Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 05/14/2026 🎉 The Trumps & their chosen few get richer while CA's poor do without Medicaid & families everywhere can't afford healthcare. War, grift, corruption, embarrassment. We are the majority. We have it in our power to stop this madness. See you out there.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 05/13/2026 🎉 Trump's Administration of Misfit Toys, delightful garden of pathologies it has proven itself to be, is slow to learn that governing is not the same as trashing government & making shit up for friendly media. America is floundering. Let's take it back.

A FIFA-mad middle schooler weighs in 😊:

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 05/12/2026 🎉 Democrats need to stop whining woulda coulda shoulda after Trump's first term. We are where we are and unless we want to live in today's sad America centered in grift. lies, incompetence, and hate, we must act. Let's get off our asses and do the work.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 05/11/2026 🎉 The Cabinet of Misfit Toys is creating an America that works for only the chosen few, maximizing our worst impulses as a nation. Racism. Sexism. Colonialism. Greed. We the Majority must stand up louder to take our country back. See you out there.

Lolz.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 05/10/2026 🎉 Autocrats gain power by appearing invincible & destroying hope. Watching the South react to Callais while VA rejects a vote of the people has shaken me. But if everyone who opposes Trump's madness votes, We the Majority can end it. Get out the vote!

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 05/09/2026 🎉 This past week of performances by the Cabinet of Misfit Toys & various courts & judges showed us how far the US has fallen from our ideals. We the People are are the one remaining check & balance. We can't hang back. Stand up. Speak out. Fight back.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 05/08/2026 🎉 Hard to watch what's happening since SCOTUS's decimation of the Voting Rights Act. To combat MAGA's blatant cheating, we have to pull off a Hungary. Vote in numbers too large to dick with. Time to think about how each of us can help in this effort.

Is anyone else reading Elonica (America reborn to honor the guy who bought us a president), a quirky blog published every Wednesday since the election? Presents MAGA logic as though it makes perfect sense. This last one on racism has me thinking. elonica.net/race-abating/

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 05/07/2026 🎉 I believe we can and must do better than a fading angry vengeful old man who carries around pictures of ballrooms and UFC fights like teddy bears. MAGA proves daily that they have no clue how to govern. We must stand up in all the ways we can. Today!

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 05/06/2026 🎉 Yesterday between Hegseth, Trump, & Rubio we saw Trump 2.0 on full display. Arrested development meets ambition meets a dysfunctional Congress. We the Majority need to resist louder, more cleverly, all the time. Let's Make America America Again.

Good Morning Ray. Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Happy Cinco de Mayo. Let us each welcome the cultures and celebrations of all, and understand it is our diversity which makes us human and gives us hope and a path forward.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 05/05/2026 🎉 When I'm at Walmart, the doctors office, my local high school people are almost universally polite & friendly. Most voted for Trump. How can I show them how much better they are than the fading wannabe despot they elected? We all deserve so much more.

As true as ever.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 05/04/2026 🎉 Starting the week with an escalating war, $4.39 gas, masked ICE agents still at work hunting brown people, & a failing President returning from another golf weekend. MAGA has been a laugh a day but can we Make America America Again now? Resist!

When Blanche says that 8647 is a crime only for certain people & Scalise says that gas was $6 a gallon 2 years ago & Tim Scott says gas prices are going down and so will groceries do they believe this bs? Or do they believe that their base hates people like me enough to embrace these obvious lies???

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 05/03/2026 🎉 Trump was elected 544 days ago. Look at the disarray he & his chosen few have caused already. Each of us must engage in some action small or large each day to interfere with America's destruction. Today I'm emailing my MAGA rep again. Resist today!

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 05/02/2026 🎉 Congress & SCOTUS have allowed/encouraged our waning unstable grifting president to ignore the Constitution. If enough of us stand up & speak out, we can check their corruption. WE are the majority. Let's remind MAGA of that loudly, every damn day.

Good morning☕️

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 05/01/2026 🎉 May Day. No work or shopping for me today. Instead I'm delivering supplies to 2 local food banks & joining some volunteers in removing trash from trails in a local park. There are many ways to be an American. None of them include supporting autocracy.

The economy is working well for Trump & Co. We provide the capital and cheap labor and the chosen few get richer. Dems need to focus on grift and the disparity as well as the prices of everything we need.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 04/30/2026 🎉 SCOTUS, Congress, & Trump's apostles are doing/will do everything to avoid fair elections that bring accountability in Nov. We must organize & pound the streets now with this reality in mind. We the majority are the only guardrail. See you out there.

Another tough day witnessing the erosion of our democracy. For therapy on Wednesdays I follow this quirky blog Elonica (since Elon generously bought us a president). Whoever puts this out also turns all of Trump's exec actions into haiku. Makes me chuckle. Today's post: elonica.net/all-that-gli...

