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YelloPain YouTube video

“When winning is all that matters, how you win has less and less relevance. My mission is to remind us that it is not about getting a job. It is about helping the voices of our people be heard. And that’s what democracy is.”

Authoritarian populism

“... any leadership in America must understand the international approach to global questions as well as the intersectionality of our policies. Plainly said, we have to understand the effect we are having on the world, and vice versa.”

Yellow Dog Democrats - a Southern idiom for diehards who would vote for a yellow dog before voting for a Republican

National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

Class Warfare & Identity

“Then, as now, identity matters. I embrace identity politics because for the marginalized, the disadvantaged, and the minority groups still grappling for purchase in our politics, identity is the strongest defense against invisibility”

Civil rights leader, Hosea L. Williams, “once told a group of activists to think about a washing machine. What cleans the clothes is not the water or the soap, it’s the mechanism that shakes the clothes and forces the water and soap to do their jobs: the agitator”.

“...citizenship requires constant action, which includes voting, protesting, and participating; and without the combination, we are all in jeopardy .... no true success would be viable and sustainable without harnessing every aspect of the process”

The disgusting legacy of extremely strict third-party registration laws, the Georgian secret, internal “ninety-day blackout period during which no voter registration forms were processed”, and exact match decrees and later laws.

Just a reminder to myself to donate to Helen Kim Ho and their organization, the Asian American Legal Advocacy Center (AALAC) that registers newly naturalized citizens.

“Though the Voting Rights Act would come the next year, like Brown v. Board of Education, the act of Congress would be slow to penetrate and create real change. We often see these historical moments as flash points with instant gratification; however, with most movements, the new laws, only herald possibility. More must be done to make it so.”