US EditionRepublicans in the toughest swing districts become hard to find for people angry about Trump
- U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, a vulnerable Republican from central Pennsylvania, has kept his four district offices closed with no public town halls recently.
- This limited accessibility occurred during a 17-day House recess intended for members to spend time in their districts connecting with constituents, yet Perry’s offices remained inaccessible.
- Republican strategists defend this approach as more productive by controlling constituent interactions, while Democrats launch alternative events in districts lacking Republican public presence.
- Doug Heye, a veteran GOP strategist, suggested that members of Congress can be more effective by engaging with voters through organized and managed interactions rather than traditional town hall meetings, although some constituents like Robert Barton remain dissatisfied with the limited access.
- The Republicans' public event strategy may influence the 2026 congressional control, with Democrats betting their outreach will provide them an advantage in tightly contested districts.
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Dispatches From the House Battleground Have Everyone Asking: “Where are the Republicans?”
Reporting from the Associated Press discovered that during the April district work period, vulnerable House Republicans across the country took the two weeks back home in their districts to… hide from their constituents. After House Republicans faced outrage and anger from voters the last time they were home in March, the most endangered among them decided to obey orders from their leaders in D.C. to not hold in-person town halls, depriving the …
How Marc Andreessen’s Signal group chats helped spawn the tech right
The power elites have a Signal group chat, too - and the ones that seem to be reshaping the government, according to a recent report, are the ones Marc Andreessen created to bring the American right wing and the technocracy together. Semafor's Ben Smith published a massive article on Monday detailing an ecosystem of private, disappearing group chats between hundreds of powerful Silicon Valley figures and high-profile right-wing pundits and acade…
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Republicans in swing districts become hard to find for people angry about Trump
Republican members of Congress went to great lengths to avoid public meetings with their constituents over their two-week Easter recess.
The influential Signal chatrooms where tech billionaires and their courtiers swung far-right
Ben Smith published a fascinating exposé on the Signal chats where tech bros, billionaires and their courtiers in the press swung, mostly covertly, to the pro-Trump right over the last…
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