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Elaine Cimino's avatar

The message was much stronger than that.

The message is that we are done waiting. We are done being told to be patient while our rights, our planet, and our democracy hang by a thread. We are done with leaders who confuse caution with courage. The voters who turned out last night made it crystal clear: this is our party now—diverse, unapologetically progressive, and unwilling to accept politics as usual.

They didn’t just reject Donald Trump’s cruelty and corruption—they rejected the timidity of those who still think appeasement will save us. The fight for 2026 begins right now, and it’s being led by people like Zohran Mamdani, by organizers, by young voters, by the very communities establishment Democrats too often overlook.

The message is simple: lead, or step aside

Step aside now because we will replace you.

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MariElena's avatar

Agree. Donald is not the only one who needs to go.

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Lisa Gordon's avatar

But, he can rig the midterms. That’s my biggest fear

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Elaine Cimino's avatar

He definitely is going to try along with his cronies, at some point he will lose his mind and try to cling to power by violence and martial law. Unless he passes away from a coronary the transfer of power will be another challenge. He isn’t going quietly.

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Skepticat's avatar

I'd suggest an edit to "he lost his mind and is trying ... ." And no, "quietly" doesn't seem to be in his vocabulary.

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Elaine Cimino's avatar

Jeffries is hell bent on being the next Speaker of the House. Not supporting that move. We need someone better.

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Pamela Brightman's avatar

Jeffries, in my opinion is weak and ineffective. The democrats need a strong and powerful leader and it isn’t Jeffries.

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pilar's avatar

AOC

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Diane B's avatar

Yes. Get out of the way if you can’t lend a hand.

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Julie Lawson's avatar

Exactly!

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Lisa P. Singer's avatar

Thank you for the excellent recap. Congrats on all your hard work to make last night a success!

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Lisa Gordon's avatar

“Normally, you would expect Democrats to sit down, take it, and play by the rules—just because the Republicans are cheating doesn’t mean we should. Guess what? It does”

Been saying this for years— pisses me off Dems want to continue to take the high road as this democracy falls apart. Jefferies and the rest of these guys in DC need to be more like Newsom and my great governor Pritzker.

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gail benda's avatar

YES they DO! I am sick of “take the high road” fuck that ! Maybe it was ok in a different time but NOT NOW -it will finish killing off ALL we strive for and never get back what the GOP has taken from us…..Fuck trump Am so god damn sick of that demented old fucker and

Just hearing his voice makes me

Feel violent ….hearing his CONSTANT LIES such as right now “grocery prices & gas is down”

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Sky Blue's avatar

trump's message to the Supreme Court about how the tariffs are the most important ruling to come...

are just like his "Russia..are you listening" approach!

trump IS THREATENING the Supreme Court NOW!!

We shall see how well THAT works soon!

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Michael's avatar

Mary, maybe you haven't heard, but what Greg Abbot did in redistricting Texas was weaken some of the Republican strongholds in order to hopefully gain more seats. As a result the new districts give democratic candidates a better chance to defeat some of the Republican candidates because their districts aren't as Republican as they were. That's why they call what Abbot did "dummymandering" because the political climate right now favors the Dems, and this actually gives them a good chance at flipping these seats that before would have been safe seats. So the redistricting effort to gain five seats has now made all of those seats much more gettable and made the safe ones weaker and more likely to be flipped. All in all this looks like a big blunder by Abbott while in California they will gain 5 seats through redistricting without weakening anyone's seat.

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Steven Uhrik's avatar

My concern is related to the "rapid response" National Guard training and the estimate that such soldiers will be sent to selected cities by January 2026. It's not hard to consider that professional agitators could infiltrate a future No Kings demonstration and make it appear that things are out of control. I fear a repeat of Kent State University, 1970. Deaths and injuries to civilians. Next, Trump can cry "insurrection" and invoke that law to shut all of us down. He could use that to interfere with elections.

Are we prepared to deal with that?

SBU

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gail benda's avatar

I sure in the fuck hope so! I recall reading about Kent State so to those that are not old enough go fucking read up and understand what happened….it is very important-trump will not stop at

Anything and he will break every law/rule to get what he wants….

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kdsherpa's avatar

"[T]hey’re not going to rule until June of 2026." WHAT???!!!! The only good that can come out of that is that it brings us that much closer to the 2026 elections, and people will have to suffer with unnecessarily high prices until that date. (That's assuming that SCOTUS does the right thing, which would be nice for a change.) And those three idiotic Democratic "leaders" from NY -- didn't even bother to show up?!! This is the first I've heard about that.

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Francis/Clare's avatar

It's an absolute outrage. Get rid of them now.

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Canadian Otolaryngologist's avatar

How can you stand it? As an outside looking in, it is like watching a train wreak in slow motion.

