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July 17, 2026 at 9:27 PM

The Angry Files

View this post on the web at [link removed] Hey, Angry Patriots. We’re trying a new article format inspired by a few Substacks we follow, including The Rooster and its Mailbag series. We’re calling ours The Angry Files. These are stories, ideas, and updates that we want to put in front of you b…
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July 16, 2026 at 10:42 PM

Ro Khanna Responded. He Still Did Not Answer.

View this post on the web at [link removed] The other day, Laura Rodriguez-Carbone and I published a piece about Congressman Ro Khanna. Our argument was straightforward. Khanna is trying to rebrand himself as an anti-billionaire, anti-oligarch, working-class progressive while positioning himsel…
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July 15, 2026 at 10:01 PM

Ohio Governor 2026: Amy Acton vs. Vivek Ramaswamy

View this post on the web at [link removed] This continues our analysis of major races we are watching across Ohio. We are going to look at congressional races, Ohio House races, county council races, Ohio Senate races, judicial races, and now the race for governor. So our next race is the 2026 …
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July 13, 2026 at 11:51 PM

We're Building a Better Democratic Party by Telling You the Truth

You’ve probably gotten a thousand fundraising emails over the years that made your skin crawl. Panic in the subject line, a fake deadline for FEC reports, guilt trips, and never a word about where the money you donated actually went. This is not one of those e-mails. Matt and I are going to tell y…
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July 10, 2026 at 9:58 PM

Ro Khanna’s Only Fixed Position Is His Portfolio

View this post on the web at [link removed] Ro Khanna wants voters to see the new version of Ro Khanna: anti-oligarch, anti-stock-trading, anti-billionaire, anti-establishment, and suddenly fluent in the language of economic populism. That is the version Ro Khanna is selling now. I do not buy it…
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July 8, 2026 at 9:37 PM

We Are Adding an S

View this post on the web at [link removed] Hey, Angry Democrats. We are making a brand change. The Angry Democrat and The Angry Ohioan are now becoming The Angry Democrats and The Angry Ohioans. That might seem small. It is just an S. But it is bigger than it looks. Adding the S opens this u…
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July 7, 2026 at 12:13 AM

They Knew and Endorsed Him Anyway

View this post on the web at [link removed] For months, we’ve been telling Angry Democrat readers who Graham Platner actually is. [ [link removed] ] Not the working-class oyster farmer on the yard signs. A candidate two Democratic Socialist organizers found at his home in Sullivan, packaged by th…
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July 3, 2026 at 10:09 PM

250 Years: Chasing Excellence

View this post on the web at [link removed] On the 250th birthday of the United States of America, I find myself reflecting on my place in this country. Support Freedom of Speech. Become a Paid Subscriber When I was a kid, the Fourth of July was simple. Hot dogs. Burgers. Cookouts. Fireworks. …
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July 1, 2026 at 9:25 PM

Trump is Corrupt as Hell. Pay Attention.

View this post on the web at [link removed] Donald Trump learned a lot from his first term. He learned how far he could push executive power, how to surround himself with people who would not tell him no, and he learned how to turn the Republican Party into a personal protection racket. He also m…
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June 29, 2026 at 10:10 AM

Part 3: How They Overrule the People

View this post on the web at [link removed] You can pass a law in America by voting for it yourself, directly, at the ballot box, by a landslide, and watch your state’s highest court rule it valid. Then watch it erased within weeks. Not by a recount. Not by a court reversal. By the plain decision…
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June 27, 2026 at 10:10 AM

Democrats' Overreaction to Mamdani Wins Reveal Toxic Culture and Branding Problems

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June 25, 2026 at 9:15 PM

Democrats Need to Say Something About Antisemitism on Our Side

View this post on the web at [link removed] This is going to be “brief,” but it needs to be said. The Democratic Party needs to say something about the growing antisemitic rhetoric showing up on the left, especially when it is being disguised as anti-Zionism. I want to be very clear before peop…
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June 23, 2026 at 10:09 AM

