Today an Afghan veteran needs your support not financial help, but moral support so that my voice will reach President Trump. I devoted my entire life to supporting American forces in Afghanistan. Please help carry my silenced voice to your high-ranking officials today so that my family and I can reach a place of safety.
I am so very sorry. This should not be happening. I will contact my senators but i live in Louisiana, so its useless. Maybe readers who live in blue states can also try?
I’m sorry! Louisiana is such a great place! History and culture! Been many times! The food! Sorry that you have some of the worst representatives n senators! Johnson, Higgins, Kennedy I know is an educated man, but he comes across like an illiterate person! Why do they continue to kiss the 🍊ass????
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These numbers will reach any member of the house or senate! Just give a name n give them hell! Rethugkkkrussians need to be put away n some belong behind bars!
I moved down here to NOLA a few years ago after a lifetime in the northeast…hard to appreciate the good things when you are surrounded by constant evidence of cruel and corrupt policies. Don’t forget the governor, either. He’s also a piece of work along with Sen. Foghorn Leghorn and Sen. What Hypocratic Oath ? Cassidy. I moved here to be near my son who taught in the public schools in the city for 10 years. I taught immigrant adults. We are both unemployed as of August. Trying to get out of here.
I have totally wondered how they keep getting elected since they don’t do anything for their constituents but can’t be surprised since I grew up in Ohio and I still can’t figure out how JDVance won! I am so sorry for your job loss!
They keep getting elected because our citizens vote for the names they recognize, instead of taking the time to research other candidates.
Well, folks, "the devil you know" is killing you and your families and friends. It started with "you can't trust the internet", which grew out of "you can't trust what you read in the papers". The irony is, with a few strokes of a keyboard, we can now find the truth as easily as we can ignore the lies. After all, we ARE the Meidas Mighty, are we not?
Reaching "any member of the House or Senate" is a waste of time. Members of Congress don't care about you -- if they care at all -- unless you are one of their constituents. And the Epstein files? Trumpty Dumpty's cult members won't change their voting habits if the files are all released. The "Christians" who support TD, knowing full well how morally bankrupt and un-Christian he is, won't change their support. They'll just blame a Jew for corrupting him.
What is stunning about the conniving kennedy is that he supposedly worked for John Kerry's presidential campaign! If true this just shows how morally bankrupt he is.
I live in Idaho. I contact my Senators and Representatives at least 2 times a month, usually more. I never hear anything from them but again Idaho is a MAGA state.
Are you a native Afghan who was relocated to the US? If so, there are specific members of Congress- Amy Klobuchar, Chris Coons, Rep Jason Crow and more- who sponsored and passed legislation specifically regarding this , and I hope would be advocates. If so, I ‘ll put more info here. Better for public to target these people with calls,etc. ❤️
Thank you for your message. No, I am not in the United States I am in one of the neighboring countries of Afghanistan, where I have been living for four years in an uncertain situation. I kindly ask you and the people of America to raise my voice to the U.S. authorities so that they may pay attention to my situation.
OK. i taught English to families of relocated Afghans here in the US who now are in danger of being sent back to Afghanistan. I worry daily about them. I will post tomorrow with Congressional contacts and some background on the gross injustice being done to those who helped our military. I ll ask the good people who read this to contact these reps with requests for us to honor our obligations to you and others in a similar situation. I’m not sure people are aware of this new horror with everything else going on. Your English is very good. I will also include contacts at human rights organizations that you can address directly with your personal details. I promise I will post again tomorrow . Its very late here. Have a good evening!
Bluesky and the meidas media are a place to start. Getting through to tRump is a daunting task mainly because he is not seeing the obvious or he is and it scares the hell out of him.
I Was A Good Friend Of The Late TX Congressman Charlie Wilson. A Democrat. Whose Life Is A Film Starring Tom Hanks + Julia Roberts ‘Charlie Wilson’s War’ Which Was Released After Charlie’s Death, That Showed Me So Much About Afghanistan Fought Along w American Military To Stop Russia From Controlling Afghanistan. I Know Trump too and I Believe 100% He Will Refuse To Even Hear Your Plea. Sorry but Trump doesn’t help anyone in need. In Fact He’ll Make Sure You Die. Be Careful Bc Asking Trump for help is the same as asking Putin + Russia and The Devil itself For Help. I Wish You God Speed & Good Luck For Your Situation. Maybe Tell Trump You Were Fighting FOR Russia in Afghanistan bc that might save your life.
It's tragic that the Democrats are "winning" because the lunatics with the majority are morally bankrupt, corrupt and criminal. Talk about a missed opportunity by Democratic leadership.
This is supposition and opinion. How could anyone actually know for sure why any one democrat won in their town, city, county, or State? MC doesn't actually have proof of that. And if he does, he should have provided it in this article.
On that note, I'm kind of sick of the constant polling. Even thought they've become quite sophisticated, polls are fallible. My feeling is that polls tend to reinforce themselves too. And that's dangerous.
But ask any Democrat and I'd bet that many of them would say that they haven't heard the kind of messaging that they'd like to hear from their party. That doesn't mean nasty imitative crap like MAGAs deliver on social media. That means genuine connection and cut-to-the-bone messaging. Like they've been knocking on doors and know reality.
