They totally control the GOP out here in AZ and spent nearly $100 mil last cycle around the country. They’ve had organized campaigns against mlk, efforts to end the civil rights act, they applauded employees who assaulted a queer asu professor, and so much more.

On the topic of TPUSA specifically this has been a massive challenge I’ve been screaming about for years. National reporters treat them like some podcast company that goes to college campuses to own the libs. They think TPUSA and Kirk are same as Ben Shapiro. That is far from the case.

This may have been true 30 years ago. But it isn’t true today. Your claim only works if we assume that they don’t have their own very active information eco system. Which of course they do. We could ignore them forever and their message would still go out to huge audiences, but now unchallenged.

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

Agree. Reporting is often erasing her qualities when talking about why she won by so much. Candidates matter! I mean look at who got 3rd. Proof.

I’ll push back some on this. There is zero data to argue the presence of Hogg himself could impact an election one way or another. I very seriously doubt more than 15% of even an odd year primary electorate (which includes more high efficacy voters than say a presidential) even know who he is.

I think lots of lazy reporting is happening for sure. But I’ve also seen a lot of pnline progressives argue that Bernie and the coalition Grijalva built are the establishment.

Do you think Hogg is the establishment? (I don’t) He was pushing this message too.

It’s nuts to me when you all call Grijalva establishment. Ya he was in congress for a long time but dude wasn’t a prolific fundraiser. He constantly bucked leaders. He often would be the lone endorser when all his colleagues went another way. Ie early for Howard Dean first for Bernie Sanders etc

I don’t think it was because they didn’t like Deja Foxx. I think it is because they really liked Adelita. She has been in public office locally for a long time and has always been a reliable fighter.

Deja Foxx raised good money, were those digital ads outside the district designed for that? Or was there some other strategic reason? Or just a targeting error by whoever did the buys?

I’m not playing dumb here, maybe there was a reason. I want to know. I’ve been confused about this for a few weeks

You forgot about the $1 million he spent along the way.

Have an update?

All she cares about is making Trump happy so she can maybe win a primary. That is it. Pitiful.