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Good piece as usual. In it you used a term - unity government - that I’ve been hoping for. I think we have to stop seeing 2026 or 2028 as “democratic party” years. If we are ever going to recover from this monster,there has to be a genuine process of national reconciliation.
I understand that view. And I share it often. But I think it understates or underappreciates the damage,that,has,been done. If the pro democracy forces are lucky enough to win it will not be,because,of across,the board approval of the whole,democratic policy agenda. It will be because,of massive rejection of Trump,. There will not be a return to the status quo ante Trump. But if,there,is,to,be a new beginning it has to,come,from something like a national unity government.
I know Simon makes that argument, but I have a hard time seeing how that emerges, except as some kind of short-term acknowledgment of the danger Trump poses and the need to mitigate the damage.
But in my mind, and possibly orthogonal to the "national unity" idea, I still think that pain is the ultimate teacher, and only when MAGA is crushed at the polls do we recover.
I suppose the point is that there might be some kind of broader coalition to crush MAGA. I'm rather doubtful that works, or at least I don't see it. I still think they need to be crushed for something better to emerge.
The same people in office now who have been complicit and who want to hold onto their power aren't suddenly going to become pro-democracy leaders. There might be a few willing to try and mitigate the damage. But any potential allies we might've had, like Corker and Cheney, are gone.
National reconciliation is possible with Republicans who turn their back on Trump and MAGA. National reconciliation starts with MAGA facing an electoral wipe-out in November. Reconciliation with people who prefer a King and who are against American democracy itself is NOT possible.
We just saw a shift of 25 percent toward the Democratic candidate in Marjorie Taylor’s Congressional district.
Fun fact: If we see a 25-percentage Blue shift in November, Democrats will control the Senate 60–40. And the new split in the House of Representatives will be be 480D–58R!
Granted, we’re highly unlikely to see something that dramatic, but all indications so far are that Democrats are positioned for a historic Blue Tsunami!
The news from last night was, indeed, very good. The Indiana primaries are on May 5th with an historic number of Dems running. I think we will have a terrific candidate opposing MAGA Rep. Victoria Spartz. Unprecedented number of Dems running for seats downballot.
For our IN General Assembly, I will be watching what happens to those Republicans in our State Senate who defied Trump on redistricting and who are up this cycle. Each one is being primaried by a Trump-approved MAGA. By May 6th, I will know if I can join you in your optimism. Early voting started yesterday with additional satellite places (I work at one of them) open April 22nd. I am holding my breath.
I want unity, but any show of unity without including punishment for their crimes will just lead to this happening again (cf., the failures of reconstruction).
and unlike the repubs secret plan to dismantle the us govt that satan denied knowing about during the election, we can publish ours and continue to add to it. could be a big hit on the internet if done smartly. bascially reversing everything that musk, vought, et al did. and rescind all executive orders of course. this is a very good idear for the dnc to undertake. and they can ask all of us to contribute.
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Bondi set to testify, supposedly, on the Epstein files. Maybe that's a good time to start the Cuba thing. Whatever that will be.
I watched Hegseth this morning because I had to sit in a dental waiting room. I had never watched that much Hegseth. He is dumb. You can just feel the lack of intellectual horsepower. He was running down a list of octogenarians killed to try to convince me we "won". If he doesn't do better than this, and Trump feels political heat for this debacle, he'll be fired. Good riddance. His hair looks like it requires a substantial supply chain through the Strait of Hormuz, so he must be relieved.
It's unclear what is going to happen with the nuclear material. Probably nothing. The idiots in the GOP keep talking about dirty bombs, despite the fact that there is zero chance you would use 60% enriched uranium in a dirty bomb. What's happening to that 60% enriched uranium?
From what I can tell, Iran is going to be massively more wealthy than they were. They control the toll booth. The resistance in Iran is effectively going to be dead. And they just got a critical learning experience for their military and their strategy. They are not dumb and they will learn from this.
Shawn Harris lost. I had written a few postcards there. I am optimistic overall, but Harris was always a big stretch. By the numbers I saw, he lost by ~11 in a district Trump won by 37. That's +26 our direction. And in WI I think the Supreme Court race we won by something like 20 points, which I think you could conclude is about a 20 point over-performance given how narrowly WI is split. Democrat +20 is a huge deal in WI.
I think I will do a phone bank for VA next week, rather than this week. Starting some more postcards tonight. I didn't have a chance to find a new project last night. Looking forward to the gathering tonight to see if Simon can help make some sense of this. I'm sure he will.
