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If you don’t know the names of Reps. Jared Golden and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, the Democratic establishment is probably happy, inasmuch as they’re doing their job.

Both of the representatives — Golden of Maine and Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington — are Democrats. However, they’ve been seen as not sufficiently progressive to meet the moment and too willing to work across the aisle. Rep. Golden decided not to seek re-election in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District over “incivility and plain nastiness” after his own party turned against him, and Gluesenkamp Perez barely survived a primary challenge from a progressive in her own seat.

Both representatives, it’s worth noting, represent districts that went for Donald Trump in 2024 and lean Republican, which means the Democrats are basically shooting themselves in the foot by alienating them constantly. In a year where the left is supposed to be adding seats, those two are seats they could very well lose to the GOP — in part because of their own purity tests.

Now, the Democratic establishment is both surprised and piqued that the two representatives “took the unusual step Tuesday of rescuing GOP leaders’ own agenda in the face of a conservative rebellion,” as CNN put it.

According to CNN, their two votes allowed a procedural vote backed by Republican leadership to advance several pieces of legislation to the floor.

While the Republicans control the House, several conservative GOP members objected to the motion as a protest........

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