A major U.S. Postal Service union is launching a national TV ad campaign promoting voting by mail, stepping into a politically charged debate as skepticism about mail-in ballots has been raised by President Donald Trump and others.
— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) April 14, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Fight the power!
… The 30-second message features a variety of voters, among them a busy farmer and a flight attendant, explaining why they cast their ballots by mail. Sponsored by the 200,000-member American Postal Workers Union, the advertising campaign announced Tuesday will begin airing this week in Ohio, where Union Army soldiers during the Civil War cast the first mail ballots in 1864. It will then move to other states.
The ad ends with the message: “Vote by mail — keep it, protect it, expand it.” It comes two weeks after Trump signed an executive order that seeks to create a nationwide list of verified eligible voters and subsequently bar postal workers from sending absentee ballots to those who are not on each state’s approved list.
The order was met swiftly with lawsuits and opposition from postal workers. The National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association said USPS is “not equipped or authorized to decide who is or is not entitled to vote” and pushing it into such a role “risks politicizing one of the nation’s most trusted public institutions.” The union also said it threatens confidence in the mail and in elections.
Jonathan Smith, president of American Postal Workers, said his union’s TV ad was produced before Trump’s executive order was issued, not in response to it. An executive order on elections that Trump signed last year also targeted mail ballots by seeking to require they be returned by Election Day, even though more than a dozen states allow a grace period.…
“Our message is to America: Vote by mail is efficient, it’s safe, and it’s successful. Period,” he said. “This is educating the American people that you can use vote by mail and you can be guaranteed that your voice will be heard and your vote will be counted.”
Donald Trump cut health care for Americans so that Meta could get a $3 billion tax cut.
I asked the IRS commissioner if that was a "really good outcome for the American public."
He said yes.— Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov) April 15, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Here’s the thing—especially on April 15: cutting the IRS isn't some abstract budget trim. It's a tax cut delivered through weaker enforcement. And it mostly goes to people with the most scope to hide income.
— Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) April 15, 2026 at 10:43 PM
That’s quite a slogan.
— Charles Gaba ✡️ (@charlesgaba.com) April 15, 2026 at 11:37 PM
It’s time to end this war.
— Senator Angela Alsobrooks (@alsobrooks.senate.gov) April 14, 2026 at 5:45 PM
The most frequent answer to "why aren't Democrats doing this?" is "they actually are" apnews.com/article/demo…
— Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) (@kleinman.bsky.social) April 15, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Goodness Gracious! Ossoff raked in $14 million in the first quarter. This comes as Republicans in Georgia have failed to coalesce around a strong candidate to challenge him.
www.ajc.com/politics/202…— Eric Michael Garcia (@ericmgarcia.bsky.social) April 15, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Texas State Rep. James Talarico just announced his campaign for U.S. Senate raised more than $27 million in the first quarter of 2026 — the largest amount ever raised by a U.S. Senate candidate in the first quarter of an election year.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) April 15, 2026 at 10:15 AM
James Talarico is going to be the junior Senator from Texas
— post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
We just won our trial against Live Nation and Ticketmaster.
A jury ruled in our favor and is holding the companies responsible for their illegal monopoly that cost consumers millions of dollars.
This is a landmark victory to protect New Yorkers from harmful monopolies.— New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) April 15, 2026 at 3:42 PM
