Incoming Dem congressman threatened by Dem establishment

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On Tuesday, Democratic Congressmember-elect Don Leonard of Ohio said in a social media post that he’d met with senior House Democrats and told them he’ll only support Jeffries for House speaker on two conditions: a vote on a constitutional amendment overturning Citizens United, and an end to U.S. support for the war in Iran and aid to Israel. Leonard says, in response, the House Democrats threatened to undermine his political career.

Rep.-elect Don Leonard: “That would basically mean both making my life a living hell for the next two years here in Washington, as well as being sure to lose my election in two years. … At the end of the day, the big-D Democratic Party needs some little-D democracy, and I’m just a stubborn SOB.”

(The first two minutes of this video, I couldn't find just the video by itself)

A Change.org petition calling on Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley to run for speaker has over 40,000 signatures.

https://www.change.org/p/make-ayanna-pressley-the-speaker-of-the-house?source_location=search

Here's another petition that's got over a million signatures telling the Democratic party to pick a new speaker:

https://www.change.org/p/house-democrats-choose-a-new-speaker

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[PartySick 176,353]

The Democratic party establishment is being held hostage by AIPAC funded Israel allies who are already working to undermine the GLARING repudiation of our current alliance with Israel and all the drawbacks that come with it (billions in unconditional aid, the blood of inmocents on our hands, endless forever wars, Godfather-like shady dealings, real representatives being squashed under conspiracies and millions of dollars in funding to buy elections). 

If you haven't already, sign the petition. Our party needs new leadership.

[Roughhouse Dandy 14,325]

Love that some of the members of the incoming class are willing to speak out about this kind of stuff. 

[Future Lovers 8,042]

And I’m not shocked. I vote Democrat because I believe in certain individual candidates and realize that they represent a less harmful ultimatum than a Republican does. But make no mistake: I despise the leadership and the party as a whole as it exists now. My faith is in key individuals, not the institution as a whole. We have to flush the establishment Dems out and make way for the new left sooner rather than later. We can’t keep going like this. 

Edited yesterday at 10:46 AM by Future Lovers

[River 130,214]

At the same time American Priorities helped him to win, so their influence is becoming strong, they spent a lot of funds on their negative Mike Carey campaign, which worked.

What is interesting is that the majority of the donors of American Priorities are coming from the AppLoving app (Mohammad Waqas Javed, Omer Hasan), which has very strong ties to Israel, for example they acquired SafeDK, an Israeli company, and they have offices in Israel as well, and all the donors worked at the company during the acquisition. Omer Hasan only left in 2025, so post war.

I think things are changing, slowly, but as long as there is a good fight against AIPAC, things will change.

The party is still infested with old dems that still stuck with old politics.. like Nancy Pelosi for example, sis about to retire, she doesn't need AIPAC to tell her what to do, but her state of mind is still "Israel is an ally".

 

I think Israel will always be an ally, but it doesn't mean that this ally should have the power to drag everyone into their own problems or influence the politics.

 

What is interesting to me is that in the last couple of months, Israel has been popularized and normalized again, especially in the tech industry.. slowly things are coming back to the status quo before the war.

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1 minute ago, Future Lovers said:

And I’m not shocked. I vote Democrat because I believe in certain individual candidates and realize that they represent a less harmful ultimatum than a Republican does. But make no mistake: despise the leadership and the party as a whole as it exists now. My faith is in key individuals, not the institution as a whole. We have to flush the establishment Dems out and make way for the new left sooner rather than later. We can’t keep going like this. 

Jefferies literally had critical Democratic votes miss an impeachment vote of the guy that caused the majority of the issues the Democrats were just elected to solve in favor of an AIPAC fundraiser.

It's a damn clown show.

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You can contact the Senate switchboard here: 

(202) 224-3121

They'll connect you to the relevant office. If you live in a Democratic district, tell your representative that you'll be supporting a primary opponent if they vote for Jefferies or Schumer. If you live in a Republican district, like me, say you'll throw your donations and activity behind a primary challenger in the next election.

Staffers are reporting thousands of calls a day and those numbers are rising by the day.

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This is why we know Jefferies is bad at his job (which is realistically why most people want him to survive, a bad leader gives you free reign on the floor and in committees).

Because Pelosi would have killed that man and had it written off as a medical issue before he even left the room if he hadn't agreed to her plan

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1 hour ago, Roughhouse Dandy said:

Love that some of the members of the incoming class are willing to speak out about this kind of stuff. 

And that’s cause they aren’t bought! We need more of them 

[StarstruckIllusion 54,037]

Ayanna please kick Whackeem to the curb we cannot do this bs for 2 years…

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5 hours ago, StarstruckIllusion said:

Ayanna please kick Whackeem to the curb we cannot do this bs for 2 years…

Sign the petition

[StarstruckIllusion 54,037]

11 hours ago, PartySick said:

Sign the petition

i cant I’m canadian 💔 

but after the tariff war and invasion threats, lemme serve some 2016 russian influence rq (but good)