You can also work with @fieldteam6.bsky.social to write postcards to states registering ppl. https://Fieldteam6.org I write w a group to voters in AZ and GA
https://www.mobilize.us/ lists volunteer opportunities all over the US! Simple things like working a booth at a farmers market. Door knocking. Giving rides to the polls. Things almost anyone can do!
You have enough ammunition that is affected everybody to do that. Key thing ask him whether they're being hurt and then show them the evidence of who's doing it and bring more than one receipt because you know how stupid these f****** people really are
Voting should be mandatory. I know it’s an unpopular opinion but that is not an excuse. Apathy is what led us here and Americans got too comfortable trusting people like it was autopilot. We shall never be copacetic again! Not with this.
First things first. Strengthening vote integrity has to come AFTER we trash this sh1t "bill". It is the d3ath of democracy if it goes through the purchased senate.
#endthegop
I did an AI search and it stated there's nothing in the bill that explicitly addresses this, but then it dawned on me (duh...)
that it doesn't need to be if the piece in bill that neuters the courts passes.
And there is no doubt in my mind this pig will try to do it.
Not to also mention in bills they word things in a way to purposely fly under the radar it’s why they get called out in the first place like the people with small print disclosures on products
Yup. Like naming a bill the exact opposite of its intended purpose. They've been playing that Orwellian game since forever b/c they know their voters won't check it out.
Do we think there will actually be any future elections? If the Big Brutal Bill passes, #KRASNIV could cancel elections and there would be NO legal recourse.
First, make sure that there will be elections & no voter suppression. After reading some articles of the "Big Beautiful Bill", conclusion is that even midterms are in jeopardy... but US news prefer to talk about president Biden's decline.
Amongst a few other reasons for the election result, many people stayed home due to the scare tactics of violence & “civil war” his racist, gun toting followers were threatening if a black woman became their President. What we can’t do is let them use this tactic a third time.
Well, I suppose MO voters got what they wanted. They must be rejoicing and high-giving now! VP Harris’ voters should move to a different state where the electorate is more enlightened, informed, educated, caring, responsible…
😢
Explain sicialisn to then but call it alt-capitalism and bingo landslide id Dem party would get its head out if it’s ass and advocate for peoples needs
Besides mail in ballots, you should be able to vote from your home computer. If you can pay bills from home, why can’t you vote from home. Make it easier to cast your ballots.
alongside that the Dems need to do a mea culpa and change their ways -- the #1 reason non-voters polled said they stayed home was Gaza -- has any Dem come out saying they were wrong on that issue?..#2 was the economy, what big policy changes have any Dems proposed there?
The economy was doing fine, what did the republicans propose? What are they proposing now?
What are they proposing about Gaza now?
It’s amazing people are worried about Gaza, and not their own Country. You can be opinionated about both, but another country is why you decide not to better yours?
the economy was bad except for the wealthy or the comfortable people like me who have a house and a pension...for 60-80% it was bad and is getting worse -- hmmm, maybe if ppl had worried about us committing a genocide in Gaza & Harris had proposed to stop it -- we'd have a better situation now.
yeah -- if those number meant anything anymore -- with gilded age inqequality they don't - on Gaza, if we weren't sending 10s of billions that might make some sense -- these are the arguments Dem consultants make...and lose elections with - but they haul in big fees and live comfortable lives.
The aid helps civilians. So, on one hand you’re saying Gaza is because of the U.S., and on the other hand you’re saying the US should not be sending aid to help those affected by the conflict.
Dems lose because there is an inherent problem in this country. And the media places profit over fact.
We have an excess of gullible 5th graders in adult bodies happy to hear it's "them illegals" that are the reason they're poor and unemployed. Others have just "checked out", pay no attention to politics at all and still others know better, but it profits them $$$.
Same in #Indiana. I do understand that gerrymandering has successfully suppressed the vote. As have long wait times and vote centers that require people to drive to access voting.
I don't know about MO specifically but there are a lot of barriers to voting. Are voting locations accessible and located along public transport? Are there enough locations to vote and are they distributed fairly? Are there bathrooms/water available for people in line?
