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Who is truly the majority in the US? Is it those who follow the GOP, the "GQP", Independents or Democrats? The only voices that get media attention are the ones that create the loudest noise, that get the most sound bites.

What I would love to see in the news? Thousands upon thousands of postcards arriving at the White House, with the the words "I SUPPORT DEMOCRACY" hand-written on them. Wouldn't that be a heartening news story? Wouldn't you love to see the news deliver bags upon bags of them?

I have read stories about various people reaching out for mail--kids with cancer, a story once about a lonely veteran, where thousands of cards arrive--could we make this go viral? Can you do it? Can you post it on your social media accounts? Got no postcard? Write it on the back of a sealed envelope.

The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20500

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I would also recommend that everyone consider joining the Union. jointheunion.us which is a organization sponsored by the Lincoln Project which is trying to get all those who are fighting for democracy to join together. They don't want any money; they want people of action. We need to unite to get the job of saving democracy done!

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Just joined! This sentence from the website got me "No, the biggest threat to our democracy and the American republic is that too many people are giving up."

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Thank you for the link and for all that you do, Cathy!

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I did a few weeks ago on your suggestion. Thank you. I've given them areas where I can be of help.

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Done.

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Thank you for This Cathy!!

I just Joined!! I just moved to Florida, and I know It Won't Be Easy!!!

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thanks, I've signed up

it's going to take all of us together to preserve democracy and human rights

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I just joined and signed up to volunteer. Thank you for supplying the link.

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Joined and posted on Facebook. Thank you, Cathy!

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Joined although money may be my only contribution at this point

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Proud member of SEU 1984 since 2005!

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I just joined, too. Thank you, Cathy.

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Done☮️💟

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Done and shared on my Facebook feed.

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Done

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Done

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Done. Thanks, Cathy.

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Done 👷

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To encourage the Committee directly, contact them in writing or by phone (no email).

The phone number is (202) 225-7800 Their mailing address is:

The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol

Longworth House Office Building

Washington, DC 20515

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Thank you for this. If we all wrote to thank them for their work. If we all posted a video on social media thanking them for their work.....

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yes, will do. Thanks.

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Thank you. I hadn't thought of this. May those of us who can get to work!

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Two things need to happen. The Biden Admin. needs to use Social media more to get out the accomplishments. And Convictions of those involved in 1/6.

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We still have those around here in Salem who actively encourage people to speak against Biden and those termed establishment or corporate Ds. Yes, we have Kirk Schrader, but he is now in another district. We here in Salem are in a new district which has many people running. One of them is Carrick Flynn financed by a young Arizona billionaire and stupidly by the House committee to help elect D reps. i don't think Flynn will win because his campaign has irritated nearly everyone...."enough of his flyers to build a house" for example. I have my choice down to a couple, both women. One is a doctor and the other is a Latina. This is a heavily Latinx district, so the latter might win.

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The majority is the coalition that voted for Biden in 2020. The coalition that voted for Trump, the “family values” coalition that favors empowering whites, males, straights, etc., is smaller and is dwindling. That 7 million margin from 2020 is rising over time. But it doesn’t matter. What matters is who shows up to vote. Four years of Biden’s administration is going to bring tons of reactionaries out of the woodwork.

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The "family values" is really a dog whistle for white supremacy... not moral values!

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I took it to mean the crazy "christian" fundamentalists who pick and choose and misinterpret certain passages in the Bible.

Crazy Bible thumpers, whose "faith" can't be discussed.

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Progressive pastor Jim Wallace, in an interview about “Christian” fundamentalism, said that anything that harms the poor is heresy. Period. As a believer, I hate the term”Christian” because the people to whom that term is applied don’t act in ways that line up with the teachings of Christ. Just because a person goes and sits in a church on Sunday does not make them people who do what is right, love mercy, and walk humbly with God.

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Trying to vote this up. I can't, but agree totally.

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What is strange about the new Substack is that it will record your ❤️, but won’t show it to you. Sometimes if you scroll away and come back, or refresh the page, Voilà! there’s the ❤️.

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The true pure-heart Christians are here, like you Jenn, and like the rest of us who wouldn’t dream of using that term.

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AMEN Jenn from NC

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Always has been for repubs

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What matters is WHO is able to vote.

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Roland, would that what you say is true. In 2016 Trump got 63 million votes. In 2020 he got 74 million votes.

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Yes, but how many of those votes were by dead people or people who registered a mobile home address in other states? I do not trust how these insurrections have infiltrated our systems to rig them. The Great Projectionist, tfg, always shouted that if he did not win, the system was rigged. So, you know he and his comrades rigged the system and we have watched them "fixing" for themselves ever since.

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Pensa, let’s not fall victim to conspiracies like the other side does. The 2020 vote was the most-audited, double-checked election in decades. The vote tallies were accurate. Trump gained 11 million votes. Real votes. Luckily for us, Biden gained 16 million over Hillary’s 2016 total.

