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More slates!
This time, a deliberate, data-driven attempt to flip state legislatures:
The Intercept: Small Donors Suddenly Pour In to Flip Eight State-Level Seats — and Legislatures
Remember, state governments control drawing of districts and writing of voting rules, as well as having power over things like abortion restrictions, should Roe v. Wade be overturned.
Data for Politics: Give Smart -- with details of the individual candidates and who they're opposing
Most memorable opponent, IMHO, Sylvia Allen: She’s also a creationist who wants to make church attendance mandatory, and when her prison guard son was investigated for bribing inmates for sex she tried to pass a law to make that legal.
Act Blue: Give Smart -- donate here!
And between the time I started to draft this post this morning and posting it this evening:
Data For Politics: data for politics #30: Give Smart 2, EveryDistrict -- -- the first slate took off so well that they teamed with EveryDistrict to fund 8 more candidates who might have a significant impact
Act Blue: Give Smart 2 -- donate to the second slate here
The Intercept: Small Donors Suddenly Pour In to Flip Eight State-Level Seats — and Legislatures
Remember, state governments control drawing of districts and writing of voting rules, as well as having power over things like abortion restrictions, should Roe v. Wade be overturned.
Data for Politics: Give Smart -- with details of the individual candidates and who they're opposing
Most memorable opponent, IMHO, Sylvia Allen: She’s also a creationist who wants to make church attendance mandatory, and when her prison guard son was investigated for bribing inmates for sex she tried to pass a law to make that legal.
Act Blue: Give Smart -- donate here!
And between the time I started to draft this post this morning and posting it this evening:
Data For Politics: data for politics #30: Give Smart 2, EveryDistrict -- -- the first slate took off so well that they teamed with EveryDistrict to fund 8 more candidates who might have a significant impact
Act Blue: Give Smart 2 -- donate to the second slate here
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This is the kind of disparity that the engineered crises at the top are obscuring: the digital divide isn't just between people with internet access and without it, it's also subdividing those with quick and reliable broadband vs. those with cellular data access only and all the variations in between. The difference between places where there are jobs for younger folks vs. where almost all the young people move away and rarely return.
It's not just climate change: it's country change, it's urbanization and all the places left lonely in between.
Anyway, will definitely do Great Slate. Am eying Give Smart 3, LaunchProgress vs. cherry-picking a few folks from Grab Your Ballot for the remainder; I gave myself a hard limit when I started my spreadsheet for this, and it's been remarkably satisfying both to do it and to have given myself permission to draw a line where I'll stop and say 'enough, I've done my share and more'.
As I can, I'll likely still be donating bits of time, emotional labor towards getting other people to the polls and encouraging them to make informed decisions before they go (not to mention finishing reading / researching /deciding re: all the ballot questions I have to answer myself!), but it's a relief to be acting, to feel like I've taken significant action as a responsible and engaged citizen beyond just keeping myself afloat.