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Thank you, Garrett, for giving me some hope today...and some tools for the journey. So grateful for you, your work, and the love you bring to the fight.

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❤️❤️

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"What will you be doing when nobody is looking." 🧡

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I really appreciate this, Bucks. Thank you. I also really want to live in a nation that values children and caregiving at a national level. One of my overwhelming feelings yesterday was deep sadness that Build Back Better didn't pass...and now this. I'm guessing you (and Heather and others) would say that you build locally and it leads to voting and other kinds of engagement which feeds the national possibilities? It's feeling a little amorphous and hard right now.

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I totally get that it feels amorphous and hard! I think you're on the right track with "what to do next" but maybe I'll add-- especially when you study mid-century right wing grassroots activism, there is something about intensely local action that is also extremely nationally networked, where local chapters are also working on something together. I think you're already involved in something (through IS) that has the potential for that, though I think there's some slight shifts that could help really unlock y'alls/our potential as a national network.

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my heart is very heavy for americans today (and... pretty often, tbh), but i always really appreciate you beating the drum for hyper-local organizing, and i'm grateful for the recommendation of By The Light of Burning Dreams! it sounds extremely up my alley, just added it to my library list. 💜

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Can’t recommend it highly enough!

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woman should go on a sex strike

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Not a bad idea, Bob. It worked pretty well in Liberia.

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