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Weird (adj): strange; odd; bizarre; not functioning properly or as expected; unstable; broken. Creeped out (verb phrase): to cause to experience uneasiness or disgust Friend, some delightful – and unexpected – things are happening: the successful reframing of the MAGA movement by distilling it down to its most basic element: weird. And Democrats rightly taking their place as the protagonists – and … Continue reading Democrats Get Weird: Revenge of the Nerds

No doubt you’ll remember where you were when you learned that President Joe Biden would suspend his reelection campaign. Personally, I was in the kitchen, fixing a snack for my 12-year-old son (anyone with tween or teen boys can attest to the near constant need to be fixing a snack). My phone immediately blew up. … Continue reading The Grassroots Speaks With a Unified Voice

Things are moving at breakneck speed; the news is mind-bending, historical, reverberating, opening new chasms and widening old ones. You’re living that reality with me. You don’t need my take on it. So instead of talking about how everything feels like it’s on fire, I wanted to tell you about a Democratic nominee who is … Continue reading Turning the Temperature Down By Showing Up: Meet Elad Gross

Democrats have to start playing the very serious game in front of us. Last week the United States Supreme Court essentially gutted the administrative state that undergirds everything from food safety to environmental regulations. They substituted unelected judges’ opinions for those of expert agency regulators, most of whom are life-long, non-partisan agency employees. The conservative … Continue reading Democracy is On the Ballot. You Need to Get In the Game.

And to all of the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams. ~Hillary Clinton June 24, 2022. “Dobbs is out.” I remember looking at my phone. Standing, dumbstruck, on a Lake … Continue reading To All the Little Girls

They're not hiding who they are. We're just not paying attention. By now you’ve seen plenty of articles and profiles of House Speaker Mike Johnson. Up until the moment he ascended to the speakership last fall (via a path so implausible that I’m certain he describes it as divine intervention), nobody seemed to know much … Continue reading We Have to Stop Giving Republicans Runway

“You know, I wish people in blue states understood something. For them, Republicans are an inconvenience. For us, they’re a daily threat.” So said an incredibly astute friend (and fellow red-state Democrat) last week, after 38 U.S. Senators voted against a federally protected right to contraception. Guess where those 38 Senators are from? Red states. Super red … Continue reading What I Wish Blue State Democrats Understood

Last week, the former president of the United States of America was convicted of 34 felonies in a New York state court after a six week trial that included a spirited defense by three top-flight and wildly expensive criminal defense attorneys. It’s still shocking to read, even if by this point it’s no longer breaking … Continue reading If a Republican Is Convicted of 34 Felonies in a Lonely Forest, Does He Make a Sound?

Once you choose hope, anything is possible. ~Christopher Reeve Viktor Frankl, holocaust survivor, psychologist, and the author of Man's Search for Meaning once wrote that “Everything can be taken from a [wo]man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” … Continue reading On Hope: It’s A Choice, Not An Emotion