William J. Roberts

That press conference by Duffy was disgusting. The nation is in the midst of a crisis and needs answers and reassurance. Instead we got a string of demands and accusations in a political speech intended only as a cover for Trump. This is what the American people just repudiated.

Sitting in this - In 2025 I was privileged to be on Zohran Mamdani’s journey where he was told he had no chance. In 2026 I was blessed to be with Scott Colom who was told that he had no chance. These are very different candidates. But they both have the engagement gene. They ignored the pundits and the big donors and the incessantly online class. They went out and got caught listening to actual voters. They reflected back what they heard and put real resources into grassroots organizing and creative media instead of the same old mediocre ads. They both went after voters that had supported Trump despite what the polls told them. They both also ran with a sharp critique of the greed overtaking our institutions. And they did all this while maintaining their own values. Of course the rest is history. Sitting in this knowing that after this election, many will convene around analysis written by folks who have spent more time on this platform than time spent at the door of a voter. They’ll over-project snapshots of data that tell stories tethered to their own prior biases. Much of that will inform the road ahead for 2028. It will mostly be wrong because it will be wrapped in an arrogance about a future none of us can predict and it will be utterly devoid of the humility that comes from sitting on a doorstep and engaging with someone who is very different than you are. Rinse and repeat. I’m very much looking forward to upending their wisdoms. With the modesty of an organizer.

Black Twitter might be reborn after tonight

If you wake up this morning and see the surge of black voters across the Deep South and the bold response of Latinos who came out despite the threats, and the presidential level participation of young folks, and conclude that the scale of our victory was solely because “we had the discipline to stay on message about kitchen table issues” - you should not be given a dime of our ActBlue donations for your guaranteed future mediocre strategies. That was a rights based surge. A democracy surge. Gas prices, irrational tariffs, and broad cost of living played a huge role. But we cannot ignore what animated the souls of our surge voters. And we absolutely cannot continue to ignore corruption as an issue even within our own Party “until the polls catch up”

What happened last night was nothing short of a revolutionary repudiation of a would be autocrat and an entire GOP leadership that has been enthralled by him through the shocking corruption, bracing vulgarity, and the betrayal of the interests of their own most economically vulnerable voters. A revolutionary repudiation.

Be bullish on Mississippi. We’re taking this.