Good day, Gnusies! Can you feel it? Can you feel the subtle shift in the zeitgeist? Amid fear and isolation, there is courage and the calls for justice are growing louder. We are in difficult times, but have confidence! These difficult times have clarified the truth for many people who were coasting before and now what seemed to be impossible is turning out to be possible. The price is terrible, and because of that terrible price — so much unnecessary loss of life — we must work even harder, fight even harder, stay the course to ensure that reforms happen so that we never go back to the old “normal” which was terrible in a different way. We have a chance to create a new and better normal and Democrats are going to grab it.
There’s so much good news today that I’m just going to plunge right in so grab a beverage and … let’s go!
WIsconsin! You Go, Girl!
Words can’t describe the pride and joy as the results in WIsconsin’s April 7 election came in at last yesterday evening. By hook and by crook, Republicans tried every voter suppression trick in their toolbox (and revealed for all time that the rotten Republican fix is in all the way up to the SCOTUS), and still they could not defeat the power of the people! The headline below says it all:
Wisconsin Voters Overcome Pandemic to Knock Conservative Off High Court, Joe Kelly, Courthouse News, April 13, 2020.
Dane County Circuit Court Judge Jill Karofsky announced her win over Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly just before 7:00 p.m. With 60% of precincts reporting, Karofsky had 53% of the vote to Kelly’s 47%.
Karofsky’s consequential upset narrows the conservative majority on the Badger State’s highest court from 5-2 to 4-3.
Judge Karofsky’s election was one of the campaigns that Postcards to Voters wrote for! It makes a difference — write on, PTV!
I have to post this tweet because his last sentence made me smile. No wonder Dumpy had a(nother) meltdown:
“Trump should be very afraid of Wisconsin” — yep. Even after years of gerrymandering, gerryrigging, boatloads of cash from Kochs, interference from Russia and all manner of experimentation on and manipulation of the people of Wisconsin — the Genocidal Oligarchic Plunderers (thanks, NNNE, for the acronym generator!) still could not keep the spirit of democracy down. Well done, Wisconsin. You are heroes!
Bye-bye bad judges
And in Milwaukee County, two judges appointed by former R governor Scott Walker (← the worst) were defeated by huge margins — 19 points and over 40 points! You tried to steal another election and Badgers were not playing last week, Republicans. By the way, if you want the full election results, that link back there ← has ‘em all.
Haha, and oh I just love this endearing tweet by Katie Rosenberg — her first as mayor-elect of Wausau, WI (which I guess she wasn’t expecting to win!):
🎶 Sometimes Mondays are All Right! 🎶
Pressure is building for safe, fair elections including Vote by Mail
Most Americans, unlike Trump, want mail-in ballots for November if coronavirus threatens: Reuters/Ipsos poll, Chris Kahn, Reuters, April 7, 2020.
Most Americans, including a majority of Republicans, want the government to require mail-in ballots for the Nov. 3 presidential election if the coronavirus outbreak still threatens the public this autumn, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found. ✄
the poll conducted on Monday and Tuesday found that 72% of all U.S. adults, including 79% of Democrats and 65% of Republicans, supported a requirement for mail-in ballots as a way to protect voters in case of a continued spread of the respiratory disease later this year. ✄
In response, Democratic House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called for Congress to approve as much as $4 billion to help states expand their ability to conduct voting by mail.
✔️ Oh, how elections matter! ✔️
Now that Virginians have turfed out the Republican majority in their state legislature and elected Democrats, progress has been sweeping into that state. Last week, Gov. Ralph Northam signed several bills into law addressing gun violence, voting rights, women’s rights and LGBTQ discrimination. Oh, and he also signed the Clean Economy Act, making Virginia the first southern state to set a standard for 100% clean energy. Go Virginia!!
Governor Northam Signs Historic Gun Safety Legislation into Law, Gov. of VA press release, April 10, 2020.
RICHMOND—Governor Ralph Northam today announced he has signed several landmark gun violence prevention measures into law, including legislation to enact an Extreme Risk Protective Order, require background checks on all gun sales, mandate reporting of lost and stolen firearms, prevent children from accessing firearms, and reinstate Virginia’s successful one-handgun-a-month policy.
“We lose too many Virginians to gun violence, and it is past time we took bold, meaningful action to make our communities safer,” said Governor Northam. “I was proud to work with legislators and advocates on these measures, and I am proud to sign them into law. These commonsense laws will save lives.”