The DNC has been depending on progressives for quite some time now to do the door-knocking and asking. And then they kick them in the teeth when they primary them. Time for it to STOP.
I tend to agree... but Democrats are winning in spite of the DNC not because of it and the DNC is not doing a very good job of leading, so people are ignoring them, in my opinion.
Regarding polls, they are self-supporting. The questions are worded such that they get the results they want to get. Sad, but true... I don't like to take them because of it.
I don't either, and that in itself creates an outlier...a demographic that resists polling, one of many. I do think also that Democrats have been so successfully demonized by the MAGA media that that's a factor in the polling results. Everyone loves to hate the Dems . . . even the Dems.
They don’t listen to the masses of people encouraging the antiquated folks, who keep up their same old same old philosophies that used to work, to give it up now.
It’s a new day y’all and we need the next generations who are out there DOING SOMETHING,
not bitching about what is happening, to hold office.
I’m 73 yrs old and see the writing on the wall…
Polls are ridiculously unreliable so I never pay attention to what a snippet of the country projects as to what people want or are feeling.
Any DEM "win" right now is not solid... it's win based on the wind that is blowing.
The Repubs will vocally (without substance, without any plan) change their tune just in time to get votes. But, like "DAY 1" of DT 2.0... it will mean less than nothing
The best way to win, in my experience campaigning for Sen Elizabeth Warren's first senate campaign, is to just run against the record of the incumbent. We send them to Washington to do one job; work for our their constituents best interests. If the incumbent voted to slash SNAP, slash funding for Medicare and SS, slash funding for the ACA, environmental protections, has done nothing to address rising costs of living, etc. the Democratic opponent needs to expose this.
Now is not the time for single issue, niche voter issues. While these are extremely important our number one job is to get Dems to Washington first. If they don't win all these issues are meaningless since we know repubs won't protect women's rights, the LGBTQ community, minorities. Once in DC the Dems can address these issues.
I’m not blaming Dems for anything other than the fact we have no clear message. Unfortunately, too many in America are…reread my article and the. Check out the latest @CNN poll which shows Democrat favorability is at a near all time low.
I agree Julia - I ran track in high school. At one track meet, I finally beat the time of the fastest runner in our school and the 2nd fastest runner in the State. When I talked to my coach later, she "poo pooed" my time and the fact that I had won by saying, "you didn't actually win, she was tired!" - that's what this article is saying to me... The dems aren't actually winning because they are better or outran the "r's," they are only winning because the "r's" are showing their true colors... Really?
@therealmichaelcohen - I've personally seen people recently change their political affiliation away from the right not because the right is a bunch of crazy lunatics and they don't want to be associated, although that is part of it, but because they see that the Dems have something to offer they have never listened to before and now see. The Dems can always improve their message and their platform, but stop telling them they didn't win because they didn't really do anything to win, the competitor was just not up to the task that day. You look like a Narcissist when you do that.
It is the Republican Party who are heartlessly allowing this administration to use food subsidies as hostage to pass an awful bill that will deprive many of affordable healthcare. It will eliminate much of the services to assist our vulnerable citizens. I say put the blame where it belongs. Right on the Republican Party. Every single one, not just the ones in the administration, but those citizens who are willing to starve people, who are willing to not care for our vulnerable ill or elderly. What country in the world does this? How do Republicans sleep at night? How do they look at their own children and feel good about themselves?
We vote by mail, have for as long as I can remember! I have been an election observer! There are so many cameras that I won’t pick my bum or my nose! It’s very safe n honest! I love voting by mail!
trump n his entire cabal need to be locked up!
What he has done to we the people’s house is devastating! And the Kennedy Centr, Smithsonian! And the grifting!
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Call any trump ass kisser! I start with red states! It’s easy n you can do it during commercials from your recliner! Easy to do! Please share the number with friends!
Remember who is in charge of the US mail now. A successor to Louis DeJoy, the infamous privatizer who actually got accused of election rigging via holding up strategic mail.
I use an absentee ballot but am fortunate enough to live w/i a mile of our local BOE, so I drive it to the drop box drive-thru and the cute volunteers show me how they're dropping it in so I can see it happen. They know that "election fraud" is a trigger issue. I worked at the polls for years and know better, but even I don't trust the Trump Regime any further than I can throw it.
I also drive my mail-in ballot to the drop box at our township hall ... can't trust USPS to deliver Xmas packages on time, so I'm not trusting them with my vote - it's too important to get lost in the mail.
