To contribute to a trusted source where your total contribution goes directly to campaigns and grassroots organizations, following are two organizations you may already know and trust. It’s not too late to contribute, with purpose.
This election is the battle of Midway, the turning point for the Pacific war during WWII, in our war to save our freedoms and protect the future for all of us, each and every one of us. We are like sailors of the USS Enterprise in our determination to stop the MAGA Republicans. If, or should I say when, the Republicans lose many important races, we'll see a party hit by a tsunami that's been building in the depths of the courageous hearts of the millions of Americans especially women at this point in history who believe in democracy and who can envision how to create a more perfect Union and the Well Being for all which results. Corporate greed hollowing out the middle class will be checked and then reversed. Voting Rights reinstated. The Earth returned to healthy and thriving. The war won't be over Tuesday but our path forward will be clear and have the sense of inevitability that will assure us the country is not only on the right track but evolving into something new, the dawn of a hew age of freedom for all and a generosity of spirit and caring for each other. We, the People, each and every one of us this time!
This is gorgeous Cathy. I powerfully believe that it is a fight against the future than the right is fighting and a fight for the future than you described is what I and others are fighting for.
Cathy this is a perfect vision to hold. Thank you! I already share Robert's newsletter but may I share your comment specifically as a vision for America and a reason to vote carefully? I can add anything you would want for ID. Here's the google doc.
Thank you for your kind words. Yes, you certainly may share this with anyone you'd like. Perhaps a title could be added: A Vision for We, the People, all of us this time!
Thanks for the reminder that this is a generational struggle. We must recruit young and, in Florida, Spanish speakers for the 2024 battle which begins November 10th 2022. In seemingly low turnout early voting sights the Republican poll greeters provided assertive Spanish speaking poll greeters who were effective in turning voters who accepted Dem voter guides. At 91 then I'll be there but with much less energy. We must commit to winning each vote.
The Florida Democratic Party should be ashamed of themselves. No ground game. No coordinated messaging. Losing Miami-Dade to the Republicans is a travesty. With a terrific candidate like Val Demings against someone who wants to take away SS and gut the Inflation Reduction Act, we should be winning that seat. The grass roots activists are peddling as fast as we can, but are at a severe disadvantage without the party’s help and $$.
Robert, In your concluding remarks, you write, “If we maintain control of Congress and make significant advances in the states, our challenges will be no less daunting than if we lose control of Congress and suffer defeat in the states.” Setting aside the fact Dems could pass federal voter protection safeguards were they to hold the House and pick up two Senate seats, I mostly am focused on Secretaries of State or county election clerks and the like, who could have lawful access to power, but not intend to carry out their responsibilities faithfully. I am speaking of partisans who already are manufacturing the means, given the opportunity, to use “false allegations of fraud as a pretext” (Marc Elias) either not to include all the ballots in the certified results or not to certify elections altogether.
That said, admittedly, regardless of the midterm results, we will be dealing with a radicalized, weaponized, and most importantly, organized right-wing movement. The one positive, aside from their telling us their playbook, is that we are the majority. Nonetheless, we’re not organized. Thus, we must organize, particularly at the local and state levels, to take on this fascist threat.
Stephen, The thing that worries me more than political violence is political subversion by people, who, as stated, have lawful access to power, but who do not intend to carry out their responsibilities faithfully.
BTB, I wouldn't be surprised if ALEC is behind all the atrocious bills that have been being passes in the Republican legislatures across the country. I came across this website: https://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_%26_Education
I read through this and, written in 2017, it presages laws we have seen passed all over the country since then. Our current ways of doing school are based on many fallacies already, and to get us started, take a look at Amanda Ripley's The Smartest Kids in the World and How They Got That Way. It presents what I see was half the equation. The other half is the US lack of access and basic safety net and housing. We must start a conversation about all of this. Too many people accept a system that has been in place for more than century and that relies on one's zip code to assess and ignores the systems that create the education problems from the beginning.
Barbara, I understand ALEC reaches into virtually every area of American life, from writing business friendly legislation being made into law with no regard for the public interest to restricting voting and direct democracy.
Especially "weaponized". I fear the far-right have no interest in civility and civil liberties and like the brown shirts of the 1930s would jump at the chance to be armed insurrectionists.