My state gets an F from me for 2024 on this. Public transport hours were limited so folks in line after close had to leave or be stranded in the middle of the night. Much fewer polling locations and not fairly located. Did not tell people the usual locations would be closed. On and on.
Yes we do. It is terrifying how lacking we are in this concern! We HAVE to win in 2026 and it doesn’t matter what it takes (almost) and it needs to start now!
While reminding them what Missouri's most successful politician said about campaigning;
“Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time.” - Harry S. Truman
What could be a really good campaign is giving the disenfranchised voters a candidate they want to vote for. Half the people who did vote were not voting for Trump or for Harris, they were voting against Trump or against Harris.
Note: The two party system is not a natural universal force. Neither the trees or the stars bend to its will. Not even the majority of countries allow this principle to define them. And you stand to say it’s impossible to have a world without it.
Do y'all think there will be another election? With their "Big Bill" almost passed, he will have almost unfettered power to delay elections, cancel elections, run in third terms and beyond. If American's allow this bill to be passed, the solution becomes much more extreme.
Sad thing is that people voted for Trump after him saying the Constitution should be terminated and he wanted to be a dictator. BTW when does day one end?.
Red states vs blue states is a lazy formulation cooked up by media for the 2000 election. It creates a misleading sports analogy. The more informative but more complex conversation is city mouse vs country mouse.
The country mouse might be regretting their vote about now. I have heard for decades that farmers mostly vote Republican for Farm subsidies. It doesn’t look like there will be any this time around.
Joe Biden won the primary. If he was on the ballot in the general election, he would have won. In November it felt like our vote didn’t matter. So many of us stayed home. Hopefully we will have elections in 2028 and hopefully our vote will matter.
Well, thank you very much for your personal disinterest on Nov. 4 2024, in voting, bringing a “king” to these United States, watching democracy, our justice system and the US Constitution trashed by an illiterate nincompoop! Hope YOU among 1.4 million who sat it out r enjoying the chaos!
Democrats didn't brag brag brag loudly and consistently enough & bash bash bash Republicans loudly enough to overcome right wing ownership of 95% of our media outlets.
I'm glad 1.2M voters in MO recognized how much @democrats.org Project 2021-2024 had done for us all.
You think they didn't know when and where the election was, or do you think neither party represented and spoke to the interests of those 1.4M who chose just not to vote?
Im pretty sure its the last part. @democrats.org may wanna fix that.
I have never understood the mindset of those who don't vote. I've talked to them, and they say, "They are all crooks, my vote won't change anything". So far, nothing I've said to them have changed this defeatist attitude.
That was one factor yes, there was also purging, contested votes, dozens of Russian bomb threats called into democratic voting places only and statistical analyses show clear EI. @electiontruth.bsky.social
Why would 1.4 million people register and not vote?
Disgust?
I think the best get-out-the vote would be them realizing what they've lost.
But will they if they couldn't see this coming in the first place.
Seems like it might be more throwing scared money at the problem.
But I have no ideas.
What we need is better representational govt. Two parties don't represent everyone and it should be that 1%of the vote gets your party 1 seat out of a hundred.
Can we talk about voter suppression? Misinformation, bomb threats, gerrymandering, closing polling locations, purging voters logs, voter ID laws. Do you know how many people voted in person only to find their vote didn't count online? It was all over social media.
They need to suffer first. No Medicaid, SNAP benefits. Lose health care or jobs. No FEMA money, high prices. Only way to get through is personal suffering
If they don't already, those 1.4 million will soon regret sitting out the vote, though, ironically, many would’ve probably voted against their own interests anyway.
1.4 million people who failed to do their duty to exercise their right to vote
Clearly didn’t like Trump but couldn’t bring themselves to vote for a black woman
And…here we are with an
Orange Douchebag! 😡
For the 1.4 million who chose not to vote, we need you!! Time to get this fascist and his "minions" out of office before we become a full dictatorship. We lost the executive branch, the senior executive leaders, the congress and senate...its only the courts and they are exhausted.
Yes we do! People also tried to vote in 2024 but were voter suppressed. We have to let ppl know that they don’t need to let their ballots be challenged or thrown away.
