Richard Fawal
@rfawal.bsky.social
I do politics, public affairs, podcasts, and craft beer. I lead Voxtopica.com. I write at https://6to64.substack.com. I publish DCBeer.com. I don’t do fascism. No 🧊
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A Failure of Communication
Democrats caved in the worst possible way
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Senate Democrats could have ended the #shutdown by declaring victory. Instead, they ended it by declaring defeat.
This failure demonstrates that @schumer.senate.gov is ill-suited to this moment and is unable to lead in these troubled times. I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/6to64/p/...
This failure demonstrates that @schumer.senate.gov is ill-suited to this moment and is unable to lead in these troubled times. I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/6to64/p/...
Schumer thinks Americans are nothing but poll numbers, message testing subjects, and focus group participants. Old man hasn’t spoken to an actual voter in decades.
A thing I wrote about Schumer when Mamdani won the primary and kind of thinking about it a lot the last two days
Worth reminding everyone that the current highest ranking Democrat in America openly admits he bases his decisions on what he thinks an imaginary person would want and today he and most of his allies are struggling to understand how somebody like Mamdani won by talking to voters who actually exist
November 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Schumer thinks Americans are nothing but poll numbers, message testing subjects, and focus group participants. Old man hasn’t spoken to an actual voter in decades.
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CLIP: TN-5 candidate Columbia, TN mayor @chazmolder on Andy Ogles pushing for a Trump 3rd term, using 9/11 footage to attack Zohran, and calling Chaz a “Marxist” — as he ducks the FBI, and Q’s about that child burial fundraiser🤔💰
Full interview: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7V2YS...
Full interview: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7V2YS...
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
CLIP: TN-5 candidate Columbia, TN mayor @chazmolder on Andy Ogles pushing for a Trump 3rd term, using 9/11 footage to attack Zohran, and calling Chaz a “Marxist” — as he ducks the FBI, and Q’s about that child burial fundraiser🤔💰
Full interview: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7V2YS...
Full interview: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7V2YS...
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"Where is the outrage, the coverage even, of the mutilated Palestinian bodies, with crushed legs and gunshot wounds to the head, that the Israelis finally released as part of this 'ceasefire' deal?" zeteo.com/p/israel-ret...
Crushed Legs. Gunshot Wounds to the Head. Shackled: Israel Returns Mutilated Palestinian Bodies
Where is the outrage, the coverage even, of the mutilated Palestinian bodies, with crushed legs and gunshot wounds to the head, that the Israelis finally released as part of this 'ceasefire' deal?
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"Where is the outrage, the coverage even, of the mutilated Palestinian bodies, with crushed legs and gunshot wounds to the head, that the Israelis finally released as part of this 'ceasefire' deal?" zeteo.com/p/israel-ret...
What Dems SHOULD have said:
The GOP would rather inflict pain than negotiate.
We care about you. We’ll reopen the government to feed hungry people and get workers paid.
The fight for affordable healthcare isn’t over. The battle against authoritarianism isn’t done.
We’re Democrats. We fight for you.
The GOP would rather inflict pain than negotiate.
We care about you. We’ll reopen the government to feed hungry people and get workers paid.
The fight for affordable healthcare isn’t over. The battle against authoritarianism isn’t done.
We’re Democrats. We fight for you.
November 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
What Dems SHOULD have said:
The GOP would rather inflict pain than negotiate.
We care about you. We’ll reopen the government to feed hungry people and get workers paid.
The fight for affordable healthcare isn’t over. The battle against authoritarianism isn’t done.
We’re Democrats. We fight for you.
The GOP would rather inflict pain than negotiate.
We care about you. We’ll reopen the government to feed hungry people and get workers paid.
The fight for affordable healthcare isn’t over. The battle against authoritarianism isn’t done.
We’re Democrats. We fight for you.
Absolutely. They completely failed to put forth a winning message and opted for messaging that displayed weakness instead. Wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/6to64/p/...
open.substack.com/pub/6to64/p/...
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Absolutely. They completely failed to put forth a winning message and opted for messaging that displayed weakness instead. Wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/6to64/p/...
open.substack.com/pub/6to64/p/...
Senate Democrats could have ended the #shutdown by declaring victory. Instead, they ended it by declaring defeat.
This failure demonstrates that @schumer.senate.gov is ill-suited to this moment and is unable to lead in these troubled times. I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/6to64/p/...
This failure demonstrates that @schumer.senate.gov is ill-suited to this moment and is unable to lead in these troubled times. I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/6to64/p/...
A Failure of Communication
Democrats caved in the worst possible way
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Senate Democrats could have ended the #shutdown by declaring victory. Instead, they ended it by declaring defeat.
This failure demonstrates that @schumer.senate.gov is ill-suited to this moment and is unable to lead in these troubled times. I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/6to64/p/...
This failure demonstrates that @schumer.senate.gov is ill-suited to this moment and is unable to lead in these troubled times. I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/6to64/p/...
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After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...
www.indivisible2026.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
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This sounds like the start of a conversation to put Paw Paw in an assisted living center.
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
This sounds like the start of a conversation to put Paw Paw in an assisted living center.
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"The soldiers who agreed to talk confirmed the IDF’s routine use of human shields, contradicting official denials, and gave details of Israeli troops opening fire unprovoked on civilians racing to reach food handouts" at the GHF distribution points.
"Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians: IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy"
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
"The soldiers who agreed to talk confirmed the IDF’s routine use of human shields, contradicting official denials, and gave details of Israeli troops opening fire unprovoked on civilians racing to reach food handouts" at the GHF distribution points.
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I'm a SNAP recipient... for the last month I was tightening my belt, doing my best to eat cheaper and eating less so I'd have a little left over to help get me through when payments were cut. It was all for nothing. Fuck the dems who supported this.
