From new parks and districts to something having to do with next year’s Superbowl, even Doomerella was impressed.
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From new parks and districts to something having to do with next year’s Superbowl, even Doomerella was impressed.
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WE’RE NOT DOOMED: Mon March 10, 2026
Doomerella missed me, did you? There have been so many things to make you feel less doomed while I’ve been recovering, but the question is, were you paying attention?
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From new parks and districts to something having to do with next year’s Superbowl, even Doomerella was impressed.
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WE’RE NOT DOOMED: Mon March 10, 2026
Doomerella missed me, did you? There have been so many things to make you feel less doomed while I’ve been recovering, but the question is, were you paying attention?
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And apologies that I was pretty MIA last week, I had a Da Vinci Robotics surgery for endometriosis. I’m still recovering but, I’m back to my regular schedule!
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So those are today’s reasons why We’re NOT Doomed. I hope they help you fight harder today.
Our voices are our superpower, but only when we use them!
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Inglewood, California Fri Feb 23 - There was an altercation between a concertgoer and an employee working the Los Bukis concert at SoFi Stadium on Tue Feb 20. The employee, a third party provider, literally told these Latino concertgoers that they were gonna call ICE on them. By the end of the week, Hollywood Park told KTLA that this employee had been fired. The company gave them the short statement: “We do not tolerate this type of behavior.” We’re hearing about so many companies and organizations that are giving in, it’s important to hear about ones that refuse to. Especially a stadium like SoFi where the final World Cup match will be held this year and the Superbowl will be next year. We need to hear this kind of rebuke of language like that from everyone, but them especially. And knowing how quickly they handled this makes me feel less Doomed.
Inglewood, California
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Utah Fri, Feb 23 - It was a bit up in the air for a while there, but it’s now official, basically, Utah WILL have a blue congressional district, thanks to a final ruling from the state Supreme Court. Republicans already pushed back the filing deadline once to try and change this decision, but, with the primary on June 23, and the filing deadline closing this week, they seem to have ran out of time. Better Boundaries executive director, Elizabeth Rasmussen said:
“Today’s federal ruling is once again a win for the majority of Utah voters who approved Prop 4 in 2018. While discussions about representation and redistricting will likely continue, this decision provides greater certainty that power is derived from the people. Utahns can now prepare for future elections and the opportunity to have their voices heard. Voters should choose their politicians, not the other way around.” Republicans will keep trying to reverse the maps back to the previous gerrymandering, but for 2026, they have almost certainly failed, and that makes me feel less Doomed!
Utah
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New Brunswick, New Jersey Wed, Feb 18 - An AI Data Center was planned for a site in New Brunswick, before the City Council scrapped the idea. On the 18th, protesters, lead by NJ Build Up Resistance Now, held a protest while the City Council was deliberating the decision. Their voices carried, literally, and the developers rescinded their proposal. In the end, instead of voting on the data center, Manuel J. Castañeda, Council president, approved an amendment to turn the land into a park. Cal F, who organized the protest told the crowd: “The developers introducing the data center project reworked the project to get rid of the data center plan entirely and turn it into a park. They just did it! They did it without the council even voting on it — they did it because of the public pressure. This is our power! And I, I don’t know about you, but this makes me feel so much less doomed!
New Brunswick, New Jersey
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WE’RE NOT DOOMED: Mon March 10, 2026
Hi, sorry, I had surgery and I’ve been recovering. I hope you found some ways we’re not doomed while I was gone, but I’m back, and, as always, I have some wonderful stories to give you just a bit more hope from around the country.
We begin in New Jersey…
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I’m not kidding when I say the only way I can keep doing this work is if people like you support me.
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Just like everything else with Democracy, it takes a village. We need all hands on deck (how many more cheesy sayings can I squeeze into this post?)
Bottom line, we WILL have elections, our AGs have not just been sitting there twiddling their fingers, they have contingency plans on contingency plans.
But they need your help. If you can, become an election observer or judge, and if you can’t, just voting, in every single election, making sure you vote as early as possible in the safest and most secure way you are able (early in person seems to be the best bet in most places, though drop boxes can be good too) makes a difference.
Remember, even with all the voter suppression shenanigans, there were STILL more people voting in the Texas Democratic primary than the Republican one. So understand, your vote and your voice are your superpower, but ONLY when you use them!
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But for every single tool, Dem AGs have a contingency plan. As Mayes said, they’ve been meeting and crafting their plans for over a year.
Minnesota AG Keith Ellison opted for more of a call to action: We need people to volunteer as election observers. We need people to volunteer as election judges. We need the rest of the civil rights community to file the cases. And we need to be tough.
