Andrew Bates

Are you fucking kidding me? Today: DOGE staffer "once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data" www.reuters.com/world/us/dog... Last week: "Judge stops Musk's team from 'unbridled access' to Social Security private data" www.reuters.com/legal/us-jud...

Wrote in @FoxNews about how Democrats can go on offense - now. Trump and the GOP are violating their pledge to cut costs, instead raising the prices AND taxes working families pay - so billionaires get tax handouts. We should make this case everywhere. www.foxnews.com/opinion/andr...

"Health care resonates with voters across the political spectrum, and @roycoopernc.bsky.social is likely to tout his ability to work across the aisle," which expanded Medicaid. "Tillis said he would retire rather than...'betray the very promise' Trump made about not touching Medicaid."

Talked w/ @washingtonpost.com about the need to constantly hold Republican midterm candidates accountable for Trump's unpopular record. Both control DC & the congressional GOP green-lit his war with Iran, tax cuts for billionaires, and corruption. They own all the baggage together.

Talked with @juliegraceb.bsky.social for @sourcessaynews.bsky.social about how, going into 2026, the White House keeps insulting the swing voters who are still waiting on the lower prices and global stability they were promised in 2024.

Talked with @gregsargent.bsky.social for @newrepublic.com's "Daily Blast" podcast about new midterm polls and how swing voters increasingly view Republicans in Congress as selling out to a cost-raising, promise-breaking establishment that's more corrupt than anything we've ever seen.

Congressional Republicans promised to fight the "establishment," but they aren't lifting a finger to investigate Trump's unprecedented corruption - even though it's raising costs for everyday people. Good conversation with @jimacosta.bsky.social.

Talked with @jimacosta.bsky.social about how it was a mistake for Trump to attack the Obama Iran deal today because Obama's actually worked. It just reminds people that @barackobama.bsky.social is a better negotiator than Donald Trump is, right as the Iran War restarts and gas prices surge again.

Talked with @nbcnews.com about how the threat Trump posed to Democrats' values meant that we didn't spend enough time listening to voters. Which made us seem like we thought defending institutions or pushing cancel culture were bigger priorities than economic opportunity and safety.

Talked w/ @robillard.bsky.social about the false choice between risk-averse old guard types on one hand and candidates from the bluest parts of cities who want to "abolish" prisons on the other. Most Democrats winning primaries to flip GOP seats are economic populists building a big tent.

Talked w/ @thebulwark.com online about how Democrats will keep hammering Republican candidates about gas prices and Iran for the rest of 2026. Trump's rubber stamps in Congress will never have a good answer for angry voters who were promised an end to inflation and no new wars.

Trump used to say we've spent too much on wars in the Middle East and we need to invest at home. But now he says we can't pay for daycare or Medicaid because of his Iran War. In November the GOP will desperately wish they hadn't supported this.

Trump broke his promise to focus on deporting violent criminals. ICE is harassing innocent people instead. ICE's billions in new funding came at the expense of health care, like Democrats from @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social to @aoc.bsky.social are pointing out