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Laura Shamas's avatar

You can write anti-tariff postcards to voters in GOP-held House districts through ActivateAmerica.vote

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Claudia Miller's avatar

Thank you for posting about this postcarding campaign. I was not aware. I just went to their site and at first glance it didn't pop right up but I will go back and do a more through look.

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Claudia Miller's avatar

Found it! I like that it will be going out tasking Ciscomani! Thanks again.

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Jo Burns's avatar

Welcome to the party of love, hope, and light.

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Jo Burns's avatar

Very refreshing take on democrats. All I hear since the fall of the US is how terrible they are and how wrong they are.

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Tom Thumb's avatar

That's because our legacy media has been all-in on Trump for years b/c they thought he was best for their bottom line (he certainly generates a full set of headlines every since day), especially for those in the c-suite, in a time when their industry is in existential crisis. Sure you'd see individual stories of him that were critical, but almost none about Dems that were positive, and so the climate change dog walk analogy has applied, with individual stories and columnists as the dog, and corporate as the owner holding the leash. Fortunately, belatedly, they seem to have realized they've ODed on the guy. Not sure who had the Narcan on them to help them wake up, but I think Hopium helped manufacture it. Just hope they've learned their lesson, gotten scared straight, and won't relapse again.

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Sarah Marshall's avatar

Two thought: 1. We should make noise about REPUBLICAN tariffs, since Reps in Congress keep backing up Trump on this issue. 2. Is it time to put bodies between ICE and its facilities? Thousands of people sitting peacefully in front of the gates, driveways, etc. to make it hard for them to deliver the kidnapped to prison?

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ArcticStones's avatar

Definitely agree with your first suggestion; the tariffs should be a millstone around each Republican’s neck.

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kitkatmia's avatar

david jolly is an excellent candidate! good guy. also john morgan might run and he wont take any money for his campaign since he is a rich attorney. would rather we have only one strong dem running to we can focus. in my lifetime, fla was purple forever. until donny 2 dolls & desantis. and the dnc just gave up on us. agreed, it is all about voter registration. we are about 1M voters behind! and even tho donny 2 dolls has encamped here with his family, mike flynn, maga, etc, i just dont feel in my bones that fla is a red state. the biggest cities: miami (well we just went red thanks to venezueleans/haitians who will now be deported but thought their vote for the devil would save them), broward county, palm beach county (shaky), orlando, I4 district, jacksonville, gainesville, maybe even tallahassee are blue! so as usual, its the more rural areas/smaller town voters that we have lost. but now that everything is upside down and backwards, we will get more dem votes as a backlash to donny 2 dolls. our economy is tourism based. so we will take a big hit.

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ArcticStones's avatar

FLORIDA: I am surprised David Jolly did not mention Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid; if he did, I missed it.

If Trump & Congressional Republicans weaken any of these three vitally important pillars, they hand Democrats a strong card. Surely this campaign issue is an especially strong card in Florida, a state that has long attracted retirees from all over America.

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Deborah Potter's avatar

That's a good point. David Jolly is having 20 town hall meetings to discuss the issues. As a former Never-Trump Republican, his priorities will likely continue to evolve over time. An article in Politicio had the postive take “Rep. Jolly is responding to a national emergency — in the spirit of so many others who are choosing to respond in a national emergency — and trying to defeat emerging authoritarianism in the U.S.” https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/david-jolly-registers-democrat-florida-governor-00306774

I found this article about him today in local FL news. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/05/03/david-jolly-entices-florida-democrats-with-dream-of-winning-2026-governors-race/

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ArcticStones's avatar

Florida: Venezuelans regret voting for Trump

In the April survey of 408 Venezuelan residents in Florida, conducted by Florida International University's Latino Public Opinion Forum, nearly half of those who reported voting for Trump in 2024 said they now either regret their decision or have mixed feelings about it. About 40 percent of all respondents said they plan to support a Democratic, Independent, or non-MAGA candidate in the future.

https://www.newsweek.com/venezuelan-voters-miami-dade-florida-trump-2068811

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kitkatmia's avatar

and we also now have a very strong and aggressive fla dem party chair nikki fried. the strongest i have seen in ages. that will help a lot.

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kitkatmia's avatar

one very last thing. rachel maddow was here this week. super jam packed. huge turnout. (made me wonder where all these people were during protests!!!) even she was shocked. people came from all over the state to see/hear her. she and moderator discussed how the miami right wing airwaves are always calling everyone a "communist". it's a joke but still persists. the dichotomy is that they all fled strong men dictators (fidel, maduro, chavez) and yet they vote for the first dictator in the US. go figure. thx rachel for a wonderful, thoughtful, entertaining, honest, anti authoritarian evening! i think when they booked her they were not sure about turnout. but it was way over capacity! so thanks for not forgetting about us!!

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kk's avatar

that irony is too much to handle sometimes! glad the maddow talk went well!

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ArcticStones's avatar

Yes! Kudos to Nikki Fried and Rachel Maddow!

