“It can be hard to put your finger on exactly what you fear most about the rise of Donald Trump: the racism? The sexism? The xenophobia? The profoundly dangerous lack of judgment?”

I’ve talked about this on Jez before, but I live in a deep red state, with a deeply conservative family. I’ve watched with increasing disgust, anger, and fear as I’ve watched most of the people I know and love respond very differently than me to the events of this election.

I voted in person last Saturday. I was quite at my leisure! All states should have early voting. How is voting on one day still a thing?

I live in an extremely conservative state. We typically have low voter turnout because everyone knows how this state will go. But the line at my polling site at 7am was around the block and full of women, people of color, families bringing in their children, and a shocking amount of young voters excited about voting…

I came to the USA with my parents at 10 years old and became a citizen just a few days after Obama’s reelection, so today marks both my 4 years as a citizen AND my first vote ever! I got home from working at the bar at 3 am and made it to polling station by 7 (as to not be late for my other job at 9). I was so excited…