New yr, new format!
I like this broader strategy as a result of I consider that if the media goes to face as much as the troublesome years forward, we have to supply each pointed criticism and real looking options. That’s one thing I see taking place on daily basis on Each day Kos, and a part of my new strategy to this column can be guaranteeing these impactful tales are amplified to as many readers as potential.
Clearly, we’re nonetheless gonna dunk on the flunkies over within the company media. Let’s dive in.
The invisible Pete Hegseth
“I promise I’ll be quiet, Susie!”
That’s a rule made particularly for Hegseth, who simply can’t appear to remain out of bother. “Hegseth has taken to social media to complain about “anti-Christian bigotry” within the media, the “lying press” and the “Left Wing hack group” ProPublica,” Willis writes. No surprise Trump enforcer Susie Wiles is ordering nominees to clam up. However that additionally means the press gained’t have any alternative to get clear solutions from Hegseth about his historical past of weird Jan. 6 conspiracy theories or his alleged sexual assault.
With simply eight days till Hegseth faces Senate affirmation hearings, company media shops have determined to avert their eyes. The end result can be a catastrophe for American nationwide safety, enabled by company media silence.
Democrats in array
Each day Kos’s Emily Singer follows the outstanding Home Majority PAC as they announce their high congressional district targets for 2026—and start the essential means of recruiting expert candidates. The tremendous PAC notes that that is the earliest they’ve ever begun their candidate recruitment course of, pushed by the truth that simply three seats maintain the stability of energy within the Home. For congressional Democrats, the ability to throw the brakes on Trump’s agenda is tantalizingly shut and but impossibly distant.
Home Majority PAC is eyeing key races in Colorado, Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Nebraska, the place Republican candidates gained by slim margins or in areas usually carried by Democrats. These efforts must be bolstered by whoever emerges because the DNC’s subsequent chair—one other subject that the majority cable shops nonetheless refuse to cowl.
Jon Stewart
The Democratic Social gathering’s restructuring won’t be televised, principally as a result of nobody finds it very fascinating. That will find yourself being a hidden blessing for Democrats, who will be capable of construct their 2026 marketing campaign equipment away from the glare of the headlines. Prime Democrats have determined that it’s price it to lose short-term media consideration as a way to mend the occasion’s election yr wounds in non-public. Are they proper?
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