Suquamish

Hello from Spokane Valley - almost Idaho!

Coastal Salish

Hope you had a wonderful vacation - welcome back!

Tomorrow at 9 p.m. PBS will present "Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union."

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

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

Coastal Salish/Suquamish

hello from Duwamish land.

Leona Hassing

Tulalip

- Leona Hassing - Umatilla, Walla Walla, Cayuse, Palouse

Happy New Year - Spokane

Once again, Hitler’s first failed coup, the beer hall putsch, resulted in later success.

Times Editorial called for clawing back the state funds used by the legislators to go to the Pillow talks...

There's also the Doomsday Clock relative to MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction (from modern technology but ikely Nuclear war)

he Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a man-made global catastrophe.Maintained since 1947 by the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,

Currently It is 100 seconds to midnight

Republicans are running another candidate against Jaime Beautler for the Prunary,

May have to cut out early...some points follow:

Please do noy buy into the carefully placed meme that "The republican Party is a train wreck"...exactly the opposite is true. The R party is "trifurcated".

1. basic Rs...aka...Liz Cheney types. 2. The Trumpsters. 3. The middle-right indy-ish Rs. THEY WILL ALL VOTE REPUBLICAN...BUT

We need to use Multi-Seat Ranked Choice Voting (MSRCV), also known as Single Transferable Voting (STV), which elects representatives proportionally, which completely emasculates gerrymandering.

There is a bill in Congress, The Fair Representation

Act, which is supported by the League of Women Voters (National)

nice!

We have a chance to swing the R swingers...here is how: Part ONE: Use the first "wedge issue" that we have been gifted with...aka...Rs do not want citizens to vote... Part TWO: Make the point that if Rs loose, they support sedition. Part THREE: Repeat part ONE and Part Two.

Robin- In my experience, neither major party is interested in a vigorous democracy. They both engage in activity designed to discourage people from voting.

And to those who think that The Lincoln...TROJAN HORSE...Project is your friend...NYET. Just another part of the Rs clever planning. This group is the "Center-Right Indy-types"...which swung back to the Rs in 2020 as a result of the "Lincoln...TROJAN HORSE...Project". The Ds lost EVERY CONTESTED SEAT...and IMO...because the Lincoln...TROJAN HORSE Project" was so brilliantly successful...as planned...and fanned by the MSNBC types.

Can we get link to 1/6 events please?

• January 6 Virtual Vigil - Day of Remembrance and Action - January 6th, 2022 @ 6 pm PT – Register @ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DSoqfnaZTFS8-gad94Cygg

I'm having to un-RSVP from my local in-person due to covid exposure. :( Glad there's a virtual event

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

• DONATION Links:o Fix Democracy First or Fix Democracy First Education Fund - https://www.fixdemocracyfirst.org/donateo YO VOTE! - https://www.yo-vote.org/donate

Dave, I completely agree that both parties play roles in our "Kabuki Democracy Theater" mostly centered within the WDC Beltway. But, we can talk to people in our local areas and organize...and then let our political power TRICKLE UPWARD FROM THERE! The two parties can't control us. They have no fear of us when we rally in WDC [in their lions den]...but they are scared crap of us organizing locally and then "powering up".

sunbunny737@gmail.com

If anybody's looking for a spiritual pick-me-up after all this heaviness, give a listen to Sherrilyn Ifill on this week's Amicus podcast: https://t.co/hWcmTxmRt7

What organization is Petra with?

Be the Change 509

Please call our Senators to push for voting rights Murray 202-224-2621 Cantwell 202-224-3441

Thanks, Petra — we (Postcars4WA) look forward to collaborating with you again in 2022. Thanks for all of your efforts in the 509 area!

Thank you Christy!

Robin, I agree. We need to work on decentralizing power and how information is distributed. When we have choke points, weird things happen!

The Guardian published today the names and positions of over 1000 public officials who joined the effort to undermine the 2020 presidential election here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/05/trump-capitol-attack-democracy-election-insurrection-index?utm_term=61d5813a8fc06c6a63ded8379c95e66e&utm_campaign=USMorningBriefing&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=usbriefing_email

intentional lack of sharing??

Please do not spend your/our good human energy trying to change the minds of the bottom 30% of voters...aka...the hard core Rs. Instead, lets use the top 30% of voters US PROGRESSIVES TYPES...to converse with the MIDDLE 40%...aka...the swingers. They are called "Persuadable Voters"...and we have awesome "wedge issues" this year...

#DeleteFacebook y'all

Mother Jones had an interesting article on why the rioters are not be charged with sedition - because they are white! https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/01/january-6-sedition-charges-trump-white-supremacy-capitol/

Could someone mute Sandra Nelson please.

mtg

Greene

Yes

I think anytime we talk about the events of January 6, it should be referred to as an insurrection.