Stephen Wolf, DK staffer and politics writer, covers it really well in the diary linked in the tweet below. I’m putting the tweet in here because the graphics and short version is visually pleasing and covers the bases!
Virginia’s New Laws on L.G.B.T. Protections, Guns and Marijuana Reflect a Shift in Power, Neil Vigdor, The New York Times, April 13, 2020.
On Saturday, Mr. Northam announced that Virginia had become the first state in the South to include language in its anti-discrimination housing and employment laws that protects people on the basis of their sexual orientation. The law, known as a the Virginia Values Act, goes into effect on July 1.
“This legislation sends a strong, clear message — Virginia is a place where all people are welcome to live, work, visit, and raise a family,” Mr. Northam said in a statement. “We are building an inclusive Commonwealth where there is opportunity for everyone, and everyone is treated fairly. No longer will LGBTQ Virginians have to fear being fired, evicted, or denied service in public places because of who they are.”
Next, Mr. Northam announced on Easter that he had signed a series of changes to the state’s criminal justice laws that included decriminalizing the simple possession of marijuana, a measure that takes effect on July 1. Mr. Northam proposed a $25 civil penalty for simple marijuana possession, sealing conviction records and prohibiting employers from asking about a past conviction, which still require legislative approval.
I can’t find a link right now to this (seems it wasn’t a priority for many reporters), but Northam also did away with the odious ultrasound requirement and 24-hour waiting period before a woman can have an abortion.
🇺🇸 United They Stand 🇺🇸
We don’t have a president, but we do have leadership! Governors on the east and west coasts have joined forces to tackle the pandemic crisis, and naturally 9/10 of them are Democrats:
Governors form groups to explore lifting virus restrictions; Trump says he alone will decide, Tim Craig and Brady Dennis, Washington Post, April 13, 2020.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, (D-NY)
Earlier in the day, Cuomo was joined via phone by governors from New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Rhode Island as they formed a pact to coordinate on an eventual end to their states’ restrictions. Later, Cuomo announced that Massachusetts, led by Gov. Charlie Baker (R), was joining the group.
“Everyone is very anxious to get out of the house, get to work and get the economy moving. Everyone agrees with that, but the art form here is going to be doing that smartly, doing that productively, and doing that in a coordinated way,” Cuomo said.✄
On the West Coast, the governors of California, Oregon and Washington also announced a pact to work together to tamp down the ongoing outbreak and carefully restart the economy in their states.
“Covid-19 doesn’t follow state or national boundaries,” the three governors said in a statement. “It will take every level of government, working together, and a full picture of what’s happening on the ground.”
→ Here is my weekly reminder that there are lots of good people — liberals! — in so-called “red states”, too! Good for Nebraska!
And my midwestern governor has been fantastic, too. By the way, go read the longer interview with JB in the Lightning RoundUp (bolded). Really good stuff. These Dem governors are rocking it — because they really do care about people. I’m hopeful that JB will organize something with Tony Evers, Gretchen Whitmer and any other midwestern/Great Lakes governors who might be interested in forming a third coast alliance.
Pritzker Thanks California Governor Newsom After Illinois Receives 100 Ventilators, NBC News Chicago, April 7, 2020.
Gov. J B Pritzker (D-IL) and Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton
llinois Governor J.B. Pritzker is publicly thanking California Governor Gavin Newsom after 100 ventilators were delivered to the state of Illinois this week.
“It’s truly incredible to work with elected officials across the nation who are providing real leadership,” Pritzker said in a series of tweets thanking Newsom.
The ventilators arrived in Illinois as the state moves toward what it believes will be its peak in coronavirus cases. More than 13,000 Illinois residents have contracted the virus and 380 have died, but officials believe that the peak in virus cases could be reached within the next 10-to-14 days.
🎶 A Song For Our Democratic Governors 🎶
👏 Maybe the media has finally had enough 👏
What a show at the White House yesterday, eh? Once again, women reporters led the way by asking important questions. The pretender could not control his rage and threw a tantrum. And wonder of wonders, for once reporters have told the unvarnished truth about what happened! To have more media acknowledging how deeply problematic this behavior is has been long overdue, but it is very good news that it is finally happening. No more normalizing with bullsh*t headlines like “President and reporters trade barbs at WH briefing”! The CNN chyron was stunning. And this article from the Guardian likewise did not mince words:
Wounded by media scrutiny, Trump turned a briefing into a presidential tantrum, David Smith, The Guardian, April 13, 2020.
