From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.
April 12, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Are there any Hungarian lessons to be learned for those who long to see the end of MAGA?
How to defeat a very Trumpy authoritarian leader—maybe
“Hungarians would vote for a goat at this point if it was running against Orbán.”
www.motherjones.com
April 12, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.
April 12, 2026 at 11:03 PM
May 9, 2026 at 4:09 AM
The cost of your flight went up because you searched for it twice. Your rideshare costs more because your phone battery is dying.
This is surveillance pricing – corporations using your own data and behaviors against you.
In the US Senate, I’ve got plan to ban it.
This is surveillance pricing – corporations using your own data and behaviors against you.
In the US Senate, I’ve got plan to ban it.
March 27, 2026 at 6:42 PM
“Never again a country without consequences!“
#HowToWinElections
#HowToResist #HowToFight
(H/t @jamellebouie.net)
#HowToWinElections
#HowToResist #HowToFight
(H/t @jamellebouie.net)
Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!"
The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]
The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]
April 13, 2026 at 1:49 AM
“Never again a country without consequences!“
#HowToWinElections
#HowToResist #HowToFight
(H/t @jamellebouie.net)
#HowToWinElections
#HowToResist #HowToFight
(H/t @jamellebouie.net)
"Candidates should be talking much more about not just the rule of law on principle, but the prosecution of people in practice."
August 19, 2026 at 6:47 AM
FLASHBACK — @angieforfl.bsky.social nixon grabbed a Tennessee Three-style bullhorn to protest Florida’s unconstitutional seat-stealing redistricting
Now she’s the Democratic nominee for U.S. senate
Bottom line: The people want fighters
Now she’s the Democratic nominee for U.S. senate
Bottom line: The people want fighters
August 19, 2026 at 6:45 AM
Democrats need to stop panicking and pointing fingers at each other and start attacking the GOP for allowing Trump to use America like one big ATM for his corrupt family and billionaire buddies. This is simple.
July 8, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Important interview and when you finish reading it, the publication immediately provides a path to taking action. Kudos to Teen Vogue!
#dnc #howtowinelections #democratswhofight #supportchange #resist
#dnc #howtowinelections #democratswhofight #supportchange #resist
David Hogg: Democrats Have A "Courage Problem" and Need Strong Primary Challengers to Survive
"Given the fact that we've talked for about 15 years about how Democrats have a messaging problem, it's gone beyond a messaging problem. It is a messenger problem."
www.teenvogue.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Important interview and when you finish reading it, the publication immediately provides a path to taking action. Kudos to Teen Vogue!
#dnc #howtowinelections #democratswhofight #supportchange #resist
#dnc #howtowinelections #democratswhofight #supportchange #resist
Every Republican administration trashes the economy. Democrats then clean it up. Then MAGA blames the Dems
But attacks on Biden fell flat after people saw what Trump’s war and tariffs have done
And if it’s truly the economy, stupid
We have a chance to finally flip this insipid narrative
But attacks on Biden fell flat after people saw what Trump’s war and tariffs have done
And if it’s truly the economy, stupid
We have a chance to finally flip this insipid narrative
"Blue-collar white voters are, for the first time, seriously doubting Mr. Trump’s handling of the economy," NYT reports, noting a large swing against him relative to previous cycles.
As I reported this week:
As I reported this week:
June 13, 2026 at 10:53 PM
#HowToWinElections
Run on fighting corruption
Run on fighting corruption
I have been saying for years that Democrats should run against Republicans on the issue of corruption. Make fighting corruption the centerpiece of their hopefully populist campaigns.
Well, if they don’t run on corruption this year, against Trump, then they deserve to lose.
Well, if they don’t run on corruption this year, against Trump, then they deserve to lose.
May 25, 2026 at 12:58 AM
#HowToWinElections
Run on fighting corruption
Run on fighting corruption
#HowToWinElections
#HowToResist #HowToFight
Ask congressional candidates if they support paying violent criminals money from taxpayers, including criminals who have committed child sex crimes.
#HowToResist #HowToFight
Ask congressional candidates if they support paying violent criminals money from taxpayers, including criminals who have committed child sex crimes.
This is exactly the way. Find some awful Jan6 story from your state, your CD, and start talking relentlessly about it, asking people if they want to pay that criminal.
Andrew Quentin Taak, of Texas.
Ask Cornyn and Cruz how they feel about paying off this man.
www.texastribune.org/2025/02/06/a...
