Great action items in the Healthcare Advocacy newsletter about Medicaid unwinding for children!
Happy Friday, and Woohoo !!! Florida now has the required verified signatures to get abortion/reproductive health care access on the ballot . Now the Florida Supreme Court must approve the ballot initiative’s language.🤞
Stay strong Jess! The Republicans are barreling towards catastrophe and are being extremely loud and obnoxious in order to shake us up. We have discipline and focus, they have chaos.
Okay, Jessica. I just finished planting 200 daffodils in honor of you and everyone else out there fighting for democracy. Two hundred glorious pro-democracy daffodils of multiple varieties will bloom all spring long on a hilly garden in Oakland overlooking the San Francisco Bay. Onward and Happy Friday everyone.
I am heartened by this newsletter, to which I have just subscribed. I do feel is is a waste of my time when you ask Texans to write to our Senators--two right of right Republicans. I truly believe they could not care less what I have to say as a Democrat. Please offer any new ways of seeing this, if there are any. Working to help in other states seems more worthwhile, sadly.
I wish I could give you another perspective but yeah Texas is really bad. I’d put my energy into working to flip state-level seats there. Or simply register voters. Or help the Dem running for Senate there.
Marcus a A is a favorite of my husband’s as well. Reading helps so much. I’m back from an unexpected seven weeks in Montana. Laundry almost done and then it’s into the garden to plant daffodil bulbs for spring. Happy Weekend everyone 🌷
In the next few weeks I will be organizing a group effort to push back on the Center/Liberal MSM for their anti-Biden bias which falsely creates, in the public mind, that the 2024 election will actually be close, which it won't.
Here's a letter I sent to the NYTimes today.
Young Voters Are Voicing Discontent: ‘I Don’t Want a Biden-Trump Rematch’
I appreciate the Times efforts to raise 2024 election issues by interviewing select groups of voters. I am one of the 81 million voters who voted for President Biden in 2020 and I'm excited and happy to vote for him again.
I'm really concerned that the Times' voter profile articles can't seem to find any Biden supporters. Voters who would happily talk about many of the greatly beneficial legislation Biden has delivered for the American people.
They might also talk about fabulous job Biden is doing supporting global democracy.
I assure you, among the 16 million new young voters who can vote this cycle, I assure you at least 6 million will be voting for Biden.
If the Times is at all interested in providing its readers a balanced view of our politics, it should start publishing some pro-Biden articles. The country owes him a BIG thank you, even at the doddering old age of 81.
Hey Jess, I know you're not posting about the Mid-East and I don't blame you. But for anyone who wants, what I think, is a very educated perspective, read Thomas Friedman when he writes about it. He has been the foreign affairs guy for the NY times since 1995 and has made it his business to understand and write about the Mid East his entire career. His latest is called "What is Happening in our World". What I like is that he always writes from an historical perspective and takes a deep dive into the dynamics: social, historical, cultural and political. Blessings on us all and Happy New year!
Great action items in the Healthcare Advocacy newsletter about Medicaid unwinding for children!
Happy Friday, and Woohoo !!! Florida now has the required verified signatures to get abortion/reproductive health care access on the ballot . Now the Florida Supreme Court must approve the ballot initiative’s language.🤞
Yes! That is good news indeed.
Beautifully written today Jessica thank you for that
Thank you, Richard!
Stay strong Jess! The Republicans are barreling towards catastrophe and are being extremely loud and obnoxious in order to shake us up. We have discipline and focus, they have chaos.
Thank you, Jason! I agree but it’s always good to be reminded.
Okay, Jessica. I just finished planting 200 daffodils in honor of you and everyone else out there fighting for democracy. Two hundred glorious pro-democracy daffodils of multiple varieties will bloom all spring long on a hilly garden in Oakland overlooking the San Francisco Bay. Onward and Happy Friday everyone.
That makes me very, very happy. Thank you for brightening the world up a bit more!
Thanks very much for the Suozzi links!
Of course!
Where on Earth does claiming a religion validate dispossessing another person? Love, Doc
😊🌷
After 2 years of George Santos coverage, I'm shocked that voters are unaware of the special election. What is the NY Democratic party doing?
I mean they know vaguely that he’s out but they’re not yet super clear that the election is scheduled. And as we all know the NYDP is abysmal.
Maddening...
Marcus is the Man!
He is!
Thank you, Jess. I appreciate it. Have a good weekend.
I appreciate all of the work you do!
I am heartened by this newsletter, to which I have just subscribed. I do feel is is a waste of my time when you ask Texans to write to our Senators--two right of right Republicans. I truly believe they could not care less what I have to say as a Democrat. Please offer any new ways of seeing this, if there are any. Working to help in other states seems more worthwhile, sadly.
Blue Horizons Texas gets Dem candidates to run in previously uncontested Rep held seats.
The States Project supports Dem state legislature candidates in flippable/keepable states.
League of Women Voters does civic education for high schools and registers newly eligible citizens to vote, along with general Get Out the Vote.
Yes all of that! And aren't the Blue Tennessee people doing Blue Texas as well?
I wish I could give you another perspective but yeah Texas is really bad. I’d put my energy into working to flip state-level seats there. Or simply register voters. Or help the Dem running for Senate there.
Marcus a A is a favorite of my husband’s as well. Reading helps so much. I’m back from an unexpected seven weeks in Montana. Laundry almost done and then it’s into the garden to plant daffodil bulbs for spring. Happy Weekend everyone 🌷
That sounds lovely!
Thank you, Jessica. I am enjoying your positive perspective.
Thank you, Ellie. I am glad to know about r]these additional avenues.
It is a beautiful world and hate just blinds us to its beauty 😊
Exactly!
In the next few weeks I will be organizing a group effort to push back on the Center/Liberal MSM for their anti-Biden bias which falsely creates, in the public mind, that the 2024 election will actually be close, which it won't.
Here's a letter I sent to the NYTimes today.
Young Voters Are Voicing Discontent: ‘I Don’t Want a Biden-Trump Rematch’
I appreciate the Times efforts to raise 2024 election issues by interviewing select groups of voters. I am one of the 81 million voters who voted for President Biden in 2020 and I'm excited and happy to vote for him again.
I'm really concerned that the Times' voter profile articles can't seem to find any Biden supporters. Voters who would happily talk about many of the greatly beneficial legislation Biden has delivered for the American people.
They might also talk about fabulous job Biden is doing supporting global democracy.
I assure you, among the 16 million new young voters who can vote this cycle, I assure you at least 6 million will be voting for Biden.
If the Times is at all interested in providing its readers a balanced view of our politics, it should start publishing some pro-Biden articles. The country owes him a BIG thank you, even at the doddering old age of 81.
Thanks
Merrill Weingrod
Rhode Island
401-480-8003
This is GREAT, Merrill! Thank you!
Hey Jess, I know you're not posting about the Mid-East and I don't blame you. But for anyone who wants, what I think, is a very educated perspective, read Thomas Friedman when he writes about it. He has been the foreign affairs guy for the NY times since 1995 and has made it his business to understand and write about the Mid East his entire career. His latest is called "What is Happening in our World". What I like is that he always writes from an historical perspective and takes a deep dive into the dynamics: social, historical, cultural and political. Blessings on us all and Happy New year!
I agree I think he’s one of the most important and informed voices we have on this topic.