Here’s a list of textbanks. Once you get trained on them - many allow you to do it anytime between 9am-9pm EST so it’s very convenient.
Note: When you click on the links below, almost all have additional dates you can sign up for so if you can’t do one of the dates below, click on the link to find other dates.
So sorry I missed this Edition yesterday morning. One small but I think useful correction re: Cheri Beasley. She actually lost her second election to NC Supreme Court by 401 in a turnout of >5 million. In my NC precinct alone, there were OVER 401 voters who helped elect Biden and our Governor Cooper but did not bother to vote down ballot. Cheri lost to a highly partisan republican now in the chief judge position, by a razor thin margin. My mantra with every postcard/phone call/ canvass doorknock: vote the entire ballot, don't stop at the top!
Robert, your newsletter is a truly an daily inspiration- please keep it up.
"The result will be a political pecking party of grotesque proportions." Otherwise known as lord of the flies, if and when the DOJ starts going after the upper management.
Its plenty alright with me if you're a fundraising arm for Dems right now. We all need to do as much as we can, and your newsletter and suggestions are helping us stay focused, identify ways to continue to make a difference and take action.
Interesting to read others say they are stopping watching the news etc. in preference for getting updates from trusted sources. I feel the same and am increasingly grateful for yours and other's newsletters/posts.
From your mouth to God's ears that Trump WILL be indicted or hung on some stake somewhere!!! what a year from hell politically. Biden short shrift and not campaigning for his brethren in so many races the Dems need to win is shortsighted. As you write, bottom line, our country, the rule of law and democracy, as we knew it, to put it mildly has fallen from what and how our forefathers intended. From law enforcement to the Department of Justice and lacking strong gun laws, we're at war with each other. Feeling helpless, Lynda
I donated but unlike the Tim Ryan fundraiser, I was not sent to a link or place to sign up for Monday’s discussion. Hope this gets resolved. Thank you.
"I don’t want readers to think that this newsletter is turning into a fundraising arm of the Democratic Party, but this is an important moment in our nation’s history. We must do all we can to maximize the likelihood of maintaining control of Congress and expanding Democratic control of state houses, governorships, election offices, school boards, and more." Exactly. The Republican Party has become dangerous. It is regrettable that so many Republicans remain in the party. They should get out, run as independents. Join the Conservative party. Join the Democrats -- we have plenty of conservatives. Then rejoin the Republicans when it is no longer dangerous to democracy and (consider them now planning to stop support Ukraine) to the world. Len Lubinsky from lenspoliticalnotes.com
There are more of us than the hater-deniers. We just all have to vote no matter what. Reach out to everyone....nieghbors, staff at the coffee shot, senior centers, high schoolers All.
So exciting about this Monday night for Cheri Beasley. I am the Chair for Women for Cheri Beasley and have over 1300 women on my list. We also have over 350 volunteers who as of this morning have written 50,422 postcards for Cheri…so incredibly successful.
Please give a shout out Monday to Women for Beasley. We are rockin it
Donated to Candidate Beasley, shared to FB and Twitter "Very tight race with real possibility for another Democrat in the Senate!!!"
Thank you Robert for making it so easy to know whom to support in our fight for our democracy. And thank you so much for making the donation "any amount." As a senior on SS only, I am very grateful to be able to participate at my level.
Just want you to know that I donated to Beasley, Ryan (plus Ossoff & Warnock) long ago, but have today sent additional to Beasley, at your request! I’ll await the zoom invitation. I’ve also spread your newsletter far & wide …… thanks for your efforts!! 👍👍
1. It is a prosecutorial race: Some legal pundits (Ellie Honig among others) think that Trump will be indicted by Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Williams before the DOJ; they believe that she is further along in her grand jury investigation. As far as I'm concerned, I don't care who indicts Trump et al first - only that he is indicted in both cases as well as indicted for conspiracy to defraud the United States and interfering with and leading an insurrection to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.
2. Your point, Robert, in the parenthetical, should be stressed - there are still elements of MAGA in the DOJ and FBI who will try to thwart any attempt to hold Trump accountable for his actions. These people need to be found and charged.
