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Maze Dancer has some new addresses for postcards.

I also got a whole bunch of requests to raise money for some governor’s races. You can give here to three of the races that are closest right now: NV, OH, and FL. Sisolak, Cordray, and Gillium are all great candidates.

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Give here to fan favorite Stacey Abrams (GA).

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Give here to Tony Evers (WI), running against Scott Walker.

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  1. 1.

    germy

    Watch out… the conservatives might use those lyrics against us:

    Two of us riding nowhere
    Spending someone’s
    Hard earned pay
    Two of us Sunday driving
    Not arriving

  2. 2.

    PST

    Marc Thiessen is always disgusting, but this headline sent me over the edge.

    Khashoggi’s disappearance is a betrayal of Trump

    Right. That’s how to describe the torture-murder of a brave and virtuous journalist.

  3. 3.

    Martin

    Boy, looking at the early turnout results tells me that the key to Democrats winning is to nominate black women. You get the black community turning out like their life depends on it, you get enthusiastic women voters, you get young voters who I think are done with white men of any stripe, and at this stage of the game you get no penalty from Democratic white male voters. Any of them that would have had trouble with a black woman candidate went out of town during Obama and joined Trump.

  4. 4.

    WaterGirl

    Do we have a link for Four Directions? (I think that’s the name — it’s one of the groups that is working to get street addresses for Native Americans in ND.)

    I’m tapped out, but I would give to them in spite of that.

  5. 5.

    MazeDancer

    May Stacey and all the Gov’s trounce the GOP!

    It’s Heidi Heitkamp Weekend in PostCard Land.

    Have addresses. You can thank her for standing up for Dems by writing 10 or 20 PostCards.

    You know you can do it. Especially since we have a Script. All you have to do is copy it if you don’t mind forsaking originality.

    Also have Rouda, Delgado, Small, Luria, Williams, Spanberger and more. BJ’s own PostCard site for BJ’s own Candidates.

    Write as if our future depended on it. Click link Doug so nicely provided. Or my nym. Or type:

    PostCardPatriots.com

    (And love the headline, Doug!)

  6. 6.

    WaterGirl

    I just heard at the farmer’s market this morning that our Democratic candidate for the house in IL-13 (Betsy Dirksen Londrigan) is polling within 1. We have been trying to get rid of the vile Rodney Davis in election after election, with no success.

    I hope this is the year we can actually do it.

  7. 7.

    Martin

    And in the interest of continuing to knock down bullshit republican talking points:

    A 19-acre site at the Port of Los Angeles populated by dilapidated buildings and rusted cranes is playing a key role in SpaceX’s long-standing plan to colonize Mars. In two to three years, hundreds of workers could be swarming over SpaceX’s massive BFR rocket and spaceship system there.
    About 20 miles north, at SpaceX’s Hawthorne headquarters, thousands of employees already build Falcon 9 rockets and Dragon spacecraft.
    That’s a lot of heavy manufacturing planned for a region — and state — that are often derided for chasing away factories and large headquarters operations with high costs and regulations.
    …
    “The region has long been the center for major industries like automotive, aerospace and tech, and is home to some of the best talent in the nation,” Brian Bjelde, SpaceX’s vice president of human resources, said in an emailed statement. “We continue to recruit and retain the brightest employees from diverse industries who are attracted to our mission and to all that the area has to offer.”

    I’m quite proud of that statement as I send them a lot of employees. Californias ongoing investment in higher education is why so much of the tech industry is here. This is where the talent is, and talent is how you grow and succeed. Taxes come on your profits, and if you have no profits you basically have no taxes. What’s the point of being in low tax Kansas if you can’t turn out competitive products. One of the complaints by Boeing on SLS development is that they can’t find employees in Louisiana and Alabama where that project is pretty much congressionally mandated to be. And I’ll tell you first hand, newly minted engineers from California have less than zero interest in going to Alabama and Louisiana because of the culture and politics there. Frankly it’s easier to send them to China than to most of the south.

  9. 9.

    Immanentize

    Does anyone have a good suggestion for giving to critical on the ground GOTV organizations?

  10. 10.

