone issuing some sort of sweeping statement and then declaring they “don’t owe” anyone anything when others engage them is one of the worst trends in modern discourse

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“[He] forthrightly defended the goal of tapping her as vice president precisely in order to achieve racial diversity in his cabinet, unabashedly describing this as a good thing—he ‘tapped’ the potential of America.” ⁦ @GregTSargent ⁩ on Biden’s speech

Biden’s Emotional Speech Hints at a Bigger Takedown of Trump to Come

Biden aggressively defended his economic record. But he also subtly pushed back against Trump’s sleazy racist attacks on Harris—and that’s essential to winning.

newrepublic.com

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Alan Elrod

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8 months

I simply think it is bad for my governor to lie like then when a robust, bi-partisan border deal is on the table and is being turned down by Republicans who are beholden to Donald Trump.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

@SarahHuckabee

8 months

Joe Biden not only failed at his job but is being dishonest about his ability to do anything about it. Proud to join @GovAbbott and other GOP governors to stand with Texas and call on Biden to actually do his job and protect the American people.

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Alan Elrod

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1 year

This is something to follow closely

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

1 year

BREAKING: Florida parents and writers just filed a lawsuit against book bans in a pro-Trump county in the Florida panhandle, arguing that they're unconstitutional. If successful, this could provide a weapon against reactionary school book bans everywhere:

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I grew up in fundamentalist evangelical Christianity (church of Christ). And this thread legit feels like the DSA version of those little religious tracts they used to keep in the church lobby.

NYC-DSA 🌹

@nycDSA

2 years

This holiday season, many of us are talking to people close to us who see the world differently — namely, our family members ☃️ Here are some tips about how to talk to your relatives about socialism & bring them into DSA, compiled from our members 🌹 🧵w/📸 (1/12)

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@jbouie @KevinMKruse gEoPoLiTiCs

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2 months

Joe Biden has done the selfless thing, like many people told us he would. He beat Trump, revived the American economy, invested in our future, and now is doing one of the hardest things anyone can do in the service of his country—giving up power to protect our democracy

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Alan Elrod

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5 months

Absolutely everyone needs to read this @GregTSargent piece and the Cheney op-ed. It’s far, far too easy for people to feel complacent about the possibility that Trump’s legal troubles solve our problems for us. The risk he successfully games the system is real.

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

5 months

Liz Cheney just said something deeply troubling: If SCOTUS delays immunity ruling, voters might be denied critical info about Trump's conduct while the mob raged, which Jack Smith has. That would reward Trump allies for their coverup. New piece from me:

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Lest you think the GOP will be split between Trumpists and ardent defenders of democracy, I’m inclined to agree with this @ThePlumLineGS take: the primary fault line will be between those play acting Trumpism and genuine insurrectionists. Gift link:

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Alan Elrod

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3 months

Rep. Raskin on MSNBC today saying “conversations are being had” about Biden and that the party will rally “whether he’s the candidate or whether he isn’t the candidate.” Seems like a big shift in messaging.

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Alan Elrod

@aselrod

1 year

But it’s also true, as @ThePlumLineGS points out, that these kinds of reactionary moments can galvanize younger generations into political activism in ways that have a lasting impact.

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

1 year

As you watch a transgender state Rep in Montana get punished, don't lose sight of the broader story here: As red states increasingly become reactionary fever swamps, a new generation of Gen Z and Millennial Dems is entering politics in response:

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@waitmanb I interned at an English language mag in Florence one summer. I spoke almost 0 Italian. After work I’d pass this old guy sitting on the stoop of and eventually I just started hanging next to him. He spoke no English. He was a sexton and took me inside Dante’s church after hours.

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Not only that, I love my state. And I love it knowing that I am in the political minority. This piece is not an attempt to trash Arkansas in any way. But I am outraged at the way my governor and her allies are running things.

The Bulwark

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"Arkansas is the state I know best, and it provides a clear example of the poisonous culture that develops among the state’s political leadership when the opposing party has no meaningful power." @aselrod on what a one-party (U.S.) state looks like:

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That a spouse of sitting member of the Supreme Court was involved in an attempt to overthrow American democracy will never not be one of the wildest facts about this era

Jeffrey Toobin

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In oral argument today, Justice Thomas is minimizing the severity of the 1/6 insurrection at the Capitol. Perhaps that's because his wife was part of the conspiracy. What a disgrace that he's sitting on this case. #SCOTUS

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@joshtpm Last 24 hours a massive L for the Quincy Institute

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Alan Elrod

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10 months

Absolutely critical column from @ThePlumLineGS We’re entering a particularly vengeful era of right-wing politics.