The Iranians are probably going to be able to do bilateral/multilateral negotiations with the Gulf States (or for Trump, the Golf States) to remove our military bases. I would guess this is a big objective for them and they will probably succeed.
Also to self report, I told the NEA guy I just met that they need to put union notices above the urinals in the men's room, instead of by the paper towel dispenser. We need more people in the union!
Thank you for your “Sunrise over New Orleans” photo, Simon. It is beautiful & the best scene posted in the past 24 hours; so peaceful & calm!
I would like to add a name to your list of treasonous Trump sycophants that Democrats should demand removal of to include Hegseth, Miller, Vought, & BESSENT, who changes his allegiances like the wind & raids our treasury with abandon👹
Word is he's on the list. Susie Wiles told Trump he shouldn't do like last time, make a revolving door out of every cabinet seat. So he's just spreading out his firings. Kash Patel also on the list. If the WH freak had his way, they'd all be gone now. Iran hasn't said "yes yes yes" to all his BS, so someone has to get blamed and fired. With the requisite ALL CAPS tantrum on Lie Social.
I heard Tulsi Gabbard was also on the list, but at this point no action.
The only way Hegseth survives is if Trump thinks he's getting good press on his surrender. I don't see that happening. So I think he's gone. It might be Trump keeps him around for whatever they have in the works for Cuba. Then he'll reassess after that.
Once again, trump dragged everyone into his chaos, dominating the news cycle. At some point, this needs to be considered a form of mass psychological abuse, not unlike what Jim Jones did with the "practice" suicide runs, sleep deprivation, and constant blaring of his nonsense on the loudspeaker 18 hours a day to his cult members.
What I think happened is that trump (or whoever wrote that genocidal post, who knows) made this big dramatic nuclear threat, then changed course to make it look like Iran "had to be reasonable" in the face of the threat, thus saving face for trump and providing a way out. Now begins MAGA's social media bullshit efforts to spin this as a major win, even though the Middle East pretty much did the equivalent of Europe in standing against trump's Greenland threats. Trump has pretty much succeeded in consolidating the Middle East, a region that has learned that you don't have to "win," you just have to "not lose."
I think you are spot on. He needed to wave his little mushroom around and look like he was getting a deal because he was "tough", when in fact he was surrendering. Then he will hope his followers don't understand or don't bother to look at the details.
It is classic abuser behavior. You can NEVER have a few calm days. Even holiday weekends have to focus on keeping the abuser from being mad, placating him, focusing on him. They don't, especially at Trump's age, ever change. The solution is a complete and total break.
Yes. Dr. Ben-Ghiat's comments on this have been very instructive. He feels "powerful" now, and is at his most dangerous. Her discussion w Dr. Kendi yesterday was really excellent. I'll try to find the link.
Simon, thanks! Drink some chicory coffee for the rest of us!
The win last night in Wisconsin was sweet. I remember writing a lot of postcards for Judge Protasiewicz, and biting my nails the night of that election. It was so important for women's rights and to eliminate bad gerrymandering. Now, it looks like a large Dem majority for at least the next few years. I think the Dems flipped some mayor seats, too.
I called my congressman and senators to say NO more money for war or ICE and that Trump isn't fit for office and has to go. I'm writing postcards to NC voters today.
We donated to the WI Dems when Ben was chair. I thought he did a great job. Dane County is so well organized. I knew they could get the vote out! On Wisconsin
This may be off topic but it's relevant. I want to suggest that we find new language to use for the words "canvassing" and "knocking on doors." Meeting people at their homes and helping them make a plan to vote is great fun and it makes a real difference. But not enough people are willing to give this a try. Too many people just "give up in advance" because they are afraid of canvassing. I used to be one of these people. I'm not anymore!
I think we need to change the word we use for canvassing. It's such a bland word. And it evokes fear in most people. Let's make the word (or words we choose) about getting outside, discovering new neighborhoods, having an enjoyable time with the person you are knocking doors with, and making a difference at the same time. Let's find some new language to convey that! Any suggestions??
Agree! The image (and goal) should not be "having a political discussion" at someone's door, but instead "asking your neighbors what's important to them." It changes the whole nature of the conversation.
Yeah, a lot of research has shown that most voters don't have clearly defined ideas about policies--or can even identify which policies the parties or their candidates support in any detailed way. For most voters--and this is especially true for those who don't vote on a regular basis, their choices tend to be driven by a vague, generalized "impression" or "feeling." We need to do a better job of taking that into account and LISTENING to people.
