I also think the Ds can take it, so I’m making sure to donate to races, write postcards to other voters, and if I have time, I’ll be phone-banking and canvassing to turn out the vote. Krom helps those who help themselves.

Eh, that 87% includes the 57% who said they will vote against Trump in 2020 even if it means voting for a paper bag. That percentage has been consistent since the new year. What the shitstain needed was an erosion of the committed opposition and he hasn’t gotten it.

Call his office, let him know we see his bullshit. (202)225-2523 ext 3.

I haven’t seen the spread on Nunes, but I was poll monitoring and canvassing in his district and they were handing out provisional ballots like Halloween candies because the county wasn’t prepared for all the recent registrations and didn’t manage to mail out all the ballots they’d promised to. So not surprised that…

If the 6:30a-3p block is too long, you could try setting up a food puzzle with a small amount of treats. I like to take the paper bags for wine bottles and throw in favorite treats, some nip, and a jingle bell, and staple the whole thing shut. Works like a charm when I’m gone, but if I’m home they just try to nag me…

How about “Don’t just vote?” I’ve voted, and now I’m spending the last two weeks driving all over CA-22 helping first-time, disabled, or infrequent voters fill out their absentee ballots and delivering them to polls. EVERY LAST VOTE COUNTS! It’s the last two weeks, so it’s time to lean the fuck in, every last one of…

I should have stated this from the outset- my family and I are white, Euro mutts, and Ireland is the only country more than one great-grandparent originated from. That was important context for the topic, because we were taught by our family to categorize ancestry this way, and because our cultural progenitors do not.…

I read your comment yesterday, and spent the night thinking about the best way to respond. Let’s talk about the concept underlying it. So a couple of summers ago, my sister went to Ireland, where our great-grandparents had emigrated from. She was chatting with a priest and mentioned that she was half-Irish; he…

Our society’s inability to adjudicate these injuries in our current system of law IS a massive problem that has the potential for severe harm on both sides. I also believe the shortcoming’s harms fall disproportionately on women, and that men hold a disproportionate amount of political power, but those doesn’t erase…

Sing it loud! I’ve been lobbying members of Congress about this for the last year, and the more noise we make, the more likely it will be to happen.

Option 1) Constitutional convention. Hard to see that happening at all, let alone in a timely manner.

You’re doing everything you can as one person, but this problem was not created by one person. Nor will it be solved by one person; it’s gonna take hundreds of thousands, millions of people to do so. Hundreds of thousands of people have stood up to fight this. You aren’t alone here.

Let yourself get good and angry. I just try to focus on how amazing it’s gonna be to wipe that fucking smirk off his face once and for all. Then I go write another 20 postcards to voters.

a sign that there’s actual fear on the other side

The GOP has made the only play it has left, and the energy they’re crowing about is pretty embarrassing. According to the most recent poll, only 40% of registered voters who supported McRapey’s confirmation are excited to vote, while 58% of those who disapproved are. And 51% think he shouldn’t have been confirmed…

Let me help with the despair. First, McConnell is at least exaggerating. Their base has been pretty demoralized and this was the first breath in a long time. But according to the most recent poll, only 40% of people who supported McRapey’s confirmation are excited to vote, while 58% of people who disapproved are. And…

You’re right, the numbers don’t mean shit if people don’t do something. We are those people. So the question is, how are you helping? What are you doing to increase turnout where you live? Are you writing postcards? Are you phone banking? Are you canvassing? How much time/talent/funding are you giving to your…

The best reason to use the popular vote for president: if these places want political power, they’ll have to figure out ways to induce people to stay, potentially making them actually habitable.

That’s what pitchforks and torches are for. 

“unless they have him on tape admitting he knows they were acting on his behalf...”