I’m sure you know all about it by now, but here is the interview Senator Booker gave after his record-breaking, heroic, historic 25+ hour speech.  How he was still coherent, I can’t imagine.

This is the sort of extra mile (and then some!) we are now all called upon to go . . . which is why there are now more than 1,000 demonstrations planned for April 5, and why I — who almost never march or demonstrate — will be at one of them.  Click here to choose yours!

Bring friends!

Text from friends who have already sold their New York home and moved to Canada:

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We’ve heard rumblings about iPhones being searched with potentially negative consequences.  I now have first-hand knowledge of such an incident.  We just had dinner with our upstairs neighbors.  Wonderful people.  A colleague of the wife, a 60-year-old White Montreal Physician was headed to a medical conference in NYC.  The U.S. Immigration agent was asking to see people’s cell phones.  In the Dr.’s phone he found statements critical of the Trump administration.  The physician was turned away and not allowed to enter the U.S. to attend his conference.

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Putin is winning.

But in the end, the American people won’t stand for it.

Carl sent me a gloating message about the two Republican special election wins in Florida.  But in the dark red districts Trump carried by margins of 37% and 30% five months ago, his two candidates won by less than half as much — a huge 15-point swing our way.

And in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, our 55/45 win was 11 points better than the 1% by which Trump won the state five months ago — despite the $26 million Musk poured in last month.

Carl is right we were too woke . . . or at least were painted that way.  (I don’t know of a single Dem in the House or Senate who wanted literally to defund the police, let alone a majority of us.  Or a single Dem who thinks “men should be allowed to compete in women’s sports,” as he oversimplifies it . . . though I do know lots of people who think it should be left up to coaches and local communities to decide what’s fair and makes sense — just as I think Musk’s daughter’s gender-affirming care decisions should be hers and her parents’ and doctors’ rather than Trump’s.)

And he is right that the Southern border was in crisis.  (In part, this was because the bi-partisan comprehensive immigration reform that passed the Senate 68-32 — and would have passed the House and been signed into law — was denied a vote on the House floor by the Republican speaker in 2013 . . . and in part because the lasting bipartisan legislative solution Biden got took too long to get — but that was then scuttled by Trump so he could use it as a campaign issue.)

But how about democracy itself?  And Social Security?  And veteran’s benefits?  And 80 years of the norms-based world order we built?  And NATO?  And the separation of powers?  Does Carl worry about any of that?  How about $500 million of food that was already on its way to starving babies?  And putting our Defense Department in the hands of a weekend Fox News host with a drinking problem?  How about crippling our efforts to fight bird flu and Alzheimer’s?  And pardoning violent January 6th rioters, many of whom were sentenced by Trump-appointed judges?  The list is practically endless.

Yes, there’s inflation . . . but does Carl see signs of its subsiding?

And the economy . . . but has he seen the Consumer Confidence Index?  An economy that five months ago was “the envy of the world” faces stagflation.

And the deficit . . . but (and I will leave you with this, if you missed it yesterday) the DOGE blood baths could actually increase the deficit!

See you Saturday at one of the 1,000+ rallies.  Cory Booker is an American hero.