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**The Japan Times** @thejapantimes@mastodon.social · May 12

**Zhi Zhu** @ZhiZhu@newsie.social · Apr 2

"that the left overcame all of those forces & showed up and #won means that maybe the situation isn’t as futile as we might think. Maybe our efforts to stay involved matter. Maybe engaging with our friends & families & neighbors & co-workers about the abuses occurring at the hands of these despots in #government matters. Maybe continuing to fight the good fight matters. We can win - and will win - moving forward, but we have to want it."
https://plus.briantylercohen.com/p/musk-comes-crashing-down-to-earth

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If we could win a race into which the richest man in the world just dumped in tens of millions of dollars, where the sitting president of the United States used the bully pulpit to promote the conservative candidate, and where Republican lawmakers and Senators used the full strength of their platforms to pit voters against Susan Crawford, then think about what that bodes for 2026 where Republicans will be forced to split their resources among dozens, if not hundreds, of battleground races.

What’s heartening - especially in a moment where there’s very little that we might consider hopeful - is that even with the rightwing media machine humming along, even with a massive asymmetry in the amount of money that the right has over the left, even with the GOP’s relentless pursuit of power and abuses of our government, the fact that the left overcame all of those forces and showed up and won means that maybe the situation isn’t as futile as we might think. Maybe our efforts to stay involved matter. Maybe engaging with our friends and families and neighbors and co-workers about the abuses occurring at the hands of these despots in government matters. Maybe continuing to fight the good fight matters. We can win - and will win - moving forward, but we have to want it. This week, we wanted it, and at least for now, our democracy is a just little bit stronger as the result of it.

#Resist #Resistance #USPol

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