But here’s the question, how can they give more money when they are in debt because most people refuse to donate to them anymore?

I mean, they literally are having to scale back on their incredible plans because people refuse to donate. Here’s a quote from a recent Washington Post article:

The committee shelved some of its plans to invest in the South, a region where Martin says the party needs to expand its reach into growing areas dominated by Republicans…They also discarded the idea of a midterm party convention to showcase candidates because they worried there wasn’t enough money for the proposal, the sources said.

You can’t complain that an org isn’t doing enough AND refuse to give them money to do the things you want them to do.

It doesn’t work that way.

I promise you, Ken Martin would love to give an additional $10k to red state Dem parties, or even an additional $20k to all state Dem parties regardless of the partisan lean of their state, but the DNC doesn’t have the money. They barely have the money to give the additional $5k they’ve already promised.

And then that leads to “well, if they just stopped texting me”

So what should they be doing? It’s not that they think texting and emailing is the best answer, but what’s better?

You can’t say “this sucks, it must go away” without having something else to take its place.

I know from my conversations with people at the DNC and DCCC that they are working on this, but the best way for it to happen slower is to make sure they don’t have enough money.

If you donate, you are not proving that these methods work, they already know they don’t work. Your refusal doesn’t make that clearer. All you’re doing is making it harder to find a better solution.

You can be anti capitalist and also realize we live in a capitalist society. If you want people and organizations to be able to get creative, they need money to do so.

When you stop donating to the DNC or DCCC you’re not telling them their methods suck, you’re saying they must take the small amount of money they are getting and make it stretch further.

That’s not possible. It’s already stretched to the max.

The donor class doesn’t want to give them money anymore, because they’re not taking their advice anymore. That’s what you wanted, right?

Well you have to prove that was a viable idea.

Making fun of the DNC for doing what you asked isn’t helping your cause.

It is possible to change how the DNC works. We know how powerful small dollar donors are. But they don’t have those either, because every single post I see says “I’ll never donate another dime to the DNC till they do X.”

What is your “X” that they can do without money?

You don’t think they’re doing enough? Great, they don’t either, like, at all.

But all you’re doing is making it even more likely they can’t.

And who is that helping, exactly?

Certainly not the southern states that need our investment and time and energy.

Maine

Fri, April 10 - Back in 2022, Governor Janet Mills started a free college program for new high school graduates to attend Community College tuition free. The program covered students who graduated from 2020-2023 and then was extended to 2025.

Now, as part of the new budget, Maine community college will be free for all high school graduates going forward. To qualify, you must first apply for grants and scholarships, and attend within two years of your high school graduation.

To date, this program has covered over 23,000 graduates, with many more to come now that it’s permanent.

Julius Edwards, President of Eastern Maine Community College said:

Free College represents a commitment to creating opportunities for students and families at Eastern Maine Community College and across Maine…By expanding access to education, we are not only supporting individual students. We are strengthening Maine’s economy through education.

Even if college isn’t for everyone, it’s amazing that every student has the option if they want it.

And removing the barrier to learning, especially when Republicans want us to know less and ask less questions, makes me feel less Doomed.

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Joplin, Missouri

Mon, April 20 - There is no better story to prove the power of our voices. Ryan Jackson is a member of the Joplin council. He ran unopposed for the seat, and he has now been censured due to a very transphobic comment against council candidate, Ellie Wolsey, on social media.

Initially they voted to remove Jackson from office, but that vote failed 5-4 (it needed 3/4 to pass), so they pivoted to censuring him, which passed 8-1, with the one being Keenan Cortez, who felt censuring wasn’t enough.

And he’s right, it’s not. But nothing would have happened if it wasn’t for JOMO Pride founder Ron Burch who led this effort.

And, as Burch says, even 4 in favor of recall is a huge deal in a city like Joplin. In a statement, he said:

I feel good that some council members did see that maybe Mr. Jackson shouldn’t be representing the city. So, a 5-to-4 vote for his removal is pretty historic in Joplin. Even a censure is pretty historic in Joplin. Hopefully this is a way to hold him accountable and prevent him from attacking people in the future.

To put it in perspective, 2026 is the first time there has been a democratic challenger in this state senate district since 2018.

So four votes for recall over transphobia? That’s a BIG deal, and makes me feel less Doomed.

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Mon, April 27 - We can knock Disney for a lot of things, but National Deaf History Month in April, they recreated several of their most beloved songs with animated sign language. And yes it is animated, not AI.

The idea was the brainchild of animator and director Hyrum Osmond who, with a team of 20 animators worked to make this as authentic and meaningful as possible.

He said:

From the very beginning of the project, we were never going to take sign language and just slap it on to character performances. In the majority of cases, we’ve created entirely new animation. Our directive to the animators was for them not to be bound by what was there. Our approach was to use the sign language reference footage shot with the actors from Deaf West as a base structure, but then to adjust that for the texture of the shot.

That’s right, they worked directly with Deaf West Theatre to bring this to life. And made sure to hire deaf actors from the communities the songs were from.

Unfortunately none of these articles name the actors who created the signs, that were later animated, but “Beyond,” from Moana was signed by a Samoan deaf actor, while “We Don’t Talk about Bruno,” from Encanto was signed by a Colombian deaf actor.

Look, Disney gets a lot of things wrong, and I don’t even want to give them credit for this. I’m sure it only happened because Osmond is a veteran and really used his pull to make this a reality. But also, it shows that they thought this would be profitable.

Everyday the administration keeps trying to prove that making things diverse and inclusive and equitable is a bad decision for any company’s bottom line. Our voices are proving the opposite.

We are making enough noise that a company like Disney has decided that even right now showing real care for a piece of content for the deaf community isn’t bad for their bottom line. So yeah, this story makes me feel less Doomed, but it’s because we’re using OUR power and forcing them to listen.

Regardless of if they want to or not.

So those are some of the ways we’re not Doomed. I hope this reminds you that we just have to keep fighting.

Our voices are our superpower, but only when we use them!

I wanna start by saying no one is paying me for this post. I’ve commented on a few posts from Xavier Becerra’s team, in regards to the Indivisible California mess, and I’ve been invited to an event from Tom Steyer’s team that explicitly says attending is not an endorsement, though I don’t think I’m attending anyway. That’s the extent of my connection with any of the top Dem candidate campaigns.

This endorsement is solely based on my own opinion, and no one is paying me for it.

First of all, I’m sure your asking why? Why would I endorse now, after EVERYTHING I’ve said? There are still 3 weeks till the election and I said I’d wait till two weeks.

The polls are incredibly inconclusive. One of them will have Becerra at 18 and Steyer at 12, the next will have Steyer at 15 and Becerra at 8. What I’m gathering is they are the top two Dems and relatively even, if we coalesces around both of them, we should be fine.

And I don’t see Steyer supporters switching to Becerra or Becerra supporters switching to Steyer. At this point, it’s about world view, and people are pretty locked in.

So, the endorsement….

Actually no, I want you to read this whole post, so I’m gonna start with who I’m NOT endorsing:

Tony Thurmond is one of my faves. I really enjoyed meeting him at a Dem club picnic last year. I tried to interview him, but they made me jump through hoops and in the end never gave me the interview. He can’t win.

He’s a no.

I live in LA, I vaguely remember when Antonio Villaraigosa was mayor, but I DO remember being thrilled when he wasn’t anymore. He’s the oldest candidate at 73, and he has no chance of winning either.

He’s a no.

Matt Mahan is paid for by Peter Thiel and Rick Caruso. He’s taking credit for the work previous mayors have done in San Jose and acting like he has enough experience to be governor of the 4th largest GDP in the world when he hasn’t even finished a single term as mayor.

He’s a no.

I do like some of the things Katie Porter has said. I really appreciated what she said about social media during the CBS debate. She seems to be the only candidate that thinks the value of social media for a teen changes person to person.

I also really liked how she carried herself during that debate. It was a shit show, and it was in large part due to the moderators. The fact that she said that everyone else was acting like they were her teens at the dinner table made sense.

But, she did the same thing last night at the CNN debate. And it strikes me as someone who has a one size fits all reaction to frustrating situations. I don’t want her to treat Utah Governor Spencer Cox the same way she treats Donald Trump.

Governor Cox is a Republican, but he’s pragmatic in a way Trump really really isn’t and he’s willing to talk with Democrats, no matter how progressive their ideas are. He shouldn’t be talked to like a kindergartner whereas, sometimes, maybe Trump should.

That’s not the only reason I’m not supporting Porter, there are many others, including that she doesn’t have a chance, but that’s the one I’m thinking about after yesterday.

Porter is a no.

I was in a candidate meeting with several other progressive content creators and Tom Steyer and Matt Mahan a few weeks ago set up by a creator network I’m part of. You’ve seen exactly what I heard from Mahan, because, he’s very much, what you see is what you get.

Steyer’s different, and that concerns me. During and after this meeting, I was SO impressed with him. He really does know his stuff and had an answer for everything. But not in a “I’m better than you” way, in a “I’ve spent a long time navigating around this issue myself” way.

He was pragmatic and nuanced and really seemed to understand where his powers as governor would stop.

One of my favorite examples was what he said about healthcare. He said he supports the single payer framework, and that around the world, it costs half of what Californians pay for healthcare.

BUT, he said, moving to a single payer system requires support and accommodation from the federal government, so this can’t even begin to happen for at least 3 years.

Bet you didn’t see that coming, especially after last night’s debate.

Cause when I hear him talk to everyday Californians who don’t have the privilege of a small Q&A, that’s not what he’s saying at all. AND both he and Porter are accusing Becerra of not supporting single payer when he refuses to give a yes or no answer cause it’s more complicated than that.

But Steyer thinks it’s more complicated too, he just won’t say it publicly.

And that’s where he lost me.

Well, that and being chummy with the Republican candidates after the April 22 Nexstar debate, before the cameras cut. I mean, hugging Chad Bianco? Really?

Let me be clear. I don’t think Steyer is MAGA. I do think he believes healthcare is a human right and immigrants, both documented and undocumented are important to the fabric of California and he’s been sponsoring California environmental propositions since 2010. He walks his talk, but he can keep doing that without being in the governors mansion.

He’s a no.

I am endorsing Xavier Becerra.

Becerra is pragmatic. He has years of experience at all levels of government from California State Assembly to State AG to US Health and Human Services Secretary. His work speaks for itself.

We know he will go toe to toe with Trump cause he did it before when he was AG. We know he will create a plan to bring healthcare costs down, because he did it before as HHS Sec.

He was the chair of the House Democratic Caucus in Congress and the highest ranking Latino member at the time. He was a member of the Progressive Caucus and voted as such. He was one of only 67 members of congress to oppose the Defense of Marriage Act in the 90s and when he was being considered for HHS secretary, Indiana Senator Mike Braun called him “Ring leader of the far left’s resistance movement.”

That’s good enough for me.

So I hope you’ll join me in supporting Xavier Becerra. And if not, please vote for Steyer so we don’t split the vote, cause HOLY SHIT the Republican candidates are an abomination, and regardless of which Democrat you want to vote for, I hope we can all agree on that.

Yeah, yeah, I know, not a great intro, but I workshopped at least a dozen ways to do this and they all literally just sounded like ads, so this is what you’re getting.

It’s not clickbait though, I have not shut up about Sway since I created my voting group — you just have to look through my posts to see that. Because, well, it almost feels tailor made for me and my election guides (which are about to be a whole lot more tailored to you.)

A few weeks ago I was invited to an event from “Sway” for progressive influencers who are interested in covering elections.

Of course, I raced to join the Partiful to attend (that fact is important I promise).

I had absolutely no idea what was going to happen, just that I was gonna finally meet some of my colleagues I’ve seen in Zoom meetings so many times.

Turns out, Sway is a new company working to bring election engagement down to the local level.

Have you ever heard of anything more in my lane?

Basically anyone with a following can create a voting group where the leader, in this case, me, can endorse candidates across the entire ballot and country.

And they keep track of who is in what district, so we are able to see, in real time, if our voting group changed the outcome of the election.

And before I even joined, Sway groups in Texas had already gotten two candidates to a runoff. As in, the margin in both these races was less than the number of people in the Sway group.

The more people join voting groups, the more this will be happening, especially in elections where the margin is razor thin.

For most people, that’s the game. That’s what makes Sway special and worth it to make a voting group.

And then there’s me. With my weekly election guides for elections at all levels of government, across the whole country.

I don’t really do endorsements, especially in districts I don’t live in. I can’t know what’s best for the district if I’m not there.

So, for me the best part is their back end data.

They keep track of every election that each of my members can vote in, that’s how they know when a voting group wins an election.

So I can use that data for my election guide.

There are dozens and dozens of elections every week, hundreds sometimes.

There is no way me and my team can cover every election across the entire country, but, if I know what districts my voting members are in, I can target my election guide specifically to those races.

And, I can text my members. I can send them the election guide, or any info I might have about one of their races that they must know about, or just an election reminder. No algorithm. I know that my guide will be seen by people who are in the districts me and my team are posting about.

That’s HUGE for me.

It’s hard to feel motivated to make an election guide when I don’t know if it will be useful. Now I just know it will be.

Sway was launched in 2025 by Claire Shorall and Ali Partovi as a way to get more people to participate in democracy. Shorall excitedly told me it’s like Partiful but for voting. It makes voting an event and a group project. Everyone can see how many people, from each state, are in my voting group. We, as a community, have power to decide elections.

Partovi wrote:

If you've ever tried to change anything related to government, you know how frustrating it is. Elected officials don't really listen to you and me; they listen to special interest groups whose support they need to stay in power (labor unions, lobbyists, etc). What if you and I could wield similar influence by joining voices with other citizens in a new way?

It’s like my mantra “our votes are our voice and that voice is our superpower,” but really tangible.

Going forward, I will even be able to say, in a meeting with a member of Congress, “X number of people who follow me live in your district. Can you explain why you haven’t done Y?” They will know I wield power with their constituents specifically. That’s a big deal.

So, now that you know all that, of course there is a CTA. Join my Sway group. It’s called the Daily Elmlings, and if you join, I can guarantee I will be covering your elections in my Election Guide, and you won’t have to rely on any algorithm to find it.

As of writing this, I have almost 100 voters across 34 states. I would LOVE to cover elections in all 50 states, but that’s not happening until I have voters in all 50 states. So, you want your district represented in my election guides? You know what to do…

New York, New York

Mon, April 13 - Biden Appointee, Judge Jennifer Rochon ruled that the Pride Flag must be flown in front of Stonewall Monument along with the American Flag and the National Park Services Flag. And it may only be removed for one reason:

WHEREAS, the parties agree that under current law and policy, the Pride flag will remain hanging at Stonewall and will not be removed save for maintenance or other practical purposes

Well, that’s clear.

I’ve seen a lot of people giving the Trump Administration the credit for agreeing to fly the Pride Flag again — and by a lot of people, I mean publication headlines — but this only happened thanks to this ruling.

It’s another reminder that the legal system is still working for us, even if that doesn’t typically extend to SCOTUS. And that makes me feel less Doomed.

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Virginia

Mon, April 13 - Virginia has joined the National Popular Voter Interstate Compact. This is a group of states that have agreed to give their electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote. Given that a candidate needs 270 to win, this will be a way to bypass the electoral college. But, it can’t go into effect until enough states have joined to make up the 270 electoral votes.

It currently includes 18 states plus DC and makes up 222 votes in the electoral college. Virginia has 13 electorial college votes, which brought the number up up from 209.

Governor Abigail Spanberger said in a press conference:

I think this is a very straightforward, long-term plan to get us to a point where the United States is frankly what most people think it is, which is a place where every person’s vote counts the same as every other person’s vote.

