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roipecheur · 2 years

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AU where the Jedi council discovers Anakin’s marriage early and kicks him out of the order and Padmé tolerates his reckless shenanigans for like 2-3 years max before filing for divorce because she is a member of the Senate in the middle of a galactic war and that is not compatible with a husband who keeps flying off to have adventures, covering their bedroom floor with the mechanical parts of whatever the hell he’s working on now, and trying to fistfight anyone he even thinks insulted her

And Anakin deals with this by going on a massive bender and sucking and fucking his way through the galaxy, but it’s far enough removed from everything important that no one thinks to check on him

Five or so years later, people at the Jedi temple start to notice the influx of very powerful Force-sensitive babies--like, the incidents of stuff in the nursery floating and randomly catching on fire have gone way up over the past few years, and someone probably would’ve caught on sooner if not for, y’know, the galactic war that is still going on with no end in sight--but huh, now that you mention it, yeah, there have been a lot more babies than usual, and do some of them look uncannily alike, despite coming from planets at nearly opposite ends of the galaxy? What’s up with that?

What’s up with that, someone discovers after running some tests, is that a solid few dozen of these kids have the same father

And they have his DNA on file, but at this point, they’re really only confirming what everyone already knows

Mace Windu, who thought he had finally gotten rid of Anakin Skywalker once and for all and is now staring down the barrel of thirty-seven Anakin Skywalkers and Force knows how many more are out there and didn’t make their way to the Temple! seriously considers taking up drinking

Obi-Wan, face-down on his bed and halfway through a bottle of Corellian rum, is way ahead of him

So, your mission, the Council tells a group of four sober, young Jedi who just graduated to Knighthood and were not particularly close with Anakin Skywalker, is to stop this absolute goddamn menace from sucking and fucking his way across the galaxy before we have to build a second nursery just to deal with his offspring

A week later, they all come back looking pink and sheepish. Yes, they found Anakin Skywalker. Yes, they asked him politely to use contraception. Yes, they asked him very nicely. He’s really very nice once you get to know him...

(At least the ones of them who can get pregnant are all on birth control.)

(Mace Windu asks Obi-Wan where he gets his rum)

Of course, they send Obi-Wan next. He spent ten years as the lone, stalwart figure keeping Skywalker nonsense at bay. Surely he can convince his former Padawan to tone it down. Surely, Obi-Wan thinks to himself as he white-knuckles his transport down to the planet’s surface, trying not to think about how much he hates flying.

He finds Anakin in what is politely called a parlor house but more accurately called a brothel with a Twi’lek woman on one arm and a Zabrak man on the other, singing something at the top of his lungs that makes Obi-Wan’s ears burn. When Anakin sees him, he abandons his song and his company both, runs over to Obi-Wan, and greets him by kissing him full on the mouth.

(That’s just how he does things now. He probably doesn’t mean anything by it.)

Anakin looks good. He looks happy, Obi-Wan supposes, unburdened in a way he never did at the Jedi temple, never did in all the time Obi-Wan knew him before. He isn’t sure how to feel about that. They drink what is some very excellent beer and talk for awhile, and Obi-Wan can’t quite broach the topic of why he’s here in the first place. He forgot how bright Anakin shone in the Force

When he returns to Coruscant, Mace Windu is waiting on the landing platform with baited breath to ask him how it went

Obi-Wan looks very pink and very sheepish. He mumbles something. Mace Windu lets out a string of curses that would put the meanest gangster of Coruscant’s underbelly to shame.

The next day, Mace Windu departs for Anakin’s last known location and drags Obi-Wan with him because he needs back-up and he’s certainly not going to let Skywalker corrupt anyone else. Obi-Wan makes sure to bring another bottle of Corellian rum

“I’m going to neuter that man,” Mace Windu says upon their return to the Temple. He’s lying in one of the ornamental koi ponds, robes billowing around him and head resting against the side, the fish nipping idly at the material. “I’d be doing everyone a favor.”

Obi-Wan hmms noncommittally, sitting cross-legged alongside the pool. “You’re just mad he got you to dance with him.”