Alice, While you likely are right, by “weaponized” I was referencing what is happening now to lay the groundwork for Republicans up and down the ballot to attain, or return to, power whether or not they win enough votes.
Tomorrow, Election Day, will be the 80th anniversary of the British-American landings in North Africa, the first step in the west on the road to Berlin. It was an event that led Winston Churchill to observe, “It is not the end. It is not the beginning of the end. It may, perhaps, be the end of the beginning.” Whatever happens tomorrow, we should go forward in that spirit.
Indivisible’s Neighbor2Neighbor project is so easy. Simply enter your name, address, email, and phone number. Then right away they send you 5 addresses as both email and text message, along with a sample script and flyer if no one answers the door.
I have the feeling that there are already politicised elements everywhere. We have to work like anything to finally overcome the autocratic tendency of the GOP. Maybe I see history too coloured, but remember how quickly Clinton was attacked over emails, Obama over a fake issue of his birth certificate. All the while nobody was ever held accountable for the waterboarding scandal, that was a horrible offense against humanity and will stay in American records forever abroad? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/31/obama-justice-department-immunity-bush-cia-torturer
It should not be possible for Trump and Bush or anyone from the GOP to get away with things just because they cover each other.
BTB, I wouldn't be surprised if ALEC is behind all the atrocious bills that have been being passes in the Republican legislatures across the country. I came across this website: https://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_%26_Education
Although I am indeed concerned about the lack of action of the DOJ, I do not want to suggest to look for conspiracies. My main concern is actually that the GOP gets away with things in plain sight. Therefore public asking questions from their representatives, and now GET OUT THE VOTE, is absolutely important. Best wishes.
In the vote center in LA County, where I'm working as an election clerk, we've had at least half dozen brand new voters, a newly naturalized citizen with minimal command of English but determined (!) to vote in her new country (thank goodness for information in multiple languages), several kiddos accompanying parents, and a variety of Americans who are taking time to vote the loooooong ballot in CA. We haven't been deluged with voters by any means, but we're there for a reason - and will be there until 8pm Tuesday. Hoping for a deluge, though, in the forecasted deluge of rain....we need voters AND rain 🤗 OH! And there are two high schoolers working with us!
One of the rare times I disagree with your framing of an issue:
My view is this: prosecuting a former opponent for the Presidency, is certainly the appearance of a conflict of interest. Trump's scheme to try to get Garland to appoint a special prosecutor does not open the door for just anyone to announce a run for the presidency to avoid prosecution.
It is a blueprint that Trump is creating for other corrupt Presidential candidates to follow and further damage the rule of law: delay and compromise the investigation into corrupt and anti-democratic activities. (We all know how ineffective the Mueller investigation was)
That is why I absolutely oppose Garland appointing a special prosecutor because it would compromise the ability to actually hold Trump and his allies accountable. That is more dangerous than the DOJ keeping the matter in house despite the appearance of a conflict.
Here is my "framing": DJT is a private citizen who as a private citizen removed (stole) the peoples documents in defiance of the law. He then obstructed justice by refusing to return them. He has acknowledged that he had them. Many of the documents were top secret and involved our relations with other nations. There is the potential charge of espionage. Some of the top secret documents are still missing. I see at least three charges that will be impossible to defend.
DJT does not need a special prosecutor. He needs a set of handcuffs and an orange jumpsuit.
Bill, I agree with you. My comment only applies to whether the DOJ should appoint a special prosecutor because of the appearance of a conflict of interest. If they did so, I believe would be a dangerous deflection of the ability to hold Trump accountable, and simply a way for Trump to avoid accountability. But I do not agree we should argue there is no conflict of interest, because there is the appearance of one.
I completely agree with him. I am opposed for the same reasons.
I just think that people need to recognize that a Biden Justice Dept. prosecuting a former Biden political opponent gives the appearance of a conflict of interest. You do remember in the 2016 debate Trump promising that he would prosecute Hillary Clinton for her "crimes"?
But that does not mean a special counsel should be appointed. Doing so would delay, and ultimately stop the process of holding Trump accountable, as happened when Mueller was appointed.
