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Federal Reserve Staff Funds Democratic Party Lurch to Left
Central bank economists back socialist politicians U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell (REUTERS/Leah Millis) Staffers of the…
#Economy #berniesanders #DemocraticParty #DonaldTrump #FederalReserve #FederalReserveSystem #GrahamPlatner #JeromePowell #zohranmamdani
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#RightWing #pundit and #neverTrumper #DavidFrench did a hit piece on #GrahamPlatner, the #Democrat running for #Senate against #SusanCollins of #Maine. There was a lot to respond to. I chose these two points.
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#RightWing #pundit and #neverTrumper #DavidFrench did a hit piece on #GrahamPlatner, the #Democrat running for #Senate against #SusanCollins of #Maine. There was a lot to respond to. I chose these two points.
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#RightWing #pundit and #neverTrumper #DavidFrench did a hit piece on #GrahamPlatner, the #Democrat running for #Senate against #SusanCollins of #Maine. There was a lot to respond to. I chose these two points.
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#RightWing #pundit and #neverTrumper #DavidFrench did a hit piece on #GrahamPlatner, the #Democrat running for #Senate against #SusanCollins of #Maine. There was a lot to respond to. I chose these two points.
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#RightWing #pundit and #neverTrumper #DavidFrench did a hit piece on #GrahamPlatner, the #Democrat running for #Senate against #SusanCollins of #Maine. There was a lot to respond to. I chose these two points.
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Graham may not be who you think he is. But what do we do about it?
#Maine #GrahamPlatner #DoNotTrust #GiftLink #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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#DemocraticParty Leaders Wanted to Control the #Maine Senate Race. Their Pick Just Dropped Out.
#JanetMills dropped out of the Senate race against #GrahamPlatner, despite the establishment’s longtime support for the Maine governor.
by Akela Lacy, April 30 2026
Excerpt: "Mills’s exit less than six weeks before the June primary clears the path for populist candidate Graham Platner, now the presumed nominee, to face off against incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins in the November general election after the party worked to subdue Platner’s campaign. The Democratic Party’s decision to wade into the primary at all had reignited a criticism that the Democratic establishment would stop at nothing to keep progressives out of Congress.
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"The upset marks 'a massive embarrassment for #ChuckSchumer and #DSCC operatives,' a Democratic strategist told The Intercept, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of professional reprisal. 'This was their star recruit and she couldn’t even make it to the election. No longer can they be the gatekeepers.' "
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/30/maine-janet-mills-graham-platner-senate/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/pV6Go#MainePol #USPol #DNC #PartyInterference #Elections2026 #MaineElections
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#DemocraticParty Leaders Wanted to Control the #Maine Senate Race. Their Pick Just Dropped Out.
#JanetMills dropped out of the Senate race against #GrahamPlatner, despite the establishment’s longtime support for the Maine governor.
by Akela Lacy, April 30 2026
Excerpt: "Mills’s exit less than six weeks before the June primary clears the path for populist candidate Graham Platner, now the presumed nominee, to face off against incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins in the November general election after the party worked to subdue Platner’s campaign. The Democratic Party’s decision to wade into the primary at all had reignited a criticism that the Democratic establishment would stop at nothing to keep progressives out of Congress.
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"The upset marks 'a massive embarrassment for #ChuckSchumer and #DSCC operatives,' a Democratic strategist told The Intercept, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of professional reprisal. 'This was their star recruit and she couldn’t even make it to the election. No longer can they be the gatekeepers.' "
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/30/maine-janet-mills-graham-platner-senate/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/pV6Go#MainePol #USPol #DNC #PartyInterference #Elections2026 #MaineElections
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#DemocraticParty Leaders Wanted to Control the #Maine Senate Race. Their Pick Just Dropped Out.
#JanetMills dropped out of the Senate race against #GrahamPlatner, despite the establishment’s longtime support for the Maine governor.
by Akela Lacy, April 30 2026
Excerpt: "Mills’s exit less than six weeks before the June primary clears the path for populist candidate Graham Platner, now the presumed nominee, to face off against incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins in the November general election after the party worked to subdue Platner’s campaign. The Democratic Party’s decision to wade into the primary at all had reignited a criticism that the Democratic establishment would stop at nothing to keep progressives out of Congress.