Mace Windu covers his face with a lily pad

And Palpatine never gets to turn Anakin to the dark side because he’s too busy sucking and fucking

#shitpost central #obikin #anakin skywalker #anakin x everyone #Palpatine tries to get him to come back #'Anakin my boy I could get you a nice job working security pay is good and you'd be close to Senator Amidala'#Anakin who now texts like skweezy jibs: HEY PALPY MY MAIN MAN I'M KINDA IN THE MIDDLE OF SOMETHING HERE WITH A COUPLE OF HONEYS HAHA #CATCH U ON THE FLIP SIDE #Palpatine eventually turns his attention to some of Anakin's children and hoo boy does the grooming look different from the outside!#and that's how Anakin kills Darth Sidious and saves the galaxy through the power of sucking and fucking #(Anakin is an excellent pilot and mechanic and fighter so he's fine for money I would think)#(yes the twins still exist they just have a small town's worth of half siblings)

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transingthoseformers · 9 months

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My take is that the SG and normalverse bots were actually born the same color, and got different paintjobs because they have different tastes. It's like wearing clothes. Maybe the same about the optics in continuities with more diverse optic/biolight colors or where they can be changed? Or maybe the SGs just were born with different optic/light colors to distinguish them?

Neither's canon colors are necessarily their birth colors, though that can be the case sometimes (ex. Shockwave would have been born purple because he'd think painting himself would be illogical/wasteful/pointless, and Megatron was propably born grey because he's a mass-produced cold-construct and Terminus was also grey).

Oh now that's cool as hell!

We exactly see mecha changing their paintjobs in several continuities, so it makes sense. Plus, I mean same goes for optics (think tfp Megatronus > Megatron, tfa wasp in the flashbacks and in present day, have I mentioned before that sometimes the rid15 mecha's optics change color with their scanned camo paintjobs?) so we can always roll with that

Birth colors is a whole ass scenario because there's just. So much room for fun there.

#personally i like variety when it comes to sg #sometimes i just give them the same exact designs/colors as baseline but flip around the personalities and roles #sometimes i just really fucking like the sg designs/colors like look at sg optimus abd Megatron. look at them.#i love them #also the shockwave's birthcolors being purple thing made me think about two things #senator shockwave being disrupted in between paintjob changes and he's just pure purple #and sg shockwave still changing around his paintjobs like he did as a senator but now also as a reclaiming bodily autonomy thing #... but also because he'd be pretty.#don't even get me started on biolights rid15 gave me so many bad habits (affectionate) about biolights #such as mecha having biolights with two different colors on them. or ones that change colors (looking at you s4 soundwave)#and again the scanny scanny camo disguises! you can use that for pretty reasons!#maccadam #transformers #transformers shattered glass

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flythesail · 1 year

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I FINISHED VICTORY'S PRICE

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danzafila · 6 months

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at the risk of celebrating prematurely, get fucked youngkin

#🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽 dems didn't just successfully retain the senate but are really gonna manage to flip the house back too plz 🙏🏽#also in more local news looks like not a single culture war idiot managed to weasel their way onto our school board which tg #(not that there was much doubt in nova but you never know)#tho i am def side eyeing some of the results i'm seeing from loudon. exurban hell. you guys are fuckin whack electing so many rs #sto parlando

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kraviolis · 2 years

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daredevil star wars au where matt and foggy and karen are all jedi but matt is constantly struggling with the fact that the jedi do a lot of good but they overlook so much suffering and pain because theyre too tied up in politics and keep failing those who need them most and he ends up becoming a dark jedi vigilante while also maintaining his cover within the order itself bcus he does still believe in the jedi code but feels that they dont do enough for the galaxy.

#instead of a few blocks in new york im giving matt an entire galaxy to go fuck around in and also an insane amount of power #matt is still highly against murder and does not kill. he disarms and injures and will take one or two limbs but its fine #he is not sith. he flip flops between the light and dark and tries to find a balance within himself #he does use the dark more when he's DD and gets close to losing himself but he always finds his way back to the light #foggy is a councilor and karen... idk maybe she's a former shadow?#foggy isnt like a high councilor but hes on one of the other ones. like the fuckin... reconcilliation council? is that one a thing?#i cant decide if i also want matt on the same council or if i wanna put him somewhere else. like maybe he works within the senate more?#matt uses jar'kai djem so with 2 shoto sabers #foggy uses niman/soresu #karen is an ataru gal #krav talks #oh god can u imagine the punisher in star wars #he's most definitely got the same exact backstory except maybe hes like. mandalorian or something.#lets put frank castle in some fucking beskar yeah thats a great and sound idea #ohhhhh but then the frank and karen stuff..... a mandalorian and a jedi.....

