{"id":59432,"date":"2026-05-20T04:21:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=59432"},"modified":"2026-05-20T04:21:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:21:39","slug":"watch-thomas-massies-awesome-concession-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/20\/watch-thomas-massies-awesome-concession-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Thomas Massie&#8217;s Awesome Concession Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am very sad at the news that Thomas Massie <a href=\"https:\/\/responsiblestatecraft.org\/massie-loss-aipac-primary\/\">has been defeated<\/a> by Donald Trump and AIPAC in the most expensive Congressional primary in US history.\u00a0 \u00a0Estimates are that between $40-45 million dollars was spent.<\/p>\n<p>Massie&#8217;s speech was gracious, funny, and encouraging.\u00a0 \u00a0I urge you all to start your day watching this.\u00a0 \u00a0You won&#8217;t regret it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7TXyXTBQFYk?si=QqUXELTeM3ZryWe9\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am very sad at the news that Thomas Massie has been defeated by Donald Trump and AIPAC in the most expensive Congressional primary in US history.\u00a0 \u00a0Estimates are that between $40-45 million dollars was spent. Massie&#8217;s speech was gracious, funny, and encouraging.\u00a0 \u00a0I urge you all to start your day watching this.\u00a0 \u00a0You won&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_social_image_id":59433,"_social_image_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[779],"class_list":["post-59432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","_social_image_id":"59433","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59436,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59432\/revisions\/59436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59432"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=59432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}