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Whoa! Rep Swalwell! 👏🤸‍♀️🥂 I'd seen the Kimmel clip before and laughed out loud again - and shook my head. Thanks for the list of uplifts!

P.S. C'mon LA County voters! Do your thing! We had 17 folks yesterday in the vote center where I'm an election clerk. 🥴 Git yer mojo in gear and VOTE! The door's open and we're waitin' on y'all! 💙

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I made a TikTok about it. I’m worried.

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Could it be that people vote by mail? I also live in California and I haven’t done it yet but it’s on my to do list! Btw voting by mail is the best. It should be done in every state.

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In California, the Vote By Mail ballot is counted as a vote as soon as it is received at the central collection center.

When you have made your selections on your ballot, you can entrust it to the USPS, drop it in an official drop box, drop it off at a vote center (bypass the line), or have someone sign the envelope and bring it to a vote center for you.

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Yup!

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Ditto, California voters! My vote center only had 12 voters! CA has more Trumpers and Haleyers than you might assume!

You can walk into a vote center near you to register to vote on the spot with an ID and then vote. If you want to vote for a Democratic (or Republican) presidential candidate, register in the party of your choice, or presidential candidates will not appear on your ballot. Use Vote By Mail or Poll Pass for convenience of voting from home.

Get your friends and family to vote!

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Why are there no comments here??!! Come on people. What a lovely list, thank you Jessica. Side note on the newest ntl. park in Co, Amache ….we toured it while visiting relatives a few years ago. As in all the ones we have seen in person, the camps were located in the most remote, god-forsaken parts of the country, windswept, treeless, dust-ridden.

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Just like the reservations that native Americans were forced into when white immigrants decided that the land they lived on was better than they deserved.

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And then they found oil in them-there rugged rocks! The white patriarchs decided to take those riches away from our Native Americans. "Killers of the Flower Moon."

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Sunday morning church etc ... Jess gave us a super-duper list of accomplishments. Thanks!

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Wow. Lucky you for seeing it!

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OMG. My cup runneth over from the length of your wonderful list and most especially from some of the incredible entries on the list.

The video you sent to us is Incredible! What shall we call it—terrifying? The sometimes awful power of a demonic rally riser? I worry about how something like this can happen.

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It’s mind blowing, isn’t it?

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"A new White House executive order aims to block the bulk sale of Americans’ personal information, including genetic and health data, to “countries of concern’' like China, Russia, and Iran." One wonders why such information is for sale at all by anyone other than the primary possessor which is each of us. That would be a law worth passing if Congress ever got around to doing any effective work.

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It’s a law we need desperately I agree.

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GREAT!!!Thanks, Jessica!!!

of course, I love the video - but not as much as the great LONG list!

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🙌🙌

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Thanks, Jess for a wonderful, comprehensive list. Yours is always the best, most uplifting. Gotta love Eric Swawell. Hopefully some Republicans who still own their soul will hear what he is saying and start listening to their consciousness.

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Oh I’m not sure I’m going to hold my breath for that. But I’m still so glad he did it.

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Check out Bill Penzey’s efforts to share the love mothers of transgender children feel. See Penzeys.com.

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Oooh I will thanks!

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Also, the Attorney General of Colorado has filed suit to stop the grocery merger. He also is surfacing evidence that there may be unlawful activity.

https://coag.gov/2024/colorado-attorney-general-phil-weiser-files-lawsuit-to-block-proposed-kroger-albertsons-merger/#:~:text=Feb.%2014%2C%202024%20(DENVER,largest%20supermarket%20chains%20in%20Colorado.

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Yes! Darn it I saw that and forgot to grab it! Thank you for adding.

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🙏 to Jessica! She does a superb job with her substack. Great, comprehensive info. An easy, quick read. And FREE! She even allows freebees to make comments and engage fully. Some of the free substacks I subscribe to ONLY allow comments if you’re a paid subscriber. 😖 Some have special activities ONLY for paid subscribers. Also 😖. Seems a bit manipulative to me. Makes me consider stopping them and contributing to Jessica.

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Yeah, I’m not a fan of paywalls. I find them off putting, too.

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Jessica, your newsletters are what keep me sane and motivated. Thanks so much for your very hard work. This video is both hilarious and sad. It shows the degree to which Trump supporters will twist themselves in knots to support him. It also reminds us that we can’t spend time trying to get these people to support Biden. We have to work very hard to get real potential voters. Thank you again Jessica.

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Exactly! No point in it at all. And thank you!

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"..global coalition, led by the U.S., has been formed to fight disinformation campaigns by foreign governments. "

Irony? . My suggestion to that group is the same for everyone. Stop using "disinformation" I'm old, but is that what the younger gen is using with their children? Disinformation!!! Teach The Children Well. They're called lies for a reason. Adding more syllables does nothing to change that fact.

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WHAT A LIST!!!!!🎉🥰🥳🎊

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"Celebrate This" is invaluable for me in catching up what I would have otherwise missed. Just hope that you have some elves helping you on this. Not easy to do. LA Times a good resource but unless you are a member, no admittance!!

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Ugh that’s so frustrating. And they don’t offer the option of a gift link. Sorry about that.

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Thank you Jessica! We all need to hear these good things!

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Very welcome!

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Can anyone tell me what date's email did Jessica put John Roberts address and a sample postcard to him?

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I don’t remember putting an address for Roberts. There was one for Biden last week?

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Oh, thank you Jessica. Yes, I got the one for Biden and am sending a postcard. It must have been someone else for the Roberts address, then. I just assumed since it was something GOOD, that it was you. Thank you for EVERYTHING you do. I read every post and do at least one thing from each, sometimes more! Can't imagine living through this without you!

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I love Swalwell so much! Thanks for that awesome exchange. We are going to be seeing a lot more of him in the future.

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I agree. He’s earning his wings for sure.

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