Put Up or Shut Up

View this post on the web at [link removed] This is the first post in what we hope becomes an ongoing series from The Angry Democrat writers and staff. Angry Takes! A recent Atlantic article has been making the rounds. [ [link removed] ] In it, Susan Crawford Shaw, founder of Grassroots Resistan…
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June 22, 2026 at 2:20 PM

Elon Musk Could Fund a Political Machine Forever

View this post on the web at [link removed] This is a thought experiment about political power. Elon Musk has reportedly become the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX’s public-market rise, with Forbes estimating his net worth at about $1.1 trillion and other reports placing it closer to $1.…
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June 20, 2026 at 11:51 AM

John Beccia MA-6 Candidate & The Angry Democrat

View this post on the web at [link removed] I sat down with John Beccia, Democratic candidate for Congress in Massachusetts’ 6th District, for a conversation about the Democratic Party, insider politics, affordability, crypto, AI, foreign policy, immigration, and what it actually means to run as …
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June 18, 2026 at 5:11 PM

The Invention of Graham Platner

View this post on the web at [link removed] Democratic operatives recruited an oyster farmer, got him funded, and packaged him as a grassroots movement with no organic roots. In late July 2025, two organizers knocked on a door in Sullivan, Maine. Daniel Moraff and Leanne Fan [ [link removed] ], …
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June 16, 2026 at 2:09 PM

Flag Day at the Octagon

View this post on the web at [link removed] Commentary by Laura Rodriguez-Carbone The night after Trump put an octagon on sacred ground, the Senate confirmed a judge and went home. The House was out of town. This is what our Democratic opposition looks like. I’ve been sitting with something si…
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June 14, 2026 at 10:09 AM

Help Us Build Better Reporting

View this post on the web at [link removed] The Angry Democrat is growing. With The Whisper Campaign joining forces with The Angry Democrat, we are building a stronger independent Democratic media platform focused on accountability, reporting, data, and reform. But better reporting takes resour…
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June 13, 2026 at 2:09 PM

The Angry Democrat and Whisper Campaign Are Joining Forces

View this post on the web at [link removed] The Angry Democrat and The Whisper Campaign Are Joining Forces Former congressional candidates Laura Rodriguez Carbone and Matt Diemer are merging The Whisper Campaign and The Angry Democrat to build a stronger, sharper, more accountable independent De…
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June 10, 2026 at 10:09 AM

Part 2: How They Closed the Courts

View this post on the web at [link removed] Before the 1970s, American voters had a reasonable claim on three protections against political capture. The first was a meaningful limit on how much money any person, corporation, or union could spend influencing an election. The second was a feder…
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June 1, 2026 at 11:54 AM

Everything I’m Thinking About This Week

View this post on the web at [link removed] My Angry Democrats! How are we doing this week? This is going to be a different kind of post than I usually make. I got inspired by D.J. Byrnes to put a lot of different topics into one newsletter instead of bombarding you with emails throughout the w…
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May 25, 2026 at 12:09 PM

Establishment Liberal Democrats Are the New Conservatives

View this post on the web at [link removed] I think we need to be honest about something. Establishment Democratic liberals are conservative. Not conservative in the MAGA sense. Not conservative in the evangelical, Reaganite, right-wing Republican sense. I am talking about conservatism in the …
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May 24, 2026 at 11:03 AM

Finding Common Ground with Fmr. Congressman Jim Renacci

View this post on the web at [link removed] Angry Patriots! I got the opportunity to sit down with former Congressman Jim Renacci [ [link removed] ], who represented Ohio’s 16th Congressional District [ [link removed] ] from 2011 to 2019. Since I ran in roughly the same area he once represented,…
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May 22, 2026 at 2:01 PM

The Problem Isn't The Autopsy Report. This Is About Leadership.