A toddler threw a self-pitying tantrum on live television on Monday night. Unfortunately he was 73 years old, wearing a long red tie and running the world’s most powerful country.
Donald Trump, starved of campaign rallies, Mar-a-Lago weekends and golf, and goaded by a bombshell newspaper report, couldn’t take it any more. Years of accreted grievance and resentment towards the media came gushing out in a torrent. He ranted, he raved, he melted down and he blew up the internet with one of the most jaw-dropping performances of his presidency. ✄
With more than 23,000 American lives lost in such circumstances, some presidents might now be considering resignation. Not Trump. He arrived in the west wing briefing room determined to tell the world, or at least his base, that he was not to blame. Instead it was a new and bloody phase of his war against “enemy of the people” – the media. Families grieving loved ones lost to the virus were in for cold comfort here. ✄
The thin-skinned president lashed out at reporters, swiped at Democrat Joe Biden and refused to accept that he had put a foot wrong. “So the story in the New York Times is a total fake, it’s a fake newspaper and they write fake stories. And someday, hopefully in five years when I’m not here, those papers are all going out of business because nobody’s going to read them,” Trump said.
Plus, Chris Wallace Makes the Case for Joe Biden:
LOL, he probably didn’t mean to do it, but this sounds almost like an endorsement! Most Americans like and want that stuff, Chris!
Chris Wallace: Trump has no chance at re-election if voters believe he handled coronavirus poorly, Victor Garcia, Fox News, April 10, 2020.
"He's for a public option, not Medicare-for-all, but a public option," Wallace added. "That wasn't something that Barack Obama supported in 2012. Health care for illegal immigrants, that wasn't something that Barack Obama supported in 2012. Decriminalizing people coming across the border [illegally], same for Obama ... Biden is a lot closer to Bernie Sanders than he is to where Barack Obama was just four years ago."
Wallace also predicted that the November election would double as a referendum on President Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying: "If people come to the conclusion, a majority of Americans, that he has handled the health issue and the economic issue poorly, I don't think he has any chance to win."
⚖ Oh, speaking of that meltdown…unexpected SCOTUS news! ⚖
Perhaps in addition to being angry at Dr. Fauci and at all the governors who have gone ahead and gone around the White House to lead their states in a crisis, and possibly a preview of the Wisconsin election results, and of course the constant reminders of his monumental failures in falling polls, etc… there might be one other factor that upset the traitor in chief. The Supreme Court is going to hear cases after all! Including the cases he was hoping would not be heard until after the election, if at all. This news flew under the radar a little bit because most people are rightly concerned about the pandemic. But it is very important and scary to one Donald Drumpf:
Supreme Court to hear cases on Trump's financial docs, religious freedom and Electoral College via telephone, Ariane de Vogue, CNN, April 13, 2020.
The Supreme Court will hear major cases on President Donald Trump's financial documents, religious freedom and the Electoral College via telephone next month and make oral arguments available for live audio broadcast in an unprecedented move. ✄
Oral arguments will be heard on May 4-6 and May 11-13, but the specific dates for each case are yet to be determined, the court said. ✄
The cases involving Trump's financial documents involve whether the US House of Representatives and a New York prosecutor can subpoena the President's longtime accounting firm and banks for his records, two monumental disputes concerning separation of powers and
Trump's broad claims of immunity.
The Electoral College case involves
so-called faithless electors who voted or attempted to vote for candidates other than the ones who won their states -- Trump or Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton -- in the 2016 election.
It’s true that the SCOTUS is controlled by conservatives who, until now at least, have been happy to let Dumpy blunder along destroying the country, but now that he is failing so spectacularly and his election is imperiled beyond even their ability to intercede on his behalf, maybe they won’t protect him any more. Maybe they will find plenty of excuses in the actual law to get rid of a pResident who may no longer be of any use to them. Maybe that’s what Dumpy fears, anyway.
And Remember This Guy?