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Kathy Hughes's avatar

It look that way to me, and I have to live with this fool in office.

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DW's avatar

💙

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Neal Rattican's avatar

Can you imagine Donald J. Trump personally pumping a gallon of gas or buying a dozen eggs at a supermarket, ever in his entire privileged life?

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Lori's avatar

He scooped some fries at a staged McDonalds event —- to prove he can be an employee 😂

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pilar's avatar

Nope

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DW's avatar

He prob does not know what an egg carton looks like.

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DW's avatar

🛒🛒🛒🛒🛒🛒🛒

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Maura C Schaeffer's avatar

Excellent word on this subject, Mary! As usual, you are SPOT ON & we all do appreciate your true words of truth & wisdom. He has obliterated our Democracy as we all know it.

The entire Reps & GOP know better but think they'll be better off "currying favor" w/T in order to help themselves rather than their constituents & the American citizenry. Shame on them all!!!

Let's see if his Supreme Court cronies continue to support him OR do their job & uphold our Constitution as they all took that sworn oath to do so!

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Julia's avatar

Thank you Mary for your hard work, it is much appreciated and very insightful 🇱🇷💙

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Andy's avatar

it's hard to tell at this time. they each have to publicly commit to a stance through consistently repeated actions - at least over the next 14 days. The dynamics are such that things can go in many ways given the matrix of different combinations of the stances. ultimately Mamdani is in the driver's seat.

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Julia's avatar

And he has an extremely tough road ahead! I think he’s phenomenal and I hope NYC supports him every way they can so they can succeed!

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Andy's avatar
Nov 6Edited

Yes, people like him shape the future. it takes courage and resilience to do it. The resilience part comes from multiple pillars of support, so that you can move between them if any collapse.

Power and money corrupt because they open many personal opportunities to a person that didn't have any before they came into one of these two things.

The person's character and integrity set the boundaries of financial and lordship influences. It requires a leader to know themselves well, and to keep in mind why they got into the fray in the first place.

It is not an easy role or microcosm to live in. It can be trying. You often question why keep trying to help people when others don't pull their weight, or irresponsibly try to do harm.

The worst thing ever is if somebody turns resistance into a business opportunity to make money. patriotism is not a turnkey commercial operation. it is a civic duty, just as being a mayor, senator, house representative, VP, presidentt or judge is not a privilege. They are all huge responsibilities.

As far as Mary goes, she isn't doing resistance as a business. She was one of the first to warn people what was coming. Incorporating herself as MTM protects her from personal litigation. Her main income is that of being a psychologist and serving clients.

The worst thing that can happen is if somebody takes on a leadership role in the resistance for the purpose of making a profit, and then hides or disappears whenever the risk goes up because they can't take the heat that comes with resistance movements.

That doesn't mean leaders have to be reckless. It means they have to be responsible that their actions do not harm the overall movement, if they do abandon it. it requires honesty, transparency, commitment, and good communication skills.

You don't want to leave millions of people confused, after advocating for a protest and vanishing before it happens. You don't want to interfere with efforts of resistance leaders by calling for every kind of resistance on earth, everywhere on earth.

leaders and resistors have only so much bandwidth. and, turning the effort into a business opportunity can get people killed.

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Human Kind's avatar

It's great that Zohran Mamdami Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill all three won! but all three of them and the entire Democratic Parties nationwide are all going to have to start communicating even more to all of us every single day week month and year!! with all kinds of updates and creating their own private social media platforms and staying in touch with all of us!!! they all should create a chart of all of their honest plans and let us all know what all of their honest plans are and how they all are planning to use all of it!!!! if all of that makes sense?!

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Julia's avatar

Makes perfect sense! I’ve been saying the same thing - communicate for gods sake. Made me so mad that Biden’s team didn’t constantly communicate what he was doing! That the ol boys club didn’t support Kamala stronger and enough. I’m sick to death of ‘playing nice’! You can’t with the scum we are up against - call them out on every single thing and do it loudly!!🇱🇷💙

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ConnieW's avatar

Your daily summaries are phenomenal.

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Susan Brewer's avatar

Glad to see this clear understanding of events save one important thing. Mamdani is representative of the most elite, diverse city in the nation, perhaps. The Electoral College does not map out in the same way. Uneducated white voters over 50: that’s the crowd Schumer and Jeffries must face — and win over.

Mamdani is a signpost for change, but to win significantly in 2026 and 2028 needs understanding voters with that in mind.

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Brent James's avatar

Corporate Democrats gotta go. Seriously. Liberal flavored bullshit to accomplish the same ends of oligarchy screwing workers. They can be defeated resoundingly. Hugely. The biggest ever.

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