Surrender, Not War; It's The Oil, Stupid; House Ds Get 218 On ACA Discharge Petition; MTG -"The Dam Is Breaking"Paid Subscribers gather tonight at 7pm EST, Founding Members Friday at 1pm ESTMorning all. As I was hitting send got some breaking news! Trump is going to speak to the nation tonight at 9pm EST. It’s impossible to know what he’s going to say but we should assume his attempt to illegally steal the world’s largest oil reserves - and create more space for Putin to take Ukraine, and Xi Taiwan - will be front and center: We talk a lot about the tech bros. We need to be talking more about the petro bros, and all that Trump is corruptly doing for them too. Found this great post yesterday afternoon after my morning look at Trump’s terrible jobs report: In a new CNN interview Marjorie Taylor Greene continues her very public crusade to help others awaken and leave the cult of Trump: Pope Leo XIV is elevating an ally, Bishop Ron Hicks of Joliet, Illinois, to be the next Archbishop of New York. JD Vance and the assholes on the Supreme Court are going to be throwing ketchup at their fireplaces this morning!
Two polling nuggets. The first from NPR/PBS/Marist. In this poll Trump is lower now than he was right before the 2018 elections when Republicans lost 40 seats:
Next, an Axios focus group of fourteen 2020 Biden/2024 Trump voters in North Carolina has this wonderful headline:
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The great Anne Applebaum just published an important essay in the Atlantic on the NSS and Trump’s ongoing and dangerous surrender to our global adversaries, something I’ve written about here, here and here. Here’s the key passage (gift link): Be sure to catch my new conversations with the inspiring Wes Moore and youth vote expert John Della Volpe, and remember you can find all of our meaty conversations and presentations on the Hopium site under Podcast and on YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify too. Find links to all upcoming live events - including tonight’s paid subscriber gathering - on our site’s Events tab. Let’s close out today by watching/rewatching one of the great moments of this ugly year - Rep. Delia Ramirez promising accountability for Kristi Noem’s crimes and inhumanity and just taking her to the woodshed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now, Let’s Get To Work People!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Winning The Midterms - Support Our 2026 Candidates
Expanding The Senate and Electoral College Maps, Winning In Red States and Red Places (2026-2032)
In two new essays (here, here) I talk about how one of the ways we win the 2026 midterms is by providing early support to our candidates and parties to allow them to staff up now, be loud now, define the terms of the debate now, before the inevitable onslaught on AI slop, Russian disinfo, and Trumpian lies funded through bribes and corruption wash across the land. The midterms could be won or lost in these next few months - not in the fall of 2026 - and we need be fighting now with everything we got. Winning The Big Arguments With Trump, Making Hopium Stronger - We have three recommended actions today: 1 - Call Your Senators and Member Of The House And Demand They Act Upon Our Five-Part Agenda - We need to be loud people, very, very loud and make the case for our now five part agenda:
2 - Celebrate America, Our Constitution, Our 250th Birthday By Bringing Our Resolutions Project To Your Community - Next year, on July 4th, America celebrates it’s 250th birthday. We need to make this holiday, a celebration of our Declaration Of Independence from a mad king, our day, and not allow it to become his. One way we can do this is by bringing our Resolutions Project to your community or state. Imagine if by July 4th of next year a large number of towns, counties and states had passed formal resolutions, in the spirit of our Declaration of Independence, defending our Constitution and condemning the “injuries,” “abuses,” and “usurpations” of our mad king. For as our Founders wrote in the Declaration:
So far Hopium members have introduced or passed resolutions in 85 communities in 23 states. In the coming days we will be convening to discuss how to bring this campaign to more places and start planning to Own The Fourth next year. Finally, please self-report your activities to our daily paid subscriber chat. These reports help inspire all of us to do more and fight harder! Keep working hard all, and remember Hopium is hope with a plan. We do not hope tomorrow will be better than yesterday. We do the work to make it so - Simon Invite your friends and earn rewardsIf you enjoy Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg, share it with your friends and earn rewards when they subscribe. |
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Surrender, Not War; It's The Oil, Stupid; House Ds Get 218 On ACA Discharge Petition; MTG -"The Dam Is Breaking"
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