Louis DeJoy Trashed Millions Of Mail In Votes in ‘24 Election & Those Who Were Involved Must Be Held Accountable For Treason Under The Laws of The U.S. Constitution Which Elon Musk w his “Special Computers” He Used To Help Trump Cheat To Win + All Those Russian Bomb Threats Sent To Every Polling Place In The Swing States Which Russia Helped to Hack the ‘24 + The ‘16 Elections Both For Putin’s Secret KGB Agent: KRASNOV Trump to Share Power W Putin + Russia Over All Americans Via Trump in The White House. Watch Netflix Documentary Titled ‘The Great Hack’ Re: 2016 Russian Hacked Election Which Eyewitnesses Accounts Of Ex-Executives Of Google, Facebook who Went Undercover To Pretend to be A Rich hateful Republican To Work For Zuckerberg + His Partner Peter Thiel Whose Company ‘Cambridge Analytica’ aka ‘Palantir’ That Runs Facebook like a Commie Dictatorship Were Who Arranged The Meeting w Putin in Russia along w Moscow Mitch As GOP, NRA’s Wayne LaPierre, Trump Who Made This Secret Deal 6 Months Before the Russian ‘16 Election Hack. Trump’s Goal From day 1 Is To Mass Murder Americans To Establish ‘New World Order’ A Fascist Regime Across USA + The World. Gets Rid Of Democracy, Democrats, No Voting Allowed. Plus Please Check The Published News In Early ‘23 About That Trump Sent His Stolen Secret Documents To Putin via Top Employee at Discord username ‘Buns 8810’ aka Jack Teixiera A Very Anti-American Hateful Wickedest Man Who Sent Trump’s Stolen Documents To Russia + Putin That Gave All Info of Every Name, Location, Countries In U.S. Military That Helped 100% Russia MASS MURDER ALL IN USA MILITARY’S UNDERCOVER AGENTS STATIONED AROUND THE WORLD All Killed + Others Just As Bad At Same Time FOR RUSSIA AGAINST ALL LIVES IN USA + TO HELP PUTIN + RUSSIA INVADE USA BC TRUMP TOLD PUTIN HOW AMERICAN DEFENSE SYSTEMS RESPOND TO ALL TYPES OF ATTACKS & ALL WERE IN JACK SMITH’s DOCUMENTS CASE THE MOST IMPORTANT CASE IN USA HISTORY THAT AILEEN CANNON WHO WAS UNFIT TO BE A JUDGE BC SHE SECRETLY WAS A ‘Trump Groupie’ Who Attended Trump Rallies & was Photographed Looking Like a Love-Sick School girl madly in love w Trump & Cannon Worked w Heritage Foundation + Clarence Thomas, Leonard Leo Who Told Cannon How To DELAY, DENY, DISMISS + HIDE TRUMP’s HORRIFIC ESPIONAGE TREASONS FROM ANYONE IN USA FROM FINDING OUT ABOUT JUST HOW BAD OF A TRAITOR AGAINST ALL LIVES IN USA + USA MILITARY TRUMP REALLY IS HIS LOYALTY IS W PUTIN + RUSSIA + MERRICK GARLAND ALSO DRAGGED HIS FEET & LET AILEEN CANNON HIDE ALL OF TRUMP’S MANY ESPIONAGE TREASONS EVEN IN JACK SMITH’s VOLUME 2.
And you can also flood them by FAX number. Every one of them has a FAX number and they cannot turn off their FAX printers. There are free FAX apps online and for your phone so you can flood them!
If you can't get them in DC, because apparently they are all at home peeping through the blinds, call their State offices or FAX their State offices.
AIPAC Schumer and AIPACJeffries......please step aside...........America is starving as you cash the AIPAC $$$$. Americans are now hungry and running out of food.....they are losing their healthcare!!
Please....for Gods sake.......allow progressive leaders that have the citizens welfare first take over!!!
Absolutely 100% correct and I’ve been saying this for a while now, if the Democrats win now and again in the midterms, it’s not because they are great. It’s because the Republicans are horrible. And if the Democrats don’t regroup and rebrand, they will lose again in the future. We need to take control and prove that we can help American people and save democracy.
How can Democrats “inspire hope or offer visionary leadership” when the Republicans hold the presidency, senate and congress? I am so tired of hearing more about what the Democrats are not doing than the daily onslaught of negativity, illegal actions, mocking language, and all the other disgusting obstructions that the republicans toss at us daily. I am a Democrat and the fact that Democrats are for the common man and the betterment of our country, the world and our constitution is good enough for me.
I double that! I have been a registered Democrat for over 40 years now and for the most part, until drumpf came along, I was more of a left leaning centrist. But the more that has happened and is happening since drumpf came along and the more attacks on Democrats, the more left I have been leaning, the less I believe we have to have a balance. We don't have a balance and it's time for the pendulum to swing back towards the majority and the majority are democrats - even in Texas!
But if the DEMS are not putting out solid candidates RIGHT NOW, at local, state and federal level... then there are no DEMS to vote for.
It takes time to become known.
It takes time to build those local, state or federal level plans.. the plans people must understand before they vote.
It did not work for Kamala to have only a few months to change minds, and votes.
Part of this mess is based on voters who only have dreamscapes to choose from.
If DT had to SHOW his plan to lower prices... it would have become obvious he is not the controller of shelf prices at Walmart.
If DT had to SHOW his plan to stop the Russian war on Ukraine... it would have become (more) obvious that he had no intent to get the aggressor country to stop.
Elections can be won by DEMSs.. but the plans have to be road mapped (within the law) and do-able. Talk pieces are not enough. NO ONE believes political talk anymore
Yes. I'm a center Right citizen - only dumpTruck has me voting Dem. Kamala should have been free to speak her mind and backed from when Biden took office. Screw the consultants! Be real; that grabs middle center any day.
Excellent piece, Michael. The Democrats need to hear more about people’s stories. And reprimands for sitting on their asses. Challenging them to step tf up and be counted as genuine leaders. Fuck!! Shame them!!