The DOJ needs to prosecute Trump and not pass it off to a Special Counsel, regardless of the conflict of interest, for exactly the reasons that Glenn Kirschner says.
Regardless of the outcome of the elections there are some truisms that exist we need to remember. Biden will still be President with veto power. Some election deniers, anti abortion and Trump supporters will be defeated but not all of them and millions of people of all generations got involved and worked hard to keep and support beliefs the felt strongly about and participated in the election process. These grass roots efforts lay the foundation for 2024. Winning has many companions and stories.
I am tired of Trump constantly trying to evade the law and the only reason he will announce after the elections is really to avoid prosecution and to make the indictment political not a legal indictment. Another reason to get out and vote. If Trump candidates do not do well it sends a very needed message to Republicans that Trump is a loser not the winner they think he is.
I wish there was a time that the continual trauma of the election cycles would end. One election goes by and immediately the trauma sets in, like a continual state of war. The GOP if even that’s an appropriate label in this day and age has been singularly responsible for causing this trauma not jus
When you are trying hard for something it is always tense. My youngest used to sit under my chair when his brother played tennis. It was just so tense. This is normal.
Sometimes in life the most dangerous are the most thrilling times as well. Having a baby, all that work, hope, trust, fear...and then you have to go through it. Disappointment is humanizing. If everyone felt it instead of fighting it there would be more peace. The weekend comments made me feel wow! There are a lot of people invested in good work, and that is illuminating.
 The Christian far right in America, with no knowledge of the constitutional protections of the first amendment, terrify me in this election.
The abortion issue should appeal to young people of both sexes but are they keeping up with the significance of their vote or their non-vote as the case may be? The Catholic bishops certainly are speaking out vociferously.
Voter turn out may be more important than ever before from the 18 to 35 year olds.
Finally, the Democrats approach that we may be losing appears to me to be stupid! Why on earth would you tell people we might be losing when in point of fact we ought to be winning on:
(a) the handling of the pandemic
(b) the handling of the economy
(c) the work done on the environment and
(d) the record in general on civil liberties.
Re: economy: The oil companies artificially raised prices, created shortages and the inflation and they are Republicans. That’s the story which the newspapers have failed to properly target Windfall profits have been huge to the benefit of the Republicans to the detriment of ordinary people who ought to be voting Democratic. I have no idea what’s going to happen on Tuesday but I’m basically optimistic that the pollsters have it wrong and the voters will have it right.
Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you. Were it not for you, HCR, Teri Kanefield and others, the last two years would have felt unbearable. I --an African American woman, my family and all my friends have been "fighting the good fight" down here in GA for the mid-terms--Abrams and Warnock (where it was just announced that 1000k absentee ballots in heavily blue Cobb county were never mailed).We've left nothing on the mat--canvassing to GOTV as late as yesterday. Now we wait. Now we wait.
Reader Jean T. asked me to post the following action items and inspirational posts:
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If you haven't already seen Fetterman and Obama at Saturday’s event in Pittsburgh, following is link.
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This election is the battle of Midway, the turning point for the Pacific war during WWII, in our war to save our freedoms and protect the future for all of us, each and every one of us. We are like sailors of the USS Enterprise in our determination to stop the MAGA Republicans. If, or should I say when, the Republicans lose many important races, we'll see a party hit by a tsunami that's been building in the depths of the courageous hearts of the millions of Americans especially women at this point in history who believe in democracy and who can envision how to create a more perfect Union and the Well Being for all which results. Corporate greed hollowing out the middle class will be checked and then reversed. Voting Rights reinstated. The Earth returned to healthy and thriving. The war won't be over Tuesday but our path forward will be clear and have the sense of inevitability that will assure us the country is not only on the right track but evolving into something new, the dawn of a hew age of freedom for all and a generosity of spirit and caring for each other. We, the People, each and every one of us this time!
This is gorgeous Cathy. I powerfully believe that it is a fight against the future than the right is fighting and a fight for the future than you described is what I and others are fighting for.
