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David Smith 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🌈 retweeted
This Airborne Sapper got to hang out with the Smokejumper @SamForstag today! All the way brother!
David Smith 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🌈 retweeted
Hi .@tedcruz, you're wrong. Yeah...Texas has fundamentally changed. See, that's why Texas is now BLUE.
Texas will be red again. We haven’t fundamentally changed who we are as a state.
The silver lining is the Democrats are going to overreach. They have tragically been taken over by radicals, by Marxists and Islamists, and that’s who’s driving the train.
When they get to Washington, they are going to drive an extreme agenda that I think is going to cause a lot of buyer’s remorse for the voters who wanted something different.
We've got to be here to provide common sense, to provide free market policies and that actually make a difference for working men and women.
David Smith 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🌈 retweeted
Taking on Pete Hegseth needs to be at the top of the priority list right now. Our national security, our military readiness, and the welfare of our service members and their families are being actively compromised by a punkass dipshit. One way or the other, he's got to go.
David Smith 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🌈 retweeted
I just met with Senator John Cornyn.
He has served our state honorably, and I’m grateful for his advice and guidance.
Now is the time for us to come together — Democrats and Republicans — to deliver for Texas.
David Smith 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🌈 retweeted
🚨BREAKING🚨
Democrat Jake Johnson has defeated Incumbent Republican Brad Finstad in the MN-01 U.S. House Election.
This is a flip from 🔴 to 🔵.
David Smith 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🌈 retweeted
Massie: Hegseth knowingly executed and implemented unlawful orders.. Hegseth has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to the constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with his duties and the rule of law.
Hegseth thus warrants impeachment and trial, removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States.
David Smith 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🌈 retweeted
Turns out people don't like it when you try to cheat them out of their voting rights.
Thank you, TX.
You stepped up for our democracy.🥹
David Smith 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🌈 retweeted
GOP Rep. Marlin Stutzman rips Trump decision to name Stephen Miller as chief of staff, calls it a “bad mistake” and says Miller should be “fired.”
“If you’re team takes a beating as badly as we did last week, you have to fire people.”
Says of Stephen Miller: “He’s not liked by people in the Midwest. They don’t like his tone.”
“They believe he didn’t offer a better solution — a more comprehensive solution on immigration.”
“I don’t think he’s the right messenger,” he said
“We need to admit we got beat and got beat badly.… As I’m talking to constiuents, they’re saying, ‘You guys aren’t listening. You’re not paying attention.”
David Smith 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🌈 retweeted
I don’t care if a member of Congress takes their oath of office on a Bible, a Quran, or Incredible Hulk #181.
I care that they uphold the Constitution.
David Smith 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🌈 retweeted
MAGAs should watch this clip of Talarico putting his "I Voted" sticker on the memorial for Lorenzo Salgado in Houston if they’re still wondering how Texas got flipped
*Lorenzo Salgado was murdered by ICE Nazis
David Smith 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🌈 retweeted
When a Democrat wins the presidency in 2028, he/she should call Stacey Abrams and offer her the Cabinet position of her choice.
David Smith 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🌈 retweeted
📸 Yesterday, President @JoeBiden stopped by a Walgreens in Delaware to pick up his prescriptions.
No special treatment. No VIP nonsense. He sat and waited like everyone else, chatting and taking photos.
Can you IMAGINE Donald Trump doing that? NEVER.
This is why we love Joe Biden.
Great president. Even better human being. 🇺🇸❤️
David Smith 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🌈 retweeted
I don’t want to get even.
I don’t want revenge.
I want justice.
I want justice for the American people, whose government Donald Trump was entrusted to serve, not exploit.
And this does not begin and end with January 6.
I want justice for Americans whose votes he tried to overturn. For public servants threatened because they would not put his demands above their duty. For officers attacked defending the constitutional transfer of power.
But I also want justice for American businesses forced to pay emergency tariffs he imposed without lawful authority. Justice for families who had to pay this illegal consumer tax. Their money was real. The damage to their livelihoods was real. Howard Lutnick's family getting rich off the tariffs was real. Presidential power does not include the right to reach into Americans’ pockets without legal authorization.
I want an accounting of the private fortunes being made around public power. The crypto ventures. The foreign money. The business relationships that leave Americans wondering whose interests their president is actually serving.
Trace the money. Identify the buyers. Establish what they received. If access was sold, expose it. If an official act was purchased, prosecute it. If people were defrauded, pursue restitution and accountability.
And as much I currently despise Trump supporters, that includes them too. Voting for a man does not mean you deserve to be exploited by him. Your loyalty is not permission to take your money or betray your trust.
