Change Agent, Advisor, Teacher. Led @freedomtomarry campaign to victory. Author, Why Marriage Matters (2004). (https://nitter.cf/t.co/mh2C1NypoE) 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🏳️🌈
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“The Republican congressional candidates on the ballot this year deserve to pay a price for both the damage their party has done and the damage it has failed to stop. In the face of a power-grabbing president, they have mostly shown cowardice.”
nytimes.com/2026/10/27/opini…
Evan Wolfson retweeted
Donald Trump is a Russian asset.
US energy company execs have resigned in disgust as the Trump family is caught secretly expediting the funneling of $25 billion from a sanctioned Russian energy giant in exchange for allowing Russians to obtain a natural gas project in Alaska.
According to investigations by The New York Times and Financial Times, Russia's Novatek allegedly concealed its financial involvement in the American project through a UAE-linked intermediary.
Gentry Beach, a longtime Trump ally and close friend of Donald Trump Jr., signed an agreement with Novatek to pursue natural gas development in Alaska. Reuters documented the arrangement in February.
Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin discussed this cooperation on the Alaska energy project with Trump's representatives, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, during negotiations involving Russia and Ukraine.
The controversy deepened when Polar Train LNG's CEO, Joel Riddle, raised concerns about concealed Russian financing and possible sanctions violations. He departed in September, followed by other senior executives.
The Financial Times also described discussions about a potential arrangement under which Novatek would provide technology for the Alaska project in exchange for sanctions relief benefiting its Arctic LNG 2 development in Siberia.
According to The New York Times, Riddle and two other departing executives warned the Trump administration about the Russian financing and urged officials to investigate.
The White House maintains that the project was mentioned only briefly and that no detailed discussions took place. There is no established evidence that Kushner or Witkoff knew about the allegedly concealed financing. Polar Train LNG denies wrongdoing.
The central question is how a sanctioned Russian energy company became involved in a major American energy venture while Putin was discussing potential economic cooperation with Trump's representatives and a longtime Trump family associate was pursuing a separate agreement with the same Russian company.
Selling Alaska to the Russians or selling Ukraine to the Russians - to the Trump family it's all the same.
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Evan Wolfson retweeted
"Everything we love is on the line" in the US election. I argue that President Trump has systematically undone the strategy that since the 19th century has made the US the world's leading country. He has eroded our sources of greatness.
So what's at stake isn't just affordability or data centers or the Iran war. It's America's future: nytimes.com/2026/10/24/opini…
As Barney Frank used to say, voting is not dating. It is a strategic choice as to which of two options will best help move things forward for you, your causes, and your country. This election, the choice is clear and urgent: Vote Democratic. 🇺🇲
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Trump is a traitor. Vote out his Republican enablers. 🇺🇸
Very valuable and very sober analysis
"The plot against Ukraine (and Europe): We are now part of the axis of evil."
By David R. Lurie
publicnotice.co/p/trump-puti…
I just donated, @TimothyDSnyder. Like most Americans, I stand with Ukraine and our allies (and our national security and liberal democracy as well). 🇺🇸
You can donate here to help protect Ukrainians from Russian drone attacks. Please do so if you can.
u24.gov.ua/sky-defense
Evan Wolfson retweeted
Some in Congress criticizing Trump's policy toward Ukraine. Fine but not nearly enough. Time to pass legislation by veto-proof margin providing eco & military aid to Ukraine and imposing sanctions on Russia. This Potus has shown he cannot be trusted with US foreign policy here.
Evan Wolfson retweeted
US policy toward Russia & Ukraine is, in a word, shameful. Trump continues to do things FOR Russia & TO Ukraine. But where are the others, from @SecRubio to Republican senators? Do they really want to be seen by history as accomplices to appeasement? richardhaass.substack.com/p/…
Yes. Like most Americans, I stand with Ukraine. Please share/repost if you do, too. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇸🇺🇦
I am grateful to all of you who are trying to keep Europe and the United States together.
