Maine Just Delivered a Brutal Wake-Up Call to Democrats. Will It Land? [View all]

Thom Hartmann nails it....thank you Thom!

Great article and worth the full read, It was difficult to decide what to include as the four paragraphs so please take a little time to read the full article. Of course it's going to ruffle a certain subset or two of people here, oh well. Thom's right (IMHO as it seems necessary to say these days) and as he notes, Democrats better damn well listen.

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Maine Just Delivered a Brutal Wake-Up Call to Democrats. Will It Land?
Candidates who take on power and promise real real progressive change are the ones voters are rallying behind, because anything less isn’t worth showing up for…
Thom Hartmann
May 01, 2026

Maine just handed Democrats a wake-up call that they’d damn well better actually listen to this time.

Governor Janet Mills suspended her Senate campaign yesterday, leaving Marine veteran and oyster farmer Graham Platner as the presumptive Democratic nominee to take on Republican Senator Susan Collins in November.

The message Maine voters are frankly shouting is the same one I’ve been hearing from listeners on my radio/TV show for years and the same one that pollsters across the spectrum keep picking up across the country: people are sick and tired of mealy-mouthed corporate Democrats who run on focus-grouped slogans and govern like they’re scared of their own shadow. They want fighters.

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The lesson for the DNC, DCCC, the DSCC, and every damn consultant who’s suggested running on an anodyne “don’t make waves” agenda without naming who’s screwing everyday Americans is clear: the New Affordability Agenda isn’t just good policy, it’s also good politics.

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https://hartmannreport.com/p/maine-just-delivered-a-brutal-wake-efb