Post by @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social

@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social 3 hours ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116916251109843021

I screwed up numbering the posts in the thread of which the quote post is a part. So I’m picking up here. Sorry, the intensity of the content interfered with my orderliness. 7/

Heidi Li Feldman

@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social 3 hours ago

This November, showing up to vote, including in “safe” Democratic districts or for elections where Democrats are heavily favored, is imperative to anybody who cares about seeing American Progressivism survive. Thos of us who oppose Republican Fascism must register our opposition in a process that involves tallying up who stands where. 6/

Heidi Li Feldman

@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social 3 hours ago

In an existential political contest, public knowledge is crucial. Whether attempting to start, fight, and win a revolution against rule by a tyrannical empire (the American Revolution) , waging a war to more fully realize equality in a democracy (the first American Civil War), or insisting on a genuinely pluralistic, secular democracy absolutely committed to equal rights for all - the fight for liberation and equal dignity cannot be won without people revealing that they are on that side. 8/

Heidi Li Feldman

@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social 3 hours ago

Power concedes nothing. And power is now, more than ever, in the hands of vested and established interests: the wealthiest, the whitest, the most misogynist, the most xenophobic. Those of us who are not aligned with these interests have to take the upcoming public opportunity to show ourselves. We have to go vote. 9/

Heidi Li Feldman

@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social 3 hours ago

We also have to prepare to fight for the opportunity for everybody to vote and to fight for regularity in the conduct of the elections and against any effort to interfere with free and fair elections. Republican Fascists know it threatens their project for us to show up and be counted. They want to make it hard, maybe even impossible, for us to do this. 10/

Heidi Li Feldman

@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social 3 hours ago

Want to stop Republican Fascists from continuing to murder people like the guy shot in Maine today, Renee Good, and Alex Pretti? Turn out the vote. Protect your state’s elections from federal interference. Educate and support voters, tell them how to vote and help them through the process. We are organizing for a critical battle in this wretched civil war. Not enough to elect our preferred candidates. Victory requires massive participation, huge margins. Let’s go. 11/11