There are so many people with good hearts in America who sincerely want evil to lose and Ukraine to stand strong. These are the very hearts that helped Europe defend its freedom, and that fought on D-Day, won the Cold War, and want what is best for Europe. Hearts that want to be allies, not to divide or humiliate Europe. I believe most Americans still feel this way. And at the end of the day, the American people will have their say.
Putin will listen to America if America really turns up the heat on him and makes one thing clear – either he chooses peace, or he gets no more money for his war.
From an address to the participants of the European Council meeting. (2/5)
Evan Wolfson retweeted
It looks like Putin told Trump that Ukraine was causing high gas prices, a lie that is convenient for Trump. Obviously it’s Trump’s war in Iran that is the issue. But Trump can’t accept that.
So now Trump wants to give Putin a lot of money for Russian diesel, which won’t do anything to markets and won’t even help him in the midterms, though I bet Putin told him it would.
But since Russia and Iran are allies, the shift in US policy and any US taxpayer money that Trump gives Putin will help both the Russian war on Ukraine as well as the regime in Iran. Trump got his pocket picked as usual but the money is ours and the deeper price is the visible shift of US policy to support Russia’s war of aggression.
In other words, Trump makes the world more dangerous by extending two wars and gets nothing in return, not even for himself (unless there was a side deal, which can’t be ruled out).
Evan Wolfson retweeted
Another way to think about Trump announcement today: If he increased US diesel imports from Canada by 4%, he would gain as much fuel as from this Russia deal. But the Canadians are global super-villains, so who wants to buy from them when you could enrich Putin instead?
Today’s anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel — with the resultant trauma inflicted on Palestinians & Israelis — is an opportunity to underscore the need for new leadership & constructive activism. Here are lessons for how to get to a better place.
bit.ly/4dVGYGM
“‘We must move from a question of who belongs and who does not belong to this land to the question of how we both belong to this land’... There is no way to pressure the Israelis; ‘the only way is to persuade them.’”
Two Arab Fighters for Democracy Have Lessons for America
nytimes.com/2026/10/06/opini…
Evan Wolfson retweeted
In moments of fear and division, it’s easy to feel like progress is slipping away. But @evanwolfson reminds us that history tells a different story: change is possible when people organize, defend democracy, and refuse to give in to despair.
This week on Duke’s Download, we talk about equality, authoritarianism, LGBTQ+ rights, and why our shared future depends on protecting each other.
🎙️ Listen to the new episode now
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#DukesDownload #EvanWolfson #Equality #Democracy #CivilRights #LGBTQ #HumanRights #Progress
VIDEO: I spoke at the @UN yesterday in conjunction with the UN General Assembly -- offering key lessons for change from the @freedomtomarry campaign applicable to other causes and threats, including the authoritarian playbook, climate change, and even AI.
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Evan Wolfson retweeted
The damage Netanyahu has done to Israel is incalculable. There has been a 67% shift in America’s attitude toward Israel over the past 8 years. That’s not because the US has become 67% more antisemitic over the past decade. It’s because of his radicalism.
Trump's unparalleled corruption -- brought to you by the Republican Party and paid for by... you.
People keep saying Trump term II is the most corrupt administration ever, so I built a model to find out if it was true.
I took the UN's definition of corruption, turned it into eight criteria and 100 points, and scored the leaders history remembers for looting their countries: Marcos, Suharto, Mobutu, Abacha, Obiang, Putin.
Then I put every president since Eisenhower on the same scale, both parties, with every exoneration counted right alongside the convictions.
Nixon scored 41 and no other American President scored over a 25.
Trump's second term scored a 91, which ties him with Suharto and Mobutu and puts him above Marcos and Abacha.
So he is not only the most corrupt president in American history. At this pace he finishes his term level with the most corrupt rulers of the last hundred years.
PSA: don't come in my comments arguing about the results if you haven't read the full article, because ignorance is a choice.
Full article is up now on my Substack (link in bio) and it's free.
Evan Wolfson retweeted
In this recent piece for @Slate, American civil rights lawyer and founder of #FreedomToMarry @evanwolfson shares lessons learned, including how conversation can act as the chief engine of change.
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