2026 Elections: To the Midterms and Beyond!

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I got a text from Emily's List today telling me NOT to give Platner any money, but to donate to their candidates instead.

Not getting the "VBNMW" vibes....

So they'd rather have Slatternly Susan enriching herself while pretending to care about women? Cool.

 

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So they'd rather have Slatternly Susan enriching herself while pretending to care about women? Cool.

She does have ovaries, so...

 

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In addition to a wealth tax, I think we need legislation giving ordinary people a share of the wealth generated by corporations selling their personal info they collect all over the internet.

Every website you visit, everything you click on, is collected and monetized by companies dozens of times over, and you never see a penny from it. If a company is making money from my personal data, I should get a cut of that.

 

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NIL for All?

 

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Does she have to claim this as a campaign contribution?

 

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Susan Collins launched her reelection by opening a box of New Balance sneakers on camera. She didn't mention that the billionaire who owns New Balance had already handed a million dollars to the super PAC keeping her in office.
"This is perfect for 2026," she'd said, holding up the shoe. "Because I'm running."
Running on whose money, exactly?
Nearly 100 billionaires and their spouses have poured $9.8 million into Collins' reelection machine, about a third of everything her side has raised.
Ken Griffin wrote a single $2.5 million check. Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman, who once likened a tax on his industry to the Nazi invasion of Poland, added a million more.
They have reason to trust her.
In 2017, Collins floated an amendment to close a private equity loophole and spend the money on affordable child care. A day later she dropped it and voted for Trump's tax cuts instead.
Private equity has been her most reliable donor ever since.
So when Maine families needed cheaper child care, Collins protected the loophole.
When the hedge funds needed a senator, they had one.
Her challenger, Graham Platner, has raised $9.6 million almost entirely from small donors. The average gift is $26, from more than 15,000 volunteers in nearly every zip code in the state.
One campaign is paid for by the people who live under its votes. The other by the people those votes protect.