Our friend Annie over at AnnieAsksYou has gone way above and beyond in her latest post that summarizes the mid-term election candidates for the most relevant and/or contentious races. Bookmark this post, for you may want to refer to it more than once in the next 51 days! Annie — I cannot imagine how many hours you put into the research for this post … I applaud your efforts and THANK YOU for all this valuable information!
With the completion of the primaries on September 13 and the midterm elections less than two months away, it’s time to zero in on particular candidates who have been targeted by the Republicans, and/or those I feel are especially worthy of your votes, active support, and any dollars you can spare. My goal has been to cover as many of the key races as I can.
Wherever possible, I’ve linked to substantive information about the candidates. If you want to donate–and even a few dollars are helpful–many of them are linked to ActBlue.
This is a companion piece to my previous post, How to Be a Part of the Solution, which contains organizations working to protect democracy that can also use your support.
In view of rising reports of vote suppression campaigns already under way, please check your own situation soon—to make sure…
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Filosofa's Word 
Message for American who don’t think there’s any need to worry, and why bother to vote it will all sort itself out.
If you don’t vote on the 8th November, there will be a lot to worry about and it will sort itself out. You will be expected to attend Church, you will be expected to accept your wife, daughter, sister and cousins will lose the right to decide their own futures, you will have to distance yourself from your gay friends and relatives, you have to distance yourself from folk who are not white or go to Church and you will have to be careful what you say at home because your children will be taught to tell someone what you are saying. And you will be expected to donate to those smiling callers at your door, to build churches and support Republican politicians. And in Southern States, learn to understand how The Civil War, really happened
You don’t get to opt out of the Red Way.
Vote Blue, if you want your own future.
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In some ways it’s more insidious that Hitler and the Nazis..because there are no overt killings…yet. And our sickness does not have the support of other western countries, like Hitler did. It’s really two different methods. This is a slow alteration to life in America…turning it into something that won’t be able to change, like Germany did after the war, because we will have become a pariah. We will resemble the MidEast, in parts, where they kill and stone women to death still or in India where they burn and kill people if they are from the lowest caste.( saw this yesterday in an article). In 25 years, we will be unrecognizable. Other countries will have progressed and we will be left in the dust of religious fanaticism and corruption at the highest levels. And much of this from apathy.
The vote is so important coming up…and it causes me great concern.
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Well put Mary. On the basis of what has happened to the Republican Party in the past ten years this could well happen.
Another alternative would be the separating of states into effectively individual nations. That has been the fate of other large countries.
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That may need to be done here seriously.
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One scenario is a collection of separate states with Washington and The President being sort of ceremonial.
Of course this will be ideal for other nations of the world on the commercial up. Imagine…Florida as a third-world republic, owned by commercial ventures with links to their own governments, and Florida’s politicians barely noticed, the ‘advisors’ from outside having more power, while the indigenous folk; including the whites treated as…..’natives’….won’t be the first time that has happened throughout the world. History does love its ironies.
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What a nightmare that would lead to!
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Like I said back a bit, imagine DeSantis family having to bow before their advisors, paid a few trinkets of course.
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Even for that small pleasure, it still wouldn’t be worth it. But, I guess we take joy where we can find it, eh?
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History does love its ironies
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The resulting chaos would destroy the U.S. economy for decades to come.
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It’s just a pipe dream…a desire to be away from the trump cult..nothing more😊
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Oh believe me, I fully understand! My pipe dream is a small, self-sustaining island with no internet, no television … just lots of critters, birds, and peace.
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Oh yes yes!
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And if we thing what we see today is chaos, just try to imagine that scenario!
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And DeSantis’s descendants having to bow and kneel before their ‘advisors’ ….
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A bleak, but all-too-realistic picture, my friend.
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I couldn’t have said it better myself, Sir Roger! And you’re right … neutrality is not an option, apathy is not an option, and rosy-coloured glasses need to be discarded and replaced with clear, or perhaps magnified lenses! While I haven’t completely lost hope, my optimism is admittedly dimmed these days. Doesn’t mean I’ll stop trying, though! I am, if nothing else, a fighter!
