How Thanksgiving Became Political: Francesca Hong’s Tweets Explained

Ahead of Wisconsin’s Democratic primary for governor, a past tweet by the assemblywoman that called for the holiday to be canceled was resurfaced.

For progressives with troublesome social media histories, Hong's experience suggests how you respond to them ― she also declined to firmly and totally break with her past calls to defund the police and abolish prisons ― can make or break how the voters-cum-pundits who dominate many primaries will evaluate your ability

Late Tuesday night, establishment Democrats finally exhaled after back holding their collective breath as the polls proved to have badly overestimated the far-left’s appeal in the Wisconsin governor's primary.

How Thanksgiving Ended Francesca Hong’s Hopes  HuffPost

Hong, who in the past had called for the national holiday to be canceled, failed to draw socialist-leaning Democratic icons like Bernie Sanders and AOC, writes John Bowden. And her defeat shows that there could be limits to how far left progressives will go

Francesca Hong, the Democrat frontrunner in Wisconsin’s gubernatorial race, lost Tuesday night in a major upset for her and yet another massive humiliation for America’s utterly useless polling institution.

Wisconsin Democratic Party chair Devin Remiker dodged questions about Francesca Hong's cancel Thanksgiving controversy, pivoting to attack Republican Tom Tiffany instead.

Today’s Democratic gubernatorial primary in Wisconsin has featured increasingly desperate attacks against the frontrunner.

One year before Wisconsin gubernatorial hopeful Francesca Hong called to "Cancel Thanksgiving" in October 2019, the socialist state representative, who is a professional chef, hosted an event she dubbed a "Feast of the Feminine," a "6course [sic] dinner inspired by menstruation." An invitation posted to the events webs

MILWAUKEE  — State Rep. Francesca Hong, Democratic candidate for governor of Wisconsin, looked out at a crowd of 1,300 supporters. Her earliest two were in the very front.  “My parents chose Wisconsin,” Hong said at a rally here this month. “They chose to follow their ambition because they knew that this state could be