Finishing my VA postcards & some are already mailed, called and demanded action on Orange: Asked that House & Senate Dems gather in DC to speak with unity, steps of the Capitol type thing, and that Booker & Kim issue press releases & use socials to speak forcefully. You know it's bad when Dr. Ben-Ghiat, always calm and collected, seemed shaken yesterday.
Let's get this straight - even the threats are war crimes. None of this is in any way the "negotiating tactic" or "strategy" that bizarrely & infuriatingly the cult is saying it is.
But something good happened yesterday - Sen. Mark Kelly said he wished he were still in NASA, and that America can still do great things. Looking forward to this evening - keep going!
Trump is declaring victory and moving on - will the GOP base notice and penalize him. I hope so, on the margin. In the meantime, the destruction of the scientific, regulatory, and legal frameworks supporting our system proceeds briskly. Midterms can’t come soon enough
Canvassing on weekends and also on weekdays for VA Special Election (Vote YES on redistricting). Invited by a women's used clothing store locally to show up for their tent sale and hand out out a zine (small booklet) developed by a local Indivisible group to give info about all 3 elections in VA this year. Joining the phone bank that Simon mentioned to make calls for the VA special election. Also, showing up outside local community center during the hours when people come and go from their classes to talk with people about voting in Special Election and give them info about it and how to vote early.
Unity government??? What are you smoking? The republicans voted overwhelmingly to NOT endorse a war powers resolution. Who can the Dems join up with? Rand Paul and no one else? Maybe Thom Tillis. I see no possibility of unity with the spineless R's.
The only way it happens is if we believe it can and try. Dismissing it outright, though tempting, is self-defeating.
Simon’s point is we can’t wait til November (actually next January) to do it ourselves after we win back power; we need to start trying NOW and that means recruiting the other guys.
It is We the People who will decide the future of Our Country and preserve our democracy. A core part of Hopium is to enlarge the circle of defiance against the maga admin. It is a fight for democracy that we will not lose if we do the work that is required. https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/enlarging-the-circle-of-defiance
Unity means finding common ground with disaffected republicans, voters who are independent / decline to state a party affiliation, new voters, and inspiring our infrequent Democratic voters to join us in Ferocious Opposition to this administration. Democrats are winning elections nationwide by gigantic margins. That indicates a shift in voter sentiment in a common direction of change.
Slightly off topic but related. I have to put in writing how completely AMAZED I am at the amounts of money this community has raised for the D Party and its candidates. Yes, we all do a lot of other important things, too--postcards, phones, door-to-door conversations, rallies--and they are all vital. But Simon's daily chart of our fundraising efforts is a visible, tangible metric for all of us to see and to know what a difference we are making. So. . .THANKS, EVERYONE!!!
Hi friends - I have been thinking about our future as a country that will be run by Dems for the next few years at least. What can we envision for our land? Even before Trump, there were many things we wanted to fix and I think we will have that opportunity shortly.
Abortion rights, healthcare for everyone, pathways for citizenship for our long-suffering immigrants, codifying many many issues into law, diminishing our reliance on a Supreme Court that isn't corrupt, billionaire income tax increases, making trading for Congresspeople illegal, ending executions in our justice system, increasing the seats on the Supreme Court, LGBTQ civil rights, a strong voting rights act, restoring great allies all over the globe, election reform, and so on.
Strong control of both Houses is just the beginning of a new age for our Grand Old Dame. If we work hard and work together this could be the beginning of a new golden age for America. Let's call it Project 2029 - karma for the sick minority currently (but not for long) in power.
Good piece as usual. In it you used a term - unity government - that I’ve been hoping for. I think we have to stop seeing 2026 or 2028 as “democratic party” years. If we are ever going to recover from this monster,there has to be a genuine process of national reconciliation.
I think for long-term, the GOP needs to be utterly wiped out in 2026, 2028. Then there is a chance they might become something less dangerous.
I understand that view. And I share it often. But I think it understates or underappreciates the damage,that,has,been done. If the pro democracy forces are lucky enough to win it will not be,because,of across,the board approval of the whole,democratic policy agenda. It will be because,of massive rejection of Trump,. There will not be a return to the status quo ante Trump. But if,there,is,to,be a new beginning it has to,come,from something like a national unity government.