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"The upset marks 'a massive embarrassment for #ChuckSchumer and #DSCC operatives,' a Democratic strategist told The Intercept, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of professional reprisal. 'This was their star recruit and she couldn’t even make it to the election. No longer can they be the gatekeepers.' "
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/30/maine-janet-mills-graham-platner-senate/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/pV6Go#MainePol #USPol #DNC #PartyInterference #Elections2026 #MaineElections
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#DemocraticParty Leaders Wanted to Control the #Maine Senate Race. Their Pick Just Dropped Out.
#JanetMills dropped out of the Senate race against #GrahamPlatner, despite the establishment’s longtime support for the Maine governor.
by Akela Lacy, April 30 2026
Excerpt: "Mills’s exit less than six weeks before the June primary clears the path for populist candidate Graham Platner, now the presumed nominee, to face off against incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins in the November general election after the party worked to subdue Platner’s campaign. The Democratic Party’s decision to wade into the primary at all had reignited a criticism that the Democratic establishment would stop at nothing to keep progressives out of Congress.
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"The upset marks 'a massive embarrassment for #ChuckSchumer and #DSCC operatives,' a Democratic strategist told The Intercept, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of professional reprisal. 'This was their star recruit and she couldn’t even make it to the election. No longer can they be the gatekeepers.' "
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/30/maine-janet-mills-graham-platner-senate/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/pV6Go#MainePol #USPol #DNC #PartyInterference #Elections2026 #MaineElections
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#DemocraticParty Leaders Wanted to Control the #Maine Senate Race. Their Pick Just Dropped Out.
#JanetMills dropped out of the Senate race against #GrahamPlatner, despite the establishment’s longtime support for the Maine governor.
by Akela Lacy, April 30 2026
Excerpt: "Mills’s exit less than six weeks before the June primary clears the path for populist candidate Graham Platner, now the presumed nominee, to face off against incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins in the November general election after the party worked to subdue Platner’s campaign. The Democratic Party’s decision to wade into the primary at all had reignited a criticism that the Democratic establishment would stop at nothing to keep progressives out of Congress.
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"The upset marks 'a massive embarrassment for #ChuckSchumer and #DSCC operatives,' a Democratic strategist told The Intercept, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of professional reprisal. 'This was their star recruit and she couldn’t even make it to the election. No longer can they be the gatekeepers.' "
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/30/maine-janet-mills-graham-platner-senate/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/pV6Go#MainePol #USPol #DNC #PartyInterference #Elections2026 #MaineElections
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Due to the wilful failure of elected members of government to prohibit private equity and other non-residential ownership of residential real estate, rent has gotten so grossly excessive that increasing numbers of working-class citizens (on both sides of the border) are forced to live in their vehicles while employed full time.
Typical rent for only a bedroom where I live is now about 130% what rent was for an entire two-bedroom house a few years ago.
I think #GrahamPlatner is right about what to do about this. @avilewis, what do you think?
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"#Democrats in #Maine do not want their candidates chosen by the Democractic establishment." Amen to that! (Stated by a Maine political pundit tonight.)
#MainePol #JanetMills #DNC #GrahamPlatner #DSA #Socialists #EstablishmentDems
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Don’t Underestimate the Fury of Democratic Voters
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/graham-platner-janet-mills-susan-collins-senate.html?smid=nytcore-ios-sharefrom #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[gift article]
Michelle Goldberg
April 30, 2026#Platner spoke about the struggles of working people for whom a decent life seemed out of reach, about the disastrous #wars he’d fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, and about the need for a #DemocraticParty with New Deal-scale ambitions.
Since then, #GrahamPlatner has used his campaign to organize for causes besides his own election. He rallied against a ballot initiative that would have required voter ID and restricted absentee voting. (It lost.) When ICE came to Lewiston, Maine, a town with a significant Somali population, he urged people to resist the agency the way that the citizens of Minneapolis had, celebrating those who, as he said in a fiery speech, “do real things to impede #ICE’s operations and physically protect our communities.” He collects donations for food pantries at his events.
