Weekly Check in Nov 12

[tassosss]

As seems to be the case on three-day weekends for me, the check-in post is a day late. Apologies for that. It's been a rollercoaster of a week with the Democrats taking the House and a lot of down-ballot races and the firing of Attorney General Sessions imperiling the Mueller investigation. It's a good reminder that we still have two more years under this regime and we're still going to have to fight every step of the way.

Thank you to everyone who voted in the election. Thank you to everyone who contributed in big ways and small to campaigns across the country. Thank you to all our overseas friends who've supported us throughout with information and encouragement. Never give up, never surrender.

Starting with...

Georgia and Florida Recounts
Volunteer TODAY to help with the Georgia and Florida Recounts

Election Results Roundup
Community members experiences voting!
Election Results discussion
#GrabYourBallot Update: 42% Win Rate

Sessions Firing/Protest Whitaker
Call script for Congress to protest Whitaker's appointment

Other Actions
Links on Voting Rights Movement
Donate to Honor Dr. Blasley as an Educator
Boycotting Fox: Call To Boycott Companies That Advertise On Fox, We Got A List and Petition

Housekeeping (the usual stuff)
Reminder that we now have a Friending Meme and a (locked) post where you can connect with others who live in the same area. We hope you find both of these posts useful!

We also have a suggestion post if there’s a topic that you’d like to see discussed but would like to ask the mods to look into. This can be anything from general information, or a how-to-do-a-thing, or something you may want to discuss as a community. Folks are welcome to post directly to the comm as always, but if you’re not comfortable/don’t have spoons, we can help too.

As we don't always get the time to pull things out of the suggestions post into their own separate posts, it may be worth checking every week (or tracking the post) to see if there's any new information you're interested in.

Also if you need help with tags, PM redbird, who is our tag guru. Both tanaqui and I are very grateful for the help.

So, what have you all been up to in the last week or are planning to get involved in next week?

Poll #20708 This week

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 17

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This Week I

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called my one senator
5 (50.0%)

called my other senator
5 (50.0%)

called my representative
4 (40.0%)

called my governor
0 (0.0%)

called my state reps
0 (0.0%)

sent a postcard/email/letter/fax
4 (40.0%)

attended a town hall
0 (0.0%)

donated money to a cause
7 (70.0%)

attended an in-person activist group
3 (30.0%)

participated in phone/online training
2 (20.0%)

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went to a protest
7 (41.2%)

signed up for alerts
1 (5.9%)

worked for a campaign
4 (23.5%)

VOTED!
10 (58.8%)

took care of myself
11 (64.7%)

not a US citizen but worked in solidarity in my own community
1 (5.9%)

did something else
8 (47.1%)

committed to action in the coming week
7 (41.2%)

Comments

When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought

[executrix]

....I summon up remembrance of scandals past?

As I was marching around Manhattan to protest Sessions' firing I felt like I was stuck in a VERY BAD production of Richard III carrying a "Yay, Buckingham!" banner.

Re: When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought

[tassosss]

The times we live in where we want one terrible person in place because he did one not terrible thing... and yet.

Re: When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought

[executrix]

To quote another Enabler, "If I had served God as I have served the King, He would not have left me here naked to mine enemies." So I guess it was the Enemy Figleaf parade.

[sabotabby]

I shouted at PEGIDA, the Northern Guard, and the Proud Boys in the freezing cold until they slunk off, humiliated. Good times.

[tassosss]

Good work that needs doing!

help, help! looking up election outcomes for 30some candidates

[jjhunter]

...I could really use some help looking up & reporting the outstanding outcomes of all the individual candidates on those slates I donated to. /sheepish, but realistically v. low spoons for doing anything political this week after protesting + all the last minute volunteer stuff last week

If you're up for helping, maybe reply to this thread with which slate you'll look up the remaining outcomes for so it's easy to divide up / track which ones still need to be done? And THANK YOU. <3


Tech Solidarity's 'The Great Slate' - 10 outcomes already reported, 2 still need to be looked up, 1 going to a recount on last check (11/8) ETA: many thanks to tani for finding the outcomes of those 2 outstanding races; best I can tell as today (11/12), Jared Golen's ME CD-02 race is still being counted (specifically, ranked-choice voting counting that might - might! - be leaning to Golden (D) - fingers crossed).

Data for Progress' 'Give Smart' slate - 2 outcomes already reported (both wins!!!), 5 still need to be looked up, 1 going to a recount on last check (11/8)

Data for Progress' 'Give Smart 2, Every District - 8 outcomes still need to be looked up

Data For Progress' 'Give Smart 3: LaunchProgress - 6 outcomes still need to be looked up

Data for Progress' 'Give Smart 6: Run For Something and Future Now - 8 outcomes still need to be looked up

Re: help, help! looking up election outcomes for 30some candidates

[tassosss]

I'll see if I can grab one of these later this week. If you don't get a lot of volunteers, you're welcome to repost to the main comm. That may get you more eyeballs.

Re: help, help! looking up election outcomes for 30some candidates

[jjhunter]

Thank you! I may have more spoons to work on it myself this upcoming weekend.

I also strongly suspect the state-level races featured in the various Give Smart slates generally did much better than the long-shot (but really awesome) congressional candidates featured in the Great Slate - I know many of the latter did extraordinarily well to close the significant R-leaning gaps they started with as much as they did in in the finl % outcomes, but it still broke my heart that so many of them lost; I really hope most of them stick around in politics and run again the way JD Scholten is planning to!

Re: help, help! looking up election outcomes for 30some candidates

[momijizukamori]

I'll grab Give Smart 6 - should have some time at work today :)

Re: help, help! looking up election outcomes for 30some candidates

[jjhunter]

Thank you - I really appreciate it!

Re: help, help! looking up election outcomes for 30some candidates

[momijizukamori]

You're welcome! Gotta do something while my code's compiling. If there are more that haven't been updated tomorrow I'll probably give them a poke too.

[rosefox]

[x] other -- did a bit of GOTV phone banking, joined a Slack for the Working Families Party textbanking/phonebanking crew

GA senator, protesters arrested today for peaceful CountEveryVote protest

[jjhunter]

Via Southerners On New Ground (SONG): Breaking: Georgians Arrested at the Capitol for #CountEveryVote

Today, hundreds of Georgia residents gathered at the State Capitol Building to demand that the Secretary of State and Board of Elections count every vote -- inducing thousands of provisional and absentee ballots that have yet to be counted -- before certifying the Governor’s elections results. Because of this action many of our people have been arrested.

We are calling for our Southern kin to donate to release our people!
Donate here: bit.ly/GA-BailFund18

See also Maya T. Prabhu @ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Georgia state senator, protesters arrested at Capitol while demanding ‘every vote count’