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Democracy first. Building @CourierNewsroom . Son of public school teachers. Central New Yorker. He/him.
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We’re just getting started 🤌🇺🇸😎
Follow along as we’ll share many of our learnings in the coming weeks and months!
🚨 taking a moment to brag
@couriernewsroom
's nat'l TikTok account has become one of the fastest-growing political news accounts on the platform, reaching 300k followers and adding +270,000 in the past 7 months.
all credit to
@RCDiMezzo
, the brains behind this whole operation
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Tonight, Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman is standing guard outside the Senate Chamber as Republicans vote to obstruct an investigation into the attacks of Jan. 6.
Goodman — the officer who used himself as bait to protect the same GOP senators who are obstructing justice.
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Kevin McCarthy stood up at the lectern for 8 hours — which is, incidentally, the only time Kevin McCarthy has ever stood for anything.
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This video of
@JoeBiden
calling Keir Starmer to congratulate him on Labour’s victory has more than 1M views on
@COURIERnewsroom
’s TikTok.
The top comment: “This phone call actually reassures me more about Biden than his entire interview and rally. The guy is totally there.”
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Republicans have spent more energy trying to limit your right to vote than they have trying to win it.
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Kevin McCarthy is one step away from claiming he’s never heard of the RNC.
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NEW: Today
@ProjectLincoln
is up with billboards across 15 swing counties in North Carolina.
#NCpol
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A young man sat front row at a Trump rally, consumed Trump media, and parroted Trump rhetoric. A short time later, he shot and killed two people.
Our new ad, “RADICALIZE”, lays the blame for the Kenosha killing where it belongs: at Donald Trump’s feet.
It’s time we say it: Donald Trump is radicalizing our young men to become killers.
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If you’re not terrified of what a GOP-led House of Representatives might do in January of 2025 should their presidential nominee lose a close election, you have simply not grasped the scale of the fight ahead.
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Republicans want less people to vote.
Democrats want more people to vote.
This isn’t a “both sides” issue.
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NEW: The Lincoln Project today released a statement calling for answers as to why Mitch McConnell is asking his caucus to vote against a Jan. 6 commission “as a personal favor.”
The American people deserve to know who exactly
@LeaderMcConnell
is trying to protect.
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Reminder: It’s not up to Donald Trump whether or not he leaves the White House. It’s up to you.
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.
@SpeakerPelosi
on the debt ceiling: “The former president was famous for not paying his bills — [Republicans] want to do that again.”
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Incredible that the f*ck-your-feelings crowd is raising a generation of kids that are apparently too sensitive to learn about racism or go to school with a piece of cloth on their face.
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American voters sent a Democratic trifecta to Washington. It’s time we start acting like it.
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Gladys Sicknick, mother of fallen Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, has shown more courage in the last 24 hours than the entire House and Senate Republican conference has shown in years.
“I just couldn’t stay quiet anymore.”
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ICYMI: As the Trump campaign continues to pretend COVID-19 isn’t a threat,
@ProjectLincoln
is flooding Pennsylvania with ads reminding voters that Trump failed to manage the crisis and failed to keep Americans safe.
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Joe Manchin’s opposition to the For The People Act will inflict more lasting damage on our democracy than Donald Trump did during his four years in the White House.
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Despite
@GovAbbott
’s best efforts, millions of Texans are seeing a Lincoln Project ad critical of Abbott’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Local media outlets throughout Texas are now covering the ad, as well as Abbott’s falling approval numbers.
Thread:
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Here’s a quick look at the 40
@GOP
Members of Congress that voted against the
#coronavirus
relief package.
Just a quick reminder:
They’re all on the ballot in 2020.
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On the day of the final presidential debate, just 12 days before the election, Donald Trump released a video in which tells the American people he hopes the Supreme Court ends the Affordable Care Act.
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NEW:
@ProjectLincoln
has launched a six-figure ad buy across Pennsylvania this week, with a spot featuring Doc Rivers’ emotional remarks in reaction to the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, WI — via
@JulianRouth
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It was a
@ProjectLincoln
ad — and you can watch it right here 👇
We had FAR more people (many millions) watching us at the RNC than did Sleepy Joe and the DNC, and yet an ad just ran saying the opposite. This is what we’re up against. Lies. But we will WIN!