I’ll sign on
Well said. Thanks
Cathy this is a perfect vision to hold. Thank you! I already share Robert's newsletter but may I share your comment specifically as a vision for America and a reason to vote carefully? I can add anything you would want for ID. Here's the google doc.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IUlLPLNs4PhLbTqGvjJi3pnqEiUlPS7qlqAJlZnEk5Y/edit
Thank you for your kind words. Yes, you certainly may share this with anyone you'd like. Perhaps a title could be added: A Vision for We, the People, all of us this time!
Ok,here's the final post on FB and Twitter:
Have you been wondering if it matters if you even vote? Please, take a moment to read Cathy's vision for our future, and see if you agree.
Then think which candidates are more likely to bring this about....and vote for them!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IUlLPLNs4PhLbTqGvjJi3pnqEiUlPS7qlqAJlZnEk5Y/edit?usp=sharing
I love it A Vision for We the People - ok will do!
From your lips to God's ears, as my mother used to say!
Thanks for the reminder that this is a generational struggle. We must recruit young and, in Florida, Spanish speakers for the 2024 battle which begins November 10th 2022. In seemingly low turnout early voting sights the Republican poll greeters provided assertive Spanish speaking poll greeters who were effective in turning voters who accepted Dem voter guides. At 91 then I'll be there but with much less energy. We must commit to winning each vote.
The Florida Democratic Party should be ashamed of themselves. No ground game. No coordinated messaging. Losing Miami-Dade to the Republicans is a travesty. With a terrific candidate like Val Demings against someone who wants to take away SS and gut the Inflation Reduction Act, we should be winning that seat. The grass roots activists are peddling as fast as we can, but are at a severe disadvantage without the party’s help and $$.
Charles, you had the energy to write and now you will be at the voting table tomorrow. Bless you for your commitment!
Robert, In your concluding remarks, you write, “If we maintain control of Congress and make significant advances in the states, our challenges will be no less daunting than if we lose control of Congress and suffer defeat in the states.” Setting aside the fact Dems could pass federal voter protection safeguards were they to hold the House and pick up two Senate seats, I mostly am focused on Secretaries of State or county election clerks and the like, who could have lawful access to power, but not intend to carry out their responsibilities faithfully. I am speaking of partisans who already are manufacturing the means, given the opportunity, to use “false allegations of fraud as a pretext” (Marc Elias) either not to include all the ballots in the certified results or not to certify elections altogether.
That said, admittedly, regardless of the midterm results, we will be dealing with a radicalized, weaponized, and most importantly, organized right-wing movement. The one positive, aside from their telling us their playbook, is that we are the majority. Nonetheless, we’re not organized. Thus, we must organize, particularly at the local and state levels, to take on this fascist threat.
Yes! So important. Thank you Barbara Jo
You forgot to mentioned the armed militia MAGA people wanting to go to war against Democrats
Stephen, The thing that worries me more than political violence is political subversion by people, who, as stated, have lawful access to power, but who do not intend to carry out their responsibilities faithfully.
Agree just like all the Republicans who voted against certifying Biden’s electoral votes.
BTB, I wouldn't be surprised if ALEC is behind all the atrocious bills that have been being passes in the Republican legislatures across the country. I came across this website: https://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_%26_Education
I read through this and, written in 2017, it presages laws we have seen passed all over the country since then. Our current ways of doing school are based on many fallacies already, and to get us started, take a look at Amanda Ripley's The Smartest Kids in the World and How They Got That Way. It presents what I see was half the equation. The other half is the US lack of access and basic safety net and housing. We must start a conversation about all of this. Too many people accept a system that has been in place for more than century and that relies on one's zip code to assess and ignores the systems that create the education problems from the beginning.
Barbara, I understand ALEC reaches into virtually every area of American life, from writing business friendly legislation being made into law with no regard for the public interest to restricting voting and direct democracy.
The Donors Trust and Federalist Society would be my first place tied winners along with Peter Thiel and his ilk.
ALEC...the Ginni Thomas machine! Blech!🤮
Especially "weaponized". I fear the far-right have no interest in civility and civil liberties and like the brown shirts of the 1930s would jump at the chance to be armed insurrectionists.
Alice, While you likely are right, by “weaponized” I was referencing what is happening now to lay the groundwork for Republicans up and down the ballot to attain, or return to, power whether or not they win enough votes.
