By In April, Cory Booker made the left go wild when he took to the Senate floor and spoke for over 24 hours. Although he really didn’t say much, outside of mostly complaining that Donald Trump had become president, liberals across social media and news networks praised him.
The true measure of a leader is not based on who you beat down but on who you lift up.
For over 24 hours, my friend @CoryBooker stood on the floor of the Senate and lifted up the voices of the American people harmed by the current administration.
We must continue to fight for…
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) April 2, 2025
Only a month later, it’s now been revealed to be a cynical cash grab from the people who bought Anthony Fauci candles.
Booker’s 25-hour filibuster-style speech will now be repackaged and resold in hardcover. Stand, scheduled for release in November by St. Martin’s Publishing Group, expands on the themes of Booker’s March 2025 speech, which eclipsed Strom Thurmond’s 1957 record for the longest floor speech in Senate history, writes The Daily Caller.
The official “Stand” synopsis calls Booker’s speech “remarkable,” claiming that the senator “spoke out eloquently and forcefully against the Trump administration’s relentless challenges to civil liberties, government institutions, the rule of law, and our nation’s international standing.”
Booker called the Senate filibuster an “abuse of power” in 2022, according to Fox News, before giving his speech in April 2025.
The book synopsis further describes “Stand” as a call to action: “Now is not the time to surrender to cynicism or abandon our most noble ideals. Now is the time to defiantly declare like our ancestors before us: I too stand for America.”
Tim Bartlett, executive editor at The St. Martin’s Publishing Group, says he was inspired by Booker’s speech to request that Booker write a book for his company to publish. According to a press release, Bartlett asked “the Senator to discuss how his powerful message could be amplified and adapted into a compelling book.”
But unlike Thurmond’s opposition to civil rights legislation, Booker’s marathon wasn’t aimed at blocking a specific bill. It was aimed at headlines. He warned of looming cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—accusations the Trump administration denied and which never materialized.
The book—unsurprisingly—positions Booker not just as a senator, but as a prophet in a business suit. “
Democrats have a long history of hypocrisy about the filibuster, including Booker. In 2022, he called the filibuster an “abuse of power.” By 2025, he was standing on the Senate floor for 25 hours straight, making full use of the very tool he once decried.
Former Senator Kyrsten Sinema recently torched her old party for flip-flopping on the filibuster. In what many are calling a “revenge tour,” Sinema blasted Democrats for once calling the Senate rule a “Jim Crow relic” but now embracing it to block Republican bills. Her criticism highlights the growing hypocrisy among liberals who denounced the filibuster—until they needed it.
The project originated not with Booker, but with his publisher. Tim Bartlett, an executive editor at St. Martin’s, reportedly approached Booker after watching the speech, suggesting it be turned into a book. The result is a polished sermon to the faithful—urging Americans to resist “cynicism,” while delivering precisely the kind of performative politics that breeds it.
Set to hit bookstores in the thick of the campaign season, Stand will no doubt double as a soft launch for Booker’s next political move—whatever that may be. As for the average voter, the message is clear: if you thought that 25-hour speech was exhausting, wait until you read the book.
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