We're excited for our first Plant Parenthood fundraiser on May 30th in the lot next to Bongo Java East. Come ready to take home some new plants! All proceeds benefit @tnadvocatesforpp.bsky.social! 🦞 #Nashville

UPDATE: current list of candidates for TN-9 after the racist re-drawing by @GovBillLee & Republicans in an attempt to strip majority-Black Memphis of representation and make 40% Democratic TN a 9-0 Republican state. It seems Senator London Lamar has pulled a petition to run.

Judge sets 5/20 hearing in redistricting suit by Democrats, one of 3 suits challenging redrawn lines that split Memphis in 3 Hearing is set 5 days after the 3/15 candidate qualifying deadline & lawyers filed an emergency motion seeking a more immediate ruling tennesseelookout.com/2026/05/12/f...

We've added two additional speakers to address the redistricting: Odessa Kelly and @voteluismata.bsky.social! Join us this Wednesday as we celebrate May Day by highlighting the importance of unions + figure out where we go from here re the new congressional districts (hint: the answer is VOTE!). 🦞

Are you looking for a way to get involved in civic engagement and push back against authoritarianism? Join us for a critical community meeting with Roshan Neil, Policy Strategist with the ACLU of Tennessee. www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...

I helped the @eastnashtivists.bsky.social with some voter reg & district checks on Saturday. Within the first 20 minutes, we talked w/two folks who'd been redistricted—one of whom lives in Brentwood and was surprised to learn she's in the redrawn 9th (stretching from Shelby County to here). #bananas

A Fox Nashville poll shows how unpopular what @GovBillLee and Tennessee Republicans are doing to Memphis is, and why they would never put it on the ballot as Democratic states have done (They don’t do ballot measures here. What the people think doesn’t matter to them😕)

Preliminary numbers we are hearing has ~5 of the new Tennessee seats down near single digits in terms of Republican partisanship numbers. Meaning a huge blue wave could flip a number of seats. 👀 If you’re thinking of getting involved, now’s the time.

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“Memphis is Black! There’s no denying that!” House committee disrupted after Speaker sexton presents the racist Republican maps and claims race has nothing to do with how they carved up the city to dilute black representation with white power 🤔 (From @gabbysalinas)

We need folks to show up tomorrow!

The proposed TN redistricting map is horribly bad. Tell YOUR 2 legislators to vote NO on the redistricting package of bills with the EASY campaign at the link. ujoin.co/campaigns/44...

Please show up tomorrow!!!!

Highly recommend filling out the survey at the end of her post

JOIN US TONIGHT AT EAST SIDE BOWL AT 7 Come hang out with Third Coast Comedy, Inebriated Shakespeare, Resistance Revival Nashville and yours truly for a night of merriment and laughs ahead of tomorrow’s Special Session! TICKETS: www.eventim.us/event/ticket...

🔥👇🏽: “I’m @MarshaBlackburn — I called for a special session… Cuz we’re 51st in Ed spending? NO… Cuz we have the highest infant mortality rate? NO… Cuz we have 0 job growth and can’t afford groceries? NO… Cuz farmers are suffering? NO… to take votes from Black people!”😕

With folks gearing up to challenge the forthcoming TN gerrymander, don’t forget that the TN Supreme Court blocked new maps in April of 2022 because they said it was too close to the election. tennesseelookout.com/briefs/state... cc: @eastnashtivists.bsky.social @thetnholler.bsky.social

Are you doing some spring cleaning in your garden? Ready to propagate your plants? Have more seeds, seedlings or pots than you need? Donate them to us for our fundraiser! 🦞 #Nashville #PlantParenthood

It's Voter Registration season, y'all! We're looking for volunteers at several events coming up.

You have 11 hours to #VOTE today (Tuesday) at any of our 13 Early Voting locations. Will we see you today?

The latest update to our "Cash for Clout" database makes it easier to search the top politicians and provide a deeper look into who's funding the 2026 Tennessee governor's race.

Plans to redevelop a metal scrapyard site located on the East Bank cleared a key hurdle before the Metro Council on Tuesday night.