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I'm a SNAP recipient... for the last month I was tightening my belt, doing my best to eat cheaper and eating less so I'd have a little left over to help get me through when payments were cut. It was all for nothing. Fuck the dems who supported this.
Back in 2017 I complained that Never-Trump Republicans were fools to think that their Party would return to “normal” after Trump.
Now I realize that @schumer.senate.gov and Senate Democrats are also fools who believe the GOP will somehow return to “normal.”
Now I realize that @schumer.senate.gov and Senate Democrats are also fools who believe the GOP will somehow return to “normal.”
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Back in 2017 I complained that Never-Trump Republicans were fools to think that their Party would return to “normal” after Trump.
Now I realize that @schumer.senate.gov and Senate Democrats are also fools who believe the GOP will somehow return to “normal.”
Now I realize that @schumer.senate.gov and Senate Democrats are also fools who believe the GOP will somehow return to “normal.”
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I refuse to support a funding bill that fails to address the Republican health care crisis.
And make health insurance affordable.
The American people clearly understand the stakes and the urgency. We must too.
I'm voting no.
And make health insurance affordable.
The American people clearly understand the stakes and the urgency. We must too.
I'm voting no.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I refuse to support a funding bill that fails to address the Republican health care crisis.
And make health insurance affordable.
The American people clearly understand the stakes and the urgency. We must too.
I'm voting no.
And make health insurance affordable.
The American people clearly understand the stakes and the urgency. We must too.
I'm voting no.
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It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not.
If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not.
If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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you can see why fascism is so popular when the other option is The Loser Party That Loves Losing
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
you can see why fascism is so popular when the other option is The Loser Party That Loves Losing
THIS is what a true Democrat sounds like.
This moment demands fighters, not folders.
Official statement from @jamestalarico.bsky.social on shutdown negotiations
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
THIS is what a true Democrat sounds like.
Hey @kaine.senate.gov, your constituents expect you to stand up for them, to stand up for democracy, and to stand up for working Americans. But you didn’t.
We’re going to replace you at the ballot box with someone who will, you spineless wimp.
We’re going to replace you at the ballot box with someone who will, you spineless wimp.
November 10, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Hey @kaine.senate.gov, your constituents expect you to stand up for them, to stand up for democracy, and to stand up for working Americans. But you didn’t.
We’re going to replace you at the ballot box with someone who will, you spineless wimp.
We’re going to replace you at the ballot box with someone who will, you spineless wimp.
“This deal guarantees that Lucy will allow me to attempt to kick a football, which she wasn’t willing to do. Lucy knows that readers expect her to let me kick it, and if she doesn’t, she could very well be replaced by in the comics by Family Circus.”
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
“This deal guarantees that Lucy will allow me to attempt to kick a football, which she wasn’t willing to do. Lucy knows that readers expect her to let me kick it, and if she doesn’t, she could very well be replaced by in the comics by Family Circus.”
Trump posted the AI video, but it was Senate Democrats who actually shit all over the 7 million No Kings protesters.
dems making my mom lose her paychecks for six fucking weeks only to give up on the aca subsidies anyways at a moment when they have immense public pressure and trump is fucking getting booed in public jesus christ
Deal has been reached, I’m told by multiple sources, and Kaine has announced his support
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Trump posted the AI video, but it was Senate Democrats who actually shit all over the 7 million No Kings protesters.
Looks like @kaine.senate.gov is one of the spineless idiots who thinks Republicans are trustworthy after their repeated demonstrations of untrustworthiness.
Jesus Christ, @kaine.senate.gov, getting a pinky promise to hold one single vote on ACA funding is not "a path toward fixing the health care mess" anymore than a lottery ticket is a "path toward fixing my personal finances"
“Um well there aren’t even any Senate Dem Press releases saying they support the deal”
Sen Tim Kaine: Hold my beer
Sen Tim Kaine: Hold my beer
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Looks like @kaine.senate.gov is one of the spineless idiots who thinks Republicans are trustworthy after their repeated demonstrations of untrustworthiness.
Once again, Democrats show their expertise at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
#FuckChuck
@schumer.senate.gov is useless. Fucker might as well be a Republican.
#FuckChuck
@schumer.senate.gov is useless. Fucker might as well be a Republican.
November 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Once again, Democrats show their expertise at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
#FuckChuck
@schumer.senate.gov is useless. Fucker might as well be a Republican.
#FuckChuck
@schumer.senate.gov is useless. Fucker might as well be a Republican.
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Democrats caving after 40 days with nothing to show for it would be the most democrat thing to have ever happened.
November 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Democrats caving after 40 days with nothing to show for it would be the most democrat thing to have ever happened.
Hey @booker.senate.gov @ossoff.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov BE LIKE @slotkin.senate.gov
and hold the line for ACA subsidies!
Do Not Cave
and hold the line for ACA subsidies!
Do Not Cave
Keep tagging them and commenting on their posts, it is having an impact!!!!
And thank @slotkin.senate.gov !!!! remember honey catches more flies than vinegar
And thank @slotkin.senate.gov !!!! remember honey catches more flies than vinegar
November 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Hey @booker.senate.gov @ossoff.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov BE LIKE @slotkin.senate.gov
and hold the line for ACA subsidies!
Do Not Cave
and hold the line for ACA subsidies!
Do Not Cave
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If @schumer.senate.gov caves without getting an extension on ACA subsidies he should be primaried and drummed out of any role in the Democratic party. His leadership has been Ann abject failure for working Americans.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
If @schumer.senate.gov caves without getting an extension on ACA subsidies he should be primaried and drummed out of any role in the Democratic party. His leadership has been Ann abject failure for working Americans.