Sunday Hopium - Inspiration From Lincoln and Eisenhower, The Importance Of Voting Early, Trump Lost Votes On Iran And Putin This Week!Monday, 2pm ET - Colette Delawalla of Stand Up For Science joins us live to talk about their urgent new campaign - Stop Vought. Save Science - join us, invite others!
Greetings all. Let’s start our Sunday together with Eisenhower’s Order Of The Day distributed to 175,000 men amassing for what has become known as D-Day:
In reading this remarkable letter this morning I just keep thinking of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address:
Eisenhower’s letter came 80 years after the Gettysburg Address, and here we are, working together, in our time’s great battle for freedom and democracy, 80 years after D-Day. Let us draw inspiration for these two great leaders, and their successful fights, for our own work to ensure that there is a new birth of freedom, here and everywhere, in the years ahead. And yes let us thank, and honor, all those who haven given their lives so we may be free.
The Week Ahead - As we rest up today to get ready for another week of hard work ahead let us marvel that Trump lost votes in the House this week on both Iran and Ukraine/Putin. It really is extraordinary that Trump has been repudiated now by Congress on the Epstein files, on his terrible tariffs, on his failed Iran war, and his treasonous fealty to Putin. The consequential losses just keep piling up for our addled, sundowning, failed leader (more here, here), and we need to keep the pressure on. Here are some things to call your Senators and Rep about this week:
Tomorrow I am hosting Colette Delawalla of Stand Up For Science at 2pm ET so she can get us up speed on their new, urgent campaign - Stop Vought. Save Science. Click on this link to join us live tomorrow, and feel free to share the link through your networks and encourage others to join us!
In the coming weeks we will be discussing the importance of Voting Early this November. Voting Early - in person, drop boxes where available - is one of our most powerful tools to ensure there is a free and fair election this November. We need to make voting early something that all responsible Democrats do, and help people understand why it matters more this year than ever before. Promoting Voting Early will be a great project for grassroots groups across the country this summer and fall.
We launched a new Independence Day paid subscription drive and sale this week, with the goal of bringing in 500 new annual paid subscribers to Hopium by July 4th. We are off to a strong start with 53 new subscribers in the first few days. If you are a free subscriber please consider helping us get to 500 by signing up today! We’ve released a series of new candidate discussions this week - Rebecca Bennett (NJ-07), Bob Brooks (PA-01), Bob Harvie (PA-07) and Rob Sand running for governor in Iowa - that are available for Sunday viewing or listening. You can find our 2026 Candidate Library on the Hopium site under the Podcast tab, in the links below, and on our YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify channels too. Head there whenever you need a lift, send others there too, and let’s turn these courageous candidates into the national heroes they all deserve to be…….. 
Now, Let’s Go Win Some Elections Everyone!Winning The Midterms, Competing In Red States and Red Places, Expanding The MapHopium’s Winning The House Campaign - $761,100 raised, $1,000,000 goal (new ambitious, audacious even, q2 goal) - Donate to all twelve of our endorsed House challengers with a single contribution split twelve ways | Get to know Jamie Ager (NC-11), Christina Bohannan (IA-01), Paige Cognetti (PA-08), Rebecca Cooke (WI-03), Elaine Luria (VA-02), Sean McCann (MI-04), Jo Mendoza (AZ-06), Chaz Molder (TN-05), Jonathan Nez (AZ-02), Janelle Stelson (PA-10), Shannon Taylor (VA-01), and Sarah Trone Garriott (IA-03) by watching our recently recorded Hopium interviews. Friends if these twelve win, the House will flip, no matter redistricting madness the Rs execute in the coming days. So eyes on the prize here everyone! Hopium’s Winning The House - Second Wave - $74,100 raised, $250,000 goal - We’ve launched a second House fund, one targeting candidates who’ve recently emerged from primaries or have to run in new districts. Our initial crew is Rebecca Bennett (NJ-07), Bob Brooks (PA-07), Johnny Garcia (TX-35), Bob Harvie (PA-01), Denise Powell (NE-02), and Bobby Pulido (TX-15). A donation to the Second Wave Fund is split evenly among these six, and more as other worthy candidates emerge for their primaries. We are off to a great start here people! Josh Turek For Iowa Senate - $10,100 raised, $250,000 goal - Donate | Learn more and volunteer | Mary Peltola For Alaska Senate - $101,700 raised, $250,000 goal - Donate | Learn more through my uplifting conversation with Mary Peltola as she fights to turn Alaska blue James Talarico For Texas - $83,600 raised, $250,000 - Donate | Learn more from my inspiring interview with Rep. Talarico as he fights to turn Texas blue Winning Ohio - $156,100 raised, $250,000 goal - Our new campaign splits contributions evenly among Sherrod Brown, the Acton/Pepper ticket, and the Ohio Democratic Party | Donate today and help us turn this critical 2026 battleground blue Winning Iowa - $980 raised, $100,000 goal - We’ve also set up a new Winning Iowa campaign that splits a contribution three ways - to Turek, to Gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand, and to the Iowa Democratic Party and its great chair, Rita Hart | Watch my new interview with Rob Sand $980 Hopium’s Audacious Expansion Fund - $586,100 raised, $1,000,000 goal (new stretch goal) - Join our campaign that has helped expand our map by investing in the Democratic Parties of Alaska, Florida, Iowa, Maine, and Texas, all now central battlegrounds in the 2026 election | Catch interviews with the five intrepid state chairs leading their troops into battle this year - will get you fired up! | Contribute to all five state parties with one contribution split evenly among these five new battlegrounds Roy Cooper for NC Senate - $121,700 raised, $250,000 goal - Donate | Learn more through my new discussion with Gov. Cooper Jon Ossoff GA Senate - $184,100 raised, $250,000 goal - Donate | Learn more through my uplifting conversation with Senator Ossoff Please use the paid subscriber chat to self-report the good trouble you make each day. Keep working hard everyone. We have a country to save, and elections all across this great country to win, together! - Simon You're currently a free subscriber to Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription.
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