The event was hosted by the group Elect Democratic Women, which funneled nearly $2.4 million from AIPAC into congressional races this cycle.

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    Dems finally got a big shot at change. Will they go for it or revert to the same-old, same-old? Just like the mid-term shake-up there needs to be a dem party shake-up or I fear everything will revert back to the entrenched establishment.

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    Doesn’t matter, nobody on the GOP side except Massie switched, so this was irrelevant. If he’d had the votes this would be a story. He didn’t.

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      My understanding is it failed by seven votes, with 11 democrats as no-shows….

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      This is missing the forest for the trees

      The issue is not they missed the vote, it’s why they did and what that says more broadly about the party’s capture.

      3 of those house members are explicitly on the board of this AIPAC front group, another 5 of them took money this election cycle.

      In the first major symbolic vote since the election, these Dems were prostituting themselves for a front group advancing the interests of an ethno supremacist foreign government engaging in a genocide that just helped manipulate our nation into a war and is seeking to re-escalate it.

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        And not only that.

        There cunts have been blaming voters for not voting, foryears. Go vote, you have to vote, it is important to vote.

        And now when it is their turn to show everyone how it is done, they fuck off to suck dick. Imagine if few thousand people in Mississippi didn’t go vote because they assumed there was no point in it.

        American politicians are truly biggest pieces of shit.

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          they fuck off to suck dick

          I fully agree with your comment but please, no need for this.

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      Yes, this obviously was performative, but image matters, and the image they’ve projected is that they support both the genocide and war with Iran.

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      It is NOT the Democrats fault for being at a Meeting on how we can give MORE TAXPAYER MONEY to Israel INSTEAD of Doing their Jobs protecting Americans! It’s the REPUBLICANS Fault!

      -LITERALLY you!

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      It’s messaging, a show of where their fealty lies. Fealty to the zionist entity by choosing it over this. And a middle finger to anti-genocide pro-Palestine factions of their party who came out to vote for them that they don’t give a fuck about them and will always prioritize serving the zionist entity over even domestic concerns.

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        The tweet in this article said another Democrat saw no such thing.