If you don’t know the indigenous land where you reside on, you can look it up here: https://native-land.ca/

Mercer Island is on Duwamish land.

https://regenerationinternational.org/regenerative-farm-map#

Marge Lofstrom

I Happily Enjoy Living in Samish & Swinomish Lands

Linda Bock from Sammamish former lands of the Stillaguamish, Duwamish, and Coastal Salish

Cindy needs to get one of these: https://pi-hole.net/

Nancy Street lives on Spokane land

Upper Skagit Tribes, Mount Vernon

Chimakum and Coast Salish land (port Townsend)

The judges are getting quite a lot of additional evidence re: the quality of the actions, intent.

that was walked back I thought?

Am I right in thinking that the WA State LWV map did put Latino voters in Yakima area into one district?

Both the Dem maps do that for Yakima, but only one does the same for the Colville.

Turning Point USA was active at EWU and WSU in 2020.

Happy hour needs Bacardi

:-)

<3 popular.info

why is it in banks' interest for people to cheat on taxes?

Do Cantwell and Murray take money from Big Pharma?

Over $600,000 each time Advisory Votes appear on the ballot. All for nothing . . . .

Looks like Murray takes significant $ from pharma: https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/patty-murray/summary?cid=N00007876&cycle=2022&type=C

NANCY i BELIEVE SO BUT YOU CAN CHECK AT OPENSECRETS.COM

• ACTION NEEDED for WA Redistricting: PLEASE EMAIL THE COMMISSION!o Can you take 1 minute to email comment@redistricting.wa.gov with the following message? Step 1: Pick a Subject Line - or write your own• All Maps Should Comply with the Voting Rights Act• Commissioners Fain and Graves Must Comply with the Voting Rights Act• All Commissioners Should Have VRA-compliant Maps• Commissioners Shouldn’t Violate the Voting Rights Act• The Voting Rights Act Isn’t Negotiable

 Step 2: Pick a Message - or put it in your own words• Hello,My name is []. I’m a resident of Washington state and I’m calling on all commissioners to publish maps that comply with the federal Voting Rights Act. Specifically, all commissioners should draw a VRA-compliant, majority-Latino CVAP district in Yakima and Central Washington. The Commissioners have a historic opportunity to allow communities of color across Washington state to obtain fair representation and elect candidates of their choice. Latino communities in Yakima especially have been underrepresented for decades. This is a chance to give fair representation to those communities for the first time in the state legislature.

• Hi there,My name is []. I’m a resident of Washington state and I’m calling on all commissioners to publish maps that comply with the federal Voting Rights Act. Specifically, all commissioners should draw a VRA-compliant, majority-Latino CVAP district in Yakima and Central Washington. Commissioners should be accountable to taxpayers and not risk handing them a bill for a pending lawsuit if they don’t create maps that are legally binding. If the Commission is to draw illegal maps, it would not only waste our tax dollars but damage public faith in our independent redistricting commission process. The responsible thing for the Commissioners to do is draw legal, VRA-compliant maps.

• Dear Commissioners,My name is []. I’m a resident of Washington state and I’m calling on all commissioners to publish maps that comply with the federal Voting Rights Act. Specifically, all commissioners should draw a VRA-compliant, majority-Latino CVAP district in Yakima and Central Washington. Don’t let Yakima become a point on the map for a voting rights lawsuit again. The people in the Yakima valley deserve a chance at fair representation.

https://freedomtovoteactions.org/

Excellent Cindy!

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Whether large or small groups are better may depend on the subjects du jour.

Yep, I agree w/Dwight

People in prison are people. Shouldn't they vote?

It's SUPPOSED to be us. But for a variety of reasons, that isn't what actually happens these days, according to a few studies comparing what the big majorities of what the people want done vs. what gets passed in Congress and state legislatures.

Reagan's "I am from the government and I am here to help you...." became the death knoll...

Has anyone come across a credible estimate of the total expenditure on political campaigns at all levels in 2020?

Trump and W, and Reagan and Nixon ALL worked to sabotage agencies' ability to do their jobs and the CPB to change the way news is reported on PBS.

Unions can be a counter force against disinformation.

Sorry I have to leave for a school board meeting.

Message will come from cindy@fixdemocracyfirst.org

one person joked that Murray is a full time campaign fundraiser who moonlights as a US Senator

Hey Dwight, Is that your RX7?

Open Secrets - https://www.opensecrets.org/

Follow the Money - https://www.followthemoney.org/

thank you, Cindy! Have to run...

DemocracyNow today...

what's the name of the lawyer Dan's talking about?

Steven Donziger

thanks!

Steven Donziger

https://youtu.be/2TSB5YQqDiYI’m pretty sure this at least relates to Reagan’s role in that.

duckduckgo might go better places than google

"Run government like a business". Businesses are a dictatorship...

Air traffic controllers were just the start....

got to run--thanks Cindy & all!

I have lost audio; has anyone else also lost audio?

If you want more zooming, the Meaningful Movies is having their annual awards meeting tonight at 7. meaningfulmovies.org

Thanks Dwight! I’m headed there right after this.

Unfortunately, you cannot win elections without big money

make the money in politics be money directed by citizens. You cannot remove the need for money to run for most offices, but vouchers or viable publicly funded elections seem to be a first issue.

And lots of corporations are international now.

https://www.fanfiction.net/u/7789442/TheUnknownLegion

Thank you Cindy!