    H.E.Wolf

    Thank you, MazeDancer (and all the other postcard writers), and thank you Doug for highlighting them! We’re on our way home. :)

  11. 11.

    WaterGirl

    @MazeDancer: I was hoping we had a BJ thermometer already set up, but if we don’t, I am glad to know where I can donate as an alternative. thanks.

  12. 12.

    WaterGirl

    @Immanentize: I do not, except to say that with the new 1.6 million just from one GOP pac, attack ads that are being rolled out against Beto O’Rourke.

    Beto is saying that every single dollar being donated at this point will go to GOTV (Get Out the Vote) for him in TX.

  13. 13.

    Kay

    @Martin:

    It’s pretty amazing that the Georgia governor’s race is as close as the Ohio governor’s race where in Ohio we have two candidates who could be described as “generic D versus generic R”

    I think the 2 southern governor’s races are the most interesting in the country- FL and GA.

  14. 14.

    Tenar Arha

    @WaterGirl: Oh yeah I think they’re a good choice. With the reasoning that the same smaller political organizations that did candidate recruitment & local GOTV would know best where to spend money, on top of some of the individual candidate donations lists, I gave Four Directions & Higher Heights ? earlier this week to help with final pushes across the country. The week before I gave to Swing Left & Flippable.

  17. 17.

    Kay

    @Immanentize:

    I wish I knew which state legislatures were close to flipping from R to D (if any are). That’s where the voter suppression comes from. The SoS is just the executive. These laws come out of legislatures. If we had stronger state law protecting voting rights the SoS could go back to being a recorder’s job instead of a tool to suppress votes. They’re supposed to be a state recording agency. That’s what they used to be before Republicans turned them into high-profile political hatchet jobs.

  18. 18.

    germy

    A woman in line behind me tried to tell an elderly lady that the ballot was complicated and it was OK to skip voting on some amendments. The teeny-tiny lady, who was 108 years old if she was a day, yelled, "YOU DON'T KNOW ME. I DID MY RESEARCH." And I shall love her forever. pic.twitter.com/tDPOyADCwu— Mary Laura Philpott (@MaryLauraPh) October 18, 2018

  19. 19.

    Kay

    Kyle Griffin
    ‏Verified account
    @kylegriffin1
    20h20 hours ago
    More
    Wim Laven arrived to his Georgia polling site unsure of voter suppression allegations. Then he waited 2 hours in the sun; saw one person in line treated for heat exhaustion; watched a 2nd collapse, yet refuse to be taken to the hospital so he could vote.

    It just fucking enrages me that these voters that Republican officials are treating like garbage pay those officials salaries.

    I mean, really. What nerve. They’re treating the citizens of their states like garbage and the citizens have to put up with it because if they don’t they will never be able to FIRE them. The GOP voter suppression is an incumbent protection racket. Republicans can do a LOUSY job and it’s near-impossible to replace them. Why do they run elections so incompetently? They can’t run a simple state recording process without people being hospitalized?

  21. 21.

    raven

    President Donald Trump sent a series of tweets on Saturday reinforcing his endorsement for Brian Kemp, which heightened the possibility that he will soon visit Georgia to boost the Republican’s bid for governor.

    The president posted on Twitter that Kemp will be a “great governor” and that he has “prepared for this very difficult and complex job for many years.” Without mentioning her name, he assailed Democrat Stacey Abrams as “totally unqualified.”

    Trump’s late endorsement of Kemp helped power him to a runaway runoff victory in July over Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, who was already reeling from the release of covertly recorded tapes, but this is the president’s most visible intervention into the race since then.

  23. 23.

    WaterGirl

    @Kay: Voter suppression also comes from what we call “County Clerk”. Not sure if they are called that elsewhere. Here in IL-13, when I was a poll watcher, I watched the pig that has held that seat for far too long — after being appointed to fill a vacancy — put up all sorts of roadblocks to sabotage the “grace period” registrations.

    That pig — given name is Gordy Hultens”– is running for another office, so we finally have a chance to put a Democrat in that slot. Aaron Ammons is running and he is a good guy. They told me at the farmer’s market this morning that his is out of money. <a href="Aaron Ammons for County Clerk “>You can donate here if so inclined.

    edit: I goofed up the formatting, but the link still works.

