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You are a rock star...inspiring other rock stars....and I'm jealous! I love DC but I have no representative to call!!!! Safe travels, dear one.

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That is such an injustice. Someday...

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I enjoyed reading about the good news with the airline refunds. I laughed at the story about the Republican cat. The fact that your newsletter isn't all gloom and doom makes it a must read every day. Keep up the good work!

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Thanks, Thomas. Will try!

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I am amazed and pleased to see that Cruz backpedaled on the airline refund issue, as I sent him one of your suggested letters. Activism does work, even on Ted Cruz. Wow, I'm even more energized! Thank you!

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Thank YOU for writing to him! He's in a competitive race so he has to listen. For now, at least.

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It is a gross misuse of power for Congress to intervene in an open criminal case. Respect for separation of powers and federalism should guide Congress, not partisan interest.

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It sure is.

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Safe travels, Jessica.

I took a news break to catch up on some reading. Here's a quote I found I thought might be welcomed by many just now.

From the May/June issue of Resurgence and the Ecologist

"We dedicated our lives to hospicing the systems of destruction including within ourselves, to resisting harm, to protecting and building islands of sanity, sanctuary, and sanctity. We ask for our arrogance, based on separation and fear, to be released. We ask that we forgive ourselves and each other. May we remember who we are, feel where we belong, see with new eyes. May we trust in the Mystery, in aliveness, and in love.

Thank you."

Gail Bradbrook

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Beautiful! Thank you for sharing!

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The Markers for Democracy postcard group hosted John Barrow as a guest yesterday morning. He is a great candidate and he really gets the hideous impact of the Dobbs decision on women and their families. I'm writing postcards for him through Postcards to Voters (www.postcardstovoters.org) and will try to make one of the phone banks. Check out his website here: https://barrowforgeorgia.com/ and please be sure to read this interview: https://barrowforgeorgia.com/content/a-conversation-with-our-next-supreme-court-justice.

The Georgia GOP has quite a racket going with GOP judges retiring right before the end of their term so that the GOP governor gets to install his pick rather than having an open election where the people could vote out an incumbent judge that didn't meet their requirements.

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Oh rats, sorry to have missed that. Thanks for the link!

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Vote Forward (www.votefwd.org) is running a "lab" campaign (i.e., test campaign to measure the impact on ballot requests) to voters overseas to encourge them to get their application for a mail-in-ballot in on time. This is in conjunction with the Voters Abroad group.

There is a brief training you must complete before downloading the letters, application forms, and voter contact infomation. It is more expensive to mail each letter ($1.55 vs. $0.68 for domestic first class) and your local post office may not have the Global Forever stamp in stock, but you can order them online (10/book). (I found the holiday stamp with poinsettias at the second post office I checked) Letters are mail as you go, but no later than July 11.

Like "normal" Vote Forward campaigns you can request letters in batches of 5 or 20 and you must be an approved writer to participate (https://votefwd.org/instructions)

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Yes I had this in the newsletter a day or two ago! It's AWESOME!

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Yes, and I am doing everything I can to elect Collin Alred🙏

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Thank you!

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I'm visiting my 92yo mother and I suggested she write to her congressman about the Corporate Tax Dodging Prevention Act. She told me to make it easy enough and she would. Then she told me how the AARP gets seniors to write letters to Congress telling them not to cut Social Security. They send you printed letters already made out to your reps. All you have to do is sign them and mail them back to AARP in a postage-paid, pre-addressed envelope. Then AARP sends them to the reps. Low tech, but effective and elderly-friendly.

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That is great!

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Since we are a group of grassroots collaberators, I thought everyone might enjoy this post about successful collaberation between CADEMs and Bay Area Coalition:

https://open.substack.com/pub/grassrootsconnector/p/a-stunning-example-of-unusual-cooperation?r=1aiy5t&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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I thought this piece was wonderful.

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