While voting Blue is the only intelligent way forward, you don't just vote, and then you're done. Voting is the easy part. Holding their ass accountable for the next few years...is where responsble citizenry comes in. We've spent years voting and then going, "Now...let's see what happens." #Disaster
Update your driver license. Get a passport. Be prepared. Early. Republicans gonna try and pull shit.
Make sure everyone in your family and friends circle are registered to vote! Help them.
Yes!!
Forgot a few things: have a suitcase packed, have a place outside the country to escape
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Yes
We have to make it an either/ or statement Either they remember they work for us or we vote them out.
Lock them up!
I don't want to hold their asses, I'd rather hold their feet to the fire, if you please.
Voting blue is just the beginning; after that, we must hold our leaders accountable to protect democracy and rights while advocating for working Americans instead of the wealthy.
At least some of the dems interact with constituents
Exactly! Democracy does NOT end at the voting booth!
I refuse to vote for Democrats until they offer a dependable Sander's style platform. And yeah, I do all the rest of that stuff. Community building, Food distribution, advocation. But if you want my vote you're going to have to come to me, because I'm not coming to the Democrats
Voting the the most basic yet most important step. Getting people to do that regularly feels like an achievement. Responsible citizenry would be the ideal, but realistically, only a minority of the people will participate in that process. What can we do to entice more people to participate?
Run a candidate who isn’t participating in a genocide?
Or assuming Dems following norms and respecting decorum can win and be successful against a bunch of greed driven craven serial cheaters.
Facts!
And please remember to vote in primaries. Every vote really counts - especially at the local level. Your next Judge of Elections could be QAnon. The next Mayor could be a Christian Nationalist. The most recent primary in Upper Bucks County had less than 30% turnout. And that’s better than last time!
Or it could be an extreme lefty!! Judiciary should never be biased either way!!
The point obviously is to vote.
100% Fact
Voting is the bare minimum not the absolute maximum! Necessary but not sufficient. I really wish people would figure that out already but until then just gonna shout it and advocate.
Texas has voted red for decades but the voters never blame the Repugs for how fucked up this state is. Voters can’t pull the trigger for Dems. The brand is toxic. We need a new party with younger leaders to counter this MAGA cult.
1/3 of us did not bother to vote. Why won't GOP held congress make Puerto Rico, Guam and other territories states? 1) They'd have to give actual help after disasters they're courting with deregulations and gutting the EPA 2) A lot of democrat voters, governors, senators, representatives, etc.
Fuck pr statehood.
Read the Wiki post and take it up with them.
Why?
Because it's a movement of nothing but liars and theives. They have never once stood for everyday people
Think of the democrats it would add.
The statehood movement is dominated by Republicans. Its founder was a Republican the modern day statehood party was created by a Republican all of its current leaders are republicans.
This is kind of what I’m most afraid of. Leftist Dem runs on progressive principles. Leftist Dem wins. Leftist Dem promptly becomes centrist. Everyone despairs. Nothing happens. Rinse, repeat
It's so much more than just voting. People need to encourage and support smart people to run for office as Democrats at all levels - school board, local, state and federal. Republicans started running people at all levels and Ds now need to fight back
We need to hold them accountable NOW. My rep is blue-dog, and I've been begging him to get into some good trouble.
You're so delusional, Jack
Speak for yourself Jack, voting for some folks is not always "the easy part". And come Nov 2026, voting just might be much, much harder.
Agree 100%
No, the only intelligent way forward is to not vote for a single current politician. Literally none of them, on either side, are for the people. The entire system needs to be shut down and restarted. You cant "hold them accountable" when they literally don't give a fuck. Wake up!
I disagree. If the Democrats don’t win win, then we likely won’t have a democracy. The DNC needs to develop more young talent to run for office. Also Congress needs term limits. They can’t run after their 68th birthday.
It's going to be near to impossible to hold anyone in this administration accountable due to this --https://www.thedailybeast.com/hidden-threat-to-democracy-slipped-into-trumps-big-beautiful-bill/?via=desktop&source=email
I'd love to vote Blue on policy, but I just can't because of the pervasive corruption, the lawfare, and the obsession with racist, sexist identity politics and DEI scams.
