Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Their freedom requires your slavery.

In my day, never was longer.

All your base are belong to Tunch.

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

I really should read my own blog.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

This really is a full service blog.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

The words do not have to be perfect.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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On the Ground Reporting from Organizations We Have Been Funding!

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With just 3 months to go before the election, it’s time to get back to some of our collective work here on Balloon Juice.

I thought we would kick it off by hearing from the folks who literally have their feet on the ground, working hard every day, putting our good money to use!  Not the fundraising peeps, but hearing from the people who are involved in the day-to-day work.

We get enough spin and bullshit and negatively from the pundits and the traditional media – it’s time to hear from the people who are in the trenches and know what it feels like on the ground.

On Thursday 8/11 – tomorrow – we will zoom with Four Directions.  We’ll be talking with O.J. (the founder) and Bret (political director) and, fingers crossed, someone who has been very active in Nevada.

Next week – on 8/17 or 8/18 – we will hear from the folks at Voces de la Frontera!   We hope to have Fabi (political director) and some of the leaders and student leaders.

The following week – on 8/24 or 8/25 – we will hear from the folks at VAAC! aka Voting Access for All Coalition.  If you missed the first zoom with VAAC, here’s your chance to meet some amazing and impressive folks who were formerly incarcerated and are now leaders of this great organization.  I think I can speak for everyone who was at the first zoom when I say that we truly felt like we had met kindred spirits, in all the ways that count.

All times tentatively set at 7:30 pm Eastern.

So… who wants to join us for the zooms, and get the skinny from the folks who are out there?  That really does provide an entirely different perspective than we get from the pundits, the media, the polls, the twitter machine.

Let us know in the comments if you want to join the zooms, and please follow up with an email to me so I can send you the zoom links.

How nice is it to be having a good run these past few days?  It’s like a cool rain after being battered by the heat for days and weeks and months on end.

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    Joy in FL

    I would love to be present for all of them. I will email you to confirm as soon as I post this, because otherwise one of my cats will move and attract my attention, and I will forget to email you : )

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    Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)

    I am looking forward to hearing about their progress, especially 4 Directions who I’ve been giving to monthly for quite a while now! Thanks,

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    AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue team

    This sounds awesome! I’m still getting back to full energy so can’t guarantee I’ll make it but will you post the times on here WG?

    Thanks for making this happen.

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    Almost Retired

    This is awesome!  Can’t make tomorrow’s Zoom, but I’m keeping all prospective times for the Voces and VAAC Zooms open.

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    H.E.Wolf

    Thank you WaterGirl for arranging these updates! I’ve been wondering about exactly this, since “our” (= jackal-funded) organizations are working in so many swing states this year.

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    japa21

    Please send me the info.  Not sure if I can make them or not, but I’ll try to find a way.

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