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Wouldn't it be nice if the DOJ arrested him Friday around 5pm, so he has to stay in jail over the weekend before he gets arraigned Monday morning, at which time they request remand because he has an airplane capable of intercontintental flight and the resources to run, and he gets held till the end of the week when he's released on $100 million cash bail (effectively pauperizing him by forcing him to use all his MAGA money). Let him make his "big announcement" from the tank.

Hey, a boy can dream.

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I am proud to be in this boat with you too. Let’s keep the oars in the water and rowing in the right direction. When we tire, we rest. Other rowers will keep going. Rested, we get to rowing again. The goal is a more perfect union. We will get there. We have to.

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"...and the frantic efforts of the Republicans to suppress voting, gerrymander the country, and now to take away our right to choose our leaders indicates we are far more powerful than we believe we are. No matter what happens tomorrow, that will continue to be true, and I am ever so proud to be one of you."

I'm a guy who cries easily while watching movies — and just now reading the most incisive and moving words written by anyone this emotional roller coaster of an election cycle.

Thank you, Heather, for helping us carry on.

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Heather there are not enough words to express how many of us hold you responsible for our sanity for these past years. You were going to stop LFAA after the 2020 elections, but continued because you are so needed. I'm sure that it has cost you in sleep. In health. In so much. We actually left the U.S. in 2019 because by 2018, I couldn't mentally, physically, or emotionally handle the toll of the evil in Our House, and felt that a distance would help. It did. Until the terrorist insurrection and all that has followed.

Last night's news here in Spain included the fragile state of democracy in the U. S. at this moment. One actually said that Democracy is slowly dying in the U.S.. Perhaps so if so many Americans are willing to feed at the trough of corporate and religious propaganda. It is ironic that so many regurgitate the ¨U.S. will become Venezuela¨ spun by the right rather than seeing how Brazil has kept the light of liberty on.

No matter the outcome of the midterms and what will follow in the days, weeks, months, years to come, we must never give up the vision of a nation where quality of life, liberty, justice, and freedom for all becomes a reality.

Thank you Heather.

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The Russian part that WE knew was true. Now that they openly have the support of the GOP it seems they don’t need to hide or deny it anymore.

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So very grateful for all your work to elucidate, educate, and enlighten us. That a Russian oligarch openly boasts about US election interference simply takes my breath away in its audacity. The GOP can never deny it again. I wish every American would read these letters. Willful ignorance to truth will murder democracy-and it’s so senseless when there are truth tellers like you to share facts. Thank you, Professor.

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We are ever so proud of you and all of us! I’m with Michael, I also cry easily at certain songs, watching movies all the time and moving words. Thank you Heather and thank you LFAA Community. You are my heroes!

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I am reading Orwell's Roses and so enjoyed your FB conversation with Rebecca Solnit, a family friend. Your essay today is of course related, as was Joyce Vance's a few minutes ago on authoritarianism. My comment to Joyce included the recommendation to read Michael Moore's daily essays ahead of these midterms. You seem to have succumbed less to the Red Wave Fatalism so many of us, including Joyce, have been afflicted by. Moore has sure helped me, for example: https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/midterm-tsunami-truth-36

Highly recommended.

Thanks so much for all you do!

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Amazingly in California every registered voter gets a ballot in the mail 3 or 4 weeks before election day, can fill it out at home and drop it at any mailbox. A couple of days later with 3 or 4 strokes on the computer you can verify it was counted or find out why not. Of course Congress could pass a law making this the system for all federal elections. Why hasn't it?

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Daily Docket — Monday, Nov. 7 (Wins for Voters!)

"As of today, we’ve tracked 178 lawsuits filed in 2022 across 35 states. 108 of these lawsuits are currently active and ongoing. Of the lawsuits, 2 are likely to have important rulings by the end of Election Day. That number is down from 11 yesterday, as 9 outstanding cases had updates today. You can read about those decisions — all positive outcomes for voters — below.

