#member of congress

[daddies-i-love]

Mike Bost

I need those hairy arms around me.

[dadsinsuits]

Tim Kaine

[usatxdemocrat324]

US Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC, won reelection in the solidly Democratic 14th district of New York on Tuesday, November 5th, but with a slightly reduced majority. 

AOC defeated Republican challenger Tina Forte by 123,269 to 55,580, according to an AP tally, with 96 percent of the vote counted.

With 96% of all votes counted. With all votes already tabulated in all precincts of the US 14th congressional district in New York, democratic congresswoman Alexandria ocasio-cortez the now projected winner in the house race for the 14th US house congressional district in new york won reelection against republican challenger tina forte electing democratic incumbent congresswoman Alexandria ocasio-cortez to another term in Congress. 💙💙💙🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲👏👏👏😀😁

[captainjonnitkessler]

Insisting that if leftists all refuse to vote, the Democrats will be forced to move left and give in to all our demands is kind of like insisting that if I refuse to show up to work, my boss will be forced to give me a raise.

Like yeah, there's kind of a kernel of truth there, leftists COULD turn themselves into a voting bloc worth appealing to and strikes CAN work. But you're leaving out the massive amounts of organization, cooperation, and support that it takes, and in the meantime if I just stop showing up to work I am simply going to get fired.

[swampthingking]

andrew’s definitely gotten in trouble with his pr manager for tweeting things along the lines of:

“no mania inducing medication will compare to the euphoria i will feel the day donald trump drops dead”

[contemplatingoutlander]

These politicians denied democracy on Jan. 6. Now, they want your vote.

This is a brilliant editorial by Washington Post cartoonist Steve Brodner. This is a gift🎁link, so anyone who uses it can read the entire article, even if they don't subscribe to the Post. Below are a few highlights, focused on the chief congressional players in the failed coup.

While the violent mob swarmed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, aiming to subvert democracy and keep President Donald Trump in power, another group was already working on the same project inside. In an unsuccessful bid to prevent Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election, 147 Republicans formally supported objection to counting Joe Biden’s electoral votes. Some have already left office. But as many as 117 members of Congress are running for reelection in 2024. Here they are, drawn together; a collection of American politicians engaged in using democracy in order to attain the power to subvert it. [color emphasis added]

I encourage people to use the gift link above to see the minor GOP Congress members who aided and abetted Trump's attempted coup and now will likely be campaigning for reelection.

________________ NOTE: The order and arrangement of the congressional players above has been modified from the original editorial.

[tomorrowusa]

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD-08) is a living national treasure of democracy.

Rep. Raskin visited with Alicia Menendez, Michael Steele, and Symone Sanders-Townsend at MSNBC's The Weekend to talk about a number of issues.

He said Trump "came back to the scene of the crime" with his first visit to Capitol Hill since 06 January 2021. Trump met with GOP members of both chambers who ignored the fact that he put their lives at risk with his coup attempt.

Of course Trump offered no apology for his endangerment of their lives or for his damage to American institutions of democracy. It says a lot about the mindset of most Republicans these days that they will suffer no humiliation too great to show their grovelling loyalty to wannabe dictator Trump.

Rep. Raskin also talked about the GOP Supreme Court's NRA-friendly approval of the use of "bump stocks" – devices that permit assault rifles to be converted into machine guns.

Republicans willingly gave up their claim to being the party of law and order so they could incessantly pander to Trump's lust for dictatorship and to empower the NRA's goal of putting machine guns in the hands of every nutjob in the country.

This election requires more personal effort than previous ones. Be willing to do more grassroots work and make our case to low-information voters you may know.

[elucubrare]

yale polisci guy says that people have said that Machiavelli doesn't care about goodness but that he uses "the language of virtue on almost every page," but if you're going to go through the trouble of relating "virtù" to its latin root, "manliness," shouldn't you also look at a single discussion of Machiavelli to realize that he's not using it in the modern sense of moral virtue?