On another note, many years ago, must have been trump years, the government decided that they needed to get people who ‘didn’t deserve’ social assistance cut off, because, you know, drugs. So they started testing people. They discovered that a minute % of people failed the test. I think it was something like 1%. Quite an eye opener and a wrecking ball to the stigma associated with the need for assistance. That was a great day. So Clay Higgins can just crawl back into his entitled, arrogant, corrupted hole.
Higgins is just a symptom of the cancer that is MAGA. Is he running unopposed in 2026? Because many of these Republicans are so gerrymandered into their comfortable districts that they sit on their incumbent behinds and don't feel called to answer to constituents. We have a LOT of that in Ohio. These perps have fun performing on social media and for their wealthy backers and kiss off the voters. It's disgusting.
S. A. Yes, it feels like stage 4 cancer of the soul. There’s no coming back from that. Well, unless there’s an unfortunate accident like slipping in your shower. 😏
I’m not familiar with all that the gerrymandering caused. 🇨🇦 But I know the reasons behind it. I’m sorry to hear your state of Ohio reps are so callous.
The mid-term vote is crucial to the Democrats to be successful. But they need to set up a single message that every candidate will carry to victory. Whether it is the economy, or women's rights,
immigration laws, whatever is the message, has to be given in unison from all. Part of what the Republican promised but failed to deliver. We need to get out ahead of this now to build up support and momentum.
Totally agree. We need to be starting now... and the DNC needs to get behind it, not waffle around and hmmm and haw about this and that and the other. Fish or cut bait!
Women's rights is not a "single message" that will carry a candidate to victory in this America. Immigration reform and the economy might be, but why have a single message? Americans are not a homogeneous group.
A cookie cutter message won't work on real people - pick words like decency and honesty and tell candidates to free-ball what that looks like to them and their constituents. Control top down is antithetical to democracy, duh!
Magas got hit with a double whammy just like the rest of us this weekend! When are these people going to believe what is happening to our country at the hands of this Republican regime? No food aid, and notices about huge raises in insurance premiums. You got what you voted for!
Worse things are down the pike if we dont get more than 50 percent .we need the 11 or more mil to vote that didnt.the magas need to cross over .theres no trillions of dollars and trump,johnson and people like basset and the rest that are loaded with conspiracy and lies when the shit hits worse for not just threatening anymore because theve attack us need to get ready for their lives being just as threatened.they only had a concept but never realized the consequences and retaliation from not eating and god forbid children start dying then thats end of game and possibly end of days..theres no reason to continue to vote party ,this has been always about preserving our way and foundation of our country and its time to get that this ain't a bout abortion because it ain't gonna matter period about any issue I r concern cause they've attacked us period.get smart or die .he doesn't give a shit and Michael you know it better than anyone.
Heiress Cornelia Bradley Martin decided to stage an exclusive gathering for the country’s financial elite. In 1897, the New York socialite hatched an idea for a costume ball in the Waldorf Hotel that she hoped would be the most extravagant party in the nation’s history. With thousands of orchids and roses, rare tapestries and velvet canopies, and terrine de foie gras. “Never were the lines between the two classes — those who have wealth and those who envy them — more distinctly drawn … Such elaborate and costly manifestations of wealth would only tend to stir up widespread discontent.” When the night came, hundreds of policemen — led by Theodore Roosevelt — closed the sidewalks outside the Waldorf to pedestrians to make way for the giant dress-up party. Newspapers around the country, and even many society people, criticized the ostentatiousness (or plain stupidity) of the ball. The Bradley Martins are said to have spent $300,000* … which would have made glad thousands upon thousands of the poor of New York who are struggling in abject poverty, was used up in some five or six hours of the grossest exhibition of the arrogance of wealth America has ever witnessed.” Meanwhile, New York’s tenements were filled with people living in crowded, unsanitary apartments, as evidenced by Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives in 1890. Poor and immigrant children worked long hours at factories, and families slept together in rooms stacked with beds.” [*USD $300,000 (1897) = USD ~$12M (2025)]
Today an Afghan veteran needs your support not financial help, but moral support so that my voice will reach President Trump. I devoted my entire life to supporting American forces in Afghanistan. Please help carry my silenced voice to your high-ranking officials today so that my family and I can reach a place of safety.
I am so very sorry. This should not be happening. I will contact my senators but i live in Louisiana, so its useless. Maybe readers who live in blue states can also try?
I’m sorry! Louisiana is such a great place! History and culture! Been many times! The food! Sorry that you have some of the worst representatives n senators! Johnson, Higgins, Kennedy I know is an educated man, but he comes across like an illiterate person! Why do they continue to kiss the 🍊ass????
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These numbers will reach any member of the house or senate! Just give a name n give them hell! Rethugkkkrussians need to be put away n some belong behind bars!
Release the Epstein files!!!!!
Johnson is an embarrassment!
I moved down here to NOLA a few years ago after a lifetime in the northeast…hard to appreciate the good things when you are surrounded by constant evidence of cruel and corrupt policies. Don’t forget the governor, either. He’s also a piece of work along with Sen. Foghorn Leghorn and Sen. What Hypocratic Oath ? Cassidy. I moved here to be near my son who taught in the public schools in the city for 10 years. I taught immigrant adults. We are both unemployed as of August. Trying to get out of here.