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Time for a plagiarise:
“Therefore, brace yourselves to your duties, and so bear yourselves that if The Liberals and Moderates of the USA last for a thousand years, people will still say, ‘This was their finest hour,’
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Hmmmm … wasn’t it the “British Empire and its Commonwealth”? 🤣 But yeah, the idea is the same and a noble one. Can we pull it off? It depends on the people of this nation … we are at a crossroads and there will be no chance to turn back if we screw it up this time.
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Hence…plagiarised….’men will say’, also updated..🙂. You can’t keep a good sentiment down.
That is the challenge Jill.
To go back to the use of that speech, at that time there was a feeling in Britain of ‘The Hell You Will’ to Hitler & Co.
This is needed within the US liberal, moderate and non-committed population as a whole
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You’re right! We need to stop whingeing and get off our arses and MAKE IT HAPPEN!!! I think we’re all pretty discouraged at the moment. Yes, the polls are looking up, but as I just told David, anyone can respond to a poll, but with all the new voting restrictions that have been put into place in most states, NOT everyone can vote. And, far too many simply won’t vote for one reason or another.
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‘They ‘can screw with the voting system, but then they face civil disobedience, folk taking cases to various courts, folk opting out and going independent in various ways, underground movements (they’ll face that in a big way with abortion)….
And, the grim step…
Terrorism.
‘They’ are entitled folk grown soft by a history of a nation in relative stability and entitlement, other nations only dream of. ‘They’ think the rules are theirs to be made….
They are fools.
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Sigh. Yep, they are entitled folk, folk who have had it too easy for too long. Folk who have never known true hardship, have never lived under an authoritarian leader, never lived in a place where violence is the norm rather than the exception. Right now, they seem to think this is all great fun … being thoroughly disagreeable, calling for violence, joining in with the conspiracy theorists. They may live to regret it some day soon, and they will make us all pay a steep price for trying to make the world a little better for future generations.
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Playing silly little games.
This is Life; not a computer game or an implausibly plotted TV thriller series / latest novel by…..
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They will figure that out eventually … perhaps when it is too late.
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Yeah…same as it ever was.🤨
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😞
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Thanks Jill. My daughter usually has all the info about all candidates but this year she won’t even mention a politician or anything about the election! I hate to see her this way. She told me she will definitely vote but the excitement is gone!
Have to admit I am sick of it all as well. Candidates from every state in the Union fill my inbox with money requests, some sounding almost like threats to the point that most days I don’t even open it. And to top it off, my old friend , MS is hitting me with a vengeance. Forget the lousy politics and search for cures to MS, cancer, and all the other health problems we fight on a daily basis!
Sorry! Just a really bad day today. Shouldn’t have opened the email this time.
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Very understandable, all things considered, but instead of being defeatist, instead of losing the energy and enthusiasm, I wish people in Kentucky would step back, look at what they’ve had, and then look at their other options. How I would LOVE to see Charles Booker beat Rand Paul! Paul is a despicable creature!
Oh yes … I can relate. I get over 300 spam emails per day (I have an excellent Spam filter) and a number of blocked calls every day as well. I will be so glad when election day has passed. But meanwhile, I’m hoping that people who CAN afford it are giving to the better candidates and helping them. They should be soliciting the wealthy, not people like you and I who need every penny we get just to stay alive! I’m so sorry the MS is worst … do you think perhaps it’s the stress of the recent move and not being fully settled yet?
Take care, my friend, and always feel free to vent a bit if you need to, or just to talk if you need to. You’ve been through so much and my heart goes out to you. Stay strong! Many people love you!
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This is excellent comprehensive information! Thank you for sharing this important information!
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My pleasure!!! Annie did a wonderful job of this and I think it will help many people!
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Thanks for the info
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The thanks go to Annie for putting so much time and effort into it! I hope it helps many!
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Thank you, Ned!!!
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