3. "Trump admitted that his letters to and from Kim Jong-un were 'top secret'." Let's not get ahead of ourselves concerning Trump's so-called "top secret" admission. Trump's reference to "top secret" was not intended to represent the governmental term of "top secret" but rather a petulant 5-year old child's version of "top secret" where he has something that's very special and dear to him that no one else is allowed to see. This is the mind of a man supported by 74.2M Americans.
Election day coverage is such a hodgepodge of news that it is difficult to keep track of who won what where.
There have been several races discussed by you (Robert) and in the comments, and I wonder if it would be possible for a summation, after the election, of the results. I know I can’t keep track of it all.
I wish everyone here well in their individual local races! Here in Oregon we have a crazy situation where a spoiler could have us end up with a republican governor. Oi!
But the WaPo article is a master class in epidemiology. I reread it this morning and am still awed by its thoroughness. The section "Stress, and its burden" is about a topic so blithely dismissed it's killing us. As you say "The WaPo article looks at the phenomenon through multiple lenses and avoids saying in a single sentence the conclusion that underlies every paragraph of the article...". That conclusion is basically what is addressed in the study of the much maligned critical race theory.
Trump doesn’t need to win the Presidency to get pardoned. He can throw his support to the GOP candidate promising to pardon him. In fact, they could probably campaign on that promise. What stops that from happening?
Don’t apologize for fundraising appeals on behalf of Democratic candidates! We live in (safely “bluish”) Minnesota so I appreciate learning which candidates elsewhere would benefit most from our donations and postcard writing. Because we have life-long connections with Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania, I have been targeting races in those states; however, I was glad to hear about Cheri Beasley in North Carolina and I just made a contribution to her campaign at your suggestion. Once again, thank you so much for all you are doing, Robert.
Folks - we gotta win 2022 and we will if we do the work.
You can find tons of opportunities to GOTV here: https://www.mobilize.us/events/get-out-the-vote/
Here’s a list of textbanks. Once you get trained on them - many allow you to do it anytime between 9am-9pm EST so it’s very convenient.
Note: When you click on the links below, almost all have additional dates you can sign up for so if you can’t do one of the dates below, click on the link to find other dates.
Every Day - AAPI Textbanks - https://mobilize.us/s/XmqauY/r
Every Day - Texas Dems - https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/487259/
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Wednesday 10/26 - 3-4pm PST - IL-17 - Eric Sorensen - https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/486969/
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So sorry I missed this Edition yesterday morning. One small but I think useful correction re: Cheri Beasley. She actually lost her second election to NC Supreme Court by 401 in a turnout of >5 million. In my NC precinct alone, there were OVER 401 voters who helped elect Biden and our Governor Cooper but did not bother to vote down ballot. Cheri lost to a highly partisan republican now in the chief judge position, by a razor thin margin. My mantra with every postcard/phone call/ canvass doorknock: vote the entire ballot, don't stop at the top!
Robert, your newsletter is a truly an daily inspiration- please keep it up.
"The result will be a political pecking party of grotesque proportions." Otherwise known as lord of the flies, if and when the DOJ starts going after the upper management.
Its plenty alright with me if you're a fundraising arm for Dems right now. We all need to do as much as we can, and your newsletter and suggestions are helping us stay focused, identify ways to continue to make a difference and take action.
Interesting to read others say they are stopping watching the news etc. in preference for getting updates from trusted sources. I feel the same and am increasingly grateful for yours and other's newsletters/posts.
A friend sent this very thought-provoking piece in the NYT (sometimes they have such a thing - along with the incessent fear-mongering, misleading headlines and articles they choose to run these days) that I commend to you, Rob, and your readers: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/opinion/albert-hirschman-political-rhetoric.html
I thank you - as always - and also want to thank your other readers who contribute such thoughtful and interesting comments.
From your mouth to God's ears that Trump WILL be indicted or hung on some stake somewhere!!! what a year from hell politically. Biden short shrift and not campaigning for his brethren in so many races the Dems need to win is shortsighted. As you write, bottom line, our country, the rule of law and democracy, as we knew it, to put it mildly has fallen from what and how our forefathers intended. From law enforcement to the Department of Justice and lacking strong gun laws, we're at war with each other. Feeling helpless, Lynda
I donated but unlike the Tim Ryan fundraiser, I was not sent to a link or place to sign up for Monday’s discussion. Hope this gets resolved. Thank you.