I have totally wondered how they keep getting elected since they don’t do anything for their constituents but can’t be surprised since I grew up in Ohio and I still can’t figure out how JDVance won! I am so sorry for your job loss!
JD has a sugar Daddy who has been grooming him for this for years.
Too true!
They keep getting elected because our citizens vote for the names they recognize, instead of taking the time to research other candidates.
Well, folks, "the devil you know" is killing you and your families and friends. It started with "you can't trust the internet", which grew out of "you can't trust what you read in the papers". The irony is, with a few strokes of a keyboard, we can now find the truth as easily as we can ignore the lies. After all, we ARE the Meidas Mighty, are we not?
Hope you make it out soon. That's certainly a repulsive list of "representatives".
Reaching "any member of the House or Senate" is a waste of time. Members of Congress don't care about you -- if they care at all -- unless you are one of their constituents. And the Epstein files? Trumpty Dumpty's cult members won't change their voting habits if the files are all released. The "Christians" who support TD, knowing full well how morally bankrupt and un-Christian he is, won't change their support. They'll just blame a Jew for corrupting him.
They are all on vacation, Johnson has to be there to stand in front of the camera's and lie everyday.
What is stunning about the conniving kennedy is that he supposedly worked for John Kerry's presidential campaign! If true this just shows how morally bankrupt he is.
I live in Idaho. I contact my Senators and Representatives at least 2 times a month, usually more. I never hear anything from them but again Idaho is a MAGA state.
Me too. Most everyone here is Maga Drunk and getting worse. We have some organizations working behind the scenes doing damage every day.
Thank you so much 👍
Are you a native Afghan who was relocated to the US? If so, there are specific members of Congress- Amy Klobuchar, Chris Coons, Rep Jason Crow and more- who sponsored and passed legislation specifically regarding this , and I hope would be advocates. If so, I ‘ll put more info here. Better for public to target these people with calls,etc. ❤️
Thank you for your message. No, I am not in the United States I am in one of the neighboring countries of Afghanistan, where I have been living for four years in an uncertain situation. I kindly ask you and the people of America to raise my voice to the U.S. authorities so that they may pay attention to my situation.
OK. i taught English to families of relocated Afghans here in the US who now are in danger of being sent back to Afghanistan. I worry daily about them. I will post tomorrow with Congressional contacts and some background on the gross injustice being done to those who helped our military. I ll ask the good people who read this to contact these reps with requests for us to honor our obligations to you and others in a similar situation. I’m not sure people are aware of this new horror with everything else going on. Your English is very good. I will also include contacts at human rights organizations that you can address directly with your personal details. I promise I will post again tomorrow . Its very late here. Have a good evening!
Thank you so much appreciate 🙏
🥹 I hope you receive the support that you need.
Bluesky and the meidas media are a place to start. Getting through to tRump is a daunting task mainly because he is not seeing the obvious or he is and it scares the hell out of him.
He doesn’t care.
Prez will not listen to your voice. You must face reality...I know it's jarring
I Was A Good Friend Of The Late TX Congressman Charlie Wilson. A Democrat. Whose Life Is A Film Starring Tom Hanks + Julia Roberts ‘Charlie Wilson’s War’ Which Was Released After Charlie’s Death, That Showed Me So Much About Afghanistan Fought Along w American Military To Stop Russia From Controlling Afghanistan. I Know Trump too and I Believe 100% He Will Refuse To Even Hear Your Plea. Sorry but Trump doesn’t help anyone in need. In Fact He’ll Make Sure You Die. Be Careful Bc Asking Trump for help is the same as asking Putin + Russia and The Devil itself For Help. I Wish You God Speed & Good Luck For Your Situation. Maybe Tell Trump You Were Fighting FOR Russia in Afghanistan bc that might save your life.
It's tragic that the Democrats are "winning" because the lunatics with the majority are morally bankrupt, corrupt and criminal. Talk about a missed opportunity by Democratic leadership.
This is supposition and opinion. How could anyone actually know for sure why any one democrat won in their town, city, county, or State? MC doesn't actually have proof of that. And if he does, he should have provided it in this article.
On that note, I'm kind of sick of the constant polling. Even thought they've become quite sophisticated, polls are fallible. My feeling is that polls tend to reinforce themselves too. And that's dangerous.
But ask any Democrat and I'd bet that many of them would say that they haven't heard the kind of messaging that they'd like to hear from their party. That doesn't mean nasty imitative crap like MAGAs deliver on social media. That means genuine connection and cut-to-the-bone messaging. Like they've been knocking on doors and know reality.
The DNC has been depending on progressives for quite some time now to do the door-knocking and asking. And then they kick them in the teeth when they primary them. Time for it to STOP.
I tend to agree... but Democrats are winning in spite of the DNC not because of it and the DNC is not doing a very good job of leading, so people are ignoring them, in my opinion.
Regarding polls, they are self-supporting. The questions are worded such that they get the results they want to get. Sad, but true... I don't like to take them because of it.
I don't either, and that in itself creates an outlier...a demographic that resists polling, one of many. I do think also that Democrats have been so successfully demonized by the MAGA media that that's a factor in the polling results. Everyone loves to hate the Dems . . . even the Dems.
Pitiful DNC.
They don’t listen to the masses of people encouraging the antiquated folks, who keep up their same old same old philosophies that used to work, to give it up now.
