Three Wins Today: Nov 25, 2025

With disinformation at your fingertips, who can find trustworthy anything?

Dear DNC,

I am your biggest supporter. I love pretty much everything I’m seeing. I think Chair Ken Martin is absolute best person for the job, and Malcolm Kenyatta and Shasti Conrad are literal gems and I feel so lucky that I get to call them friends.

But here’s the thing, social media is about so much more than just memes and I wish, like the rest of the Democratic party, you screamed your wins from the rooftops, not just the legislative ones, or election ones, or investment ones, but the real work happening on the ground.

The Slack is great, but people not in the Slack will never hear about the mutual aid work happening on the ground.

No one knows that last week you held a Community Food Drive Training, and next week you’re partnering with Latino Victory US for a Know Your Voting Rights Bilingual training for the Latino community so we can win the Miami mayoral race and beyond.

You’re not patting yourself on the back enough for working to get rid of the scam texts and emails pretending to be you, or working on cutting off the consultant class, (how is that going, by the way?)

We hear something about what states you’re in, but not what you’re doing in those state, which leads to thousands of people still complaining that you’re ignoring the South.

Share ALL your wins! Share all your innovations, cause oh my god there are too many for me to be able to include here.

Your mutual aid work on the ground is going unnoticed. And it shouldn’t be.

Sometimes I feel like I’m using a cork board, push pins, and red string to prove that you’re fighting. SCREAM IT!

Make a social media post every time you have a new Blue Print post (did you know the DNC has a Substack?)

And share clips from The Daily Blueprint on all video platforms, people aren’t just sitting on YouTube in the same way they used to.

Keep us updated with the War Room and People’s Cabinet (without us having to go to your LinkTree), share our wins, share our fight, share our noise!

Yeah, there will be idiots who try to tear you down. But they exist whether you promote yourself or not.

Make everyone say, “Wow, I didn’t know Ken was doing that!”

I PROMISE it will be worth it. Trust me, cause I’ve been kinda doing this social media thing for a while. And I REALLY want people other than me to see how amazing your work is.

The Salt Lake Tribune paywall that will be gone by early 2026

Texas

Tue, Nov 18 - Clinton appointee, Judge Orlando Garcia, issued a preliminary injunction against Texas’ law requiring the Ten Commandments to be in every classroom. He also said they must be removed by Dec 1:

If the Court does not grant injunctive relief, Plaintiffs will suffer the “loss of First Amendment freedoms,” which “unquestionably constitutes irreparable injury.” Because the government opposes the injunction, the balance of harm and public interest factors merge. The combined analysis of these factors is straightforward. It plainly serves the public interest to protect First Amendment freedoms.

Basically, he says even keeping the Ten Commandments up violates the plaintiffs’ first amendment freedoms.

Rachel Laser, the president and CEO of plaintiff, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, celebrated the win:

All Texas public school districts should heed the court’s clear warning: It’s plainly unconstitutional to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms. Families throughout Texas and across the country get to decide how and when their children engage with religion – not politicians or public-school officials.

It’s yet another reminder that Republicans will keep trying things, but the law just isn’t on their side time and time again, and, I know it’s hard to believe, but that still does matter.

Salt Lake City

Thu, Nov 20 - The Salt Lake Tribune has announced that they will be dropping their paywall at some point in the first quarter of 2026. Lauren Gustus, CEO and executive editor announced it at their annual fundraising gala, hoping that it would get people to be a little more generous.

She told them:

The Tribune cannot afford to continue to limit who has access to independent and trusted news. Making the news is only the first step — we must also ensure people can find it.

This is such a big deal. In this world where most trusted news is behind a paywall and most disinformation is at your fingertips, it is literally cost prohibitive for many people to be accurately informed.

I am so glad the Salt Lake Tribune is taking this step. It may sound cheesy, but it will make the world a slightly safer place.

New Orleans, Louisiana

Thu, Nov 20 - InspireNOLA is a New Orleans charter school company, and they are committed to keeping their students safe from the impending ICE raids.

CEO Jamar McKeely told Fox 8:

I recieved some emails this morning from parents who are truly concerned, parents that asked me if their child can now do virtual work. Parents are concerned about actually bringing their kids to school

He continued:

We’re not gonna have ICE in our schools, we’re not gonna allow that at InspireNOLA Charter Schools, but as well, we need our city to protect our students. the concerns are increasing where students are wondering what’s gonna happen to them, but, what I can state to our families, throughout our city and our families within InspireNOLA, we’re prepared to support our students regardless if it’s virtual or in person to continue the academic outcomes.

Love to hear about schools putting this much effort into keeping their students safe. I hope the city itself puts in just as much effort.

We all have to help each other and work together to show each other we matter during times like this. And it seems like McKeely is doing just that.

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I hope these wins were what you needed to make it through the rest of your day.

Our voices are our superpower, but only when we use them!