Grassroots Joe<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://c.im/@cdarwin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cdarwin</span></a></span></p><p>billions of dollars to buy our government to make it serve only them.<br>As we did last night in Wisconsin we need to come together as Americans to fight to take our government back, step by step. Come together to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ProtectOurFreedoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOurFreedoms</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FightFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FightFascism</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OurFreedomsOurFutures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OurFreedomsOurFutures</span></a></p>
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Grassroots Joe<p>ensure that our federal government, the government that has been there for us since FDR and the New Deal, continues to function and secure these basic rights, rights that are integral to securing "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" for every American. <br>We must come together, all of us, Black, White, Brown, Christian, Jew, Hindu, agnostic and atheist, straight, gay, bi and transgender to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ProtectOurFreedoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOurFreedoms</span></a>, when necessary to take to the streets to stop the massive theft of our ...</p>
Grassroots Joe<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@USelaine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>USelaine</span></a></span></p><p>And there's 19 million 2020 Biden voters who didn't quite get over the hump to get off their couch to vote in 2024 for us to engage in the fight to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ProtectOurFreedoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOurFreedoms</span></a> for all of us.</p><p>If we can get them over that hump and believing the fight is worth it (it is!) we can make Election Day in 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, ... celebration days instead of debacle days.</p><p>(Mike Podhorzer discusses this with Way to Win folks in this podcast episode - <a href="https://chartingthewayforward.buzzsprout.com/2415376/episodes/16490801-the-missing-19-million-biden-voters-and-the-pilgrimage-out-of-flatland-feat-mike-podhorzer" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">chartingthewayforward.buzzspro</span><span class="invisible">ut.com/2415376/episodes/16490801-the-missing-19-million-biden-voters-and-the-pilgrimage-out-of-flatland-feat-mike-podhorzer</span></a>)</p>
Grassroots Joe<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@Catvalente" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Catvalente</span></a></span></p><p>I know that you didn't directly repeat the lie, but it is in the screenshot you shared. </p><p>That spreads the lie which unintentionally helps ensure that the lie, not the truth, is what people remember.</p><p>Say they lied. <br>Say what they lied about. <br>Say WHY they lied and what we need to do to fight to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ProtectOurFreedoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOurFreedoms</span></a>. </p><p>Do not repeat or in any way publicize the lie itself. When people do it hurts our cause.</p>
Grassroots Joe<p>"But at bottom they are our first line of defense. They can work to ensure that all children in the school district get a great education--or they can undermine that very idea. They can ensure that a child’s race, economic status, or disability is not an impediment to opportunity--or they can create endless obstacles for children and their families."</p><p>There are no off years if we are to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ProtectOurFreedoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOurFreedoms</span></a> & <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DefendDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendDemocracy</span></a>. </p><p>School Boards Are the First Line of Defense<br><a href="https://grassrootsconnector.substack.com/p/school-boards-are-the-first-line" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">grassrootsconnector.substack.c</span><span class="invisible">om/p/school-boards-are-the-first-line</span></a></p>
Grassroots Joe<p>"It’s as if the Confederates’ descendants have captured the government of the United States." </p><p>It is the intellectual descendants of the Confederacy who have captured our federal government and we have to fight the war to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ProtectOurFreedoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOurFreedoms</span></a> all over again. </p><p>January 14, 2025 <br>Heather Cox Richardson<br><a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-14-2025" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">heathercoxrichardson.substack.</span><span class="invisible">com/p/january-14-2025</span></a></p>
Grassroots Joe<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@michaelvera" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>michaelvera</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastonederland.nl/@jarno" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jarno</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.giftedmc.com/@haui" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>haui</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@wonka" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>wonka</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nixCraft</span></a></span> </p><p>I'm sorry, what?</p><p>The push is to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ProtectOurFreedoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOurFreedoms</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DefendDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendDemocracy</span></a> </p><p>That doing so requires vigorous opposition to a protofascist regime is because it's a protofascist regime, not because we are pushing to perpetuate conflict, synthetic or otherwise.</p><p>We "fought" for good policies during the past 4 years. Were we pushing synthetic binary conflict then?</p>
Grassroots Joe<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastonederland.nl/@jarno" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jarno</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.giftedmc.com/@haui" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>haui</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@wonka" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>wonka</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nixCraft</span></a></span></p><p>There are 1000s of local Indivisible groups across the country, 100s more being formed by new members & new people joining existing groups.</p><p>We're all angry and scared, but we're coming together to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ProtectOurFreedoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOurFreedoms</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DefendDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendDemocracy</span></a>.</p><p>People can look for a group near them at <a href="https://Indivisible.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">Indivisible.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>.</p><p>I also recommend bookmarking <a href="https://bit.ly/FreedomOverFascism" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bit.ly/FreedomOverFascism</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>. It's updated regularly with additional messaging advice for countering the dog-whistles and scapegoating.</p>
Grassroots Joe<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@randahl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>randahl</span></a></span></p><p>I do certainly agree that we are doing anything but going away. </p><p>We will fight every day to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ProtectOurFreedoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOurFreedoms</span></a>, to ensure that no matter what you look like, where you come from, or who you love everyone can thrive in America. </p><p>These wealthy reactionary, regressive-right elites can rot in hell where they belong.</p>
Grassroots Joe<p>“And then,” Lady Bird remembered, “with something—if, with a person that gentle, that dignified, you can say had an element of fierceness, she said, ‘I want them to see what they have done to Jack.’”</p><p>It will be with this kind of determination that we will <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ProtectOurFreedoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOurFreedoms</span></a> for all of us no matter where we come from, what we look like, who we love, or how we present ourselves to the world. </p><p>November 22, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson<br><a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-22-2024" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">heathercoxrichardson.substack.</span><span class="invisible">com/p/november-22-2024</span></a></p>