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Michele's avatar

Another HUGE issue in FL is Home Insurance. Most insurance co. have pulled out of FL so it is hard to find an insurer and if you do, rates are crazy. Many folks don't have insurance at all. Rates went up by the hundreds last year after Milton. Mine got dropped, and I don't live on the coast or in a flood zone. Need to figure something out...for myself and also for the state.

At yesterday's townhall in Sarasota with Murphy and Frost, nearly all of us raised our hands when asked if home insurance is an issue.

Home insurance is a big issue.

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ArcticStones's avatar

Yes! As starkly illustrated by your telling story from the town hall you attended. Home insurance is big issue in Florida – and can be a bigger election issue if Democratic candidates make it so.

That is one issue I though David Jolly made a good point of emphasizing.

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Catherine Giovannoni's avatar

Thank you, Simon! Senator Angela Alsobrooks is leading a "Sick of It" rally today near NIH to demand that Trump and Kennedy stop endangering Americans' health.

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Diane Matza's avatar

David Jolly would be a strong candidate. The Florida affordability crisis is also affected by climate change. Strong opportunity exists to push back on DeSantis's retrograde attitude about this issue

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Diane Romino's avatar

PUT NEW JERSEY into play. IT’s ugly here

Already election interference

Call the Attorney General’s Office

Matthew J Platkin 609 - 984 - 3900

Election Interference

Asking all NJ democrats to change their status to Republican and primary Jack Ciattarelli. Chose anyone but him

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Madam Geoffrin's avatar

Details??

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Lisa Iannucci's avatar

Yeah, details please. Not aware of anything here in Monmouth County.

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Diane Romino's avatar

They arrested Mayor Ras Baraka yesterday after he was invited to the Ice Facility. They harassed n looks like shoved Representative Bonnie Coleman Watson she’s pushing 80 and Rep Guyver

Trump wants to put his 2 cents and make NJ Red. Not on my watch

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Lisa Iannucci's avatar

Already know about that, unfortunately. But the good news is we have an opportunity for a brand new start. We have a totally open primary and things should be very interesting. Thanks for posting.

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Diane Romino's avatar

Yvw but I do not think so. They tipped the scales with yesterday’s nonsense

Jack C has ads already. Small recap I live in Somerset County Jack C was the “guy” R in the General Assembly representing LD 16 😁he actually did a lot for the Somerset fire Academy, and then he decided to run for governor and became a lean mean vile MAGA spewing machine. Btw Somerset County has turned blue. The county government is Blue and Jack and crowd would like nothing more than to turn it back red and all the work I do will be keeping it blue keeping my LD 16 blue and the governor Blue and our two senators that we’re all on the same page.

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Mark Roberts's avatar

We should be talking more about the international chaos Trump is causing with USAID cuts and more: https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/may/10/are-we-heading-for-another-world-war-or-has-it-already-started

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Chris Dwyer's avatar

"[Former US secretary of state Antony] Blinken said America had spent 80 years building up trust, strong economic partnerships and military and political alliances, and if that was then taken down in a matter of 100 days it would be incredibly hard to rebuild.

“'It means countries look for ways to work around us, to work together but without the US,' he said. 'The possibility that what will be said today will be reversed tomorrow, and will be reversed again, means they simply cannot count on us. Joe Biden used to say it is never a good idea to bet against America. The problem we now have is people are no longer betting on America.'"

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Patrick's avatar
3dEdited

Sign me up. I’ve been working as a volunteer on campaigns here in FL since 2016. But it is getting frustrating and we need some energy.

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Irene's avatar

Patrick,

I just donated to Youth Alliance in Florida. I’m hoping the youth there can help lead the way. They canvass and register. I read the Director is a Parkland Survivor.

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Patrick's avatar

Thanks for that I will look into it

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Irene's avatar
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Patrick, this is corrected info as the name is Youth Action Fund; ( of Florida) Sorry about that!

This is info they sent to me plus internet info I researched.

Youth Action Fund: “Wanna know how high schoolers in Florida took down DeSantis and blocked his plan to bring child labor back, Irene?

The short answer: We organized, and now we need your help to do it again.

The long answer: We’re Youth Action Fund, and we just hosted our largest lobby day yet, mobilizing over 500 classmates to travel to the capitol and make our voices heard.

We led trainings, met with lawmakers face-to-face, and kept pushing—even after they kicked us out of the room. And it worked.

Not only is the child labor bill dead, but we also killed DeSantis’ efforts to undercut the minimum wage and helped pass the parks act to protect Florida's state parks.

But our fight isn’t over.

Florida’s legislative session just got extended through June and there are still dangerous bills on the table, which means youth organizing has never mattered more.

We’re working harder than ever to train more organizers and keep young people in the room where decisions are made, but we’re students, not professional fundraisers.”

We need adults like you to fuel our efforts. Can you chip in $10 to keep young people organizing, testifying, and showing up where it donate/youthactionfund? “

I donated a bit to YAF/ Florida and plan to track their progress.

https://www.youthactionfund.org/about/

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Mark Roberts's avatar

I have called on the Stow, MA Select Board to follow our forefathers in the 1700s and callout Trump?DOGE?Musk's attacks on our Democracy. Waiting to hear if our local paper will publish. Hope others will follow this idea and call on their local officials to issue July 4th Declarations condemning Trump's violations of the Constitution.

