Celebration Thread

[tanaqui]

The election has finally been called for Biden and Harris, so it's time to celebrate!

The work isn't over, of course: Cheetolini is refusing to concede and who knows what his supporters will do in the next few days. There are also the two run-off races in Georgia that will determine control of the Senate, so plenty of work to be done there. Not to mention all the work that still needs to go on to roll back the damage done in the last four years and build a fairer world, to improve voting rights and turnout, and to take control at local and state level.

But at this moment, we definitely deserve a post for celebrating. :-) Both the result (and that we've seen the first woman and first woman of color elected to the White House!) and the way this community has become an amazing place over the past four years. Thank you to all of you!

Georgia's on our minds... (Two US Senate races and potential control of the chamber)

[sathari]

Like the title says, we have two upcoming opportunities to flip the Senate (okay, it'll be 50/50, but with Vice President Harris as the tiebreaking vote) in the same state! 

Here are the links to the Democratic candidates' campaign sites:

https://electjon.com/ for Jon Ossoff, who ran in Georgia's 6th Congressional district in a special election back 2017, and who is running against Republican David Perdue

and

https://warnockforgeorgia.com/ for the Rev. Raphael Warnock, who got a very early endorsement from none other than former gubernatorial candidate and current voting protection activist (and also our fellow fannish person and a published romance writer) Stacey Abrams and is running against Republican Kelly Loeffler, who was appointed following the resignation of incumbent Johnny Isakson and who is not only married to the president of the New York Stock Exchange (this is the sort of thing that might matter to some subset of swingable Southern voters, as in OMG damnyankee) but appears to have engaged in a spot of insider trading around the whole COVID thing.

Speaking of Stacey Abrams, here the website for her main voting protection organization: https://fairfight.com/; I note that there are links to volunteer both in Georgia and nationally as well as to donate.