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In light of Pride Month and California's recent primary, it feels like a good time for me to come out of the closet about something myself.
In the mid-1990s, I joined the Log Cabin Republicans. It was just a phase — I swear — but it somehow led to me becoming the first openly gay Republican nominee for the California State Assembly in 1996.
Here’s what I discovered about the GOP during that 1996 race — and where the Republican Party was already headed.
P.S. Don’t worry. The last time I voted for a Republican in a general election was when I voted for myself!
Apparently, Jake Lang ran around a cat convention accusing people of being groomers! Are we sure they aren’t shooting a Christopher Guest movie?
Here’s the video!
Im crying 😆 @JakeLang tried to do a hit job on a Furry event claiming they were Homosexual and was there to Lure Children.
Turned out its was a convention for Cats and there were just a couple of Mascots outside.
LOL watch the guys face that’s trying to tell him “😆 It’s For Cats” LooooL
It’s funny to see him rallying to protect Children, I guess that’s why he was caught messaging underage girls a while back, he must have been trying to meet them to ‘Protect’ them.
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Quick psychopath check: Do you fold your towels long ways and then short ways? Or short ways and then long ways?
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Any deal or project involving Charlie Ergen or Echostar/Dish is a huge red flag.
🚨 This appears to be an inside deal. Boost is controlled by Charlie Ergen of Echostar/Dish. His son Chase Ergen is BFFs with Brittany Kaiser who ran Brock Pierce’s presidential campaign and was at Cambridge Analytica.
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That may explain Stevens’ reaction, but does it explain how we got here?
Because it seems like we got here because Cenk Uygur repurposed one of his own 2024 presidential campaign ads that blamed Israel for high grocery prices as an ad supporting Abdul El-Sayed.
Why?
Why would Cenk do something he had every reason to know would further divide the Left over Gaza, regardless of whether El-Sayed wins or loses, heading into the 2028 election?
I’m not suggesting Cenk knew Stevens would react this way. But he would have anticipated the controversy his actions would provoke. And he doesn’t strike me as an impulsive man.
So my question remains: Why?
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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 retweeted
What's going on in Texas with those deceptive “pro-transgender” campaign mailers sounds awfully familiar. Look at this mailer I received in 2024 in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, when Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez was running for reelection.
The front of the mailer purports to show transgender athletes thanking Perez for supporting access to women’s sports, bathrooms, and taxpayer-funded gender-affirming care. Only the fine print on the other side identifies the Washington State Republican Party as the sponsor.
By the way, the Republican running against Perez here in WA-03 in 2026 is John Braun.
Perhaps coincidentally, Braun’s campaign treasurer is Paul Kilgore, who also happens to be treasurer of the Republican Women’s Caucus Fund. According to text-messaging company Infobip, that fund and an individual named “John Braun” were identified as parties on whose behalf the deceptive anti-transgender text messages in Texas were sent. 😱
P.S. The Republican Women’s Caucus Fund now denies involvement in the text-messaging scheme—and Washington’s John Braun says it must be a different “John Braun” in Texas.
Who paid for the midterm panic? Texas court blocks answers before Election Day bit.ly/4itbjxZ
What's going on in Texas with those deceptive “pro-transgender” campaign mailers sounds awfully familiar. Look at this mailer I received in 2024 in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, when Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez was running for reelection.
The front of the mailer purports to show transgender athletes thanking Perez for supporting access to women’s sports, bathrooms, and taxpayer-funded gender-affirming care. Only the fine print on the other side identifies the Washington State Republican Party as the sponsor.
By the way, the Republican running against Perez here in WA-03 in 2026 is John Braun.
Perhaps coincidentally, Braun’s campaign treasurer is Paul Kilgore, who also happens to be treasurer of the Republican Women’s Caucus Fund. According to text-messaging company Infobip, that fund and an individual named “John Braun” were identified as parties on whose behalf the deceptive anti-transgender text messages in Texas were sent. 😱
P.S. The Republican Women’s Caucus Fund now denies involvement in the text-messaging scheme—and Washington’s John Braun says it must be a different “John Braun” in Texas. 🤷♀️
Who paid for the midterm panic? Texas court blocks answers before Election Day bit.ly/4itbjxZ
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Adam Ross 🌈⚖️🇺🇸 retweeted
With their hands on him and their heads bowed like that? Did they believe they were there to perform an exorcism?
The White House’s release of a video showing Catholic clerics praying over Donald Trump in the Oval Office sent shockwaves through the US Catholic hierarchy, which has been highly critical of many of the president's policies. ft.trib.al/tgaiFXP
Sorry about your riots, Europe. But Russia needed agitators to burn it all down in an “October Surprise” in order to help Republicans win our midterms—or to justify whatever Trump does to interfere with the results if they lose them.
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