Photos: Biggest political event in Idaho history we think. 12,500 in Nampa
We filled an arena of 12,500 people tonight in Nampa, Idaho.
Yes, Idaho.
Red state, blue state — the American people are prepared to fight Trumpism.
Read more at: https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/northwest/idaho/article304189026.html#storylink=cpy
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and I don't do either (and they don't embed on DU). But here was Cory Booker and Mark Kelly yesterday AZ (YouTube) -
Maxwell Frost - a rising star Millennial - was at an event over the weekend -
Remember that the Democratic party is a "big tent" but we need to "spread the love". Everyone can go around the country instead of all gathering at one place following Bernie and AOC around.
On a related note - here is one that I just stumbled on is being done by STATE Democratic elected officials - this one in Iowa, holding Town Halls in red districts in their state -
Apparently other state Democratic party elected officials are doing similar in their states.
And as a further note, many in Congress have been speaking at the "Hands Off!" events around the country. I know the event here in Philly featured several Philly members of Congress including Brendan Boyle and Madeleine Dean in front of crowds of tens of thousands.
Some of us post the videos of these events and they get yawns, with little or no reaction.
ETA - Hakeem Jeffries is scheduled for a "Save Social Security" Town Hall today - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/save-social-security-town-hall-meeting-tickets-1319440454919
You DO realize that the 330 million residents of the U.S. are NOT some kind of "monolith", right? 
They are often forced to focus on what the people who elected THEM - not the ones who elected YOUR Rep. - want.
Those who are in urban areas really don't care that much about what the rural areas get and vice versa.
This is why Democrats try to find "core principles" to rally around and for the most part, the focus on the social programs - "Social Security", "Medicare", "Medicaid" and the potential gutting of that, have pretty much been a universal theme.
I would also rather not get into using Bernie/AOC/Warren as some kind of cudgel to divide and conquer. They have very succinctly defined a universal truth (outside of any application to the billionaires). However there are also some on the far left (many who are Socialists) who believe that those 3 are "sellouts".
And as to this fallacy -
Tell me WHAT "agenda" has been first and foremost with 45's implementation of Project 2025, and who have been the VICTIMS of it?
It is something that is not "fictional" nor "hypothetical". IT IS REAL AND IS LITERALLY HAPPENING IN REAL TIME.
I will give you a hint - "It is something that encompasses those who are covered by the subject that begins with a "D" and ends in an "I" and has not a fucking thing to do with "class" or "economics". And as long as people keep ignoring and waving away THAT overlay, which very effectively BLINDS the weak to other issues, then we will get nowhere. It's not an easy overlay to get rid of but it is THE ALBATROSS that must be addressed.
Which is to say, your argument can be boiled down to, "We are all different and I will not make any effort to pursue a unified message and a unified campaign to rally the public against whatever it is that Trump is doing, which will probably pass soon anyway, probably by the mid-term elections"
You do know what "E Pluribus Unum" means, right?
But as Lyndon B. Johnson explained to Bill Moyers as Moyers recounted the conversation he had with LBJ some 65 years ago -
Bill D. Moyers
WHAT A REAL PRESIDENT WAS LIKE
November 12, 1988
WHILE Lyndon Baines Johnson was a man of time and place, he felt the bitter paradox of both. I was a young man on his staff in 1960 when he gave me a vivid account of that southern schizophrenia he understood and feared. We were in Tennessee. During the motorcade, he spotted some ugly racial epithets scrawled on signs.
Late that night in the hotel, when the local dignitaries had finished the last bottles of bourbon and branch water and departed, he started talking about those signs. "I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it," he said. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Some years later when Johnson was president, there was a press conference in the East Room. A reporter unexpectedly asked the president how he could explain his sudden passion for civil rights when he had never shown much enthusiasm for the cause. The question hung in the air. I could almost hear his silent cursing of a press secretary who had not anticipated this one.
But then he relaxed, and from an instinct no assistant could brief -- one seasoned in the double life from which he was delivered and hoped to deliver others -- he said in effect: Most of us don't have a second chance to correct the mistakes of our youth. I do and I am. That evening, sitting in the White House, discussing the question with friends and staff, he gestured broadly and said,
"Eisenhower used to tell me that this place was a prison. I never felt freer." For weeks in 1964, the president carried in his pocket the summary of a Census Bureau report showing that the lifetime earnings of an average black college graduate were lower than that of a white man with an eighth-grade education. And when The New York Times in November 1964 reported racial segregation to be increasing instead of disappearing, he took his felt-tip pen and scribbled across it "shame, shame, shame," and sent it to Everett Dirksen, the Republican leader in the Senate. I have a hard time explaining to our two sons and daughter -- now in their twenties -- that when they were little, America was still deeply segregated.
(snip)
The GOP, along with the SCOTUS, is in the process of DISMANTLING the Civil Rights Act of 1964, piece by piece. They are ALSO doing the same with the Voting Rights Act of 1965. NONE OF THESE Acts impact the vaunted white males who think they can speak for the rest of us.
One of the things that my political science/history major mother told me since I was a young child, was that the U.S. "is a capitalistic country and 'capital' equals 'money'".
IOW, (as a educated and trained scientist myself) there are some things that happen so often over so long a period, that they become "constants". And THAT is "the constant" of this country since its founding. It will never become economically "Communist" or "Socialist" (in terms of who controls the means of production).
You definitely need to go back like 90 years ago when the whole "Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance" system was created in the first place and what it took for it to happen and be maintained. FDR's 4 terms (the last term truncated by his death) in office triggered a rare Constitutional Amendment to limit a President to 2 terms, something that 45 is trying to upend somehow.
