Standing Our Ground
Girl Dad. Lifelong Democrat. Hip-Hop Lover. Former Capitol Police Officer. Believer of Good Trouble.
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They Came With a Perjury Trap. They Mixed Up the Basketball Teams. (opens the original)
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A Democrat Just Featured a January 6th Rally Attendee in Her Campaign Ad. I Have Things to Say. (opens the original)
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I don’t want to write this post.I’m going to anyway.A Democratic candidate for governor of Texas just released a campaign ad featuring a woman who attended the January 6th rally. The rally that sent a mob to the Capitol. The rally that sent people into that building to beat police officers with flagpoles and fire extinguishers. The rally where I held the line.Her name is Gina Hinojosa. The woman in the ad is Lynn Davenport. Davenport describes herself as a “staunch conservative” who attended the
The Seat Belongs to the People (opens the original)
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Steny Hoyer served Maryland’s 5th for 45 years. He built the military bases that hold up Southern Maryland’s economy. Majority leader through the ACA. By any honest measure, one of the most consequential congressmen of the modern era.Adrian Boafo is 32.In Part 3 of our conversation last week, we talk about what it means to follow somebody like Steny. Here’s what Adrian said that I keep coming back to: the seat doesn’t belong to Steny Hoyer. It doesn’t belong to him. It doesn’t belong to me. It b
We Have to Win the Fight (opens the original)
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Here’s the question I hear everywhere right now: if Democrats take the majority back, what are you actually going to do with it?It’s the right question. And in Part 2 of our conversation last week, Adrian Boafo gives an answer I think people need to listen to.Subscribe nowShort version: oversight alone isn’t enough. We have to pass things.Yes, ov
He Beat Me. We're Still Cool. (opens the original)
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Me and Adrian Boafo sat down last week. A lot of people found that surprising. He beat me in the Maryland 5th primary. We’re still friends.They shouldn’t be surprised.We’re both from Prince George’s County. We both got in this race for the same reason. We stood at the same forums in southern Maryland for six months and said basically the same things. The tactics were different. The goals weren’t.What made our race ugly wasn’t us. It was $12 million i
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