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Tell me you’re vaccinated, without telling me you’re vaccinated.
I’ll go first:
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NEW: The Lincoln Project today announced legendary Democratic political strategist
@JoeTrippi
will join its leadership team as Senior Advisor.
Trippi: “It’s about the future of our democracy and, as Lincoln's guardians, making sure it survives.”
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Dark Brandon brags about his and Trudeau’s cabinets being made up of more than 50% women; a standing ovation breaks out (except for the conservative members of parliament).
“Even if you don’t agree, guys, I’d stand up”
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Vaccines work.
Which is more than can be said of employees who refuse to take the vaccine.
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At least they’re social distancing.
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Let’s get this straight: The GOP candidate for Governor of Virginia has invited the former Democratic POTUS to appear with him — meanwhile, begs the former Republican POTUS (who endorsed him six times) not to campaign for him.
Hey
@BarackObama
, I hear you're in town trying to bail out
@TerryMcAuliffe
's campaign. If you're up for a game, I'm ready!
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It’s not hyperbolic to say we’re fighting to save our democracy. The Republican Party just voted to cover up a domestic terror attack.
As Democrats, we are naïve to stakes and woefully unprepared for the battle.
It’s time to wake up.
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Tucker Carlson is a public health threat.
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NEW AD: As new cases of the coronavirus continue to spread among the unvaccinated, The Lincoln Project today released a new ad targeting Fox News for their role in perpetuating vaccine hesitancy — risking the health and safety of every American.
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That plastic bag full of gasoline has more integrity than Kevin McCarthy.
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Disinformation is the single greatest threat to American democracy — and it is at the core of Republican messaging.
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@GOPLeader
Kevin McCarthy is opposed to the January 6 Commission because he refuses to acknowledge his role in inciting the violence, failing to stop it, and covering it up after it ended.
McCarthy, and the House Republican Caucus, are obstructing justice. Plain and simple.
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Supporting a commission to investigate the people that attacked you, our Capitol, and democracy itself isn’t a “brave” stance — it’s simply the right one.
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NEW AD: Today, The Lincoln Project released a new ad: “Back To School.”
The spot targets governors
@RonDeSantisFL
and
@GregAbbott_TX
for placing their own political ambition ahead of the health and safety of children heading back to school.
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Youngkin: Unmasked.
.
@GlennYoungkin
opposes mask mandates for Virginia’s schools, yet sends his own kids to an out-of-state private school that mandates masks.
Youngkin cares about the safety of his own kids — but not yours.
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Today, tens of millions of Biden voters got out of bed, put in an honest day’s work, spent time with their family or friends — maybe they sat down for Friday evening pizza and wings.
Meanwhile, Trump voters in Florida:
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First in
@PunchbowlNews
: “The Lincoln Project is putting up this ad, seeking to tweak former President Donald Trump over losing to the ‘swamp’ and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
“This is like sending Trump a text saying ‘Watch this’.”
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Years from now, will you be able to look back on this time and say you did all you could to save our country?
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President
@JoeBiden
has delivered to the American people something Donald Trump only dreamed about: A once-in-a-generation investment in our nation’s infrastructure.
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It’s that simple.
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Our latest is brutal — but necessary.
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NEW: The Lincoln Project today announced a new strategy to take on corporations — like
@Toyota
— that shower contributions on congressional Republicans who tried to overturn the 2020 election and who now seek to cover up the Jan. 6th attack on the Capitol.
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Because of Donald Trump, 500,000 Americans celebrated their last birthday.
So this year, on his, we’re honoring theirs.
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Donald Trump is building his wall — it’s just not the one he promised.
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Can’t wait to read about how millions more tuned into Joe Biden’s speech than Donald Trump’s
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NEW: The Lincoln Project is airing a new ad nationally, against Texas
@GovAbbott
, during Saturday’s UT vs. Rice football game.
The ad, titled “Abbott’s Wall,” is a visual reminder of Abbott’s failure to keep Texans safe from COVID-19.