She continued:

Unfortunately, that is not the case when it comes to presidential elections, where by virtue of having the Electoral College, depending on the state you live in, your vote does count differently.

Everyday it becomes that much clearer why we need Democratic governors, and this is just another example of that. Only 48 votes to go, which could come from just a small amount of states!

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Oregon

Tue, April 14 - Governor Tina Kotek signed a bill into law to support homeless students on the likely off change that the federal government stops doing so. It takes the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act protections that are currently provided under federal law and enshrines them in Oregon law.

This law requires students to be enrolled in school regardless of documentation, and makes it so that students who are homeless don’t have to switch schools in the middle of the school year if they find housing elsewhere.

Kotek said:

We can no longer depend on the federal government to defend the rights of our most vulnerable communities. This bill ensures that students experiencing homelessness can be confident their rights are enshrined in state law and not subject to the whims of an unreliable federal government.

Oregon Housing and Community Services Executive Director Andrea Bell celebrated this law saying:

In Oregon, every child should have access to housing, education and support that gives them the power to live a life of their choosing, regardless of income or zip code. When we get this right, we won’t just teach them of Oregon’s promise to them—we embed it into the experience of all students.

I love seeing Dem legislatures and governors enshrining important laws in state constitutions. They’re not waiting to see what decisions the federal government make, they’re doing this first.

So I hope this shows you what’s going right, and reminds you why it’s so important to vote in state races!

Remember, our votes are our voice and that voice is our superpower!

I want to start by saying, I am paid by absolutely no one to say this. This is my own opinion based on my own knowledge and my own understanding of the world:

The donor and consultant class is working overtime to make you hate Ken Martin.

People are STILL talking about how they wish Ben Wikler had won DNC chair. Here’s a reminder, he was the establishment choice, which I think everyone glossed over, either intentionally or accidentally. Wikler was endorsed by Chuck Schumer AND Nancy Pelosi. They knew Martin would shake things up, and shake things up he has.

Martin has been working on several big projects, none of which make him popular with the consultant or donor class.

One of them is getting super PAC money out of Dem primaries by 2028. Your focus is on AIPAC, his focus is on ALL Super PACs. You know who doesn’t like that? The people who run Super PACs.

Another is Scam PACs, You know, those texts you get that look like they’re from the DNC or a Dem candidate but aren’t? Yeah, he’s been cracking down on those.

He also is working on getting rid of the “consultant class,” you know who that pisses off? The consultant class.

And then there’s his plans to win elections.

His mantra is “organize everywhere so we can win anywhere.” And he does mean EVERYWHERE. This is a 57 state and territory platform.

The DNC is focusing on investing in red states that normally don’t get DNC attention. Every single Republican controlled state party is getting an additional $5k on top of the $17.5k all states is getting. You wonder why they don’t have money? This is why. They’re using their money to invest directly in local elections.

They’re also investing in down ballot races in a way they haven’t before. If you look at Martin’s social media, you don’t have to scroll very far back to see him knocking doors for local races all over the country.

Martin, not just his team, but Martin himself.

And then there’s the shift in how to talk to voters. They took what didn’t work in 2024 and are changing their Playbook as a result. A Playbook that, by the way was organized and written by a Black woman named Shelby Wiltz who is the DNC Political Director.

They’re working with southern states on how to fight back against the Republican power grab and have been doing so since day 1. Martin and Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta will be headlining the 2026 Hamer-Winter Dinner, a massive event for the Mississippi Dem Party.

Vice Chair Shasti Conrad was at the Teamsters National Black Caucus Memphis Delta Chapter’s gala speaking with Black union leaders.

Vice Chair Artie Blanco was speaking to Texas Democratic Women Harris County Metro General Meeting.

And Vice Chair for Civic Engagement and Voter Participation, Reyna Walters- Morgan has been focused on voter rights in North Carolina.

And there’s more. I could talk about Martin going to union conferences and meetings. Or the new local listening program to understand why some of those who voted for Biden didn’t vote for Kamala and instead stayed home. Or Martin’s commitment to stay out of primaries. This is Martin’s record.

And there’s not more for the vice chairs because..no one writes articles about their successes. But that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

Yes we are winning elections because Republicans are super fucking unpopular, but it’s ALSO because this DNC is putting in the work. They are putting in the time and money and research to make it happen.

So knowing ALL of that, let’s talk about the autopsy. I will say, my opinion isn’t popular even with my contacts at the DNC — I don’t think it’s a bad thing that the autopsy hasn’t been released.

I think people are looking for a reason to distrust the Democrats and I think a 200 page document explaining what went wrong in 2024 is a perfect reason. I think unless it says EXACTLY what every leftist wants to hear, It won’t be received well. And I don’t think it does say what they want to hear.

From what I’ve heard, the vast majority is about not investing enough in local communities, and guess what Martin is focusing on? That’s right, local communities. And guess what’s the main focus of the Playbook mentioned above? That’s right, local communities.

I agree, the interview was awful. He needed interview prep, for starters, and frankly, not to go on a podcast made up of members of the consultant class at all. And, he never should have made a promise he couldn’t keep.

But, I genuinely don’t think another chair would have made a different decision. Opening ourselves up to that kind of opposition research is deadly. ESPECIALLY in a year like this one, when we need as big a tent as possible.

The consultant class and the donor class don’t like Martin because Martin doesn’t much like them. They are the ones writing these articles and posting these takes on social media and everyone who hates the Democrats just on principal is falling for it hook line and sinker. Same thing happened with Howard Dean who he pioneered the 50 state strategy, by the way, they tried to oust him too.

If Martin were replaced, it would not be with your perfect Progressive candidate (which Martin isn’t that far from), it would be with someone more like David Plouffe or Rahm Emmanuel. This dissatisfaction with Martin is playing DIRECTLY into their hands. The louder it is, the more likely we WILL be headed back to the status quo, and probably lose elections in the process.

The DNC is a fundraising apparatus, first and foremost. It SHOULD NOT BE your main focus. They have a job to do, they are not supposed to be cool, they are just supposed to quietly do the work.

Now, since you know where your money is going, maybe consider donating, cause, they really do need more funding to continue this work.

This whole fucking thing is a huge distraction. The goal is to win elections. This drama is not helping us do that at all. '

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Today is May 1. It is also known as May Day and is an international holiday that honors workers rights.

Because of that, today is a day of action. Specifically involving no work, no shopping and no school.

If this sounds like a general strike, it should.

You wanted your general strike? You got it.

The thing is, first, we live in a country of over 300m people. Right now we can get about 8m out to protest on a given Saturday. A day when many people aren’t working or in school. A day that isn’t a heavy lift. Let’s say there’s another 2m that are participating by driving by or helping make signs — but can’t attend a protest, so the don’t get counted.

We live in too big a country to be able to do a general strike like they had in Israel on Aug 17.

Not to mention, most people can’t survive if they don’t go to work. Those who can are incredibly privileged. And that’s really important to accept.

So for a general strike to work here, in this country, it has to be targeted. We saw it work in Minneapolis. Soon after their National Day of Truth and Freedom (the general strike) on January 23, ICE started pulling out of the city. That is the power of a concentrated general strike.

The thing is, we’re in trouble. Republicans know they cannot win a fair election. And that fact becomes more and more apparent with each passing day.

We have to be prepared for their power grab in November and a possible refusal to turn over power in January.

Today is the beginning of what Indivisible is calling “our tactical escalation.” The goal is to see, on a work day, what kind of numbers can we get? How many people are capable of missing work? Do we actually make an economic impact by not shopping? How many schools were willing to close?

Then these numbers get analyzed and it helps for the next test.

If you still have to work today, you aren’t a bad person, don’t feel guilty. We don’t have the infrastructure yet for everyone to be able to put the movement first.

The point is to see where we are lacking. Where we need reinforcement. Starting to build a plan for how we can pull this off for real and what that looks like.

It’s probably not going to look like what you think of when you hear “General Strike.”

But that doesn’t mean it won’t have an impact just because it doesn’t match your vision.

If you can, don’t shop today, don’t work and don’t go to school. But if you have to do one or more of those things, that’s okay. This is not the final iteration. You just aren’t able to be part of this beta test. Maybe, with the next one, there will be more infrastructure in place for you to be able to participate.

We got six months to tighten this and make it stable. But we have moved past the point of theories and have escalated to enactment.

So, with all that said, are you participating today? If so, how?

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Otherwise, on Tues we got a local race in CA, FL, and SC. IN and OH primaries. MI has a couple recalls. MT has several district elections including school district trustees. And on Sat, we got some local elections in DE and MA.

PLEASE vote. No matter how small or incosequential your election may seem, I PROMISE your vote can have such an impact.

I’ve included early voting as well, so even if you don’t live in those states, you might already be able to vote in YOUR next election.

I hope this guide helps!

Before we start, I just want to let you know that this guide will be getting more targeted. I am working with Sway and if you sign up to my voting group, I can know EXACTLY where my audience is based, so I will shift my focus to elections specifically where my group members live. If you want me to target your elections, sign up!

One last thing, this guide is long, as they usually are, so make sure you open the full newsletter, the email will cut off.

Okay, let’s go!

We begin with early voting: AZ, primaries in GA, ID, LA (yes there are still races with or without US congress!), NE, OH (through Sun), OR, SD, and WV. There’s also MI for this week through Sun and the MN 5/12 special. VOTE EARLY IF YOU CAN

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Voter Registration Deadline: 29 days before Election Day

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    Todd Shelton

  • District 29 Candidate Guide

    David Greene, Sr

    Demetrice Hicks

    Kristina Moorhead

    Kevin Short

  • District 31 Candidate Guide

    Andrew Dezelan

    Kerry Forestal

    Lasima Packett

    Catherine Torzewski

  • District 46 Candidate Guide

    Sam Glynn

    Allissa Impink

    Clif Marsiglio

• State Representative

  • District 13

    Brenna Geswein

    Edward Moyer, Jr

  • District 20

    Alicia Firanek

    Laura Liskey

  • District 29

    Coumba Kebe

    Devon Wellington

  • District 36

    Nouhad Melki,II

    Kim Townsend

  • District 37

    Lauren Cole

    Joel Levi

  • District 48

    Carl Stutsman

    Emily Yaw

  • District 49

    Monica Garbaciak

    Susan Lawson

    Michelle Milne

  • District 58

    Michelle Sears

    Eric Reingardt

  • District 61

    Matt Pierce incumbent

    Lilliana Young

  • District 63

    Tiffanie Arthur

    Anthony Bolen

    Adam Mann

  • District 70

    Sarah Blessing

    Jerry Finn

  • District 72

    Cory Cochran

    Michele Henry

  • District 81

    Chad Clevidence

    Sharon Wight

  • District 94

    Cherrish Pryor incumbent

    Andre Sisk Sr.

  • District 95 Candidate Guide

    John Bartlett

    Keith Graves

    Tyrrell Quest

  • District 97 Candidate Guide

    Justin Moed

    Sarah Shydale

Michigan

Voter Registration Deadline: Election Day by 8:00 pm

State Senate (MUST HOLD to prevent tie)

• District 35

  Chedrick Greene DEMOCRAT Priorities: tax relief and expanded credits for workers and parents, universal pre-K, lower healthcare, housing, and prescription drug costs, and stronger consumer protections; creating better-paying jobs through investments in education, job training, unions, and domestic manufacturing, while supporting small businesses and economic development; defending voting rights and civil liberties, protecting abortion access and reproductive healthcare, and improving public safety through funding for law enforcement, mental health services, and violence prevention programs

  Jason Tunney REPUBLICAN

St. Clair County

• Columbus

  • Kimberly Ketzel recall

Tuscola County

• Elmwood

  • Brinkman, Lauri, and Brown recall

Montana

Voter Registration Deadline: Noon, the day before Election Day

Voter Information Lookup

Cascade County

Gallatin County

• Belgrade School District No 44

  • Trustee (2)

    Ron Barnett

    Lila Beard

    Marie Boster

    Stephen Mueller

• Bozeman Elementary District 7

  • Trustee (2)

    Kevin Black

    Greg Neil

    Patrick Zimny

• Big Sky K-12 District 72

  • Trustee (1)

    Matthew Dodd

    Jonathan Gans

• Gallatin Gateway Elementary District 35

  • Trustee (2)

    Lucas Hancox

    Brian Nickolay

    Erica Parrish

Central Valley Fire District

(serves Belgrade, River Rock, Valley Center, Four Corners, Springhill, Reece Creek, and Dry Creek communities.)

• Trustee (2)

  Joel Fassbinder

  Nathan Goodman

  Ron Murray

Big Sky Hospital/Wellness District

(Gallitan and Madison Counties)

• Trustee (3)

  Marilyn Flint

  Katie Grice

  Laura Seyfang

  Sally Stillwill

Big Sky Resort Tax District

(Gallitan and Madison Counties)

• Director (2)

  Laynee Jones

  Michelle Kendziorski

  Taylor Kissell

Monforton Elementary District 27

• Trustee (1)

  Julie Loessberg

  Russell Wells

Three Forks School District J24

• Trustee (2)

  Robert Buchholz

  Aaron Lattimore

  Nathan Miller

  Amanda Tebay

West Yellowstone K-12 District 69

• Trustee (2)

  Alma Clark

  Jennifer Reinsch

  Estela Salinas

  Craig Tureman

  Yessika Vega

Hebgen Basin Hospital District

• Trustee (3)

  Kevin Cannon

  Leroy Christensen

  Carrie Egging

  Kenny Jones

  Julie Painter

Lewis & Clark County

Missoula County

• Seeley Lake Sewer District (3)

  Troy Spence

  Cheri Thompson

  Gary Chilicott

  Nathaniel Nap

Ohio

Voter Registration Deadline: 30 days before Election Day

Democratic Primary

• Secretary of State

  Allison Russo Priorities: defending voting rights, opposing barriers such as restrictions on mail-in voting, and promoting clear, unbiased ballot language so voters can easily understand issues; expanding healthcare access, supporting workers’ rights, and maintaining strong public services like education and safety, while advocating for a government that serves everyday people rather than special interests

  Bryan Hambley Priorities: ending gerrymandering by shifting redistricting power from politicians to citizens or independent commissions, and ensuring ballot language is clear and unbiased so voters can make informed decisions; supporting and investing in election workers to maintain secure elections, and opposing corporate or special-interest influence over electoral processes; improving public outcomes—advocating for better access to healthcare, strong public education, and infrastructure

• Attorney General

  Elliot Forhan Priorities: enforcing the law equally for all people, particularly targeting corruption and the influence of wealth in politics; prosecuting corporate wrongdoing and wealthy tax evasion, reducing money in politics, and holding powerful interests accountable.; using the attorney general’s office to challenge illegal or unconstitutional actions—particularly at the federal level—framing his campaign around fairness, accountability, and restoring trust in government institutions

  John Kulewicz Priorities: protecting families’ interests, public safety, and fairness in the legal system; standing up to powerful interests that do not serve Ohioans, advocating for practical solutions to challenges facing working families

• US Senate

  Ron Kincaid Priorities: improving economic security, expanding affordable healthcare, and restoring practical, people-centered governance; proposals like an “American Dividend Plan” to share the gains of automation with workers, creating a public healthcare option while protecting choice, and defending reproductive rights; strengthening unions, addressing housing affordability, investing in clean energy and climate jobs, improving education, and pursuing immigration reform

  Sherrod Brown Priorities: supporting working families, strengthening the middle class, and holding powerful interests accountable; raising wages, investing in American manufacturing and infrastructure, and supporting small businesses to create jobs; protecting and expanding Social Security and healthcare access, defending reproductive rights, and advancing civil rights protections, and criminal justice reforms such as banning chokeholds and addressing racial disparities, while promoting fair elections and government transparency

• US Representative

  • District 1

    Damon Lynch IV Priorities: protecting reproductive rights, implementing criminal justice reforms such as ending mass incarceration and expanding reentry programs, and investing in veterans’ services; taxing extreme wealth, raising wages, strengthening unions, and supporting small businesses, alongside major investments in public education and student debt relief; transitioning to clean energy, expanding universal healthcare (including Medicare for All and mental health services), increasing affordable housing, enacting gun safety measures, and pursuing campaign finance reform to eliminate corporate and dark money in politics

    Greg Landsman Priorities: reducing healthcare and prescription drug costs, protecting the Affordable Care Act, and capping expenses like insulin; increasing public school funding, improving teacher pay, and expanding career and technical education opportunities. Landsman advocates for clean air and water protections, holding polluters accountable, and investing in jobs and infrastructure; gun safety measures such as universal background checks and assault weapon bans, supports reproductive rights, and promotes a foreign policy that includes aid to allies like Ukraine and Israel while pursuing long-term peace efforts

  • District 3

    Joe Gerard Priorities: making housing and healthcare more affordable—such as increasing housing supply and offering lower-cost health coverage without raising taxes—while promoting broader economic relief for working people.