I want justice for Epstein’s survivors. They deserve protection, truth, and accountability. Not another fight to discover whether powerful people will ever be made to answer. Release the rest of the files. Protect survivors’ identities. Investigate any evidence that officials concealed wrongdoing or obstructed justice, whoever it implicates. Republican or Democrat.
Their suffering is not a partisan possession. Their rights are not negotiable to protect somebody’s reputation.
I want an accounting of how our national secrets were handled. Those records concern the security of the American people. They were never one man’s belongings to retain, display, or dispose of as he pleased.
I want foreign policy examined wherever public duty and private business intersect. Americans deserve to know whether decisions affecting our allies, our security, and our service members were made for this country or for the financial interests of the people making them.
And wherever there is credible evidence of unlawful killing, torture, or war crimes, investigate it. No invocation of presidential authority or national security should end the inquiry before the evidence is heard.
Not every destructive policy is a crime. That distinction matters. So does refusing to use that distinction as an excuse to investigate nothing.
We are the people to whom an accounting is owed.
This is our treasury. Our government. Our security. Our votes. Our Constitution.
The injuries to this republic are injuries to its people. Calling our demand for justice “revenge” does not make those injuries disappear. It asks us to accept them quietly.
I will not.
The spirit of 1776 was not that one powerful man could demand our submission. It was that government derives its authority from the people and must answer for how that authority is used.
So preserve the records. Put witnesses under oath. Follow the money. Bring every charge the evidence supports. Give every accused person due process, and impose lawful consequences wherever guilt is proven.
No fabricated charges. No punishment by decree. No exceptions purchased with money, influence, or a devoted following.
I do not want a government that persecutes my enemies.
I want a government that refuses to protect its own from the law.
We are not subjects asking a ruler for mercy. We are citizens demanding an answer for what was done with the power we entrusted to him.
And justice is not too much to ask.
David Smith 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🌈 retweeted
Jon Ossoff was 16 when he finished reading John Lewis’s memoir and wrote him a letter. He asked if he could interview him, spend some time with him, anything that would let him learn from the man whose book he had just read. He didn’t expect an answer. Lewis wrote back and invited him to work in his congressional office.
There was something about that letter Lewis would have understood. He had written one himself at 17. A college near his home in Alabama had never answered his application, and Lewis wanted to challenge its segregation. He wrote to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. without telling his parents or his teachers. King did not just write back; he sent Lewis a round-trip Greyhound ticket to Montgomery so they could talk in person.
Oh my!
The first time Lewis and Ossoff sat down for a meal, Lewis spent about an hour and a half telling him about the rabbis and Jewish activists who had marched alongside him in the South. Ossoff was a Jewish kid from Atlanta. He knew from the book what had happened to Lewis on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, where a state trooper fractured his skull during a march for voting rights. Now Lewis was telling him who had walked beside him.
The internship lasted a few months. The friendship lasted 17 years. In 2017, when Ossoff ran for Congress and lost, Lewis was there on election night. A reporter saw him sitting in a small room next to the party, looking out into the room. Later that night, Lewis came out and told the crowd how glad he was that he had answered the letter Ossoff sent him in high school.
Lewis died in July 2020, six months before Ossoff won his first Senate race. When Ossoff took the oath of office, he had copies of two old passenger lists in his jacket pocket. One recorded his great-grandfather Israel’s arrival at Ellis Island in 1911. The other recorded his great-grandmother Annie’s arrival two years later. In his hand was a book of Hebrew scripture that had belonged to Rabbi Jacob Rothschild, who led the Atlanta synagogue where Ossoff had his bar mitzvah (this is a Jewish coming-of-age milestone for a boy, usually at age 13).
In 1958, white supremacists had bombed that synagogue. Rothschild and his wife, Janice, grew close to Martin and Coretta Scott King in the years afterward. Janice lived long to see Ossoff take the oath with her late husband’s book
This week, Georgia reelected 39 year old Jon Ossoff to the United States Senate. At his victory speech in Atlanta, he thanked his wife, Alisha, and their daughters, Eva and Lila. Then he talked about a conversation he expects to have when Eva is older. He imagined her asking what he did when people were losing their health coverage and voting rights were under threat. He told the crowd what he hoped he would be able to say to her.
“The year you turned five, Georgia sent me back. Here is what we did with the time they gave us.”
Isitoshe,
After his win in Georgia, Jon Ossoff is now the prediction markets’ favorite to win the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028. He has the gift of gab and, some women are saying he is easy on the eye. But if he runs, the first test will be South Carolina, where Black voters helped turn Joe Biden’s campaign around in 2020. Ossoff will have to make his own case to those voters and when he talks about John Lewis there, he will tell them about the man who wrote back to him at 16, sat down with him over lunch, and was still in his corner the night he lost his first race.
May the day break