I know Simon makes that argument, but I have a hard time seeing how that emerges, except as some kind of short-term acknowledgment of the danger Trump poses and the need to mitigate the damage.
But in my mind, and possibly orthogonal to the "national unity" idea, I still think that pain is the ultimate teacher, and only when MAGA is crushed at the polls do we recover.
I suppose the point is that there might be some kind of broader coalition to crush MAGA. I'm rather doubtful that works, or at least I don't see it. I still think they need to be crushed for something better to emerge.
The same people in office now who have been complicit and who want to hold onto their power aren't suddenly going to become pro-democracy leaders. There might be a few willing to try and mitigate the damage. But any potential allies we might've had, like Corker and Cheney, are gone.
National reconciliation is possible with Republicans who turn their back on Trump and MAGA. National reconciliation starts with MAGA facing an electoral wipe-out in November. Reconciliation with people who prefer a King and who are against American democracy itself is NOT possible.
We just saw a shift of 25 percent toward the Democratic candidate in Marjorie Taylor’s Congressional district.
Fun fact: If we see a 25-percentage Blue shift in November, Democrats will control the Senate 60–40. And the new split in the House of Representatives will be be 480D–58R!
Granted, we’re highly unlikely to see something that dramatic, but all indications so far are that Democrats are positioned for a historic Blue Tsunami!
The news from last night was, indeed, very good. The Indiana primaries are on May 5th with an historic number of Dems running. I think we will have a terrific candidate opposing MAGA Rep. Victoria Spartz. Unprecedented number of Dems running for seats downballot.
For our IN General Assembly, I will be watching what happens to those Republicans in our State Senate who defied Trump on redistricting and who are up this cycle. Each one is being primaried by a Trump-approved MAGA. By May 6th, I will know if I can join you in your optimism. Early voting started yesterday with additional satellite places (I work at one of them) open April 22nd. I am holding my breath.
I want unity, but any show of unity without including punishment for their crimes will just lead to this happening again (cf., the failures of reconstruction).
Start writing Project 2029!!
and unlike the repubs secret plan to dismantle the us govt that satan denied knowing about during the election, we can publish ours and continue to add to it. could be a big hit on the internet if done smartly. bascially reversing everything that musk, vought, et al did. and rescind all executive orders of course. this is a very good idear for the dnc to undertake. and they can ask all of us to contribute.
I'm for that!
Think also of the future. It is as, or perhaps, MORE important than the present. Visit (free), Evaluate (free) and - for only $12 annually - JOIN my EthicalGovtNow.org movement or what we have, our children and grandchildren may inherit.
Bondi set to testify, supposedly, on the Epstein files. Maybe that's a good time to start the Cuba thing. Whatever that will be.
I watched Hegseth this morning because I had to sit in a dental waiting room. I had never watched that much Hegseth. He is dumb. You can just feel the lack of intellectual horsepower. He was running down a list of octogenarians killed to try to convince me we "won". If he doesn't do better than this, and Trump feels political heat for this debacle, he'll be fired. Good riddance. His hair looks like it requires a substantial supply chain through the Strait of Hormuz, so he must be relieved.
It's unclear what is going to happen with the nuclear material. Probably nothing. The idiots in the GOP keep talking about dirty bombs, despite the fact that there is zero chance you would use 60% enriched uranium in a dirty bomb. What's happening to that 60% enriched uranium?
From what I can tell, Iran is going to be massively more wealthy than they were. They control the toll booth. The resistance in Iran is effectively going to be dead. And they just got a critical learning experience for their military and their strategy. They are not dumb and they will learn from this.
Shawn Harris lost. I had written a few postcards there. I am optimistic overall, but Harris was always a big stretch. By the numbers I saw, he lost by ~11 in a district Trump won by 37. That's +26 our direction. And in WI I think the Supreme Court race we won by something like 20 points, which I think you could conclude is about a 20 point over-performance given how narrowly WI is split. Democrat +20 is a huge deal in WI.
I think I will do a phone bank for VA next week, rather than this week. Starting some more postcards tonight. I didn't have a chance to find a new project last night. Looking forward to the gathering tonight to see if Simon can help make some sense of this. I'm sure he will.
The Iranians are probably going to be able to do bilateral/multilateral negotiations with the Gulf States (or for Trump, the Golf States) to remove our military bases. I would guess this is a big objective for them and they will probably succeed.
Also to self report, I told the NEA guy I just met that they need to put union notices above the urinals in the men's room, instead of by the paper towel dispenser. We need more people in the union!
