Thank you Robert for praising Democrats and the grassroots. This election was not lost on campaign tactics, it’s been years in the making from gerrymandering to the right wing court. Now, are democrats to blame for lack of imagination and not using their power when they had it? Absolutely! But this was an extremely narrow loss, and it wasn’t a shift to the right. It was a decision to stay home.
Something I am personally calling for is Dems in the House to NOT bail out GOP on bad policy and NOT pass a budget without serious extracting political power. Not just making sure planned parenthood gets funded but REAL power. Like a power sharing agreement or something similar.
Dems need to let the GOP “govern.” U break it, U fix it. I’m calling my rep now to prime her for the fight.
Robert - I appreciate your consistent acknowledgement and gratitude for the power and effectiveness of the grassroots volunteers all over the country but a particular shout out is needed to those in California, my home state who traveled in the thousands to Nevada and Arizona and other swing states catching buses at 6 am for long drives or taking flights and then knocking on thousands of doors, monitored polling stations or registered voters. They did the same in CA and they are the sole reason Derek Tran and Adam Gray crossed the finish line by the chin of their chinny chin chins and brought the Democrats up to 215 seats in the house.
Personally, I would like to see Kamala Harris, Tim Walz and the Democratic senators who both won and lost travel to the blue states to personally thank the tens of thousands of volunteers who tirelessly texted, postcarded, phone banked and traveled to swing states on their own dime. Because our states were never in question (I live in Washington), the only visits from the candidates this year and in all other years are fundraising efforts targeting the donor class. My squad of 35 women over age 50 were not in this category but the time they gave to write cards, text and cure ballots was worth a lot more than those donations.
There's a French expression, rather gross: "hoist on his own pétard."
We've all been complaining mightily about the ridiculously-named "mainstream media" for the past year(s). Here's something reported by The Hill yesterday: "People close to Trump have said in recent days he should dramatically change who gets access to the president, suggesting podcasters, internet personalities and media deemed more friendly to him could replace outlets like the major television networks, The New York Times and The Washington Post in the room’s front rows."
Hoist with their own pétards. There is some justice, maybe. Evil justice, but still justice.
I appreciate Robert's newsletter today pointing out how hard Democrats fought and how much they clawed back from Republican's gerrymandered efforts to put a pound weight on the scales to illegally tip them in their favor. WRT to the presidential part of the election, I think it's also fair to say, 1/3 of American voters voted for Trump, 1/3 of American voters voted for Harris, and 1/3 of American voters did not vote (because they believed everything that Fox spewed about Democrats being evil and still they were smart enough to see that Trump was a convicted criminal rapist lying fraudster, so they couldn't vote for him either). So we can say that 2/3 of American voters did not vote for Trump. Maybe I have this wrong; please let me know if so.
Thank you from the California Grassroots Alliance for calling out how grassroots volunteers almost took the House, Robert, were it not for North Carolina's recent gerrymandering of three more seats. As we showed in our Firebreak film about the CA swing districts, which we targeted as the Sweep Six, our task is to overcome the false posturing of MAGA candidates voter by voter, district by district. https://CAGrassrootsAlliance.org
NC gerrymandering is beyond the imagination - I thought it could not get worse than 2022 but it totally took away my vote - seriously - my small county which was totally blue was literally divided into 3 parts to totally dilute the Dems - imagine 3 House Reps in one county when we have 100 counties and only 14 house reps!!!!! So nothing will get done - if we need federal money in Guilford county we have to ask 3 different House reps for it and each one will say - the other one is in charge so nothing will get done. The person Tricia Cauthen who changed from Dem to Rep was so greatly gerrymandered in Charlotte that even with all the votes against her she still won by a little more than 200 votes - The Republicans are now in their last ditch effort as super majority trying to override the Governor's veto on SB382 which will take away powers from the incoming Dem Gov and Dem AG!!! They even went so far as to say the Auditor (an extreme down race no one pays attention to) will now be responsible for appointing the Board of Elections, taking that away from the Governor!!!! The Senate said they would vote at 2pm to override the veto and when people showed up at 12:30 they said sorry we voted at 10am and overrode the veto!!! They are shameless and proud of it!!!!! Rev Barber us having Moral Monday this Monday and the NC House votes to override the veto on Wednesday - our purple state is being run off the ground by these shameless last ditch efforts of the remaining legislature.
Thanks Robert! Today's message of thanks and hope is just what we needed at this difficult point in time. We do have power. We won't give up. This should be headline news.
Next steps S. 5356 and HR.9218 which define Male and female. With these limitlimiting definitions, it will make it illegal to be anything but your origianl birth gender.
This is much more than Transgender issues. This is about the incrementally of taking rights away from women, lgbtq and anyone that is not of the Christian right or whatever they want to call themselves today.
Still need more signatures on this petition to get the Pres to give green cards to DACA recipients so Trump can't deport them. As you probably know, they were brought to this country as small children, so really haven't ever known any other home, and would have a terribly difficult time if deported. The petition needs another 2000 or so signatures.
What a glorious photo of the crescent moon! And thank you Robert for setting the record straight on what we were up against in the last election (the reactionary Supreme Court)!
And I'm hoping Musk will decide to go to Mars, because if he does, he will probably die there. He can say "terraform" all he wants, but it ain't going to happen on Mars. The radiation that reaches that planet will kill anyone who is not fully covered in a space suit. No plants are going to grow on the surface of that planet. If we could permanently settle Mars, we would have cities on Antarctica.
Thank you Robert for praising Democrats and the grassroots. This election was not lost on campaign tactics, it’s been years in the making from gerrymandering to the right wing court. Now, are democrats to blame for lack of imagination and not using their power when they had it? Absolutely! But this was an extremely narrow loss, and it wasn’t a shift to the right. It was a decision to stay home.