In fact, there was a whole "DEI" demographic who could not even participate in it or collect any of it, but that is rarely taught, and a whole other glossed-over subject for another day.
This was also the time when billionaires and huge corporations started openly owning politicians with no shame, leading to Citizen's United that codified ownership of politicians as a fundamental right of the rich.
I think those who follow politics and economics, know the numbers. The final travesty was the decision of "Citizen's United", which it seems that few even have a clue regarding the background of that case, yet will continually invoke the case anyway.
I.e., it had to do with this -
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/09/supreme-court-unlimited-corporate-campaign-donations/
The very person who some here consider the "anti-Bernie".
This became the final nail in the coffin.
The issues people love to flog here day after day are distractions. The issues that taken us completely out of power are these economic issues.
What you call "distractions" WERE and continue to be EFFECTIVE and are in reference to ACTUAL LIVING BREATHING HUMAN BEINGS. I.e., they are literally HURTING REAL PEOPLE.
It's not a "concept", it's been implemented.
The "overlay" blinds some people, including those in our own party, to DISMISS the very OPPRESSION that some of us are going through. And in this case, you have what amounts to almost 60% of the "base" of the party, literally being ERASED - physically, emotionally, economically, and historically (something new and MASSIVE IN SCOPE at the moment).
And to have the audacity to yell into the quagmire that contains pits of fire that the Democratic Party "base" has been thrown into and finger wag at them, while pounding podiums and stomping feet about something else that we NEVER FULLY HAD ACCESS TO, will NOT get you far.
There are some of us who are STILL WAITING AFTER 400+ YEARS IN THIS COUNTRY, TO EXPERIENCE A "DEMOCRACY".
Where you are told to ignore what's going on in the background because it's "just a distraction".
and how some women could get around it by having D&Cs (and I finally started seeing the term used again, post-Roe). She was a fan of Gloria Steinem (and even went to some appearance she had here in Philly back in the early '70s). She also subbed to Ms. magazine, so it was in our household! She always noted the "control" where when she finally needed to have a hysterectomy due to years and years suffering with fibroids, she had to have the "approval/consent" of my dad back then.
These toxic men want to return to that.
I have said that one of the defining mantras that Kamala Harris promoted was this -
And in their nasty fucking arrogance, "going back" is EXACTLY what these RW-loons and their enablers had planned, and are currently carrying out. They are using the cover of their manufacturing of a new type of illegal "jurisprudence" in order to justify breaking existing laws.
and many of these events are being recorded and uploaded to those social media outlets.
I will say that most of the "Hands Off!" rallies that happened just a little over a week ago through that weekend (Apr. 5 - 6), were HUGE and most had some kind of Congressional speaker there. Some of these events were posted on DU but tend to get the same kind of yawns.
Remember that Congress (both chambers) are NOW on a 2-week recess starting this week and today is Tuesday. So I would hope that some of us on DU don't have to continually spoon feed videos that we go out to look for when some proclaim that "no one is doing anything".
I provided a few that I could come up with a a quick search and gave a link to the "Peoples Town Hall" site that has info on and dates/links/signups for that particular set of Town Hall events.
If people won't click on that, then there is nothing that I can do to force it.
unless "it was posted on DU"?
Seriously.
And even when these events ARE posted, they get yawns.
That is why I posted a link to the "People's Town Halls" schedule. I didn't even bother with the "Indivisible" or "MoveOn" ones (who are sponsoring quite a few Town Halls) because I would have thought some here would have been hip to those. But also check this for a wide range of events and add what filters you want to show what is going on (that are NOT being reported) - https://www.mobilize.us/
Congress literally just recessed for 2 weeks so they are getting themselves scheduled - including the wheres and whens, etc.
I read a variety of news feeds
Did you see this in your feed (April 5th) -
Frost is from FL and has showed up at a bunch of protests and rallies - coast to coast.
(April 12th)
Don't just rely on random "news feeds" controlled by the very oligarchs that people rail against.
You are in Roy's District?
If so, all I can say is I feel for you. 
(I know Roy was a thorn in both McCarthy's and now Johnson's side - from the far right)
Because they won't show people like Andy Kim, who appeared in now reddish Egg Harbor at the shore (he's not quite "progressive" by DU's definition ) -
Unfortunately a lot of (D) Town Halls are being recorded and sent around on social media - Xitter, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, etc. The M$M refuses to show these except maybe some blips.
(as a note, Bonnie Watson Coleman had a video of her appearance shown in the above but posted it on Facebook, which is useless on DU and her staff apparently deals in Instagram, also useless on DU).
Just because you "don't see it on DU" doesn't mean it isn't happening. This is why the Millennials and GenZ laugh and say "Okay Boomers".
Most are actually STATE/COUNTY/MUNICIPAL ones "where the people are". It follows the old saying by Tim O'Neill -
"All politics are local".
The ideas of the "Empty Chair Town Hall" and the "People's Town Hall", have resonated across the country and Democrats are doing this up and down the levels of government - from Congress to the state legislatures to the County Commissions and City Councils.
But there is no way that the "national media" is going to show them all. Even doing searches, so much of it is coming up on "social media" and DU tends to not only bad mouth "social media", but will even refuse to view something that someone posts using it - and THAT is where the younger Democrats are.
And I say this having ZERO "social media" accounts. But if I search for something and a newsworthy report comes up on any social media that is "publicly available" to read, then I will look at it and post it on DU if I can. But in generally, almost ALL my news is literally being gathered "the hard way". Literally dozens of tabs of news sites, and I have some of the news site apps on my iPad so they blare out "breaking news" banners and I will quickly go to the site to find out what is up.
