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Want to a way to not just fight back, but build for more? Consider running for local office yourself. Make sure no position goes uncontested near you

As things are more likely to fall back to the states and local government, make sure yours is willing to fight for their rights. Don’t give in to despair. Grieving is natural, but don’t let it consume you completely. When you build back up that energy, put your fury into change

Power tends to flow upwards in the party over time. The local leaders tend to be flow into higher and higher office, so lets make the party's pool of people as progressive as we can

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Some helpful links:

Run for Something, a group that supports progressives running for any downballot positions. They've helped elect around a thousand progressive into office

Where Can I Run?

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The election that will take place at the DNC to replace the chair will decide the policy direction of the Democratic party. Let your voice be heard!
  • State Party Chairs have a good chunk of the votes, yes. Along with the vice chair and a mixture of others. I am assuming you are from Texas in which case, while the Texas democratic party chair will step down, it's after the DNC chair elections. You can also reach out to the Texas Democratic Party Vice Chair Shay Wyrick-Cathey ([email protected])

  • The election that will take place at the DNC to replace the chair will decide the policy direction of the Democratic party. Let your voice be heard!
  • Reading more about DNC chair elections, the state party's vice chair usually also votes for chair too (among others). For Texas, that's Shay Wyrick-Cathey ([email protected])

    For what it's worth it looks like his comments about trans people are what produced a large push to get the Texas Democratic party chair to step down. He said he was stepping down the day after he gave an apology

  • The election that will take place at the DNC to replace the chair will decide the policy direction of the Democratic party. Let your voice be heard!
  • It's not voted on directly, you are going to want to talk to your state's party chair to try to convince them vote on the type of chair like you would a congress person on a vote for something. In the body of the post, you can find how to find your state's party chair

    Here's the table copied over:

    State Chair | State Chair
    Alabama Randy Kelley | Montana Robyn Driscoll
    Alaska Mike Wenstrup | Nebraska Jane Kleeb
    American Samoa Patrick Ti'a Reid[15] | Nevada Daniele Monroe-Moreno
    Arizona Yolanda Bejarano | New Hampshire Raymond Buckley
    Arkansas Grant Tennille | New Jersey LeRoy J. Jones, Jr.
    California Rusty Hicks | New Mexico Jessica Velasquez
    Colorado Shad Murib | New York Jay Jacobs
    Connecticut Nancy DiNardo | North Carolina Anderson Clayton
    Delaware Elizabeth D. Maron | North Dakota Adam Goldwyn
    District of Columbia Charles Wilson | Ohio Liz Walters
    Florida Nikki Fried | Oklahoma Alicia Andrews
    Georgia Nikema Williams | Oregon Rosa Colquitt
    Guam Anthony Babauta[16] | Pennsylvania Sharif Street
    Hawaii Derek Turbin | Puerto Rico Charles Rodriguez
    Idaho Lauren Necochea[17] | Rhode Island Liz Beretta-Perik
    Illinois Elizabeth Hernandez | South Carolina Christale Spain
    Indiana Mike Schmuhl | South Dakota Shane Merrill
    Iowa Rita Hart | Tennessee Hendrell Remus
    Kansas Jeanna Repass | Texas Gilberto Hinojosa
    Kentucky Colmon Elridge | U.S. Virgin Islands Carol M. Burke[18]
    Louisiana Randal Gaines | Utah Diane Lewis
    Maine Bev Uhlenhake | Vermont David Glidden
    Maryland Ken Ulman | Virginia Susan Swecker
    Massachusetts Steve Kerrigan | Washington Shasti Conrad
    Michigan Lavora Barnes | West Virginia Mike Pushkin
    Minnesota Ken Martin | Wisconsin Ben Wikler
    Mississippi Cheikh Taylor | Wyoming Joe Barbuto
    Missouri Russ Carnahan | Democrats Abroad Martha McDevitt-Pugh
  • Microblog Memes @lemmy.world usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    The Onion explaining a more serious reason why they bought Info Wars

    (They did really buy Info Wars)

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    https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3law3ikwies22

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    www.theverge.com Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week

    There are now more than 14.5 million users total on the platform.

    Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week
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    Rumors, conspiracy theories, and disinformation about "millions of missing votes" and voting machine fraud
  • That's assuming that all Trump supporters vote down ballot. I've been reading that a non-negligable percentage of Trump voters just voted for president and left down ballot races blank. Considering Trump only won the swing states by tiny percentages, a small percentage of Trump voters leaving blank the rest is easily enough to sway it

    For instance, if we look at Wisconsin senate, we see that Tammy Baldwin has almost exactly the same number of votes as Harris (only a couple hundred more), but Eric Hovde shows less substantially votes than Trump got

    Results with ~99% reported:

    Donald Trump: 1,697,769

    Kamala Harris: 1,668,082

    (And about 40k for third party)

    Vs senate

    Tammy Baldwin: 1,668,545 [+436 from Harris]

    Eric Hovde: 1,641,181 [-56,615 from Trump]

  • Trump wins Arizona, sweeping all seven battleground states
  • Separate from the Dems, but The Lincoln Project did run some ads aimed literally just at Trump to make him angry at his campaign staff. Here's one example that ran on Fox News during the hours that Trump was most likely to watch it. The Trump campaign ended up sending a cease and desist over it

  • Trump wins Arizona, sweeping all seven battleground states
  • We have avoided some of the worst case this election. Down ballot dems have done a lot better than for president and that's going to matter to keep them from being able to do anything without infighting fears. We could've been looking at a 57-43 senate should the swing states not have largely split their votes between senate and president. Instead we're likely looking at a 53-47 or 52-48 senate.* The house could've also been worse too.

    In state legislatures, dems did fairly well all things considered. State legislatures are the place that resistance to Trump is most likely to really be effective. We've managed to keep a lot of state legislature seats and even flip some in other areas. For instance, we broke up North Carolina's republican super majority for instance which means the Democratic governor-elect can have effective vetos. We kept the 1 seat majority in the PA state house in a funny way of having two seats flipped in opposite directions and canceling each other out


    *The Associated Press has called PA for McCormick, but Decision Desk actually thinks that Casey has a ~66% chance of winning still and neither campaign has conceded. McCormick is saying he thinks the call was incorrect and thinks things will could actually flip with the last 100,000 or so votes left to count and or may go to recount

    EDIT: and to add on for further context, Decision Desk is usually some of the first to call any race - to the point where some people say their calls are premature. The AP usually calls races after Decision Desk. The AP usually is much more slow on their calls which is why this situation is so strange where the AP has called it but Decision Desk hasn't and thinks it actually has 2/3 odds of going the opposite way that the AP called it

  • Trump wins Arizona, sweeping all seven battleground states
  • They will probably at least slow themselves down at minimum, though and that will matter. Their majority is already narrow and there are good odds of cutting into that majority further or potentially even flipping the house if we're very lucky. They had house speakership fights for a while in 2022 with a narrow majority

    They are already having some signs of potential infighting in the senate where some Republicans are trying to claim McConnell is holding a "coup" against trump by having earlier senate leader elections (McConnel is not running for senate majority leader so it's a bit more competitive)

  • Taylor Swift Fans Are Leaving X for Bluesky After Trump’s Election
  • Network effects matter a lot for social media. You need people on a platform for people to use it

    Every erosion of a platform's users will matter. Platforms often die by a thoudand cuts. It doesn't have to be a single death blow

  • www.wired.com Taylor Swift Fans Are Leaving X for Bluesky After Trump’s Election

    Swifties say they’re leaving X over Elon Musk’s support of Donald Trump—and the rhetoric that has erupted on the platform following Trump’s win.

    Taylor Swift Fans Are Leaving X for Bluesky After Trump’s Election
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    Trump resistance rises in states led by Democratic governors (The Hill, via archive.today)
  • Do not give up the fight. Make every little issue a drawn out fight so they cannot move on to the next thing

    Despair and hopelessness are what they want you to have. They want you to let them take it away without any resistance. Don't give in

  • Authoritarians like Trump love fear, defeatism, surrender. Do not give them what they want
  • At the federal level, drag out everything and block everything you can. Their margins in the house, should it be called in their favor, will be extremely narrow. Let them in fight and flame against each other. Use every procedural rule to slow stuff down. Filibuster everything. Even if a specific issue is a losing fight, make them have to fight it so they cannot move on to something else. Republicans have used these tricks to block progress for a long time, time to flip it back on them

    At the state level, we can much have more room to push back. A lot of what they are likely to pull is pushing things back into the states. Codify everything at state levels. Ensrhine our rights into state constitutions. A lot of federal operations rely on state government cooperating behind the scenes. Without it, a lot more can be slowed way down or made much more difficult

    Outside the government, we still have power as individuals. Organize unions, protests, etc

  • "Florida is a conservative Christian state"
  • Most people actually voted in favor of the florida abortion ammendment. The threshold is just unusually higher (60%) than most states. It was close to 60% but just a little shy at around 57%