Remember the brutish Republican Greg Gianforte who assaulted a reporter and yet somehow still won his election? Well, it looks like he may be in some hot water:
Fox Campaign Accuses Greg Gianforte of “Insider Trading” and Profiteering on COVID-19, Don Pogreba, The Montana Post, April 10, 2020.
Yesterday, the campaign for Montana Attorney General Tim Fox accused Greg Gianforte, our current US House Representative and his rival for the GOP nomination for governor, of financing his campaign by insider trading capitalizing on COVID-19.
In an e-mail from campaign manager Jack Cutter, the Fox campaign laid into Gianforte:
It’s an incredible claim, no doubt based on the research that shows Gianforte, rather than putting his investments into a blind trust as promised, has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past three months in companies hoping to profit from COVID-19, including the French manufacturer of Hydroxychloroquine.
🎶 Special Request For Dumpy and Gronk 🎶
📬 The USPS Needs Help and the US People Are Delivering 📬
People Are Buying Stamps And Praising Mail Carriers After The US Postal Service Said It Needs A Coronavirus Bailout, Lam Thuy Vo, Buzzfeed News, April 12, 2020.
The USPS offers many beautiful stamp designs for all seasons and special occasions as well as honoring great Americans.
#USPostalService and #saveUSPS were tweeted thousands of times after the Washington Post reported Saturday that President Trump was personally blocking potential emergency funding. According to the Post, Trump threatened to veto a version of the recently passed stimulus package that included a $13 billion bailout for the US Postal Service and instead extended the agency a $10 billion loan. The USPS has been financially troubled for decades, but a drop in its main funding source — first-class and marketing mail — due to the coronavirus pandemic has only worsened its economic outlook.
"We now estimate that the COVID-19 pandemic will increase the Postal Service’s net operating loss by more than $22 billion dollars over the next eighteen months, and by over $54 billion dollars over the longer term, threatening our ability to operate," postmaster general Megan Brennan said in a statement on Friday.
Rep. Gerry Connolly, a Democrat who has led the push to provide USPS with aid, has also said Trump personally blocked potential funding plans.
"Every single one of us will feel the impact if the #USPostalService disappears, @realDonaldTrump," Connolly tweeted on Sunday. "The American people want to #SaveTheUSPS. Whether we can is up to you."
Support the USPS!
Even if we all buy stamps, though, we need the USPS to have a more reliable, more permanent solution to its current woes, brought on by Republican skullduggery in 2006 and exacerbated by the pandemic. Call your congress critters and tell ‘em you want support for the US Postal Service written into the next crisis response bill!
Capital Hill switchboard: (202) 224-3121 You will be asked what state and zip you live in and then you’ll be routed to the congressperson of your choice (either Rep. or either of your state senators — or all three!).
I’m delighted to report that when I ordered new stamps on Sunday night, I received a notification that due to high volume of orders, my order might not ship for 2-3 days. I am thrilled that lots of other people are doing this, too. The stamps are beautiful and we all need at least a few! Please join in!
That link again to the USPS: Stamps and Supplies
☀︎ Crisis as Changemaker? ☀︎
Here are a few hopeful items that might put a silver lining on this wretched coronavirus business:
Could the Pandemic Wind Up Fixing What’s Broken About Work in America?, Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times, April 10, 2020.
The United States is distinctive among rich countries in its lack of worker protections like nationwide paid sick leave, paid family leave and universal health insurance, and in its minimal labor union membership. For both high and low earners, many employers expect workers to be on call around the clock. Companies are typically beholden to shareholders first, above employees, customers and communities.
But the coronavirus pandemic has shown the flaw in that logic: Worker well-being is the foundation for everything else. (emphasis mine)
Already, Congress has given some workers paid sick and family leave for the first time. Companies have started to offer paid leave, subsidized child care and flexible work schedules. Millions of Americans are working from home — which could reset workplace practices even when they return. People are recognizing the importance of many jobs that have long been undervalued, like janitors, child care providers, teachers, health aides, delivery people and grocery store workers. ✄
The policy changes that have already happened in response to the virus have come very quickly. They have illuminated how relatively easy it would be for workers to have these rights — employers or policymakers would just have to say so. It may be hard for them to take back benefits, analysts said, even those they’ve said are temporary.
“Once you make it clear that these things are within your capacity to do, people’s baseline expectations change,” said Mr. Wyman, the historian. “That was true of the New Deal, the Great Society, Obamacare. We can do a lot more than we think we can. Crises are a useful reminder, useful in a tragic kind of way, of what we can do if we wanted to, if we had the will to do it.”