    Joyce Beatty Priorities: expanding economic opportunity, protecting civil rights, and strengthening public investment; affordable housing and homeownership access, improved and affordable healthcare, and robust funding for education from early childhood through college; job creation and a strong economy, climate action, and infrastructure investment, while advocating for the protection of Social Security, Medicare, and veterans’ services; advancing voting rights and equality, with a focus on reducing discrimination and ensuring broader access to democratic participation

  • District 5

    Brian Shaver Priorities: supports personal autonomy in healthcare decisions, including reproductive and gender-affirming care, while also backing Second Amendment rights; supporting farmers, strengthening the food supply, and expanding affordable housing in rural areas; adequately funding education and staffing federal agencies with qualified professionals, as well as lowering the cost of essentials like medications; fair and humane immigration system and greater oversight of federal power, alongside concerns about protecting farmland from foreign ownership

    Daniel Burket Priorities: lowering costs for working families, supporting small businesses, and promoting fiscal responsibility; removing tariffs that burden small businesses, protecting agriculture as a vital industry, and expanding solar energy in ways that reduce costs without harming farmland; government reform—such as banning stock trading by members of Congress—establishing healthcare as a universal right, and creating a more consistent, fair, and streamlined immigration system

    Martin Heberling Priorities: working-class, pro-labor agenda centered on strengthening public education, expanding access to healthcare, and creating stable, high-paying jobs; increased federal investment in schools and vocational training—particularly for emerging green industries—alongside a “healthcare for all” approach; focuses on economic dignity through union-supported employment and stronger job benefits, reflecting a broader goal of improving long-term stability and opportunity for families while aligning workforce development with future-oriented industries.

    Scott Tabor Priorities: strengthening public education, protecting Medicare, and ensuring fair wages for skilled workers; supports transparent and impartial redistricting to improve representation, along with policies that uphold prevailing wages and job stability for local workers; restoring government accountability and constitutional principles—advocating for limits on government overreach, stronger responsiveness to constituents, and policies that address affordability and economic challenges facing everyday families

  • District 6

    Adrian Vitus Priorities: people over profits” by addressing economic inequality, lowering costs, and raising wages; stronger support of local businesses, higher taxes on the wealthy, and expanded public investment in healthcare, education, childcare, housing, and Social Security; anti-corruption reform—such as removing money from politics, banning stock trading by elected officials, and increasing voter participation—alongside regulating corporate and technological power; reducing military spending and ending prolonged foreign conflicts, while promoting social equity through policies supporting workers, farmers, women’s rights, immigrants, and veterans

    Brent Hanni Priorities: personal autonomy in healthcare decisions, including reproductive and gender-affirming care, while also backing Second Amendment rights; supporting farmers, strengthening the food supply, and expanding affordable rural housing, alongside adequately funding education and staffing federal agencies with qualified professionals; lowering the cost of essentials like medications, promoting fair and humane immigration policies, and enacting government reforms such as term limits and stricter campaign finance rules, with an overall focus on limiting undue influence and keeping government accountable to constituents

    Charlie DiPalma

    Malcolm Ritchie Priorities: protecting democracy, supporting working families, and promoting fairness and accountability in government; defending the Constitution and rule of law, advocating for economic stability and safety for workers, and ensuring marginalized communities are heard and respected.

    Sean Connolly Priorities: support small businesses, strengthen unions, ensure a living wage, affordable and accessible healthcare, strong schools for strong communities, invest in classrooms and teachers

  • District 7

    Ann Marie Donegan Priorities: lowering prescription costs, protecting Medicare and Social Security, opposing trade policies that hurt Ohio farmers, manufacturers, and small business owners, enforcing laws in ways that are consistent with the Constitution

    Brian Poindexter Priorities: improve the economy and the cost of living, protecting the right to organize, supporting unions, improving healthcare, require companies to invest in America

    Ed FitzGerald Priorities: aggressive anti-trust policies to restore more competitive private market, protect Social Security and Medicare, standing up for non-union workers while protecting the right to organize for fair wages and safe working conditions; Medicare for All, supporting veteran hiring, healthcare, housing and job opportunities; investing in American industry, investing in NASA Glenn; addressing the housing crisis with mortgage assistance for first time buyers, banning large corporations and private equity firms from buying up homes, and increasing the supply of homes; defending democracy by strengthening the democratic process and our institutions.

    John Butchko Priorities: drug reform including decriminalization of personal possession, protecting and enforcing voting rights, making DC the 51^st state, strengthening the US postal service, criminal justice reform, protecting civil rights, supporting arts and culture, ending poverty, implementing universal and affordable quality healthcare,

    Keith Mundy

    Laura Rodriguez-Carbone

    Michael Eisner

    Scott Schultz

  • District 8

    Madaris Grant

    Vanessa Enoch

  • District 10

    David Esrati

    Jan Kinner

    Janice Beckett

    Kristina Knickerbocker

    Manuel Foggie

    Tony Pombo

  • District 11

    Ardelia Holmes

    Sean Freeman

    Shontel Brown

  • District 12

    Daniel Crawford

    Jason Reynard

    Jerrad Christian

  • District 14

    Bill O’Neill

    Carl Setzer

    Maria Eva Jukic

  • District 15

    Adam C. Miller

    Don Leonard

• State Senator

  • District 21

    Delores Gray Ford

    Kent Smith

  • District 25

    Bill DeMora

    Jesse Baker

• State Representative

  • District 1

    Christopher Robbins

    Dontavius Jarrells

  • District 2

    Charity King

    Michael D. Cole

  • District 7

    Michaela Burriss

    Ukeme Awakessien Jeter

    Zach Rossfeld

  • District 18

    Davida Russell

    Gabe Crenshaw

    Peter Hoffman

    Samuel Grube

  • District 19

    Cheryl Perez

    Dionna M. Gore

    Nicole Sigurdson

  • District 20

    Charlotte Perkins

    Eugene Miller

    Lauren R. Welch

    Michael “Mike” Seals

  • District 26

    Ashley Bryant Bailey

    Tom Brinkman

  • District 35

    Molly Schneider

    Samantha Salamon

  • District 37

    Phil Crippen

    Tom Herner

  • District 39

    Daquan Neal

    Mark Campbell

    Mike Stevens

  • District 49

    Brit Steiner

    Krista L. Allison

  • District 50

    Brian Sommers

    Rylan Zachary Finzer

  • District 51

    Amanda Sue Fontana

    Angie Pekarek

  • District 52

    Graig Bansek

    Mike Baker

  • District 53

    Dan Nutt

    Matt Lundy

  • District 58

    Basia Adamczak

    Heather Fronk

  • District 60

    Eli Wenzel

    Shelby Kimball

  • District 85

    John Newlin

    Pamela J. Grogean

    Victoria Maddox

Ballot Measures

• Adams County

• Barberton

• Brown County

• Champaign County

• Clark County

• Clermont County

• Columbus City

• Cuyahoga Falls County

• Defiance County

• Fulton County

• Gallia County

• Guernsey County

• Hudson City

• Licking County

• Logan County

• Lorain County

• Lucas County

• Mercer County

• Miami County

• Morgan County

• Morrow County

• Muskingum County

• Perry County

• Portage County

• Scioto County

• Richland County

• Vinton County

• Washington County

South Carolina

Voter Registration Deadline: 30 days before Election Day

Windsor County

• Mayor

  Ernst Jonasson

  Julie Cline

• Town Board

  • District 4

    Kenneth Symsack

    Jarrod Muse

Jenkinsville County

• Jenkinsville

  • City Council

    Cheryl Crumblin

    Clayrann Small

York County

• Town Council

  Bobby Hawkins

  Gregory Holmes

  Stephen Widener

Sat May 9

Delaware

Voter Registration Deadline: 4^th Saturday before Election Day

Sussex County

• Lewes

  • Councilperson (2)

    Joe Elder

    Kevin Keane

    Timothy Ritzert

Massachusetts

Voter Registration Deadline: 10 Days before Election Day

Norfolk County

• Brookline

  • School Board

    John VanScoyoc incumbent Priorities: managing Brookline’s budget sustainably by offering voters choices on tax overrides and restraining spending growth, protecting essential services; supporting projects like Chestnut Hill West for needed commercial revenue while addressing neighborhood concerns; evaluating town assets and costs before major expenditures

    Anthony Buono Priorities: expanding the town’s tax base by encouraging business development and transit-oriented housing that generates net revenue, arguing this can avoid both major tax overrides and deep service cuts; emphasizing “rigorous analysis rather than ideology,”; turning existing plans—like the housing and comprehensive plans—into actionable policy, while maintaining strong oversight of spending and debt; practical investments in infrastructure and roadway safety, support for local businesses, and strengthening services for seniors, all framed around long-term financial sustainability and pragmatic consensus-building

    Amanda Zimmerman Priorities: climate change, safe streets, revenue and housing

I really hope this guide was helpful

Remember, your vote is your voice and that voice is your superpower!

I’m sorry.

I’m so sorry.

I’m sorry to the Black activists that fought for this with their lives in the civil rights era. Those who are still alive are literally watching their life’s work be dismantled today.

And I’m sorry to the current Black and Latino activists and the entire Black and Latino communities watching us go back in time to a time where they didn’t have a voice or representation in this country at all.

This is not a hopeless post, but I had to start here, because no matter how hard we fight back and how much we are able to hopefully succeed, these feelings aren’t going to go away and we can’t just sweep them under the rug because there are still calls to action.

Secondly, for the most part, what SCOTUS put into motion will not be implemented in time for the midterms. Most states where the candidate filing period either hasn’t started or is still open are blue states and/or at-large states (meaning there’s only one House rep for the whole state.)

There are probably going to be some Republican states that try to do this before their primaries anyway, and they’ll probably be shot down because their filing period is very much over.

This is not to say we are out of the woods for the midterms, but those big numbers you’re seeing are not happening right now.

Also there is potential that Dem states could use this to their advantage, though I don’t know specifically if any of the states where the filing period is still open or hasn’t opened yet would qualify.

And I want to be very clear. No matter how much malicious compliance we end up being able to do, that doesn’t make this a positive. It is still the country, specifically six Republican justices, telling Black and Latino voters that their voice must be silenced. There’s no way to twist that into being a good thing, so, for the love of everything, don’t fucking try.

Okay, now, I promised this wouldn’t be hopeless right? Here’s the hope:

First, our main goal HAS to be reforming the court.

The John Lewis Voting Rights Act is great and very necessary, but, codifying it into law doesn’t mean anything with this court. The VRA was codified.

We also need to be very aware that Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas are old. There is a very good chance the next Senate will be tasked with replacing one or both. This is not the time to find the perfect candidate. This is not the time to sit out the election because your perfect candidate doesn’t get to the general. Whoever it is, you have to vote for the Democrat, period.

We must get a trifecta in 2028, and building the framework to make that possible starts now.

But, in reality, that’s not the main priority. The main priority is the State Legislatures across the country.

The SCOTUS decision was ONLY about Louisiana. That means ONLY Louisiana has to redo their maps. For every other state it’s their decision (before the 2030 census, that is). We need to get as many Democrats in as many state legislatures as possible so that this becomes less likely.

That is our main priority right now. As usual, it all comes down to elections.

I always say this, but it matters now more than ever. Your vote is your voice and that voice is your superpower. This MUST be your mantra right now.

If you didn’t have the pleasure, the debate was split up into three parts with anchors from three different CA CBS affiliates.

I do wanna note affiliate stations are separate from the main station. For instance, FOX affiliates are, almost across the board, have some of the most fact based and honest reporting in every local market. It’s not always the case, but I see it enough of the time that if I see a FOX affiliate station I’m gonna go into it with high expectations.

So this has nothing to do with these being CBS stations. These specific reporters are just….bad. At least, they were last night.

It started with LA Anchor Pat Harvey and Sacramento Anchor Tony Lopez and they treated it like a game show.

They joked about there being eight candidates on the stage and patted themselves on the back for having the most candidates of any debate so far, as if, with the jungle primary system that could possibly be a good thing.

And they egged candidates on when they started getting childish, which is really the only word I have for it.

Mics weren’t cut, they just talked over each other and it was mostly insults.

And on top of that, it wasn’t even useful. Every candidate got a different question so we couldn’t compare them one for one, which is literally the whole point.

And they did these lighting round questions that were just a yes or no answer with no clarification at any point. So that was the extent of the conversation about the gas tax and about ICE.

And it didn’t get better in the second third.

That was moderated by Julie Watts, the investigative reporter who Katie Porter yelled at.

Well, I apologize to Katie Porter for ever having an issue with how she talked to Julie Watts.

Watts spoke more than any of the candidates, and maybe any of the candidates combined. She interrupted to fact check, but it wasn’t really fact checking, and half the time she was just arguing with the candidates opinion.

She kept pushing her interviews with them from months ago and, at one point, even said she would ban the candidates from saying “Donald Trump” because they’d used his name over 1k times in their interviews with her.

She also congratulated a candidate on his new ad. Which just feels unprofessional.

I learned nothing about the candidates cause she was talking over them the entire time.

The final half hour was Bay Area Anchor, Ryan Yamamoto, and Pomona College politics assistant profession, Sara Sadhwani, and it was the first time it felt like there were any adults in the room.

They were measured and respectful, and because they were respectful, the candidates were too.

I left the debate with my head swimming and unable to function the rest of the night. It shouldn’t be like that.

That said, here’s my take aways:

Katie Porter showed how she would handle Trump and I was, frankly, impressed. She did not let the Republicans talk over her or accuse her of anything, she treated them like her teenagers when they’re acting out, and frankly, it was warranted.

Xavier Becerra has a really strong performance. He had a lot of one liners and hit back at every accusation against him. One of his best moments was with the aforementioned Julie Watts, when she tried to anchorsplain his ideas and he shut her down using his experience as CA AG.

Tony Thurmond is always great. He’s measured, he has good ideas and he’s a good debaters in every situation. But he has less than 1% of the vote in every single poll and as much as I would LOVE him to be our next governor, it’s not gonna happen. So I really implore him to drop out.

The rest of the Dems: Tom Steyer, Antonio Villaraigosa and Matt Mahan just weren’t impressive and really fell for the catty energy of the night.

And the Republicans, well, they’re awful. They’re so awful. They need to be as far away from California state politics as humanly possible. If you are at all considering voting for anyone other than the top 3 (Becerra, Porter and Steyer), please please considering changing your mind.