"I don’t want readers to think that this newsletter is turning into a fundraising arm of the Democratic Party, but this is an important moment in our nation’s history. We must do all we can to maximize the likelihood of maintaining control of Congress and expanding Democratic control of state houses, governorships, election offices, school boards, and more." Exactly. The Republican Party has become dangerous. It is regrettable that so many Republicans remain in the party. They should get out, run as independents. Join the Conservative party. Join the Democrats -- we have plenty of conservatives. Then rejoin the Republicans when it is no longer dangerous to democracy and (consider them now planning to stop support Ukraine) to the world. Len Lubinsky from lenspoliticalnotes.com
There are more of us than the hater-deniers. We just all have to vote no matter what. Reach out to everyone....nieghbors, staff at the coffee shot, senior centers, high schoolers All.
So exciting about this Monday night for Cheri Beasley. I am the Chair for Women for Cheri Beasley and have over 1300 women on my list. We also have over 350 volunteers who as of this morning have written 50,422 postcards for Cheri…so incredibly successful.
Please give a shout out Monday to Women for Beasley. We are rockin it
Donated to Candidate Beasley, shared to FB and Twitter "Very tight race with real possibility for another Democrat in the Senate!!!"
Thank you Robert for making it so easy to know whom to support in our fight for our democracy. And thank you so much for making the donation "any amount." As a senior on SS only, I am very grateful to be able to participate at my level.
Just want you to know that I donated to Beasley, Ryan (plus Ossoff & Warnock) long ago, but have today sent additional to Beasley, at your request! I’ll await the zoom invitation. I’ve also spread your newsletter far & wide …… thanks for your efforts!! 👍👍
A few points:
1. It is a prosecutorial race: Some legal pundits (Ellie Honig among others) think that Trump will be indicted by Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Williams before the DOJ; they believe that she is further along in her grand jury investigation. As far as I'm concerned, I don't care who indicts Trump et al first - only that he is indicted in both cases as well as indicted for conspiracy to defraud the United States and interfering with and leading an insurrection to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.
2. Your point, Robert, in the parenthetical, should be stressed - there are still elements of MAGA in the DOJ and FBI who will try to thwart any attempt to hold Trump accountable for his actions. These people need to be found and charged.
3. "Trump admitted that his letters to and from Kim Jong-un were 'top secret'." Let's not get ahead of ourselves concerning Trump's so-called "top secret" admission. Trump's reference to "top secret" was not intended to represent the governmental term of "top secret" but rather a petulant 5-year old child's version of "top secret" where he has something that's very special and dear to him that no one else is allowed to see. This is the mind of a man supported by 74.2M Americans.
Election day coverage is such a hodgepodge of news that it is difficult to keep track of who won what where.
There have been several races discussed by you (Robert) and in the comments, and I wonder if it would be possible for a summation, after the election, of the results. I know I can’t keep track of it all.
I wish everyone here well in their individual local races! Here in Oregon we have a crazy situation where a spoiler could have us end up with a republican governor. Oi!
Oh, dear, those pesky emails!
But the WaPo article is a master class in epidemiology. I reread it this morning and am still awed by its thoroughness. The section "Stress, and its burden" is about a topic so blithely dismissed it's killing us. As you say "The WaPo article looks at the phenomenon through multiple lenses and avoids saying in a single sentence the conclusion that underlies every paragraph of the article...". That conclusion is basically what is addressed in the study of the much maligned critical race theory.
Trump doesn’t need to win the Presidency to get pardoned. He can throw his support to the GOP candidate promising to pardon him. In fact, they could probably campaign on that promise. What stops that from happening?
Don’t apologize for fundraising appeals on behalf of Democratic candidates! We live in (safely “bluish”) Minnesota so I appreciate learning which candidates elsewhere would benefit most from our donations and postcard writing. Because we have life-long connections with Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania, I have been targeting races in those states; however, I was glad to hear about Cheri Beasley in North Carolina and I just made a contribution to her campaign at your suggestion. Once again, thank you so much for all you are doing, Robert.