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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 14, 2025

You come for me, you got to come through all of us! Every single – all of us. We’re all in this together.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 14, 2025

I will not bow! I will not break! I will not bend! I will not capitulate! I will not give in! I will not give up!

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 14, 2025

We are witnessing the fraying of our democracy, the erosion of our system of government.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 14, 2025

I stand on solid rock and I will not bow, I will not break, I will not bend.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 14, 2025

We see powerful voices trying to silence truth and punish dissent and weaponize justice for political gain.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 14, 2025

I know what it feels like to be attacked for just doing your job. But I also know what it feels like to overcome adversity, and so I stand on solid rock, and I will not bow. I will not break. I will not bend. I will not capitulate. I won’t…

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 14, 2025

I will keep fighting for New Yorkers. I will keep fighting the aggressive policies of Washington, D.C., and I will not stop. I won't give up and I won't give in.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 14, 2025

This, my friends, is a defining moment in our history. Let us stand together to defend our rights, to protect every safeguard, every institution, every immigrant, every norm, and every rule of law.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 14, 2025

We see powerful voices trying to silence truth, punish dissent − and, yes, weaponize justice for political gain.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 13, 2025

The president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

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Ken Paxton
@kenpaxton· TX· Oct 11, 2025

To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming.

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Ken Paxton
@kenpaxton· TX· Oct 11, 2025

The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk marks a turning point in America. There can be no compromise with those who want us dead.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 10, 2025

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights. And I will continue to do my job.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 10, 2025

I am a proud woman of faith, and I know that faith and fear cannot share the same space. And so today I am not fearful, I am fearless, and as my faith teaches me, no weapon formed against me shall prosper.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 10, 2025

I stand strongly behind my office’s litigation against the Trump Organization. We conducted a two-year investigation based on the facts and evidence—not politics.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 10, 2025

His decision to fire a United States Attorney who refused to bring charges against me—and replace them with someone who is blindly loyal not to the law, but to the president—is antithetical to the bedrock principles of our country.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 10, 2025

These charges are baseless, and the president’s own public statements make clear that his only goal is political retribution at any cost.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 10, 2025

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system. He is forcing federal law enforcement agencies to do his bidding, all because I did my job as the New York State Attorney General.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 10, 2025

I don’t think we should be scared. This is the time that we should stand up and defend our rights and our liberties and defend our democracy and defend the rule of law. We’ve got to push back and not be afraid. There’s more of us than…

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Xavier Becerra
@xavierbecerra· Democratic · CA· Oct 10, 2025

I’m not interested in excluding any vote. Every Californian deserves affordable health care, safe streets, a roof over their head and a living wage.

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Letitia James
@letitiajames· NY· Oct 10, 2025

He is forcing federal law enforcement agencies to do his bidding, all because I did my job as the New York state attorney general.

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