@fieldteam6.bsky.social has postcard campaigns in many states asking people to register to vote. They have their own registration platform to make it easy.
The non-voters are a problem. Was discussing this past week. I have the distinct impression they feel like their votes are meaningless due to gerrymandering, PACs... while others think the candidates are not offering anything appealing. Any thoughts?
My 21 yr old kid says many kids at his school don't vote because they think all the pols are just crooks who say whatever they think they need to say in order to get the vote. So sad. The nonvoters are a significant population now.
I think political injury (for want of a better term) is more difficult on the young. Not sure if they are more idealistic, less realistic or if older folks are just worn out. I was only in high school when Nixon resigned. It hit me like a ton of bricks though--like there are no heroes or valor....
I was able to convince (I hope) several reluctant WI voters by explaining that Biden won in 2020 by only about 3 votes per ward. In WI, every single vote does count.
Because at its core, America is a racist, bigoted country. We have proved it TWICE by electing a complete fûcking moron over competent woman. This is just as much on the Dems as anyone else.
Here is a great place to start looking for volunteer opportunities (for Missouri). Keep a lookout for texting & phoning (easy), canvassing, meetings, etc. You can search by city too.
Ya no kidding. Your state is Red and (ignorant) I am being nice. 2 months after this disaster and Felonious Don is rewarding you for Hawley doing the right thing. I am going out on a limb here and letting you know Biden cut a billion dollar check right after. Smarten the fuck up.
Policy, ppl show if you are gonna fix things. The apathy at a government run by and for the Rich will not be broken by a 5k tax cut for those well enough to buy a house these days.
Take a page from the GOP and actually do universal Healthcare, UBI, Green New Deal. Stop poll testing, start fighting
I think this is pretty much the story in every state. People have gotten too complacent, we've had "freedom" here for so long we've forgotten that we have to VOTE to keep it.
Very sad days. 😞
Are we on different planets? Do yall really believe the numbers from this election? How can you while seeing this outright corruption in our faces and believe he didn’t cheat. Given the statistical analyses alone there’s enough suggesting it. There is NO reality in which he won every swing state.
@electiontruth.bsky.social has evidence and is pushing for audit to verify. A leading elections forensics expert Dr Mebane also just recently corroborated their findings. The numbers are so cooked lol night and day difference between what they have and 2020.
Yes. The 1.4 obviously believed they would not be impacted one way or the other. Will Donnie have to kneel on their necks before they understand the consequences of their stupidity?
Jess, what is the best way to get involved. I’ve participated in several phone banks and that didn’t seem to work well - people don’t answer their cell phone if a number isn’t familiar. What’s your recommendation -
I spoke to several non-voters, including some who were not even registered. This category included white men of all ages (my 76 year old neighbor one of them) who have never voted. My theory is that in the back of their minds, they know that white men will be OK no matter what.
Every election is the same.
"Need massive GOTV" and every year people mobilize.
What is the disconnect? Surely this has been studied and broken down. Maybe it's simply a matter of actually living through the hellish consequences of not voting? I dunno. Some people are just Stoopid.
I don’t know you are understanding the series of events. Allowing trump to win this past election was the nail in the coffin, that along with SCOTUS giving him presidential immunity. He won’t let elections happen. Silly goose.
Um, why? There is too late for that. If you think there are going to be any more free elections, I find it hard to believe.
Totalitarian regimes, once in power, don't just hand the power over when people vote against them. In fact they will do everything they possibly can to keep it.
Show me that the Dems are willing to stand up and fight for democracy and I’m on board. Right now it looks like they’re all in the same club - minus 2 or 3 of them.
What’s also bad is somehow the repubs managed these massive GOTV campaigns but made laws that made the dem led ones (like Stacey Abrams’) illegal. GA specifically passed some really awful laws that made GOTV so hard in blue areas.
There were a ton of GOP voter suppression tactics that worked.
They’re composing emails and texts to ask for $$ and ignoring the fossilized “leaders” that need to step down. I mean, how many sternly worded letters do we need?