According to the Stow Historical Society, Stow has always played a role in objecting to an unjust leader. By the 1770s, Stow’s population had grown to about 900 residents – many of them fervent patriots in the colonies’ contentious relationship with the British government. One, Henry Gardner, was a prominent lawyer active in the Committees of Correspondence and the Provincial Congress that patriots established after locking the doors of the Colonial Legislature. Gardner served as provincial treasurer through the coming Revolutionary War.

Stow’s support for the patriot cause ran deep. In the period leading up to April 19, 1775, colonists, fearing a British move to seize arms stored in Concord, moved a portion of them to Stow. Cannons were hidden in the woods surrounding the Lower Common, gunpowder and other armaments in the Meeting House and a small powder house on Pilot Grove Hill. Stow citizens made up several companies of Minutemen, training on the Lower Common and ready to move out on short notice.

When word came that British regulars were marching on Concord, two companies of Stow Minutemen assembled in the early hours of April 19. In all, 81 Stow soldiers made the march to Concord, taking part in the rolling battle with the British that began at the “Bloody Angle” and continued all the way along “Battle Road” back to Boston. Official records noted that Stow’s small contingent “pursued the British so as to deserve special mention.”

"In the 1700s, before they filed the Declaration of Independence, American colonists sent Resolutions of Disapproval to King George. These declarations made by towns, cities, colonial assemblies or other political groups expressing strong opposition to British laws and policies they considered unjust. Chief among these was “No Taxation without representation.”

Trump is currently imposing these crazy tariffs which are a tax on imported goods without representation. The Constitution empowers only Congress to levy taxes, including tariffs. Without Congressional consent, the President cannot legally impose tariffs by Executive Order.

Trump and DOGE are destroying things that will take a generation or more to fix, while they are simultaneously destroying the US and global economies with unauthorized and unwarranted tariffs and denying basic constitutional rights to immigrant seized by ICE.

There is a call to have towns, cities and States across America to issue Declarations of Disapproval on July 4th – Independence Day, calling on Trump to honor the Constitution and the rule of law by ceasing to usurp Congressional powers to tax and spend and follow all orders of the federal courts? Trump and DOGE have no right to shut down USAID, the CDC, NIH, NSF and so much more. Trump cannot constitutionally defy a direct order of the Supreme Court.

The Stow Select Board should answer this call as our forefathers did prior to the American revolution and create a Resolution of Disapproval and Dissent to be issued on July 4th calling out all of the Trump Administration’s illegal and corrupt acts and demanding that Trump and his allies adhere to the Constitution. The Select Board should also send a letter of support to Maura Healey and the leaders in the Massachusetts Legislature encouraging them to do the same on behalf of all of the people in the Commonwealth."

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Michele's avatar

Our founding fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence as their guiding document.

Republicans wrote PROJECT 2025 as their guiding document.

Democrats need a document not just to state the disapproval but to advocate for what they STAND FOR and what they want America to be. (And please don't let it be a policy document but and inspirational Letter to America).

ps Love the history lesson!!!

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Sharon Dequaine's avatar

I’ve always enjoyed listening to David Jolly!

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ArcticStones's avatar

MAGA says Pope Leo may be American, but he's not 'America first'

Steve Bannon and the MAGA ecosphere have found reason to denounce Pope Leo XIV.

"I mean it's kind of jaw-dropping. It is shocking to me that a guy could be selected to be the Pope that had had the Twitter feed and the statements he's had against American senior politicians," said Bannon, a hard-right Trump loyalist, practising Catholic and former altar boy.

The former altar boy predicts that there's "definitely going to be friction" between Leo and Trump.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyglw20lg2o

(My take: Unintentionally, these people are highlighting the difference between Christians and Christianists.)

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ArcticStones's avatar

"Why the Conclave elected Robert Prevost"

A rather interesting article with behind-the-scenes insights into the Conclave.

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/09/why-robert-prevost-elected-pope-leo-conclave

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David E.'s avatar

I find some of these reactions to the new Pope to be laughable. WOKE MARXIST POPE. It sounds like a parody. So does the idea that the Pope isn't America first.

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ArcticStones's avatar

"Dancing to the woke Marxist Pope"

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5eq7JsbFT6E

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Catherine Giovannoni's avatar

You know, for years the Opus Dei/Trump wing of the Catholic Church told us we couldn't be "cafeteria Catholics." We couldn't disagree with the church about abortion, homosexuality, birth control, women's roles -- anything -- and still be Catholics. Fair enough, I left. But now they don't get to be cafeteria Catholics, either.

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Sharon Dequaine's avatar

I think democrats and the sane Republicans of old are becoming more and more alike! They all want to get shit done!!!

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Sharon Dequaine's avatar

Jolly for Florida Governor!!!

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Karen Meneghin's avatar

I believe we have a Pope-for-the-Ages with his eminence Leo XIV, who’ll transform the traditional papal advocacy through social media to go toe-to-toe in support of his followers.

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