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There is always a lot of debate on here about @PodSaveAmerica and @CrookedMedia, but this what it’s about — building an audience and helping that audience take action.
A not-at-all humble brag about the work @votesaveamerica and our @CrookedMedia audience did this cycle:
1) Raised over $4.5 million for more than 100 candidates and grassroots orgs
2) Got 20,000 volunteers to engage in our new relational organizing program
3) We asked our listeners to run for office. 2,850 (!) raised their hands. 41 filed across 11 states. 25 won their primaries or ran unopposed. 3 just won seats in the NC legislature: @Winn4NC, Jessica Bichler, and Jess Rivera
4) Invested EARLY in races like @SarahforIowa, @ZachDemboKY, @SeanAMcCann, and @DonDavisNC - all winners
5) At least 25 of our House targets won, including the Dems running against our Crooked Dozen Rs: @Mendoza4AZ, @Villegas_CA22, @MannyRutinel, @BohannanIowa, @WeWillMi, @RebeccaForNJ07, @CaitforNewYork, @bpforcongress, @PaigeGCognetti, @JanelleStelson, @bobbypulido425, @RebeccaforWI, and @JamieAgerNC
Proud of @__Shaniqua_ and our VSA team, our volunteers, and our audience for supporting such a smart, winning strategy that reflected the full breadth of the political spectrum on the left.
You guys rock.
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Hey in case anyone's waffling here. Keep Mike Rogers far, far away from the US Senate.
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Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.
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He is, of course, right here. An entire generation of moviegoers have been trained on the idea a movie only matters if it sets up other movies and that is sad.
James Gunn Defends the DC Universe, Says He Dislikes the Idea That ‘Individual Stories Aren't Meaningful Unless They Lead to Something’ variety.com/2026/film/news/j…
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North Carolina!! If you voted by mail, go to vote.org/ballot-tracker-tool… to track whether your ballot was rejected over minor technical issues. If it was, you can still vote in person!
🚨BREAKING: Thousands of North Carolina midterm ballots are set to be rejected over minor technical issues after a federal court upheld strict new Republican-backed rules for mail voters, according to data shared exclusively with Democracy Docket. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
Survivor really shit the bed this week reverting to the three tribe format after three riveting episodes with two big tribes.
It’s crazy how much more uninterested I am in a five person tribal council than in an eleven person tribal council….
#Survivor51
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A *lie* about Talarico spending 10 days in a mental hospital is getting more media coverage than a *true story* about Paxton partying in Dubai with his mistress and a couple of white collar criminals. YOUR MAINSTREAM MEDIA, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! 🙄
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“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows
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I don’t think there’s ever been a harder Needle Drop in Cinema History……A one liner by Donald Pleasance followed by that Needle Drop is what Cinema is all about. #Halloween
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Sadly, these two might be among the last studio executives in positions of real power at one of Hollywood’s biggest studios willing to champion original ideas from filmmakers, whether it was Sinners, Weapons, One Battle After Another, or The End of Oak Street. Sure, it may have been miss after miss for WB this year, but that doesn’t change the fact that they were still taking swings on original, filmmaker-driven projects in an industry increasingly obsessed with established IP, even if they had to struggle on that front
Highly doubt we will ever get to see those type of movies like that again from Paramount. They weren't even part of the bidding war when Zach Cregger held an auction for Weapons 🤷
News: Studio chiefs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy are out at Warner Bros. No, it wasn't just DIGGER. Details in tonight's @PuckNews What I'm Hearing... ⬇️⬇️ puck.news/the-mike-and-pam-e…
Primetime was far from what I expected it to be but Pattinson’s swinging-for-the-fences performance brings the whole complicated thing together in a deliciously dark way.
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Growing up, a hit song crossed demographics whether the genre was your favorite or not. People who don’t primarily listen to country still know Dolly, Shania, Carrie, The Chicks, etc. because they made actual hit records that crossed over. If a song can spend 23 weeks at #1, breaking records that stood for 20+ years, while a huge portion of the public is sincerely saying they’ve never heard it, maybe the conversation isn’t “people hate country.” Maybe @RollingStone should be writing about how streaming-era chart dominance no longer equals cultural dominance because there’s some trickery at play. That’s the real story being avoided. Don’t gaslight us.
What Some Folks Really Mean When They Claim to Have Never Heard ‘Choosin’ Texas’
Proclaiming you're unfamiliar with Ella Langley's record-setting song has a lot in common with saying "I listen to anything but country."
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