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Alex Ortiz retweeted
Dear Democrats,
You won your historic victory on Tuesday with the help of our America First coalition on 4 key basic issues.
1. End foreign wars, war in Iran, and funding for Israel.
2. Reduce cost of living and gas/diesel (economy)
3. End corruption in Gov
4. Reduce cost of healthcare/health insurance
Which were also key components of the mandate delivered to Trump and Republicans, which they betrayed and failed to deliver.
Your party has two factions, older establishment Dems and younger populists Dems.
If the New Democrat majority returns to issues that lost your majority and presidency in 2024 and doesn’t stay focused on those 4 main issues, then the American populists movement that swung it big for you this cycle will not vote for you in 2028.
For example, bringing back 2020-2024 issues like woke, identity politics, forcing trans issues, gun control, Covid vaccine mandates, and open borders are not the issues that drove this massive blue tsunami.
Allowing the older establishment Democrats to run back to those issues that were defeated in the 2024 election would be a very grave mistake, tone deaf, and would completely undermine the opportunity you have before you.
The country didn’t suddenly join the Democrat Party with a sworn allegiance to always vote Democrat.
The country voted to end Trump and to refocus back to the main kitchen table issues that are hurting their lives.
And most of the younger generations of voters could care less about team party politics and just beating the other side.
The future is all about, “deliver results for Americans” and whoever can get it done.
To be very clear, I’m conservative and have voted Republican my entire life, but went into open rebellion and war against Trump and Republicans, the man I worked tirelessly to put in office because he betrayed his promises and the Republican Party turned back to it’s repulsive neocon elite donor focused ways and refused to deliver for the American people.
Our entire coalition did, we ended the Trump era and burned our party down, but we didn’t turn into Democrats.
For both parties need to realize that most Americans want the same basic things and the future belongs to an independent minded left/right powerful coalition that will force our elected and tax payer funded government to deliver for Americans or face punishment at the polls.
Focus on the issues that won on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, not issues the American people defeated in the past.
The ball is in your court.
Good luck!
Alex Ortiz retweeted
i remember about 8 or 9 years ago when boston/cambridge BDS activists were fighting to end cambridge's contract with HP. lots of infuriating moments with cambridge city council. amazing to see this happen today!
Cambridge, MA city council just passed a policy order 5-4 to divest the city pension funds of (at least) the following:
Israeli bonds
Lockheed Martin
Palantir
Elbit Systems
GE Aerospace
Boeing
Could not have done it without @Cambridge_DSA and Cambridge for Palestine. 🌹🍉
Alex Ortiz retweeted
Cambridge, MA city council just passed a policy order 5-4 to divest the city pension funds of (at least) the following:
Israeli bonds
Lockheed Martin
Palantir
Elbit Systems
GE Aerospace
Boeing
Could not have done it without @Cambridge_DSA and Cambridge for Palestine. 🌹🍉
Alex Ortiz retweeted
It’s funny looking back at this and remembering how many DSA folks attacked me over the so-called “infamous WOL protest,” simply because we endorsed it, I reported on it, and I defended the students.
Sometimes I wonder if being consistent and vocal about these principles just makes us an easier target, even when those same principles eventually become more widely accepted.
Alex Ortiz retweeted
La Palestine, la Palestine, encore et toujours la Palestine… Vecteur de libération internationale.
Merci à cette jeunesse qui nous a redonné espoir.
Alex Ortiz retweeted
SCOOP: At @jvplive protest against Netanyahu this afternoon, @DarializaforNY has committed NOT to disperse. Makes an arrest very likely as hundreds of protesters block the street.
Alex Ortiz retweeted
🔴 @antloewenstein, @LaraFriedmanDC & @tksshawa discuss the US-Israeli plan of moving the military aid model towards Israeli integration into the US military-industrial complex
📅 Thursday, 8 pm ET
Friday, 3 am Palestine time / 10 am Sydney time
RSVP➡️ crowdcast.io/c/us-military-a…
Alex Ortiz retweeted
After he won the Pulitzer Prize, Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha was invited onto MSNBC where he was promptly interrogated about why he wasn't doing more to humanize the people slaughtering his family members in Gaza.
Alex Ortiz retweeted
Yesterday I had the pleasure of addressing the graduates @UMich commencement. I spoke about the long history of student activism, which has moved the University toward justice.
