I’m in Tennessee and it’s even worse. A lot of people worked really hard and we got some dems elected in local elections. We grew our local party by a lot over the last two years. I’m proud of the work we did even if we didn’t get the win tonight, you should be too. Keep up the hard work, you are a lot closer than we…

Sigh, a girl can dream. 

Pizza rat, because I know how to be timely and hip.

This is the kind of important content I come here for. Get this person a job. 

I knocked on doors for a couple of hours Saturday and only one person answered. But i knocked on doors this spring for a local county election and we saw a MASSIVE increase in early voter turn out in my district. So it does work but it’s a lot of work.

This year marks 10 years since my first election and I we’ve never had a viable democratic candidate in Tennessee. This year I got to vote for 3 plus 2 more for local elections that don’t carry a party affiliation. 

I’ll be 32 in a couple of months and I have sort of looked before but never put any effort into it. It took me a long time before I was ready. It’s also more difficult than you might think to find people on Facebook. I had the name of my half brother and would have never found him. I had to get a search angel to help…

Thank you! I really do appreciate and respect your position. I think the idea of us one day having a communicative relationship is nice, but I would understand if they didn’t. I don’t feel like they owe me anything you know? I don’t want to blow up theirs lives. I also feel like I’m not in a position to be a big…

Thank you, I am prepared for her to not be responsive or happy about it but it’s still going to hurt. Her about me on her Facebook page says “family is everything and mine is the best” but I worry if she’ll see me as a threat. Regardless of if her sons know about me or not, I’m there on ancestry and I guess you could…

Thank you for your story! It’s hard to deal with sometimes because literally no one in my life can possible understand what I’m dealing with. I don’t think the fathom how heavy this has been, my husband is supportive but just doesn’t get it. It really helps talking to people that get it. 

You can opt into and out of the family matching. 23 and me also has the health option. I will say even if you decided to do ancestry the temptation to look at the matches will probably a lot. It’s been an emotionally difficult journey that I was in no way prepared for but I’m working through it. I’m kind of thankful…

I think you’re definitely right. That was kind of the path I decided to take, I’ve only talked to a couple of great aunts through ancestry and was kind of letting it be but finding my fatger’s Family but not him is kind of pushing me toward. It’s been about six weeks since I found her page, I do think I need to wait a…

I kind of did it on a whim and didn’t extend things to come so quickly. I don’t regret doing it, but it’s been a lot to process. 

I have no illusions of magical fantasy but of course I’ve had those “dreams.” but I know it’s no more than that. I’ll say good on you for being prepared, telling my adoptive mom I was looking was so hard and I knew she was supportive. I can’t imagine how hard it is for adoptive parents, I know my mom is my mom is my…

37 so I guess older person haha our grandmother raised us and I always remember her taking me to vote and it’s always been a big deal for me. Him not so much but I’ve harassed him about it for months and he wanted to go so I’m proud of him for doing it. 

As hard as it’s been, I absolutely do no regret doing ancestry I got answers and pictures and that’s so neat. I was born and South Carolina so I feel you on that part.

I’ve been here for at least 10 years but have dwindled in the last year or so. It’s crazy to think I’ve been commenting that long. 

You don’t deserve to be flamed for it at all! I know a lot of people have really bad experiences. I didn’t even plan on doing this really but I did AncestryDNA and it opened more doors than I expected. My father doesn’t know I exist and I am interested much more in finding out about him. I thought I found him, he was…

I got my older brother to vote for the very first time in his life today! Yay voting! It’s really important to get everyone out this year, even more than 2016 so good for you for getting him to go. 

As it’s gotten harder to comment and less active here, I’ve migrated to Reddit. Yes, it can be a cesspool but it’s also pretty easy to curate and it learns what to show you. I know that’s obvious because everyone is already there but in case you’re not. I think there used to be a Jezbel group there, I guess I should…