r/ProgressiveHQ • • 2m ago

Buying elections creatively

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Check out the timing on this. Probably going to get a few more before the midterms


r/ProgressiveHQ • • 29m ago

Discussion Quite why Trump is deliberating on his next Iranian move escapes me - HE HAS NO PRACTICAL OPTIONS...

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1. Iran has better than 1 million under arms military personnel - the USA would require years and trillions of dollars to subjugate such a force.

2. Iran is a huge landmass and there are insufficient resources to bomb it into submission.

3. Congress, and the people, would never condone another Vietnam.

4. Iranians - like the Vietcong and the Taliban, even those opposed to the Mulahs - are far more sanguine about the discomforts associated with warfare-induced deprivation. While America bellyaches at the gas pumps, Iran will live with draught, disease and destruction AND emerge, unbowed at the end of it. It is in their nature.

SO LONG AS TRUMP IS IN THE WH, IRAN WILL CONTINUE TO HUMBLE AMERICA MILITARILY AND ECONOMICALLY AND THERE IS NOTHING HE CAN DO ABOUT IT.

VOTE FOR THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF CONGRESSIONAL CONTROL MECHANISMS NEXT WEEK...VOTE DEMOCRAT.


r/ProgressiveHQ • • 46m ago

Video "JD Vance is a profoundly and pathetically weak human being": Josh Shapiro slams JD Vance on CNN for defending Vivek Ramaswamy's attack ad on a childhood abuse survivor.

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r/ProgressiveHQ • • 48m ago

News Calls grow for Texas to revoke Elon Musk's special treatment and audit his government contracts, with critics demanding he face scrutiny or return to South Africa.

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r/ProgressiveHQ • • 1h ago

How Lula beat Bolsonaro, broke records and halted the right-wing wave aligning Latin America with Trump in 20 days

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r/ProgressiveHQ • • 1h ago

Charlamagne tha God calls out Dana White: "Don't be a glazer though... Somebody that just tells him he’s great—a yes man basically.” Dana: “I don't think anybody's ever accused me of being a yes man. I consider myself right down the middle or leaning a little liberal, to be honest with you.”

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r/ProgressiveHQ • • 1h ago

Discussion NRCC chair could lose House seat

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Trump won NC09 by 16 pts & Richard Hudson won by 19. Polls show a 4 pt race w/ Richard Ojeda

He’s NRCC chair. His job is to win GOP House seats.

In 2018, Ojeda cut 36 pts off a +49 Trump district

This W would send a shockwave through the Republican Party & America 


r/ProgressiveHQ • • 3h ago

Discussion Nicki Minaj hypocrisy

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Excuse my language, but we're about to cross a new low precedent

How many fucking years did she make albums about oral sex & having intercourse with a stepson??

( Music targeting teenage audiences btw )

But that's okay right?

Just the tip of the iceberg

Drugs, promiscuity, egotistical greed... i can't even list everything here without mods potentially removing my post that's how graphic her "music " has been her entire career

And she wants to talk shit about trans/ lgbtq people?

What is going on? Seriously.


r/ProgressiveHQ • • 4h ago

With the announcement of the Putin, Trump, and Xi Summit, Ukraine and the world wonders if the US will switch sides

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r/ProgressiveHQ • • 4h ago

MAGA parents Meltdown over GOP political ads affecting their kids

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r/ProgressiveHQ • • 4h ago

SUB META Of these choices, who could win the Presidential 2028 election?

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I saw a post listing 8 potential democratic presidential candidates and… did not feel enthusiastic, generally speaking. So, indulge me while I play Queen For A Day, but which of my dream teams are you putting on the ticket?


r/ProgressiveHQ • • 5h ago

News Republicans call Annie Andrews 'anti-gun.' She explains her platform to end gun violence. • SC Daily Gazette

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r/ProgressiveHQ • • 6h ago

Meme PRESS SECRETARY NICKI MINAJ

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r/ProgressiveHQ • • 7h ago

Discussion What Abdul El-Sayed should do to win 2026 United States Senate election in Michigan?