Good Morning Simon & Hopeful Ones,
Thank you for your “Sunrise over New Orleans” photo, Simon. It is beautiful & the best scene posted in the past 24 hours; so peaceful & calm!
I would like to add a name to your list of treasonous Trump sycophants that Democrats should demand removal of to include Hegseth, Miller, Vought, & BESSENT, who changes his allegiances like the wind & raids our treasury with abandon👹
If the politics look bad for Trump because he just lost a war and people start to figure that out, Hegseth will be fired.
Word is he's on the list. Susie Wiles told Trump he shouldn't do like last time, make a revolving door out of every cabinet seat. So he's just spreading out his firings. Kash Patel also on the list. If the WH freak had his way, they'd all be gone now. Iran hasn't said "yes yes yes" to all his BS, so someone has to get blamed and fired. With the requisite ALL CAPS tantrum on Lie Social.
I heard Tulsi Gabbard was also on the list, but at this point no action.
The only way Hegseth survives is if Trump thinks he's getting good press on his surrender. I don't see that happening. So I think he's gone. It might be Trump keeps him around for whatever they have in the works for Cuba. Then he'll reassess after that.
Once again, trump dragged everyone into his chaos, dominating the news cycle. At some point, this needs to be considered a form of mass psychological abuse, not unlike what Jim Jones did with the "practice" suicide runs, sleep deprivation, and constant blaring of his nonsense on the loudspeaker 18 hours a day to his cult members.
What I think happened is that trump (or whoever wrote that genocidal post, who knows) made this big dramatic nuclear threat, then changed course to make it look like Iran "had to be reasonable" in the face of the threat, thus saving face for trump and providing a way out. Now begins MAGA's social media bullshit efforts to spin this as a major win, even though the Middle East pretty much did the equivalent of Europe in standing against trump's Greenland threats. Trump has pretty much succeeded in consolidating the Middle East, a region that has learned that you don't have to "win," you just have to "not lose."
I think you are spot on. He needed to wave his little mushroom around and look like he was getting a deal because he was "tough", when in fact he was surrendering. Then he will hope his followers don't understand or don't bother to look at the details.
It is classic abuser behavior. You can NEVER have a few calm days. Even holiday weekends have to focus on keeping the abuser from being mad, placating him, focusing on him. They don't, especially at Trump's age, ever change. The solution is a complete and total break.
Yes. Dr. Ben-Ghiat's comments on this have been very instructive. He feels "powerful" now, and is at his most dangerous. Her discussion w Dr. Kendi yesterday was really excellent. I'll try to find the link.
Yup.
This makes me so mad!
I often think, can't we just have the occasional weekend or holiday with a break from this exhausting BS?!
That’s an apt comparison and why I think trump and MAGA are so triggering for those of us who come from abuse backgrounds
Simon, thanks! Drink some chicory coffee for the rest of us!
The win last night in Wisconsin was sweet. I remember writing a lot of postcards for Judge Protasiewicz, and biting my nails the night of that election. It was so important for women's rights and to eliminate bad gerrymandering. Now, it looks like a large Dem majority for at least the next few years. I think the Dems flipped some mayor seats, too.
I called my congressman and senators to say NO more money for war or ICE and that Trump isn't fit for office and has to go. I'm writing postcards to NC voters today.
yes - thank you, Ben Wikler!
We donated to the WI Dems when Ben was chair. I thought he did a great job. Dane County is so well organized. I knew they could get the vote out! On Wisconsin
This may be off topic but it's relevant. I want to suggest that we find new language to use for the words "canvassing" and "knocking on doors." Meeting people at their homes and helping them make a plan to vote is great fun and it makes a real difference. But not enough people are willing to give this a try. Too many people just "give up in advance" because they are afraid of canvassing. I used to be one of these people. I'm not anymore!
I think we need to change the word we use for canvassing. It's such a bland word. And it evokes fear in most people. Let's make the word (or words we choose) about getting outside, discovering new neighborhoods, having an enjoyable time with the person you are knocking doors with, and making a difference at the same time. Let's find some new language to convey that! Any suggestions??
Maybe contact DNC - here's a profile on their civic engagement director: https://blueprint.democrats.org/p/how-the-dnc-is-actually-safeguarding
Agree! The image (and goal) should not be "having a political discussion" at someone's door, but instead "asking your neighbors what's important to them." It changes the whole nature of the conversation.
We would finish deep canvassing with the same question: Who do you think of when you are in the voting booth casting your vote.