[tishinada]

US politics and history time for a moment...

The people who want to claim that voting for Biden would mean they supported genocide remind me a great deal of the people in the 1830s - 1860s in the North who wanted immediate abolition because they believed slavery was a sin and God would hold them guilty of that sin if they didn't oppose slavery. This sometimes resulted in them supporting 3rd party candidates that, SURPRISE!, did nothing but push the election toward the most rabid pro-slavery candidates.

You know what most of those moral anti-slavery people didn't care about? What happened to Black Americans. They were concerned only about their own guilt, not Black Americans' welfare.

None of these people making this a moral issue now show any signs of caring what happens to Palestinians OR to all of the other groups that will suffer if the dumpster wins instead.

Biden can't wave his hand and make it go away because the US doesn't have unilateral power worldwide (though some Americans seem to believe that, sigh.) There are limits on his powers, especially since he has to negotiate with a hostile House of Representatives. He has chosen what is actually a pretty effective route and fought for at least some aid to get to Palestinians. And currently he has *some* leverage with the Israelis.

The question you should be asking yourself if you really care about genocide is which choice will do the most to help the Palestinians? Do you really think the dumpster would do even as much as Biden? Or would he be actively helping them and every other imperialist country (*cough*Russia*cough*)? And who else will suffer if he wins that would not under Biden?

If that isn't what matters most to you, then you're no different from the moral abolitionists and other Northerners who wanted slavery restricted (because it depressed wages for free white men) but also wanted to make it illegal for African Americans to move into new states like Ohio and Indiana and Illinois (racism and fears of wage competition.) Or to ship them to Africa, no matter how many generations had been in the US?

It's not idealism. You're self-centered and egotistical and actively choosing evil if you think "punishing" Biden is the result of not voting.

Vote pragmatically. Vote strategically. Vote with the welfare of the most people possible in mind.

[dadsinsuits]

Tim Kaine

[usatxdemocrat324]

🚨 breaking news. noticia de última hora.

WASHINGTON (AP) — La Associated Press declaró al demócrata Ruben Gallego ganador del escaño del Senado de Estados Unidos por Arizona después de que las actualizaciones de votos del lunes y el fin de semana aumentaran su ventaja a nivel estatal y cerraran cualquier camino restante hacia la victoria para la republicana Kari Lake.

Cuando la AP anunció el resultado de la contienda a las 11:49 de la noche, hora del este, Gallego lideraba a Lake con el 50% de los votos frente al 48%, una diferencia de casi 73.000 votos con aproximadamente el 95% del total de votos contados. Para superar a Gallego, Lake necesitaría ganar aproximadamente siete de cada 10 de los 181.000 votos estimados que quedan por contar.

Eso fue un obstáculo demasiado alto para la nominada republicana, considerando que la mayoría de los votos no tabulados provienen de los condados de Maricopa y Pima, donde ella solo ha obtenido alrededor del 46% y el 38% de los votos, respectivamente. En una gran actualización de votos el lunes por la noche, Lake recibió solo el 42% de los votos en Maricopa, muy por debajo de lo necesario para mantenerse en camino de superar a Gallego.

Eso fue un obstáculo demasiado alto para la nominada republicana, considerando que la mayoría de los votos no tabulados provienen de los condados de Maricopa y Pima, donde ella solo ha obtenido alrededor del 46% y el 38% de los votos, respectivamente. En una gran actualización de votos el lunes por la noche, Lake recibió solo el 42% de los votos en Maricopa, muy por debajo de lo necesario para mantenerse en camino de superar a Gallego.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press declared Democrat Ruben Gallego the winner of Arizona’s U.S. Senate seat after vote updates on Monday and over the weekend increased his statewide lead and closed off any remaining paths to victory for Republican Kari Lake.

At the time the AP called the race at 11:49 p.m. ET, Gallego led Lake with 50% of the vote to 48%, a margin of nearly 73,000 votes with about 95% of the total vote counted. In order to overtake Gallego, Lake would need to win about seven out of every 10 of the estimated 181,000 ballots that remain to be counted.