And even ambitious young Republicans are sensing the change in the air as Heather Cox Richardson pointed out last Thursday. (Letters from an American, April 9, 2020). ⬇️
But for all this news, the thing that jumped out at me today was an op-ed published last night in the Washington Post by Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican from Missouri. In it, Hawley calls for Congress to invest in America by covering 80% of wages for US workers, offering bonuses for rehiring workers, strengthening supply chains at home, and cracking down on Wall Street profiteering. He wants anti-trust enforcement and corporate transparency rules. This op-ed reads to me like Hawley thinks the radical anti-government fever that took over the Republican Party in the last generation is going to break under Trump, and Hawley is betting that a political future, even for a Republican senator, depends on embracing government activism.
That is news indeed.
Plus, surprising words from boris johnson
HAHA, JK!
Conservatives in the UK have been gunning for the national healthcare in that country with the same determination that conservatives here in the USA have gone after public education, workers’ unions and the USPS. In other words, British conservatives want to make life as hard for their people as Republicans do over here. Most UK residents very much like their universal healthcare, thank you very much, and yet it is being starved of resources by successive conservative governments (Yes, people in other countries also have been tricked into voting against their best interests by having their own xenophobia used against them- oops). Once again, though, the pandemic has produced one possible silver lining in an otherwise horrible, wretched crisis: Boris Johnson — just out of hospital where he needed intensive care for covid-19 — gave a speech yesterday that may signal that he has had an epiphany, a change of heart or at least has had to pause to consider some of the awful things he has supported in the past (like xenophobia, anti-immigration, Brexit, and US-style privatization of healthcare). Time will tell if his gratitude brings lasting change (don’t hold your breath), but it was an interesting speech:
British PM’s praise for health service could boost its cause, Danica Kirka, AP News, April 13, 2020.
Johnson’s statement could mean the NHS has a powerful new advocate as it seeks to reverse a decade of austerity that has left Britain’s doctors and nurses struggling to treat the flood of coronavirus patients with inadequate supplies of protective gear. At least 19 NHS workers have died in the outbreak.
It also was notable for Johnson’s unabashed praise of two immigrants. He has staked his career on Brexit, a cause closely bound up with the desire of many in Britain to control immigration, and his words could mean a change in his government’s tone.
“I will never, ever be able to repay you and I will never stop thanking you,” added Johnson, who spent three nights in intensive care at St. Thomas’ Hospital.
Johnson called the NHS “unconquerable” and “the beating heart of this country” after seeing its response to the outbreak first-hand. He lauded the courage of everyone from doctors to cooks.
🎶 This One’s For You, Boris 🎶
🐆 Good News For An Endangered Species 🐆
Endangered clouded leopard kittens born at US zoo, BBC News, April 9, 2020.
OMG Look at those little tongues!! Too Cute!
Special measures are being taken at the Miami Zoo to protect two highly endangered clouded leopard cubs that are vulnerable to catching coronavirus.
The cubs - one male and one female - were born on 11 February but have since been secluded in their den to allow time to bond with their mother.
Last month, a tiger at another US zoo tested positive for coronavirus.
The Miami zoo says staff are wearing gloves and masks and disinfecting their shoes when they handle the leopards.
During their examination and vaccinations on Tuesday, the newborns were confirmed by zookeepers to be "developing well".
"Both offspring appear to be thriving and the mother continues to be attentive and nursing them on a regular basis," Zoo Miami said in a statement.
⚡️ Lightning RoundUp ⚡️
⚡️ He has the experience to put together a team who can do it: If Biden Wins, He’ll Have to Put the World Back Together, Thomas Wright and Kurt M. Campbell, The Atlantic, April 13, 2020.
⚡️ Yer Wonkette: Trump HEREBY DECLARES He Is Boss Of Telling US American States When To Re-Open, LOL Stupid Idiot, Evan Hurst, Wonkette, April 13, 2020.
⚡️ Re-upping this article Goody quoted on Saturday; well worth reading: 'The impossible has already happened': what coronavirus can teach us about hope, Rebecca Solnit, The Guardian, April 7, 2020.
⚡️Donald Trump has tested positive — for the bulls**t virus, Lucian K. Truscotte, lV, Salon, April 11, 2020.