It always surprises me how folks vote on their feelings. Not necessarily the “issues”
Yeah, a lot of research has shown that most voters don't have clearly defined ideas about policies--or can even identify which policies the parties or their candidates support in any detailed way. For most voters--and this is especially true for those who don't vote on a regular basis, their choices tend to be driven by a vague, generalized "impression" or "feeling." We need to do a better job of taking that into account and LISTENING to people.
Finishing my VA postcards & some are already mailed, called and demanded action on Orange: Asked that House & Senate Dems gather in DC to speak with unity, steps of the Capitol type thing, and that Booker & Kim issue press releases & use socials to speak forcefully. You know it's bad when Dr. Ben-Ghiat, always calm and collected, seemed shaken yesterday.
Let's get this straight - even the threats are war crimes. None of this is in any way the "negotiating tactic" or "strategy" that bizarrely & infuriatingly the cult is saying it is.
But something good happened yesterday - Sen. Mark Kelly said he wished he were still in NASA, and that America can still do great things. Looking forward to this evening - keep going!
Artemis II has been a wonderful antidote. We need to enjoy that.
Excellent piece. One more thing let’s not drop the ball on Epstein files and justice.
Trump is declaring victory and moving on - will the GOP base notice and penalize him. I hope so, on the margin. In the meantime, the destruction of the scientific, regulatory, and legal frameworks supporting our system proceeds briskly. Midterms can’t come soon enough
Canvassing on weekends and also on weekdays for VA Special Election (Vote YES on redistricting). Invited by a women's used clothing store locally to show up for their tent sale and hand out out a zine (small booklet) developed by a local Indivisible group to give info about all 3 elections in VA this year. Joining the phone bank that Simon mentioned to make calls for the VA special election. Also, showing up outside local community center during the hours when people come and go from their classes to talk with people about voting in Special Election and give them info about it and how to vote early.
Wow!! Thank you!
Unity government??? What are you smoking? The republicans voted overwhelmingly to NOT endorse a war powers resolution. Who can the Dems join up with? Rand Paul and no one else? Maybe Thom Tillis. I see no possibility of unity with the spineless R's.
The only way it happens is if we believe it can and try. Dismissing it outright, though tempting, is self-defeating.
Simon’s point is we can’t wait til November (actually next January) to do it ourselves after we win back power; we need to start trying NOW and that means recruiting the other guys.
It is We the People who will decide the future of Our Country and preserve our democracy. A core part of Hopium is to enlarge the circle of defiance against the maga admin. It is a fight for democracy that we will not lose if we do the work that is required. https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/enlarging-the-circle-of-defiance
Unity means finding common ground with disaffected republicans, voters who are independent / decline to state a party affiliation, new voters, and inspiring our infrequent Democratic voters to join us in Ferocious Opposition to this administration. Democrats are winning elections nationwide by gigantic margins. That indicates a shift in voter sentiment in a common direction of change.
Here's some more Hopium inspiration to imagine and fight for a new pro- democracy America. https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/imagine-if-this-moment-was-not-about?utm_source=publication-search
Slightly off topic but related. I have to put in writing how completely AMAZED I am at the amounts of money this community has raised for the D Party and its candidates. Yes, we all do a lot of other important things, too--postcards, phones, door-to-door conversations, rallies--and they are all vital. But Simon's daily chart of our fundraising efforts is a visible, tangible metric for all of us to see and to know what a difference we are making. So. . .THANKS, EVERYONE!!!
Hi friends - I have been thinking about our future as a country that will be run by Dems for the next few years at least. What can we envision for our land? Even before Trump, there were many things we wanted to fix and I think we will have that opportunity shortly.
Abortion rights, healthcare for everyone, pathways for citizenship for our long-suffering immigrants, codifying many many issues into law, diminishing our reliance on a Supreme Court that isn't corrupt, billionaire income tax increases, making trading for Congresspeople illegal, ending executions in our justice system, increasing the seats on the Supreme Court, LGBTQ civil rights, a strong voting rights act, restoring great allies all over the globe, election reform, and so on.
Strong control of both Houses is just the beginning of a new age for our Grand Old Dame. If we work hard and work together this could be the beginning of a new golden age for America. Let's call it Project 2029 - karma for the sick minority currently (but not for long) in power.
See y'all tonite!
Yes to your whole list, and rapid transition to clean energy from fossil fuels, and we must do something about the housing crisis ASAP.