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Joined October 2013
Randye Hoder retweeted
The intense media focus on Graham Platner is understandable. He is an unknown in a crucial Senate race with a lot of baggage. Less understandable is the lack of coverage of Ken Paxton, whose sins are far worse. That it is “old news” is no excuse. Most voters have no clue.
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“Fifty-four years ago, in 1971, my grandmother Katharine Graham, publisher of The Washington Post, risked everything to stand up to a corrupt president. That president sought to destroy her newspaper’s autonomy. Today, faced with another such president, Jeff Bezos, the paper’s new owner, is tearing down the very newspaper she defended.”
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Randye Hoder retweeted
We had Pearson on the show this week with @jessica_m_wash to talk about this fight. Hear the conversation on the latest episode of the Intercept Briefing —>
The Sergeant at Arms blocks Tennessee Rep. Justin Pearson from entering the committee room as Republicans vote to eliminate the state’s only Black-majority district. 📸 Nicole Hester / The Tennesseean
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Mexico is gonna pay for the ballroom
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Randye Hoder retweeted
Quite the graphic here:
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Randye Hoder retweeted
AOC: I believe in guaranteed single-payer healthcare. We need to drive toward an America where every single person in this country can see a doctor without fear of having to choose between their insulin and their rent. I believe in an America where we are actively transitioning ourselves out of dependency on Russian and Middle Eastern oil, and the volatility of that, so our energy prices can be lower. I think we need to be talking about universal gun safety and very common-sense measures—background checks, making sure that the people most likely to kill people with assault weapons don’t get those weapons in their hands, and holding people responsible who put those weapons in their hands. We’ve got a lot of work to do, and I think that for me as a progressive, having a very clear vision for that means making sure we don’t get into foreign wars that are just endless entanglements, that we’re actually fighting for everyday people, and for the love of God, getting big money out of politics.
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Randye Hoder retweeted
Bari Weiss ousts London bureau chief because of her “balanced” coverage on Gaza and Iran, replacing her with a pro-Israel stalwart
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Democratic voters want authentic leaders with strong values who are willing to fight for their constituents. The rest is noise!
even as discourse is dominated by fiery leftist-vs-centrist feuds, new polling shows Dem voters care far more about *whether leaders will fight for them* than they do about ideological alignment.
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There should be fewer guns in this country and they should be incredibly difficult to get, no matter who is doing the shooting or who they are shooting at!
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Randye Hoder retweeted
Acting CDC head cancels publication of a study showing Covid vaccine sharply cut odds of hospitalization and ER visits. Agency veterans say they've never seen an article pulled after being cleared by scientists and scheduled for publication. @apoorva_nyc nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/po…
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Randye Hoder retweeted
My party is Dem women, whether they’re leftists or liberal progressives. Give me Lauren Underwood, AOC, Abigail Spanberger, Michelle Wu, Mikie Sherrill, Gretchen Whitmer, Katie Hobbs, Letitia James, and on and on… All joyful warriors getting shit done.
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NBC News: Graham Platner also said he won’t support Schumer to stay on as leader. Asked who he’d rather see in that position, Platner floated four names: 🟦Chris Van Hollen, D-Md 🟦Mark Kelly, D-Ariz 🟦Chris Murphy, D-Conn 🟦Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii. #MaineSenate
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If the FBI spent a quarter of its time investigating actual crimes vs Trump and Patel’s petty grievances, the country would be safer.
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Deploying federal law enforcement to investigate a reporter for an article that embarrassed federal law enforcement leadership is outrageous and chilling.
NEW and BREAKING: The FBI began investigating New York Times reporter Elizabeth Williamson earlier this year after she published a story about how Kash Patel was using FBI personnel to provide his girlfriend with govt security and transportation. FBI agents interviewed Patel's girlfriend about Williamson, queried databases for info on the reporter and recommended moving forward to determine whether the reporter broke federal stalking laws. nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/po…
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If you’re mad about Virginia, support a national gerrymandering ban. If you’re not willing to take map-drawing away from politicians in every state, you’re not mad about gerrymandering. You’re mad your side lost this round.
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Randye Hoder retweeted
The whining from Republicans here is just preposterous. Democrats remain willing to prohibit gerrymandering nationally. Republicans thought they were better off fighting this battle state-by-state and are sore that that wasn't true.
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Randye Hoder retweeted
Ossoff: How much do you guys know about Jared Kushner—Ivanka’s husband? He’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 billion. And now he’s leading American diplomacy in the Middle East, apparently, while at the very same time asking princes and sheikhs to give him billions more. Can you imagine a normal sitting U.S. ambassador just hitting MBS for billions? But he’s a Trump, a royal, a princeling. The rules are for us, not for them. And it’s not just Jared. Never before have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia has taken American corruption to spectacular new heights.
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Randye Hoder retweeted
Tesla paid $0 in federal income taxes in 2025, despite making $5.7 billion. This Tax Day, remember that you have paid more in taxes than a multi-billion dollar company—all thanks to corporate tax breaks from Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Tesla reported $0 in current federal income tax for 2025 due to net operating loss carryforwards from prior years and longstanding tax credits like R&D, not specific corporate tax breaks from Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill. sec.gov/Archives/edgar… itep.org/tesla-reported…
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Trump started a war in Iran so we’d stop talking about the Epstein files; now he’s gonna start a war in Cuba so we stop talking about Iran. Next week he’ll release the Epstein files so we’ll stop talking about the wars he started and that are destroying the American economy!
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Democrats demand their people resign from congress. Republicans elect them president
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