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Trump’s “plan” to deal with COVID-19 would leave upwards of 3,000,000 Americans dead.
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There is lots of attention on Manchin (and rightly so), but what does it say about our politics that it’s simply assumed every Senate Republican will vote against the
#ForThePeopleAct
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“right to choose”
Biden’s vaccine mandate is an assault on private businesses.
I issued an Executive Order protecting Texans’ right to choose whether they get the COVID vaccine & added it to the special session agenda.
Texas is already working to halt this power grab.
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Officer Fanone deserves the right to tell his story directly to the Republicans in Congress who downplay or outright lie about the events of January 6, 2021. His words should haunt them.
Thank you, Officer Fanone.
Officer Michael Fanone, who was violently attacked by the mob incited by former President Trump on Jan. 6: “It’s been very difficult seeing elected officials and other individuals kind of whitewash the events of that day or downplay what happened.”
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What in the name of Lord Farquaad…
Earlier this hour, 5 Leftist judges decided to suspend my father
@rudygiuliani
’s law license. Here is my statement:
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NEW AD: The Lincoln Project has released a new ad featuring
@RonDeSantisFL
’s anointment as leader of the party Trump built — and Donald’s seeming inability to do anything about it.
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“I will stand in this breach. I will defend this nation. I will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy.” — President
@JoeBiden
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NEW: As
@JetBlue
decides to resume its PAC donations to the Sedition Caucus,
@ProjectLincoln
has activated its grassroots supporters in a petition drive to send a message the airline’s corporate officers and the board of directors.
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Don’t Jump 2020
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NEW: The Lincoln Project has taken over the homepage of the
@TexasTribune
ahead of a GOP-led effort to restrict voting rights in the Lone Star State.
#StopSB1
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Have you read Officer Michael Fanone’s letter yet? Have you spoken to him? Have you thanked him for his service?
Next week is National Police Week—a time to recognize the law enforcement officers who put lives on the line to keep us safe.
Not surprisingly, the party that voted to defund police won’t be allowing a single vote on any legislation that supports our men and women in uniform.
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From GOP campaign staff, to state attorneys general, to Members of Congress — Republicans peddled a dangerous lie they knew would incite outrage and violence.
They weren’t unwitting allies on Jan. 6.
They were co-conspirators.
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.
@AmyKlobuchar
does not have time for right-wing talking points — especially not when it comes to the right to vote.
Watch this:
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Your truck flag tells me you think you’re a patriot. Your anti-vaccine Facebook rants tell me you don’t know what patriotism means.
Be a patriot.
#GetVaccinated
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NEW: Today, The Lincoln Project released an ad in Palm Beach calling out Trump for letting Youngkin banish him from the
#VAGov
campaign trail.
Hours later, the former president teased a previously unannounced visit to Arlington, writing: “See you soon.”
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In the last 24 hours: MTG was on trail for inciting an armed insurrection; McCarthy was hiding after lying about saying Trump should resign; DeSantis moved to saddle voters with a tax burden after retaliating against Disney; not to mention Cawthorn.
Republicans are in disarray.
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NEW: The Lincoln Project released an ad highlighting
#VAGov
candidate
@GlennYoungkin
’s refusal to condemn an anti-Semitic mailer sent by the Republican Party of Virginia.
The ad will is titled “Glenn Will Not Replace Us.”
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What would you call a man who spends the Fourth of July in Moscow?
You’d call him
#RussianRon
.
Call
@ronjohnsonWI
and tell him we want Senators who don’t spend Independence Day in Red Square.
(202) 224-5323
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.
@GovAbbott
is a coward. Pass it on.
We will not be deterred by
@GregAbbott_TX
’s radicalism in support of his own political prospects and reelection campaign.
We’re not finished with Governor Abbott.
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Republicans threatening to shut down the government are full of shit and
@TimRyan
has had enough of it.
“Tyranny?! What are you people talking about? We’re talking about universal pre-school! And they have it as a communist indoctrination of the American student.”
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Nancy Pelosi will undoubtably be remembered as the greatest House Speaker in American history.
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