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No shade but I promise whatever happy hour you’re at where they can’t stop talking about this book is a happy hour full of losers
Whenever Democratic political operatives gather to drink these days, they talk about three things: their chances in the midterms, who will be the nominee in 2028, and if they have read — or are in — “the book.”
The book in question is ‘Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative,’ by Evan Barker, a onetime fundraiser who has written something between a tell-all and a cri de coeur about her time inside the Democratic Party. But for many Democrats the book has been candy less because of its call for reshaping politics and more because, while peeling back the curtain on the inner workings of political campaigns, it names (some) names.
“You want to tell the truth, and you want to tell people what happened, but at the same time my intention was never to just burn people needlessly to be vindictive,” Barker tells David Freedlander. “At the same time, it’s like, yeah, I knew that some of the stories in there might hurt some people’s feelings, but sometimes people need to get their feelings hurt.”
Read more about the book that has Washington talking: nymag.visitlink.me/SzXKn-
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So, nothing against Republican Susan Collins, who voted against the Clarity Act, and $30 million against Sherrod Brown, who did not even vote on the Clarity Act. But this is a non-partisan group? Got it.
NEWS:
Here comes the crypto industry’s big spending against Democrats.
Fairshake is going to spend $30 million against Sherrod Brown in Ohio’s Senate race.
It’s payback after Senate Dems torpedoed the CLARITY Act.
nytimes.com/2026/09/21/us/po…
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All those years of refusing to learn Salesforce is about to pay off
Unknown number: “hey it’s [insert one of the top ten most common male first names and zero other identifiers including last name]. need to talk asap, call me.”
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Tim’s war on scam PACs is so righteous. These people absolute suck
Donors to some of the most important Senate races in the country* have also donated $21,582,211 to Progressive Turnout Project (@TurnoutPAC) or Stop Republicans PAC (@StopGOP_) so far this cycle
* Those are Ossoff, Talarico, Turek, Brown, Peltola, and Pappas donors as of 7/31.
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Lots of hot takes on WI Gov, but let’s not oversimplify this as the establishment vs. progressive outsider. Fran ran an inspiring campaign that mobilized people of every age, race and gender all over the state. David Crowley is not the establishment.
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Those who know Wisconsin are all saying this and we should listen (we should always listen to @dsferiozzi anyways)
I really need X to go back to a character limit for every post. I come here for a quick hit not your attempt at a novel, dude. Go substack! Or write in your diary before bed!
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That this guy is relevant and has a following is a real collective failure of all of us
Yes but Emma you know sometimes “being a secret Nazi” is not something that happens in isolation and these are actually data points that can signal other problems — including ones that can impact their ability to deliver that platform. These things are not unconnected.
Sometimes you just need to take an L and move on. The figure skating people like Ryan are doing to deflect and point figures in every random direction just makes it harder for others — including those who share his goals — to move forward. No one wins here.
The most exhausting part of this week is watching all the men in the universe pick apart sexual assault allegations and bend over backwards to make this about anything and everything except the mistreatment of women and the cold hard truth about what is at stake in this moment.