• January 6 Virtual Vigil - Day of Remembrance and Action - January 6th, 2022 @ 6 pm PT – Register @ https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DSoqfnaZTFS8-gad94Cygg

Gotta go. Stand up with THOUGHTFUL COURAGE in 2022...we will WIN! Peace, love and progress....robin hordon in Kingston.

Cindy are you putting links here to the articles you shared or will you send them out?

• We the People: January 6th Day of Remembrance and Action – National page - https://jan6unityday.org/

getting a big voter turnout: inform themselves with valid information, then vote

It’s hard to get a big voter turnout when people don’t have anything to vote FOR and they vote AGAINST their fears! That’s why we need to get Ranked Choice Voting! Joe Biden has failed on lots of his campaign promises… I think the mid-terms are going to be a bloodbath for the Dems

GTG Thanks everyone! Super Impressive! We’ve got this =)

Jefferson County Jan 6th vigil: https://www.lwvwa.org/Jefferson

Thanks Petra!

I agree Ken!

Yes but the republican challenge audits were far from correct, and not accurate and shoddy practices

I think there should be random full audits! Like we did in Endurance racing. Random drug tests!

Audits need to be done with accurate guidelines and represents all parties

@Linden - I will send all the link out later tonight with the recording.

*links

Im getting a message from zoom that my mic isn't connected, so I guess I have to pass.

If you want to learn how to text-bank, email me at jennifercalvert@comcast.net

I wanted to mention what is Kim Wyman doing and what can we do to promote mail in voting as a state, as a witness for the country.

Biden has not campaign promises. The republicans have done everything to stall everything economy covid-19 which affects the economy, people’s health and well being and growth. People need to pressure our legislators to vote for we the people

The bottom line is none of these people are following true science medical science infectious disease guidelines disaster preparedness guidelines they've actually caused Covid to mutate and this is why we have our problems today they refused to vaccinate yet our hospitals are overrun with patients and as a healthcare professional I am a part of those that are not vaccinated who expose their patients, yet the dichotomy is they still don't want to wear masks and they still don't wanna vaccinate and as long as we don't do that people are gonna die jobs are going to be not filled people are going to quit their jobs healthcare workers are quitting we've had to call the National Guard in Ohio to help our hospitals I said two years ago this was gonna happen and nobody would listen

And maybe these very same people that say that the elections were fraudulent should take the classes on elections and how to do them and become poll workers so they can see what's actually done other than shooting off lies which are inappropriate people who serve on the polls are from both parties and they take their job very seriously and for Republicans to say that it was fraudulent is in insulting their own people who sit in those polls and work

I started late. Would it be appropriate for me to briefly share some info about why to support HB 1769, a WA State bill to end community councils? We just got the bill number and content this morning!

especially in our legislators….

The black population in Washington state was dying from the COVID at a lower rate than you'd expect (3% of the deaths vs 4% of the population). But the explanation is that black population of seniors was less than for whites. Lesson: You need to look carefully behind the numbers.

it’s not healthcare workers they are talking about it is about those with pre-existing illnesses that can die after a year! That is true- a lot not all

They are the problem. I've been a nurse 48 years 30 of them in the ICUs I've never seen such stupidity as I've seen over the last two years also from healthcare workers

He was the problem in the 1st Pl., Trump did not do anything to slow Covid down he did not promote the masking he did not promote vet vaccinations he went into crowds just recently did he start doing this

@ Kathryn Lewandowski - what you shared is right on! Thank you for all that you do!😍

Houghton council members are almost never contested

That’s disgusting

Here's our website for more info about sunsetting community councils (Houghton and East Bellevue): hcc-con.com

uw and providence both have canceled non emergent procedures

I’m not an Anti-vaxxer, I would never, ever vote for Trump. Big Pharma has made 10’s of Billions on this pandemic. Pfizer alone about $35 in 2021 alone. If you look around the world where they used Ivermectin and Hydroxychlororquine, their infection rates are quite low. Have you ever heard any public health official talk about taking Vitamins and Minerals to boost one’s immune system? Dr. Malone, who invented the technology for the mRNA vaccine, and took it himself, recommends that only people with comorbidities get vaccinated. He also estimates that about 500,000 people who died could have been saved from the use of Ivermactin and Hydroxychloroquine.

And here is the information on the bill, HB 1769, to end community councils. You can sign up for notifications on the bill. https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1769&Year=2021&Initiative=false

Or people who wear their masks only over there mouth and not their nose. Sometime called "mouthbreathers"

right right right!!!!

There are multiple articles about the disproportionate COVID death rate for minorities. This one from the WA Post in late 2020 (contemporary with the 2020 elections) shows Black people dying at approx. double the rate of whites. Other minorities vary but are generally higher across all comparisons. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/health/covid-race-mortality-rate/

Thank you Cindy

In the grocery store Sunday in Cheney more than half the people were unmasked - Spokane County had more than 700 new Covid cases yesterday,

Dayton, Ohio it’s 9:30 pm here- thank you!