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After Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) tweeted that she is considering voting to require #OrangeHitler to finally get Congressional approval for his war on #Iran, her 2026 Democratic Opponent (and former oyster farmer) #GrahamPlatner responded:
"I've met oysters with more spine than Susan Collins." 😆
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After Mills Exit, Platner Vows to Defeat Collins With ‘Movement of Working Mainers’
#GrahamPlatner, now the presumptive Democratic nominee in Maine’s #USSenate race, said that “we are now taking back our power.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/graham-platner-susan-collinsfrom #CommonDreams
Apr 30, 2026“The race has never really been about me or any one person,” said #Platner. “It’s about a movement of working Mainers who are fed up with being robbed by billionaires and the politicians who own them."
Platner vowed to defeat incumbent Sen. #SusanCollins (R-Maine), but he said the ultimate goal is to “start tearing down the system that, for too long, has forgotten and written off the people who make Maine and this country what it is.”
While powerful national Democrats had backed Mills’ candidacy in the primary, Senate Minority Leader #ChuckSchumer (D-NY) and Senator #KirstenGillibrand (D-NY) endorsed Platner shortly after the #Maine governor suspended her campaign.
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After Mills Exit, Platner Vows to Defeat Collins With ‘Movement of Working Mainers’
#GrahamPlatner, now the presumptive Democratic nominee in Maine’s #USSenate race, said that “we are now taking back our power.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/graham-platner-susan-collinsfrom #CommonDreams
Apr 30, 2026“The race has never really been about me or any one person,” said #Platner. “It’s about a movement of working Mainers who are fed up with being robbed by billionaires and the politicians who own them."
Platner vowed to defeat incumbent Sen. #SusanCollins (R-Maine), but he said the ultimate goal is to “start tearing down the system that, for too long, has forgotten and written off the people who make Maine and this country what it is.”
While powerful national Democrats had backed Mills’ candidacy in the primary, Senate Minority Leader #ChuckSchumer (D-NY) and Senator #KirstenGillibrand (D-NY) endorsed Platner shortly after the #Maine governor suspended her campaign.
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After Mills Exit, Platner Vows to Defeat Collins With ‘Movement of Working Mainers’
#GrahamPlatner, now the presumptive Democratic nominee in Maine’s #USSenate race, said that “we are now taking back our power.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/graham-platner-susan-collinsfrom #CommonDreams
Apr 30, 2026“The race has never really been about me or any one person,” said #Platner. “It’s about a movement of working Mainers who are fed up with being robbed by billionaires and the politicians who own them."
Platner vowed to defeat incumbent Sen. #SusanCollins (R-Maine), but he said the ultimate goal is to “start tearing down the system that, for too long, has forgotten and written off the people who make Maine and this country what it is.”
While powerful national Democrats had backed Mills’ candidacy in the primary, Senate Minority Leader #ChuckSchumer (D-NY) and Senator #KirstenGillibrand (D-NY) endorsed Platner shortly after the #Maine governor suspended her campaign.
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After Mills Exit, Platner Vows to Defeat Collins With ‘Movement of Working Mainers’
#GrahamPlatner, now the presumptive Democratic nominee in Maine’s #USSenate race, said that “we are now taking back our power.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/graham-platner-susan-collinsfrom #CommonDreams
Apr 30, 2026“The race has never really been about me or any one person,” said #Platner. “It’s about a movement of working Mainers who are fed up with being robbed by billionaires and the politicians who own them."
Platner vowed to defeat incumbent Sen. #SusanCollins (R-Maine), but he said the ultimate goal is to “start tearing down the system that, for too long, has forgotten and written off the people who make Maine and this country what it is.”
While powerful national Democrats had backed Mills’ candidacy in the primary, Senate Minority Leader #ChuckSchumer (D-NY) and Senator #KirstenGillibrand (D-NY) endorsed Platner shortly after the #Maine governor suspended her campaign.
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After Mills Exit, Platner Vows to Defeat Collins With ‘Movement of Working Mainers’
#GrahamPlatner, now the presumptive Democratic nominee in Maine’s #USSenate race, said that “we are now taking back our power.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/graham-platner-susan-collinsfrom #CommonDreams
Apr 30, 2026“The race has never really been about me or any one person,” said #Platner. “It’s about a movement of working Mainers who are fed up with being robbed by billionaires and the politicians who own them."