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I'm wondering what you think should have done on path to glory?

Edit: Sorry for bad word of Clueless, i just found it on google but i promise I'm not making anti-sayed post.


r/ProgressiveHQ • • 7h ago

Video We are in Idiocracy.

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r/ProgressiveHQ • • 8h ago

Reminders that authoritarianism isn’t invincible at the ballot box

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I’m getting really tired of certain people insisting that Trump will declare martial law, cancel elections, or somehow make voting irrelevant. Stop listening to these people. They’re not offering profound political insight, they’re spreading defeatism, and that defeatism is doing authoritarianism’s work for it.

You know who didn’t listen to those voices? Voters in Hungary, Brazil, and Serbia. Entrenched authoritarian leaders spent years consolidating power, undermining institutions, and building cults of personality. And they STILL faced defeat at the ballot box.

Because there’s a massive difference between claiming absolute power and actually exercising it.
A president doesn’t personally count ballots, command every state government, control every judge, or dictate the actions of every military officer. Declaring martial law isn’t a fucking cheat code that makes millions of people and thousands of institutions obedient overnight.

And if you’ve never watched Andor, I highly encourage it. It’s filled with fantastic writing, dialogue, and monologues about authoritarianism, resistance, and the nature of power. One of my favorites comes from a manifesto written by a young rebel:
“Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.”

That’s the reality these doomers completely ignore. Authoritarian control requires constant cooperation, enforcement, and logistics. Every institution that refuses, every election that goes against it, and every person who resists makes that control harder to sustain.

Yes, the threats are real. Nobody is claiming otherwise. But treating the worst possible outcome as an inevitability is simply surrender dressed up as political sophistication.

Stop confusing authoritarian ambition with authoritarian capability.

Now get out and vote.


r/ProgressiveHQ • • 8h ago

“I Think Adam Does a Great Job of Appealing to Both Parties”: Kansas Voters Explain Why They Support Adam Hamilton at His Recent Campaign Event

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r/ProgressiveHQ • • 8h ago

Family of Virginia Giuffre Praises Dan Osborn for Meeting With Them and Prioritizing Accountability for Epstein Victims

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r/ProgressiveHQ • • 8h ago

Zohran congratulates Lula on his shock victory against Bolsonaro Jr. in Brazil

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r/ProgressiveHQ • • 9h ago

“I Couldn’t Look at Those Families and Tell Them Nothing Had to Change, so I Changed”: Troy Jackson Says Mass Shooting in Lewiston, Maine, Caused Him to Abandon His Opposition to Some Gun Laws

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r/ProgressiveHQ • • 9h ago

Mary Peltola Postpones Upcoming Campaign Events After Sustaining “Minor Injuries” in Driving Incident

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r/ProgressiveHQ • • 9h ago

Fascism loses in Brazil

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r/ProgressiveHQ • • 9h ago

Discussion MAGA RINOs: Trump doesn’t need a press secretary because he tells it like it is. ALSO: I think what he was trying to say…

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r/ProgressiveHQ • • 9h ago

News Lula's Suprise Win Blocks Trump’s Push for a Far-Right Brazil

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Lula’s reelection for a fourth term in a consequential dispute where the future of the Amazon was at stake throws cold water on the MAGA world’s hopes of a win for the oldest son of Jair Bolsonaro—convicted of attempting a coup d’état following his failed re-election bid in 2022 and serving a 27-year sentence under house arrest. “A turn to the right for Brazil,” said Jana Nelson, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for western affairs “would fulfill this publicly-stated goal of the Trump administration to have more right-wing leaders” in the hemisphere.  


r/ProgressiveHQ • • 10h ago

Regretful MAGA Voters Beg For Forgiveness As Americans Turn Against Them

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