    With a different national environment with just a bit higher dem turnout, it probably would've passed

  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    Do not give into the fear and despair that Trump wants you to have. Fight anywhere and everywhere

    https://bsky.app/profile/emmacurtis.bsky.social/post/3lajnn5f3z22d

    --- Consider running yourself in any local down ballot race near you

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    www.theguardian.com Authoritarians like Trump love fear, defeatism, surrender. Do not give them what they want

    We must lay up our supplies – of love, care, trust, community and resolve – so we may resist the storm

    Authoritarians like Trump love fear, defeatism, surrender. Do not give them what they want
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    Never give in to the despair they want you to have. Fight against regression, and fight for progress. If they want to take our rights, make it a fight at every level

    https://runforsomething.net/

    https://wherecanirun.org/

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    time.com Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Here's the Plan to Fight Back

    To everyone who is afraid of what happens next, I share your fears. But what we do next is important.

    Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Here's the Plan to Fight Back
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    United States | News & Politics @midwest.social usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    ‘We Know Project 2025 ... We Created Contingency Plans’ | NY AG Letitia James ready to lead resistance to new Trump administration

    washingtoncurrent.substack.com ‘We Know Project 2025 ... We Created Contingency Plans’

    NY AG Letitia James ready to lead resistance to new Trump administration

    ‘We Know Project 2025 ... We Created Contingency Plans’
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    United States | News & Politics @midwest.social usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    Want to a way to not just fight back, but build for more? Run for local office yourself. Make sure no position goes uncontested near you

    runforsomething.net Run for Something

    Run for Something recruits and supports talented, passionate young people who will advocate for progressive values now and for the next 30 years, with the ultimate goal of building a progressive bench.

    Run for Something

    As things are more likely to fall back to the states, make sure your state is willing to fight for their rights

    Don't give in to despair. Grieving is natrual, but don't let it consume you completely. When you build back up that energy, put your fury into change

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    United States | News & Politics @midwest.social usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    There are still down ballot house races in play that need help with ballot curing phonebanks (helping people fix small errors in to insure their vote counts). Here's a spreadsheet with them

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    If you live in the states on the map below* with same-day voter registration, you can still vote even if you haven't yet registered to vote! (*early voting has ended in NC and NY)

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22122373

    > https://www.rockthevote.org/how-to-vote/same-day-voter-registration/ > > map from: > https://www.axios.com/2024/10/31/voter-registration-election-day-2024 > > --- > > Another note that New York is currently even weirder having only allowed same day voter registration on a single day of early voting rather than the entire period unlike North Carolina

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    United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    If you live in the states on the map below* with same-day voter registration, you can still vote today if you haven't yet registered to vote! *except the state which only allow it during early voting

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22122373

    > https://www.rockthevote.org/how-to-vote/same-day-voter-registration/ > > map from: > https://www.axios.com/2024/10/31/voter-registration-election-day-2024 > > --- > > Another note that New York is currently even weirder having only allowed same day voter registration on a single day of early voting rather than the entire period unlike North Carolina

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    Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill NC @infosec.pub usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    Today is election day! Polls close in NC at 7:30pm. Make sure to bring your ID when you vote. Find your polling location at the linked site

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22170124

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    georgia @yall.theatl.social usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    Today is election day! Georgia polls close at 7pm. If you are in line by 7pm, you can cast your vote. Make sure to bring your ID when you go vote. Find your polling place at the linked site

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22170816

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    Atlanta, GA @lemmy.ml usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    Today is election day! Georgia polls close at 7pm. If you are in line by 7pm, you can cast your vote. Make sure to bring your ID when you go vote. Find your polling place at the linked site

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22170816

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    Today is election day! Georgia polls close at 7pm. If you are in line by 7pm, you can cast your vote. Make sure to bring your ID when you go vote. Find your polling place at the linked site

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22170816

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    Today is election day! Georgia polls close at 7pm. If you are in line by 7pm, you can cast your vote. Make sure to bring your ID when you go vote. Find your polling place at the linked site

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    Not registered to vote in Michigan? You can register when you vote today today via same-day registration! This is only offered at your city clerk's office rather than at polls unlike other states

    Source: https://www.michigan.gov/sos/-/media/Project/Websites/sos/Resources/Partners-in-Democracy/Elections_SameDayVoter.pdf

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    Haven't registered to vote yet? In Wisconsin, you can register at the poll on Election Day today

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