Matthew Dowd
@matthewjdowd.bsky.social
Father, friend, believe love conquers hate, and truth wins over prevarication.
happy bday German writer/philosopher Friedrich Schiller, b.1759.
“Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.”
“Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.”
“Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.”
“Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.”
“Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.”
“Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.”
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
happy bday German writer/philosopher Friedrich Schiller, b.1759.
“Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.”
“Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.”
“Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.”
“Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.”
“Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.”
“Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.”
On this date in 1898 was the Wilmington insurrection, also known as the Wilmington massacre or the Wilmington coup. It is when a group of white supremacists overthrew the eleced municipal government in NC and killed numerous black citizens.
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
On this date in 1898 was the Wilmington insurrection, also known as the Wilmington massacre or the Wilmington coup. It is when a group of white supremacists overthrew the eleced municipal government in NC and killed numerous black citizens.
on this date in 1939 Finnish writer Frans Eemil Sillanpää wins Nobel Prize in Lit.
"There is almost no summer night in the north; only a lingering evening, darkening slightly as it lingers, but even this darkening has its ineffable clarity. It is the approaching presentiment of the summer morning...
"There is almost no summer night in the north; only a lingering evening, darkening slightly as it lingers, but even this darkening has its ineffable clarity. It is the approaching presentiment of the summer morning...
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
on this date in 1939 Finnish writer Frans Eemil Sillanpää wins Nobel Prize in Lit.
"There is almost no summer night in the north; only a lingering evening, darkening slightly as it lingers, but even this darkening has its ineffable clarity. It is the approaching presentiment of the summer morning...
"There is almost no summer night in the north; only a lingering evening, darkening slightly as it lingers, but even this darkening has its ineffable clarity. It is the approaching presentiment of the summer morning...
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happy bday the iconic, and one of my favs, Carl Sagan, b.1934, NYC.
“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
happy bday the iconic, and one of my favs, Carl Sagan, b.1934, NYC.
“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
happy bday poet Anne Sexton, b.1928, Newton, MA.
“I am alone here in my own mind.
There is no map
and there is no road.
It is one of a kind
just as yours is.”
"To love another is something
like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall
into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.”
“I am alone here in my own mind.
There is no map
and there is no road.
It is one of a kind
just as yours is.”
"To love another is something
like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall
into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.”
November 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
happy bday poet Anne Sexton, b.1928, Newton, MA.
“I am alone here in my own mind.
There is no map
and there is no road.
It is one of a kind
just as yours is.”
"To love another is something
like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall
into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.”
“I am alone here in my own mind.
There is no map
and there is no road.
It is one of a kind
just as yours is.”
"To love another is something
like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall
into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.”
A Democrat, labeled by GOP a socialist and communist, carries strongly the voters of NYC. By the way this is 1932 when FDR had landslide victory across the country for President. And then this "socialist" went on to get elected to four terms.
November 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
A Democrat, labeled by GOP a socialist and communist, carries strongly the voters of NYC. By the way this is 1932 when FDR had landslide victory across the country for President. And then this "socialist" went on to get elected to four terms.
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RIP English poet John Milton, died this day 1674.
“Freely we serve
Because we freely love, as in our will
To love or not; in this we stand or fall.”
“This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.”
“Freely we serve
Because we freely love, as in our will
To love or not; in this we stand or fall.”
“This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.”
November 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
RIP English poet John Milton, died this day 1674.
“Freely we serve
Because we freely love, as in our will
To love or not; in this we stand or fall.”
“This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.”
“Freely we serve
Because we freely love, as in our will
To love or not; in this we stand or fall.”
“This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.”
happy bday, one of my favs, Catholic reformer Dorothy Day, b.1897, NYC.
“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?”
“The final word is love.”
“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?”
“The final word is love.”
November 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
happy bday, one of my favs, Catholic reformer Dorothy Day, b.1897, NYC.
“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?”
“The final word is love.”
“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?”
“The final word is love.”
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Election 2025: GOP addicted to darkness, Dems seeing the light - Matthew Dowd
open.substack.com/pub/matthewd...
open.substack.com/pub/matthewd...
Election 2025: GOP addicted to darkness, Dems seeing the light
Are Republicans so addicted to Trump that they are willing to stay in complete denial and take themselves and our constitutional democracy down the path to ruin?
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Election 2025: GOP addicted to darkness, Dems seeing the light - Matthew Dowd
open.substack.com/pub/matthewd...
open.substack.com/pub/matthewd...
"...voters who don’t like either major political party voted for Democratic candidates by a ratio of nearly 3 to 1. So the idea promulgated by many pundits that perceptions of both parties are bad and this means Democrats are in trouble is just plain wrong."
open.substack.com/pub/matthewd...
open.substack.com/pub/matthewd...
Election 2025: GOP addicted to darkness, Dems seeing the light
Are Republicans so addicted to Trump that they are willing to stay in complete denial and take themselves and our constitutional democracy down the path to ruin?
