John Panzer

I've been spending most of my political time and energy the past year doing local organizing, talking to elected officials, and supporting fighters in the primaries. Now it's 100 days to the general midterm election; time to place some bets! Come join me!

Meta is suppressing progressives again! @angieforfl.bsky.social hosted an event in Osceola County, FL tonight where she spoke to the local Puerto Rican community. As her team was uploading content from the event, suddenly the Instagram account “latinosconangie” was shut down for well over an hour.

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Don’t look back on this moment and wish you had done more. Don’t just like this post. Sign up for ONE phonebanking shift before Election Day. Elections are often decided by a few hundred votes, so the conversations we have over the next seven days can make all the difference. Let’s get to work.

This is not very far removed from “catch and kill”. “What do you mean? We covered the story!” …the story about rape …without mentioning the word rape …or making the allegations clear to readers.

Some ground rules that have helped us: - Go outside your bubble, try new social media channels - Don’t underestimate the power of WhatsApp (although less so in the U.S.) - Post on the Instagram grid, not just stories - Watch every Instagram video until the end before sharing - IGNORE THEM

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Our election research team put out an article today explaining how the prediction markets (e.g. Kalshi, Polymarket) — and social media posts featuring visualizations from those platforms — may feed election rumors & conspiracy theories around the U.S. midterms: uwcip.substack.com/p/what-to-kn...

Great, let’s make this go viral.

NEWS --> Dems are planning novel ways to wield power of the purse against Trump's corrupt prosecutions of critics like Ilhan Omar if they win House. Reps Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin tell me a range of aggressive tactics will be deployed. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2171...

If they are doing this based on name matching, it is of course bullshit.

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

Gift article below. bsky.app/profile/pith...

You scared, Jeff?

The President has no right to block election results if the wrong candidate wins. The Justice Department has no blanket right to demand private voter data. ICE has no right to intimidate voters. The law is on our side. Exercise it. www.lwv.org/blog/midterm... @lwv.org @brennancenter.org @aclu.org

Our research team is doing real-time coverage of emerging news and rumors related to election integrity. We put out several outputs this week. Several of the rumors we covered are still percolating. Some of the stories may become seeds for conspiracy theories later in the cycle. Some highlights...

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Brazil just reminded the world that fascists can be defeated at the ballot box. Our turn comes November 3. Let’s make it fucking hurt.

This is a solid point.

👇 This. IF we can win — AND push margins past the “laugh test” for election deniers — it will also be instantly and unspinably clear that Trump Is A Loser, and stop a bunch of bad stuff in its tracks, including violence. The effective, nonviolent mass protest everybody has been looking for: Vote.

Early voting is how stop Trump’s election sabotage, so we need to continue pushing for bigger and bigger numbers. Use this No Kings tool to make a plan to vote early and share it widely to encourage your friends and family to do the same: www.nokings.org/vote-plan?SQ...

So much this.

Hearing reports of discarded ballots? Concerns about WA State National Guard deploying to protect elections? Allegations of ballot harvesting in Minnesota? Investigations of non-citizen registration in AZ? Check out our latest rumor rundown to learn more: uwcip.substack.com/p/election-r...

Happy voting! If you want to vote in person you can scan & cast your vbm ballot - or a new one - at any center in your home county. Here’s what’s open in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties:

Oh they are scared of consequences.

2; my dad shook Obama’s hand and tried to see if Obama remembered the Occidental college cheer. (No.)

Shocked!

In a little-noticed webpage update, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to decommission its online web archive at the end of the year, a move that would wipe tens of thousands of publicly available environmental resources from the web.

A man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life’s sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.

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He shot a baby over a shoplifting that never happened and Mississippi says the shooting is “justified”. This system is broken. It needs to be torn down and replaced. And yes, the baby was Black. Now the baby is dead.

Really saying the quiet part out loud

More reports today of duplicate mail-in ballots — this time in PA. Good reminders: (1) Errors happen; they are rarely intentional. (2) There are election safeguards in place to prevent counting 2 ballots from 1 person; (3) If you receive 2, throw 1 away. Don't try to vote twice — that's illegal!

Thanks to this vile little goblin for helping me make some progress on a unified theory of contemporary-style evil guys. defector.com/vivek-ramasw...

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This 👇 It feels good to hear a politician putting this stake in the ground, dammit.

I can’t even

1. Ignore or block all fundraising texts, emails, and calls. Stop rewarding this path. 2. Give via sites like oath.vote to guide donations, or trusted local orgs with a good track record of using money.

NEW from me: Beth Fuller was a 10-year CDC contractor when she was DOGE'd last year by Trump + Elon Musk, a mass layoff process cheered by the GOP. Now she's a candidate in a key swing district that could end the GOP’s decades-long grip on total power in Georgia. www.huffpost.com/entry/beth-f...

What a complete piece of shit.

Sign up for this on Thur if you can make it.

#ELB: “Dissecting DOJ’s Letter to California Election Officials: Empty Threats of Criminal Liability” https://electionlawblog.org/2026/dissecting-dojs-letter-to-california-election-officials-empty-threats-of-criminal-liability/

Fuck off you irrelevant choad.

Our friend Major Jason Watson has established a fund for his children who will no longer receive military health care nor have the advantage of the financial stability of a military retirement. If you are able to donate, thank you. If not, please share. www.spotfund.com/story/efd50c...

I didn’t have any problem understand his “Yeah, absolutely” response. Seems like Tommy and Jan have listening comprehension issues. Especially when I also heard him ask Tommy multiple questions in those 3 minutes (that Tommy answered.) Or maybe she’s just a propagandist hack who lies.

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“The White House had 30 days upon signing to either implement the measures outlined in the law or waive them. The only requirement for the waiver was a certification to Congress that the decision was in U.S. national interests. The White House has not clarified why the move was in U.S. interests.”