Today, we’re honored to announce our keynote speaker for the SCDP 2025 3 Star Dinner: TN gubernatorial candidate Jerri Green! Jerri Green knows what it means to work for the people! Mark your calendars for Sept 27th and join us! Tickets available now! secure.actblue.com/donate/sumne...

Each and every one of you should know that with a @pbs.org passport, which you can get through a $5 monthly donation to a local station (for us it’s Nashville PBS), you can literally watch hours and hours of Julia Child cooking AND a live Ella Fitzgerald concert from 1969 AND This Old House. Do it!

Happy August 1. May this month be a harbinger of good news for us all. Read it here! 👉 open.substack.com/pub/meganlan... @sumnerdems.bsky.social @tndems.bsky.social

This is possibly the only photo of me from today’s rally but - I’m just here to thank Johnny Garrett for finally taking the time to listen to his constituents. 🤷‍♀️

It’s 64 degrees out today so if you feel sad, go outside and get a little sun.

Dems Walking out sharing the headline with @GovBillLee’s DOGE mention in the Tennessean #StateOfTheState story. www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...

Between Kendrick and Beyoncé, people’s opinions are really telling on them this week.

I’ve been noodling on the idea of subtle resistance and what it looks like. Here’s my top five favorite ways to resist with *subtlety* (don’t worry, I resist without subtlety too). 🧵

TN Special Session starts today.

We’ll persevere and keep going because we have to, but GOD I am tired and it’s just Day 1.

Today I’m crawling through form emails to find the emails I actually need to read and I AM ANNOYED.

This is the kind of thought I wish our legislators would have.

Today, I watched my friend Shaundelle as she was sworn in to the TN General Assembly. Congratulations, REPRESENTATIVE Brooks - this is what you were made for. 🫶🏻 #fightlikeamom

The audacity of 🌾 men to apply for jobs they have zero qualifications for never fails to astound me.

Hello. 👋🏼

Incredibly humane and thorough piece by @itsmelissabrown.bsky.social on the Tennessee family fighting before SCOTUS today. L is able to see things about our state lawmakers most adults never fully grasp

Happy Thanksgiving! May we be thankful for our allies and continue to work to make our state and country a better place instead of memorializing a meal between colonizers and colonized. 🫶🏻

Let us remember today that commenting on someone else’s body is never warranted - especially commenting on a woman’s body.

This is the truth.

Let’s go into the next week thinking about how we can take care of each other. Who wants to run for office? 🤸🏻

If you don’t understand why I squealed when I saw how cute retro convection ovens are (perfect for a camper!), we may not be suited as friends.

This is a good thread - and he’s right. I’m really proud of the work I and many of my fellow exec committee members do, and I also STRONGLY believe that we have a lot of learning and growing to do if we want to get things accomplished.

Here’s my final magic moment. I didn’t realize how badly I needed to just… get out of Tennessee for a day or two until I got here and felt like I could breathe again. I am proud of the work I do, but it takes it out of you - and now I’m ready to get back to work. Thankful.

Okay, the other magical thing about NYC is that when you Uber to a restaurant and it’s unexpectedly closed, you can walk a block and accidentally end up eating the best LIMONCELLO AND BURRATA RAVIOLI you’ve ever even considered in your life. What utter bliss.

One of the most beautiful things about New York is that you can sit in a cafe and hear a dozen languages without even having to try.

Adulting is just healing your inner child by obsessively buying all the collectables, games, books, and clothing from series you loved as a kid.

Enjoy Christmas. Trump is planning to raise taxes on you in the New Year.

Do not recommend crying in bars, but do recommend that when you do, you have a friend who says, “Extend that New York trip and stay for a night so you have an actual break.” The past year has been a trip but some of the friends I’ve made are WORTH EVERY SECOND.

Every vote counts: MILLERSVILLE edition www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

This is on the hands of Tennessee legislators.

Today’s goal is to coalesce hope. Some people aren’t able to hope right now, and that’s okay. We’ll do it for them - when they’re ready, we’ll be waiting.

My post-election impulse-buy is a ten hour trip to NYC to see the matinee of @suffsmusical.bsky.social next Wednesday. Y’all? 🫠

Now seems a good time to remind folks that there have been activist and movement groups out there for a long while. We don’t need to just start new ones - get involved in the ones who have been doing the work already.