I’m just…frustrated. This isn’t a game show. We needed something real and serious and helpful, and instead people watched for the same reason they watch the Housewives franchise.

This cannot continue be how we conduct Democracy. It just can’t.

Wisconsin

Thu, April 9 - Governor Tony Evers signed a bill giving more autonomy to DACA residents. This law will make it so that a DACA resident can get the credentials for occupations overseen by the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services. This includes jobs like nursing and plumbing, which they haven’t been able to work in up to this point.

The bill was also bipartisan and almost unanimous in the Republican controlled State Senate.

While signing the bill into law, Evers said:

Today, we’re not only doing the right thing for Dreamers to help make sure they can pursue their higher education and career goals to give back to the communities that raised them, but we’re doing the right thing for our state and our economy, too, by making sure smart, talented, and capable people can join our workforce in high-need areas.

It makes me feel less Doomed to see Dreamers getting more opportunities. But also to see that this bill was truly bipartisan. It’s, unfortunately, not the kind of bill you really expect to be right now.

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Nevada

Fri, April 10 - Brianna Turner is a basketball player for the Las Vegas Aces, and she wrote an op-ed for USA Today in support of trans athletes.

Her article is titled: “I’m a WNBA player. Don’t use athletes like me to exclude trans women.”

And it is about the new IOC’s new rule baring any trans participation in the Olympics.

She said:

Focusing on who should be allowed to call themselves a woman distracts from the structural inequities that actually limit women’s opportunities.

This policy also invites unequal scrutiny for women who already face heightened suspicion; Black and Brown athletes and competitors from the Global South will be unfairly targeted.

Right now, it is so important for cis athletes to speak out in support of their fellow athletes. These rules changed because of noise from the transphobic community.

Loudly supporting the trans community brings positive visibility which is one of the best ways to combat hate.

Seeing an op-ed like this from an athlete like her matters and makes me feel less Doomed.

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Canada

Mon, April 13 - There were three byelections (special elections) held in Canada and between that and five members switching parties (called a floor crossing) the Liberal Party secured a majority in parliament.

Though Prime Minister Mark Carney has been in power for just over a year, less than half a of the bills that have been introduced have passed because they had to work with other parties to get them passed. Now passing them becomes a lot easier cause they don’t have to form a coalition with other parties.

Carney celebrated with a post on Twitter saying:

Tonight, voters have placed their trust in our new government’s plan. We accept that support with humility, determination and a clear understanding of what this moment demands.

This is a time to come together so we can build a Canada strong for all.

He continued by saying they will work with other parties and build coalition anyway, which isn’t my favorite thing to hear right now, but maybe that’s less of a big deal in Canada.

Regardless, as we know here in the states, a majority matters, and hopefully this year they can pass well over 50% of proposed legislation and make Canada better for everyone. And the fact that they have that opportunity makes me feel less Doomed.

So those are some of the reasons why We’re NOT Doomed today. And I know, with the SCOTUS decision on the VRA, today is worse than usual. But that decision makes our fight all that more important.

So let this post invigorate you and keep you in the game. Cause our voices are our superpower, but only when we use them!

Actually fuck that, no we don’t, I just don’t care.

But we DO need to talk about the coverage of the shooting at the Correspondents’ Dinner.

Well…first we need to talk about the shooting a little bit.

First. It happened on a completely different floor than the ballroom. The shooter was nowhere near the ballroom when he was stopped.

Security was not super strong until getting down to the ballroom, not just the floor but the ballroom itself. You just had to show a ticket or show that you were staying at the hotel to get anywhere. From what I’m gathering, security could have been better, but it wasn’t abnormal.

Going forward, however, it’s not gonna be like this anymore. I’m sure next year there will be magnetometers and wands long before you get to the ballroom.

I only know any of this information because of journalists like Aaron Parnas. Who walked through the hotel the morning after to show us exactly how things were set up and where each situation occurred.

His coverage was, and continues to be incredible, and that’s cause he focused exclusively on the facts.

The rest of the coverage online wasn’t.

Within minutes reputable names were calling it a false flag. They were misrepresenting where it happened and how it happened to fit their assumption that it was a false flag.

And part of it wasn’t even disinformation, cause, there was no information.

We didn’t know who did it, it was unclear where it happened and we were completely in the dark about everything else.

At first journalists and creators were saying the suspect was killed, some were saying that Trump stayed in the hotel, some were disputing that. People were speculating why certain people got to leave the banquet hall and others didn’t.

And all this was happening based on a whole lot of nothing.

Which is…normal.

It’s normal to not have details that early.

What doesn’t help is to use that lack of details to spin a story, any story.

And the biggest problem is, the first 24 hours of any breaking news story, people are looking for facts, on the ground reporting and specifics.

Because of how pervasive the false flag theory was, it muddled the actual details and made it harder to find, spread and get traction with them.

And when new details did emerge it made it very easy to just discount them because why believe anything involving this situation?

The facts didn’t matter.

Which boggles my mind. That’s supposed to be how MAGA interacts with the world, not how we do.

We’re supposed to want facts. We’re supposed to want accurate information.

And then the argument is “well we’re not going to get that anyway, so might as well theorize.”

That’s how MAGA gets away with distrusting everything we do and say. That’s how they stopped trusting science and medicine. How Trump convinced them that he was going to make life better for the working class when Kamala was the one with the step by step plan to do so.

And I get it, they’re not trustworthy.

But it’s our job to find what is trustworthy and spread that, especially the first 72 hours after any breaking news story.

On the ground reporting from sources we trust. The Dems who are involved like Mayor Muriel Bowser.

The second a breaking news story happens, it’s our responsibility to direct the conversation. And the conversation was directed to theories rather than facts within seconds.

We gotta do better.

If you think it’s a false flag at first, fine, but wait until we know literally anything to ask that question publicly. Use the facts to bolster your theory.

And if you don’t trust any of the facts? No matter the source? Well, it’s a short and slippery slope down to MAGA.

Arkansas

Tue, March 31 - Republicans are trying to make it harder for Democrats to register voters. They are doing this in all sorts of ways throughout the country, but in Arkansas, one of those ways is through a “wet signature” requirement.

Texas is the only other state in the country that has a "wet signature” requirement. It means that you can’t register to vote online. Your ballot registration has to be filled out in pen, not ink. Meaning you have to physically turn it in to the election office.

It makes it incredibly difficult to register to vote.

A lawsuit was filed by Get Loud Arkansas, over this violating the Civil Rights Act, and there was an injunction in August 2024 that lasted until October when the injunction was lifted.

Now, a year a half later the injunction has been upheld, and the “wet signature” requirement has been paused again. This time by Two Republican judges on the 8th Circuit Court: Trump appointee, Judge Erikson and George W. Bush appointee, Judge Colloton, who wrote the majority opinion.

Judge Colloton said:

The record shows that county clerks do not analyze original wet signatures from registration forms in an effort to detect fraud. Even if county clerks did attempt to analyze signatures, the law allows a voter to register without signature by making a simple mark such as an “X” on the form. State law and practice thus do not employ a wet signature requirement as a means to detect fraud, and the absence of a handwritten signature is not material on this record in determining whether a person is qualified to vote.

Basically, they’re not even pretending to use it to detect fraud, so it’s clearly not something Arkansas actually needs.

Now, Arkansas has already asked the 8th Circuit to rehear the case. But any amount of delay makes me feel less Doomed.

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Virginia

Thu, April 8 - I know it seems like I have wins from Virginia every single day, and that’s because, well there are. This is what happens when a state that was formerly run by Republicans gets a Dem trifecta.

It’s a lot of wins undoing the previous administration very quickly. Nice argument to give Dems the US trifecta in 2028, no?

Anyway, this story is about minimum wage. Actually, that’s just one of nine bills making life better for the working class that Governor Abigail Spanberger signed this day.

This bill will increase Virginia’s minimum wage from $12.77 to $15 by Jan 1, 2028.

It doesn’t sound like a lot, but it’s a lot more than where they started.

Spanberger celebrated signing this collection of bills by saying:

If you work full time in Virginia, you should be able to afford to live in Virginia. You should be able to keep up with your rent or mortgage, fill your medications, and save for your kids’ futures.

She continued:

Because investing in our workforce is a win for families, a win for local communities, and importantly, a win for the businesses that call Virginia home.

All of these new laws make me feel less Doomed. When Dems are in power, we really do make things better for everyone. This is just another reminder of that.

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Michigan

Tue, April 21 - I love when lawsuits work, cause it’s a reminder that the courts are still working like they should, most of the time, anyway.

This lawsuit was about how there was an exception for pregnant people in end of life care. Because they are carrying a life, in Michigan, they don’t get to choose if they do or don’t get life saving treatment.

Michigan Appeals Court Judge Sima Patel, up for reelection this year, sided with the plaintiffs:

Preventing individuals who are capable of becoming pregnant from making informed advanced decisions about their healthcare runs afoul of the fundamental right to reproductive freedom enshrined in the Michigan Constitution. Those provisions are unconstitutional and invalid and must be struck from the EPIC.

Plaintiff and my creator colleague, Nikki Sapiro Vinckier, was one of the patient plaintiffs. She summed it up perfectly:

This decision is the culmination of years of work by people across Michigan who refused to accept that their rights could be decided for them. It reflects organizing efforts, community conversations, and a commitment to making sure our state constitution actually protects the realities of people’s lives.

She continued:

This case is a powerful example of how individuals can shape their state constitutions and, in doing so, create the pathway for wins like this. At a time when so much can feel uncertain or even overwhelming, it matters to see that kind of impact play out in real life. It’s a reminder that when people organize, speak up, and stay engaged, those actions can translate into tangible change. That’s what makes moments like this so powerful.

I couldn’t even try to say it better. This is why we fight and this is why we’re not Doomed, because examples like this happen all the time and they matter every single time.

This is a huge win for Michigan and autonomy for pregnant people.

So I hope these stories remind you that we are fighting and we are winning, not every time, but more often than you think.

Our voices are our superpower, but only when we use them!

So, let’s get started!

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Early voting open in: AZ, GA, ID, LA, MI, NE, OH, OR, SD, TN and WV primaries, as well as MN special election

Tue April 28

California

Voter Registration Deadline: 15 days prior to Election Day

Avenal

• City Council recall election

  Alvaro Preciado

  Leticia Gamez

  David Reynosa

Delaware

Voter Registration Deadline: 4th Saturday before Election Day

Kent County

• Clayton

  • Town Council

    Marvin Pedigo incumbent

    Ryan Paisley

    Daniel Stevens

New Castle County

• Smyrna

  • City Council At-Large

    Nick Miles incumbent

    B. Joseph Reames

Florida

Voter Registration Deadline: 29 days prior to Election Day

Gadsden County

• Chattahoochee – elections cancelled

• Greensboro – elections cancelled

• County Commissioner

  • District 2

    Amanda Lightfoot DEMOCRAT

    Alonzetta Simpkins DEMOCRAT

    Anthony Viegvesie DEMOCRAT

  • District 4

    Marcella Blocker REPUBLICAN

    Michael Brown DEMOCRAT

    Jeff McNealy DEMOCRAT

    Joshua Williams Jr. DEMOCRAT

• School Board

  • District 2

    Jefferson Flores

    Tracey Stallworth

    Donnie Washington

  • District 4

    Jamel David

    Charlie Frost

• Gretna

  • City Commissioners

    • Seat 1

      Alvin Bush III

      Dexter Wright

    • Seat 3

• Havana

  • Town Council

    • Group 4

      John Bryant

      Robert Mosby

• Quincy

  • City Council

    • District 1

      Keith Dowdell

      Robin Wood

    • District 5

      Eva Love

      Markeyshia Monroe

      Beverly Nash

New York

Voter Registration Deadline: 10 days before Election Day

New York City

• Council District 3

  Leslie Murphy

  Lindsey Boylan

  Layla Law-Gisiko

  Carl Wilson

  Jamin Enquist

Sat May 2

Texas

Voter Registration Deadline: 30 days before Election Day

• Texas State Senate District 4 (POSSIBLE FLIP)

  Ron Angeletti DEMOCRAT Priorities: supporting teachers, improving classroom resources, and ensuring all students, including those with disabilities, have real opportunities to succeed. He also highlights broader community concerns such as rising property taxes, strained infrastructure, flood risks, and access to quality healthcare, framing his priorities around practical solutions that better reflect and serve everyday families rather than partisan politics

  Brett Ligon REPUBLICAN

  

Bell County

• Killeen Independent School District

  • School Board

    • Place 4

      Angela Santos

      Michael Green

      Marvin Rainwater

      Lan Carter

    • Place 5

      Joseph Baez

      Brett Williams

Bexar County Voter Guide

Early voting April 20 – April 28

• Balcones Heights

  • Council

    • Place 1

      Jack Burton

      Vanessa Martin

    • Place 2

      Juan Lecea

      Kip Torres

• Castle Hills

  • Alderman

    • Place 4

      Victor Sylvia

      Frank Paul

• Helotes

  • Council

    • Place 1

      Gregg Michel

      Mike Gutierrez

• Hollywood Park

  • Council (3)

    Sylvia Apodaca

    Nathan Fox

    Chris Garza

    Jeff Eklund

    Mike Grant

    Dawn McCormick

    David Barboza

• Leon Valley

  • Mayor

    Chris Riley

    Evan Bohl

    Jed Hefner

• Selma

  • Council

    • Place 3

      Cori Mitchell

      Becky Harris

    • Alderman (3)

      Alex King

      T. Lee Powers

      Christian Lyons

      Vicky Maisel

      Konrad Kuykendall

Alamo Community College District

• Trustee

  • District 9

    Joe Sanchez

    Robert Garcia

    Leslie Sachanowicz

    Carolyn DeLecour

Alamo Heights Independent School District

• School Board

  • Place 3

    Ty Edwards

    Lindsey Saldana

  • Place 4

    Bianca Cerqueira

    Hunter Kingman

Medina Valley Independent School District

• Trustees (2)

  Nathan Fillinger

  Blane Nash

  Andrew Carawan

  Toby Waters

North East Independent School District

• School Board

  • District 3

    Diane Villarreal incumbent

    Michael Wulczyn

  • District 7

    Cheryl Eltinger

    Caprice Garcia

Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District

Bond: This is a property tax increase: the issuance of bonds in the amount of $230,735,000 for school facilities and the levy of taxes sufficient to pay the principal of the interest on the bonds. YES/NO

Bond: This is a property tax increase: the issuance of bonds in the amount of $55,305,000 for school stadium facilities and the levy of taxes sufficient to pay the principal of the interest on the bonds. YES/NO

Chasin Heights Special Improvement District

• Proposition A – K

Real Road Special Improvement District

• Proposition A – K

Sunshine Trails Special Improvement District

• Proposition A – K

Collin County

Richardson Independent School District

• School Board

  • District 3

    Euan Blackman

    Nazlee Burney

    Luis Fernandeo

• Place 6 At Large

  Eric Eager

  Blake Sawyer

  Ashlee Thurston

  Alex Zavala

Dallas County – Dallas News Voter Guide (paywall $.25)

Addison

• Propositions

• Council (3)