Tomorrow, Election Day, will be the 80th anniversary of the British-American landings in North Africa, the first step in the west on the road to Berlin. It was an event that led Winston Churchill to observe, “It is not the end. It is not the beginning of the end. It may, perhaps, be the end of the beginning.” Whatever happens tomorrow, we should go forward in that spirit.
I’ll go with Winston, he saw, he ignored the threat, he conquored
Let’s hope it the end of the beginning
Take a walk to:
1) Remind 5 progressive neighbors to vote,
2) Get some exercise,
3) Relieve some anxiety, and
4) Get to know your neighborhood a little better.
Indivisible’s Neighbor2Neighbor project is so easy. Simply enter your name, address, email, and phone number. Then right away they send you 5 addresses as both email and text message, along with a sample script and flyer if no one answers the door.
https://indivisibleproject.formstack.com/forms/neighbor_to_neighbor
(Thank you, Sherry T. in Michigan, for the info!)
They don’t have to be progressives. Independents and sane Republicans count too.
I include independents and sane Republicans under the umbrella of progressives, i.e. more than only Democrats. 🙂
💙🏃🏻♀️
N2N is not available in Florida BUT you can do a search for voters on (street name ) in your neighborhood that provides name,address,age,party.
We have a political and literal storm brewing in Florida as 🌬Nicole approaches Florida. 🤞
Now out for that walk…
I have the feeling that there are already politicised elements everywhere. We have to work like anything to finally overcome the autocratic tendency of the GOP. Maybe I see history too coloured, but remember how quickly Clinton was attacked over emails, Obama over a fake issue of his birth certificate. All the while nobody was ever held accountable for the waterboarding scandal, that was a horrible offense against humanity and will stay in American records forever abroad? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/31/obama-justice-department-immunity-bush-cia-torturer
It should not be possible for Trump and Bush or anyone from the GOP to get away with things just because they cover each other.
Exactly
BTB, I wouldn't be surprised if ALEC is behind all the atrocious bills that have been being passes in the Republican legislatures across the country. I came across this website: https://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_%26_Education
Hi Barbara,
Although I am indeed concerned about the lack of action of the DOJ, I do not want to suggest to look for conspiracies. My main concern is actually that the GOP gets away with things in plain sight. Therefore public asking questions from their representatives, and now GET OUT THE VOTE, is absolutely important. Best wishes.
Absolutely agree.
Georgia Early vote
18-29 year old
2018: 56,303
2022: 219,148
Georgiavotes.com
This is huge. More voted early 2022 than the number registered in 2018.
https://www.georgiavotes.com/
41% more of total electorate have already voted early than total vote of 2018. Final day may be 700,000 more. Love numbers!
In the vote center in LA County, where I'm working as an election clerk, we've had at least half dozen brand new voters, a newly naturalized citizen with minimal command of English but determined (!) to vote in her new country (thank goodness for information in multiple languages), several kiddos accompanying parents, and a variety of Americans who are taking time to vote the loooooong ballot in CA. We haven't been deluged with voters by any means, but we're there for a reason - and will be there until 8pm Tuesday. Hoping for a deluge, though, in the forecasted deluge of rain....we need voters AND rain 🤗 OH! And there are two high schoolers working with us!
One of the rare times I disagree with your framing of an issue:
My view is this: prosecuting a former opponent for the Presidency, is certainly the appearance of a conflict of interest. Trump's scheme to try to get Garland to appoint a special prosecutor does not open the door for just anyone to announce a run for the presidency to avoid prosecution.
It is a blueprint that Trump is creating for other corrupt Presidential candidates to follow and further damage the rule of law: delay and compromise the investigation into corrupt and anti-democratic activities. (We all know how ineffective the Mueller investigation was)
That is why I absolutely oppose Garland appointing a special prosecutor because it would compromise the ability to actually hold Trump and his allies accountable. That is more dangerous than the DOJ keeping the matter in house despite the appearance of a conflict.
Here is my "framing": DJT is a private citizen who as a private citizen removed (stole) the peoples documents in defiance of the law. He then obstructed justice by refusing to return them. He has acknowledged that he had them. Many of the documents were top secret and involved our relations with other nations. There is the potential charge of espionage. Some of the top secret documents are still missing. I see at least three charges that will be impossible to defend.