It’s a new day y’all and we need the next generations who are out there DOING SOMETHING,
not bitching about what is happening, to hold office.
I’m 73 yrs old and see the writing on the wall…
Polls are ridiculously unreliable so I never pay attention to what a snippet of the country projects as to what people want or are feeling.
LISTEN TO WE THE PEOPLE, people ‼️
Look at Mamdani and how he’s drawing the huge accolades and crowds! He’s a new player in this tired old philosophy
I totally agree with you.
Any DEM "win" right now is not solid... it's win based on the wind that is blowing.
The Repubs will vocally (without substance, without any plan) change their tune just in time to get votes. But, like "DAY 1" of DT 2.0... it will mean less than nothing
The best way to win, in my experience campaigning for Sen Elizabeth Warren's first senate campaign, is to just run against the record of the incumbent. We send them to Washington to do one job; work for our their constituents best interests. If the incumbent voted to slash SNAP, slash funding for Medicare and SS, slash funding for the ACA, environmental protections, has done nothing to address rising costs of living, etc. the Democratic opponent needs to expose this.
Now is not the time for single issue, niche voter issues. While these are extremely important our number one job is to get Dems to Washington first. If they don't win all these issues are meaningless since we know repubs won't protect women's rights, the LGBTQ community, minorities. Once in DC the Dems can address these issues.
Bull shit Michael. Stop blaming Democrats. This is all on Republicans.
I’m not blaming Dems for anything other than the fact we have no clear message. Unfortunately, too many in America are…reread my article and the. Check out the latest @CNN poll which shows Democrat favorability is at a near all time low.
Completely agree. Dems need a clear message that people will vote FOR.
And CNN is fox-light! Of course the cult still supports republicans over democrats. They're in a CULT!
How many even respond to polls? I don't answer a phone call number I don't recognize. I'm sure I'm not the only Democrat who does this.
I agree Julia - I ran track in high school. At one track meet, I finally beat the time of the fastest runner in our school and the 2nd fastest runner in the State. When I talked to my coach later, she "poo pooed" my time and the fact that I had won by saying, "you didn't actually win, she was tired!" - that's what this article is saying to me... The dems aren't actually winning because they are better or outran the "r's," they are only winning because the "r's" are showing their true colors... Really?
@therealmichaelcohen - I've personally seen people recently change their political affiliation away from the right not because the right is a bunch of crazy lunatics and they don't want to be associated, although that is part of it, but because they see that the Dems have something to offer they have never listened to before and now see. The Dems can always improve their message and their platform, but stop telling them they didn't win because they didn't really do anything to win, the competitor was just not up to the task that day. You look like a Narcissist when you do that.
It is the Republican Party who are heartlessly allowing this administration to use food subsidies as hostage to pass an awful bill that will deprive many of affordable healthcare. It will eliminate much of the services to assist our vulnerable citizens. I say put the blame where it belongs. Right on the Republican Party. Every single one, not just the ones in the administration, but those citizens who are willing to starve people, who are willing to not care for our vulnerable ill or elderly. What country in the world does this? How do Republicans sleep at night? How do they look at their own children and feel good about themselves?
I am much more concerned with how they are rigging things. Who knows if we will even have a midterm election—let alone a fair one.
We vote by mail, have for as long as I can remember! I have been an election observer! There are so many cameras that I won’t pick my bum or my nose! It’s very safe n honest! I love voting by mail!
trump n his entire cabal need to be locked up!
What he has done to we the people’s house is devastating! And the Kennedy Centr, Smithsonian! And the grifting!
202 225 3121 or 202 224 3121
Call any trump ass kisser! I start with red states! It’s easy n you can do it during commercials from your recliner! Easy to do! Please share the number with friends!
Remember who is in charge of the US mail now. A successor to Louis DeJoy, the infamous privatizer who actually got accused of election rigging via holding up strategic mail.
I use an absentee ballot but am fortunate enough to live w/i a mile of our local BOE, so I drive it to the drop box drive-thru and the cute volunteers show me how they're dropping it in so I can see it happen. They know that "election fraud" is a trigger issue. I worked at the polls for years and know better, but even I don't trust the Trump Regime any further than I can throw it.
I think the new post head is a former Fed Ex board member!
I like getting my mail! So they better not f it up!
I also drive my mail-in ballot to the drop box at our township hall ... can't trust USPS to deliver Xmas packages on time, so I'm not trusting them with my vote - it's too important to get lost in the mail.
