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I’m sorry, but the more I read the excuses about how 11 Democrats couldn’t make it for the Hegseth impeachment vote, the more infuriated I get. Celebratory dinners, shuttle buses stuck in traffic, receiving awards ? There have been folks in their 80s and 90s, manning overpasses with protest and “get out the vote” signs for two years ! They created this moment. This vote was well-known. You had a five week recess to arrange your schedule. Listen to AOC and El-Sayed, they’re calling you out, and rightly so. If we had lost by one vote but our complete caucus had voted, then so be it. But that’s not what happened. This vote was winnable. A layup teed up for us by a Republican! And we let it slip away. All the House leadership on the Democrats side? I will not rest until you are out of office. You have failed the first critical test. No more. Trump and Hegseth can spend every day from today, Veterans Day, until the new Congress gets sworn in, crowing about this victory. If Jeffries and his crew did not foresee this outcome, too busy measuring drapes and picking out furniture, they don’t deserve anything from us, except the loss of power. They have learned nothing.