They can do a lot of this work, but we have to do it too. Nothing that needs to be done right now, to save Democracy, can be done by one group individually.
Just like our Members of Congress can’t single-handedly snap their fingers and undo the damage Trump has created, our AGs can’t protect elections without our hard work too.
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Arizona AG, Kris Mayes said: What I want Americans to know is that you have a team of AGs that has been working together well for now more than a year to protect Democracy. And we’re going to keep doing that no matter what it takes.
That’s not an exaggeration. They saw the writing on the wall and started doing something about it immediately. They saw what happened in 2024 and instantly started combating it.
Oregon AG, Dan Rayfield added: They may only use half of the things in their playbook, but we’ll be ready in that moment because we’ve done the homework, because we’ve built these relationships during this last year to be ready.
“They,” in this case, refers to Republicans. They aren’t using all the tools they might have at their disposal, mostly cause they don’t know how, and they don’t have the support needed to use many of them.
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Elections are happening. They are happening today (MS, it’s your Primary Day!), they’re happening this month, and yes, they are happening in November.
Trump can say whatever he wants but elections are happening. And, and here’s the most important part, there has been so much preparation to make that a reality.
Let me say that again — even though you’re not seeing all of it, our legal teams, and organizations have been working on fighting this every day.
Our Democratic Attorneys General have a Taskforce titled: Election Protections. Protecting elections is the entire point of the taskforce. Last week, several of our Dem AGs were interviewed for MediasTouch’s Legal AF podcast by Michael Popok.
I know it feels like no one is doing anything to protect elections, but I promise that could not be further from the truth! Are democratic attorneys general has been preparing for over a year. We aren’t going into this without a plan.
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Here’s what we’re looking at:
Tue Mar 10 - AZ (municipal), FL (mun), GA (Legislative), MN (townships), MS (Primaries), NH (Mun, leg), SC (mun), VA (County)
Sat Mar 14 - LA (leg)
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Primary season is in full swing and this week it’s MS, so if you live in MS, please vote, so the best candidate can face off against Rs in November!
Additionally, we got a lot of legislative races — 8 to be precise, at least as far as my data is concerned. And half of those could be flips!
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There is a way to be informed without making people think it’s a lost cause
What exactly is his goal in posting this besides making people panic and never wanna get involved in activism ever again?
I wrote a whole essay on Zionism a few months ago, you should read it
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Comment below with what states you think are being written off and elections and situations you think deserve more attention in them!
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No state is a lost cause when it comes to aid, support, or politics. The faster we learn that, the faster we take back this country, one state at a time. Think of it this way…
![Did you know Wyoming’s nickname is “The Equality State”?
[Drawing of Wyoming with the name in calligraphy inside the state]
If we were there once, we can get there again.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wdfzyjds7iiymn3lpzzrnam6/bafkreieemrizpd5z34qgbuzkkdd6debwobxig2etxkjexmzcjmfuhv5gvi)
Did you know Wyoming’s nickname is “The Equality State”? [Drawing of Wyoming with the name in calligraphy inside the state] If we were there once, we can get there again.
We just have to believe that every state is worth fighting for, every person is worth fighting for and equity matters at all levels and in all places. Your vote and your voice is your superpower, but only when you use them!
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Some of it is in the form of laws, like making it so college IDs can’t count to vote and removing all voting stations for colleges, or making early voting during work hours, or, in the case of Alabama, for instance, not having it at all.
And after the Texas primary, it’s become clear, maybe some, if not all of these states aren’t actually red. We got 100k MORE votes than the Republicans. Both primaries were incredibly contentious, but we had more voters.
And without their voter suppression tactics? Who KNOWS how many more voters we would have had. So I propose new language. Gray states.
We don’t know if they’re Red or Blue or Purple, there’s too much voter suppression, so judging it just isn’t applicable. We have no idea what color they are, and we’ll never find out if we write them off.
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When we talk about Red states, there is this perception that they are already a lost cause. People spend less money, pay less attention to the candidates and don’t respect the pain and suffering of the people in those states.
So I think we should change the narrative. These aren’t Red states, there’s no such thing. There’s no state without at least one Democratic stronghold.
But Ohio! Is by far one of THE most gerrymandered states in the country But Utah! Have you seen Salt Lake City? But Tennessee! Wait till I tell you about Memphis and Nashville.
Get the point? All of these states and so many more have something in common, they’re mostly gerrymandered to hell at state and federal level, and there’s so much voter suppression.
Introducing “Gray States” the concept that you can’t know how a state would actually vote if the voter suppression keeps so many people from voting. No state is worth writing off and every single state deserves to find out what their color truly is
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