David Atkins
Contributor @washingtonmonthly.com. Bylines @theprospect & elsewhere. Elected DNC Member from CA. Progressive reformist. Dad of two. I run a qualitative research firm.
- Reposted by David AtkinsHuge news out of Nebraska: Democrat John Ewing just flipped the mayor's office in Omaha, the state's biggest city. He successfully tied the GOP incumbent to Trump. She responded by claiming Ewing "stands with radicals" on "boys in girls' bathrooms and sports." It didn't work. Our full writeup -->
- The DNC resolutions committee voted to consider the two vice Chair elections for Malcolm Kenyatta and David Hogg "incomplete" under the somewhat farcical notion that the ballot sequence was unclear. So the DNC will conduct new elections for vice Chair (one male, one any gender) later this year.
- The "flying palace" is a straight-up impeachable offense and blatantly unAmerican.
- ICE agents illegally assaulted members of Congress and illegally arrested the mayor of Newark. All of them need to be held maximally accountable. Via @elizaorlins.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
- AOC-Pritzker 2028. Crockett for Speaker. Garcia for Whip. Chris Murphy for Senate Leader. Kamala Harris AG. Warren at Treasury. Sanders at Labor.