Too many of us abandoned the responsibilities of citizen hood yet clung to the rights; we became consumers of government instead of contributing citizens. We watched Congress cede power to POTUS & SCOTUS over the last 40 years to avoid responsibility & accountability to all but their wealthy donors.
Democrats: “There’s nothing we can do to stop the Republicans because we are not in power!” Democrats in power: “There’s nothing we can do because the Republicans won’t work with us!”
politics is trickle up. for example start book club style meetings around attending town council & school board meeting... meet up, eat discuss and show up. like we would want to know & influence law enforcement to protect citizens & residents, not betray them and help ICE
How do I hold them accountable other than by threatening to vote against them? And there's only two of them, and they really aren't that different from one another. I mean, I can hold my dog accountable, but not my congressional representative.
... Over 100 Million Didn't even Bother to Vote .. The GOP Has made peoples "Quality of Life" crappy for so long .. Many have given up .. Others .. somehow think maga is going to fix everything by "deporting" millions of "brown" people ..
This is why I post fairly frequently it's important to QUESTION electeds, even--especially--the ones you like. Blind loyalty to ANY politician is a fool's errand. None of them are loyal to you; they're loyal to their office and their position. The only way to ensure their help is to press them.
How exactly do you hold them accountable?
White Christian Nationalism: Trump ignores reality and couldn't care less about the law because there will be no elections. In Aug '26, a false flag op will commence & the Tangerine Turd will declare a State of Emergency & suspend ALL elections. It is too late to stop it. Are you ready for this? 😟☮️🙏
The voting cant be that easy. Only 60% of the USA seem to manage it.
When everyone loses everything and can’t work like during Covid, they will come to the Capitol Americans are making me sick rn I’m a VET we can’t fight
A special counsel of citizens to investigate and bring charges, remove them for Treason.
We need a lot of changes in law
We may be out of time.
Are you volunteering?
For?
Try to figure it out for yourself.
🙄 that's some constructive shit right there. Looks like you're concern trolling down the thread. Good job.
Do you really think that I am recommending that you help a Republican?
You didn't recommend shit.
I agree 💯
Also, far too many people only vote in presidential elections and ignore mid terms and local elections. That is a huge mistake. Every election matters. Join a group like Indivisible for reminders and easy ways to participate.
Always with ONE option to force us to vote however they want us to vote A choice of a proven criminal or whoever else, IS NOT A CHOICE
Also voting doesn’t start with the general, you have to get involved in the primaries
Been after Graves for months. He is a lying do nothing go along that doesn’t rep his constituency.
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Yeah but we're not out there in the streets yet. When will that happen? I'm ready but one person is irrelevant.
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Absolutely, we need to treat the election like what it is, a job interview. Then we spend their term being their boss. They work for us and people need to treat them as employees.
Jack, have you seen the information coming out of the Election Truth Alliance. They've found statistical evidence of tampering in the election. This information needs to be showcased. youtu.be/QaC1IKQnEhI?...
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Doing that locally and the Town Council is not happy.
How Jack? How? act.represent.us/sign/problem...
Democrats need to STOP FIGHTING THE YOUTH OF THE PARTY if they want votes. The last election proved corporate democrats are finished. Young people WILL NOT vote for them!
No shit. We basically say, ooo, I like your optics, now, go do the stuff. And then we watch as they get bought, sold and corrupted.
On June 14, there are several No King protests within and hour and a half to two hours from me. This is a great time to take to the streets. I’m going!
If we had mandatory mail in voting per registered voter the GOP would never win an election ever again.
The way this administration is bulldozing our country. Maybe we need to seriously consider: no more real elections here and it’s time we gear up for a revolution vs the far right Nazis.
Know your rep's contact info: local, state, and federal. In particular state and definitely federal have their voting records available: Follow that. Call them when you don't like something. Never discount snail mail with neighbors signatures along with them. That says grassroots anger.
