Summary

Minnesota Governor and former VP candidate Tim Walz is launching a town hall tour in Republican-held districts where representatives have stopped holding public events.

Starting in Iowa and Nebraska, he plans stops in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Ohio. Walz says he wants to amplify voter concerns about the Trump administration and Republican policies.

He denies using the tour to prepare for a national run, instead framing it as a way to keep Democrats engaged post-election.

His team has received hundreds of invitations from local leaders.

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    Here are some things that Reagan had no control over whatever.

    Before he became President a Polish labor Union, Solidarity, began tearing away at the myth of the “workers’ state.” Pope John Paul II began speaking out against Communism. The soviets invasion of Afghanistan became a quagmire.

    Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened while Reagan was President. Three Soviet leaders died within three years.

    The final nail in the coffin was when hardliners staged a coup against reformer Gorbachev and the Soviet citizens went to the streets to protest.

    Somehow, we’ve been fed the lie that “Reagan destroyed the USSR and won the Cold War.”

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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      The Soviet war in Afghanistan didn’t help them much either. Though Reagan did have some influence there by selling weapons to the Mujahadeen, a move which had no repercussions /s

    • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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      The central party stops financing outside accounts in 1967 which begins a decline in the USSR’s ability to purchase necessary goods that are not made within the Warsaw pact didn’t help.

      The Afghan war and the drop in the price of oil are also substantial factors in the decline.