[Davis Democrats Community List] Social Media Report for August 29, 2026

Sat Aug 29 07:49:43 PDT 2026

There were complaints that the social media news post took up too much 
of the DDC calendar announcements. So, the social media posts will move 
here to the DDC's community activist e-mail list.  This list was created 
for community activism and calls for action.  The social media news 
posts are a call for people to participate and to like and repost the 
DDC posts.  Every like and repost drives up the visibility of social 
media posts and aids in our getting our message out.  #RESIST

We are committed to helping the following campaigns on social media and 
the names are followed by the amount of money the DDC has sent to these 
campaign.  Please support the DDC on Social Media to help these people 
with likes, comments and reposts.  We need your help on social media 
with likes and reposts.  Contact us if you are posting, so we can help 
make you more visible in your support.
For The House -- Congress:
McGuire CD 1, $3,000
Ami Bera CD 3, $2000
Mike Thompson CD 1, $1000 -- DDC integrated with campaign on social media
Pan CD 6, $2,000
Mai Vang CD 7 $1000
Adam Gray CD 13, $1000 -- DDC integrated with campaign on social media
Randy Villegas CD 22, $2,000 -- DDC integrated with campaign on social media
Derek Tran CD 45, $2,000
Dave Min CD 47, $1000 -- DDC integrated with campaign on social media
von Wilpert CD 48  $2,000

For US Senate -- Congress
Mary Peltola, $3,000

For Governor
Xavier Becerra $2000

For Yolo County Supervisor
Mayra Vegas $1000  -- DDC integrated with campaign on social media

We need help in promoting Mai Vang for CD 7 on social media, because 
some of us are supporting her opponent Doris Matsui.  This is a Blue on 
Blue Democrat election, but the board wanted to support this younger 
candidate in a 9 aye to 3 nay votes.

Mai Vang has reached out on social media and thanked the DDC for its 
$1000 contribution to her campaign.  The other campaigns that have 
thanked us on social media for the DDC contributions are: Randy 
Villegas, Dave Min, Derek Tran, and Myra Vega.   We are trying to help 
more on social media with her campaign.  The Yolo Business PAC is 
supporting her opponent with money.  We will go further with help on 
social media.

We are now fully supporting Mary Peltola on Facebook, interacting with 
her campaign.  We are taking her Facebook content and posting and 
promoting her with original DDC posts on Bluesky and X/Twitter.

We are fully involved with the Randy Villegas campaign on social media, 
posting and reposting for the campaign.  We were already in full 
campaign support mode for Mike Thompson and Dave Min.  Dave Min is the 
only Congressman that continued to post weekly after the 2024 election 
and like Mike Thompson follows us on X/Twitter. Because of this, the DDC 
has been fully supporting Min and Thompson on social media from day 1 of 
the 119th Congress.  We are trying to reintegrate with the Adam Grey 
campaign and to integrate with the other campaigns that were given money.

Our attention though is on Mike Thompson and Dave Min.  Mike Thompson, 
the DDC account is involved with posting and reposting original 
investigative reporting on his opponent Eric Jones.  The Jones campaign 
has from even before the primary a strategy of election manipulation.  
Much has been published about this strategy and much has been discussed 
off line.  The Eric Jones campaign is working closely with Republicans 
and the strategy now is to court and secure the 22% that voted for 
Raymond Riehle.  His platform has taken on a conservative  flavor to 
secure these votes.  What is clear is that Eric Jones has no allegiance 
to anyone and wants just to get elected.  His agenda is pass a uniform 
AI federal bill that will regulate AI across the country. Because he is 
a partner is a venture capitalist AI firm named Dragoneer, this is all 
suspect.  If you wish to learn more, please read Roberta Millstein's 
articles about Eric Jones.  She posts on Bluesky and Nextdoor.  You can 
read her articles about Jones on Davisite.

The Dave Min support by the DDC is more direct.  Dave Min's seat is 
being targeted the Republican Party.  His opponent is a MAGA woman that 
ran for governor of California.  They are pouring money into the 
campaign and they have supporters on X.  What is happening is that the 
DDC account with an ally is posting responses to the MAGA accounts 
harassing Dave Min on X.  What we do is lead block MAGA blue check 
account campaigns against the blue check accounts that post replies on 
Min's X account.  They do not like these campaigns one bit.  For the 
remaining people, we post true facts about Donald Trump and his 
administration.  Since these are MAGA accounts they do not see this 
material that comes across the main feed from the Blue accounts.  Like I 
continually write, the DDC gets its best material from the Blue X posts 
to post on Bluesky.

For those looking for the club Twitter (now X) account: 
https://x.com/DavisDemocratic We now are at 6,871 Followers.  We are now 
71 followers above our midterm goal of 6800.  We are 1000 followers 
above the 5800 follower limit.  If our number of followers drop below 
that number, we will close the X/Twitter account so as to not pay any 
money or contribute numbers to Elon Musk and his platform success.  The 
BIG difference to date is that we are actively interfacing with the 10 
campaigning congress people on X and informing them of the $22,000 that 
the DDC has donated to their campaigns plus the Governor's race and the 
Yolo County Supervisor Race.  We are too small for them to ban us and we 
continue to post and magnify anti-Trump posts.  We continue to work to 
flip the House and Senate Blue.  We continue to #RESIST  I cannot post 
it enough, I get most of our hardest hitting material from Blue posts on 
X to post on Bluesky.

We currently have 38,390 Bluesky followers.  Bluesky continues to purge 
and block accounts that are bogus accounts.  These are fake accounts 
that use fake websites to collect money for real campaigns.  Even though 
we are losing 20 to 40 accounts a week, we are increasing our numbers 
with quality followers that work with us.  Please join us on 
Bluesky.  The Davis Democratic Club on Bluesky is: 
https://bsky.app/profile/davisdemocraticclub.org

What makes the work easier on social media is the help of Eileen Samitz 
with supporting posting material.  Luba Schmid contributes both photos 
an movies and helps with likes and comments.  We have lost Rosie Mauhr 
after the Bondii Beach massacre in Australia. She is alive, but some of 
her relatives were killed and hence she is keeping a low profile.  In 
social media, one needs original material to keep posting to attract 
followers.  Luba Schmid and I produce local material.  Pytor Alexievich, 
an American in Kyiv, provides material from Ukraine and is a good friend 
to the DDC. We get additional valuable follower recruitment support from 
Judith Bolyard, an American in Thailand.  We get additional editorial 
cartoons  and follower recruitment support from a person that goes by 
the handle ACW1234.  Of course we would not be part of the #RESIST 
movement is not for all the unemployed National Park workers at Alt 
National Parks.  I purchase the Smokey the Bear #RESIST pins and bumper 
stickers from them that we give away to any who want them at the PBE 
meetings.  We get all our news about what Trump is doing -- everywhere.  
When we started following them that had over 140,000 followers.  They 
have grown to a massive 894,600+ Followers.  They took the DDC #RESIST 
and made it their own.  And, I appreciate it, because they turned it 
into merch I can give away to #RESIST Trump!

For those looking for the club Facebook account: 
https://www.facebook.com/DavisDemocrats We continue to have over 1600 
followers.

  Again, please help the DDC on social media by logging in and follow, 
like, and repost DDC account and posts.  To find our accounts please use 
the links above.

Thank you for reading this report.

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For public service to the Progressive Business Exchange of Davis,
Recipient of the 2015 Service Award.

For public service to the citizens of Yolo County,
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For public service to the Democratic Party of Yolo County,
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