Pawn blocks Queen.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 04/29/2026 🎉 Today is a great day to stand up for a government that is less vengeful, incompetent, grifting, & broken. We the People must demand more from our reps & the failing Unitary Executive himself. We can speak. Write. Call. Talk to our neighbors. RESIST!

I've been assaulted all day by alternative MAGA "facts" shared by those who work for or once worked for Trump. Bogus indictments. Health care and economic myths. FCC overreach. I'm wondering what the hell we're going to do with all of these circus performers when we Make America America Again.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 04/28/2026 🎉 Republicans won't address Trump's Iran war excursion or our tanking economy or the grift enriching a chosen few at the expense of the rest of us. Nope. Let's focus on a garish vanity ballroom erected in our name with our money. JFC. Resist harder!

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 04/27/2026 🎉 I'm waking up in a country where I can't trust what my reality show businessman cult government is telling me. We deserve leadership, not stagecraft. Debate, not subservience. MAGA has been a hoot but can we Make America America Again now?

After swimming upstream against MAGA-inspired Pizzagate & Hunter Biden's laptop & a gazillion "false flag" school shootings with actual dead children, I swore I'd never embrace conspiracy theories. But there is something awfully hinky about last night's WHCD incident/coordinated MAGA responses.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 04/26/2026 🎉 Can we Make America America Again? What can I do to persuade folk that this government is not working for the good of We the People? I must seek out ways to communicate more often & more effectively with more & different people. See you out there?

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 04/25/2026 🎉 191 days until midterms. We must wake up now to the reality that Trump & Co will cheat in every way they can to buy more time to enrich themselves. We must act now in ways small & large to let them know we see them, reject them, & are ready for them.

Recapping this week in our Golden Age I'm not sure if I most enjoyed the performance of various members of the Cabinet-of-Many-Pathologies, Trump falling asleep on camera during a White House event, his never-ending war excursion in Iran, or the contorted MAGA defenses of all of it. Sigh.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 04/24/2026 🎉 Attacking other countries is not the way to peace. Enriching donors, cronies & family is not the way to prosperity. Trying to return to a fictional history is not the way to a Golden Age. Time for We the People to stand up for a government that works.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 04/23/2026 🎉 These are scary times. An ornamental congress, a compromised SCOTUS allowing an aging, diminished, angry Executive free reign. It's on us, We the People. We are the guardrail. We must stand up, find our voices, & demand better. See you out there.

Earth Day 2026 ✌️

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 04/22/2026 🎉 Another day bumbling around as a brainless, grifting, not-to-be-trusted superpower. America is struggling at home & across the world. MAGA is embarrassing. How about We the Majority join Virginia in finding ways to Make America America Again? Act now!

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 04/21/2026 🎉 As Trump's A Team of real estate speculators heads for the Middle East & another Cabinet member bites the dust, we must remember that We the People are better than this grifting, seat-of-pants government. Stand up. Push back. Take action. Demand more.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 04/20/2026 🎉 Here's an idea. Rather than waking up on a Monday morning awaiting this week's market manipulation and/or scandal about some member of the Cabinet-of-Assorted-Pathologies, how about we push back harder for a government that works for We the People?

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 04/19/2026 🎉 Trump's Iran Excursion rages on while his Cabinet-of-Assorted-Pathologies continues to flounder. This is not the America the majority of us want. Each day we must find ways small & large to voice our disgust. Together we can Make America America Again

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 04/18/2026 🎉 Trump & his Cabinet-of-Many-Pathologies continue to fail us at home & embarrass us abroad. Each of us needs to find 1 action, small or large, to reclaim our democracy. Speak. Write. Gather. Hang signs. Embrace a neighbor. Let's take our country back.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 04/17/2026 🎉 We are watching our Congress & our SCOTUS watch our President implode, surrounded by grifters, malcontents, & incompetents happy to let it happen. We the People must push back harder, louder, more creatively. Let's Make America America Again together.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 04/16/2026 🎉 Midterms in about 200 days. Hungary showed us the insurmountable power of the liberal tsunami to defeat entrenched autocracy. MAGA is 25% of the population. We must inspire our 75% majority to vote. Let's work now to take our country back in 2026.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 04/15/2026 🎉 Tax Day for those of us not wealthy enough to avoid paying taxes. I hope Bezos & co have a fine day on their yachts. I'm working for that blue wave that sweeps them all overboard and restores a government that cares about & works for everyday people.

Weird random thought. It took Hungary 16 years to figure out & overcome Orban's authoritarianism. What if we used that "American exceptionalism" thing we talk about all the time to accomplish the same result here in the 202 days between now and midterms?

President Trump finally releases his long-awaited healthcare plan.