The Resist Report

The political landscape in America has changed. For some, the writing on the walls was apparent for some time. For others, like the four gentleman who congregated on a telephone call to talk current events and politics, the shift happened beneath their noses, and when the shit hit the fan, they were thrown off their heels.

For two years, I, Alex Mohajer, Thomas McAbee, Daniel Fusselman, and Rance Collins campaigned for Hillary Clinton as Bros4Hillary. We made an imprint. We got to meet Hillary Clinton. It sparked a career in political journalism for some of us. But we were bound together by one truth: we were progressives. We were dudes. We were millennials. And we represented an otherwise totally ignored segment of the electorate: people from those demographic groups that love Hillary Clinton.

For the first time since the 2016 presidential election, all four of us sat down to talk some real, honest-to-god politics.

It’s true. We are all alternating co-hosts of the Bros4America podcast with myself serving as your faithful Whoopi Goldberg. And while we each happen to be politically progressive, millennial-aged men, not a single one of us voted Bernie Sanders.

(You’re deep in Hillary country now.)

“What?! Then you’re not real progressives,” we can practically hear every frothing-at-the-mouth blow-hard Bernie Sanders salad-tosser saying as they furiously masturbate over their PAID $HILLARY sub-reddits while plugging in the details of a Hillary Clinton book signing protest into their IPhones, conveniently ignoring Donald Trump as he guts America.

Only fitting that the bros ruminate and spend a little bit of time looking at the purist left wing faction of the Democratic Party (which it turns out, are just Republicans), and the frustration with sensible, progressive people who are trying to get forward motion in government but are met with people who obstruct even as they share the same goal.

The Bros4America Podcast is executive produced and moderated by co-host Alex Mohajer. Joining the panel as co-hosts are Daniel Fusselman, Thomas McAbee, and Rance Collins, with special thanks to Matt Garrett and Bros4Hillary Co-founder Nelson Melegrito (the original Bros4Hillary!) The theme music is It’s Always Too Late To Start by Chris Zabriskie. The Bros4America Podcast produced and mixed using Audacity and distributed by WordPress and BluBerry. Thank you to freeconferencecall.com, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and all of our listeners at Bros4America (forever Bros4Hillary).

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Meet Spencer Bounds.

The extraordinary 24-year-old is running to unseat an otherwise unchallenged 50-year incumbent Republican in the 82nd district of the Texas House of Representatives. As a Democrat.

For TX HD-82, Goliath appears to have finally met his David.

Born and raised in Midland, Texas, Bounds has been volunteering and working in local and state politics in different capacities for many years — his entire life, he notes. And when filing day came in December for would-be members of Congress to establish their candidacies for the Texas House, which has been dominated by Republicans for decades, he had no intention of running.

“I was in Austin helping my friend Armando Gamboa file file, he’s running in the neighboring [81st] district in Odessa,” Bounds told Bros4America. He noticed that there was nobody running to challenge the Republican incumbent in the 82nd district, where he’s from.

In his work locally or for Young Democrats organizations, he had been preaching the need for Democrats to run in every seat in every district in America. It wasn’t until he was half way home on the drive back to Midland from Austin– and thanks to the urging of his close friend Stuart Williams —  that he decided it was his moral imperative to run. He simply could not let the seat go uncontested. Not in good conscience.

“I couldn’t allow it to happen,” Bounds said.

Bounds spoke to Bros4America’s co-founder and Editor-in-Chief Alex Mohajer about his candidacy, his age, and what he hopes to accomplish once he’s elected in this special episode of The The Bros 4 America Podcast.

On being a 24-year-old running for elected office:

“When [Republican incumbent] Tom Craddick was elected in 1968, he was a year older than me. That happened to be fifty years ago. But the fact remains, that its been done before. And when Tom Craddick ran for the first time, it was a one-party state. Our party. Now I’m running under the same exact circumstances.”

“At the end of the day, as long as you are willing to put in the work, if you have ideas and you’re willing to work with people and talk with people, and you’re willing to sit down with your constituents and go fight for them, it shouldn’t matter how old you are.

“If you’re willing to go door to door, sit in their homes, have a glass of lemonade.

On why it’s time for Tom Craddick to go: 

“Tom Craddick is very much so the reason that Texas is a one-party state. He got elected, worked his way up. He’s the one that gathered these donors and  big financial interests together and decided that there was going to be a Republican majority in Texas. And through his years of gathering donors and putting money everywhere throughout the state, and then in his years as Speaker, when he so nicely gerrymandered every district map in the state for his party. Tom Craddick is the reason we are where we are at. He has been around so long, even if he had never been Speaker, that if you have a problem or something that you don’t like about Texas state government, then its probably his fault.”

