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Jayna Sheats's avatar

This is both tremendously encouraging news and superb assembly of it in one post; great work, Erin!

It also reinforces the critical importance of being strategic about this election (not that we have much time left to do anything, but there is still a little). Transphobic (transmisic) candidates should be rejected out of hand, but I don't think there is a single one running under the Democratic label. Some Democrats (Allred and Sherrod Brown being examples) may be lukewarm and far from our ideal, but a Democratically-controlled Senate can do useful things for us; a Republican one will, on the other hand, actively hunt us with intent to do grievous harm.

At the risk of beating a dead horse, I would refer to the example of Lyndon Johnson and civil rights. A Black person in the U.S. in 1964 who knew anything about Johnson would not have had a very positive opinion of him, to put it mildly. But he got that landmark 1965 Civil Rights law passed, and Barry Goldwater sure as hell would not have.

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Joan the Dork's avatar

A new poll of voters in my household, taken just now by me, shows that 100% of voters in my household who are me, and also 100% of non-voting cats in residence, are thoroughly sick of the Republican Party's shit.

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