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Fiendish Thingy

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1. This one simple trick will quickly and easily restore democracy and repair the damage of the Trump years:
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 11:04 AM
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Expand the Supreme Court to a minimum of 13 seats, and kill the filibuster to do so (this means electing someone besides Janet Mills for senate in Maine), neutralizing the current MAGA majority.

Court expansion (once Dems have the trifecta again) will clear the way for Dem majorities in congress to Ram through legislation restoring lost rights and providing effective governance that benefits the people, without fear of legislation being obstructed in the senate or overturned by the courts.

Moving forward, support for court expansion (and killing the filibuster to do so) must be a litmus test for choosing Democratic nominees.

Dems must reject fearful warnings of “what might the republicans do if we kill the filibuster?” for, if Dems govern effectively, fearlessly and unhesitatingly, voters will reward them with majorities for decades (see FDR and The New Deal), and republicans won’t have a chance at getting the trifecta for a generation or more.

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