Mohajer: “And it’s time to hold him accountable?”

Bounds: “And it’s time to hold him accountable.”

On the path forward:

“We need better healthcare, we need rural hospitals and people are having to drive 2 or 3 hours just to see someone who isn’t a general practitioner. We have the threat of school vouchers looming above some of our smaller school districts….”

“We have a voter apathy problem because p...

Meet Spencer Bounds.

The extraordinary 24-year-old is running to unseat an otherwise unchallenged 50-year incumbent Republican in the 82nd district of the Texas House of Representatives. As a Democrat.

For TX HD-82, Goliath appears to have finally met his David.

Born and raised in Midland, Texas, Bounds has been volunteering and working in local and state politics in different capacities for many years -- his entire life, he notes. And when filing day came in December for would-be members of Congress to establish their candidacies for the Texas House, which has been dominated by Republicans for decades, he had no intention of running.

"I was in Austin helping my friend Armando Gamboa file file, he's running in the neighboring [81st] district in Odessa," Bounds told Bros4America. He noticed that there was nobody running to challenge the Republican incumbent in the 82nd district, where he's from.

In his work locally or for Young Democrats organizations, he had been preaching the need for Democrats to run in every seat in every district in America. It wasn't until he was half way home on the drive back to Midland from Austin-- and thanks to the urging of his close friend Stuart Williams --  that he decided it was his moral imperative to run. He simply could not let the seat go uncontested. Not in good conscience.

"I couldn't allow it to happen," Bounds said.

Bounds spoke to Bros4America's co-founder and Editor-in-Chief Alex Mohajer about his candidacy, his age, and what he hopes to accomplish once he's elected in this special episode of The The Bros 4 America Podcast.

On being a 24-year-old running for elected office:

"When [Republican incumbent] Tom Craddick was elected in 1968, he was a year older than me. That happened to be fifty years ago. But the fact remains, that its been done before. And when Tom Craddick ran for the first time, it was a one-party state. Our party. Now I'm running under the same exact circumstances."

"At the end of the day, as long as you are willing to put in the work, if you have ideas and you're willing to work with people and talk with people, and you're willing to sit down with your constituents and go fight for them, it shouldn't matter how old you are.

"If you're willing to go door to door, sit in their homes, have a glass of lemonade.

On why it's time for Tom Craddick to go: 

"Tom Craddick is very much so the reason that Texas is a one-party state. He got elected, worked his way up. He's the one that gathered these donors and  big financial interests together and decided that there was going to be a Republican majority in Texas. And through his years of gathering donors and putting money everywhere throughout the state, and then in his years as Speaker, when he so nicely gerrymandered every district map in the state for his party. Tom Craddick is the reason we are where we are at. He has been around so long, even if he had never been Speaker, that if you have a problem or something that you don't like about Texas state government, then its probably his fault."

Mohajer: "And it's time to hold him accountable?"

Bounds: "And it's time to hold him accountable."

On the path forward:

"We need better healthcare, we need rural hospitals and people are having to drive 2 or 3 hours just to see someone who isn't a general practitioner. We have the threat of school vouchers looming above some of our smaller school districts...."

"We have a voter apathy problem because people think they're votes don't matter.

What do Washington D.C. and The Clash of the Titans have in common? Release the Kraken memo! Washington D.C. was ablaze this week with talk of the secretive memorandum written by Representative Devin Nunes (R-CA) which sought to undermine the credibility of both the FBI and Department of Justice by allegedly showing FBI favoritism towards Hillary Clinton.

Of course, despite shameless amounts of hype, the president opted to declassify the memo against the recommendation of the FBI. The memo proved absolutely nothing, but of course the conservative right media outlets began to pump out propaganda riddled shamelessly with lies and falsehoods, even trending #ReleasetheMemo on Twitter.

Turns out, the memo was as fictitious as the mythical Kraken creature that exists in the dark nether realms of Greek mythology and enjoys the same call to arms: #ReleasetheKraken-Memo…are we right

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Oh, boy. Would you look. at. that.  It wasn’t just Sean Hannity. Turns out Russian bots and trolls were instrumental in making that hashtag trend. Fitting that it should happen just as just as reports describe the Mueller investigation as zeroing in on Trump Russia.