DJT does not need a special prosecutor. He needs a set of handcuffs and an orange jumpsuit.
No doubt whatsoever, his machinations are Machiavellian. Beware
Bill, I agree with you. My comment only applies to whether the DOJ should appoint a special prosecutor because of the appearance of a conflict of interest. If they did so, I believe would be a dangerous deflection of the ability to hold Trump accountable, and simply a way for Trump to avoid accountability. But I do not agree we should argue there is no conflict of interest, because there is the appearance of one.
Glenn Kirschner is opposed to the idea of a Special Counsel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMnmc0yaJ6s
I completely agree with him. I am opposed for the same reasons.
I just think that people need to recognize that a Biden Justice Dept. prosecuting a former Biden political opponent gives the appearance of a conflict of interest. You do remember in the 2016 debate Trump promising that he would prosecute Hillary Clinton for her "crimes"?
But that does not mean a special counsel should be appointed. Doing so would delay, and ultimately stop the process of holding Trump accountable, as happened when Mueller was appointed.
The DOJ needs to prosecute Trump and not pass it off to a Special Counsel, regardless of the conflict of interest, for exactly the reasons that Glenn Kirschner says.
Regardless of the outcome of the elections there are some truisms that exist we need to remember. Biden will still be President with veto power. Some election deniers, anti abortion and Trump supporters will be defeated but not all of them and millions of people of all generations got involved and worked hard to keep and support beliefs the felt strongly about and participated in the election process. These grass roots efforts lay the foundation for 2024. Winning has many companions and stories.
I am tired of Trump constantly trying to evade the law and the only reason he will announce after the elections is really to avoid prosecution and to make the indictment political not a legal indictment. Another reason to get out and vote. If Trump candidates do not do well it sends a very needed message to Republicans that Trump is a loser not the winner they think he is.
I am so nervous I am crawling out of my skin. Thanks for letting me share that with you all. I had to say it to someone.
I wish there was a time that the continual trauma of the election cycles would end. One election goes by and immediately the trauma sets in, like a continual state of war. The GOP if even that’s an appropriate label in this day and age has been singularly responsible for causing this trauma not jus
When you are trying hard for something it is always tense. My youngest used to sit under my chair when his brother played tennis. It was just so tense. This is normal.
Sometimes in life the most dangerous are the most thrilling times as well. Having a baby, all that work, hope, trust, fear...and then you have to go through it. Disappointment is humanizing. If everyone felt it instead of fighting it there would be more peace. The weekend comments made me feel wow! There are a lot of people invested in good work, and that is illuminating.
Had more than enough ‘humanizing.”
I was thinking more about people who refuse defeat.
 The Christian far right in America, with no knowledge of the constitutional protections of the first amendment, terrify me in this election.
The abortion issue should appeal to young people of both sexes but are they keeping up with the significance of their vote or their non-vote as the case may be? The Catholic bishops certainly are speaking out vociferously.
Voter turn out may be more important than ever before from the 18 to 35 year olds.
Finally, the Democrats approach that we may be losing appears to me to be stupid! Why on earth would you tell people we might be losing when in point of fact we ought to be winning on:
(a) the handling of the pandemic
(b) the handling of the economy
(c) the work done on the environment and
(d) the record in general on civil liberties.
Re: economy: The oil companies artificially raised prices, created shortages and the inflation and they are Republicans. That’s the story which the newspapers have failed to properly target Windfall profits have been huge to the benefit of the Republicans to the detriment of ordinary people who ought to be voting Democratic. I have no idea what’s going to happen on Tuesday but I’m basically optimistic that the pollsters have it wrong and the voters will have it right.
Thank you for your work.
Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you. Were it not for you, HCR, Teri Kanefield and others, the last two years would have felt unbearable. I --an African American woman, my family and all my friends have been "fighting the good fight" down here in GA for the mid-terms--Abrams and Warnock (where it was just announced that 1000k absentee ballots in heavily blue Cobb county were never mailed).We've left nothing on the mat--canvassing to GOTV as late as yesterday. Now we wait. Now we wait.