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essektheylyss · 1 year

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Every time the NYT Dashboard shows the House getting closer another year gets added to my lifespan.

#yes. Yes. YESSSS.#uspol #the senate keeps wavering back toward 51 gop so I'm avoiding that tab #stg it flips every damn time i check it

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n00h · 1 year

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They saved us in this year's midterms

They were almost able to defeat Lauren Boebert

With democrats seats Ohio,Montana,West Virginia at risk and now Sinema slashing our chances in Arizona

Our only hope is that the wine moms can become powerful enough to defeat Josh Hawley by 2024 and flip Missouri

#also texas i guess #i mean if it was an environment blue enough to flip Missouri surely Texas would follow suit #politics #us politics #kyrsten sinema #josh hawley #we RESPECT wine moms in this house #they're the last line of defense for our republic #us senate

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sakizm · 1 year

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the ONLY bright side is nebraska voted to raise the min wage

#that and pricketts no longer our governor #but he’s looking to run for senate so. fuck #had hopes that maybe districts 1 and 2 would flip blue since they had strong dem lead #but of course not. pricketts had to throw a tantrum during the 2020 elections #and redraw district lines to avoid district 2 flipping blue again #basically he set nebraska up to be fully red no matter what. fuck him #don’t mind sakizm

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gendzl · 1 year

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my state's stupid little election results look...promising? what???

#¶#we might actually flip the senate seat??????#*gently touches the live election map on my screen* i feel....hope.

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dowagergreen · 1 year

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#politics cw #when i tell you nothing agitates my anxiety more than us elections #whew do i mean it #and being stuck in a red state with no way to get out is like extra hell #i hate hate hate hate hate it here #😅#would love to be sleeping but i have to keep my eyes glued to election results to see if the house or senate flip red

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alisaint · 2 years

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I'm never gonna stop voting because I know my vote does matter, but the internet tells me "be angry 24/7" and being angry 24/7 leaves me exhausted and feeling like nothing ever changes so what's the point. / I guess my questionis how do YOU fight the exhaustion when the internet is Like This? (this is not accusatory, I genuinely would love to hear your tips.)

Oh, I'm right there with you! It's why I try not to be as on top of Every Single Current Event In The Entire World as I used to be--I just focus on what affects me in my country, like state news and overreaching federal news such as this Supreme Court ruling.

I don't think that it's healthy to be angry 24/7 as they suggest, but I think it's even worse to let your exhaustion keep you from voting. If you do nothing else, you should ABSOLUTELY vote in your state and federal elections! That's probably the biggest and easiest thing you can possibly do to (try to) avoid getting exhausted in the first place.

Those "little" elections that people don't ever talk about are so much more important than people realize. Those "little" or "lesser" seats that are up for grabs affect you directly in your state, and some of them even go on to vote for these wider reaching laws & positions that then affect the entire country. By abstaining from voting, or voting only once every four years for the president, you're giving those seats up to literal fascists who won't stop until this country is under Evangelical rule. It doesn't matter if we have a democratic president if we have obstructionists and fascists in every other position of power. The president can only do so much, as per the separation of powers.

To be honest, I get more exhausted interacting with those people who say your vote is meaningless and encourage others to abstain from voting, as if living under fascist rule and watching the rights generations before us died to protect being taken away is somehow Okay, Rational, and Not At All Avoidable. I get more exhausted watching people convince other marginalized that doing nothing is the Right, Pure Leftist thing to do, as if voting for someone who you don't agree with on every single point is somehow worse than not voting at all. I get more exhausted watching people say that voting doesn't matter and the only thing that you can do is donate to charities, as if senators are not voted in by the people, and as if those senators do not then go on to confirm or deny Supreme Court justices, and so on and so forth. Direct action is not just charity work--direct action is participating in your community and making your voice be heard, too. It's not enough to treat the wound after it happens. We have to behave in ways which prevent the wound from ever occurring in the first place.

