You have many allies you have not met yet. You are most certainly not alone. The next four years are going to be difficult, but there are plenty of people in this country who will have your backs. Perhaps because, now, since the worst has happened, we realize just how important it is.

I had a woman come up to me today. She’s a Trump supporter, and was over the moon about the results. She’s also the working class mother of an adopted, autistic, and deaf child.

My coworker was really late this morning. She said her daughter refused to get out of bed and cried so hard she made herself sick. She’s 12 and an amazing kid.

My husband and I have decided it’s going to be just us and the kids this Holiday season. I found out my dad donated 100k in Wisconsin to get Ron Johnson reelected. He’s not a Trump/Pence level supporter but I’m pretty salty about Wisconsin turning red thanks to voter suppression laws which I’m sure he’s in massive…

That’s because it ISN’T OKAY. It’s time to start mobilizing against the alt right the way they’ve been mobilized and used by the GOP.

I feel so weird about my white friends on fb. I’m black and made all of my white friends in college and while they are all perfectly nice, not ONE of them has said a thing about the election results. These are the kind of people who don’t have a lot of black friends. I was their token in college so it just feels odd.…

It’s okay. It’s not “making it about me” when the reason we’re upset is because we truly care about US.

Right now, the struggle for me is deciding whether to come out to my family members on facebook. Small potatoes, but I’m trying to think of ways to explain to people I’m struggling to trust and care about why the last twenty four hours have felt like such a deathblow. I’d been holding back on it, because my…

My step-dad is giddy with hate. I’m basically dealing with it by ghosting him. I deleted him from FB. My family and I will be bowing out of holidays. There’s no point in talking about it. It won’t change my mind or his. And I’m not going to just sit quietly by and invite a bigot into my life, even if he is my family…

This was my morning as well. My five year old daughter crawled into bed and asked me if we could watch more election. I told her it was over. She asked who won. When I told her, she burst into tears.

I am sure that she is fine now, and won’t dwell like I have. But that was a gut punch for me. Especially because I…

What do we do now? I’m a Mexican woman married to an Arab man and together we have a daughter. Together we check quite a few boxes of hate, not that it’s new to me. all the white women who I felt were my allies, I no longer feel safe with because quite a few of them showed their true colors this election. today I had…

That’s exactly what we need. These scumbags have been mobilizing in similar fashion for the last eight years out of racist hate. If there’s a silver lining to this shit show it’s the energy and emotion that can galvanize us enough to be a more effective electorate next time we have a chance.

I deleted my Facebook account today.

Terrible silver lining for me: in my opinion, 2020 is going to be the most important election ever. Someone always says that, but 2020 is going to determine how redistricting is done after the census. All those gerrymandered districts have to be fixed. So, Hillary was going to be hounded for 4 years and get very…

I am feeling more numb today than I thought I would. I’m still trying to understand how my family voted for this. I feel so disconnected from them. I keep hearing how this election shouldn’t break up families and friendships but this wasn’t about Republicans vs. Democrats. This was about morals, ethics, and basic…

how long did that take, 18 hours? I havent turned on the news or listened to npr, i’ve just had fantasia’s stay up on repeat.

I was holding it together pretty well, and then my five year old daughter woke up and excitingly asked me if a girl was going to be president. And I had to tell her no.

Today I registered to volunteer for Planned Parenthood and signed up to make monthly donations to the ACLU.

Fuck Ana Navarro, for acting like Trump came out of nowhere and this isn’t the natural culmination of years of racist and sexist strategies dressed up in a pressed suit and perfectly parted hair. She knew EXACTLY who Republicans were all of these years but she chose to be a part of it. Now she doesn’t like it because…

I have an 84 year old Jewish Grandmother who lived through WW2, went and got her Master’s degree, worked on both of Adlai Stevenson’s campaigns and managed to raise three pretty solid kids including my awesome Dad.