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Hey, today I'm celebrating (?) 3 years of being a US citizen!

As a gift, I'd love for my fellow US citizens to check whether they're registered to vote, and help their friends and family do the same.

Just search online for "register to vote" + your state.

Don't like your choices in the upcoming elections? Check out runforsomething.net, and reach out to your local DSA branch to get their endorsement.

Not too late to turn this ship around!

Run For SomethingRun for SomethingRun for Something recruits and supports talented, passionate young leaders to run for state and local office - we’re building long-term power.

Last week I presented a paper at E-Vote ID: “Revisiting Silent Coercion” — This was joint work with a large team, and it took years. Jeremy Clark deserves the most credit for getting this paper published. 🙏

The paper explores “coercion” (vote buying, forcing someone to vote the way you’d like) that is “silent” (voter doesn’t know about it).

More Details: blog.carback.us/2025/10/revisi

#SCOTUS will evaluate #Trump's expansive claims of presidential #power in its new term

The Supreme Court is beginning a new term Monday with a sharp focus on Trump’s robust assertion of #ExecutivePower.

Pivotal cases on #voting & the rights of #LGBTQ people also are on the agenda. On Tuesday, the justices will hear arguments over bans passed by nearly half of US states on *therapy* aimed at changing sexual #orientation or #gender identity.

#law #ActivistCourt
apnews.com/article/supreme-cou

The Supreme Court in Washington, June 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
AP News · Supreme Court's new term takes on Trump's theory of executive powerBy Mark Sherman

My city's newspaper website posted a poll asking how you planned to vote on a particular measure. One of the response options was "I don't know. I'm going to use AI to answer the ballot."

Yikes...are there people who would really do this? I fear for the voting process if AI is used to vote.

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@foundseed @rootschange @joecardillo

My efforts to advocate for asymmetric warfare (in my county's Democratic party) date back to late 2022.

Maybe I got the attention/approval of a couple people, but that wasn't enough.

I watch the county Democratic party in 2025...and they continue to use the same old ideas and strategies. They will get the same old results. Sad.

I keep advocating, but present culture in that county party seems to attract and promote old-school thinkers. (No, I'm not the party chair. Many folks seem to be beholden to THE CHAIR. If THE CHAIR says it, it's Gospel. If some knob like me speaks up...who cares?)

I took my ball and bat and went elsewhere.

Where did I go?

To directly support a local candidate:
sharonformayor.com/

One way I support that campaign is to reformat the county registered voter list into canvassing/walking lists (sorted by street address), list sorted by name (for calling/mailing), and making maps that show various aspects of data.

1st graphic: plot of recent voter turnout of Alamogordo. Lighter = lower turnout. Darker = higher turnout. If you want to boost voter turnout, go to the lightest precincts. (They are the poorest/oldest parts of the city...greater levels of disaffected voters there. Good luck motivating them.)

See 2nd graphic...maps of voters, by precinct. Now you know what doors to knock on. But, there is also a 'negative' of these maps. Plot every voter, zoom in...and find those houses with zero voters. Hmmmm, that might be a good place to go if you want to boost voter registration.

Data can be used to drive local tactics and grand strategy. This data is often free.

Please boost/share this widely. This is stuff that you can do at zero cost, but you do have to have some skill with spreadsheets.

Community building - it's our way to organize People Power.

And it could work like this:
workingclassstories.substack.c

Voting alone is not enough to save democracy, but it is a necessary step to prevent it from backsliding even further. Winning elections helps set the stage for all the battles we need to win to create a more just world.

Happy National Voter Registration Day! Make sure you're registered, and check on your friends as well!

vote.org

www.vote.orgEverything You Need to Vote - Vote.orgRegister to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.
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Sorbo says that young women have also told him that “I would much rather give up my one right to vote if it meant 10,000 liberal women wouldn’t be allowed to vote, so that we could return to a better place." He advocates a “voting system based on Christian morals, which relates to married couples having one joint vote."

Guess who in those "Christian" households gets to determine the one vote.

#Republicans #women #suffrage #voting #gender #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #patriarchy
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Arwa Mahdawi writes about the Republican strategy of shifting the Overton window so that fringe ideas are mainstreamed. She points to calls for ending women's suffrage, as with young right-wing influencer Braeden Sorbo, who has announced,

“I know more young women today who say they wish they didn’t ever get the right to vote than I’ve ever talked to in my life.”

#Republicans #women #suffrage #voting #gender #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #patriarchy
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theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Women’s suffrage is apparently up for debate again in AmericaBy Arwa Mahdawi
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I haven’t been posting as much because the rate of voters is a steady trickle. Only 321 voters in 540 minutes. About one voter every 90 seconds or so. Not very busy, but just busy enough.

As assistant chief, I’m handling all the curbside #voters. We have had 3, which is a high for me. 1 or 2 seems normal in my head.

Curbside #voting is another no-excuses voting accommodation in #virginia. Anyone can have a ballot brought to them in their car. We do the whole thing through their car window.

8/ #electionofficer

Hey #Boston! There's an election Tuesday!
If I can get up 5am, get to my polling place by 6am, and work 15 hours for minimum wage to help ensure that we have free and fair elections, then you can take a half hour out of your day to go vote.
There will be no line at your precinct. You will be in and out in five minutes. You just have to show up between 7am and 8pm.
Vote like your life depends on it, because it does.
#elections #voting #BostonMA

For those who are curious, here are the poll-worker training manual and quick reference guides distributed to #Boston poll-workers for the preliminary municipal election taking place tomorrow. I've elided the private election department phone numbers meant to be used only by poll-workers, but these are otherwise unchanged.
#voting #elections #BostonMA #pollWorker
drive.google.com/drive/folders

Google DriveBoston Election poll worker guides September 2025 – Google Drive

The UN should have an option for more than 50% of the actual population to vote as a veto on its administration's vote.

It would knock out corrupt or crony voting from small countries.

Joyce Vance notes that Trump's increasing threats to place Democratic-voting cities under military control is also about trying to intimidate voters in 2026:

"It’s important to see the potential tie-ins between activating the military based on claims that states can’t handle their own law enforcement and the upcoming elections."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #WashingtonDC #Chicago #elections #voting #fascism #military
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joycevance.substack.com/p/can-

Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance · Can Federal Troops Be Stationed At The Polls In 2026?By Joyce Vance