Platner vowed to defeat incumbent Sen. #SusanCollins (R-Maine), but he said the ultimate goal is to “start tearing down the system that, for too long, has forgotten and written off the people who make Maine and this country what it is.”
While powerful national Democrats had backed Mills’ candidacy in the primary, Senate Minority Leader #ChuckSchumer (D-NY) and Senator #KirstenGillibrand (D-NY) endorsed Platner shortly after the #Maine governor suspended her campaign.
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Welp, it looks like the ignoramuses in Maine are going to elect a Republican senator regardless of who wins the election. 😡
Just what we need to save democracy, another Sinema or Fetterman.
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Term-limited Governor Janet Mills has ended her campaign to become Senator of Maine. Recent polls put Graham Platner at 55% and Mills at 28%.
#JanetMills #Maine #Senator #SusanCollins #Senate #race #GrahamPlatner #progressive #Democrat #fundraising
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5856803-janet-mills-suspends-senate-bid-maine/ -
#GrahamPlatner Went to Hell and Back. He Has a Simple Message for #Democrats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/opinion/graham-platner-forever-war-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dFA.zPAA.8bvnke2a7T7W&smid=url-sharefrom #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[shareable 30-day gift article]
April 22, 2026[written by a former #Obama admin national security official]
“I don’t want other young Americans to go through what I’ve been through. And I don’t want to send other young Americans to inflict the horror that I had to inflict on people.”
Polling suggests that most Americans agree with him. So does the feedback he gets day to day. The people he meets overwhelmingly oppose the #war; many are furious or heartbroken about it. That includes his fellow veterans. “I don’t know a single guy I served with who thinks this thing in #Iran is a good idea,” he told me. Many of those guys are #MAGA. “This was one of the reasons they were big Trump supporters — he was the #antiwar or ‘America first’ candidate.”
#NoWarWithIran
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I'm not sure why this story calls #GrahamPlatner an "underdog" candidate for the #Senate when it says he's ahead in the polls. And his positions sure seem about right. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/senate-graham-platner-investigate-trump-impeach-supreme-court-justices-rcna341043?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
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@thetnholler.bsky.social #GrahamPlatner *already is* ‘another #JohnFetterman.’
He also has a complete lack of #SelfAwareness - just like #Fetterman and *every other person* that is inevitably drawn into the #MAGA cult.
#TDS is a #MentalHealth issue.
#Resist intelligently. #Maine #Midterms #2026election
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@thetnholler.bsky.social #GrahamPlatner *already is* ‘another #JohnFetterman.’
He also has a complete lack of #SelfAwareness - just like #Fetterman and *every other person* that is inevitably drawn into the #MAGA cult.
#TDS is a #MentalHealth issue.
#Resist intelligently. #Maine #Midterms #2026election
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@thetnholler.bsky.social #GrahamPlatner *already is* ‘another #JohnFetterman.’
He also has a complete lack of #SelfAwareness - just like #Fetterman and *every other person* that is inevitably drawn into the #MAGA cult.
#TDS is a #MentalHealth issue.
#Resist intelligently. #Maine #Midterms #2026election
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@thetnholler.bsky.social #GrahamPlatner *already is* ‘another #JohnFetterman.’
He also has a complete lack of #SelfAwareness - just like #Fetterman and *every other person* that is inevitably drawn into the #MAGA cult.
#TDS is a #MentalHealth issue.
#Resist intelligently. #Maine #Midterms #2026election
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@thetnholler.bsky.social #GrahamPlatner *already is* ‘another #JohnFetterman.’
He also has a complete lack of #SelfAwareness - just like #Fetterman and *every other person* that is inevitably drawn into the #MAGA cult.
#TDS is a #MentalHealth issue.