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

10 months

It's bad enough that Texas AG Ken Paxton and Stephen Miller are floating investigations and prosecutions of Media Matters to protect Elon Musk. Worse, this is a preview of exactly what Trump allies are vowing to do if he regains power. 1/ (free link)

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Alan Elrod

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3 years

To quote @SarahLongwell25 from today’s Secret Pod: “These are bad, evil people, and we’re not currently confronting them with the urgency that this moment demands.”

David Frum

@davidfrum

3 years

Hi it’s December 2021, and it’s now literally in writing that senior advisers to the ex president of the United States plotted to declare a bogus national emergency to cancel a national election and seize the government by military force

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Alan Elrod

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2 years

I think @ruthbenghiat ’s Lucid is always worth your time, but this essay on the Orbán-inspired agenda of Meloni’s new government is as harrowing a read as it is an essential one.

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Alan Elrod

@aselrod

9 months

I’m quite torn on kicking Trump off the ballots. But I think this @ThePlumLineGS thread refuting Ross Douthat’s recent essay is important. The use of the 14th in this way is a serious but legitimate tool. We should be sober about the implications, but it is not anti-democratic.

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

9 months

This is a crucial point about @DouthatNYT 's latest column, which accuses those who take the 14th amendment question seriously of being "anti-democratic." [Link: ] I see multiple other serious problems with the column 1/

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Alan Elrod

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2 years

Come for Tom’s insights on our populist moment; stay for his Ronald Reagan impression. Huge thanks to @RadioFreeTom for making the time to come on The Periphery from @PulaskiInst . This was a great conversation.

Tom Nichols on Globalization, Nostalgia, and the Populist Threat to Democracy

Episode · The Periphery from the Pulaski Institution · This episode's guest is Tom Nichols, professor emeritus at the United States Naval War College and staff writer at The Atlantic. Tom is the...

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Alan Elrod

@aselrod

8 months

Massive W for CNN, especially to kick of this year from hell

CNN Communications

@CNNPR

8 months

Jane Coaston joins CNN as an on-air contributor based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Welcome to CNN, @janecoaston !

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Alan Elrod

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1 year

Tennessee Reps like Andrew Farmer and Gino Bulso spoke to Jones and Pearson with a stunning level of disdain. As I wrote for @ArcDigi , “It was a contemptible display of loutish thuggery dressed up as a rules vote.”

In State Capitols and County Courthouses, the Crisis of American Democracy Rages On

From California to Tennessee, state and local officials are dealing serious blows to American democracy

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Alan Elrod

@aselrod

1 year

“The rub is that DeSantis doesn’t want well-managed migration. He wants far less of it.” excellent new piece from ⁦ @ThePlumLineGS ⁩ on the hostile, xenophobic immigration system DeSantis wants to build.

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Alan Elrod

@aselrod

3 years

This is unabashed thuggery in the defense of his own hide and his party’s political prospects. Our democracy is in peril, and this man stands a good chance of getting the gavel in 2023.

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

3 years

Dems must respond forcefully to Kevin McCarthy's obscene threat to punish companies that cooperate with the 1/6 committee. Experts tell me an Ethics Committee investigation is a minimum first step. @RepSwalwell tells me a DOJ referral should be considered:

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1 year

And it’s telling that, even as parts of the right fret over slowing birth rates and an aging population, immigration is still off the table for them. I examined that here for @salon

"A demographic ice age": Why the right is freaking out about babies

Pro-natalist politics meet nativist illiberalism on the right

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Alan Elrod

@aselrod

17 days

This new @GregTSargent essay is in the same category as @GrahamDavidA ’s warnings about Trump. It’s essential, harrowing, and, imho, likely spot on in its preview of the sustained pressure a second Trump term would put on our democracy.

Trump’s Slow-Burn Authoritarianism

You’ve read about the scary horrors of a Trump second term. But a legal war of attrition that harasses MAGA’s enemies and transforms government info into propaganda could prove more insidious and...

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Alan Elrod

@aselrod

9 months

A couple of huge grabs for @newrepublic , as @GregTSargent is one of the best columnists around and DSR Network remains an essential listen on so many current events.

David Rothkopf

@djrothkopf

9 months

Congratulations to @GregTSargent . And I am delighted that the DSR Network will be teaming with @newrepublic to produce and distribute the new daily podcast on our network and to listeners everywhere! @mtomasky

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Alan Elrod

@aselrod

1 year

IMO, this from @ThePlumLineGS is crucial. It wasn’t a given that DeSantis’s culture war stunts would fizzle, and the anti-liberal impulses behind them are still very popular on the right.

