Three Wins Today: Nov 2, 2025
Will you regret your choices come Wednesday?
The biggest election day of the year is Tuesday. Hopefully, you’re finding a way to get involved in elections weekly (even if it’s just reposting my election guide or something from Bolts Magazine), but this time, I encourage you to do more. We really need all hands on deck.
Here are two ways you can get involved that you might not know about.
If you are in California, Indivisible created something called “Neighbor to Neighbor.” You put in your address, and they give you 10 houses that lean left and you canvas those houses making sure they’re voting (and hopefully, have voted already). The best part is you don’t have to go anywhere, each of these homes should be within 3 blocks max of your own. So if you’re able bodied enough to walk a few blocks, you can do this. Remember, this isn’t like other elections, we’re not just focusing on red areas, this is the entire state.
If you’re not in California or you are and can’t walk, or you just want to do multiple things, Virginia and Pennsylvania need you!
When people vote by mail, it’s quite easy to make an error on the outer envelope. It’s easy to forget to include the date or your signature, or maybe just make a mistake.
That’s why ballot curing is so important. And while, people who make those mistakes should get a call from their county election office, sometimes they need another reminder.
Ballot curing is why we have Rep Derek Tran and Rep Adam Gray. It’s also why we have Senator Ruben Gallego.
Now, for many states, curing doesn’t start until after polls close, but in Virginia and Pennsylvania, that’s when they end.
So we have three days to make sure every person who voted by mail has their vote counted.
These are phone banks, and they are ongoing until polls close. There is a short training before every session, and I promise it’s self explanatory. Curing ballots was how I coped for the three weeks after the November election.
If you want to help cure in VA, they’re doing tomorrow from 5-7 ET. And in the meantime you can join a PA curing phonebank right now. In PA they are running all day through polls closing on Tuesday.
If you have other ways you’re getting involved, great, but if not, hopefully you find time to join one of these three!
And, if you voted by mail, and your ballot has not yet been accepted, find your state and track your ballot. If you need to cure yours you can do so before you even get contacted by a volunteer.
Voting is your voice and your superpower, but, only if your vote is actually counted, so please check!
San Francisco, California
Tue, Oct 21 - City Lights is a bookstore that has been in San Francisco since 1953 and was a meeting place for many of the beat generation authors. It was co-founded by poet and activist, Lawrence Ferlinghetti. In 2007, he wrote a poem called “Pity the Nation,” inspired by Khalil Gibran’s 1933 poem of the same name.
Ferlinghetti died in 2021, but his values live on at City Lights. On Oct 21, banners of “Pity the Nation” were places on the eaves of the building.
The banners were created with help from the SF Print Collective.
The poem reads:
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars,
Whose sages are silenced and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that praises conquerors and acclaims the bully as hero.
Pity the people who allow their freedoms to erode and their rights to be washed away.
My country tears of thee. Sweet land of liberty!
It may not feel like resistance to put a poem on their own building, but I promise you, it is. If ICE agents walk or drive by, they have to see that. Someone who thinks they can just put their head in the sand and this will all go away has to see that.
It’s a reminder that we will not back down and we are not alone in our resistance, and that’s a reminder we need over and over again.
Washington
Wed, Oct 22 - Governor Bob Ferguson signed a new executive order that creates a stronger partnership with tribal nations.
In a statement he said:
I’ve visited Tribes across Washington, and I’ve heard from Tribal leaders about how we can improve our partnership with Tribal governments. I’m putting that feedback into action and laying out my vision for fostering meaningful government-to-government relationships.
This executive order is extremely wide ranging, including everything from improving the relationship between the governments to supporting native creative work and training state employees in tribal relations.
Cowlitz Indian Tribe Chairman, William (Bill) Iyall said:
For generations, Tribal Nations have sought relationships with state leaders built on mutual respect and a meaningful recognition of tribal sovereignty. Governor Ferguson’s executive order sets a new standard for engagement that will strengthen the relationship with Washington Tribes and lay the groundwork for stronger collaboration as we work to address the complex challenges before both Indian Country and the State of Washington.
As the federal government tries to undo their tribal relationships, it’s so important to see a state strengthening theirs. I can’t wait to see what comes out of this!
Arkansas
Fri, Oct 31 - Arkansas has two vacant seats. State Senate District 26 is vacant because Republican Gary Stubblefield died in September. And State House District 70 is vacant because Republican Carlton Wing resigned at the end of September, to become CEO of Arkansas PBS (YIKES). Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders scheduled both elections for June, (and that was after initially scheduling SD-26 one for Midterms), which is both well past the 150 day window she legally has to schedule the elections and over a month after the end of the fiscal legislative session that would leave both districts without any representation in budget discussion.
The lawsuits came in fast. SD-26 resident, Colt Shelby filed on Oct 6, and the Arkansas Dem Party filed in HD-70 on Oct 21. 10 days later there are now rulings in both cases.
On Oct 22, Judge Patricia James ruled that the SD-26 election must happen before the April fiscal session begins, and on Oct 31, Judge Shawn Johnson, ruled, with a little more specificity that the HD-70 election must happen on March 3.
Arkansas Dem Party Chair, Marcus Jones told the Arkansas Advocate:
The time has come for Governor Sanders to move up the Special Election dates and give the hardworking taxpayers of North Little Rock and Sherwood the representation they deserve. The Democratic Party of Arkansas stands with Arkansans from across the political spectrum to oppose taxation without representation. Mark our words: We won’t stop fighting for every Arkansan to have a say in our state budget.
While SD-26 hasn’t seen a Dem run or win since 2020, HD-70 had a 2 point margin in November, so, it’s very possible we can flip the seat on March 3. And given our penchant for over performing this year, maybe we can flip SD-26 too.
And clearly Governor Huckabee Sanders feels the same way, or else she wouldn’t have tried delaying the elections like this.
So those are some of today’s wins. I hope they give you the boost you need!
Remember, our voices are our superpower, but only when we use them!