View this post on the web at [link removed] The 2024 DNC autopsy report was released, but this is not really about what is inside the report. Plenty of people are talking about that. They are going to pick apart the findings, the mistakes, the omissions, the spelling errors, the factual problems…
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May 20, 2026 at 3:01 PM

This Is Why The Angry Democrat Matters

View this post on the web at [link removed] This is why I do this. Thomas Massie [ [link removed] ]just lost his Republican primary to a Trump-endorsed challenger. President Trump’s endorsed candidates dominated across several races, and Massie’s loss showed, once again, how tightly Trump contr…
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May 19, 2026 at 10:09 AM

Trump's Stock Trading! This is NOT NORMAL

View this post on the web at [link removed] Here I am again talking about stock trading, because President Trump’s latest financial disclosures came out, and it sure as hell looks like the party is happening and we are not invited. Please Support The Angry Democrat Not that I even want to be in…
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May 18, 2026 at 12:47 PM

We’re Building Something the Democratic Party Needs

View this post on the web at [link removed] Angry Patriots! This is why we do this! I received this comment from a frustrated Democrat who feels politically homeless inside their own party. And honestly, I think a lot of people feel the same way right now. There are plenty of Democrats who st…
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May 13, 2026 at 10:09 AM

Regulation Becomes a Tool

View this post on the web at [link removed] Regulatory capture [ [link removed] ] is one of the oldest ways companies stop competition while pretending they are protecting the public. It is when an industry helps create the rules that govern that industry, then uses those rules to build a moat ar…
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May 12, 2026 at 10:09 AM

The Rigged Map --Part 1: How They Drew the Map

View this post on the web at [link removed] Before 2011, Pennsylvania’s 7th congressional district was a place where elections actually mattered. The district covered most of Delaware County, the Philadelphia suburbs west and south of the city. From the mid-1970s through the late 1980s it elected…
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May 8, 2026 at 10:09 AM

The Rigged Map --Why Do Election Results So Rarely Match The Mood Of The Country?

View this post on the web at [link removed] In April 2026, the Supreme Court of the United States delivered its most consequential blow to American voting rights in decades. In Louisiana v. Callais, the Court gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act — the provision that for over sixty years gave…
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May 6, 2026 at 12:46 PM

Ohio Picked Its November Matchups

View this post on the web at [link removed] First, congrats to everyone who won. Congrats to everyone who put their name on the ballot and actually ran. Now we move on to November. And thank you to everybody who tuned into the live stream last night. Around 80 people popped in, even with the t…
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May 5, 2026 at 10:09 AM

Election Day Is Here. Vote!

View this post on the web at [link removed] It’s Election Day, everybody! I hope everyone has a plan to go vote today. Tonight, I’ll be going live around 7:45 after the polls close. You can watch at theangrydem.com [ [link removed] ], theangryohioan.com [ [link removed] ], or on Facebook [ [li…
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May 4, 2026 at 10:09 AM

The Picard Quotes That Built Me

View this post on the web at [link removed] I grew up on Star Trek: The Next Generation. I still remember being introduced to it in 1987 when Encounter at Farpoint first aired. My Unc was a Star Trek fan from the original series, and he told me there was a new Star Trek coming out and that I need…
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May 3, 2026 at 1:49 PM

This Angry Week

View this post on the web at [link removed] In this livestream episode, Matt runs through “This Angry Week,” focusing primarily on Ohio politics while tying in national-level themes around hypocrisy, party strategy, and structural issues in democracy. The discussion centers on contradictions with…
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May 1, 2026 at 12:42 AM

🗓️ The Angry Democrat is going live on May 1 at 5:00 PM EDT: “Live with Democratic Media Consultant Aaron Fisher”

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April 30, 2026 at 10:09 AM

What Changed? That’s the Real Question

View this post on the web at [link removed] Good Morning Angry Democrats! Something caught my attention today, and I don’t think it’s for the reason people would expect from me. Clip is from Pod Save America with Jon Favreau interviewing DNC Chair Ken Martin The DNC does not want to release …
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April 29, 2026 at 12:15 PM

🗓️ The Angry Democrat is going live on May 5 at 7:45 PM EDT: “OHIO Primary Election Results Live!”

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April 24, 2026 at 12:29 PM

Good for Democrats. Bad for the Country

View this post on the web at [link removed] The Democrats win while we all continue to lose. That’s really the only way to describe what just happened in Virginia. A referendum passed that allows lawmakers to redraw congressional maps under the guise of “restoring fairness” until the next census…
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April 21, 2026 at 2:28 PM

Anti-billionaire Organization is Endorsing a Billionaire.