None of that applies to you, because you do vote, but it's dealing with that apathy and that dangerous, counterintuitive thinking that has plagued the left that makes politics a fucking hellscape for me, personally. You can expect the fascist party to want to decimate all progress that has been made in the last century. You don't expect the party that stands for workers of the world and inherent human worth to tell people to act against themselves and undo that work. It's maddening trying to get people to care. It's not so maddening to just do your part and keep it moving.

So, to be honest... your best bet is just doing what you can do (voting, and then volunteer work or donations to small, effective charities if you can spare the capital or social energy) and minding your own business. You don't have to get invested and pour your heart into every little thing that happens everywhere. Worry most about that which affects you. The world's most influential and successful activists didn't fight for every single cause in the world and neither do you have to. People have to fight their own fights and the earlier you realize that the less stressful this all may be. So.. Start small, do what you can do, and just mind your business. You'll lose your head otherwise stretching yourself in fifty different directions.

#PERSONALLY i avoid the exhaustion because i know that i do my part by voting in every election and trying to get sensible #people in our government.#i did my part and if not enough people did the same and now we have our rights being taken away then that's not on me! i didn't do that!#i voted for hilary! i voted for the dem running for governor! i voted for the dems running for the house! and the senate! etc!#and other important roles such as the one for agriculture here in my state! because she actually cares abt the environment!#so like. i can't get exhausted if i know i did the best that i could.#and didn't just sit back and let it happen.#you can't storm the supreme court building and enact change. but you can try to flip the seats in your state.#i get exhausted trying to get other people to see that they don't live in a sham democracy where apathy is your only option.#these things that cause exhaustion happen because there isn't enough resistance to ward them off.#these are not things that happen TO you. these are things that happen because not enough people DID something.#YES the cards are stacked against us. but that doesn't mean that you stop trying. especially in purple states. like. hello.#there are things you can do that are easier and less stressful than arguing online.

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lactosegremlin · 4 months

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crying over this fucking cutie

#he was having a bad dream before this 😭😭#i went to comfort him but as soon as i touched him he spazzed out so hard #poor thing looked so scared he froze and could only flip on his back #he’s back asleep now and purring #so all is well #but my heart 😭😭😭#bernie #tabby cats #bernie sanders but as a cat #cat senator of the cat mountain state #sweet not so little burnt loaf of bread

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batboyblog · 3 months

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2024 Senate Elections: You'd Better VOTE!

Yes it's election year yet again in America! but not just for President, almost as important will be the US Senate!

I'm not gonna lie this is a rough map for Democrats, we're playing a lot of defense in some pretty red states with even our best hopes for a pick up being pretty long shots. But even with narrow control of the Senate we've managed the biggest climate bill in American History a huge infrastructure bill thats bring high speed rail to America capped the price of insulin changed the law to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices bring savings to everyone, and put over 160 federal judges on the bench, 2/3rds of whom are women and/or people of color the first time white men haven't been the majority of nominees by a President. So let's keep progress going by voting for, supporting, donating, and volunteering for the following candidates in the races that will decide the US Senate this year.

Arizona

Ruben Gallego (Hold)

After frustrating Democrats by repeatedly voting against major Democratic priorities, supporting the filibuster and putting donors over voters, Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema left the Democratic Party to become an independent in 2022. Democratic congressman Ruben Gallego was running to primary Sinema before she left the party and is now the likely Democratic nominee to unseat her and give Arizona the Democratic Senator it deserves. Gallego is a former Marine, combat veteran, Harvard grad, a former state representative, and since 2014 a member of Congress. Gallego is a member of the Progressive Caucus and is known for his blunt and combative style standing up to Republicans. In Congress Gallego has been a strong supporter of native rights advocating for tribes on health care and child welfare issues. Gallego is also the sponsor of a bill to bring about nation wide, free, all-day kindergarten which isn't available in many states. If elected Gallego would be Arizona's first hispanic Senator. Republicans hope that the Democratic vote will split between Sinema and Gallego allowing them to win this important seat. The Republican front runner is conspiracy theorist and Trump super fan, Kari Lake. Lake rose to national fame in 2021 for pushing conspiracy theories about Trump having won the 2020 election, as well as anti-mask and anti-vaccine Covid conspiracies. Lake was the Republican nominee for Arizona governor in 2022. During that campaign she ran on an aggressive anti-LGBT platform, saying she'd ban drag, and was against trans rights. Lake also is against Abortion in all cases. After losing to Democrat Katie Hobbs, Lake refused to concede, and still pushes the conspiracy theory that she's the rightful governor of Arizona. If you live in Arizona please make sure you vote, but more if you have any time between now and November, volunteer to help Gallego! and if you don't live there you can still Donate or buy a pro-choice shirt from his campaign!