Who hires someone to work on their house and then goes away for a couple of years to let them do whatever they want while you're away? That's what we've done with politicians. That's how we got here.
Remove all their ill gotten gains, they cherish it more than freedom.
We need more Democrats in local/state jobs
The issue is that parties won't primary incumbents. To get them replaced means that a republican gets elected, which is untenable to many. All politicians should be primaries every goddamn election.
They are working SO HARD to not be accountable. I got a letter back from Tammy Baldwin about the arrest of WI Judge Hannah Dugan that she had “no role” to play — presumably discounting her vote for Marco Rubio and her position on the committee that oversees Homeland Security (and therefore ICE).
When do those we ELECTED to hold leaders accountable DO THEIR JOBS? That's what we're PAYING them to do! I'm not going to risk my ass for free if my reps and senators just sit there and do nothing.
But installing a President and Administration that enforces the Rule of Law is the first step in holding the guilty accountable.
Voting Blue is like Gazans voting for Hamas.
The only intelligent way forward is an actual left party. Dems are broken beyond repair.
And what are you doing?
Assembling guillotines. What are you doing.
Stupid. Working to get Ds elected.
So they can vote for more Republican bills and continue to undermine any progressive change? Very smart. Useless idiot
None of them voted for this bill. Biden passed more bipartisan legislation than any president since LBJ.
Indeed
I have four friends that are/were Republican and voted for Trump the first time around. 2020 and 2024 I talked all four of them (two who weren't going to vote at all) into voting for Biden and then Kamala. Two are no longer Republicans 😁
Bravo 👏
Thank you, YES. I've said nearly the same to my offspring voting 1st time this year. The burden carries forward. It's not a one-and-done!
Fear of failure is Trumps biggest vulnerability. He cannot handle it at all well. Anticipate, hammer and exaggerate every mistake and take back the media 24/7 agenda. Let them know every move is being watched, and someone will always pounce with all the facts and figures to hand.
How about cleaning house from all the Democrats who allowed Republicans to infect all the levers of government over the past 40 years. They took money from corporations they made stock deals and have not waged the kind of war we need now. A Revolution in our party? Long time coming.
I've found when Dems fail to deliver they have good reasons like: It's against the law. We don't have enough votes many Dems vote with the GOP. Or the best one so far: Those two dirty sons of bitches who said they were Dems actually turned out to be bought and paid for by Republicans.
Used to be there was a responsibility for citizens to be informed. To be active participants in Governing. Educated by a Free Press and aware of the issues people were expected to be educated Voters. The Free Press became owned. Corporations became people and people became apathetic. And we get this
You still think you are getting another election? Get real already
It's comparable to how we watch sports. Go them, see ya next time. Very few pay attention on how their candidates vote or conduct themselves. In large part the media is to blame.
Ok - so what? Protest. What else are you advocating for, Jack? I only see one clear goal and that is for the armchair warriors to actually do something within their power - get out and do something! June 14 is an admirable goal for finding your local peeps and hitting the streets.
I always voted Democrat, but I only know 3 who I would vote for. If they don't run for President I will vote 3rd party or not vote at all. Saying you will always vote blue is why so many Democrats we've elected don't do anything but complain. But don't worry, we won't have fair elections anymore.
Now it’s all about holding MAGA Trump accountable. Got it? 🙄
Start now holding the current elected asses accountable. Good practice for if we get to vote again
I have been given the blueprint to alleviate this mess of economic model mayhem.Good humans utilizing the benevolent aspect of Artificial Intelligence can ,following very strict parameters,create a system that will work for 90% of Americans;real,or BS?Voting is crucial!
☝️And don't be afraid to primary them if they aren't up to the task of representing you.
Too many Americans are passive, low-information voters. Ignorance about our system of government and apathy over what we are supposed to stand for have abetted our decline as a constitutional republic.
Never forget the other side plays the long game. Just like in sports ,defense wins championships.
Bingo!
I have voted blue my entire life and I was proud to be a Democrat until last year and then I left the party and became unaffiliated. I am very disappointed in the dysfunction of the Democratic Party.