It's telling that the Republican response to the "blue dot" campaign was simply to put up red dot signs, as if they're totally oblivious to the meaning of the blue signs and instead simply intending to piss off Harris voters as badly as the blue signs angered them. www.cbsnews.com/news/omaha-e...
Nebraska awards electoral votes by congressional district, and Omaha is at the heart of the state's second district.
I'm mostly laughing because it implies their contact list was generated via a simple database query of "SELECT * WHERE full_name IN 2020_roster AND NOT IN 2024_roster" and, while I can't be the only edge case, they're going to keep brute forcing it whether they're a legitimate organization or not.
"Hi, [deadname], I'm contacting you because we don't currently see you on the voter rolls." I could explain that I'm registered under my actual name; but I don't know them, they're not owed an explanation, and I'm not volunteering any information, so I guess I'll just respond "that's not my name."
and is having ADHD also forgetting whether you actually took your ADHD medication or not and repeatedly asking yourself throughout the course of the day, "am I focused? I think I'm distracted. or maybe not. maybe I did take my meds. or wait - I didn't. I'm sure I didn't." etc.?
Seeking the upending of the power structure strictly to get a seat on top of it.
There's a larger societal reckoning here about this core belief that "we are inherently Good and thus all we do is Good" and the abuse, violence, and corruption it has unleashed upon our society, but for now, it's just about giving Republican voters permission to help prevent the end of democracy.//
It's not for the people who like what Trump is and what he's doing. It's for the people *repulsed* by him and his actions, who nonetheless find it impossible to vote against him without perceiving that act as recalibrating who they are and whether they hold value in society and in their community.
And if you scoff at that message, that's fine. It's not for you. Politics is about convincing people by bringing the message to where they are. Eight years of telling people who are just voting the way their grandpa did that they're trash for doing it hasn't won them over. But this message might.
So that's the message of the "building permission" push: "Doing the moral thing is not abandoning your Republican values even if it means abandoning Dear Republican Leader, because Republican values were always about doing the moral thing. You're no less Republican for voting Democratic this time."
What that means, in effect, is that you have to build the social construct by which they can see themselves rejecting the leader of their worldview - literally endorsing and enabling the leader of the Bad People by their reckoning - without them perceiving it as abandoning their Good People status.