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Florida

Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (Flip)

Florida's current Republican Senator Rick Scott is a right wing extremist pushing dangerous ideas even by the standards of the Modern GOP. During his first term as Senator Scott has pushed to defund the IRS, and the Department of Education. He's sponsored bills to punish schools that allow students to use preferred pronouns, to ban affirmative action, bans teaching critical race theory, and ban trans people from women's sports. Scott is against abortion in all cases. Most alarming Rick Scott proposed a radical plan that would "sun-set" ANY and all federal laws after 5 years, including Social Security and Medicare, Scott would place all federal programs and agencies on the chopping block every 5 years for a radical Republican minority to block their renewal and leave us without Social Security, or the EPA, to name just two examples. The likely Democratic nominee is former Congresswoman Debbie Mucarsel-Powell. Born in Ecuador, Mucarsel-Powell immigrated to the US when she was 14 and had work to help support her family. When she was elected to Congress in 2018 she became the first South American born immigrant and first person of Ecuadorian heritage to be elected to Congress. In Congress Mucarsel-Powell was a member of the Progressive caucus, she fought to expand medicare, and secured $200 million for Everglades restoration. After a narrow defeat in 2020 Mucarsel-Powell joined the gun control advocacy group Giffords to fight for gun control a personal issue for her after her father was murdered when she was 24. If you're in Florida please make sure you vote, and Volunteer to help remove on of the most extreme Senators, If you're not in Florida you can help Debbie win by donating.

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Michigan

Elissa Slotkin (hold)

Long time Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow is retiring this election, so there will be a tough fight for control of this important swing state Senate seat. The likely Democratic nominee is Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin. Slotkin is a former CIA analyst, after retiring from the CIA she worked in the State and Defense departments during the Obama administration. Slotkin was first elected to Congress in 2018 winning and being re-elected in a tough swing district. In Congress she's fought for common sense gun control, supported the cap on insulin prices and Medicare drug price negotiation, she helped pass a law on drug price transparency, she championed the CHIP act to bring high tech manufacturing jobs back to America, and was a big supporter of Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Slotkin is centering a pro-choice message in her campaign as well as gun control and bring down medical costs. Who the Republicans will pick isn't totally clear, it seems like it's between Former Congressman Mike Rogers and former Detroit Police chief James Craig. Craig ran for Michigan governor in 2022 before he was disqualified for fraudulent signatures on his nominating petition. Craig has listed cutting off US support to Ukraine as one of his top priorities, and endorsed Trump's 3rd run for President early in the primaries. Mike Rogers is also trying to win over Trump voters and has attacked the rights of LGBT students in schools calling it "social engineering". If you live in Michigan make sure to get out and vote, and also volunteer! And for everyone outside the state you can donate or buy some merch.

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Montana

Jon Tester (re-elect)

In most contexts Montana is a deep red state going for Trump in 2020 57% to 40%. This makes the reelection of Montana's only Democratic member of Congress and only statewide elected Democrat, Jon Tester maybe the toughest election for Democrats this year. A Senator since he was first elected in 2006 Tester has won a series of upset wins in Montana over the years. A 3rd generation farmer Tester has been as strong for small farmers and ranchers in Washington. Tester has always been a champion of accountably and transparency in government pushing ethnics and campaign finance reforms. Tester is rated one of the most effective senators and managed to pass more bills last year than any one else in Congress. He's never been afraid to stand up for the Democratic side even if it'd be an unpopular vote in Red Montana. Tester voted to impeach Trump twice, and he voted against all 3 of Trump's nominees to the Supreme Court. He supported President Obama on The Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank, and has supported President Biden on the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Republicans seem likely to nominate right wing influencer and former Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy. Sheehy promises to get drag queens out of schools and the Lord's Prayer in to the classroom. He also hopes to repeal Obamacare calling for a "total privatization" of health care and made statements against the very idea of health insurance, insisting people should pay full price at point of use. If you're a Montanan make sure to vote to re-elect a champion of the little guy, and also volunteer! if you're not please think of donating what you can, if you can only give to one campaign this cycle this one, or Ohio are the most important!

