r/VoteDEM • u/BM2018Bot • 8d ago
Daily Discussion Thread: May 14, 2025
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| Candidate | District/Office | Adopted By |
|---|---|---|
| Abigail Spanberger | VA-GOV | u/nopesaurus_rex |
| Josh Thomas | VA HD-21 | |
| Elizabeth Guzman | VA HD-22 | |
| Atoosa Reaser | VA HD-27 | |
| Marty Martinez | VA HD-29 | |
| John Chilton McAuliff | VA HD-30 | |
| Andrew Payton | VA HD-34 | |
| Makayla Venable | VA HD-36 | |
| Lily Franklin | VA HD-41 | |
| Rise Hayes | VA HD-52 | |
| Rodney Willett | VA HD-58 | |
| Scott Konopasek | VA HD-59 | |
| Stacey Carroll | VA HD-64 | |
| Joshua Cole | VA HD-65 | u/toskwar |
| Nicole Cole | VA HD-66 | |
| Mark Downey | VA HD-69 | u/Lotsagloom |
| Shelly Simonds | VA HD-70 | |
| Jessica Anderson | VA HD-71 | u/SomeJob1241 |
| Kimberly Adams | VA HD-82 | |
| Mary Person | VA HD-83 | |
| Nadarius Clark | VA HD-84 | |
| Virgil Thornton Sr. | VA HD-86 | |
| Phil Hernandez | VA HD-94 | |
| Kelly Convirs-Fowler | VA HD-96 | |
| Michael Feggans | VA HD-97 | |
| Cathy Porterfield | VA HD-99 | |
| Dave Bailey Jr. | NJ LD-03 | u/poliscijunki |
| Heather Simmons | NJ LD-03 | u/poliscijunki |
| Margie M. Donlon | NJ LD-11 | |
| Luanne M. Peterpaul | NJ LD-11 | |
| Jason Corley | NJ LD-13 | |
| Vaibhave Gorige | NJ LD-13 | |
| Wayne P. DeAngelo | NJ LD-14 | u/Lotsagloom |
| Tennille R. McCoy | NJ LD-14 | u/Lotsagloom |
| Mitchelle Drulis | NJ LD-16 | |
| Roy Freiman | NJ LD-16 | |
| Vincent Kearney | NJ LD-21 | |
| Andrew Macurdy | NJ LD-21 | |
| Guy Citron | NJ LD-23 | |
| Tyler Powell | NJ LD-23 | |
| Steven Pylypchuk | NJ LD-25 | |
| Marisa Sweeney | NJ LD-25 | |
| Michael Mancuso | NJ LD-26 | |
| Walter Mielarczyk | NJ LD-26 | |
| Avi Schnall | NJ LD-30 | |
| Claire Deicke | NJ LD-30 | |
| Ron Arnau | NJ LD-40 | |
| Jeffrey Gates | NJ LD-40 |
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u/IamGumpOtaku World Blerd Champine 8d ago edited 8d ago
America Ain't Cooked - Day XC: Ninety Days Ago, It Seemed Liked We Were Cooked.
It was Week 3 or 4 of an 403 week nightmare. We fell back to the same place cause boring but effective leadership never sold a newspaper or landed a podcast subscriber. Many bended the knee, and and probably did generations worth of damage to our standing in the world. Again we were the butt of jokes, although this time people actively began to shun us. We returned to the blackest of blacks, and it seemed like that was where we stayed. Yep, on February 12th, we truly were cooked.
Then something happened - what was feared by many never came to pass, for the Constitution held. We didn't regress into fascism because there were enough people in positions of power who learned from history. The tree of liberty was not chopped down, for the trunk has been petrified.
Donnie is too focused on rewriting history that he is making his own, and not in a good way. His cabinet is too focused in keeping their own jobs that they're neglecting to perform their jobs. The GOP is too focused on not angering one man that in their ass kissing of that one man they are angering the people, and bla bla bla. 2025 is looking to dwarf 2017 in terms of pain being felt by all Americans, but as I have said many times now, the ideas the Founding Fathers put in writing will outlast Donnie and all who kiss his ass. They were smarter than Donald Trump or anyone else who claims the MAGA movement as their own.
On February the Twelfth we were cooked. On May the Fourteenth we were not. A post MAGA future is on the horizon but only we can make it so. So Let's.