{"id":1442,"date":"2026-10-11T10:34:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T10:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2026-10-21T10:58:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T10:58:53","slug":"midterms-get-out-of-your-bubble-261011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/midterms-get-out-of-your-bubble-261011\/","title":{"rendered":"Midterms: Get Out of Your Bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There’s plenty of outrage so we aren’t going to do that. Instead, we’re creating a place with new tips, tools, insights, sources, and stories that can help us understand how to win this November.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The MAGA coalition that delivered Trump the White House in 2024 doesn\u2019t exist as one coalition anymore \u2014 it\u2019s split into three factions that can\u2019t agree on tariffs, Iran, or who leads them next.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Daily Caller, an extreme right-wing media outlet, a\u00a0widening three-way rift<\/a>\u00a0has divided Republicans into MAGA populists, an anti-interventionist \u201cWoke Right,\u201d and old-guard institutionalists, and the cracks are already measurable: 64 percent of MAGA loyalists condemned the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling striking down Trump\u2019s tariff regime, while a majority of non-MAGA Republicans cheered the Court\u2019s intervention. Only a third of MAGA voters think the costs of the Iran war were worth it, and the list of Republicans quietly maneuvering for a post-Trump 2028 run keeps growing as his approval sags. Every one of our target districts has Republican voters who no longer trust the same leaders or the same playbook, which means the campaigns willing to talk honestly about that incoherence \u2014 instead of treating the GOP as one monolithic enemy \u2014 are the ones who will actually move persuadable voters this November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ATTACK THE REPUBLICANS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’re running ads against the most vulnerable Republicans in the country and it’s working! For as little as $300, we can reach 15,000 voters on social media. We only target in district Independents and frustrated Republicans with our ads on Instagram and Facebook and the comments prove they agree with our ads! We can take power together. Support our campaign now.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When James Carville and a Republican strategist share a stage and agree the political wind is blowing toward Democrats, that\u2019s not spin \u2014 that\u2019s the real state of the race.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Harvard\u2019s\u00a060th-anniversary Institute of Politics forum<\/a>, a bipartisan panel including Carville, GOP strategist Betsy Ankney, pollster John Anzalone, Cook Political Report\u2019s Charlie Cook, and the Washington Examiner\u2019s Byron York all pointed to the same headwinds working against Republican candidates: Trump\u2019s high disapproval ratings and a brutal cost-of-living environment. The panel flagged two Senate races worth watching closely as the environment shifts \u2014 Susan Collins\u2019s reelection bid in Maine and Abdul El-Sayed\u2019s run in Michigan \u2014 both tests of whether a bad national environment for the GOP actually turns into flipped seats. The takeaway for us: the fundamentals favor us right now, but fundamentals don\u2019t bank themselves \u2014 they only turn into flipped seats if we put real money behind the races where it matters most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kara Swisher is naming the thing most Democrats are still too polite to say out loud: the alliance between Trump and Silicon Valley’s biggest fortunes isn’t a business story, it’s a power story, and it should scare us.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\u00a0a recent conversation on the future of AI<\/a>, Swisher argues we’re in “a new nuclear age” of concentrated tech power, and she’s been blunt elsewhere that\u00a0the Trump-tech elite connection is “an existential threat”<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 not metaphorically, but as a real convergence of political power, money, and unregulated AI reshaping decisions that affect everyone. She points to concrete fallout already happening, like the administration slashing funding for drug discovery and health research, pushing companies to relocate to Canada instead. Her closing argument is the one worth borrowing: this isn’t a problem Washington’s existing power brokers in either party are rushing to fix, so ordinary people have to be the ones demanding real AI accountability \u2014 which is exactly the “we have to fix it ourselves” message at the center of our own campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ATTACK THE REPUBLICANS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’re running ads against the most vulnerable Republicans in the country and it’s working! For as little as $300, we can reach 15,000 voters on social media. We only target in district Independents and frustrated Republicans with our ads on Instagram and Facebook and the comments prove they agree with our ads!\u00a0We can take power together. Support our campaign now.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The most useful data point from an Institute of Politics AI-and-the-economy forum wasn\u2019t about robots taking jobs \u2014 it was that ordinary Americans already see the disruption coming, and their expectations are more pessimistic than most are willing to admit.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a\u00a0Harvard Kennedy School forum<\/a>, economist Jason Furman pressed Anthropic\u2019s chief economist Peter McCrory on new modeling of how AI could reshape GDP, wages, and unemployment by 2030 \u2014 and McCrory revealed that when his team surveyed nearly 11,000 US adults, the median respondent\u2019s expectations already matched a \u201csubstantial change\u201d scenario: 8 percent higher GDP alongside a 4 percent drop in cognitive employment. Across every scenario the research modeled, labor\u2019s share of income falls as wage gains concentrate among higher-skilled workers who can access the tools first \u2014 McCrory called it AI\u2019s \u201cuneven incidence.\u201d That’s code for the billionaires get even richer. Democrats must own this policy fight: the party willing to talk concretely about retraining, income support, and who AI serves will have a real answer where Republicans are offering silence or blind deregulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There’s plenty of outrage so we aren’t going to do that. Instead, we’re creating a place with new tips, tools, insights, sources, and stories that can help us understand how to win this November. \ud83d\ude2c The MAGA coalition that delivered Trump the White House in 2024 doesn\u2019t exist as one coalition anymore \u2014 it\u2019s split …<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-midterms","category-get-out-of-your-bubble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions\/1453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}