Louis DeJoy Trashed Millions Of Mail In Votes in ‘24 Election & Those Who Were Involved Must Be Held Accountable For Treason Under The Laws of The U.S. Constitution Which Elon Musk w his “Special Computers” He Used To Help Trump Cheat To Win + All Those Russian Bomb Threats Sent To Every Polling Place In The Swing States Which Russia Helped to Hack the ‘24 + The ‘16 Elections Both For Putin’s Secret KGB Agent: KRASNOV Trump to Share Power W Putin + Russia Over All Americans Via Trump in The White House. Watch Netflix Documentary Titled ‘The Great Hack’ Re: 2016 Russian Hacked Election Which Eyewitnesses Accounts Of Ex-Executives Of Google, Facebook who Went Undercover To Pretend to be A Rich hateful Republican To Work For Zuckerberg + His Partner Peter Thiel Whose Company ‘Cambridge Analytica’ aka ‘Palantir’ That Runs Facebook like a Commie Dictatorship Were Who Arranged The Meeting w Putin in Russia along w Moscow Mitch As GOP, NRA’s Wayne LaPierre, Trump Who Made This Secret Deal 6 Months Before the Russian ‘16 Election Hack. Trump’s Goal From day 1 Is To Mass Murder Americans To Establish ‘New World Order’ A Fascist Regime Across USA + The World. Gets Rid Of Democracy, Democrats, No Voting Allowed. Plus Please Check The Published News In Early ‘23 About That Trump Sent His Stolen Secret Documents To Putin via Top Employee at Discord username ‘Buns 8810’ aka Jack Teixiera A Very Anti-American Hateful Wickedest Man Who Sent Trump’s Stolen Documents To Russia + Putin That Gave All Info of Every Name, Location, Countries In U.S. Military That Helped 100% Russia MASS MURDER ALL IN USA MILITARY’S UNDERCOVER AGENTS STATIONED AROUND THE WORLD All Killed + Others Just As Bad At Same Time FOR RUSSIA AGAINST ALL LIVES IN USA + TO HELP PUTIN + RUSSIA INVADE USA BC TRUMP TOLD PUTIN HOW AMERICAN DEFENSE SYSTEMS RESPOND TO ALL TYPES OF ATTACKS & ALL WERE IN JACK SMITH’s DOCUMENTS CASE THE MOST IMPORTANT CASE IN USA HISTORY THAT AILEEN CANNON WHO WAS UNFIT TO BE A JUDGE BC SHE SECRETLY WAS A ‘Trump Groupie’ Who Attended Trump Rallies & was Photographed Looking Like a Love-Sick School girl madly in love w Trump & Cannon Worked w Heritage Foundation + Clarence Thomas, Leonard Leo Who Told Cannon How To DELAY, DENY, DISMISS + HIDE TRUMP’s HORRIFIC ESPIONAGE TREASONS FROM ANYONE IN USA FROM FINDING OUT ABOUT JUST HOW BAD OF A TRAITOR AGAINST ALL LIVES IN USA + USA MILITARY TRUMP REALLY IS HIS LOYALTY IS W PUTIN + RUSSIA + MERRICK GARLAND ALSO DRAGGED HIS FEET & LET AILEEN CANNON HIDE ALL OF TRUMP’S MANY ESPIONAGE TREASONS EVEN IN JACK SMITH’s VOLUME 2.
And you can also flood them by FAX number. Every one of them has a FAX number and they cannot turn off their FAX printers. There are free FAX apps online and for your phone so you can flood them!
If you can't get them in DC, because apparently they are all at home peeping through the blinds, call their State offices or FAX their State offices.
A Little Party Killed Nobody?
While Marco and Kristi and Pete,
Dined on spare ribs and crabcakes and treats,
Trick is on us,
At the back of the bus,
We’re the ones out here making ends meet.
https://jeffreyckeith.substack.com/s/not-so-funny-limericks
AIPAC Schumer and AIPACJeffries......please step aside...........America is starving as you cash the AIPAC $$$$. Americans are now hungry and running out of food.....they are losing their healthcare!!
Please....for Gods sake.......allow progressive leaders that have the citizens welfare first take over!!!
Empty PLANES are more likely to get things stirred up and that’s definitely coming.
I agree....only if tRUMP isn't successful in rigging the midterms....like he seems to be well on his way to doing.
Absolutely 100% correct and I’ve been saying this for a while now, if the Democrats win now and again in the midterms, it’s not because they are great. It’s because the Republicans are horrible. And if the Democrats don’t regroup and rebrand, they will lose again in the future. We need to take control and prove that we can help American people and save democracy.
Thanks again Michael. You said it perfectly!
How can Democrats “inspire hope or offer visionary leadership” when the Republicans hold the presidency, senate and congress? I am so tired of hearing more about what the Democrats are not doing than the daily onslaught of negativity, illegal actions, mocking language, and all the other disgusting obstructions that the republicans toss at us daily. I am a Democrat and the fact that Democrats are for the common man and the betterment of our country, the world and our constitution is good enough for me.
Hear! Hear!!
People ALWAYS hold Dems to complete double standard vs R’s!
Dems need to ‘walk on the purest water’ while R’s slosh about in their murky, grifting swamp.
I double that! I have been a registered Democrat for over 40 years now and for the most part, until drumpf came along, I was more of a left leaning centrist. But the more that has happened and is happening since drumpf came along and the more attacks on Democrats, the more left I have been leaning, the less I believe we have to have a balance. We don't have a balance and it's time for the pendulum to swing back towards the majority and the majority are democrats - even in Texas!
But if the DEMS are not putting out solid candidates RIGHT NOW, at local, state and federal level... then there are no DEMS to vote for.
It takes time to become known.
It takes time to build those local, state or federal level plans.. the plans people must understand before they vote.
It did not work for Kamala to have only a few months to change minds, and votes.
Part of this mess is based on voters who only have dreamscapes to choose from.
If DT had to SHOW his plan to lower prices... it would have become obvious he is not the controller of shelf prices at Walmart.