That was too high a hurdle for the Republican nominee to clear, considering most of the untabulated ballots come from Maricopa and Pima counties, where she’s only been getting about 46% and 38% of the vote, respectively. In a large vote update on Monday night, Lake received only 42% of the vote in Maricopa, far short of what she needed to get to stay on track to overtake Gallego.

SOBRE LA CONTIENDA:

El escaño del Senado de Arizona está abierto después de que la titular independiente Kyrsten Sinema decidiera no buscar un segundo mandato.

La contienda enfrenta a Lake, una expresentadora de noticias de televisión local y candidata a gobernadora en 2022, contra Gallego, un representante federal por cinco mandatos y veterano de los Marines.

Lake se convirtió en la favorita de la derecha populista tras dejar el puesto de presentadora y ha intentado redefinirse, aunque con dificultades, desde que perdió en 2022. Nunca renunció a su candidatura a gobernadora, y luchó contra el resultado en los tribunales incluso después de lanzar su campaña al Senado.

Gallego representa a zonas mayoritariamente latinas de Phoenix y ha publicado anuncios en los que destaca su servicio militar y su historia personal por encima de su historial progresista en la Cámara de Representantes.

Arizona ha estado casi igualmente dividida en elecciones estatales desde 2016. El expresidente Donald Trump ganó el estado con aproximadamente el 49% de los votos ese año. Ganó en 2024 con aproximadamente el 51% de los votos según el último recuento. Pero los candidatos demócratas para el Senado, presidente y gobernador ganaron en 2018, 2020 y 2022.

POR QUÉ AP ANUNCIÓ EL GANADOR: En elecciones estatales que se remontan a doce años, los demócratas siempre han llevado cuatro condados tanto en campañas ganadoras como perdedoras: Apache, Coconino, Pima y Santa Cruz. Los demócratas que también llevaron el condado más poblado de Maricopa ganaron sus elecciones, mientras que aquellos que perdieron Maricopa también perdieron a nivel estatal.

Gallego tenía grandes ventajas sobre Lake en los cuatro condados demócratas principales y también estaba ligeramente adelante en Maricopa en el momento en que se anunció el resultado de la contienda, superando el desempeño de la candidata presidencial demócrata Kamala Harris en la zona por aproximadamente 4 puntos porcentuales.

Lake necesitaría ganar alrededor del 69% de los votos restantes sin escrutar para alcanzar a Gallego, pero más de dos tercios de esos votos proceden de Maricopa y de los cuatro condados demócratas principales, donde no estaba ganando ni de lejos la marca del 60%. Lake tiene alrededor del 60% de los votos en los tres condados republicanos con una cantidad significativa de papeletas sin escrutar (Cochise, Yavapai y Yuma), pero tendría que ganar los votos restantes en esos condados por un margen mucho mayor para compensar su menor porcentaje de votos en Maricopa y los cuatro condados demócratas. Las últimas actualizaciones de votos desde el fin de semana mostraron que no estaba alcanzando esos objetivos en suficientes lugares como para arrebatarle el liderazgo a Gallego.

ABOUT THE RACE: Arizona’s Senate seat is open after incumbent independent Kyrsten Sinema decided not to seek a second term.

The contest pits Lake, a former local TV news anchor and 2022 gubernatorial candidate, against Gallego, a five-term U.S. representative and Marine veteran.

Lake became a darling of the populist right after leaving the anchor chair and has tried but struggled to redefine herself since losing in 2022. She never conceded her race for governor, and she fought the outcome in court even after launching her Senate campaign.

Gallego represents largely Latino areas of Phoenix and has run ads playing up his military service and up-by-the-bootstraps personal story over his progressive record in the House.