View this post on the web at [link removed] An anti-billionaire organization is endorsing a billionaire, and I don’t know how you’re supposed to take that seriously without calling it exactly what it is. Hypocrisy! Our Revolution [ [link removed] ], the group built by Bernie Sanders around fight…
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April 19, 2026 at 12:32 PM

This Angry Week

View this post on the web at [link removed] In this episode of The Angry Democrat, Matt moves from national political criticism into economic disruption and then sharply into Ohio politics. He opens by revisiting his thesis that modern corruption is financial engineering rather than direct briber…
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April 18, 2026 at 10:10 AM

Thank You!

View this post on the web at [link removed] Hi Angry Patriots! If you’ve been following The Angry Democrat or The Angry Ohioan , I appreciate it more than you know. The Angry Ohioan is staying free. No paywall, no subscriptions. Just the content. If you find value in what I’m building across …
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April 15, 2026 at 10:09 AM

Learn to Code 2.0

View this post on the web at [link removed] I was born in 1979. Officially I’m Gen X. But, I also sit in a weird transition generation people now call Xennials. We grew up analog and then lived through the transition into digital, and now we are living through the transition into AI in real time.…
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April 13, 2026 at 10:09 AM

Trump's Swap is Monetized

View this post on the web at [link removed] One thing I’ve been talking about for a while now, even before Donald Trump got back into office, is that he has monetized the presidency. And I don’t mean that in a vague or rhetorical way. I mean it directly. Across pardons, foreign relationships, c…
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April 12, 2026 at 11:09 AM

This Angry Week

View this post on the web at [link removed] In this episode of The Angry Democrat, Matt moves from big-picture reflections on American ambition and modern attention spans into a long stretch of Ohio-focused political analysis. He covers NASA and Artemis II, a theory about dopamine and phone-drive…
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April 9, 2026 at 10:09 AM

We Have a Dopamine Problem

View this post on the web at [link removed] Can we get back to normal, to baseline? Honestly, I don’t think we can. I think politics has fundamentally changed. There is no such thing as normalcy. The politics of the old, of the stately president. Where if you didn’t wear a tie or rolled up your…
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April 2, 2026 at 2:21 PM

Who Looked Ready to Represent?

View this post on the web at [link removed] Yesterday was a good day. Not only did Artemis II launch its first manned mission to the moon in 54 years [ [link removed] ], inspiring the world while millions tuned in live to watch something that felt bigger than politics, bigger than day-to-day noi…
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April 1, 2026 at 10:09 AM

Inspired by the Past, Frustrated by the Present

View this post on the web at [link removed] Over the weekend, I went to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This has been on my bucket list since I was a kid. I remember calling Space Camp myself, asking them to send brochures so I could pitch my parents on sending me. We did not have the money,…
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March 28, 2026 at 12:09 PM

This Angry Week: Authenticity, Party Politics, and Who Actually Shows Up

View this post on the web at [link removed] Hey everyone, this is Matt Diemer, The Angry Democrat & The Angry Ohioan It’s been a couple weeks since I’ve gone live, and I wanted to jump on and walk through everything I’ve been working on. I’ve been putting out a mix of articles, candidate inte…
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March 25, 2026 at 10:09 AM

Candidate Interviews: Ohio's 7th Congressional District

View this post on the web at [link removed] Fellow Angry Patriots, This post includes links to all of the interviews I’ve conducted with candidates running in Ohio’s 7th Congressional District. [ [link removed] ] The format varied. Some candidates chose to do these in person, others did not, an…
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March 23, 2026 at 12:09 PM

Ohio, This One’s For You

View this post on the web at [link removed] My Fellow Angry Dems! If you’re living in Ohio and you’re not yet subscribed to The Angry Ohioan , you’re missing the politics that actually hits closest to home. The Angry Democrat covers the big picture. Congressional races, national dynamics, the…
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