Jack, this isn't some fictional alternate world, this is real; earlier this week Kevin McCarthy appointed Marjorie Taylor Greene Speaker pro Tempore for the day and handed her the gavel.

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With this one action, McCarthy both empowers and normalizes the far-right extremist wing of the Republican Party — a faction of the party that has been outwardly hostile to our democracy and guided by conspiracy theories.

To be clear, this is the same Marjorie Taylor Greene that:

was barred from committee assignments for making suggestive calls for violence against another member of Congress.
that is currently planning to visit the terrorists that attacked our democracy on January 6.
that just a few weeks ago made the treasonous call for a "national divorce" saying "We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government."

The former editor of the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times, Marc Jacob, summed up the surreal moment by saying: "Marjorie Taylor Greene sitting in the House speaker's chair. This ought to scare the shit out of all of us."

We cannot allow these stunts to erode our democracy. Thankfully, we have a plan. Daily Kos has identified 18 House Republicans representing districts that Joe Biden won. These blue-leaning districts reward moderation, not the Marjorie Taylor Greene extremism that McCarthy is emboldening.

Daily Kos is already working to support the Democrats who will flip these seats—and the awesome news is that we don't even need to wait until we have candidates. Instead, we're starting right now by using ActBlue's nominee funds, which hold all donations in escrow and then give them to the winner of each Democratic primary.

Those funds will give our nominees a huge boost just when they'll need it most, ensuring they can hit the ground running and make the strongest possible case to voters that they need to ditch their Republican representatives.

Jack, we need your help to defeat republicans in 2024. Can you support future Democratic candidates in 18 winnable districts by donating $1 to each today?

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Thanks for all you do,
Amanda McKay, Daily Kos

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