  Darren Gardner

  Schnell Blanton

  Howard Freed

  Trish Stuart

  Chris DeFrancisco

Carrollton

• Propositions

• Mayor

  Steve Babick

  Zul Mohamen

• Council

  • Place 4

    Lisa Sutter

    Thomas Chellethe

    Mike Song

Cedar Hill

• Council

  • Place 2

    Patty Bushart

    Ty Coleman

Cockrell Hill

• Council

  • Place 1

    Linda McCoy

    Miriam Rodriguez

  • Place 2

    Heath Garcia

    Rene Hudson-Franklin

Combine

• Council at Large

  Josh Caldwell

  Tonya Ratcliff

  Patrick Stepp

  Del MacLaren

DeSoto

• Council

  • Place 2

    Tymerian Oluwole

    Cora Garner

    Pierette Parker

  • Place 4

    David Edgerson

    Brian Wesley

Farmers Branch

• Mayor

  Terry Lynne

  Rinkesh Desai

  Jaime Rivas

• District 2

  Tina Bennett-Burton

  Brenda Brodrick

Garland

• Council

  • District 5

    Forest Bryant

    Margaret Lucht

    Paul Dollar

Grand Prairie

• Proposition

• Council

  • At Large Place 7

    Bessye Adams

    Marketta Nimo

  • District 3

    Mike Del Bosque

    Amber Timberlake

    David Chappell

Highland Park

• Proposition

• Council (5)

  Don Snell

  Mike Tibbals

  Margaret Keliher

  Leland White

  Mark Marynick

  Alan Friedman

Hutchins

• Mayor

  Domonic Didehbani

  Mario Vasquez

• Council (2)

  Gilbrianna Wadley

  Steve Nichols

  Brenda Campbell

Irving

• Mayor

  Zhanae Jackson

  Olivia Abreu

  Al Zapanta

• District 3

  Tammam Alwan

  Abdul Khabeer

  Kejal Patel

• District 6

  Fahad Ahmed

  Dana Collins

  Sushill Patel

Lancaster

• Council

  • Place 4

    Ladarrin Davis

    Keithsha Wheaton

    Derrick Robinson

Lewisville

• Council

  • Place 1

    Erum Ali

    Brent Kuykendall

    Zammang Maulcin

  • Place 3

    Adrian Doko

    Ronni Cade

    Tiffany Karim

Richardson

• Proposition

Rowlett

• Council

  • Place 1

    Chris Kizziar

    Betsey White

  • Place 3

    Byron Fassett

    Scott Hart

  • Place 5

    Robert van Bloemendaal

    Carter Holston

Sachse

• Council

  • Place 3

    Frank Millsap

    Laura Tovar

  • Place 4

    Gurvinder Singh

    Tim Legh-Page

    Alan Bell

    Beau Hooten

Seagoville

• Council

  • Place 1

    Edward Rasmussen

    Rick Howard

    Lisa Niedermeier

  • Place 3

    Harold Magill

    Phillip Pelayo

  • Place 5

    Jon Epps

    Harvey Johnson

Sunnyvale

• Propositions

University Park

• Propositions

Wilmer

• Mayor

  Sheila Petta

  Laura Jacobs

Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District

• School Board (2)

  Luis Palomo

  Carolyn Benevides

  Cinthya Noda

  Dave Jimenez

Coppell Independent School District

• School Board

  • Place 5

    Kevin Chaka

    Khanh Windham

Dallas Independent School District

• Propositions/Bonds

• School Board

  • District 2

    Sarah Weinberg

    Winnetka Smith-Alford

  • District 6

    Joyce Foreman

    Stephen Poole

Ferris Independent School District

• School Board

  • Place 6

    Fred Fuentes

    Cristina Loredo

    Elena Rodriguez

  • Place 7

    Jeff Stanley

    Mitchell Brantley

    Bill Gray

Irving Independent School District

• School Board

  • District 1

    Kelly Snapp

    Tom Robles

Garland Independent School District

• School Board

  • Place 4

    Tim Parr

    Daphne Stanley

Grand Prairie Independent School District

• School Board

  • Place 3 At Large

    Gloria Carrillo – incumbent

    Wendell Davidson

    Patty Harris

    Robert Williams

  • Place 4

    Phil Jimerson

    Mike Riley

Landcaster Independent School District

Propositions

Lewisville Independent School District

• School Board

  • Place 5

    Brian Pollard

    Staci Barker

Mesquite Independent School District

• School Board

  • Place 3

    Gary Bingham

    Cassandra Morris

  • Place 4

    Greg Everett

    Pamela Mitchell

  • Place 5

    Robert Seward

    Carrie Bruce

Irving

• Mayor

  Zhane Jackson

  Olivia Novelo Abreu

  Al Zapanta

• City Council

  • District 3

    Tammam Alwan

    Abdul Khabeer

    Kejal Patel

  • District 6

    Fahad Ahmed

    Dana Collins

    Sushil Patel

Harris, Ford Bend, Waller Counties Election Guide

Katy Independent School District

• School Board

  • Position 3

    Sean Hesterly

    Haider Razvi

    Cicely Taylor

  • Position 4

    Tiffany Auzenne

    David Greene

    Jim Davidson

  • Position 5

    Caleb Silverio

    Nathan Shipley

    Jesus Nieto

Katy

• Council Member

  • At Large

    Paul Follis

    AJ Bailey

  • Ward A

    Johnson Dietz

    JR Richardson

Spring Branch Independent School District

• School Board

  • Position 1

    J Steven Smelley

    Courtney Anderson

  • Position 2

    Ted Tredennick

    Sally Cone

    Jeri Spence

Hays County

Hays Consolidated Independent School District

• School Board

  • District 2

    Jose Perez

    Katy Armstrong

  • At Large

    Ashlee Thurston

    Alex Zavala

Kleberg County

Kingsville

• City Commission recall election cancelled

Lubbock County

New Deal Independent School District

• School Board (2)

  Alex Saenz incumbent

  Timothy Seeley incumbent

  Casey Bigham

  Brad Proctor

Lubbock-Cooper Independent School District

• School Board

  • Place 4

    Trey Strong

    Abel Rodriguez

  • Place 6

    Jason Cannaday

    Shelbie Nacole

    Eric Sansom

Roosevelt Independent School District

• School Board

  • Place 1

    Travis McCallister

    Josue Renteria

Tarrant County

Arlington

• Mayor

  Jim Ross

  Hunter Crow

  Steve Cavender

  Shaun Mallory

• City Council

  • District 3

    Nikkie Hunter

    Kelly Burke

  • District 4

    Tom Ware

    Rojo Meixueiro

    Lisa Ventura

  • District 5

    Rebecca Boxall

    Brittney Garcia-Dumas

  • District 8

    Jason Shelton

    Corey Harris

    Melody Fowler

Arlington Independent School District

• School Board

  • Place 6

    Jan Tyler

    Brooklyn Richardson

  • Place 7

    Leanne Haynes

    Linton Davis

• Arlington ISD Bond Election

Castleberry Independent School District

• School Board

  • Place 2

    Tracy Gallman

    Sydney Claridge

Clear Creek Independent School District

• School Board

  • District 2

    Jamieson Mackay

    Ernest Hallman II

  • District 3

    Gabriel Gonzales II

    Auturo Sanchez

Crowley Independent School District

• School Board

  • Place 3

    Michael Laszek

    Jacqueline Upshaw

    Daryl Davis II

Kennedale Independent School District

• School Board

  • Place 7

    Maria Perez

    Felicia Moody

Mansfield Independent School District

• School Board

  • Place 7

    Courtney Wilson

    Michele Gooch

Rockwall County

• School Board Election Cancelled

Fate

• Codi Chinn recall election

Fort Worth

• Propositions A - O

• City Council

  • District 10

    Chris Jamieson

    Alicia Ortiz

Fort Worth Independent School District

• School Board

  • District 1

    Amanda Inay

    Camille Rodriguez

  • District 4

    Wallace Bridges

    Enoc Baeza

  • District 7

    Michael Ryan

    Terry Roach

  • District 9

    Roxanne Martinez

    Robyne Kelly

Frisco Independent School District

• School Board

  • Place 4

    Muni Janagarajan

    Dynette Davis

Travis County

Eanes Independent School District

• School Board

  • Place 1

    Afshan Khan

    Kate Ivers

    Robert Morrow

  • Place 2

    Laura Clark

    Jennifer Blackman

  • Place 3

    Diane Hern

    Swasti Apte

Happy voting!

Remember, your vote is your voice and that voice is your superpower!

I know I’m about to piss off a whole lot of people by saying this, but, he can’t be, and deep down you know that.

What he CAN do, and really any of the candidates polling lower than Katie Porter, is give us a Republican Governor.

There are 64 candidates on the ballot and Butch Ware isn’t even one of them, because he didn’t file his tax returns by the deadline. That is on him and him alone. But unfortunately, write-in IS allowed in the primary, just not the general. So, because he’s getting so much attention, people WILL write him in, and congratulations, you are adding at 65th candidate to the ballot.

As if 64 wasn’t enough.

Also, I can’t overstate this, California is not like other states. The top two candidates go to the general election. That’s it. You can try to convince yourself otherwise, but I am 100% sure that that will be some combination of Katie Porter, Tom Steyer, Xavier Becerra, Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco.

Two of those candidates are going to the general election.

That’s it.

There’s no write in, there’s no third party, there are two candidates, full stop. Those are the five highest polling candidates and the next one down is Matt Maha, — who thinks he’s running for his current job, based on how much he talks about being San Jose Mayor. And he’s not close to the top five at all.

If you vote for anyone but those top 5, and you are not MAGA, you are going to be taking votes away from Porter, Steyer and Becerra, and that means Hilton and Bianco are more likely to go to the general election ALONE. Two Republicans vying to destroy California. And that’s not an exaggeration.

If you watched the first debate on Tuesday, you KNOW how much that isn’t an exaggeration.

I think one of the most revolting moments was about non English speakers.

The candidates were all asked if Trump’s plan to give English proficiency tests to truck drivers should come to California.

Bianco said non-English drivers are responsible for the most accidents, and Hilton took it a step further and said that if you can’t speak English you shouldn’t even be allowed to have a license.

If you even consider voting for anyone that isn’t one of those top 3 Democrats, you are helping ensure one of those Republicans is our next governor.

And it’s worse with Butch Ware, because on top of the fact that he’s never going to the general election, he’s not even capable enough for any job with a deadline, let along literal governor. 64 candidates turned in their tax returns correctly and on time and he couldn’t even do that.

Is that REALLY the guy you want in charge of the 4th largest GDP in the world?

Seriously???

This whole election is terrifying me. Eric Swalwell will still be on the ballot, so will Betty Yee and any other candidate that I hope to god drops out in the coming weeks.

Yes, with every poll, percentage of undecideds have been higher than that of any given candidate, but with how many candidates are on the ballot, its just not a given that those undecideds don’t end up splitting the vote between even more candidates, so several Dems finish around 10% with both Republicans sailing to the general election

And the more you lift up candidates like Butch Ware, the more likely that is.

I hope, if you support the values he says he has, you also want to do literally everything in your power to make sure neither of the two guys — who don’t think people who speak English should be allowed to drive — are in the governor’s mansion next year.

RIGHT???

Remember, your vote in your voice and that voice is your superpower, so, for the love of god, don’t make yourself partially responsible for giving California a MAGA governor.

Brown County, Wisconsin

Tue, April 7 - Brown County does not tend to lean left at all. They voted for Trump with 53% of the vote. Which is why it’s such a pleasant surprise that earlier this month Rachel Maes, who happens to be trans, was elected to the county board.

And she’s made it clear to Kelly Fenton at The Dairyland Patriot that being part of the trans community greatly informs the governmental decisions that matter most to her:

a demographic that you belong to is being treated like crap, that’s infuriating. There’s no due process. There’s no opportunity to go to the DMV and get a replacement (license). And then there are some of the bills that are being passed in other states and other jurisdictions. I’m going on a Disney cruise with my family in less than a month, and when I’m in the airport and when I’m at the port, those are government-owned buildings, and I can’t use the bathroom in those buildings without risking a $10,000 fine or six months in jail.

But she goes on to say that she is hopeful:

So there is a sense of injustice, and I don’t just weather that flippantly. But the pendulum swings both ways, and I’m still optimistic that things will normalize.

You know what makes me optimistic? Seeing someone like her in that office and that county. Things are really bad, but an incredibly qualified trans woman just got elected in an R+8 district and I think that’s pretty incredible.

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Fri, April 10 - The first anti ICE bill in a trio of three has already gone into effect after it was unanimously voted on by the city council and signed into law by the mayor.

The law will prevent all city employees from sharing, or gathering in the first place, any data having to do with someone’s immigration status. And it goes a step further by saying that a city employee can’t can’t single anyone out based on where they suspect they’re from, and there will be consequences if either of these things are violated.

Council member Barb Warwick, one of the cosponsors of the bill told WESA:

“I really hope that word gets out about this…so that our folks, our immigrant neighbors, really know that when it comes to the city of Pittsburgh, you are safe here.  You are safe calling 911. You are safe engaging in city services and city programs … you do not need to fear for your safety. We are not collaborating with ICE in any way.

I love how many times I’ve gotten to post out this kind of law around the country. So many cities are really stepping up to protect their residents, both big and small. It’s great to see that Pittsburgh has now added their name to that list.

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Miami, Florida

Fri, April 10 - Florida removed Miami’s rainbow crosswalk less than 6 months ago, but the straight members of the Miami City commission have already come up with the idea to save the crosswalk. And it was unveiled earlier this month.

Yes, according to commissioner, Alex Fernandez, the fact that they’re straight is important:

It was the straight members of the Miami Beach City Commission that said we’re going to collect these bricks piece by piece and make out of them a mosaic of love that today stands more visible for everyone to know that today Miami Beach continues to be the most inclusive and beautiful destination in the state of Florida.

It’s an important reminder that we will never be erased. That that we aren’t alone. And both those things make me feel so much less Doomed.

As State Senator Shevrin Jones said in his post about the unveiling:

You can try to erase symbols of love, but you will never erase the people. Joy is our resistance.

He’s right. And we can’t forget that.

So those are today’s stories. Whether it’s a queer story or one fighting back against ICE, we’re NOT Doomed. We are having setbacks, no question about it, but we WILL win. And the more stories we have like this, the faster that will happen!

Our voices are our superpower, but ONLY when we use them!

It’s herding cats. The job can be simplified down to “herding cats.”

Dems do not all have the same values or the same way of governing by those values. This is sometimes because we are a big tent with many disparate points of views and sometimes because their district, or state is purple, or even red, and we need to make sure a Dem keeps the seat. And Sometimes it’s a combination of both.

That means there is no other member that could convince some members to vote a certain way. You, as their constituent have more power. You can contact their office, and protest in their district and make noise on social media. Their vote is based on their assumptions about their district, so CHANGE THEM.

Everyone talks about Nancy Pelosi. But you have to remember, that was when she was SPEAKER, not minority leader.

She didn’t bring anything to the House floor until she had the votes to pass it. That’s not what Leaders Jeffries and Schumer aren’t doing.

They don’t get a choice when something comes to the House or Senate floor. That is up to Thune and Johnson.

So we’re not always gonna have the votes because Dems have absolutely no say of when something gets voted on.

Dems might not even KNOW until an hour before the vote, or sometimes less.

I can’t overstate this.

Schumer and Jeffries and whips Senator Dick Durbin and Rep Katherine Clark whip as best they can given these facts, but they aren’t magical superheros. If a member doesn’t want to vote with the Dems, they’re not gonna vote with the Dems.

It doesn’t matter is Schumer turns himself into a pretzel, that fact isn’t gonna change.

He is not responsible for that person not voting with us. He can’t be. For the aforementioned reason above that he is not a superhero.

But that doesn’t make him BAD at whipping.

In fact, the best example I can give is the one most of you blamed him for the most: the Government Shutdown.

Those 7 members wanted to give in THE WEEK the Shutdown started. Some of them would have caved that first day.

Through painstaking negotiation over and over again, Schumer was able to hold them off till after the November election.

That was NOT easy. These cats did not want to be herded. But because of his efforts, we won BIG in the off year general election.