#Resist intelligently. #Maine #Midterms #2026election
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https://www.europesays.com/videos/11550/ Have the Democrats found a new strategy to scare Trump? | BBC Americast #americast #bbc #BbcAmericast #BbcLive #BBCNews #BbcPodcast #BbcPolitics #BbcPoliticsPodcast #BbcWorldService #BreakingNews #Democrats #DemocratsVsRepublicans #DonaldTrump #GrahamPlatner #JanetMills #JoshKeefe #JustinWebb #maine #MaineMonitor #MainePolitics #MainePrimary #MidtermElections #news #SusanCollins #USPolitics #WorldNews
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#MainePolitics #Background #GrahamPlatner #GovMills
Like the high school version of himself vowing that administrators couldn’t suspend everyone, Graham Platner — veteran, oyster farmer, a nonpolitician with the Reddit posts and questionable tattoo decisions to prove it — is telling today’s Democrats that the way out of the current era isn’t to simply keep fighting Trump; it’s for a mass movement of regular people to organize and challenge the entire system. If he flips a Senate seat, it just might mean that the post-Trump Democratic Party has finally begun.
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Don't live in #Maine, but if I did? No to #GrahamPlatner after those deleted disgusting victim-blaming Reddit posts! #MEPol #Accountability #BelieveSurvivors #USPol
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7elzfw2v7quyjd2bg4vdowuo/post/3mjatqgu7i222 -
Don't live in #Maine, but if I did? No to #GrahamPlatner after those deleted disgusting victim-blaming Reddit posts! #MEPol #Accountability #BelieveSurvivors #USPol
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7elzfw2v7quyjd2bg4vdowuo/post/3mjatqgu7i222 -
Please vote against this idiot! He disparaging the Democratic party when they're the only thing standing between us and the fascists. He's also posting YouTube videos where he claims to want to impeach two Supreme Court justices. With what votes is this idiot going to do that?
Platner is the next Fetterman, you've been warned Maine he's going to turn into a Nazi Republican the minute he wins office, he's already got the tattoos.
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I know Graham Platner is not perfect (no one is). But I believe if you listen to someone talk, they will tell you who they are. I believe he is genuine with what he says. This speech is what sold me on him.
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Looks like #JanetMills wants to stay in power as Senator Mills. She's been changing her tune on #IndigenousSovereignty and now this?
#Maine Governor backs #MillionaireTax, flipping from prior stance
By Greg Ryan Bloomberg,Updated April 2, 2026
"Maine Governor Janet Mills now supports increasing taxes on the state’s richest residents, reversing her past opposition after lagging in recent polls for a key Democratic Senate primary.
"Mills on Thursday endorsed a millionaire tax included in a budget proposal that passed a committee for the Democrat-controlled legislature. She vetoed a similar increase in 2024 and maintained that such a measure was short-sighted in an interview just a few weeks ago.
"Mills’ flip-flop comes as the 78-year-old trails political newcomer #GrahamPlatner in their contest to be the Democratic nominee to take on Republican #UselessSusanCollins in November. Platner, a 41-year-old oyster farmer, has called for higher taxes on the rich."
Read more:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/02/business/maine-governor-janet-mills-millionaires-tax/Archived version:
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PLATNER'S OUTSIDER STANCE STIRS MAINE DEMOCRATS
Maine Democrats are split on Graham Platner's Senate campaign. Learn why his outsider stance causes debate and how it affects the race against Susan Collins.
#MainePolitics, #GrahamPlatner, #SenateRace, #Democrats, #SusanCollins
https://newsletter.tf/graham-platner-maine-democrats-senate-2026/
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Graham Platner's campaign for Maine Senate is causing big arguments within the Democratic party. This is happening as they try to beat Susan Collins in 2026.
#MainePolitics, #GrahamPlatner, #SenateRace, #Democrats, #SusanCollins
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#Maine does not need to nominate another #JohnFetterman as their candidate to run against #SusanCollins for the #UnitedStates Senate. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5801420-maine-governor-mills-ad-sexual-assault/
#Resist intelligently.
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Graham Platner abruptly cancels campaign fundraiser at New York City gay bar
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/graham-platner-cancels-gay-event
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He's just another Fetterman coasting on the fact he's a White Dude. Has his nazi tattoo disappeared yet?
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Graham Platner is going to Fetterman so fast and these "leftists" cannot stop themselves from boosting a Blackwater mercenary with nazi tattoos. Even Fetterman didn't look *that bad* on paper before he pivoted lmfao