⚡️ ICYMI (Bombshell article): He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus, Eric Lipton, et al, New York Times, April 11, 2020.
⚡️ The incorrigible loser: The Me President: Trump uses pandemic briefing to focus on himself, Ashley Parker, WAPO, April 13, 2020.
⚡️Jane Mayer is a national treasure; well-sourced and well-written: How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief, Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, April 12, 2020.
⚡️OK, sure, for some of us: Coronavirus good news: we have many blessings to count, Mark Rice-Oxley, The Guardian, April 10, 2020.
⚡️ Most people are D-deficient anyway, so this won’t hurt and might help: Evidence that Vitamin D Supplementation Could Reduce Risk of Influenza and COVID-19 Infections and Deaths. William B Grant et al, MDPI.com, March 12, 2020.
⚡️ A very personal look behind the scenes (we’ve got great Democratic governors, folks): For JB Pritzker, A Governor On War Footing, 'There's No End Of The Day', Dave McKinney, NPR News, April 13, 2020.
⚡️ Rep. Alma Adams & Sen. Kamala Harris Introduce Black Maternal Health Week Resolution, US Congress press release, April 13, 2020.
⚡️ WHAT CAN WE DO? PART I, Teri Kanefield, Musing About Law, Books and Politics, April 6, 2020.
⚡️ WHAT WE CAN DO, PART II: BE AN INSTITUTIONALIST, Teri Kanefield, Musing About Law, Books and Politics, April 11, 2020.
💙 RoundUp WindDown 💙
We’ve got lots of work to do, Gnusies, and I’m so energized to be doing that work with all of you and all of our fellow progressives out across the country!
More than ever, it is vital that you take good care of yourself and those you love. Eat nutritious food, get enough rest and try to get some fresh air or time with nature each day. We’ve got mountains before us, but we have already scaled the foothills and we are ready to move those mountains, just like our countrymen and women did in WIsconsin last week. Keep up your strength, take short breaks and then get back to it! You’ve got a world to save!
🔗 Helpful Links 🔗
Good News: You can still help save the world in self-isolation!
Here’s a bunch of links to help you stay involved at home:
Act Blue — fundraising for Democratic candidates in one easy site.
Mama takes me out to see the spring flowers!
Vote Forward — currently organizing an effort to encourage voter registration, including providing addressees with voter registration forms! This is one of several “do it at home” projects through which many of us can really make a difference. Voter to voter initiatives have a track record of increasing voter turnout. The Vote Forward letter system is ideal for those who want to contribute but can’t write too much. The letter templates are provided and all you do is put in a line or two of your own and make sure the letters get to the voters on your list!
Postcards to Voters — Our own gnusie, Progressive Muse posts most days with information about PtV and updates on current campaigns and progress. This is the ideal “do it at home” contribution especially suited to those who enjoy getting a little creative and connecting with fellow voters around the country.
Fair Fight — Stacey Abrams’ initiative which has already made a difference in several elections! Find out how you can help out at this link.
Spread the Vote — wonderful organization which works hard to help eligible voters obtain valid ID so they can register and vote.
From Kat at Spread the Vote:
There are a few ways you can help from home (please stay home!!!!!):
- Buy an item or two from our AMAZON WISH LIST. These items are going to our partners on the ground (shelters, food banks, etc.) who are still serving our clients and communities.
- Donate to Spread The Vote so that we can keep working today and, most importantly, have the funds we need to hit the ground running when this crisis is over.
- If you live in one of our 12 states, sign up to volunteer! We’ll be hosting regular training sessions and we’re moving up our bi-annual Volunteer Virtual Summit so that everyone is ready to go on day one.
- If you don’t live in one of our states, follow us at @spreadthevoteus on all of the social media channels and help spread the word about how this pandemic is affecting the most vulnerable people in the country.
I can’t thank you enough for always standing by us and I really really beg you to please stay home, #flattenthecurve, and watch as much Netflix as humanly possible. We will get through this together.
And finally, for one-stop all-purpose voter information:
Everything you need to know to vote — This site covers everything any eligible voter needs to know, from how to register, how to check that you are still registered, how to obtain an absentee ballot and what to do if your right to vote is challenged or you are stopped from voting.
🌷 Happy Tuesday, Newsies! 🌷