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Alan Elrod

@aselrod

2 years

Whole lotta “drops” coming in the next few days (good and bad), but the one I can’t wait for is @Timodc ’s Why We Did It. Also, what a cover.

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Alan Elrod

@aselrod

3 years

@BeijingPalmer James, sh*tposting is a necessary and important stage of capitalist decline. You’d know this if you read more THEORY

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Alan Elrod

@aselrod

11 months

Seriously, saying “any competent” Dem could beat Trump in the same breath as he says Biden is the only Dem who could lose to Trump obviously suggests Biden is not competent. He might as well call him senile. It’s absurd.

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Alan Elrod

@aselrod

1 year

@BeijingPalmer I thought this tweet was upsetting and then I read the replies and discovered the entire world of anti-adoption advocacy on here. I’m adopted and, while my experience is mine and not universal, I find this stuff absolutely outrageous.

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Alan Elrod

@aselrod

4 months

Timely reminder that any notion Trump would be “better” on either Palestine or on pro-Palestine Americans is pure fantasy.

Guardian US

@GuardianUS

4 months

Trump tells donors he will crush pro-Palestinian protests if re-elected

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Alan Elrod

@aselrod

7 months

Really great chat between @GregTSargent and @BisforBerkshire on the crack-up of Moms for Liberty. Scandal and waning electoral power have shown the group to be much less of a force than they first appeared.

Moms for Liberty Founder’s Sex Scandal Spells Big Trouble For MAGA

Have you heard of Bridget Ziegler? A co-founder of the far right Moms for Liberty, she is embroiled in a three-way sex scandal involving her husband, Florida GO

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Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

7 months

Moms for Liberty is on an epic losing streak: *school board candidates getting routed *book bans triggering national backlash *founder embroiled in sex scandal *liberals countermobilizing effectively We go deep into this with @BisforBerkshire . Listen👇

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Alan Elrod

@aselrod

5 years

You know what feels good? When a fellow Arkansan says “No one ever comes down here. They don’t care about us,” and you get to say @TeamWarren is here. They’re here to win. And I’m at your door because Liz cares about us. @AsherSarahSmith @GrahamBishai @marlee__bird

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Alan Elrod

@aselrod

2 years

A good time to be reading people like @kathleen_belew (Bring the War Home), as well as @MalcolmNance (They Want to Kill Americans) and Luke Mogelson (The Storm is Here)

Kathleen Belew

@kathleen_belew

2 years

ok, so just to review: paramilitary group shows up to violently beat and mace students. someone breaks into pelosi's house and beats her husband (luckily she's not home). wealthy rightwing megalomaniac buys up the public square. violent intimidation at the polls in AZ (1)

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Alan Elrod

@aselrod

3 years

@bernybelvedere Because it’s so vague any person with even mildly conspiratorial beliefs can see it, nod solemnly, and go “yes, this man is one of us”

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Alan Elrod

@aselrod

1 year

I keep coming back to this @ThePlumLineGS piece on Art Spiegelman and efforts to restrict access to his book Maus because it so neatly summarizes the dangers of book bans. I’ve highlighted an important passage.

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Alan Elrod

@aselrod

6 months

Brutal, indeed

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

6 months

This is brutal. I asked @juliaioffe how our debate over aid to Ukraine is perceived in Ukraine and Russia. Check out her answer. If the US abandons Ukraine, the rising global far right will see it as a sign of the decadence of western liberal democracy.

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Alan Elrod

@aselrod

8 years

Signage so far sums up my general feelings on the gentleman from Arkansas #CottonTownHall

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Alan Elrod

@aselrod

19 days

One reason I think the GOP isn’t coming back from MAGA is that Trump will do something like say he wants to kill migrants, and Republicans will somberly be like, “he shouldn’t talk so brashly if he wants to win Pennsylvania.”

Josh Kraushaar

@JoshKraushaar

19 days

“Another top GOP lawmaker/Trump booster: "The political implications of Trump and Vance handling this Tucker thing incorrectly are huge. Every respected operative in this business could recognize how problematic this could become. This election will be won on the margins by

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Alan Elrod

@aselrod

2 years

Our approach to immigration is so broken. I cannot fathom why any administration would consider bringing back family detentions. And it’s so depressing that that’s the line where we have to have our fights, instead of a world where we’re looking to bring more people here.

Greg Sargent

@GregTSargent

2 years

It's true: Biden may bring back family detentions. It's being seriously debated by top officials, but some are warning against it. Strikingly, even some at ICE are resisting, sources tell me. "We've seen detentions before, and it's not pretty," one says.

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