Could another leader have done the same thing? Maybe. Could the most progressive member of the Senate have? I don’t know.

There’s a fine line between herding effectively and alienating. Blue dogs and progressives all have Democratic values but don’t agree on how they need to be implemented.

Not to mention, this wasn’t even about how big the tent is, but rather how much of a given district is military and government employees. There was nothing Schumer could say that would convince these members that their constituents could go another week, two weeks, month etc., without being paid. Period.

I don’t think that would have been different with leader Murphy or Murray or Van Hollen. The facts wouldn’t magically change.

The job of the leader makes them unpopular by design. You are not popular with the cats you are herding. And you’re certainly not popular with the owners, when you have to explain that you tried your best but their cat still wandered off.

But that’s the job.

I’m not saying this is always the case. There are a few times that the House Democratic Caucus chooses not to whip that they might have some success if they had. Same goes for the Senate. And of course Schumer’s own votes are his own choice, so yeah, the Israel weapons vote was incredibly disappointing.

But stop thinking that other members have no agency. The best minority leader in the world can’t necessarily keep their minority caucus together.

We don’t know what Speaker Jeffries is like, but we DO know that Majority Leader Schumer managed to pass the Inflation Reduction Act and the Chips and Sciences Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act with the slimmest of majorities.

That said, Chuck Schumer has been in this position since 2017 and it’s time for him to step down in January. No one wants the job right now, just listen to Senator Whitehouse laugh when you ask him if he does. But it’s time.

Not some secret vote that’s going to divide the caucus the next time he fails to be a magician, but rather, convincing him that it’s time to give someone else a shot.

The thing is, you don’t vote. So, you might not like the next person who wants the job. Just saying.

Indiana

Mon, Feb 9 - Yes this is an old story, but I think it deserves some attention. Indiana is thought of as one of the reddest states in the nation, so when we have a party win like this, I can’t let it go unmentioned.

There is at least one Dem running in ALL 25 State Senate seats up for election, AND 91 out of 100 State House seats are contested as well!

This is HUGE for a state like Indiana which has a total of 40 Democrats in a 150 seats of the House and Senate.

And all Senate seats have not been contested by Dems since 1974 and this many House seats since 1992 when there were different rules.

Indiana Senate Minority Leader Shelli Yode celebrated saying:

Hoosiers are fired up and fed up with the endless partisanship and self-serving priorities of the Republican Braun supermajority at the Statehouse. Families are doing everything right, yet the cost of living keeps climbing—and too often this supermajority chooses headlines over help. That’s why a record number of Democratic candidates are stepping forward to serve their communities at this truly critical time for our state and country. They’re ready to get to work to make Indiana more affordable: lowering childcare costs, protecting working families’ budgets, and investing in the future of our communities so people can not just get by, but get ahead.

The IN midterm primary is coming up on May 5 and you might even have two Dems to chose from, not to mention non partisan races matter a whole lot too, so please do some research and remember to vote.

This is becoming more and more frequent. Republican controlled states are not a lost cause and the Indiana Democratic Party made this happen! This is why it’s so important to support and nurture your state party, cause things like this ARE possible. And that makes me feel less Doomed!

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Virginia

Mon, April 6 - I could post a win out of Virginia every single day if I wanted to. This is what happens when a Dem becomes governor, after four years of a disastrous MAGA Republican. Governor Spanberger signed a bill into law that will stop the state from issuing Robert E. Lee specialty license plates. The law will go into affect on July 1. Though current license plates will still be valid, unfortunately.

Delegate Dan Helmer, one of the bill’s authors, posted:

The Confederacy was a four year period in which traitors hellbent on preserving slavery tried - and then failed - to divide the Union. The Confederacy and its leaders do not deserve our commemoration, and its adherents certainly do not deserve taxpayer dollars.

This is such a wonderful win. It’s not flashy and it’s not life altering, it’s just quietly standing up for progressive values. And among all the massive wins, especially in Virginia right now, these smaller ones are worth celebrating too.

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Boulder City, Nevada

Wed, April 8 - Thanks to a whole lot of angry noise, Townsite Solar 2 have postponed their application to create a data center in Bolder City.

What was supposed to be discussed at the April 15 planning board meeting has now been postponed till the May 20th one.

Three days before this decision was announced, John L. Smith wrote an opinion for The Nevada Independent convinced that the push back had come too late.

But it looks like he was wrong. There was a change.org petition started on March 26 by resident Brynn deLorimier. It had almost 1k signers within two, and now it has over 4000. Half of those signing since April 8.

To put this into perspective, there are only 15,000 residents of Boulder City. So that is almost 1/4 of the entire community that is taking active steps against this.

As Smith said in his article:

The plan, preliminary or otherwise, is proceeding despite growing pushback. The Townsite Solar 2 project is on the agenda for an upcoming city planning commission meeting. It is scheduled to break ground later this year, according to published reports, and could be ready for business as early as 2027.

They were fast tracking this, and at the very least, the pushback from both this petition and in person protesting has pushed the entire thing back a month.

Also, worth noting that this data center will be on the ballot in November. It will be “Question 1” for all of Eldorado Valley. I’m not sure what would happen if they fast track it and voters say no, which I certainly expect them to, but hopefully the pressure keeps building and we don’t have to find out.

This delay may feel small, but it’s not. It shows our power. ESPECIALLY if you live in a small town.

And, like everything else I post about, that makes me feel less Doomed!

We have the power. Every single time. We have the power to vote, we have the power to run and we have the power to fight back. Never forget that!

OUR voices are our superpower, but ONLY when we use them!

It’s complicated. And it’s not something to celebrate, certainly not right now. But there is an annual event that happened in Israel that is.

It’s the Memorial Ceremony, the 21st annual, hosted by Combatants for Peace. It is a partnership between former Palestinian militants (all of whom are former Israeli prisoners and considered terrorists by the Israeli government) and former IDF soldiers.

The organization was founded by Chen Alon and Sulaiman Khateeb in 2006, and they started this Memorial Ceremony the same year.

Alon told Daniela Bezzi at Pressenza:

It took some time for our Ceremony to strike the right balance in reflecting both narratives of the conflict: not only overcoming the initial and perhaps inevitable asymmetry, given the greater presence of Israeli participants compared to Palestinians; but paying close attention to what I like to call ‘the aesthetics of ethics’. Which means: carefully choosing to use certain terms rather than others; avoiding the use of photos, video footage, and graphic elements that might have risked emphasizing a certain narrative at the expense of the main objective, which is to recognize one another as human beings, to meet in a space of attentive, authentic, and mutual listening, with a view to re-humanizing the person you would normally see as an enemy.

Khateeb added:

From its very 1st edition, considering the ongoing conflict, our Memorial Ceremony has been a one-of-a-kind event, given the violence and dehumanization we are witnessing. An event that is anything but ritualistic or predictable, with powerful transformative potential for anyone who participates: I would not hesitate to call it a sacred moment. Sacred because it underscores the value of choice, the option of responsibility that we all have as human beings. And for me, as a Palestinian, thinking of our tradition of ‘conflict resolution’ within our tribal society, it resonates as tasamuh, that means forgiveness. Difficult, but not impossible if we only think of ourselves as human beings, prone to error, yet at the same time endowed with the possibility to choose, to decide how to move forward, aware that on that very patch of land we must coexist, hopefully in peace.

I know these are long quotes, but I hope you read them in full. There is this pervasive idea that no one in Israel cares about Palestinians or the history, that no one is against the various wars or for a free Palestine, and that’s just not true.

When you refuse to see Israelis as separate from the government and the actions of the government, these are the people you are silencing. These are the fighters and peace activists who need our support and amplification. Who lose support every time “zionist” is used as a slur, and AIPAC becomes a code word for Jewish money and organizations like J Street gets folded in to the concept.

21 years. This is not new. This is not because of the Israeli government’s response to October 7. This does not happen under the assumption that this is a new conflict. It exists to acknowledge the whole story. All the trauma and destruction, from the Nakba through today.

Be more intentional with your language. These are the people we need to support and cheer on, not alienate. These are the stories we need to lift up, not shut down.

Israel is full of organizations like Combatants for Peace. From Peace Now, to Standing Together, it is possible AND necessary to fight alongside Israeli peace activists if there will ever be a chance for a free Palestine.

The ceremony this year was an hour long. I implore you to watch it. Take an hour and see what Israeli peace activists are doing. Maybe, hopefully it will convince you to change your tune.

Let me end this the same way I ended all my Tiktoks following October 7.

Refua Shlema (Hebrew prayer for healing) to all of us in need of healing, be it mind, body or spirit, and may the memories of those who have been lost, and those who still will be be a blessing, and a revolution for peace, freedom and justice for all.

Arizona

Fri, March 27 - The Republican leaning state Supreme Court refused to hear three voter rights cases, letting the lower court ruling stand. In all three cases the lower court rulings were almost entirely in our favor.

The first case, Arizona Free Enterprise Club v. Fontes, would have made it so that mail in ballot signatures could only be compared to the original voter registration. This means that the ballot would not count for anyone who’s signature had changed since they first registered. This would most affect the disabled and elderly communities.

To make the win even sweeter, it was Bill Bar’s “Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections” that brought the lawsuit.

The second case, Gould v. Mayes, was the ongoing Republican demand to hand count all ballots, brought by Mohave County Supervisor Ron Gould. Hand counting ballots drastically lengthens the process and human error is very much a thing.

And case three, Petersen v. Fontes, would have made it so you don’t automatically receive a mail in ballot if you’re already on the mail in ballot list, rather you’d have to ask for a ballot every single election, which is a surefire way to make sure less people vote. This lawsuit was brought by Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen and former House Speaker Ben Toma, Republicans, of course.

Three cases that could have seriously hurt voting rights in AZ, and the state Supreme Court refused to hear any of them. That’s huge and definitely makes me feel less Doomed!

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Los Angeles, California

Mon, March 30 - Five years ago, to the day, LA County Supervisors voted to close the Men’s Central Jail, it has some of the worst conditions of any LA jail, which results in an outsized amount of inmate deaths. The most recent of which was literally two weeks ago.

Even DA Nathan Hochman, who is relatively conservative, and the Sheriffs Department think the jail needs to close.

But there have been several delays, including the implementation of a new law that restructures the county elected offices and due to an administrative error may have accidentally upended Measure J, which was all about reducing prison population and funding alternative programs.

Suffice it to say, we’re still here and the jail is still open.

So late last month, on the “angelversary” of former inmate, John Horton, who died in the jail in 2009, The People’s Care Collective, Justice LA Now, Dignity and Power Now, Centro CSO and Check the Sheriff organized a protest outside the LA County Board of Supervisors office to demand the closure once and for all.

The People’s Care Collective posted a clip from the event with the caption:

As health workers, we refuse and refute the twisted cooptation of the term ‘care’ by the DA and LA sheriffs to justify the construction of any new jail or carceral facility. There is no true care when people are in cages - just a carceral illusion.

The goal of the protest was to get a real timeline of when the jail will be closed, no more money time or energy put into building new jails and Hortman’s death case being reopened.

As I hope you know by now, protesting DOES have an impact. And given that the LA Board of Supervisors and the DA and the Sheriff Department agree that MCJ should be cloesed, hopefully this will make closing the jail more of a priority.

And if it doesn’t, I promise you, these group will be right back at their office until it does. All protests make me feel less Doomed, but especially local ones that have the most chance of making a real tangible impact, like closing this jail once and for all.

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Boise, Idaho

Tue, April 7 - When Republicans ruled that Boise’s pride flag city flag was illegal (cause only a city flag created before 2023 was acceptable…nice work around) Boise city government went back to the drawing board.

What they came up with were light poles wrapped in pride colors and a window display at City Hall.

City Council President Meredith Stead explained:

The law was based on the flag and we are using rainbows, so and its not at all a flag, so I would say we are in full compliance of the law, that’s certainly the most important thing to us so we’re going to be sure that we always are and this was just a different way to celebrate our diversity and values.

The Republicans in the state legislature are livid that Boise found a loophole, and will continue to waste time and try to ban anything pride from any public space, and Boise will continue to fight back every single time.

The whole project cost just shy of $6000 of the city’s already allocated operating budget. So it’s gonna be a challenge for the legislative Republicans to nitpick that small a project. I’m sure they will try anyway.

Regardless this is just another example of a Dem city in a Republican state fighting for equality, equity and visibility. It happens all the time and it makes me feel less Doomed every time it does.

I hope this is the reminder you needed that we are not Doomed, and we ARE fighting back, all over the country.

And remember our voices are our superpower, but only when we use them!

TODAY is the end of the Virginia redistricting election. Have you voted yet?? If not, let me help:

A YES vote is for stopping Republicans from controlling Congress, by leveling the nationwide playing field. And the Republican disinformation campaign, would have you believe otherwise.

Republicans want Virginians to think that the likes of President Obama and Governor Abigail Spanberger are against the referendum.

They are trying to convince voters that Virginia is in a vacuum and unrelated to Texas and Missouri and North Carolina and Florida.

But it’s not in a vacuum. Texas, Missouri and North Carolina have already redistricted to further favor Republicans and Florida isn’t far behind. It’s not just about one state, it’s about the country.

And the thing is, none of these Republicans states asked. They took. In legislative sessions and emergency hearings.

California and Virginia know it’s about the voters. The voters have to decide. It’s not happening in closed door meetings or hearings where people are ignored, it’s out in the open and public and up to voters.

And voters got it in CA. Voters understood that this is temporary. In both states, this only lasts still the next census. Hopefully voters in VA will understand the same thing. They’ll understand that the Republican states couldn’t care less about the next census. Their goal is always to be in power, not to represent their constituents.

And if you hate gerrymandering? Great, so do I. But the only way we can get rid of it, make it a law that every state must have an independent redistricting commission is if we level the playing field, that was already deeply skewed before this.

There are 8 states that are gerrymandered towards Dems (before this election, with CA and VA, that would be 10) and 19 gerrymandered for Republicans. Even with what CA and VA are doing, it’s still not level. Republicans still have an outsized advantage, and again, they don’t consult voters at all.

So let’s even things out, make them more fair, cause, for once, we can, and fight to get enough Dems in office that independent redistricting is the norm for years to come.

So, VA, remember that your vote is your voice and that voice is your superpower, and VOTE YES before polls close TONIGHT!

I certainly hope you know about one of the elections this week, and that, of course, would be VA redistricting referendum, but, of course that’s not all.

On Tue, there is a recall in CO, several municipal in FL, School Board in NJ (including Newark which had a 3% turnout when I started this whole election guide thing in 2023), and finally on Sat is a municipal race in DE.

As always, every single race matters, no matter how small. So make sure to vote!

Let’s get started!

Early voting this week: OH, NE, SD midterm primaries, AZ and TX elections, MI special, and TN state and local primary. Please vote early if you can!

