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Re: Early Vote Starts Monday in Jacksonville. Simon, here’s proof of concept for what you set out to do on Hopium. In response to your call for nationwide grassroots action focused on Jacksonville, we at BlueVoterGuide.org added Florida to our list of covered states in 2023. Blue Voter Guide presents a simple ballot guide tailored to every voter based on where they live, showing endorsements of trusted, local, on-the-ground organizations on the left. Essentially an X-ray of who backs all the candidates and ballot measures, making smart Blue choices easier and faster. At https://BlueVoterGuide.org, click on Jacksonville (Active Primaries--under the address window) to see how Donna Degan’s race looks to her potential voters. Thanks for focusing our grassroots power via Hopium!

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Simon - I hope you will spend more time right away on the huge, looming "debt ceiling" crisis. Its such a potential threat to Biden's presidency and our agenda re MAGA.

Your comment today just adds to my mounting concern:

"In their new anti-Biden video the RNC also talks about an American financial crisis. The things they are discussing here - an American financial crisis, crashing currency, loss of dollar dominance - will only happen if Republicans choose to default on our financial obligations. That they are already attacking Biden for these things, before they have even happened, suggests the decision to default has already been made by Republican leaders."

We also have the NYTimes (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/us/politics/biden-debt-ceiling.html) again treating MAGA as a legitimate political entity instead of the financial terrorists that they are. And -- in my reading -- suggesting that negotiating should now be the norm, utterly failing to differentiate between the "debt ceiling" and future budget negotiations.

I hope that you will formulate a very specific, concise summary of the debt ceiling issue -- what's at stake, what's happened in the past, how it differs from future budget negotiations etc -- that we can use in our activism. I regularly write/call (and encourage a large number of family and friends) Biden, my Congressional representatives and the main stream media. Help with how to best frame my comments on this issue, in the most understandable and forceful/LOUD way, would be very welcome. I hope it would be to others who are part of this community as well.

Thank you for all you do, for your encouragement, for going the substack route.

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