Something I am personally calling for is Dems in the House to NOT bail out GOP on bad policy and NOT pass a budget without serious extracting political power. Not just making sure planned parenthood gets funded but REAL power. Like a power sharing agreement or something similar.
Dems need to let the GOP “govern.” U break it, U fix it. I’m calling my rep now to prime her for the fight.
Robert - I appreciate your consistent acknowledgement and gratitude for the power and effectiveness of the grassroots volunteers all over the country but a particular shout out is needed to those in California, my home state who traveled in the thousands to Nevada and Arizona and other swing states catching buses at 6 am for long drives or taking flights and then knocking on thousands of doors, monitored polling stations or registered voters. They did the same in CA and they are the sole reason Derek Tran and Adam Gray crossed the finish line by the chin of their chinny chin chins and brought the Democrats up to 215 seats in the house.
Personally, I would like to see Kamala Harris, Tim Walz and the Democratic senators who both won and lost travel to the blue states to personally thank the tens of thousands of volunteers who tirelessly texted, postcarded, phone banked and traveled to swing states on their own dime. Because our states were never in question (I live in Washington), the only visits from the candidates this year and in all other years are fundraising efforts targeting the donor class. My squad of 35 women over age 50 were not in this category but the time they gave to write cards, text and cure ballots was worth a lot more than those donations.
There's a French expression, rather gross: "hoist on his own pétard."
We've all been complaining mightily about the ridiculously-named "mainstream media" for the past year(s). Here's something reported by The Hill yesterday: "People close to Trump have said in recent days he should dramatically change who gets access to the president, suggesting podcasters, internet personalities and media deemed more friendly to him could replace outlets like the major television networks, The New York Times and The Washington Post in the room’s front rows."
Hoist with their own pétards. There is some justice, maybe. Evil justice, but still justice.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5020455-trump-proposes-shakeup-press-briefing-room/
I'm not sure why the SCOTUS is even bothering to hear cases. The fix is in.
I appreciate Robert's newsletter today pointing out how hard Democrats fought and how much they clawed back from Republican's gerrymandered efforts to put a pound weight on the scales to illegally tip them in their favor. WRT to the presidential part of the election, I think it's also fair to say, 1/3 of American voters voted for Trump, 1/3 of American voters voted for Harris, and 1/3 of American voters did not vote (because they believed everything that Fox spewed about Democrats being evil and still they were smart enough to see that Trump was a convicted criminal rapist lying fraudster, so they couldn't vote for him either). So we can say that 2/3 of American voters did not vote for Trump. Maybe I have this wrong; please let me know if so.
Thank you from the California Grassroots Alliance for calling out how grassroots volunteers almost took the House, Robert, were it not for North Carolina's recent gerrymandering of three more seats. As we showed in our Firebreak film about the CA swing districts, which we targeted as the Sweep Six, our task is to overcome the false posturing of MAGA candidates voter by voter, district by district. https://CAGrassrootsAlliance.org
And yes, we are proud of victory in four of the Sweep Six races!
And Thank You Robert Hubbell for always shining a light on the forward path.
Beeeautiful photo, Robert. Thank you.
NC gerrymandering is beyond the imagination - I thought it could not get worse than 2022 but it totally took away my vote - seriously - my small county which was totally blue was literally divided into 3 parts to totally dilute the Dems - imagine 3 House Reps in one county when we have 100 counties and only 14 house reps!!!!! So nothing will get done - if we need federal money in Guilford county we have to ask 3 different House reps for it and each one will say - the other one is in charge so nothing will get done. The person Tricia Cauthen who changed from Dem to Rep was so greatly gerrymandered in Charlotte that even with all the votes against her she still won by a little more than 200 votes - The Republicans are now in their last ditch effort as super majority trying to override the Governor's veto on SB382 which will take away powers from the incoming Dem Gov and Dem AG!!! They even went so far as to say the Auditor (an extreme down race no one pays attention to) will now be responsible for appointing the Board of Elections, taking that away from the Governor!!!! The Senate said they would vote at 2pm to override the veto and when people showed up at 12:30 they said sorry we voted at 10am and overrode the veto!!! They are shameless and proud of it!!!!! Rev Barber us having Moral Monday this Monday and the NC House votes to override the veto on Wednesday - our purple state is being run off the ground by these shameless last ditch efforts of the remaining legislature.
Thanks Robert! Today's message of thanks and hope is just what we needed at this difficult point in time. We do have power. We won't give up. This should be headline news.
Next steps S. 5356 and HR.9218 which define Male and female. With these limitlimiting definitions, it will make it illegal to be anything but your origianl birth gender.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/5356
This is much more than Transgender issues. This is about the incrementally of taking rights away from women, lgbtq and anyone that is not of the Christian right or whatever they want to call themselves today.
Thank you for thanking us, Robert. And thank you for your activism and leadership. You are an inspiration.
Just saw your moon shot! What an amazing photograph! Thank you!
Still need more signatures on this petition to get the Pres to give green cards to DACA recipients so Trump can't deport them. As you probably know, they were brought to this country as small children, so really haven't ever known any other home, and would have a terribly difficult time if deported. The petition needs another 2000 or so signatures.
https://www.change.org/p/urge-the-government-to-grant-green-cards-to-daca-recipients
What a glorious photo of the crescent moon! And thank you Robert for setting the record straight on what we were up against in the last election (the reactionary Supreme Court)!
And I'm hoping Musk will decide to go to Mars, because if he does, he will probably die there. He can say "terraform" all he wants, but it ain't going to happen on Mars. The radiation that reaches that planet will kill anyone who is not fully covered in a space suit. No plants are going to grow on the surface of that planet. If we could permanently settle Mars, we would have cities on Antarctica.