If DT had to SHOW his plan to stop the Russian war on Ukraine... it would have become (more) obvious that he had no intent to get the aggressor country to stop.
Elections can be won by DEMSs.. but the plans have to be road mapped (within the law) and do-able. Talk pieces are not enough. NO ONE believes political talk anymore
Yes. I'm a center Right citizen - only dumpTruck has me voting Dem. Kamala should have been free to speak her mind and backed from when Biden took office. Screw the consultants! Be real; that grabs middle center any day.
Excellent piece, Michael. The Democrats need to hear more about people’s stories. And reprimands for sitting on their asses. Challenging them to step tf up and be counted as genuine leaders. Fuck!! Shame them!!
On another note, many years ago, must have been trump years, the government decided that they needed to get people who ‘didn’t deserve’ social assistance cut off, because, you know, drugs. So they started testing people. They discovered that a minute % of people failed the test. I think it was something like 1%. Quite an eye opener and a wrecking ball to the stigma associated with the need for assistance. That was a great day. So Clay Higgins can just crawl back into his entitled, arrogant, corrupted hole.
Higgins is just a symptom of the cancer that is MAGA. Is he running unopposed in 2026? Because many of these Republicans are so gerrymandered into their comfortable districts that they sit on their incumbent behinds and don't feel called to answer to constituents. We have a LOT of that in Ohio. These perps have fun performing on social media and for their wealthy backers and kiss off the voters. It's disgusting.
S. A. Yes, it feels like stage 4 cancer of the soul. There’s no coming back from that. Well, unless there’s an unfortunate accident like slipping in your shower. 😏
I’m not familiar with all that the gerrymandering caused. 🇨🇦 But I know the reasons behind it. I’m sorry to hear your state of Ohio reps are so callous.
Thanks, Roberta. I use the snark emoji a lot myself. Sorry to see the Jays lost last night. I was rooting for them (if you follow baseball).
Me too.
The mid-term vote is crucial to the Democrats to be successful. But they need to set up a single message that every candidate will carry to victory. Whether it is the economy, or women's rights,
immigration laws, whatever is the message, has to be given in unison from all. Part of what the Republican promised but failed to deliver. We need to get out ahead of this now to build up support and momentum.
a single message= humanity.
Everything else stems from that. AND it is absent in the GOP.
Building people up... basics come before American Dream.
Availability of best of...food, medical care, education, paths to careers,
Without a foundation, every human falters.
Totally agree. We need to be starting now... and the DNC needs to get behind it, not waffle around and hmmm and haw about this and that and the other. Fish or cut bait!
Women's rights is not a "single message" that will carry a candidate to victory in this America. Immigration reform and the economy might be, but why have a single message? Americans are not a homogeneous group.
A cookie cutter message won't work on real people - pick words like decency and honesty and tell candidates to free-ball what that looks like to them and their constituents. Control top down is antithetical to democracy, duh!
Magas got hit with a double whammy just like the rest of us this weekend! When are these people going to believe what is happening to our country at the hands of this Republican regime? No food aid, and notices about huge raises in insurance premiums. You got what you voted for!
Watching Fox, they will only get the news after it's too late.
Worse things are down the pike if we dont get more than 50 percent .we need the 11 or more mil to vote that didnt.the magas need to cross over .theres no trillions of dollars and trump,johnson and people like basset and the rest that are loaded with conspiracy and lies when the shit hits worse for not just threatening anymore because theve attack us need to get ready for their lives being just as threatened.they only had a concept but never realized the consequences and retaliation from not eating and god forbid children start dying then thats end of game and possibly end of days..theres no reason to continue to vote party ,this has been always about preserving our way and foundation of our country and its time to get that this ain't a bout abortion because it ain't gonna matter period about any issue I r concern cause they've attacked us period.get smart or die .he doesn't give a shit and Michael you know it better than anyone.
The Mar-a-Lago Gatsby Gala Was A Revival Of An 1897 Class Disparity (Rich vs. Poor) Faire La Fête
The Saturday Evening Post, February 14, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/jm4spv7c
Heiress Cornelia Bradley Martin decided to stage an exclusive gathering for the country’s financial elite. In 1897, the New York socialite hatched an idea for a costume ball in the Waldorf Hotel that she hoped would be the most extravagant party in the nation’s history. With thousands of orchids and roses, rare tapestries and velvet canopies, and terrine de foie gras. “Never were the lines between the two classes — those who have wealth and those who envy them — more distinctly drawn … Such elaborate and costly manifestations of wealth would only tend to stir up widespread discontent.” When the night came, hundreds of policemen — led by Theodore Roosevelt — closed the sidewalks outside the Waldorf to pedestrians to make way for the giant dress-up party. Newspapers around the country, and even many society people, criticized the ostentatiousness (or plain stupidity) of the ball. The Bradley Martins are said to have spent $300,000* … which would have made glad thousands upon thousands of the poor of New York who are struggling in abject poverty, was used up in some five or six hours of the grossest exhibition of the arrogance of wealth America has ever witnessed.” Meanwhile, New York’s tenements were filled with people living in crowded, unsanitary apartments, as evidenced by Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives in 1890. Poor and immigrant children worked long hours at factories, and families slept together in rooms stacked with beds.” [*USD $300,000 (1897) = USD ~$12M (2025)]