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

Umatilla, Walla Walla, Cayuse, Palouse

Spokane

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

Nisqually, Squaxin, and Coastal Salish

Rebecca Wolfe in Edmonds on the land of the Salish Sea tribes.

If lawsuits occur, how will that effect next years elections in WA. Will they need to be decided before candidate filing in May?

what are the chances we could use a constitutional convention to e.g., overturn Citizens United & adopt an equal rights amendment?

pare back the right to bear arms, etc.

ALEC loves the idea of Const Convention because they believe they could get more of what they want. Center for Constitutional Rights says that in the political climate of today, the 4th Amendment (rights of the accused) would be greatly cut back.

they are high on their own supply--critical engery theory is never gonna catch on

Rebecca Wolfe on the land of the Salish Sea tribes.

3% lead on the side opposed to Kshwama.

About Kshama Sawant’s election: didn’t the Seattle Times have a really unfair harsh opinion?

• Lobby Week 2022 w/ League of Women Voters of WA – January 24-27, 2022 - https://lwvwa.org/event-4596311

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It's called "projection", accusing others of doing what you are doing.

So sorry to leave. Need to plan for another call in 10 minutes. Thank you for these briefings

From 1 to 3 pm. (M.-F.) Pacific Time Zone on MSNBC, the Nicolle Wallace’s program, “Deadline White House” provides some of the best interviews and political analysis on TV. I record it and am able to watch it in only one hour. The cost of my DVR service is worth its weight in gold.

Lakoff: Don’t Think of An Elephant. And he has an updated edition of this little book.

I agree - Nicole Wallace is fantastic - always addresses relevant, important issues & hosts very interesting guests.

Whoever seems to have a nasty cold needs to mute herself/himself.

Nicole Wallace and Steve Schmidt were John McCain's campaing managers. They are brilliant and both have left the Republican party quite a while ago and are strong advocates of defeating Trumpism. They understand these dangers, and S. Schmidt is quite articulate on these issues on YouTube.

Anat Shenker-Osorio and Ian Haney Lopez (along with Heather McGhee) have largely taken up the mantle of George Lakoff political linguistics.

Which brings me back to the Lincoln Project

The Atlantic has powerful article, “January 6 was a Practice by Gellman.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/january-6-insurrection-trump-coup-2024-election/620843/

FWIW, I appreciate most of what the Lincoln Project does, but my $ goes to Dems

I have enough money for both Lincoln and Dems. I do feel the Lincoln Project does have some very bright strategists. And in my mind, anyone defending democracy is on my team.

Gelmann's recent article in the Atlantic is absolutely alarming.l

Yes, we do need to support The Lincoln Project. They “get it” and I have supported them from the first days of their efforts.

Angela Merkel's last day in office was today, in Germany. She will be missed and was a great ally of our's.

"The Lincoln Project launched with two stated objectives. The first was to defeat Donald Trump at the ballot box. The second was to ensure Trumpism failed alongside him. As we have seen, our fight against Trumpism is only beginning."

There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century - https://www.hmhbooks.com/shop/books/there-is-nothing-for-you-here/9780358574316

Fiona Hill is a super person; she and her husband were good friends of my son and his wife when they were at Northwestern University some years ago.

Thank you Walt, good advice. Fiona Hill was on Rachel Maddow recently

I agree that Fiona’s book is a good read.

bye everyone! another good session!

Thanks David!

Ken, I agree 100%.

Another word is "spill" Oh we had an oil spill - just like I spilled my tea. Those concerned with climate change - should be all of us - can use another word that is better like "huge leak" or any other suggestion from the group that would be better.

Ken - you are so 100% right on.

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Did Fiona Hill testify at the first impeachment trial?

Cindy, Didn’t you have a list of recommended books at one time?

Timothy Snyder: “On Tyranny.”

Yes. I read it about 3 years ago,

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century - https://www.timothysnyder.org/books/on-tyranny-tr

Sociopath!

Narcississtic Personality Disorder:

so. a world war was fought over Hitler. Are we headed there? who would fight for the united states?

Sociopathy and Narcissism

Author Gellmann of The Atlantic and Anne Applebaum, also of The Atlantic have some great, recent articles.

well worth reading:

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5-2021

What percentage of CEOs of large corporations sociopathic?

The Atlantic is presenting a virtual event focused on the threats to our democracy on Dec 13. https://www.theatlantic.com/live/big-story-threats-democracy/

How Trump has persuaded so many: lack of good education and social media (with FOX).

What about "activists" judges?

Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun byBARTON GELLMAN of The Atlantic.

Clark County Commissioners just voted 11-4 to put RCV on the 2022 ballot for County Commission elections!

It's a delay-game.

Maybe attend Republican meetings.

yes. we can sit and wring our hands about what is happening to us…. what can we actually DO to combat?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/january-6-insurrection-trump-coup-2024-election/620843/

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuwmWnphqII

Carol Sullivan, I think RCV may be a good thing? According to League of Women Voters…. we’ll see.

A right wing guy just bought up about 4 newspapers in rural Eastern Washington.

Almost all of the money we give in the political season goes into the coffers of news media of all kinds. We need public financing of campaigns

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/the-autocrats-are-winning/620526/ (by Anne Applebaum)

There were many speakers in favor of RCV attending the Commissioner’s meeting. Their county auditor expressed thought that what happened in Pierce County 2008 should not be a reason to oppose RCV (reported by one of the commissioners in public comment time for commissioners.

A couple of book recommendations: As Ken noted about PR, Walt about reporting:

PR! A Social History of Spin by Suart Ewen andWho Will Tell the People, the Betrayal of American Democracy by William Greider

And, many

And many “white hairs” on this zoom. What are the thoughts of the younger generations? (I see you Max Bauman!)

get active on campuses

Just a story. The local paper, the Tacoma News Tribune, now costs $450 for either half a year or a year. People cannot afford this, so the paper will likely go out of the print business as well.

Thank you! I’ll try to join that.

Libby - I'm all in on the climate!

For all who live in Snohomish County, you can help choose the new mascot for the Snohomish Public Utility Commission: www.snopud.com/mascot

And I’ll share next week about ACT via Zoom - which is part of LWV WA - goal is to educate on topics being debated in WA State Legislature .

thanks everyone!

Please vote for Bigfoot — it’s about reducing our carbon footprint. Thx!