Democracy For All
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💙Democracy's💙 FIVE GOOD TO KNOWS:
1. Know your districts. Every single one.
2. Know who represents you (& who doesn't!)
3. Vote in every single election (& EVERY year has one. This year is muni & school boards. ALSO, PRIMARIES are critical!)
4. Vote your WHOLE ballot.
5. Never not vote again.
01:49 PM - Feb 22, 2023
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JM Cressy
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That's absolutely all essential. But the organizing needs to be constant even between voting years. Democracy isn't just voting. It's supporting institutions and orgs that keep people engaged and informed. One problem is ppl think once they've won at the polls, the work is done. It's never done.
04:54 AM - Oct 29, 2023
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Democracy For All
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In response to JM Cressy.
But that same year (2008) where, as a volunteer, I reconciled ballots for the Clerk, I saw TONS of ballots with a mark next to Obama's name, but the REST OF THE BALLOT WAS BLANK. Also back then, turnout for midterms was ABYSMAL: on average, 32-36% And sure enough, in 2010, we lost the US House...
12:58 AM - Nov 01, 2023
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Democracy For All
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(apologies for the order of these replies) Anyway, we re-elect Obama in 2012 with record numbers, but by 2014, turnout is crap and we lose the US Senate, thus saddling PBO with a congress that would. not. work. with. him. But in Boulder County we keep banging the "vote your whole ballot" drum...
01:02 AM - Nov 01, 2023
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2016, the EC once again working against us & 100 million people not voting. Yet ONE good thing came from trump (besides scaring the f*ck out of people) the Indivisible Guide: published by former congressional staffers FINALLY connecting the dots. 1. Know who reps you. 2. MAJORITIES MATTER
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01:09 AM - Nov 01, 2023
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Democracy For All
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2018: months of the country witnessing in real time what an authoritarian as President looks like — wouldn't those majorities we lost in 2010 and 2014 come in handy right now? Thus, 2018 the HIGHEST TURNOUT FOR A MIDTERM SINCE 1965. Yeah, learned the hard way, but we were getting there.
01:16 AM - Nov 01, 2023
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But trump & MAGA are stoking extremism everywhere. This is where the "off year"/city council/school board elections come in. Because, what is the oldest trick in the extremist handbook? Infiltrate LOCAL offices first. (like the Klan took over my city council in the 1920s via school boards first).
01:22 AM - Nov 01, 2023
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