{"id":908,"date":"2026-05-09T07:53:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/?p=908"},"modified":"2026-05-10T08:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:06:23","slug":"midterms-get-out-of-your-bubble-260509","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/midterms-get-out-of-your-bubble-260509\/","title":{"rendered":"Midterms: Get Out of Your Bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Get Out of Your Bubble.<\/h2>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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Republicans\u2019 real plan to hold the House isn\u2019t to win votes \u2014 it\u2019s to draw maps that make votes not count.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democracy Docket\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0latest newsletter tracks simultaneous special sessions across Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, and Louisiana \u2014 all racing to gerrymander Democratic and Black-majority districts out of existence before November, with Trump openly pressuring states to prioritize map manipulation over letting active elections proceed. This isn\u2019t a side story: it\u2019s the core Republican strategy for 2026, which is\u00a0exactly why the competitive seats on our list<\/a>\u00a0are so valuable \u2014 and why they\u2019re trying to eliminate Dem seats before a single vote is cast.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Did Tucker Carlson just low key announce his 2028 presidential campaign? Carlson says he’s breaking with Trump over the Iran War, but is there more to his apology tour? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may not like him, but millions on the right listen to him so its worth paying attention when\u00a0Tucker Carlson goes on an anti-Trump apology tour for the NYT’s The Interview<\/a>. Carlson publicly attacks Trump\u2019s foreign policy as a betrayal of the MAGA base, positioning himself as the movement\u2019s true heir rather than its servant \u2014 the kind of careful distancing that looks a lot like early-stage groundwork for 2028. For Democrats, the useful read here isn\u2019t schadenfreude; it\u2019s that the MAGA coalition is not static. When its most influential media figure starts pulling the base in a different direction, it creates real volatility in exactly the competitive districts we\u2019re targeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s not just the Billionaires but the entire Epstein class.\u00a0Justice Brandeis said it over a century ago and it\u2019s never been more precise: \u201cWe can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can\u2019t have both.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Reich posted it on Bluesky this week \u2014 not because it\u2019s new, but because people are living it.\u00a0If you’ aren’t following Reich and his economic analysis, you need to start.<\/a>\u00a0After Citizens United, billionaire money didn\u2019t just grow in elections; it reshaped who Congress serves. The path out runs directly through the competitive seats we\u2019re targeting. That\u2019s not a slogan. It\u2019s the math.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The mifepristone fight is less a legal battle than a confusion campaign \u2014 and confusion is the point.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a federal court tried to end mail-order abortion access last week, anti-abortion media flooded the zone with misleading headlines designed to make people believe access was already gone \u2014 and far too many in the mainstream press went along with it. The Supreme Court paused the ruling, 22 Democratic AGs filed an amicus brief, and mifepristone can still be mailed;\u00a0Abortion, Every Day\u2019s breakdown has the full picture and the resources people need to actually access care.<\/a>\u00a0If they can make voters believe this fight is already lost, they win without passing another law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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