@dunksalot @ThomasS4217 @gal_suburban Igniting Florida is a lobbying firm that Fried started.

If she made $351K through that company, that she initially didn’t report, then who was she lobbying on behalf of - who was paying her company?

The Republican Party is an authoritarian power structure.

For decades, it embraced greedy nihilists in order to win elections.

In the last 10+ years, a well-funded insurgency has infiltrated and captured it.

They are now threatening & purging any remaining opposition.

We can’t address the threat they pose to democracy without addressing the methods by which they maintain popular support.

This requires action across multiple fronts.

In terms of public policy, we are working on the right things:

-Bills to eliminate the GOP’s counter-majorian control (voting security, eliminating vote suppression)

-Exposing dark money networks who are funding them (forcing transparency for anonymous shell companies)

-Addressing the immediate socio-economic pain that places people in anxiety-laden debt traps, makes them feel isolated, and makes them ripe targets for disinformation/authoritarian messaging appeals (fighting Covid with a plan, financial relief, genuinely empathetic leadership)

Biden and the Dem Congress are working on all of these things already.

This is moving us in the right direction, and shows that they get what needs to be done here. This is good.

There are three areas that still concern me, that I have been trying to call attention to...

This is a great article that touches on Stone’s role in stop the steal, but the most important sentence is this:

“The radicalization of the Republican Party has altered the world of conservative media, which is, in turn, accelerating that

We aren’t talking enough about the political insurgency into the Republican Party, and who is funding it.

From the article:

As Fuentes said on the “InfoWars” panel, “This is the best thing that can happen, because it’s destroying the legitimacy of the system.”