Ask Cornyn and Cruz how they feel about paying off this man.
www.texastribune.org/2025/02/06/a...
May 20, 2026 at 5:32 AM
#HowToWinElections
#HowToResist #HowToFight
Ask congressional candidates if they support paying violent criminals money from taxpayers, including criminals who have committed child sex crimes.
#HowToResist #HowToFight
Ask congressional candidates if they support paying violent criminals money from taxpayers, including criminals who have committed child sex crimes.
This retrospective of what went wrong for Dems in 2024 is worth the (long) read. The reflections on the changing information ecosystems were interesting, especially considering the messenger. I don't necessarily agree with all of it, but there's a lot here that gets to the crux of the problem(s).
"We’re still treating 'digital' as a thing, when it’s actually just the way the world works. The campaigns that figure that out first are going to have a massive advantage. The ones that don’t are going to keep having autopsies." One of many points here:
May 14, 2026 at 7:27 PM
"Trump’s golden statue, triumphal arch, and 'magnificent' ballroom. They’re all about him. No Republican has said a word critical of any of his narcissistic projects.
Democrats need to explain 'The Republican party is with him.' And then show, 'We’re with you.'”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Democrats need to explain 'The Republican party is with him.' And then show, 'We’re with you.'”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Trump’s For Himself, Not For You
His narcissism is out of control.
open.substack.com
May 11, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Obama: "What I'm more interested in for Democrats is, do you know how to just talk to regular people like we're not in a college seminar? Can you talk in plain English to folks? And not have a bunch of gobbledygook around it. Just talk like normal people talk. 'The rent is too high.'"
May 7, 2026 at 12:57 AM
"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging
Trump’s lawyers are in talks with the IRS to resolve president’s $10B lawsuit
April 18, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Democrats are underreacting to Donald Trump’s obvious mental decline.
They should be shouting it from the rooftops and on every cable show, just like Republicans did with Joe Biden.
Trump is clearly not well.
They should be shouting it from the rooftops and on every cable show, just like Republicans did with Joe Biden.
Trump is clearly not well.
April 17, 2026 at 6:42 AM
the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said.
I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort
I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort
seriously hope when dems get back in power they go after every single fuck involved with DOGE
April 17, 2026 at 6:37 AM
"Péter Magyar wasn’t calling out individual abuses. He was calling out an entire platform that was designed to enrich a kleptocratic elite and the family of Viktor Orbán." Important takeaways for us from @ambpressman.bsky.social:
Cali Dems Need to Get Their Sh*t Together
At this point, Gov. Tom Steyer might be the least bad outcome.
lnk.thebulwark.com
April 15, 2026 at 6:48 PM
THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT
"Magyar wasn't engaging in a policy debate... His framing was Viktor Orbán and Fidesz are a criminal organization and we need to dismantle this... he connected the impact of the criminal organization to these rural Hungarians' experience."
@ambpressman.bsky.social on how Magyar beat Orbán.
@ambpressman.bsky.social on how Magyar beat Orbán.
April 15, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Viktor Orbán created the global blueprint for authoritarian populism and became a MAGA hero. Today, Hungarian voters sent him packing after 16 years in power.
There is nothing inevitable about these guys. Organize. Vote. Fight back. It works.
There is nothing inevitable about these guys. Organize. Vote. Fight back. It works.
April 12, 2026 at 11:39 PM
I was elected as a democratic socialist, and will continue to govern as a democratic socialist.
100 days in — and we’re just getting started.
100 days in — and we’re just getting started.
April 12, 2026 at 11:12 PM
From @kimlanelaw.bsky.social
“lots of lessons here for the US - in particular that Magyar went to Orban strongholds for years and persuaded Orban supporters in person that their lives could be better. He knew he had the cities -- and he needed the villages to win this sort of victory.
“lots of lessons here for the US - in particular that Magyar went to Orban strongholds for years and persuaded Orban supporters in person that their lives could be better. He knew he had the cities -- and he needed the villages to win this sort of victory.
April 12, 2026 at 11:01 PM
"This is what you get when you elect Republicans."
Every Dem within 100 feet of a camera needs to be saying this repeatedly.
Every time we elect Republicans, we get dumbass wars, tax cuts for rich people, and financial crises. Every time.
Fucking say it!
Every Dem within 100 feet of a camera needs to be saying this repeatedly.
Every time we elect Republicans, we get dumbass wars, tax cuts for rich people, and financial crises. Every time.
Fucking say it!
April 8, 2026 at 8:33 PM