Grassroots Joe<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@CloudMountain23" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>CloudMountain23</span></a></span> </p><p>Welcome to the Fediverse (and thanks for following me).</p><p>One of the best ways to expand your feed is to look to see who people you follow follow (yeah, read that twice).</p><p>There's apparently a tool out there that will show you successive iterations of the following chain, but I didn't jot down where it is, too damn busy trying to help <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ProtectOurFreedoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOurFreedoms</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DefendDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendDemocracy</span></a> ...</p>
Grassroots Joe<p>"Project 2025 is not just a document about the next presidential administration—or what could be the next presidential administration. It’s a manifesto that reflects actual things that are happening in our courts today."</p><p>Reforming the federal courts, especially SCOTUS, is essential if we are to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ProtectOurFreedoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOurFreedoms</span></a>.</p><p>Winning the presidency is one critical path element, but so is winning both houses of Congress.</p><p>The Supreme Court waits for the election to do more damage.<br><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/10/supreme-court-2024-election-plans.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">slate.com/news-and-politics/20</span><span class="invisible">24/10/supreme-court-2024-election-plans.html</span></a></p>
Grassroots Joe<p>"Roberts has called modern Hungary “not just a model for conservative statecraft but the model.”<br>... <br>No matter what he calls it, Orbán’s model is not democracy at all." </p><p>Project 2025 is the strategic & tactical plan for implementing the Hungarian model which is itself modeled on Putin's kleptocracy.</p><p>The MAGA SCOTUS majority has given a 2nd Trump administration free rein to execute Project 2025 without concern for following the law. </p><p>Vote Blue to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ProtectOurFreedoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOurFreedoms</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-4-2024" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">heathercoxrichardson.substack.</span><span class="invisible">com/p/july-4-2024</span></a></p>
GailWaldby@bsky.social<p>I'm attending John Lewis Actions's event, “National Teach-In on the 11th Anniversary of Shelby v. Holder” - sign up now to join me!<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DemCast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DemCast</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProtectOurFreedoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOurFreedoms</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreedomToVote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomToVote</span></a><br><a href="https://www.mobilize.us/john-lewis-actions/event/636160/?referring_vol=4681286&rname=Gail&share_context=schedule-event-chaining-modal&share_medium=twitter&timeslot=4336748" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mobilize.us/john-lewis-actions</span><span class="invisible">/event/636160/?referring_vol=4681286&rname=Gail&share_context=schedule-event-chaining-modal&share_medium=twitter&timeslot=4336748</span></a></p>
freedom_writers<p>Love is Love.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrumpRepublicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpRepublicans</span></a> want to deny us of our freedom to love who we want to love. Democrats will protect our freedom to love, no matter what we look like, where we live, or who we choose.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProtectOurFreedoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOurFreedoms</span></a> ➡ Vote Democrat <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FWC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FWC</span></a> <a href="https://bit.ly/3evyLNL" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bit.ly/3evyLNL</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
freedom_writers<p>Americans believe in the right to privacy.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrumpRepublicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpRepublicans</span></a> want to interfere in our private medical decisions. Dems will ensure that we have the freedom to make our own healthcare decisions.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProtectOurFreedoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOurFreedoms</span></a> ➡ Vote Democrat <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FWC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FWC</span></a> <a href="https://bit.ly/3qmfX6n" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bit.ly/3qmfX6n</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
GailWaldby@bsky.social<p>Montana Republicans Are Once Again Asking the US Supreme Court to Upend American Elections<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MTPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MTPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProtectOurFreedoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOurFreedoms</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreedomToVote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomToVote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Montana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Montana</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/republicans-are-once-again-asking-the-us-supreme-court-to-upend-american-elections/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">democracydocket.com/news-alert</span><span class="invisible">s/republicans-are-once-again-asking-the-us-supreme-court-to-upend-american-elections/</span></a></p>
Grassroots Joe<p>"Tearing apart the modern state, as those like Vought advocate, would take us back to the world Roosevelt recognized as being antithetical to the rights of individuals promised by the Declaration of Independence."</p><p>Theocratic oligarchy or our <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Freedoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Freedoms</span></a>, these really are the stakes in November.</p><p>I choose those who will <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ProtectOurFreedoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOurFreedoms</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DefendDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendDemocracy</span></a>. I choose Joe Biden, Bob Casey, and the rest of the Democratic ticket.</p><p>June 9, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson<br><a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-9-2024" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">heathercoxrichardson.substack.</span><span class="invisible">com/p/june-9-2024</span></a></p>
Grassroots Joe<p>Join us in the fight to stop the billionaires who have bought themselves a reactionary Supreme Court majority hell bent on taking away our <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Freedoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Freedoms</span></a>. </p><p>Join us in the fight to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ProtectOurFreedoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOurFreedoms</span></a>. </p><p>Vote blue. </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/Mgp16uWc_gw?si=G0T3KY9_0fVtQlh_" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/Mgp16uWc_gw?si=G0T3KY</span><span class="invisible">9_0fVtQlh_</span></a></p>
freedom_writers<p>Most of us want to live free from discrimination and build a better life.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MAGARepublicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGARepublicans</span></a> want to deny us the freedom to be who we are. Dems will protect our freedom to realize our true selves.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProtectOurFreedoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOurFreedoms</span></a> ➡ Vote Democrat <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FWC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FWC</span></a> <a href="https://bit.ly/3qliqho" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bit.ly/3qliqho</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
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