  26. 26.

    WaterGirl

    From Newsweek, today:

    JAMAL KHASHOGGI SECRET INTERVIEW: THE SAUDI JOURNALIST’S VIEWS OF ISLAM, AMERICA AND THE ‘REFORMIST’ PRINCE IMPLICATED IN HIS MURDER

    Jamal Khashoggi told me he feared for his life. I was reporting a cover story on Saudi Arabia for Newsweek and we were speaking confidentially: That’s one reason I haven’t allowed this transcript to be published until now. The other reason is I hoped against hope that he was still alive. Despite ample signs of the extreme brutality of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his regime, I could never have imagined we would so soon be reflecting on Jamal’s death.

    Jamal was calm and deliberate as we spoke in great detail about Saudi Arabia’s future and its recent past. “I don’t see myself as an opposition,” he said. He wanted only reform; he wanted “a better Saudi Arabia.” He was almost mournful as he confessed how he had tried, in vain, to advise the young crown prince, known as MBS, to choose a different path and open up Saudi civil society. He maintained a sliver of hope that MBS, despite being “an old-fashioned tribal leader,” could yet be steered toward reason. But he spoke frankly to me about the “thuggish” men around the crown prince. “You challenge them, you might end up in prison,” he said.

    As someone who had been close to the Saudi royal court for decades, Jamal instinctively understood the limits of reform. He has been described as a dissident in the weeks following his disappearance. But until 18 months ago, he had been loyal to the official Saudi line on every major issue, from Yemen to Syria to state-sanctioned sectarianism inside the kingdom. Such loyalty did not spare him the repugnant fate—according to Turkish officials—of being tortured to death and dismembered in a Saudi consulate.

  28. 28.

    jacy

    @Kay:

    I read an post somewhere that delineated where legislatures were likely to flip, but I can’t find it now. (I thought is was Larry Sabato’s site, but I”m not seeing it.) The gist was that is where the real shift is coming that nobody is really paying attention to. But it’s state-level politics that greases the way for everything else, and Democrats are making huge gains there. If I do find it, I’ll post it.

  30. 30.

    Eljai

    @Immanentize: I found out about Airlift from my local Indivisible Group. Airlift invests in grassroots groups that work boots on the ground, neighbor to neighbor to mobilize voters.

    Currently, on their Special Projects page they have a “donate” link to fund canvassers and organizers in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Missouri.

  31. 31.

    Gretchen

    Thanks for the link. I bought a bunch of vote postcards and emailed postcards to voters but they didn’t get back to me. I responded to this so we’ll see. I’m off to buy some stamps.

  34. 34.

    Yutsano

    @Kelly: My ballot was just safely deposited in my PO box. I’m thinking about looking at it later tonight or tomorrow and then doing the actual voting along with my pamphlet. Probably tonight after dinner then tomorrow drop it off while I’m out doing other things. Or it might wait until I’m home. I have options either way. It’s nice to have a state that values voting rights, although same day registration would help a lot here. Maybe I can get that bug in the next legislative session.

  35. 35.

    Marcopolo

    @Kay: Just finished knocking doors in red/purple StL County. Most amazing weather & gorgeous blue sky. I was knocking with a woman I used to volunteer with in the late 80’s @ the local NARAL office. I hadn’t seen her in decades but it felt like old times.

    Kay, google “Data for Progress” and click on their blog. They are in the middle of doing 4 rounds of funding for state legislative candidates in states where one or both of the state house & senate are on the verge of flipping. The third round might have slightly different metrics but I haven’t looked @ it yet. I gave money to the first two groups.

    I’d post the links but am on my cell as I grab a bite to eat on the way home and doing links on a phone is a pain in the @ss.

  38. 38.

    low-tech cyclist

    You and I have memories…gonna do what we can to make sure our memories of this election are good ones.

    I gave to Gillum, Abrams, and Evers early this morning, but gave to Sisolak, Cordray, and Gillum again just now.

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