Trump's dictator moves like calling in the national guard or ballooning the ice budget are designed to enrage you, but also to desensitize you to his authoritarian behavior. As Rick Wilson says, we can't let that happen:
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Trump's dictator moves like calling in the national guard or ballooning the ice budget are designed to enrage you, but also to desensitize you to his authoritarian behavior. As Rick Wilson says, we can't let that happen:
As Trump’s health declines, he seems completely preoccupied with his likelihood of reaching Heaven. Guess what, Donny? It’s too late for you. On the bright side, you’ll spend eternity with your best friend, Jeffrey Epstein.
Gavin Newsom is exactly right, Trump is doing everything we told you he would do and more. It's time to wake the hell up, America. Authoritarianism is here.
"Congratulations to President Donald Trump and his whip-smart administration on turning America’s brave National Guard troops into the most expensive gardening crew in human history." https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/28/trump-national-guard-picking-up-trash-dc/85853498007/
It’s obvious at this point that Trump has no intention of leaving office at the end of this term. Fortunately, it seems his heart won’t make it that far anyway. JD is warming up his arm.
Memphis, Houston, and Kansas City all have more violent crime than DC, but the National Guard isn’t there because they’re in red states. It’s a show of force and, more so, a distraction. Trump wants us talking about anything other than his collapsing health and Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump is a troll, yes. But when he threatens to run again or stay in office in 2028, he means it. Watch Rick Wilson analyze these threats on MSNBC:
JD Vance isn't the only one counting down... New episode of The Breakdown starts in 10 minutes on YouTube.
Trump's numbers, like his health, are spoiling faster than a Trump Steak. We're breaking it all down tonight, just us for an all new episode of The Breakdown tonight at 7 PM ET: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9YacE6XuRg
Missiouri Republican Rep. MarkAlford to his angry constituents: "If you didn't want to hear my lies, why did you come here?"
RFK Jr. will kill Americans, sure as death. You have the GOP to thank you for that.
If the Democratic Party intends to win this fight, it must stop functioning solely as a party & instead step into its moment in history: to lead a pro-democracy movement capable of confronting this authoritarian threat. https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/stand-up-america-the-time-for-a-pro?r=2lckc
Trump’s movement, just like his health, is deteriorating. MAGA is furious that he's been lying to them, covering up a huge pedophilia scandal. That's why the GOP is scrambling trying to cheat and pass every agenda while Trump is flailing, because they know their time is running out.
Prices are up and better yet, the jobs are going away. Trump’s shitshow economy is becoming a double-flusher. https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/more-u-s-companies-plan-to-slow-hiring-in-second-half-of-2025-183c4c5f
Trump at his next presser
"Trump has vowed repeatedly to halve power prices within 12 months...Instead, residential electricity prices have climbed about 10% from January until May and are projected to rise another 5.8% next year" https://bloom.bg/4fTtifb
Inflation and cost of living are way up as Trump appears to be spoiling like a Trump Steak. Also, still no Epstein files. But at least Trump is fighting Cracker Barrel for you. Feeling great yet, everyone? https://meidasnews.com/news/trump-white-house-spoke-to-cracker-barrel-about-logo-switch
War is still raging in Ukraine. Measles outbreak. US cities under siege. Gas, coffee, grocery prices are all up. No tax on tips. Value of the US dollar down. Radioactive shrimp? Millions thrown off health insurance while the plague makes a comeback... And still no Epstein files.
Redistricting arms race: These are the states in addition to Texas and California where parties could redraw maps
Let's face it, Trump is very ill. Everyone in DC knows it. JD Vance is busy plotting a takeover before Trump kicks the bucket. @stuartpstevens.bsky.social @therickwilson.bsky.social & @joetrippi.bsky.social will pull back the curtain on what Vance is up to: Watch: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
Stuart Stevens on National Guard deployment: "The murder rate of Jackson, Mississippi is 3 times that of D.C.... the whole thing is complete fraud"
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The GOP is wasting their time on an unfair and unbalanced redistricting instead of dealing with the inflation that plagues average Hoosiers. https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/briefs/poll-most-hoosiers-oppose-mid-decade-redistricting-want-focus-on-daily-challenges/
Our gerrymandered congressional maps are creating all kinds of problems. Redistricting assassin Dave Daley has a solution. Watch him explain on an all new LP Podcast, out NOW: https://youtu.be/k-bL8JHdoJQ
That one person in the zombie movie who doesn't tell the rest of the group they got bitten.
We will continue to keep punching back at Trump and his administration, while pushing Dems in power to do the same. Stay with us in this fight. Go to action.lincolnproject.us/join
“Do not come to Chicago” -JB Pritzker This is what we have been talking about, since 2020. Hit back harder. That’s how you win a fight. The entire Democrat party should be taking notes.
My column this week makes the case for Colorado (or any state) to join other blue states to combat red state gerrymandering. My main takeaway? Be a part of the fight or be "complicit in the anti-democratic national outcome." coloradosun.com/2025/08/24/r...
