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Hey there! To be honest, I don't know a whole lot about this specific issue although Evicted is on my reading list.

I agree with you on the educational point. The Republicans have completely overhauled how education is done in North Carolina over the past 7 years, this is a great overview. I'm not convinced that "choice" is the solution to our education woes.

My high school's district is actually drawn like you're proposing -- it pulls from both country clubs and housing projects. It was a formative experience, to be sure.

If you're interested in this topic, I'd recommend taking a look at San Francisco's school assignment process which is the solution they've taken to solve this problem. They've seen interesting externalities when implementing this, such as wealthy families opting out of the public school system altogether. (As an aside, this is what happened in my hometown when they desegregated schools in my hometown -- the wealthy families founded a private school with tuition so high that no black families could afford it).

As far as I know, they can send to every state. Maybe the rules don't apply since it's not from the campaign. You pay for the postcards

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You pay for the postage and decorate them however you like. Some people are REALLY creative with them. My Indivisible group is going to do a party to do a ton of them down the stretch of campaign season.

I will say, someone on here who works for the Conor Lamb campaign said that they would rather us not go through Postcards to Voters because if we send them directly to the campaign they can better target who they get sent to. There are plenty of Republicans registered to vote as Dems. Honestly, I'd still do it (though not for Lamb. I'd just send it to them to respect their wishes). PtV said that people LOVE these cards. During the Doug Jones campaign, it got to be a thing where people would bring their postcards to the campaign office and they started hanging them up. They had a wall filled with them.

Yes. Progressives, particularly progressive POC. To learn a lot more about why this is a smart strategy, check out Brown is the New White.

Another really smart strategy more Democrats need to get on board with is funding POC-lead community organizing groups. Find some here! These are the groups that put in the tough, long-term work to organize and turn out the black and brown communities that form the Democratic base. In the run-up to Doug Jones' win, Movement Vote and other groups gave $500,000 to stipend local women of color to organize at Alabama HBCUs and within their own communities. This is one of the major reasons that black voter turnout was higher than white voter turnout, why we squeaked out a victory, and why the Senate is in play now.

Donate to one of these fantastic groups today!

Or don't, your call. But at least check out the website.

Happy to help. I wrote this post last week to put some of my thoughts into writing. I also highly, highly recommend this book. It was the one thing that pulled me out of my anxiety slump after Kennedy retired. The same guy also runs a blog that's pretty good.

Amazon is trolling me to write more letters. I bought 500 envelopes for $14.99 recently, and kept another copy of the product in my cart to watch the price. They dropped it to $11.69. 😂 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00V5DGIL6/


What letters? Glad you asked! See below.


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Stiglitz wrote a book about inequality with suggestions. The book itself He rank #4 on Repec's most influential economists of all time.

Kruger made a speech about inequality and touched somewhat on the end with suggestions. He is also responsible for studying the effects of minimum wage increases.

I know Krugman has touched on inequality several times on his NY Times column.

ETA:

>Otherwise yes, they are for inequality.

TIL Stiglitz, one of the leading economist who focuses on the problems of inequality is for it. lmao

You should read a bit Mao, he does in fact call the same things out and argues that it is important to act in unity, but keep talking and educating people. There is lots of effective stuff in his books about leadership. That said, be aware that his advise on safeguards against power aren't working.

Besides that I'd suggest Thinking about the Fundamentals - Helvey and Rules for Revolutionaries - How Organizing can change everything.

Thank you for this post. To me, 2009 was when we really started to screw up, since we falsely assumed that Obama was going to make everything better for us as a cure-all. Many of us thought that things would be fine and decided to step back and let the pros handle things. The Tea Party, IMO, would not have grown as dangerous as it is if we hadn't let our guard down. In reality, we cannot put ALL of our stock on ONE person ... it takes millions of us in order to make the change. We should have learned this lesson in 2010 and 2014, since we don't lose out to freaks like the GOP today unless we fail to do our due diligence and put in the research like they did back then.

This is what everyone should read in order to see how to win a war. It's a real eye-opener.

I think that writing off any state because of recent election returns is always defeatest. Good book from six years ago on Colorado shifting to Blue here may help give you a different perspective.

Maybe. But she's not hiding from them, so my first inclination without reading them is to think they can't be that bad. I think she technically writes romantic suspense, which aren't often all that racy.

Here's one of her amazon listings: https://www.amazon.com/Reckless-Selena-Montgomery-ebook/dp/B001AZRJIK

On Amazon. There's a free audiobook as well.

If anyone is interested in reading more about the gerrymandering on steroid that the Republicans been using since 2010 I recommend RatFuck by David Daley

https://www.amazon.com/Ratf-ked-Behind-Americas-Democracy/dp/1631491628

https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Matter-Kansas-Conservatives-America/dp/080507774X
This is a great read on the subject.

There are plenty of pro-life liberals. I'm one! In Catholic and (some) mainline Christian teaching, being pro-life goes right along with being anti-war, pro-gun control, pro-universal healthcare, pro-worker, pro-environment, and anti-death penalty. "Consistent ethic of life" or "seamless garment" is the way it's usually phrased.

Abortion didn't become a single-issue indicator until the evangelical Religious Right of the 80s made it so. To keep it so is to allow the Religious Right to have their way. Contraception didn't become a single-issue indicator for evangelicals until 2010, when suddenly the winds shifted and evangelicals had always opposed contraception for reasons that had absolutely nothing to do with having a black President.

I am willing to vote for Democrats on the other issues, since it's easier to work with Democrats on prenatal issues than to work with Republicans on those other issues.

As far as guns go, this is a good book on the subject, despite the straight up kooky-dooks reviews.

Great idea!

You’re More Powerful Than You Think: A Citizen’s Guide to Making Change Happen

It’s more abstract, but it completely changed my understanding of politics.

Steve Kornacki just came out with his first book, The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism. I'm about half way through it, it's fantastic and explains so much.

Same way they made the word “Liberal” a pejorative term.

This book by George Lakoff outlines just how Republicans have hijacked the political discourse in this country and explains how to undo the bunk framing and take it back to reality. Quick and fascinating read. Check it out.

I'll have to put it on my list. I would also recommend "The Dictator's Handbook" by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita.

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