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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 20, 2025

Our places of learning and healing must never be turned into the hunting grounds this federal administration has tried to make them out to be.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 20, 2025

There’s an assertion that somehow there is an exponential increase in assaults on officers, but they will not provide the data.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 20, 2025

I have sat with mothers who are afraid to send their children to school, and with farmworker families who live every day with the fear of being torn apart.

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Josh Shapiro
@joshshapiro· Democratic · PA· Sep 19, 2025

to see that being undermined by the long arm of the federal government is extremely dangerous.

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Josh Shapiro
@joshshapiro· Democratic · PA· Sep 19, 2025

without question the Trump administration is trying to stifle dissent.

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Andrew Cuomo
@andrewcuomo· Democratic · NY· Sep 19, 2025

The Democratic Party chairman did not endorse Mamdani — why? Because he is not a Democrat. He is a socialist.

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Josh Shapiro
@joshshapiro· Democratic · PA· Sep 19, 2025

I mean, listen, the bedrock of our free society is the freedom of speech...

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Josh Shapiro
@joshshapiro· Democratic · PA· Sep 19, 2025

Without question, they’re trying to stifle dissent.

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Josh Shapiro
@joshshapiro· Democratic · PA· Sep 19, 2025

Our foundational principle in this country... is about freedom of expression, freedom of speech.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 18, 2025

obviously Charlie Kirk was a master at not only the work he did online but offline, and his capacity to organize

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Sep 18, 2025

If analysts believe their careers will be destroyed for offering inconvenient assessments, then we will only get the intelligence the White House wants.

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Josh Shapiro
@joshshapiro· Democratic · PA· Sep 18, 2025

I refuse to accept that you’ve got to attack your fellow Americans in order to win an election, and I simply won’t engage in that.

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Josh Shapiro
@joshshapiro· Democratic · PA· Sep 18, 2025

she’s going to have to answer to how she was in the room and yet never said anything publicly.

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Josh Shapiro
@joshshapiro· Democratic · PA· Sep 18, 2025

I do believe that all leaders need to speak and act with moral clarity, and I believe that starts with the president of the United States.

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Spencer Cox
@spencercox· Republican · UT· Sep 18, 2025

I just want to remind people that we still have the death penalty here in the state of Utah.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Sep 18, 2025

If we let politics dictate what intelligence is acceptable, we are effectively flying blind.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Sep 18, 2025

For months now, we’ve watched President Trump’s administration, led in this arena by his hand-picked Director of National Intelligence, Ms. Gabbard, systematically undermine the men and women whose only mission is to keep this country safe.

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