Friend,

It’s that time of year where the powers that be in Washington start adding up their scorecards.

This week, multiple headline Democratic agenda items are on the docket. Raising the debt ceiling. Check. Holding Mark Meadows in contempt (as part of the larger Jan. 6 accountability agenda). Check. Build Back Better? TBD. 

Republicans are sticking to the same talking points. Inflation. Higher energy prices. Shipping delays and wars on Christmas.  All out of Biden’s control…but that won’t stop the GOP from blaming him. 

As long as we let the point-counting continue, we let the GOP win. If we let them equate – and cancel out – historic victories for American communities and accountability for insurrectionists with “critical race theory” and a gross misunderstanding of global oil markets, we lose.

One of our biggest tasks for 2022 is to stop this bogus narrative in its tracks.

Any smart military leader will tell you that defining the battlefield is crucial to victory. It’s up to our side to tell the story of what IS getting done.

Job creation is UP, bigger than the early reports showed. Biden’s plan to fix the slowdown at our ports is working. 

Democrats led the passage of a trillion-dollar infrastructure passage that took less than 10 months of Biden’s presidency to get over the line. Trump couldn’t do it in four full years. But if you’re reading this, that should come as no surprise.

So why, after the infrastructure bill passed, were all the Republicans who tried to kill it first in line to claim credit? Where was the immediate coordinated victory lap touting its success?

It should not be this hard for Democrats to take credit for the good things they have done and call out Republicans from lying about voting against it. This is once again the result of believing both sides are playing by the same rules.

As Rick so often states – We are increasingly worried that the establishment in Washington is never going to get it and they are going to let the MAGA party waltz all over them next year. If you’re as worried about it as we are, you know what to do. Help us tell it like it is to the people who need to hear it.

This year’s fights aren’t over. BBB is still out there. But if the Democrats continue to bicker in public about however many trillions it will cost, they’re playing into the GOP’s game. And it will be too late for it to matter next year, when it should. 

What does that mean? Say hello to Speaker Jim Jordan, or, if you believe Matt Gaetz, Speaker Trump.

They are the ultimate trolls now.

Democrats – and everyone who cares about the survival of our democracy – have one of two choices:

1. Define the battlefield. Tell the story our way. Take credit for the largest investment in America since the Depression. Show how real American families benefit. And call the Trump mob out for trying to torpedo it then claiming credit for it after it passes.
2. Feed the trolls. Get dragged into CRT war after CRT war. Keep fighting in public about numbers no one understands. And come November, lose big.

You know which one we pick. Are you with us?

-Reed