102 in cheney

103 in Princeton, Idaho.

oof, that's rough Jo!

A bit of a surprise.

Bandon, OR 65

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

Suquamish/Port Gamble S'klallam

is is to laugh...

Ohlone lands, Berkeley CA

Linda Bock, Sammamish, Coast Salish, Duwamish, Stillaguamish

Salish & Kootenai

S'Klallam, chimacum, coastal salish, suquamish

Samish, Swinomish

Lummi

say it with me y'all: LOCK HIM UP

HUGE news just now out of Alaska in special election to replace Rep. Don Young: After RCV tabulation, Mary Peltola (D) defeats Sarah Palin (R), 51-49!!!!

Woah! That's fantastic!

Best argument EVER for Ranked Choice Voting!

Whew, Brian!

unlikely any action. imho, Trump is just theater to distract us. the powers that be could have had him removed ahen he was in office from the laws/rules he broke.

@Brian - awesome news!

eh... it's an empirical question whether he's above the law

he certainly has been so far

Alpana—WA

when a public official betrays the public trust the penalties should be even higher than for an ordinary citizen, certainly not less.

Right on, Ken!

something similar going on in MI

fraud was when establishment corporate Dems stopped Bernie from winning primaries. he would've gained trump voters to win prez.

I heard that at the Dem Convention in 2016, the reported totals of votes for Bernie were incorrect too low.

YEA, Brian! Thanks for sharing the fantastic news!

Finally, calling Fascists what they are, FASCISTS!!! Remember what the world watched leading up to WWII. My father fought the Nazi Fascist. 75 years later is it really so hard to recognize fascism in the making. Christian Nationalism also feeds right into it.

Instead of honestly happy, pete buttegieg looked guilty when he took the state in 2020.

still waiting for Paxton's indictment to come...

Homer Plessy was 1/8 black. That representation of him is inaccurate.

beyond id politics like abortion, we should also talk about how dems infight over student debt relief, m4a, but support military industrial complex with Republicans. 10% of defense spending can feed, clothe, house, and educate everyone.

1/2% tax on stock transactions would pay for infrastructure needs, which is $0.50 per $100. we pay nearly 10% sales tax here :/

AP just reported that Peltola just bumped Pahlin in the Alaska election/ranked choice voting!

https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-sarah-palin-voting-government-and-politics-f9855f1138a922ab1147da7900819fa8

The pro-business bent is the Faustian bargain the neo-liberal wing of the Democratic party bought into when they went after corporate money.

How true, Dan!

Corporate personhood - another "originalist" myth. Corporations were founded with the idea of public could whose charter could be revoked. There was much debate over sunsetting all corporations due to the perceived accrual of power they represented even then.

yeah--def a bad look at least

let me rephrase that - corporations were found with the idea that their charters could be revoked if they no longer served the public good.

Government-corporate tie is another very important step towards an authoritarian fascist state. Hitler recognized that and worked hard to develop the Nazi-corporate tie which also included several large American Corporations and millionaire/billionaires. This is why history matters.

obscene

Yes, that's why we did WAment, twice, remember??

thom Hartman also has a good YouTube video abput the history of oligarchs.

I can NEVER leave WA State!

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agreed santa Rita jail has a deplorable record. feb was the 80th anniversary of Roosevelt's EO 9066 that imprisoned 125,000 Japanese Americans

I'm for abolishing prisons thru organizations like CURB (California

Californians United for a responsible budget.

militarized police don't make us safer, but hurts more. only 1% of arrests are violent. I'm pushing for unarmed response from my city, like Eugene Oregon's CAHOOTS program.

not surprising. tyouth

We need civics classes in high school and middle school so students are thinking about what is happening in the world/U.S.

youth see that our votes rarely matter. as long as the corporate duopoly breaks, i don't know how to show the difference we can make.

Univ of wa has a ctr for getting accurate info and prevent misinformation spread. More info about it will help

In Idaho, Government and passing a citizenship test is required for graduation.

we can have auto registration when they turn 18.

John Della Volpe's book about Gen Z is worth a read.

3rd party candidates get stamped out. the policies for spending our tax dollars fundamentally don't change. endless wars, no universal healthcare, opaque police budgets and practices, etc.

Remember School House Rock?

thank you for helping me to open my eye I am in the Vancouver I run B inside or out transition services I work with a lot ov ex prisoners as well the hol

Hah--loved school house rock. Made sure to buy the DVD so my kids could watch too

Yes, School House rock is great!

Isn’t this exactly what Republicans don’t want? I know we are non-partisan here, but this clearly is opposed by the leaders of the Republican Party.

seeing as how the Republicans are warring against democracy itself, you're right Robert--this is absolutely what they don't want

Yes! This has been a republican focus for nearly 50 yrs.

I got involved in phone banking when I was seventeen. I was appalled by the negative responses I got, and I shied away from phone banking for years afterward. I was calling for Democrats in 1968.

9713313353 Curtis Rodgers in kelso Vancouver or Curtis Rodgers 217@gmail.com have a great night

An educated electorate is not what Republicans want.

cindy@fixdemocracyfirst.org

Obama expanded Bush's 2 wars to 7. Dems are more dangerous because I was duped into thinking the world would be a better place...but his policies continued and even expanded many bush era practices. if anyone thinks Putin's more bloodthirsty than any US prez, then media made chumps out of us.

Had there been more emphasis on cooperatives in manufacturing and commercialization 50 years ago would we have greater interest in democracy now?

Kudos to you! My brother is a Veteran for Peace in California.

I like Veterans for Peace!

I am so discouraged by what our generation has done to this Earth.

You've got a really good point, Robin. Thank you.

az a student in the 90s, i was so hopeful because the Berlin wall fell, and james baker promised Gorbachev not to expand NATO, because it's no longer needed. seeing Ukraine happen after 30 years has been disheartening. open air slave markets thanks to secretary Clinton.

Thanks, VFP is an amazing organization with many working groups doing great stuff on important current issues.

I just uploaded a QR CODE - give it to youth - it's for Voter Registration- easy to register - put it on your phones, share it widely

Robin, you are GREAT - and Right. How can I find yoi? Are you in WA state?

robin hordon Kingston, wa robinhordon@juno.com

I'm not sure what to tell youth today, because the dark money is so k7ch more entrenched.

Dailykos today has an article about Veterans claiming they were Antifa - Against Facism.

Party leaders are heavy-handed, but they do not always pick the candidate.

We should all be anti-fascist if you cherish freedom and democracy.

Democrat-ic!

Teach everyone you meet with this question: “Do you know who your elected officials are?” In Washington go to leg.wa.gov to find the names of your elected officials. The US League of Women Voters has a similar site that works the same way all over the country. Vote411.org

I'm lucky that as a resident at International House at UC Berkeley, i heard folks like noam chomsky, kurt vonnegut, et .

Kathy Rai, did u ever hear George Lakoff or David Korten speak at UC Berkeley?

Barbara Cooper. mcmooper462gmail.com

yes :)

thanks!

Thanks all!