ActBlue

ActBlue says it has raised more than $2.9 billion for Democrats and progressive organizations since its founding in 2004.

September was the biggest month in its history.https://t.co/HYBJrg4wT9

— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) October 25, 2018

The Republican party will become more conservative

Which Republican congressional representatives and governors will lose in the 2018 elections? I think it will be the moderates (or in this era, just plain conservatives). I can’t see districts that have elected extreme conservative Republicans going Democratic. Thus, some more moderate Republicans will be gone and what’s left is an even more extreme party.

update:

Tonight's election, unless it results in a total Democratic blowout, will further Trump's takeover of the Republican Party: his biggest internal critics are retiring, losing, or quieting down. https://t.co/DL4ESSpevt

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) November 6, 2018

Heritage Foundation is training law clerks

update 11/23/18

This partisan “training camp” idea is the very antithesis of the “independent judiciary” ideal that CJ Roberts just espoused. Is it too much to hope that he might drop a hint or two to that effect? Maybe by refusing to hire brainwashed law clerks?https://t.co/9a7zkLDFe2

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) November 21, 2018

update 10/21/18

Thanks to the media for exposing this.

JUST IN:

“Heritage is reevaluating the Federal Clerkship Training Academy. As a result, the program will not go on as scheduled.” – Greg Scott, director of media at The Heritage Foundation. https://t.co/hxIBv7Ddgm

— Adam Liptak (@adamliptak) October 18, 2018

Heritage Foundation posted an application for a secret law clerk training academy that noted "generous donors" making "significant financial investment" in attendees. When NYT asked about it, Heritage "deleted references to donors, secrecy and loyalty." https://t.co/hEfhAgQDGt

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 18, 2018

This should not be allowed.

Most judges prohibit their clerks or soon-to-be clerks from any kind of political or partisan activity. They should make it clear that participating in this is unacceptable for any current or incoming clerk. https://t.co/tJ2K9k1pK7

— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) October 18, 2018

update

The Heritage Foundation has started a secretive program promoting doctrinaire law clerks. https://t.co/EXh1pEk8Wh pic.twitter.com/8cV9cNXK53

— The New Republic (@newrepublic) October 18, 2018

update 10/23 – something similar

Up @theintercept, while that Heritage Fdn bootcamp for law clerks got attention, in the 80s and 90s a libertarian group ran a corporate-funded boot camp for actual judges. And a new study confirms it made judges rule more conservatively https://t.co/oD5sFVPLuZ

— David Dayen (@ddayen) October 23, 2018

Republicans “angry mob” rhetoric is dangerous

I agree with this column.

In my opinion, Republicans can’t win on the issues (taxes, health care, Me Too, etc) so they resort to name calling and bigotry to rile up their base,

The GOP’s ‘angry mob’ rhetoric is a dangerous assault against democratic norms. A WaPo editorial. @postopinions https://t.co/0dxxm5eEHq

— Fred Hiatt (@hiattf) October 16, 2018

Native American perspectives on Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test

Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin Jr.:

"A DNA test is useless to determine tribal citizenship. Current DNA tests do not even distinguish whether a person’s ancestors were indigenous to North or South America…" 1/

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 15, 2018

It’s imp to understand how Elizabeth Warren’s DNA announcement has been received by Indigenous people (not favorably) so I’m going to be retweeting some people sharing that perspective. https://t.co/4QUqmUhB6W

— Kirsten Powers (@KirstenPowers) October 15, 2018

Kellyanne Conway called Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test "junk science." Is it? https://t.co/f2j9sp67Bp

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 15, 2018

NEW: "A DNA test is useless to determine tribal citizenship," Cherokee Nation says in response to Sen. Elizabeth Warren's release of DNA test results. "Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage." https://t.co/6dSaJYTp3J pic.twitter.com/JN7RSZcL6U

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) October 15, 2018

update 10/17/18:

Opinion | Kelly Hayes and Jacqueline Keeler:

Elizabeth Warren connected DNA and Native American heritage. Here's why that's destructive. https://t.co/R0lnl68QWK – @NBCnewsTHINK

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 17, 2018

Make Election Day a national holiday

There are a lot of good ideas to increase voter turnout, but this is the simplest: Let’s make Election Day a national holiday. No one should have to choose between exercising their right to vote and their job. Democracy is for everyone. https://t.co/BP3mYdLa4g

— Adam Schiff (@AdamSchiff) October 13, 2018

What do you think of this? Let's eliminate Columbus Day as a national holiday. Instead, make Election Day a national holiday. Close the banks, close the schools, and make it so that people can more easily make their voices heard at the polls

— Joe Madison (@MadisonSiriusXM) October 8, 2018

Democrats need to fight back

You can’t be nice when the other side lies and bends rules.

Eric Holder: ‘When they go low, we kick them. That’s what this new Democratic Party is about.' https://t.co/5dXsglOsi6

— The Fix (@thefix) October 10, 2018

update 10/11/18

This. https://t.co/bMOdS2Vi7c

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) October 11, 2018

Republicans have never dominated the government like this

Analysis: Kavanaugh’s confirmation gives the GOP its most power since the Great Depression https://t.co/rMe0r4H3eg

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 7, 2018

McConnell calls Kavanaugh opponents a “mob”

He sounds like Trump now. I think that protestors should not have bothered Cruz in a restaurant or shout while Senators are speaking but McConnell is very wrong here.

We’re never going to heal the divisions in the country if one side talks like this. They don’t care.

Like Trump's "American carnage" or Pat Buchanan's 1992 convention speech, striking that McConnell portrays GOP opponents as a "mob": again telling the GOP coalition of restoration that only R office-holders stand between them & chaos ignited by groups that don't like look them https://t.co/b3gJIchKKg

— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) October 6, 2018

ah love it when the senate majority leader trolls the country https://t.co/LCzePfJy4I

— jamelle g-g-ghoulie 👻 (@jbouie) October 6, 2018

Continuing the systematic effort to portray opposition as a "mob" and to portray GOP elected power as the only shield between party coalition and chaos unleashed by mob rule. Striking on 2 fronts: delegitimizing legit political opposition & stoking fears of disorder inGOP base https://t.co/40OUOUH2JW

— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) October 7, 2018

Republicans have a new name for Democrats: "mob" https://t.co/ltrt5Yre1B pic.twitter.com/2zRtiuYOaT

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 8, 2018

In case you didn’t know Grassley was a sexist

Democrats have four female members on the Judiciary committee.

Wow. https://t.co/flE2mq8ytf

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) October 5, 2018

“My chief of staff of 33 years tells me we’ve tried to recruit women and we couldn’t get the job done.” https://t.co/FGLuqJeEfH

— Dan Eggen (@DanEggenWPost) October 5, 2018