Tue April 21

Colorado

Weld County

• Firestone

  • Recall Election

    • Trustee

      Lorna Morton

      Raymond Byrd

Florida

Bay County

• Mexico Beach (election cancelled due to candidates not be opposed)

• Springfield

  • Mayor

    Carl Curti

    Ralph Hammond incumbent

Miami-Dade County

• Coral Gables

  • 8 Referendums follow link to descriptions

• Treasure Island

  • Arthur Czyszczon Recall – temporary stay

New Jersey

Bergen County

• Cliffside Park

  • School board (3)

    Teddy Tarabokija (Incumbent)

    Carl Raincourt (Incumbent)

    Judith Abreu (Incumbent)

• Garfield

  • School board

    • 3 year term (3)

      Abdelkader Sardena

      Allan B. Focarino (Incumbent)

      Alban Gaba (Incumbent)

      Adrian Diaz (Incumbent)

      Carmin V. Breonte

    • 1 year term

      Alea Sanchez

      Sean Redzio

• Lodi

  • School board

    • 3 year term (3)

      Katie Lugo-Lisath

      Alfonso Mastrofilipo Jr. (Incumbent)

      Joseph Ramos (Incumbent)

      Kyle Crouchelli

      Abigail Rojas

      Omar D. Lopez

      Nancy Cardone (Incumbent)

      Sharon Salvacion

      Michael T. Apicella

    • 2 year unexpired term (1)

      Laura J. Castellano

      Angie Lopez

      William F. Thomas

Essex County

• Irvington School Board

  Can’t find info on the race

• Newark Public Schools

  • School Board

    • 3 year term (3)

      John Farrell (Moving Newark Schools Forward, the Dem endorsed slate)

      Tawheed Peters (Moving Newark Schools Forward, the Dem endorsed slate)

      Lisa Gray (Moving Newark Schools Forward, the Dem endorsed slate)

      Hasani Council

      Mark Comesanas

      Quamid Childs

    • 1 year term (3)

      Jordy Nivar

      Latoya Jackson

      Tammy Hollaway

Hudson County

• North Bergen School Board

  Can’t find any info

• Weehawken Township Board of Education

  Can’t find any info

• West New York School board

  can’t find any info

Middlesex County

• New Brunswick

  • School board (3)

    Maria Alvarez (Incumbent)

    Patricia Varela (Incumbent)

    Ashley Caldwell (Incumbent)

    Oscar Garcia-Meza (High school senior, current board student rep)

Passaic County

• Passaic

  • School board 3 year term (3)

    Marko Kopic

    Parker J. Brown Jr.

    Juan Arroyo

    Arthur G. Soto (Incumbent)

    Leslie Zuniga (Incumbent)

    Janelle Hall (Incumbent)

Union County

• Westfield Public Schools

  • Board of Education

    Kent Diamond

    Patrick Duffy

    Anthony Tessitore

Warren County

• Blairstown

  • Levy Cap Referendum:

    Should the Township Committee be authorized to increase the 2026 municipal budget beyond the legal cap by $800,000.

Virgina

• Special Ballot Measure

  Question: Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia’s standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census?

  VOTE YES

Sat April 25

Delaware

Kent County

• Hartly – election cancelled, all seats unopposed

• Milford (Also in Sussex)

  • Commissioner

    • Ward 2

      Desiray Anderson

      Marianina Pletcher

      Ronald Mescola

      Kimberly Wills

    • Ward 4

      Katrina Wilson incumbent

      Dawn Tomczak

I hope this helps with all your voting needs!

Remember, your vote is your voice and that voice is your superpower!

It’s confusing, but hopefully this helps clarify some things.

First off, because I know some people will only read the first few paragraphs, every time a Dem introduces the War Powers Resolution in the Senate (or the House), it is putting sand in the gears. It is grinding the body to a halt.

That’s what you wanted, right?

Great, now let’s delve deeper.

In the Senate the War Powers Resolution is pretty unique. It needs a simple majority, not 60, so we really do need only a few Republicans to join, and it’s a privileged resolution, which means the Majority Leader (or Speaker in the House) can’t stop it from coming to the floor — tariffs also fell under this category.

There are 12 Senate Democrats (it begun with 6) cycling through, continuing to bring this up over and over again.

Some Republicans say they are waiting for 60 days to pass the WPR because IF there is an imminent threat, a president can start a war without congressional approval. Let me be very clear. There was no imminent threat and this war is 100% illegal, no matter how you look at it. But Republicans are insisting that the 60 days mark matters.

It is possible, though probably not likely, that the WPR will be passed next week as a result.

So the question on your lips is probably: “Why would Trump listen, it’s already illegal?”

He probably wouldn’t. As usual, unfortunately, that’s not the point.

Ideal scenario: It passes the House and Senate, he vetoes it and Congress magically has enough votes to override the veto and it passes anyway.

If it were to pass, he can extend it for 30 more days to wrap up loose ends and then must end it.

Military personnel would be required to answer for the war in hearings and at this point, they could say that it is an illegal order and refuse to comply.

Up till now, the Administration has been hiding behind classification. It’s not that most of the material of what is (or in most cases isn’t) happening in Iran is a secret, but it’s scattered all over the place and not super easily accessible. So most Americans have no idea that on top of it raising gas prices, and hurting farmers (which will not be apparent to most of us till the fall) this hasn’t been successful at all.

With the WPR all that information would be laid out in hearings, clearly and concisely.

But, as with everything we do in the minority, that’s really not the point. We don’t have the votes for a veto proof majority.

So why do anything at all?

It shows the American people that Democrats oppose the war and Republicans do not. It’s the same reason that Democrats kept calling up votes to end the tariffs. Not cause anyone was expecting the vote to change, but, a lot of Democrats ran and won on the Republicans supporting the tariffs based on these votes.

The Iran war is even less popular. The goal really is as simple as putting Republicans on record or this horrific and costly war.

Essentially, the administration is asking for $100-200b MORE to continue this war. That amount could fund universal pre-K for two years or hearing and dental for seven years for all Americans. Anytime Republicans try to cut anything cause we don’t have the money, this proves that they really do not have a leg to stand on.

Not to mention, so far, we have lost 13 service members with 400 injured, some very seriously.

Republican keep arguing that our skilled military proves the war was necessary. We have one of the most highly trained forces in the world. They will always do a good job (not necessarily a job you agree with but a good job by the standards of the military.) That doesn’t mean there’s any justification for the war taking place, no matter how much Republicans want it to be.

Questioning the necessity of a war is not the same thing as questioning the strength and power of the military.

If you hate all this, and you have a Republican in the House or Senate (or Jared Golden), blow up their phone. They know that keeping this war going is unpopular but it does not hurt to remind them of that. And who knows, it’s a simple majority. It wouldn’t take much for enough votes to be swayed to pass the Resolution.

And even though Trump would almost certainly veto it, the majority of the Congressional body saying that they do not agree with the war would have a political impact, so it is worth doing.

I know this is all super complicated and seems pointless, but let’s go back to the top. Putting sand in the gears and putting Republicans on record for their awful decisions are always a win. Especially when that decision is considered such a disaster across the board.

So let’s keep cheering on our Dems as they introduce this over and over and over again.

Chicago, Illinois

Tue, April 7 - All Chicago public schools are now part of a program called the 81 club which makes all school IDs automatic library cards in the Chicago Public Library system.

This includes access to:

a 6 million-item collection, online databases, digital media and free academic support. Through library resources like Teacher in the Library and Brainfuse, students can access one-on-one tutoring both in person and online, reinforcing classroom learning in real time. 

While anyone can get a library card, there are always a few minor barriers to entry with any new thing one joins. This removes all of them.

Mayor Brandon Johnson said:

This partnership demonstrates my administration’s commitment to build a more equitable and thriving city by bringing all of government together to invest in our young people. By removing barriers and connecting young people to learning opportunities in every neighborhood, we are helping to ensure that students have access to the resources they need in school and beyond.

Anything that makes things more equitable makes me feel less Doomed.

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Utah

Wed, April 8 - Republicans have had another setback in trying to repeal prop 4. The proposition was passed in 2018 and it took until this year’s midterms for it to finally be implemented. It creates a majority Dem Congressional district in Utah.

Republicans have been trying to get enough signatures to get it back on the ballot in November, but instead of securing new signatures, people have been removing theirs. Now two senate districts have gone below the threshold for the required number of signatures, to get on the ballot in November.

Elizabeth Rasmussen, executive director of Better Boundaries the group responsible for Prop 4 celebrated the failure in these two counties but said there’s still more work to do:

[We’re] going to continue to work and make sure that anyone across the state who was tricked or misled into signing the repeal of Proposition 4 has the opportunity to remove their signature.

She added:

Utahns of all political stripes deserve to pick their politicians, not have politicians that pick their voters.

Let me be clear, this district is in place for 2026, regardless. What’s up for debate now is if they can make it a one-term district or not.

Things are looking good for the “or not” camp. And that makes me feel less Doomed.

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West Virginia

Wed, April 8 - You wouldn’t know it, because it is one of the most reliably Republican states, at least recently, but West Virginia has one of the most strict school vaccine laws in the entire country. And that’s not changing anytime soon.

Two members of a three panel of all Republican appointed 4th circuit judges ruled in favor of the Upshur County School District that there cannot be religious vaccine exemptions.

Judge J Harvey Wilkinson, a Regan appointee wrote for the majority opinion that the vaccine law:

is a legitimate exercise of the state’s power to protect the health and well-being of school children. Striking the law down would undermine not just our system of dual sovereignty, but also a long line of Supreme Court precedent.

Well, that’s certainly clear.

It’s not often that good news comes out of West Virginia, but when it comes to standing up for school vaccine laws, they’re right there on the front lines. Even the reddest states are progressive on certain things. That’s an important thing to remember and makes me feel less Doomed.

So I hope, amid all the crap, you seek out the good. And even if you can’t, glad you follow me, so I can make sure you see it anyway.

Remember, our voices are our superpower, but only when we use them!

That’s because of our stupid dangerous Jungle Primary system.

It is not called that as a compliment. A Jungle Primary is a non partisan race, where every candidate runs together: Democrats, Republicans, Green Party, EVERYONE. And it’s chaotic, like a jungle (not that jungles are actually chaotic but, you know what I mean)

There are eight Democrats and two Republicans, and yes Swalwell is still going to be one of those 8, because the candidate filing period ended last month.

Tony Thurmond is nowhere near the top 3, so for the sake of California not having a MAGA governor, I’m not voting for him.

In fact, I don’t know who I’m voting for. That doesn’t mean I’m waiting to endorse. I’m quite literally voting 9 days before Election Day (something I NEVER do) for whichever Democrat has the highest polling numbers.

And I hope you will do the same.

That means you can’t care about how much of a billionaire or how little experience Tom Steyer has, or how hard Katie Porter is to work with or that she actually accused a fellow Dem of rigging an election against her, or that Becerra doesn’t have a history of being super great on criminal justice.

If we don’t like the highest polling candidate, we will hold our noses and vote for them anyway because, Steyer, Porter and Becerra are all lightyears better than Hilton or Bianco.

California does not have write-in candidates in the gubernatorial general election. If Hilton and Bianco go to the general, that’s it.

We can likely easily recall them, but how much damage will they be able to do in the meantime? You have to have a reason to recall from their time in office and then get the necessary signatures and then set an election date and vote. That’s a few months, at least. That’s not a plan.

We have one shot at this and that starts when we receive our primary ballots at the beginning of May.

So, I implore you, consider waiting to vote. Not till Election Day, if there are gonna be shenanigans those will be on Election Day, but maybe a 1-2 weeks before?

Even though Swalwell has dropped out, remember, he is on the ballot, so, he IS going to take votes from a more deserving candidate. And while Yee, Thurmond Mahan, and Villaraigosa are polling super low, they will siphon some votes as well.

Enough to keep a Dem off the general election ballot? I don’t know, but I do know we REALLY can’t risk it. The Republicans are both BAD news.

Chad Bianco is the current Riverside Sheriff and he’s trying to do an election probe into the ballots he gathered in 2025, because of imaginary fraud that doesn’t exist.

Steve Hilton has “protect parental rights” on his website, and we’re all smart enough to know what that means without him including the words “trans,” and “gay,” right? We’ve seen the school board votes? Not to mention, he literally has Trump’s endorsement.

So let’s not even risk it. You can have your favorite Dem, that’s fine, but I’m endorsing “wait to vote and then vote for the highest polling Dem candidate.”

We can’t mess around. We have to do everything in our power to keep the general election from being two Republicans against each other.

Who’s with me?

National

Mon, March 23 - A group of election lawyers, from both sides have launched the Bipartisan American Election Project. This project is simply about protecting elections and the democratic process.

The press release states:

Chief among the principles and norms that BAEP was formed to uphold and defend are the professional, nonpartisan conduct of elections, the testing of outcomes in close races through the procedures provided by state laws, such as recount, contests and litigation, and the acceptance of the results. 

It continues:

BAEP will intervene at the federal, state, and local levels through public communications, filings with administrators, and participation in judicial proceedings, including amicus curiae briefs. 

I think that second part is especially important. They will get involved in every way they possibly can when they hear about something fishy.

People constantly say, all over my feeds, that we’re not gonna have elections, there will be no midterms, it’s a lost cause, etc.

But the more of this we have, the more that’s just not true. While you are panicking, the people who have the expertise are working to make sure we do have elections and they are fair and safe.

MAGA is gonna try to make the elections go in their favor through any means necessary, but the election experts have thought of all contingency plans and are ready.

That matters. And that makes me feel less Doomed!

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Wisconsin

Mon, March 30 - Republicans in the legislature passed a bill that would add Wisconsin to the states participating in the National School Voucher program outlined in the Big Ugly Bill.

Governor Evers, a former educator, at all levels of the education system, announced he was vetoing it “in its entirety. He wrote:

Public funds should go to public schools. Period. Proponents of this nationwide voucher expansion have implored me to support and opt into this program, insisting the program will benefit public school students, families, and schools, too.

This is why it’s important to have elected officials who have previously had careers in a variety of industries. Many people, especially Democrats know how bad school vouchers are, but a former teacher is uniquely qualified to break it down.

Only a former teachers has the experience to say:

As a former science teacher, principal, superintendent, state superintendent, and a son of the state that created the nation’s first-ever private school voucher program, I have spent decades of my life watching the impacts that draining public funds from public schools to fund private voucher school programs instead has had on kids, schools, and public education in Wisconsin.

There’s power in that. He’s not just vetoing it because it’s the right thing to do, but also because his personal experience has shown that fact over and over again.

And I feel less Doomed seeing a veto like this, hopefully you do too.

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Boston, Massachusetts

Mon, April 8 - In March, Boston University demanded pride flags be removed from public spaces, because it could be seen as not being fair or respectful to bigots (actually they said not being “content neutral,” but, ya know, same thing.)

On March 16, dozens of faculty members decried the decision in a letter to the school. On April 2, there was a rally outside of President Melissa Gilliam’s office against the decision. And all this noise paid off.

On Mon, April 8, Gilliam wrote a letter to staff, faculty, teachers and students putting a “pause” on the decision.

She wrote:

In this moment, however, it is critical that we can hold these matters separate. One is a discussion about a policy; the other is a discussion about our core values and respect for members of our community. I am troubled that they became conflated. It signals to me that we need more time and opportunity to consider these matters.

Oh yeah, super hard to conflate them when you make teachers and staff and students remove pride flags, or in the case of Professor Nathan Phillips, remove it for him.

Naturally, Terrier Courage, who are leading the charge against this policy are celebrating the win but fighting for a change in policy not just a pause:

We call for a revised posting policy, applicable to students, faculty, and staff, that permits the display of signs, banners, flags, or posters on doors, windows, and walls of individual offices, residential bedrooms, or private work areas regardless of whether any such item may be visible from outside of the space in which it appears.   

Even though this is only a pause, it’s still an incredibly important reminder of our power. If the university community had stayed silent, this policy would have stayed in place as is. Instead, it’s being reevaluated and will hopefully result in a better outcome for all.

WE are why we’re not Doomed. Stories like this. Not taking no for an answer.

So I hope that this post helped you feel like you can’t give up and we must continue to fight back, cause it works so much more often than you are seeing!

Remember, our voices are our superpower, but ONLY when we use them!

For me, even though I’m Jewish, the Holocaust has always been something I’ve looked at from the outside. My family began leaving Eastern Europe at the very end of the 1800s. They were one of the first families to immigrate to the US with HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society).