No one used their hands during speeches more than Trump did. Why'd he stop all of a sudden?
You've seen the hands and ankles... now caption this.
"For a party that talks about state rights, it's amazing how they're having such a big government approach." - Governor Wes Moore on Trump's unconstitutional ICE actions
Republicans are making a power-grab, and they’re not stopping with Texas. Dave Daley talks redistricting on a new episode of the LP Podcast, out tomorrow on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLincolnProject
This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.
Whatever he has the symptoms are being fat and bad at golf
What's the penalty for sexually assaulting a flag?
Democrats need to take a cue from Wes Moore and use every weapon in their arsenal to fight this anti-democratic GOP redistricting effort. https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/politics/2025/08/25/keep-our-name-out-of-your-mouth-gov-moore-responds-to-president-trump/85813512007/
Once this is all over, history will not look fondly on those who say they were just following Trump’s authoritarian orders. Illegal orders are still illegal orders. Watch The Breakdown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXv6Vxmg4RI
We either have the rule of law, or we don’t. You cannot be for the Constitution while supporting the actions of ICE. There is no in between. Watch the full clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXv6Vxmg4RI
We all know whose side he's on.
Trump's ego is hurt and health is uncertain - he's weak. Catch the latest episode of the LP Podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwlSthFm9tA
Putin meets alone with Trump. A week later, US intelligence is gutted by Tulsi Gabbard. FBI goes after John Bolton. Had Putin ordered it through Amazon, could not have been more efficient.
The rhetoric of the Democrats could be their downfall if they don't take note of how people REALLY want their politicians to speak. https://www.thirdway.org/memo/was-it-something-i-said
REWIND: 2 months ago former UN Ambassador, attorney, and foreign affairs expert Mr. John Bolton talked with @therickwilson.bsky.social about America's status on the global stage, the effect of tariffs on our U.S. allies, Russia and Ukraine, and local security. youtu.be/MzrXo056iKs?...
Democrats are waking up and realizing that they're going to have to play hardball here. Well, Newsom is anyway. Catch the LP Podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwlSthFm9tA
There is only one way to respond to this GOP gerrymandering power-grab: hit them back harder. Newsom has shown what we can do when we’re not afraid to play their game. Time for other Dems to follow suit.
JD Vance is no champion of the working class. He is explicitly owned by the elite, and the Big Beautiful Bill is his gift to them.
DEMS: It’s time for other Democrat Governors to follow Gavin Newsom’s lead. No more following tradition, no more whining about fairness. We have to fight fire with fire and beat them at their own game. Time is running out.
STARTING SOON: Trump is trouble on Russia, Epstein, and the totalitarian takeover of DC. Watch the new episode of The Breakdown at 7 PM EST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmCRI60oyK4
Trump is growing more authoritarian by the day, but his weakness on Putin and guilt on Epstein remain thorns in his side. Catch an all new episode of The Breakdown, tonight at 7 PM EST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmCRI60oyK4
The GOP is causing all of this chaos just so everyone will stop talking about the Epstein files. Never stop asking where the files are and why they're covering it up.
Lots of pictures and stories of Trump with renowned pedophile Epstein. Here’s a timeline to put it all in context: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/12/politics/trump-epstein-relationship-timeline-invs-vis
Donald Trump is still a convicted felon.
Trump is in those files, and that’s why he’s fighting so hard to keep them hidden.
Trump could release the Epstein Files right now if he wanted to. He could've months ago. Why won't he? That's the story.
Starting in 10 minutes ⬇️
Hey MAGA, here’s that deep-state cover up you were looking for:
Jess Michaels was sexually assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein in 1991 and is now criticizing the Trump administration's refusal to release the Epstein files. She joins @sjdemas.bsky.social LIVE on Lincoln Square on Wednesday at 1pm ET. Hope you’ll join us. open.substack.com/live-stream/...
They're preparing a successor for Trump...3 years early. https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/elon-musk-throws-in-towel-on-launching-third-party-instead-tries-to-cozy-up-to-jd-vance-wsj/
America's drug dealers, child sex traffickers and serial killers have a special message for Donald Trump:
Trump will do whatever Putin says, up to and including things that hurt his own party. Hear more from LP Senior Advisor Stuart Stevens on MSNBC:
The GOP love to pretend they are the party of law and order but we all know they are the ones fearing real accountability. Listen to Texas Senators Carol Alvarado and Ronald Gutierrez on the LP podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWP51H72UWE
In case anyone's confused, yes, slavery was bad.
Democrats spend far too much time thinking and talking about how to attack Trump & his party. No one attack ever works in politics. What does work is a commitment to sustained aggression. Attack, attack, attack. How Newsom is attacking is much less important than the fact that he is attacking.