Oh the money grabs. They are out of control. You can’t sign a petition without a money grab. Or get on a list for a $$$ ask.
Do the majority of people look like we have money? You are the politicians. You are paid $$$ to do the job we are asking you to strategize to do.
Jess, you are a MO native (I did my time in Columbia, thanks!). You know the people and you are one of them.
This is critical to understanding how to reach them: their slavish loyalty to voting "R" is TRIBAL. You can have the lousiest crooks in the world, but they're "R's". The R's are "our people"
Careful, non voters are NOT guaranteed blue voters. We need a platform that rallies people: health care, education, opportunities for all. Short of that, ppl stay home, or vote for what they perceive as the biggest middle finger to a system that betrayed them many times over.
Obviously. But our defeat is also a clear fail of the “not being a POS is enough” strategy. There’s work to be done to address the issues the nation is facing: health, jobs, education, the collapse of our environment… And now democracy, since the path towards a better Union is reversed.
From my own experience, it's been middle-aged, middle class white men who know voting one way or the other won't change their lives much. They gave no thought for their wives, daughters or anyone else. They know they, themselves, will be largely unaffected. Until they're wrong, this problem remains.
Gee, wonder why 1.4 M didn't vote when the choices were trump and a strong, black woman? Good luck getting those voters back. Need a young, male, non-ethnic candidate.
So far Trump has lost thousands upon thousands of jobs in government, education, farm bankruptcies, truckers, hotels and restaurants, theme parks and charities. Certainly some of these people will vote differently next time.
First stop the false propaganda on fox and the russian suppression propaganda and the voter suppression TACTICS of the gop legislature then the numbers will be radically different
So…thank you non/voters…your apathy & inaction is largely responsible for this mess. We don’t want to hear your lame excuses for not expressing your right to vote or your complaints-you gave up your right and we all suffer.
Honestly, I think a lot of people didn’t vote because they thought there was no way the orange clown would win.
But let’s face it, Kamala probably did actually win.
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https://Fieldteam6.org I write w a group to voters in AZ and GA
This video digs into discrepancies within the election data that strongly resembles trends in Russian-backed elections outside of the U.S.
-Niolai Patrushev (aide to the Kremlin) Nov. 11. 2024.
https://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-nikolai-patrushev-donald-trump-russia-1984360
Are you ready for that?
I guess Americans really are THAT apathetic.
It's racism.
It's misogyny.
It's privilege.
The numbers square with my statement.
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As for those who actually voted - YES - racism & misogyny won. Totally agree with that.
If you want people to show up to the polls you have to have real conversations about why they don’t.
Racism is a major part of that which history supports.
#endthegop
Where did you get this? Do you have a link?
that it doesn't need to be if the piece in bill that neuters the courts passes.
And there is no doubt in my mind this pig will try to do it.
#EightySix-FortySeven
😢
In my county I couldn’t believe how many people requested a mail in ballot and then didn’t vote. How hard is it to walk to the mailbox AT YOUR HOUSE?
Has any one done a why didn't you vote?
My State AL
Trump 65%
Harris. 34 %
Other. 1 %
What are they proposing about Gaza now?
It’s amazing people are worried about Gaza, and not their own Country. You can be opinionated about both, but another country is why you decide not to better yours?
Gaza is not the United States. The President and Vice President vehemently spoke against not harming innocent people.
People don’t understand war, nor do they understand civics, the region, and how allies work.
Dems lose because there is an inherent problem in this country. And the media places profit over fact.
The DNC needs new, authentic voices.
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They refused to vote for anyone that was not vocally against genocide
When you keep having elections where you wish the lesser evil to win, you are admitting your side is also evil
Some people are no longer willing to do that anymore
32%
31%
36% DIDN'T VOTErs.
“Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time.” - Harry S. Truman
We’re tired of the lesser evil.
Dems aren’t entitled to votes.
Note: The two party system is not a natural universal force. Neither the trees or the stars bend to its will. Not even the majority of countries allow this principle to define them. And you stand to say it’s impossible to have a world without it.
You sure?
Are you down to just be chill and chat about this?
Cause I am. I can’t control all my sass, and you don’t have to either.
