House Democratic lawmakers reportedly used a closed-door meeting earlier this week to vent their frustrations with progressive advocacy groups that have been driving constituent calls and pressuring the party to act like a genuine opposition force in the face of the Trump administration’s authoritarian assault on federal agencies and key programs.

  • @ripcord@lemmy.world
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    391 month ago

    It really pisses me off that the ONLY outreach I saw were requests for money. Hundreds of them (many may have been scams, not sure).

    • The Democratic Party doesn’t get paid to win elections.

      It gets paid to run campaigns.

      The Republicans have decided that that is unreliable and have simply gone with open corruption.