Andrew Solender

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Wish we had a functioning FEC so PACs felt compelled to file timely independent expenditure reports 🥲

A group called Progress Action Fund is up w/ an ad backing Jake Levine in #CA32 that pretty explicitly hits 71-yo Rep. Brad Sherman on age. Uses Obama audio: "At some point you age out. You're not connected directly to the immediate struggles that folks are going through."

I asked Bernie if AOC is the heir to his politics

NEW: The health official who led the public response to the Hantavirus outbreak has little background in public health and previously was a penile implant specialist who hosted a podcast where he questioned the 2020 election and compared the Biden administration to Nazi Germany.

BREAKING: Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) will NOT seek re-election "This is by far the most difficult moment Ive had as an elected official" The Tennessee legislature redistricted his Memphis area majority-minority earlier this year @GrayDCnews @WMCActionNews5

@lauren_greennn @dcexaminer Lauren Green scoop (many such cases)

I wrote this yesterday for @dcexaminer —> washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-hou…

News: Rep. LaMonica McIver is pregnant, per @people people.com/rep-lamonica-m…

House Republicans’ coalition behind the new housing bill is fraying The White House has “serious policy concerns” House conservatives are privately sharing frustrations And Tim Scott is shutting down the bill’s chances in the Senate w/@Rayyyfernandez notus.org/housing/republ…

let’s see what’s on the television today

SCOOP: Trump allies want D.C.'s July 4 fireworks to set a world record. The super-sized spectacle for America's 250 is expected to run over 30 minutes, about twice as long as typical Fourth of July fireworks, coinciding with feds ramping up to the highest level of security ever for an Independence Day in D.C. axios.com/local/washingt…

new favorite map just dropped

Rand Paul’s son has been banned from Tune Inn

NEW: GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards under investigation by the House Ethics Committee following @kate_santaliz’s extensive reporting on sexual misconduct allegations axios.com/2026/05/13/chu…

NEW: Despite a long absence from the Hill & rumors about retirement, 83yo Rep. Frederica Wilson is telling ppl she will run for reelection, @axios has learned She's recovering from eye surgery but told Jeffries she'll be back next week w/ @MarcACaputo axios.com/2026/05/14/fre…

None of these candidates are considered particularly left-wing: - Bennett has the most establishment support - Varela is backed by Tom Perez, Stephen Sweeney and Andrew Yang. - Roth is backed by some local Indivisible chapters. - Shah is the choice of 314 Action and ASPIRE PAC

Just one of the four Democratic primary candidates in #NJ07 would commit to voting for Hakeem Jeffries as speaker when asked at a debate: Tina Shah. Rebecca Bennett (the choice of J Street and Vote Vets), Brian Varela and Michael Roth all declined to commit to voting for him.

the cannon tunnel art being gone has given me an epiphany that my life is basically just severance with occasional flare