As always, stick with us through the end as we select our Shithole of the Week, as this week’s episode will feature Alex Mohajer tell his first person account of his now-very viral tweet of Hillary Clinton shouting out a group of activists called the “Activist Bitches Supporting Bitches,” whose leadership wishes to remain anonymous. Want the sco0p? Here’s the tweet.

A message “to all the activist bitches supporting bitches” by the inimitable @HillaryClinton. pic.twitter.com/fnUfsJnUN4

— Alex Mohajer (@AlexMohajer) January 27, 2018

 

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What do Washington D.C. and The Clash of the Titans have in common? Release the Kraken memo! Washington D.C. was ablaze this week with talk of the secretive memorandum written by Representative Devin Nunes (R-CA) which sought to undermine the credibility of both the FBI and Department of Justice by allegedly showing FBI favoritism towards Hillary Clinton.

Of course, despite shameless amounts of hype, the president opted to declassify the memo against the recommendation of the FBI. The memo proved absolutely nothing, but of course the conservative right media outlets began to pump out propaganda riddled shamelessly with lies and falsehoods, even trending #ReleasetheMemo on Twitter.

Turns out, the memo was as fictitious as the mythical Kraken creature that exists in the dark nether realms of Greek mythology and enjoys the same call to arms: #ReleasetheKraken-Memo…are we right

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Oh, boy. Would you look. at. that.  It wasn’t just Sean Hannity. Turns out Russian bots and trolls were instrumental in making that hashtag trend. Fitting that it should happen just as just as reports describe the Mueller investigation as zeroing in on Trump Russia.

As always, stick with us through the end as we select our Shithole of the Week, as this week’s episode will feature Alex Mohajer tell his first person account of his now-very viral tweet of Hillary Clinton shouting out a group of activists called the “Activist Bitches Supporting Bitches,” whose leadership wishes to remain anonymous. Want the sco0p? Here’s the tweet.

A message “to all the activist bitches supporting bitches” by the inimitable @HillaryClinton. pic.twitter.com/fnUfsJnUN4

— Alex Mohajer (@AlexMohajer) January 27, 2018

 

Want to help elect Beto to Texas and replace the odorous Ted Cruz? Visit Bros4Beto to learn how you can become more involved!

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What do Washington D.C. and The Clash of the Titans have in common? Release the Kraken memo! Washington D.C. was ablaze this week with talk of the secretive memorandum written by Representative Devin Nunes (R-CA) which sought to undermine the credibility of both the FBI and Department of Justice by allegedly showing FBI favoritism towards Hillary Clinton.

Of course, despite shameless amounts of hype, the president opted to declassify the memo against the recommendation of the FBI. The memo proved absolutely nothing, but of course the conservative right media outlets began to pump out propaganda riddled shamelessly with lies and falsehoods, even trending #ReleasetheMemo on Twitter.

Turns out, the memo was as fictitious as the mythical Kraken creature that exists in the dark nether realms of Greek mythology and enjoys the same call to arms: #ReleasetheKraken-Memo...are we right

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Oh, boy. Would you look. at. that.  It wasn't just Sean Hannity. Turns out Russian bots and trolls were instrumental in making that hashtag trend. Fitting that it should happen just as just as reports describe the Mueller investigation as zeroing in on Trump Russia.

As always, stick with us through the end as we select our Shithole of the Week, as this week's episode will feature Alex Mohajer tell his first person account of his now-very viral tweet of Hillary Clinton shouting out a group of activists called the "Activist Bitches Supporting Bitches," whose leadership wishes to remain anonymous. Want the sco0p? Here's the tweet.

A message "to all the activist bitches supporting bitches" by the inimitable @HillaryClinton. pic.twitter.com/fnUfsJnUN4

— Alex Mohajer (@AlexMohajer) January 27, 2018

 

Want to help elect Beto to Texas and replace the odorous Ted Cruz? Visit Bros4Beto to learn how you can become more involved!

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During this week’s episode of the Bros 4 America Podcast, listener Tony asked the question, “What if [Special Counsel] Robert Mueller concludes his investigation this year right before the mid-term election, and concludes that Donald Trump did NOT commit high crimes and/or misdemeanors against the United States of America. Will the Democrat be harmed by this?”