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"...voters who don’t like either major political party voted for Democratic candidates by a ratio of nearly 3 to 1. So the idea promulgated by many pundits that perceptions of both parties are bad and this means Democrats are in trouble is just plain wrong."
open.substack.com/pub/matthewd...
open.substack.com/pub/matthewd...
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Good morning, Matthew. I always imagine eternal spring or autumn. 💙🦋
November 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Good morning, Matthew. I always imagine eternal spring or autumn. 💙🦋
"Are Republicans so addicted to Trump that they are willing to stay in complete denial and take themselves and our constitutional democracy down the path to ruin" open.substack.com/pub/matthewd...
Election 2025: GOP addicted to darkness, Dems seeing the light
Are Republicans so addicted to Trump that they are willing to stay in complete denial and take themselves and our constitutional democracy down the path to ruin?
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"Are Republicans so addicted to Trump that they are willing to stay in complete denial and take themselves and our constitutional democracy down the path to ruin" open.substack.com/pub/matthewd...
happy bday French writer Albert Camus, b.1913.
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
November 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
happy bday French writer Albert Camus, b.1913.
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
happy friday sisters and brothers. my latest substack: open.substack.com/pub/matthewd...
Election 2025: GOP addicted to darkness, Dems seeing the light
Are Republicans so addicted to Trump that they are willing to stay in complete denial and take themselves and our constitutional democracy down the path to ruin?
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
happy friday sisters and brothers. my latest substack: open.substack.com/pub/matthewd...
happy bday English naturalist/writer Richard Jefferies, b.1848.
“It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.”
“It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.”
November 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
happy bday English naturalist/writer Richard Jefferies, b.1848.
“It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.”
“It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.”
what is so ridiculous about this is the GOP was claiming in last few years that NJ and VA were now purple states. and of course they are ignoring ground they lost in suburban areas and in rural areas.
Mike Johnson: "What happened last night is blue states and blue cities voted blue. We all saw that coming. And no one should read too much into last night's election results."
November 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
what is so ridiculous about this is the GOP was claiming in last few years that NJ and VA were now purple states. and of course they are ignoring ground they lost in suburban areas and in rural areas.
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“Call me a socialist or any blame thing you want to, as long as you grab hold of the other end of the cross-cut saw with me and help slash the big logs of Poverty and Intolerance to pieces.”
LOVE THIS!!! 🪵
LOVE THIS!!! 🪵
on this day in 1930, writer Sinclair Lewis becomes first American to win Nobel Prize in Lit.
“Call me a socialist or any blame thing you want to, as long as you grab hold of the other end of the cross-cut saw with me and help slash the big logs of Poverty and Intolerance to pieces.”
“Call me a socialist or any blame thing you want to, as long as you grab hold of the other end of the cross-cut saw with me and help slash the big logs of Poverty and Intolerance to pieces.”
November 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
“Call me a socialist or any blame thing you want to, as long as you grab hold of the other end of the cross-cut saw with me and help slash the big logs of Poverty and Intolerance to pieces.”
LOVE THIS!!! 🪵
LOVE THIS!!! 🪵
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Perfectly timed post, Matthew! 💙💪
November 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Perfectly timed post, Matthew! 💙💪
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happy bday reformer/journalist Ida Tarbell, b1857
"In walking through the world there is a choice for one to make. ....choose the fair & open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, & the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man."
"In walking through the world there is a choice for one to make. ....choose the fair & open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, & the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man."
November 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
happy bday reformer/journalist Ida Tarbell, b1857
"In walking through the world there is a choice for one to make. ....choose the fair & open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, & the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man."
"In walking through the world there is a choice for one to make. ....choose the fair & open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, & the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man."
on this day in 1930, writer Sinclair Lewis becomes first American to win Nobel Prize in Lit.
“Call me a socialist or any blame thing you want to, as long as you grab hold of the other end of the cross-cut saw with me and help slash the big logs of Poverty and Intolerance to pieces.”
“Call me a socialist or any blame thing you want to, as long as you grab hold of the other end of the cross-cut saw with me and help slash the big logs of Poverty and Intolerance to pieces.”
November 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
on this day in 1930, writer Sinclair Lewis becomes first American to win Nobel Prize in Lit.
“Call me a socialist or any blame thing you want to, as long as you grab hold of the other end of the cross-cut saw with me and help slash the big logs of Poverty and Intolerance to pieces.”
“Call me a socialist or any blame thing you want to, as long as you grab hold of the other end of the cross-cut saw with me and help slash the big logs of Poverty and Intolerance to pieces.”
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November 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
ICYMI: Last week, @stuartpstevens.bsky.social, @joetrippi.bsky.social, and @matthewjdowd.bsky.social sat down on Strategy Session.
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Subscribe to watch & tune in tonight at 5pm EST when Stuart and @therickwilson.bsky.social welcome @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social
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November 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM