This is gross and a terrible message to send
Trayon won his special election with 2,392 votes. That’s 27.7%. More than 72% voted for someone else. This notion that he has some sweeping mandate insults the people he represents.
I suspect this exaggerated sense of his support helps explain why sitting councilmembers, councilmembers-elect, and the mayor-elect lack the political courage to disavow his conduct.
A principal who cares about students still has to answer for taking envelopes of cash from a school contractor. Whatever good Trayon has done for people doesn’t excuse accepting wads of cash on video.
The longer our leaders rationalize this, the more it costs our city. How do we change DC’s political culture when the people leading it won’t draw even this line? @Janeese4DC
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Just heard on CNN that @ossoff, safely cruising to re-election in what was originally thought to be a vulnerable senate seat in Georgia, was endorsed by many Republican mayors because his constituent service work was so good.
Imagine living in a reality where “constituent services” was the driving issue behind the electing of members of Congress.
Would probably be a good sign.
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Compared to what we are seeing around the country, DSA-type underperformance is impossible to ignore. Jeffries and Schumer shouldn’t forget this.
Given the historic Dem wave, powered by mostly center-left candidates, worth noting that…
El-Sayed only on track to prevail in Michigan by about 5.
DSA-endorsed Nixon losing the one reddish Senate race where other states with similar Trump-Harris numbers flipped to Dems.
DSA member Lawrence looks like he’ll lose Michigan swing seat held by Slotkin.
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Pia Dandiya makes history as the first Indian-American elected to Congress from Florida
The Democrat defeats Republican Casey Askar in Florida’s 22nd Congressional District, securing a seat in the US House of Representatives
A former high school principal and daughter of Indian immigrants, Dandiya adds another Indian-American voice to Capitol Hill
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Today in Capital Commonsense—@charlesallen is holding a markup on the bill to allow Waymo 11/9. He has secured big concessions and by creating competition with Uber/Lyft there’s evidence that they pay their drivers MORE in cities with Waymo. More from @AVGregR. open.substack.com/pub/capita…
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Trayon won his special election with 2,392 votes. That’s 27.7%. More than 72% voted for someone else. This notion that he has some sweeping mandate insults the people he represents.
I suspect this exaggerated sense of his support helps explain why sitting councilmembers, councilmembers-elect, and the mayor-elect lack the political courage to disavow his conduct.
A principal who cares about students still has to answer for taking envelopes of cash from a school contractor. Whatever good Trayon has done for people doesn’t excuse accepting wads of cash on video.
The longer our leaders rationalize this, the more it costs our city. How do we change DC’s political culture when the people leading it won’t draw even this line? @Janeese4DC
Trayon is active in his community and extremely popular because of it. Unfortunately he’s a moron, and corrupt, but people like him will continue to beat people like you because the people believe that he actually cares about making Ward 8 a better place while yall tweet.
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Gina Hinojosa met with Beto O’Rourke before running. "Not one person can win Texas," he told her. "It has to be two." She and Talarico ran as a ticket, each appealing to different areas and demographics. Together, they changed what’s possible in Texas. theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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Corruption, you say?
CM @trayonwhite speaks at @Janeese4DC watch party. He says JLG is “anointed and appointed.” He also says the process should be respected and the DC Dems should be the ones to name the next member of the council.
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#WATCH | US midterm elections 2026 | Ashburn, Virginia: An Indian-American says, "This election, you have seen the attacks that they have put on Indians across the country...We need to be thinking about what is going to put us in a good position in this country, what is going to put us in a position where we will be accepted as Americans. Do we trust the group that has consistently hated us? Or do we trust the group that has given us opportunities? I think the choice here is very easy. I think if you look at who supports us, who believes that we should be Americans, I think the answer is very clear. It's the Democrats."
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Gobsmacked seeing him onstage. I’m really rooting for her to be a good leader, but the choice to platform him at this celebration is disappointing.
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BREAKING: Democrat James Talarico wins U.S. Senate race in Texas, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4ilA3cL
ALT BREAKING: Democrat James Talarico wins U.S. Senate race in Texas, NBC News projects. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-elections/texas-senate-results
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Democrat Deb Haaland has won the New Mexico Governor's race.
She will make history as the nation's first Native American governor.
Community note
Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo, will be the first female Native American governor of any U.S. state, not the first overall. Johnston Murray was the first Native American to be elected governor in the U.S.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnston_…
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Mayor Mamdani, speaking from Gov. Hochul’s election nite party, says tn is an inflection point in the Dem party.
“We have begun the work of transforming our party and making it belong to working people once again,” he says, adding that work was started in NYC
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Congratulations on your win tonight, @aparnafordc. Will you vote to expel Trayon White from council to uphold DSA’s values to promote “good DSA-type governance to end patronage and corruption”?
We don’t disagree on that. Our current “pragmatic,” moderate Mayor terribly mismanaged our budget and I’m excited for some good “DSA-type” governance to end patronage and corruption, make our services more effective, and make sure our tax dollars go further.
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Or, like the DC Democratic Party, @Janeese4DC, and Party Chair @ChiomaWard7 did tonight, will you invite him to party events, give him speaking roles, and celebrate the corruption that takes away resources from our most vulnerable populations? The hypocrisy in this town is unnerving.
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This is the thing. Washingtonians should be genuinely outraged by the refusal of our political leaders to distance themselves from this guy. The facts of his corruption trial are not in dispute. He took bags of cash and corrupted the programs they all support.
just baffling
I encourage my fellow Washingtonians to continue insisting to their elected representatives that consorting with this crook is outrageous
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just baffling
I encourage my fellow Washingtonians to continue insisting to their elected representatives that consorting with this crook is outrageous
CM @trayonwhite speaks at @Janeese4DC watch party. He says JLG is “anointed and appointed.” He also says the process should be respected and the DC Dems should be the ones to name the next member of the council.
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.@Janeese4DC I voted for you today because I had high hopes for our city, for change that is so desperately needed here. I feel completely duped by your promises to root out corruption and end Bowser-era cronyism & kickback schemes. Why is Trayon White continuously celebrated by your camp in this way?
CM @trayonwhite speaks at @Janeese4DC watch party. He says JLG is “anointed and appointed.” He also says the process should be respected and the DC Dems should be the ones to name the next member of the council.
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