An interesting question to posit. This, and Donald Trump’s impeachment were fresh on the minds of this episode’s co-hosts, Alex Mohajer and Thomas McAbee, who weight the positives and negatives and Senator Chuck Schumer’s strategy on a DACA deal, Donald Trump’s ineptidude and many more!

Check out an all-new episode of the Bros 4 America Podcast now! This episode was executive produced by Alex Mohajer and written and featuring Thomas McAbee. Your commentators are Alex Mohajer and Thomas McAbee. The theme music is It’s Always Too Late to Start,” by Chris Zabriskie. This program was created using Audacity and powered by BluBrry and Powerpress. Special thanks to Matt Garrett, Nelson Melegrito and to Hillary Clinton!

During this week’s episode of the Bros 4 America Podcast, listener Tony asked the question, “What if [Special Counsel] Robert Mueller concludes his investigation this year right before the mid-term election, and concludes that Donald Trump did NOT commit high crimes and/or misdemeanors against the United States of America. Will the Democrat be harmed by this?”

An interesting question to posit. This, and Donald Trump’s impeachment were fresh on the minds of this episode’s co-hosts, Alex Mohajer and Thomas McAbee, who weight the positives and negatives and Senator Chuck Schumer’s strategy on a DACA deal, Donald Trump’s ineptidude and many more!

Check out an all-new episode of the Bros 4 America Podcast now! This episode was executive produced by Alex Mohajer and written and featuring Thomas McAbee. Your commentators are Alex Mohajer and Thomas McAbee. The theme music is It’s Always Too Late to Start,” by Chris Zabriskie. This program was created using Audacity and powered by BluBrry and Powerpress. Special thanks to Matt Garrett, Nelson Melegrito and to Hillary Clinton!

During this week's episode of the Bros 4 America Podcast, listener Tony asked the question, "What if [Special Counsel] Robert Mueller concludes his investigation this year right before the mid-term election, and concludes that Donald Trump did NOT commit high crimes and/or misdemeanors against the United States of America. Will the Democrat be harmed by this?"

An interesting question to posit. This, and Donald Trump's impeachment were fresh on the minds of this episode's co-hosts, Alex Mohajer and Thomas McAbee, who weight the positives and negatives and Senator Chuck Schumer's strategy on a DACA deal, Donald Trump's ineptidude and many more!

Check out an all-new episode of the Bros 4 America Podcast now! This episode was executive produced by Alex Mohajer and written and featuring Thomas McAbee. Your commentators are Alex Mohajer and Thomas McAbee. The theme music is It's Always Too Late to Start," by Chris Zabriskie. This program was created using Audacity and powered by BluBrry and Powerpress. Special thanks to Matt Garrett, Nelson Melegrito and to Hillary Clinton!

Saturday marked two major anniversaries and one possibly catastrophic new moment in history. On the one year anniversary of Trump’s inauguration, the federal government shut down it doors due to Republican failure to agree on a budget deal, despite controlling both houses of Congress, the executive branch, and the Supreme Court. Fitting then that these two moments in time should converge upon one another on the one year anniversary of the Women’s March (or Women’s March 2.0) which had its second showing Saturday in a massive protest that criss-crossed all across the United States and all seven continents.

Moderator and co-host Alex Mohajer is out with the flu this week, but still managed to chime in and pay homage to all the women behind Bros4America, including the late J.D. DiSalvatore, Paulina Trefault, Victoria Moxie, Katharine Rose, Priscilla Wagner, Jennifer Brophy, Elizabeth Natali, Robyn Tyler, Anyshka Van Dahl, Vera Ackerman, Alicia Tucker, Anita Basharat, Julia Ingrid and Melissa Jamrock.

Taking over with full hosting duties this week are usual co-hosts Daniel Fusselman and Thomas McAbee, and they discuss everything from Fusion GPS transcripts, to Trump’s Money Laundering, to Russian money funneled through the NRA, to Devin Nunes, to Russia & #ReleaseTheMemo, to DACA, to the Government shutdown, to the Women’s March 2.0.

The Bros 4 America Podcast is executive produced by Alex Mohajer, created with Audacity and distributed by BluBerry and PowerPress. The theme music is “It’s Always Too Late To Start” by Chris Zabriskie, and the show is co-hosted by Thomas McAbee, Daniel Fusselman, Alex Mohajer, and Rance Collins. Special thanks to Nelson Melegrito, Bros4Hillary co-founder, Matt Garrett, and Hillary Clinton, whose support gave us the fortitude to keep at it. Stay woke!