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pat_k

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13. It is times like this I almost wish I lived in a red state
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 12:20 AM
Wednesday

I'm in Western Washington, so I just make calls to my Rep. and Senators to make sure I'm offsetting MAGA callers that are probably pestering them (the Senators anyway) from Eastern Washington.

But if I were in a Red State I'd be drumming up groups of friends and neighbors to meet with our electeds and lobby heavily against the DOW insanity and ballroom insanity. The phones at local and DC offices should be ringing with a resounding NO WAY from the public on both the ballroom and the name change -- and I suspect they will try to jam them together into one bill. I don't know how they'll manage it within the rules, but you can bet they'll try to do this shit through reconciliation. (Not to mention lobbying against their plans to push through ICE funding, and lobbying to repeal the tax cuts on households that make over 300,000, and lobbying against the insane Iran war package, lobbying to restore WIC and SNAP and Medicaid and enhanced obamacare subsidies... so much to work to undo or stop.)

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