how about cracking down on the criminals in the WH

Fellow D.C. residents, please stay safe out there!

ICYMI, we’re one step closer on the road to fascism, as federal troops and agents patrol the streets of our nation’s capital at the order of our Criminal-In-Chief.

We know Trump loves a big spectacle (he’s always overcompensating for something…), but voters are not loving what they are seeing. In a new survey, Data for Progress finds that a majority of voters (51%) oppose the Trump administration taking over the Washington, D.C., police force and deploying the National Guard in the city.



By a +23-point margin, a majority of voters agree that “Trump is being authoritarian” as it relates to the situation in D.C. More than half of voters also say “Trump is just doing this to distract from other issues” (51%). At the same time, more than half of voters (51%) also agree that “Trump is doing what's necessary to crack down on crime,” though voters are more closely divided.

Ah yes, cracking down on crime. Except, you know, convicted insurrectionists, felons who happen to be president, and now, for some reason, people who want to carry rifles and shotguns… we’re sure locking up sandwich-throwers will help solve this “crime emergency.” 

Read the full poll here.

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(chuckles) We’re in danger…

These days, it feels like we’re all locked into an endless debate about what is or isn’t good for our health. A glass of red wine? Maybe. Eating a whole bag of Skittles without the Red No. 40? Sure, why not. Raw milk or horse dewormer? According to RFK Jr., go right ahead!

But there’s one thing we can pretty much all agree is actually a threat to public health — greenhouse gas emissions.

In July, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that the Trump administration would revoke the endangerment finding — an Obama-era agency rule which formally recognized that a core list of six greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide and methane, “endanger both the public health and the public welfare of current and future generations.”

However, an overwhelming majority of voters “strongly” or “somewhat” believe in the central thesis of the endangerment finding — that greenhouse gas emissions are a threat to public health. Only 15% of voters, including just 24% of Republicans, believe that these emissions are not a threat.



The world is burning, and the Trump administration wants you to be like that dog thinking, “This is fine.” Thankfully, voters aren’t buying their climate denialism. 

IDK what it’ll take to get this administration to care about the climate crisis at this point (maybe they’d go for Trump-branded solar panels and windmills?!), but we’re not giving up this fight.

Read the full poll here.


It’s the economy, tonto

Folks, whether you’re Donald Trump misgendering Nicky Jam or Jill Biden saying that Latino voters are “unique as the breakfast tacos” in San Antonio, we promise that there are much, much better ways to talk to Latino voters.

Our latest poll with Equis Research finds that Latino voters believe the U.S. economy is not doing well and don’t think current policies are taking the country in the right direction.

Instead, Latino voters want to see lawmakers pass policies that will alleviate the everyday financial challenges facing working and middle-class households, and increase taxes on the ultra-wealthy and big corporations to fund such policies. 



These issues are not unique to Latino voters — voters across age, gender, race, and economic status support raising taxes on the wealthy to support social programs. 

Addressing voters’ economic concerns instead of pandering to them? What a concept!

Read the full poll here.



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