My family’s story in Eastern Europe looks a lot like Fiddler on the Roof. Fleeing for their lives from pogroms in the Pale of Settlement, the only part of Eastern Europe Jews were allowed to live in, work in, or exist in at all.

Every Yom HaShoah, or International Holocaust Remembrance Day (UN’s designated commemoration) I’m yet again reminded that for most people this is it. This is the big bad moment of destruction in Jewish history. Nothing else, everything else has been all sunshine and rainbows for Jews.

And I know where it came from. Jews have been the scapegoats of, well, everything, since Judaism has existed. We are blamed for every single thing that goes wrong in the world, economic, political, cultural, you name it, we’re somehow responsible.

And part of that almost makes sense.

Why do people say “Jews control the money”?

Being money lenders was a sin in medieval Christianity, so Jews got this “dirty” job. Why did Jews handle the money? Because they were the only ones who would.

“Jews control Hollywood.”

Well, we did start it. Why? Because Jews were excluded from most professions, so we created our own and gave each other jobs so everyone was working.

Jews have been given nothing and made it work time and time again, and then we became successful and that success became a problem. We were ran out of town, killed, or forced to convert to Christianity, rinse and repeat.

The Holocaust is just the most well known of these examples.

The other thing with the Holocaust is it makes people to associate Jews with Germany and whiteness.

Some Jews are white, in terms of literal skin color. But it’s conditional in terms of racial identity because, well, the Shoah literally happened because H*tler saw Jews as an evil “race.”

White Jews are white….until we’re not. And when we’re in a room with other white people, you can best believe we are hyper aware of that distinction.

But many Jews around the world are not white at all. Some of them are from Eastern Europe, and have the Ashkenazi traditions that get the most attention (another thing we need to work on).

But there are also Sephardic Jews who are descendants of those who were killed, or expelled (probably not those who converted to Christianity) after the Alhambra Decree in the 1400s.

Mizrahi Jews are from MENA. I mean there is non biblical evidence that all Jews are from MENA thousands of years ago, but that’s a whole different discussion.

There are also Beta Yisrael from Ethiopia, Italkim from Italy and many many more. There are only 14 million of us still around but we are a vibrant and culturally diverse Ethnoreligion (that means we are a religion AND an ethnicity, by the way.)

Sometimes I think about how just without the Shoah, by now there would be double or triple the amount of Jews alive today. You go back to the pogroms, and there are even more. Spain and we’d certainly be one of the largest religions in the world.

But anytime we show any prospect of actually being successful of thriving, we’re the evil race that must be stopped.

So this Yom HaShoah, I implore you, please consider how you talk about Jews, how you refer to our generational trauma and how you associate the Shoah with our story. It is a part of our story, one of the most recent parts, certainly the most violent recent part, but in the grand scheme of things, it’s just another in a long list of stories about our destruction and survival.

That’s what Am Yisrael Chai means, by the way.

The PEOPLE of Israel live.

Not the country, the people of the tribe of Israel, the Jews.

Michigan

Wed, Feb 24 - I know this story is almost 2 months old now, but it’s one of those that deserves way more attention than it’s gotten.

The Carter Center and the Ford Center are teaming up to help protect the General Midterm election in Michigan.

Michael Ford said:

The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation is proud of its partnership with The Carter Center and our mutual efforts to restore public trust in our electoral processes.

He continues:

A democratic system of government reflects citizen interest and engagement and also reinforces confidence in our electoral systems. Along with our good friends at The Carter Center, a relationship that reflects the deep friendship of the two former presidents, we embrace this nonpartisan effort to ensure that our elections accurately reflect the public will.

The initiative is nonpartisan and will train Michiganders to be election observers and make sure all election laws are followed and the elections are as safe and secure as possible across the state.

Anything supporting safe and secure elections (not based on MAGA’s definition) makes me feel less Doomed every time.

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Durant, Oklahoma

Wed, March 24 - When The Choctaw Nation heard that DHS was trying to purchase a vacant Big Lots distribution center they decided to buy it instead.

It started five months ago, when they voted in favor of a resolution to oppose DHS purchasing the property. And last month they upped that form a mere opposition to just buying the property so DHS couldn’t.

Chief Gary Batton said in a statement:

The Choctaw Nation’s continued growth is creating new opportunities to strengthen our economic impact and expand our long-term business strategy. We are evaluating how to use this adjoining property as part of our efforts to support operational growth and exploring a variety of potential uses that align with our strategic vision. This is an opportunity to enhance our presence and continue driving economic prosperity for our tribal members and the surrounding community.

I love when organizations and groups do something to help protect their members and the rest of the community and make it sound so innocent and just a mere coincidence.

It really is one of the best ways to fight back, in my opinion. I mean DHS can’t argue that it was politically motivated if it’s merely about *blinks innocently* economic prosperity.

I don’t know about you, but I certainly feel less Doomed hearing a story like this.

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New York City, New York

Tue, April 7 - NYU Faculty went on strike on March 23 and by March 26 they were voting to ratify their new contract. By April 7 the contract was official.

This is the power of a union and of striking.

The union says this is a huge win:

Our agreement with the NYU administration includes historic economic improvements and establishes important new workplace rights for all contract faculty. It not only improves our lives as faculty, but also makes NYU a more equitable, stronger, and freer university.

That’s not something you hear much right now. So it’s really wonderful to hear it here.

It’s an important time to remember a power of striking since we are attempting the first Indivisible endorsed general strike in two weeks on May 1.

And watching those that are successful make me feel less Doomed every single time.

I hope you learned something and feel less Doomed!

Remember, our voices are our superpower, but only when we use them!

Today I was getting lunch, and my mom was watching the LULAC webinar on elections. I was about to go back to work when I heard Nevada Secretary of State, Cisco Aguilar say that Senator Catherine Cortez Masto has been instrumental in fighting to to keep ICE away from polling stations, by restoring them as sensitive locations.

Safe to say I did not know she was working on that, and so I ran to grab my computer and started taking notes.

I am SO glad I did, cause this call was INCREDIBLE.

First, and certainly least important, I learned that the only two Latino Secretaries of State, Nevada’s Aguilar and Arizona’s Adrian Fontes are literally cousins. Their family should be very proud cause it’s so clear they care a whole lot.

Let’s start with Aguilar, cause he spoke first.

We have not been talking about Secretary of State races a whole lot. In fact, if you asked me who was running….in any state….I’d have nothing for you. That’s a problem. They are our best line of defense against Republican bullshit before, during and after elections.

Luckily, just because we aren’t paying attention, or maybe just me, doesn’t mean they aren’t acting. They are focusing on keeping the seats we have, and gaining some seats as well.

There are 26 states with SoS elections in 2026, we have 13 states we need to hold and 13 we could flip. Find out if you live in one of those states and consider this election as important as who you vote for in Congress. Who we vote for for SoS in ‘26, determines how we are able to vote in ‘28.

But there’s also the matter of getting people to feel safe voting at all. One of the best ways to do this is for everyone who is able to sign up to be a poll worker, especially Latino, AANHPI and Black people, because it’s easier to get someone to feel safer when they see someone who looks like them in a position of authority in the room.

He also said that it’s important to communicate directly with voters and become “trusted messengers.” For him, that means making ballots available and easy to access in a variety of languages, also getting texts in that language too.

He said especially in terms of Latinos, in Nevada, 1/3 of voters are Latino, but 50% of young students are, meaning Nevada is rapidly becoming more Latino, so he’s putting a lot of time and effort into make it as easy as possible for them to start businesses and feel like the SoS is a safe and helpful resource.

Fontes echoed alot of what Aguilar said, but also focused more heavily on the legal and legislative side.

He started by saying “now is the time to remain uncomfortable.” These fights are going to be hard and painful but we can’t shy away from them. Everything that happened in the past week with Swalwell is a testament to that.

He is putting focus into making sure that all law enforcement agencies in AZ know that it is illegal for anyone with a weapon to be in a polling place. He also mentioned that Republicans tried to introduce a bill that would change that, and thanks to a whole lot of pushback, it failed. Public pressure works!

He shouted out special elections and their importance, like the recent election that kept Turning Point candidates off the Salt Water River board and how we have to highlight and support election administrators at all levels.

Finally, he elaborated on what Aguilar said about communication.

He said becoming a trusted messenger isn’t about repeating the same message over and over again till it’s believed, but rather showing that you’re trustworthy through work in other areas. Each SoS office does several things. It’s important to put as much time and energy and focus into those other parts as elections. Someone is more likely to trust the safety and security of the election process if they have easily been helped by the office before.

It’s also worth mentioning that the disinformation hasn’t changed, just the method of spreading the misleading message. And both Democracy Defender’s Fund’s Norm Eisen as well as League of Women Voter’s Celina Stewart reiterated this along with Fontes.

They are prepared for EVERYTHING.

Eisen said:

We are gonna peacefully but lawfully fight in the court of law but also in the court of public opinion to explain what it’s all about, and we are gonna win!

And Fontes explained that part of the importance of all of these illegal rulings is to help Americans understand what is legal and what is illegal, even when the president doesn’t care. I hadn’t thought of that angle before. Most people don’t know what’s in the constitution, the more people who know the more informed voters are.

Finally, I’ll leave you with this. Stewart reminded us all that Trump’s mail in voting executive order happened because he’s losing. Because what those who are fighting like hell on the ground are doing. It IS working, even if it doesn’t feel like it.

So, now that you’re fired up and ready to fight, let’s go win some elections! Cause, your vote is your voice and that voice is your superpower, but only when you use it!

This week, vote with the energy of moon joy and of Hungary voting out their 16-year dictator, Victor Orban. Every election gets us closer to that reality here.

This week we’re looking at some local elections in CA, FL, and SC, a County Commissioner seat in GA, school district races in MN, Mayor in NM, county refurrendum in VA all on Tuesday, and NJ-11 on Thursday to fill Gov Mikie Sherrill’s congressional seat.

These don’t seem like huge deals, but I PROMISE they are!

So let’s get into it!

EARLY VOTING IS HAPPENING IN: OH, NE and SD (midterms primaries), TN (state and county primaries), and VA (redistricting refferendum)

April 14

California

Voter Registration Deadline: 15 days before Election Day

Lancaster

• City Council

  Rocio Castellanos incumbent

  Renage Garrison

  Cynthia Hernandez (LA County Fed of Labor endorsed)

  Raj Malhi Incumbent

  Cedric White

Vernon

• City Council

  Carol Menke

  Monica Rodriguez

Whittier (Would be FLIPS)

• Mayor

  James Becerra DEMOCRAT (LA County Fed of Labor endorsed)

  Joe Vinatieri incumbent, REPUBLICAN, pro ICE

  Isaiah Leon Savage

  Rolando Cano

• Council

  • District 2

    Rene Ramos

    Octavio Martinez incumbent, REPUBLICAN

    Vicky Santana DEMOCRAT (LA County Fed of Labor endorsed)

    Brian Ahern

  • District 4

    Aida Susie Macedo DEMOCRAT (LA County Fed of Labor endorsed)

    Felipe Longoria

    Fernando Dutra incumbent, REPUBLICAN

Whitehawk Ranch Community Services District

• Measure “A”

  Shall the Whitehawk Ranch Community Services District adopt a tax increase of $231.00 per residential parcel and $462.00 per commercial parcel as well as subsequent 2.5% annual parcel tax increases in order to provide for the ongoing maintenance, repairs, operations and upgrades including but not limited to the CSD’s properties and services including the swimming pool, spa, tennis/pickle ball courts, gazebo, community center, exercise/maintenance building, bocce ball court/horseshoe area, pond, equestrian center, parking area, bur pile, RV storage area and approximately one hundred acres of hiking trails and open space with associated defensible space maintenance? Yes/No

Florida

Voter Registration Deadline: 29 days before Election Day

Fort White

• Lonnie Harrell recall election

Newberry

• Commissioner

  • Seat 1

    Richard Coleman incumbent

    Brandy Oldman

  • Seat 2

    Mark Clark incumbent

    David Wallace

  • Seat 3

    James Farnsworth incumbent

    Naim Erched

    Jonathan Mercado

Surfside

Election was held Tue April 7, but due to Passover conflict, mail in ballot deadline has been extended till April 28

• Mayor

  Shlomo Danzinger

  Tina Paul

Bar Harbor Islands

• Council Member

  Gustavo Ortega

  Elchonon Shagalov

West Miami

• Mayor

  Yolanda Aguilar Priorities: strengthening city services—including support for police and municipal departments—while ensuring budgets, contracts, and policies are open and accountable; pursuing state and federal grants for infrastructure improvements, addressing drainage and flooding issues, supporting small businesses, and promoting responsible growth and beautification projects

  Eric Diaz-Padron incumbent Priorities: lowering property taxes, keeping utility and sanitation costs low, and maintaining healthy financial reserves while investing in community improvements; strengthening public safety through additional police resources, traffic-calming measures, and reduced speed limits, as well as enhancing parks, planting trees, and beautifying neighborhoods; promoting transparent development policies, infrastructure improvements, and continued investment in local amenities to keep the city safe, clean, and economically stable for families and businesses

• Commissioner

  • Seat 1

    Gustavo Ceballos incumbent

    George Lavin DEMOCRAT

  • Seat 2

    Fermin Belleau

    Juan Blanes incumbent

  • Seat 4

    Victoria de la Torre

    Elsa Pelaez-Lopez

Georgia

Voter Registration Deadline: Th 5^th Monday before Election Day

Bibb County

• County Commissioner runoff

  • District 5

    Andrea Cooke

    Edward Foster

Minnesota

Early Voting Deadline: Election Day

Aitkin School District

• Referendum

Columbia Heights School District

• School Board Member

  Jenna Fodness-Bondhus

  Adam Davis

Wayzata Public Schools

• Referendum

Little Falls Community Schools

• Referendum

Staples-Motley Independent School District

• Referendum

New Mexico

Voter Registration Deadline: Saturday before Election Day

Rio Rancho

• Mayor

  Paul Wymer (REPUBLICAN)

  Alexandria Piland (former chair of local DEMOCRATIC party)

South Carolina

Voter Registration Deadline: 30 days before Election Day

Marion County

• Board of Education

  Betty Fast

  Sam Brunett

Richland County

Eastover

• Town Council

  Dedrick Edwards incumbent

  Lee Faber

  Jean House

  Camille Jenkins

  Robert Richardson

Union County

Jonesville

• Mayor

  Ernest Moore Jr

• Town Council At-Large

  Julie Horne

• Watershed Commissioner

  Patricia Buice

  Rossie Hames

  Doris Kelley

Virginia

Voter Registration Deadline: 22 days before Election Day

Charles City County

• Referendum:

  Shall the County of Charles City change its form of government to the county board form? Yes/No

Thu April 16

New Jersey

Voter Registration Deadline: 22 days before Election Day

Early Voting Period: Mon. Apr 6 – Tue Apr 14

• U.S. House District 11

  Analilia Mejia DEMOCRAT Priorities: raising wages, including a national $25 minimum wage and making the first $40,000 of income tax-free, while guaranteeing paid sick leave and expanding affordable childcare; supports universal healthcare through Medicare for All, free public college and student-debt cancellation, stronger labor protections and easier unionization, and policies to lower housing costs by restricting private-equity ownership of homes; advocates breaking up corporate monopolies, taxing billionaires and large corporations, holding Big Tech accountable for energy use, investing in infrastructure and public transit, strengthening democracy by reducing the influence of big money in politics, and transitioning to a clean-energy economy with good-paying union jobs.

  Joe Hathaway REPUBLICAN

Let’s do this! Remember, your vote is your voice and that voice is your superpower!