I’ve been meaning to do this for a while. This is my first piece and hopefully not my last. I’ve been trying to find the right story to write about, but it seemed someone always got there before me, and nobody wants to be accused of plagiarism, or jumping on the bandwagon with their first story. So here goes…



It has come to my attention that many of the progressive congressmen and congresswomen’s twitter accounts have been posting shit that seem so off kilter from what we’ve come to expect to hear from them.

I find myself saying: “Wait! What?” far too often lately. I’m speaking of people like: Ro Khanna, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocassio Cortez, Bernie Sanders and others.



I’ve also noticed alternative accounts have been set up, such as:

Bernie Sanders has: @SenSanders & @BernieSanders

Alexandria Ocassio Cortez has: @AOC & @RepAOC

Ilhan Omar has: @IlhanMN & @Ilhan

Ro Khanna has: @RepRoKhanna & @RoKhanna

The second account in each case is the one I suspect to have been co-opted.



Bernie’s “alternative” account was set up in November, 2010, but didn’t start sending the “that doesn’t sound like Bernie tweets until some time in 2017. I suspect the handover of this account was some sort of compromise between Bernie and the DNC.

The other’s “alternative” accounts were opened January, 2019. It appears most of the Reps use their old account, but some handed over the old account and now use the new one.

These accounts have put out tweets echoing the main stream media narrative and establishment talking points, in support of regime change in Venezuela & Syria, in support of Israel and even praise for Hillary Clinton.

First reaction is one of: Oh crap! They sold out, they’ve contracted beltway blindness, or they are being pressured into this by some scary deep state operative.

The answer may be far less frightening and sinister than that. These are most likely accounts run by staffers, but are they the congressperson’s own staffer or DNC staffers?

We may never find out…



My advice is to not over react, but simply respond to the tweet with some sort of message to let others know this may not be the person they think is tweeting.