Jen Sparks 🦋🌍💙

So proud to live in Colorado (and a former resident of Denver).

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Our Wins Of The Week This week, the U.S.

Need a pick-me-up?

Definitely give this uplifting article a read...

thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/week-progr...

Both Colorado and New Mexico voted overwhelmingly for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz

When are the Democrats going to step up and stop this?

Tesla Is More Vulnerable Than You Think How to cost Elon Musk $100 billion.

Time to hit the Muskrat where it hurts…

“Dampening the positive sentiment around Tesla as a brand can have a huge impact on Tesla the stock.”

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/tesla-is-m...

YES!!! I'm so happy to see some backbone here.

21 DOGE staffers resign, saying they won't help 'dismantle' public services Twenty-one members of the United States DOGE Service have resigned, they said in an anonymous letter, citing DOGE's ongoing work dramatically reshaping the federal government.

Whoa!!! People are pushing back!

www.npr.org/2025/02/25/n...

The Week Ahead February 23, 2025

The tide seems to be turning…

“Voters seem to be waking up all across the country, even in red states.”

open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
— Nelson Mandela

The GOP Taliban to Women: Shut Up, Sit Down, and Stay Home on Election Days The SAVE Act is the most dangerous voter suppression bill in modern history…

Block the SAVE Act!

"Fully 34 percent of American women don’t have government-issued ID with their current legal name on it, according to the Brennan Center, along with 25 percent of vote-eligible Blacks and 18 percent of Social Security-voting senior citizens."

hartmannreport.com/p/the-gop-ta...

Opinion | Don’t Believe Him (Gift Article) Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.

Please take a few minutes to watch this video to the end. He's not as strong as he wants us to think he is.

"Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see."

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

Five Things Dems Must Do to Fight Trump Now The party is not helpless. In fact, Democrats have some effective tools at their disposal.

The time for action is NOW.

"It’s true that Trump is extremely powerful right now, chiefly because members of his party in Congress fear him. But his opponents also have enormous advantages, too."

www.thebulwark.com/p/five-thing...

Time for Citizens to Hit Elon with a Privacy Act Violation There is a recourse for US citizens thanks to an old law created because of the Watergate Scandal.

Upset about the invasion of your privacy at the Treasury Dept?

Here's a handy email template to make a civil liberties complaint...

www.bookersquared.com/p/time-for-c...

What Everyone is Getting Wrong About Trump's First Week Trump has convinced the press, the GOP, the business community, and some Dems that he is a political force, the polls say otherwise

Here is some perspective...

"Trump is dangerous. I am not dismissing the threat. It is very real, but he is not the political colossus he claims to be. Democrats can find comfort and develop courage by taking a realistic view of his many, many weaknesses."

open.substack.com/pub/messageb...

How to Push Back There is a reason Trump is afraid of the federal bureaucracy, the career civil servants he wants to replace.

They've summoned a sleeping giant.

It's so great to see people fired up to fight for their jobs and for our country.

open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Looks like they've figured out a way to avoid Habeas Corpus. This is wrong on so many levels.

Our voices are having an effect. Keep it up!

Well worth a watch…

Please repost and share

Trump goes full dictator January 28, 2025

"It is time for the institutions fighting for democracy to drop the niceties and begin calling Trump for what he is: a dictator."

open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...

Our Wins Of The Week This past week was a dark one for our nation.

Some much needed wins from this first, very difficult week…

open.substack.com/pub/thinkbig...

Excellent advice...

Chop Wood, Carry Water | Jessica Craven | Substack This weekday newsletter gives you easy, effective political actions to take to stave off despair, effect positive change and elect more true public servants. Click to read Chop Wood, Carry Water, by J...

Looking for ways to get your voice heard?

Start by subscribing to this newsletter, which provides daily actions you can take to defend our democracy.

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LOOKING BACK: This all began with Reagan's repeal of the Fairness Doctrine. News stopped bring a regulated public service....

Blame McConnell By Barbara McQuade

Let's remember how we got here...

"Don’t blame Garland. Blame Mitch McConnell and the Supreme Court."

substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Plantation Politics of MAGA America: Is This the Future We Want? Restoring power to the richest, whitest men in the room. How long can democracy survive under Trump’s iron grip?

"Oligarchy, after all, is usually a transitional form of government because people get so angry about the government doing everything for the rich and powerful and little to nothing for them that they demand change."

hartmannreport.com/p/the-planta...

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
— Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King

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If you’re upset about Michelle Obama’s decision not to attend Donald Trump’s inauguration, wait until I tell you about the time Donald Trump refused to accept the results of the election he lost, plotted a coup & incited an insurrection before deciding not to attend Joe Biden’s.

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