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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 9, 2025

It's a moment that few of us could have imagined.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 9, 2025

They're trying to bring us back to a pre-1960s world on voting rights—you know it well.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 9, 2025

Harvard, like other universities, has allowed foreign students to abuse their visa privileges and advocate for violence and terrorism on campus.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 9, 2025

We tried to do things the easy way with Harvard. Now, through their refusal to cooperate, we have to do things the hard way.

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Michelle Lujan Grisham
@michellelujangrisham· Democratic · NM· Jul 9, 2025

Ruidoso endured devastating wildfires and flooding last summer, and now catastrophic flooding is hitting this resilient community again. This crisis demands immediate action.

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Jul 9, 2025

No one on Social Security would see any change to benefits as a result of the plan.

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Jul 9, 2025

We've...fended off five months of unlawful attempts from the federal government to unwind this successful program and will keep fighting–and winning–in the courts.

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Jul 9, 2025

Six months in, it's clear: congestion pricing has been a huge success, making life in New York better.

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Michelle Lujan Grisham
@michellelujangrisham· Democratic · NM· Jul 9, 2025

New Mexico is mobilizing every resource we have, but Ruidoso needs federal support to recover from this disaster. We’ve watched Texas receive the federal resources they desperately needed, and Ruidoso deserves that same urgent response.

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Greg Abbott
@gregabbott· Republican · TX· Jul 9, 2025

161 people are known to be missing in Kerr County alone.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 9, 2025

If Harvard won't defend the interests of its students, then we will.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 9, 2025

We’re just getting started, we’ve implemented several transformational changes.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 9, 2025

We are very confident that we can continue to provide hospitality to folks … while maintaining the same standard of security for passengers and our homeland.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 9, 2025

That doesn’t mean there won’t be times where someone will have to remove their shoes.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 9, 2025

We cannot sit back and be bystanders at this moment. We've got to assert ourselves.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 9, 2025

We cannot be complicit at this moment by being passive at this moment.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 9, 2025

Of the United States of America, he wants the divided states.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 9, 2025

You have that capacity because you have the one thing Donald Trump doesn't have, one thing Donald Trump's never exercised. He may have the formal authority of the United States. You have the moral authority.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 9, 2025

So my call to you is to recognize that you can shape the future. The future is not just some experience. It's something to manifest. The future is inside of you. It's decisions, not conditions, that will determine our fate and future.

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Greg Abbott
@gregabbott· Republican · TX· Jul 9, 2025

There is more work to be done, particularly in the aftermath of the devastating floods in the Texas Hill Country.

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Greg Abbott
@gregabbott· Republican · TX· Jul 9, 2025

We delivered on historic legislation in the 89th Regular Legislative Session that will benefit Texans for generations to come.

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