It’s true that Republican states are working to suppress the Democratic vote in 2022 and 2024. And they’re gerrymandering districts like crazy (Democratic states are doing the same). The threat to free and fair elections does not come from dead people and mobile homes. It comes from Republican legislatures passing voter suppression laws and the Republican Supreme Court approving them.

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Amen!

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The latest trend I see from the right is “The US is not a democracy, it is a republic”. First off, this is nonsensical, because even a pure democracy is a republic. So saying it is a republic adds nothing. But it is a sinister way of deprecating what we call a democracy.

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I have made the comment that the irony of the Republicans zest and zeal to be all powerful has been the using ( abusing ) of Democracy to Kill Democracy.

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And while we are at it, let's send the same post cards to each member of the GQP [especially the members of the “Freedom Caucus”]. Their's are the offices I would like to see flooded with this message. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Caucus

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I’m in. Stamped postcards cost 45 cents at your local post office. Some of us have stacks of colorful ones already, to send to voters. Promote this on twitter with hashtag #proDemocracy.

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Joan A postcard political avalanche would have been a lot cheaper when I was a kid—1 cent for stamped postcard. Coke 5 cents (until 1953). On my newspaper route the paper cost 3 cents and I got 1 cent—had to hustle on Lancaster Pike with my leftovers from my Haverford College route.

Got my nose rearranged when I was collecting 18 cents from a blind customer and his seeing eye dog got agitated. I was asked why would a blind prof get a newspaper. My concern was the 18 cents (no Sunday edition).

Ah, the good ‘ole days.

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Ah yes. Around 1970 eggs were 30 cents a dozen, gas was 30 cents a gallon. A few friends, a compact car, and three days would get me across the country. Also there was war in Viet Nam, and the CIA busy wiping out democratic governments in Central and South America. We thought if we made enough noise, the country would right itself.

I still think that, or at least I act as if I believed it, since that's better than the alternative. What I miss, is that then I had the energy to stay up all night just for fun. Now I leave massive demonstrations to the young, and use my political energy to write postcards.

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Joan In 1950 I experienced the start of the Korean War in a Westinghouse industrial cafeteria in West Philadelphia. I was thrilled at being paid 80 cents/hour, a nickel above minimum wage (non-paid overtime, but some satisfying meals.)

My boss was a Mr. Bligh, clearly related to Captain Bligh of the Bounty.I was stunned to receive my first check—$24.57 out of gross $32. I have never recovered from all those grasping hands taking ‘my money.’

The affect of the Korean War on my summer dish-washing/table clearing, ammonia cleaning of refrigerated rooms was the immediate sugar shortage—chains around the sugar cans and watching our for stealing of sugar shakers.

In the early 70s with the Arab oil boycott after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, at times there was no gas. A call at 5:30 am that a station actually had gas was thrilling. Later that decade, another gas shortage—odd-even license plates were the open sesame to getting gas. This was a gasser!

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Hey, hey - a quick word on behalf of Captain Bligh! Very tough, but always within the law. His mistake was compassionately allowing the crew to live ashore during the months it took to get those breadfruit plants ready - they shacked up with the local girls, got very comfortable, and then didn't want to leave. Bligh got every man in that longboat to safety (apart from the accountant, caught on the beach of the Friendly Isles as he ran to cast off the mooring) by personally dealing out the tiny food ration, and a sip of rum if it had been a very cold night. I've read his logbook.

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Anne-Louise I found Clark Gable more captivating than Charles Laughton. The real Bligh and Fletcher were in their early 20s.

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Damn, a use for some postcards I have had for 40 years,

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Same here including many from my parents' travels as well!

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Great idea and I will do this! It is sad that the organizations like VoteFwd.org will only permit bi-partisan pablum in their outreach to people who don't vote or vote occasionally. And, the letters and postcards are going to Democrats who are apathetic. It seems a waste of paper, postage, and time if we cannot insert a sentence or two concerning the importance of their vote to having a Democracy rather than an autocracy. I've asked. They've said NO.

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At the bottom of the supplied messages, I usually add a line from the Postcards to Voters site: “History is made by those who show up — and VOTE”

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PTV is my fav organization to help move voters to the polls.

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Check out Field Team 6. They openly work to elect Democrats. All modes available, including postcarding.

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Great idea!

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⬆️ This! ⬆️

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Me too🤗

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Thanks. I'll do it.

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Sometimes I wonder who is hiding in the shadows who actually pull the strings on who wins, what is banned, what money will be spent on which item, etc. I wonder if those hiding are even politicians. For centuries elites ran the direction of a given country. I read that elites may have added or changed words in the Bible to suit their principles. I am not trying to stir resentment, there is no reason to read many different items and critical think without my own possible conclusions. I think it is fun in a way.

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Good questions with potentially very scary answers Holly but we won't go there today because, at least here, the weather is far too nice and gives rise to new hope for the future. In respect of the Bible, there is an excellent book by Bart Ehrman called Misquoting Jesus that addresses that issue in some fairly scholarly detail. No spoilers, but it's a very good read.

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Great idea.

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Easy Peasy, Miselle!

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