25- Did you vote?

Every election is important.

Every opportunity to flex your constitutionally given powers* is important.

I used an asterisk because in the constitution only white, male, Protestant land owners could vote.

Of course.

By 1830 most states had dropped the religious and land owning components.

In 1868, the 14th Amendment recognized African Americans as citizens, giving the males the right to vote.

Of course, this led to some states denial of this right.

In 1870, the 15th Amendment gave African Americans the right to vote. This amendment prohibited any state or local government from stopping them from voting.

But they still tried.

In 1890, Wyoming recognized a women’s right to vote. And they did so in the state constitution.

Go, Wyoming!

In 1920, the 19th Amendment was added to the constitution. This gave women the right to vote.

In 1947, all states granted Native Americans the right to vote.

And then some of states, outraged by being outnumbered, instituted a poll tax in the 1880s and 90s. This meant that people, mostly black men, had to pay a tax in order to vote. Naughty naughty. Some people will cheat to win, won’t they.

In 1964, the 24th Amendment stated unequivocally that no-one should be denied the right to vote because of bullshit, made up “tax”.

The 1960s were hot because in 1965 there was an amendment to the Voting Rights Act, the very same one the 2020s Supreme Court has been chipping away at, that banned the use of literacy tests.

In 1971, the voting age was lowered to 18. I am not sure if this was because of the Vietnam War. Because of the draft teenagers and 20 year old were old enough to die in a senseless war, but not old enough to vote.

Today your mission was to have voted.

It is the only way to send a message that some people will understand.

Beyond the economic blackout that is being planned for the end of the month.

Someone else said it best. Perhaps we should have a non-corporation holiday season and focus on the small companies.

Tuesday Top of Mind 10/21/25- No Kings is over, now what?

Yay, over 8 million people showed up to march. Well, 7-8 million, depending on who you believe.

Either way that is a LOT of people.

And there were even more who were unable to make it to an organized march.

It was a grand gesture.

Now what?

You may be feeling a bit down. From the adrenaline high, from the knowledge that the no kings protest was a show of no kings force but it was only that. A show.

The government is still shut down. Because the Democrats are holding firm on the ACA subsidy fight. So that everyday Americans, not illegals despite the lie they are trying to force down our throats, won’t see health care costs on the exchange skyrocket out of reach. I am proud of them.

The East Wing of the White House has been scarred. For one man’s ego and because no one ever told him no.

The House of Representatives is out for recess. Again. There have been 3 full weeks of work by them since July 1st. This is shameful and not what we voted for. Not only that, the deciding signature on the Resolution to release the Epstein files was elected in Arizona. Adelita Grijalva has yet to be sworn in by that coward, Mike Johnson. She was elected September 23 a full month ago. But Johnson would rather play ostrich with his head in the sand.

AI slop is being used for everything. I’ve seen many, many, many badly written headlines in the news with all sorts of errors- punctuation, spelling, word choice, and tense. I’ve seen badly shaped and colored memes that some people want use as a gotcha. Dream on.

It’s okay to feel a bit blue.

However, the pressure must be sustained. If there is anything I’ve learned as a nurse it is not to decrease pressure when the bleeding has slowed, that way leads to a hemorrhage.

Maintain that pressure.

Keep making the phone calls, even if you are talking to a machine.

Keep sending those emails.

Participate in Operation Mail Drop where scolding cards or postcards are sent to those in power. Yes, all of them. The object that you mail is up to you and your wallet. I’m not saying mail them something that might rot by the time it gets there, but I’m not not saying it either.

But, most importantly, VOTE.

There is a General Election this coming first Tuesday in November. Many states already have the early voting sites open.

It is your right to vote. Exercise it.

Send the next message to Washington that we see their depravity and their illegal acts.

And we won’t stand for it.

And we don’t care for it.

Keep the pressure on.

Keep the eyes on them.

Tuesday Top of Mind 7/9/24-their plan, yes, that awful, horrible, no good plan

I took yesterday completely off after doing all the research into Project 2025 and Agenda 47. I did not want to sully the day with this filth.

A couple of years ago, I heard rumblings about the “conservative game plan” for after the 2024 election. You know, the one that is November 5, 2024.Call it Project 2025, the 900-page conservative wishlist. Call it Agenda 47, which is what Trump wants to do if he is reelected. And he’s got a whole lot of hurt planned for those he perceives who have wronged him.

I call it bullshit.

All of their horrible, misogynistic, misanthropist, nightmare wishing, end of the rainbow, white christian nationalist ideas. All of it is bunk.

Call a spade a spade.

They wouldn’t because a spade is a black card.

This is how far they have slid down the white christian nationalist shit pile.

Did you see the masked, khaki pant wearing, beige baseball hat wearing, blue polo shirted assholes that came pouring out of rented U-haul trucks to stalk the streets of Nashville, waving their upside down flags, and their confederate flags, and their 13 starred flags? Yeah these are a what I can surmise is an offshoot of the Proud Boy movement that call themselves the Patriot Front. They look like all the brotastic podcast boys, put the women in their place wannabes. Riding in the back of the probably sweltering U-haul trucks in disregard to ANY safety laws.

Ugh. I need a shower after digging through that muck.

I’ve done a pretty deep dive into the mess. The 900 pages of the Project 2025, the hate speech of Agenda 47 which, again, calls patriots traitors for daring to stand up to the great one. I’ve listened to podcasts, and I’ve watched videos, and I’ve read article after article after article about it.

Kevin Roberts, the head of the Heritage Foundation, believes that we are in the middle of another civil war and you know what side he is on. He also believes that this can be bloodless if the left allows it to be. Yeah, no. I don’t think so. Who gave him the covenant to declare that? Himself.

But I have a pretty good bead on what it all means.

There is a part of the introduction that says that they want to “live well”. Well, that’s up to interpretation. My well is to have dominion over my own body and voting rights for those who are citizens. To some of these people, living well is holding their feet/knees/weapon against the neck of others they deem less than themselves.

It all boils down to three things. All 900 pages of the vitriol. Of all the weaponizing of our own tools against us with the takeover of the DOJ and the firing of all the civil servants who are there as a constant. The Agenda 47 on 45’s own website.

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I don’t like it because it is not like me, therefore no one should have it. Doesn’t matter what it is, gender affirming care (but Cialis and Viagra are still okay), rights of people to have dominion over their own body, rights of people to love who they love, regardless of gender, to be who they are at the core regardless of gender
We fear women

That’s it, that’s their entire platform.

Why would you believe a known liar? They are telegraphing who they are and straight out telling us who they are and then lying about it when they claim that they are not. Why should we believe the known liars? I will not pretty up their actions and words by calling it “Falsely accused without evidence.” It is lies.

Call them for what they are- liars and wanna be big men.

I call them creepy and gross who see bogeymen in the shadows that look and act a lot like their secret desires.

These are beyond scary times. This election isn’t about red v blue, Trump v Biden; it is about not allowing the very bones of Democracy be picked over by the corporate ghouls who want you to live as they DEEM you should. Personal freedom goes out with the bathwater. As I just wrote, money, fear of women, and fear of the unknown is at the root of it.

We should be alert but resolved.

I am.

Both as a woman and a patriot. Just not their definition of the word. Because of the whole woman thing.

I am going to take another shower now, just writing this. And set fire to my browsing history.