Neither of us want the white nationalist to go all eugenics on us, I assume, and that makes us allies to me.
I will not Make America Great Again for the Republicans OR the Democrats.
I’m not going back. I’m going forward.
Not sorry that I don’t support class hierarchy and its inherent inequity.
I don’t sympathize with the “plight” of the middle class.
I'm looking at YOU my fellow Texans. 😤
Trump: 3.18 Million
Harris: 2.53 Million
Didn’t Vote: 2.31 Million
(also, 2.53 million of us didn’t want this - stop saying red states “got what they voted for”. MILLIONS of Dems live in red states. MILLIONS.)
Red states vs blue states is a lazy formulation cooked up by media for the 2000 election. It creates a misleading sports analogy. The more informative but more complex conversation is city mouse vs country mouse.
“…if everyone voted (who now wants to), instead of winning by 1.5 points, Trump would lose by even more, 13.7 million votes or 7.9 percent.”
I'm glad 1.2M voters in MO recognized how much @democrats.org Project 2021-2024 had done for us all.
Im pretty sure its the last part. @democrats.org may wanna fix that.
It helped disenfranchise millions of voters and cost KH a loss.
Disgust?
I think the best get-out-the vote would be them realizing what they've lost.
But will they if they couldn't see this coming in the first place.
Seems like it might be more throwing scared money at the problem.
But I have no ideas.
they think dog piling on a sunsetting president because "genocide joe" was catchy was doing activism.
they want their vietnam, their george floyd, so they manufactured one and do their activism online without raising a finger.
Clearly didn’t like Trump but couldn’t bring themselves to vote for a black woman
And…here we are with an
Orange Douchebag! 😡
Elections without illegal interference are critical to our democracy. Let's not lose sight of the root of the problem.
Elections have consequences. Got it now?
The Not Voting Party: 90m
#talktoyourneighbor
They have watched this country for their entire lives and the takeaway is they can’t trust any politicians
I have a difficult time proving them wrong
https://www.mobilize.us/events/missouri-volunteer-opportunities/
That might help.
Take a page from the GOP and actually do universal Healthcare, UBI, Green New Deal. Stop poll testing, start fighting
Very sad days. 😞
We need votes & a 2nd FDR
We need to realize that a mixed race woman was qualified and should have been voted for.
They sat it out on purpose
What happens if the 2026 elections are openly rigged—Venezuela-style?
What if Trump simply decides not to count certain votes or interferes to make the election “fair”?
Will America fume for a day… and then just go back to normal?
I can imagine a lot of things, but without evidence, they are just imagination
Funny how no credible evidence of fraud has been presented
Just like when Trump cried fraud
I’m just not going to say it was without being able to prove the claim
That’s what Trump did
And there isn’t much that can be done now, even if it was stolen
You don’t vote out dictators.
You remove them.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-citizen-immigration-raid-real-id-handcuffed-alabama-rcna208794?link_source=ta_thread_link&taid=6831ed2f6bb3b60001a7d15a&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=threads.net
"Need massive GOTV" and every year people mobilize.
What is the disconnect? Surely this has been studied and broken down. Maybe it's simply a matter of actually living through the hellish consequences of not voting? I dunno. Some people are just Stoopid.
Totalitarian regimes, once in power, don't just hand the power over when people vote against them. In fact they will do everything they possibly can to keep it.
The GOP out-registered voters by a wide margin before the 2024 election.
What are Dem strategists and party bigwigs DOING?
There were a ton of GOP voter suppression tactics that worked.
Do the majority of people look like we have money? You are the politicians. You are paid $$$ to do the job we are asking you to strategize to do.
The political class has failed and that's why you have trump.
This is critical to understanding how to reach them: their slavish loyalty to voting "R" is TRIBAL. You can have the lousiest crooks in the world, but they're "R's". The R's are "our people"
GOT
TO
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SH*TTING
ME
We've had such a historical problem with that & I don't recall ever seeing any data, in the public sphere, about who are the non-voters.
I'm saying this as a white woman. 😒
But let’s face it, Kamala probably did actually win.
but you have to first ask, "why did they not go out to vote?"