The Metro Council voted Tuesday night to give final approval to much-debated zoning legislation that would pave the way for the long-desired redevelopment of the metal scrapyard on the East Bank. ✒️: @stelliott.bsky.social

Nashville scrapyard greenlit for redevelopment, advancing a key piece of massive East Bank overhaul wpln.org/post/scrapya...

Happy Earth Day!

Happening tonight! Come eat some delicious Indian food and enjoy the company of like minded people! 🦞

Happening tonight! @tnadvocatesforpp.bsky.social + Vandy Gen Action Council will be screening a short film and then have a panel discussion with some heavy hitters! @campbell4tn.bsky.social @votegloriaj.bsky.social @lauraandreson4tn.bsky.social @allie-phillips.bsky.social @kgreenmd.bsky.social

Tonight is the night! Join us at Fat Bottom Brewery in the Nations!

We will be back to register voters at @nashvillepride.bsky.social again this year! Stay tuned for more details.

Tonight!

There's a lot going on this month. Here's our April events thread 🧵🦞

Also if you’re not going to @eastnashtivists.bsky.social meetings (even if, like me, you’re often just there accidentally because you want to drink beer and don’t know what day it is), you are depriving yourself of much joy.

It's not enough that Tennessee won't legalize marijuana even as neighboring states rake in taxes from pot sales: the legislature has also banned hemp-derived products and whaddya know! That's going to leave an approximately $130 million hole in the budget.

Get your tickets for the best fundraiser in #Nashville this spring, Standing Strong! 🦞 April 16th at Fat Bottom Brewery @tnadvocatesforpp.bsky.social @pptnmcares.bsky.social

Join us this Wednesday, April 8th at East Nashville Beer Works from 5:30-7:30p.

THE REAL BORDER CRISIS? KENTUCKY'S CHEAP GROCERIES Today, I'll present our plan to #EndTheGroceryTax by closing corporate loopholes. A recent report shows that Tennessee could recoup $800 million by closing loopholes, enough to end the state sales tax on food.

No Kings march this Saturday, March 28. #Nashville #NOKings 🦞

If you're free today, help @tirrcvotes.bsky.social pack the committees in the state legislature! #EducationforALL

Happening tomorrow!

A bipartisan push for housing reform is dead this year after an attempt to resurrect the bill was unsuccessful. wpln.org/post/rare-bi...

Newly amended legislation moving through the Tennessee General Assembly would create two state-run governmental entities overseeing The Boring Company's Music City Loop.

Because what doctor doesn't spend years in school and go into hundreds of thousands of dollars of education debt if not to twirl their handlebar mustaches: "Hmm. Who can I coerce into changing their gender today?"

A restaurant in Nashville became a makeshift call center on Monday for people contacting their representatives on behalf of a local reporter detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. wpln.org/post/nashvil...

Let's keep kids in school. Contact your legislator at www.educationforalltn.org/call

The bill censoring questions about gender in youth health care is on the Senate floor on Thursday morning. Use the easy form to tell YOUR senator to vote NO. ujoin.co/campaigns/43...

Happening tonight! RSVP here: www.mobilize.us/tappactionco...

Two very different versions of a TN Republican immigration bill have passed the state House and Senate, one of which could result in students being barred from public school over immigration status. Which, if either, version will make it to the governor’s desk? ✍️ @sarahgracetaylor.bsky.social

We'll be inside the main bar area at East Nashville Beer Works tonight due to the weather. Feel free to RSVP for the Zoom link if you'd rather tune in from home! Be safe out there and see y'all tonight!

This Wednesday, March 11, is our monthly meeting and we'll be focused on the judicial elections coming up next month as well as efforts to protect voters in the midterms and how the young Dems are using their voices! Join us at East Nashville Beer Works from 6-8p! 🦞

Are you free tomorrow and want to help support a good bill at the state legislature? Join us for the TN House Pop Health Subcommittee at 12p CST to support HB2523/SB2510, sponsored by Sen Charlane Oliver and Rep @aftynbehn.bsky.social!