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Stephanie G Wilson, PhD's avatar

Thanks, Dan. I think this is necessary but not sufficient, to quote someone wise. First, everyone who values democracy needs to get involved in the effort to win the midterms. There's something for everyone from social media advocacy (go to www.moreperfectdemocracy.org to get involved) to doorknocking to postcarding. I also think that it may be time to put on massive marches again, like the Women's march that was joined internationally. Sadly, I'm not the one to plan that, but I know someone is. And also,we've got to find a way to put pressure on the media to stop the BS both-sides reporting that is killing us with casual readers. We've managed to pressure several companies to leave Russia. I think a grassroots campaign to hold some of the media accountable might help the narrative. But all of this is meaningless if the criminals aren't held accountable. We gave the former confederates amnesty after the Civil War, and pardoned Nixon, and now the same general faction feels they can act with impunity. Thanks for what you do, Dan, and now let's all reach out to all of our friends and family and get them involved however we can.

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Carrie's avatar

Thanks Dan.

Can't remember if it was a tweet or on the pod, but I heard you make the comment that everybody's hard work in 2020 is what is bringing KBJ to the SCOTUS - I repeated that to an acquaintance and it landed strong. I believe the same point about accountability will be motivational to a fair number of folks too. It's like the organizers' version of ASO's instruction to make the voter the hero of the story - we need to make potential activists the hero of the organizing story.

In my sphere, there is a deep sense that, to paraphrase Trump's words to Billy Bush, when you're a Republican, they let you do it. The challenge and the charge is to turn "they let you do it" to "we won't let you do it any more".

ps - Can you talk to Costa and Woodward and ask them to time their bombshells to better match the pod's schedule?

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