"A Georgia county agreed to provide emergency relief to absentee voters after an error led to the county’s failure to send absentee ballots to over 1,000 voters. The county agreed to overnight ballots to voters and extend the receipt deadline until Nov. 14 for the affected voters.

"The Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied Blair County's motion to reconsider the date range for 'wrongly' dated mail-in ballots since counties sent out ballots at different times. This order maintains the court's original date range.

"A Pennsylvania court denied a Republican request to block the Monroe County Board of Elections from being able to pre-canvass mail-in ballots during the midterm elections. Another Pennsylvania court denied a request to temporarily block the Philadelphia election commissioners from conducting their plans for managing poll books, which are records containing information about registered voters.

"An Arizona judge ruled that Cochise County, Arizona may not proceed with its plan to perform a hand count audit of all early ballots.

"At the end of a hearing, a Wisconsin judge rejected a Republican request to segregate and halt the counting of absentee ballots cast by voters in the military. Earlier, the Union Veterans Council and Merchant Marine Captain Timothy McDonald filed a motion to intervene to safeguard the counting of military absentee ballots.

"A New York appellate court confirmed that an on-campus polling site must be established at Vassar College for tomorrow’s midterm elections. Dutchess County commissioners are complying with the court order to open a polling location at Vassar College. Photos show voting machines being moved onto campus this afternoon.

"A Michigan judge denied a Republican request to impose strict limits on how absentee ballots are administered, returned and counted in Detroit, Michigan and to halt the counting of thousands of absentee ballots that have already been cast.

"Here are other updates:

"The U.S. Department of Justice announced it would send election monitors to observe voting in 67 jurisdictions in 24 states to ensure compliance with federal voting laws.

"Several Pennsylvania voters, Fetterman for PA, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee filed a federal lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania’s plan to not count undated mail-in ballots and wrongly dated mail-in ballots in the upcoming 2022 midterm elections. This is the second federal lawsuit filed over this issue.

"The next hearing in a Republican lawsuit seeking to invalidate Illinois' mail-in ballot receipt deadline was scheduled for December. This means Illinois’ current deadline will remain in effect for tomorrow’s election."

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And we have a Lunar Eclipse to celebrate the eclipse of TFG lunacy justly to put the kibosh on the the evil man whose daddy’s dirty money bought him a mansion by the rising seas of Florida once owned by the cold cereal Queen of make believe.

The Lunar Eclipse is in full swing. Must be an Election Day Oman. I’m feeling superstitious.

The nation will vote like never before. Fascism will go into eclipse and Michael Moore will do the movie.

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“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and give Putin a big wet one on the lips, or take U.S. top secrets to Mar-A-Lago, and wouldn't lose any voters, okay? Grab 'em by the Putin. You can do anything. When you’re in bed with the enemy, they let you do it. You can do anything.”

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“I’m going to be making a very big announcement on Tuesday, November 15, at Mar-a-Lago in Florida…. We want nothing to detract from the importance of tomorrow.”

Which of course, means trump will let loose the dogs of war tomorrow.

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"I am oh so proud to be one of you"

It's a scary time, to say the least. The community of people you've helped find through your work, Heather, is a gift beyond measure. No matter what, we will still be here tomorrow... and tomorrow... and tomorrow. Thank you for your dedication to naming truth and for giving us an "us". I say back to all of you...I am oh so proud to be one of you.

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Let’s keep our positive energy going and believe that tomorrow will be a victory for all the hard work we have all done to win this election. HCR has been our guiding light and hope during all this craziness. Stay strong.

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Out of curiosity, I just looked up Joseph McCarthy, since that era seems similar to these times. It’s always shocking and depressing to realize how easily we can be manipulated.

Senator McCarthy held sway from 1950 until December 2, 1954, when the Senate voted to censure by a vote of 67–22, making him one of the few senators ever to be disciplined in this fashion. Portions of the massive security apparatus established during the McCarthy era still exist. A number of observers have compared the oppression of liberals and leftists during the McCarthy period to 2000s-era actions against suspected terrorists, most of them Muslims. I wonder how long this GOP insanity will last?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy

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