As Texas becomes the center of a democratic crisis heading into the 2026 midterms, we hear from Texas Senators Carol Alvarado and Ronald Gutierrez as they explain what the Democrats are doing to resist Trump's insane tactics: https://youtu.be/TWP51H72UWE
Guess which ankles are Newsom's and which are Trump's 👇
America's drug dealers, child sex traffickers and serial killers have a special message for Donald Trump:
Weaponizing AGs against political enemies is nothing new for Trump. This time it's his authoritarian majority on the line. Roland Gutierrez and Carol Alvarado explain the situation for the Texas Dems on the LP Podcast tomorrow on YouTube.
Trump and the GOP are redrawing maps for one reason: because losing the next election will mean answering for their crimes.
Trump on Russia/Ukraine: “I don’t think you need a ceasefire.” This is what you say when you’ve failed to negotiate a ceasefire.
105 years ago today the Women’s Suffrage movement achieved its goal with the passing of the 19th amendment. Today, Trump and his Cabinet flirt with the very people and ideas that would have Women’s right to vote destroyed.
71% of Americans believe Trump knew exactly what Epstein was up to. Trump knows he's screwed bc of it. So screwed in fact, he has to try to shut down voting, gerrymander districts, embarrass a foreign leader, and embarrass US in his meeting with Putin... This is all desperation.
Trump is selling out Alaska to a war criminal. Catch The Breakdown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn9AgsLWkEU
Under Trump's command, U.S. troops get on their knees to roll out a literal red carpet for a fascist dictator. This isn't ceremony. It's surrender.
This federal takeover is not about crime or safety. It is about instilling fear in Americans, starting in our nation's capital. Catch The Breakdown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn9AgsLWkEU
Trump and Abbott's desperate redistricting has given rise to a Democratic boom on the other side of the aisle. Bring on 2026. Watch the LP pod here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIYu1pzudJY
Trump said repeatedly he would "end the war in 24 hours." It's been 207 days. No deal.
Texas Democrats know how to fight.
Trump thinks Putin is his friend. He's a moron.
Trump is openly ranking companies by political loyalty, weaponizing the government to punish companies that don’t push his agenda. This is political blackmail, plain and simple. https://www.axios.com/2025/08/15/white-house-rating-big-beautiful-bill
"Trumpism is hard to scale with individual candidates. If an ordinary candidate acts like Donald Trump, people will call to have them involuntarily committed." Rick Wilson explains how Democrats can defeat MAGA candidates on Morning Joe.
ICYMI: The Epstein Files aren't going away, but Trump is eager to shift the focus by terrorizing DC, destroying the economy, and bending the knee for Putin. Watch The Breakdown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn9AgsLWkEU
This won't be a negotiation. It'll be a spanking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhlwPOrccww
Trump knows it: cheating is the only way he can win now. Watch the LP Pod here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIYu1pzudJY
Trump won't stop until he's reduced the credibility of every pillar of the American economy. Watch Stuart Stevens on MSNBC:
His name must be all over that list.
Trump is taking DC for himself, and selling out Alaska to Putin. Catch all this and more tonight on The Breakdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn9AgsLWkEU
Join us in 15 minutes! @therickwilson.bsky.social is joined by Texas State Senator Roland Gutierrez today at 1:30 pm ET. The State Senator will give us an insider’s look into the fight to stop the #TXLege from redistricting the state and cheating in the mid-terms open.substack.com/live-stream/...
"This is a kick in the teeth for anyone who thought that tariffs would not impact domestic prices in the United States economy," said Carl Weinberg, chief economist at High Frequency Economics. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/surging-goods-services-prices-boost-us-producer-inflation-2025-08-14/
His name must be all over that list.
This isn’t the art of the deal, this is being Putin’s bitch. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/08/13/trump-to-present-minerals-deal-to-putin-in-alaska/
Someone's getting a good deal this Back To School season, and it's not you.
When AI Lies, Trust Dies Let’s start with this: I didn’t expect ClickUp Brain to be a real brain. But I also didn’t expect it to be a pathological liar with a straight face. clickup.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...
These monsters go way back. Here's the truth about Trump's history with Epstein which he's so desperately trying to distract you from: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/12/politics/trump-epstein-relationship-timeline-invs-vis
GOP Rep. Doug LaMalfa tried to defend Trump Big Bullshit Bill onstage in his home district last night. Let's see how that went:
Don't let the GOP rhetoric fool you. One side is trying to rig the game and the other side is not.
Someone's getting a good deal this Back To School season, and it's not you.
I was born an underdog. 21 surgeries by the age of 12 for spina bifida. A kid wearing goodwill hand-me-downs. I knew nothing would come easy, but I never doubted my right to the American dream. Now, I'm running for the U.S. Senate to make sure all Iowans have a shot at theirs.
5pm ET: Just hours ago, TX State Sen. Carol Alvarado and fellow Dems walked out of the chamber as the #Txlege began to take up the proposed congressional maps. She joins @therickwilson.bsky.social & @stuartpstevens.bsky.social to take behind the fight for democracy. open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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