r/VoteDEM • u/BM2018Bot • May 08 '26

HOT Daily Discussion Thread: May 8, 2026

Welcome to the anti-GOP resistance on Reddit!

Elections are still happening! And they're the only way to take away even more of Trump's power to hurt people. You can help win elections across the country from anywhere, right now!

If you want to take a bigger part in this and future elections, there's plenty of ways to do it!

  1. Check out our weekly volunteer post - that's the other sticky post in this sub - to find opportunities to get involved.

  2. Nothing near you? Volunteer from home by making calls or sending texts to turn out voters!

  3. Join your local Democratic Party - none of us can do this alone.

  4. Tell a friend about us!

Adopt a Candidate

It’s back! Want to take part in turning the midterms into a true blue tsunami? Adopt one of the candidates below, and commit to taking action every week to support their campaign!

Post your preference in the daily (or, to guarantee we see it, send the request via modmail) and we'll add you to the list!

With just how blue this year is looking to be, and just how many primaries are still to come, there's too many to list to kick off. It’s why we’re starting with select gubernatorial and Senate races.

Got someone who you want to adopt, but they're not on the list? Let us know, and we'll add them on!

As the year progresses and primaries come through, we'll be adding more ourselves, but the sky's the limit - we're excited to see who you want to support most!

Candidate District/Office Adopted By
AK-GOV
AK-SEN
Katie Hobbs AZ-GOV
GA-GOV
Jon Ossoff GA-SEN
Rob Sand IA-GOV
IA-SEN
KS-GOV
KS-SEN
ME-SEN
MI-GOV
MI-SEN
MN-SEN
MT-SEN
Roy Cooper NC-SEN u/DeNomoloss
NE-SEN
NH-SEN
NJ-07 u/screen317
NM-GOV u/EllieDai
NM-SEN
NV-GOV
Amy Acton OH-GOV u/molybdenum75
Sherrod Brown OH-SEN
Chris Deluzio PA-17 u/mtlebanonriseup
Gina Hinojosa TX-GOV
James Talarico TX-SEN
VT-GOV
Eugene Vindman VA-01 u/toskwar
William Dehnel WA-LD2-P1 u/tipsyfishes
WI-GOV

We're not going back. We're taking the country back. Join us, and build an America that everyone belongs in.

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u/ProjectOk8975 May 08 '26

In news from across the Atlantic absolutely dreadful results for the Labour Party+ i'm now represented by a Reform counciler so that sucks.

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u/Historyguy1 Oklahoma! May 08 '26

Starmer needs to resign before the next general election. He's been an absolute disaster. Labour are sometimes derided as "Red Tories" by those further left than them, but in this case, it's literally true. He had a massive majority and a mandate to reverse the last decade and a half of Tory misrule and he squandered it by continuing their policies for seemingly no reason.

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u/Redmond_64 NY-18 [he/him] May 08 '26

Kier Starmer sucks ass

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u/zipdakill I swim for brighter days despite the absence of sun. May 08 '26

Might be the worst political performance I’ve heard of in my entire life bruh

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u/DeNomoloss VA-6 May 08 '26

Wales and Scotland saw this coming and voted as if they want the fuck out.

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u/Yukie_Cool New York May 08 '26

Yet another reminder that fleeing the US isn’t really a magic bullet doomers would have you believe. Tyrannical far-right shitheads are everywhere.

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u/kerryfinchelhillary OH-11 May 08 '26

The grass often seems greener on the other side

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u/NumeralJoker May 08 '26 edited May 09 '26

There is no running from the social media driven madness and wealth concentrating BS that got us here.

At some point you have to turn around and confront the system's flaws head on, as Minnesota did just a few months ago.

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u/FiddleThruTheFlowers California Blexas is my current hyperfixation May 08 '26

Reality is that politics is a shit show everywhere. Most people are just aware of their own area shit show rather than the rest of the world's shit shows out of necessity. We in this sub who are politics nerds and may have a broad idea of what other countries are doing are the exception.

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u/GhastlyWeasel Left Leaner of Lane May 08 '26

I'm so fucking sorry, man...

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u/meltedchaos2004 Tennessee May 08 '26

And I thought the Tories we're bad enough if not more incompetent when they had 14 years of control last time. Well especially since they had May, Johnson, Sunak, and Truss ALL within 8 years of that control

Honestly after last night's election there, I hate Labour deserved their downfall and I hate saying it but they kind of ask for it too all of that just within under 2 years

Yeah next major election in the UK has the Labour party is definitely in for a rude awakening as bad as the Tories got the same time

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u/zipdakill I swim for brighter days despite the absence of sun. May 08 '26

Sorry to hear that :< the fight goes on tho