Here is a video. It has caused a furore on social media & in UM admin.
youtube.com/watch?v=iu0xsQtk…
Alex Ortiz retweeted
Abdul El-Sayed: “AIPAC and Israel are not the same as Judaism and the Jewish people. I love Judaism and I love the Jewish people. The single most dangerous thing they’ve tried to tell us is somehow they can extend the definition of antisemitism to include a foreign government and its leaders. I call bullshit”
Alex Ortiz retweeted
Thank you @RepMikeQuigley for speaking up on this vital issue in a place where it counts - as the bill providing billions of dollars to the IDF is being debated.
This week, I spoke up during a markup of the Appropriations Committee’s foreign affairs funding bill. The American people have been crystal clear—they want us to reexamine how we provide aid to foreign countries.
This discussion needs to include the aid we provide to Israel.
There's a new version of this post
Alex Ortiz retweeted
Everyone should stop what they're doing and read this deeply heartbreaking and incredibly powerful new essay from Mahmoud Khalil about his old life -- the one he had before the Trump administration began unjustly targeting him.
nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
Alex Ortiz retweeted
Today, in this room, the U.S. House of Representatives will prepare to give $3.3 Billion of your taxpayer dollars to Israel.
Hi, this is A New Policy's Josh Paul. I'll be livetweeting the Appropriations Committee mark up of the FY27 foreign policy funding bill in this thread⤵️
Alex Ortiz retweeted
I wrote about J Street’s “cut off military aid to Israel” PR gambit which, upon closer inspection, is clearly a time-buying scam that 1) aligns w/ Netanyahu’s “phase out” plan & 2) provides a fake Israel-critical talking point for Dems increasingly under pressure from their base.
The move from paying for genocidal weapons to simply selling them is about buying time and misdirecting activist energy: by @adamjohnsonCHI
therealnews.com/j-streets-mi…
Alex Ortiz retweeted
- @AlexCrawfordSky is doing something fascinating and it is drawing a lot of heat.
She is reporting on Arabs as if they were white people.
"she was 4 years old & called Lamar.. when they found her body she'd been decapitated. Her mother was killed with her"
@AlexCrawfordSky reporting from Lebanon
Alex Ortiz retweeted
If I’m Palestinian and US bombs and weapons are killing me why do I care if the US didn’t technically pay for it. This is why the demand since spring 2024 was **an arms embargo** because it avoids this largely PR-driven pseudo solution
Alex Ortiz retweeted
those students were relentlessly targeted, prosecuted and suspended or expelled while their groups were either banned from campuses or sanctioned. the level of repression students have faced for being on the right side of history the past two years is staggering and shameful.
Biden's presidency was tormented by campus protests over Israel's war in Gaza and his reluctance to push back on it. They shadowed him at events
Those protests have been virtually nonexistent with Trump amid the war in Iran. @Lauren_V_Egan looks into why
thebulwark.com/p/the-campus-…
Alex Ortiz retweeted
We don't normally publish on a Tuesday, but this is a special one-off: A big interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates where we cover the aftermath of the 2024 election, the boycott movement, Black and Palestinian experiences in the US and more
thekeymagazine.com/p/ta-nehi…
Alex Ortiz retweeted
⚠️This,together with the strikes against regime checkpoints & columns is a terrific modus operandi to aid unarmed protests successfully topple the regime.
No regime consolidation and ability to spawn new senior leaders will help if their oppressive apparatus is meaningless
#Iran
BREAKING: Yesterday, while Basij checkpoints were being destroyed, reports confirm that 3,000 members of Yegan Vizhe, the regime's Special Forces unit used to brutally crush protests, received a direct warning message. The message was simple: you're next.
دیروز، همزمان با حملات به ایست بازرسیهای بسیج، گزارشها حاکی از آن است که ۳۰۰۰ نفر از نیروهای یگان ویژه پیامی دریافت کردهاند که به آنها هشدار میدهد: نوبت شما رسیده.
Alex Ortiz retweeted
If you are baffled by why the jury refused to convict the Palestine Action defendants, it's because – unlike them – you didn't hear the actual evidence. You heard what the media wanted you to know.
Here, I explain what the jury learnt from the trial: jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-…
