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November 21, 2025
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Biden Paused – A Missed Opportunity

Bryan Watson1 year ago01 mins mins

Saturday night would have been the time to shift to a wholly-positive campaign. To inspire voters. To call them to “Yes, we can”, “We Dare to Dream”, and “We have before, we will again”.

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Guilty … but what’s the verdict?

Bryan Watson5 years ago5 years ago04 mins mins

A Matter of Fact On the fact question, there are three elements to the question of responsibility and one to the question of exculpation. These four elements, as questions, are: (1) did it happen? (2) did he cause it to happen? (3) did he intend to cause it to happen? (4) did he (try to)…

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Election Fraud is reason enough

Bryan Watson3 years ago02 mins mins

What gets me is that people say that he has to be expelled IF he is convicted of a crime.

Why is a criminal conviction required?

It is enough that he defrauded the voters. Actual election fraud is reason enough for expulsion.

Where is the caucus that railed about election fraud?

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When A Liar Admits He Lied…

Bryan Watson8 years ago01 mins mins

was Trump Jr. lying when he denied having a meeting or is he lying now when he claims he did have a meeting?

If you were Trump, Sr., how would you discredit all of your critics? How would you prove that the press is lying? Here’s what I would do…

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Pass D.C. Statehood

Bryan Watson5 years ago5 years ago04 mins mins

Republicans will openly, unashamedly say that 712,000 D.C. residents can’t have representation in Congress because it would endanger their power. That’s it. Nothing else to say.

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The Value of a Presidential Melee

Bryan Watson6 years ago02 mins mins

Trump emerged as the nominee through his ability to defeat 16 competitors, turning front-runners into challengers. It made him look strong, tough, smart, ruthless, powerful … presidential. Democrats should learn how to win by studying the winners.

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“There Is No Accurate Information”

Bryan Watson4 years ago4 years ago04 mins mins

Because Republicans have such a long history of “voter-phobia”, they were particularly susceptible to claims of “voter fraud”. Since that claim has been popular among Republican spokespeople for decades, Republican voters were easy pickings in 2020.

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Results AND Resistance

Bryan Watson7 years ago02 mins mins

What do we resist? We resist job losses. We resist wage stagnation. We resist corporate welfare. We resist corruption. We resist cruelty. We resist dictators.

We resist Republicans.

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Politics Never Stops – That’s Good!

Bryan Watson7 years ago04 mins mins

But there’s no need to stop canvassing. Perhaps it’ll be less formal than a campaign might canvass – no mobile app, no careful selection of which doors to knock and which to skip, no glossy door-hangers to leave behind. But canvassing is a formalized version of that most basic political act – talking.

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Candidates: How Do You Decide?

Bryan Watson6 years ago5 years ago01 mins mins

We elect people to do one thing only – to make decisions.

But we never ask them the fundamental question: ”How do you make a decision?”

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