I find it funny that folks are shocked that Dems were paying influencers almost $100k/year push propaganda - that's not the key issue here - the problem was it happened in secret, without disclosing what they were up to. That's not ok. But right-wingers have been doing this kind of media work for decades and the Dems are late and messy. . Leftists and movement artists need so much more support - financial and otherwise. I have more thoughts to come but for now I wanna share a quote from an essay I wrote for Hammer & Hope: "The left has an unparalleled opportunity to capture the attention of millions of Americans who have grown weary of the status quo. We must use art and media not merely as fluff and distraction but as key points of political education, narrative formation, and radical optimism. We must help people channel difficult emotions — isolation, grief, and agony — toward revolutionary action. We need a movement’s worth of accessible creative media to help Americans make sense of the turmoil that will only intensify under the current regime. Our task is to catalyze the creative stamina necessary to confront upcoming challenges and actualize new worlds and to do so over the long haul." #taylorlorenz #leftistwhistlr #breakingnews