Arizona has been nearly evenly divided in statewide elections since 2016. Former President Donald Trump won the state with about 49% of the vote that year. He won in 2024 with about 51% of the vote as of the latest count. But Democratic candidates for Senate, president and governor won in 2018, 2020 and 2022.Lake would need to win about 69% of the remaining uncounted ballots in order to catch Gallego, but more than two-thirds of those ballots come from Maricopa and the core four Democratic counties, where she was not winning anywhere near the 60% mark. Lake is at about 60% of the vote in the three Republican-friendly counties with a significant amount of untabulated ballots (Cochise, Yavapai and Yuma), but she would need to win the remaining votes in those counties by a much larger margin in order to offset her lower vote shares in Maricopa and the four Democratic counties. The latest vote updates since the weekend showed she was not hitting those targets in enough places to take the lead from Gallego.

WHY AP CALLED THE RACE: In statewide elections going back a dozen years, Democrats have always carried four counties in both winning and losing campaigns: Apache, Coconino, Pima and Santa Cruz. Democrats who also carried the most populous county of Maricopa won their elections, while those who lost Maricopa also lost statewide.

Gallego had large leads over Lake in the core four Democratic counties and was also slightly ahead in Maricopa at the time the race was called, outperforming Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ showing there by about 4 percentage points.

[ohello0]

Y’all dickheads on here yelling at mfs for even THINKING about voting third party while the MULTIPLE STANDING OVATIONS Netanyahu got in congress today was BIPARTISAN

Go fuck yourselves

[vintageseawitch]

some leftists, even those who will vote for Kamala Harris while holding their nose, make claims like, "fascism doesn't just go away if you vote against it" & while there are those out there who do feel this way (or at least want to) there are MANY who know that something like Project 2025 doesn't just go away if they lose their chance to implement it nationwide.

a leftist responded to one of my comments on facebook when i mentioned something about "accelerationists." it was only part of my comment & not even my point. they were SO offended by me calling "all of them that" when i did no such thing. what i see is that leftists who claim they're above everyone because they don't fall for propaganda that easily are proving they are just as human as the rest of us & only read what they want to read.

i get it: the US has A LOT of issues. this is not a great country. there are so many things i want to see get changed for the better. there are plenty of folks who feel the same while not identifying themselves as far left.

one other issue i have: i mention Ernst Thälmann quite a bit in my political posts. he was a German politician & leader of the Communist Party of Germany. he regarded the Social Democratic Party as "social fascists" which made it harder for the two leftist parties to work together. when he ran for office again in 1933 he lost by a landslide & Hitler took office. Thälmann was arrested by the Gestapo & sent to Buchenwald. his party rival, Walter Ulbricht, ignored requests to plead for his release & Thälmann was eventually shot & killed on Hitler's personal command.

when i brought up Thälmann recently, someone commented, "yeah, don't be like the guy who wanted to beat fascism but vote them in instead." that is NOT what i meant & these folks who claim they're the smartest ever because they don't like the US (that's actually a low bar; plenty if people dislike it) like to pretend they don't see my point. my only point is this: we are stronger together regardless of your normal party affiliation. working apart? making purity politics your hill to die on? it won't help us & we probably won't like how that'll turn out.

leftists who don't see the forest for the trees: you're right, you can't just "vote fascism away." the issue is your wanting to be superior to the rest of us is you may be part of what helps them get that kind of power. you're not the MAIN problem; our justice system is garbage & there's decades of poor education & people have been falling for propaganda & people are voting for anyone who is as hateful & ignorant as they are. my point in saying to not be an Ernst Thälmann is: don't tear us apart because of even slightly different ideologies. we need to work together. start at the local level. please remember it's not just the president; Congress & the Supreme Court are also filled to the brim with corruption.

[greencarnation]

balls to the walls crazy that congress members can publicly call to have gaza flattened but as soon as they say hey you guys maybe palestinians are people too they get censured

[jadelemonadee]

silly guy solidarity 😇🤗 @chickensoupbmc

[nando161mando]

Apparently, even members of Congress are not immune to protesting against Israel 🤬