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Nevada

Jacky Rosen (re-elect)

First elected to Congress in 2016 Jacky Rosen moved up to the Senate in 2018. In her first term as a Senator Rosen has championed green energy for Nevada. Together with fellow Democratic Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, Rosen has gotten millions for solar manufacturing in Nevada as well as millions to replace the state's school buses with electric, and programs to study new groundbreaking green technology. Senator Rosen has been a supporter of gun control, is in favor of banning assault weapons. She sponsored a bill, the Background Check Expansion Act, that would require background checks for all gun sales closing loopholes for on-line sales and gun shows. Rosen is pro-choice and has sponsored a bill to protect doctors from being prosecuted across state lines for providing reproductive care, and is a co-sponsor of a bill to codify Roe V. Wade into federal law. Rosen will likely face Republican celebrity and army veteran Sam Brown. Brown ran and lost a race for the Texas State House in 2014 and ran and lost for Nevada's other Senate seat in 2022. Brown stated he was in favor of getting rid of the Departments of Education, Transportation, and Energy. Brown is against Red Flag gun laws that allow police to temporarily remove fire arms from the home of someone deemed a danger to themselves or others. Brown also has refused to say if he supports a national abortion ban, but does say he's pro-life and wouldn't support any judges that weren't. If you live in Nevada make sure to get out to vote and volunteer to protect the state's green future and the right to reproductive care. If you're not in Nevada consider donating or buying some merch.

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Ohio

Sherrod Brown (re-elect)

Ohio together with Montana represents the toughest re-elect for Democrats this year. The state went for Trump twice, elected a right wing radical, JD Vaince, to the Senate in 2022 and has had a Republican governor since 2010. To complicate thing more Democrat Sherrod Brown is one of the most progressive members of the Senate, regularly scoring along side Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren for the most left wing in the Senate. From the time he was first elected to Congress in 1992 Brown refused to take the Congressional Health Insurance until all Americans could be covered. Brown first supported a Medicare for all bill in 2006 and has supported different efforts to expand Medicare and health coverage. He was a key supporter of the Children Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Brown is a strong supporter of unions and has struggled his whole career to protect unionized manufacturing jobs in Ohio. He was one of the first Senators out on the picket line during the UAW strike of 2023. Brown's hard work has help make Ohio the center of a new booming lithium battery manufacturing in America, a green manufacturing future for the state. Republicans look likely to nominate former used car dealer and father-in-law of Republican Congressman Max Miller, Bernie Moreno. Moreno's main qualification seems to be having been endorsed by Donald Trump. He lists among his priorities "End Socialism in America" and "End Wokeness and Cancel Culture". If you're in Ohio make sure to vote to re-elect a progressive giant and volunteer too! If you live out of Ohio donate, if you're looking for the race where your dollar will matter the most, this one or Montana guys.

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Pennsylvania

Bob Casey Jr. (re-elect)

First elected in 2006 Bob Casey famously beat incumbent Republican homophobe Rick Santorum by 17 points. Since first entering the Senate Casey has moved leftward on a number of issues. First elected as a pro-Gun Democrat since 2012 Casey has sponsored a number of bills to expand background checks, ban assault weapons, ban extended magazines, and well as supporting mental health funds for victims of gun violence. For a number of years Casey was called the last pro-life Democrat in the Senate, however in 2022 he came out in support of Roe V Wade and voted twice on bills that would have codified the right to an abortion into federal law. Casey voted against all 3 of Trump's Supreme Court picks and has long supported Planned Parenthood's contraception efforts with federal funds, seeing easily available birth control as key to reducing the number of abortions. In 2021 Casey published a plan he called "The Five Freedoms for America's Children" modeled after FDR's famous speech. He proposed automatically enrolling all kids in Medicaid, an expanded child tax cut, a federally supported college fund for all kids who's parents make under $100,000, expanded free school meals, more funds for head start and abuse prevention programs. Republicans are rallying behind Mitch McConnell's hand picked candidate, hedge fund CEO David McCormick. McCormick worked for the Bush administration during Bush's second term. McCormick's wife Dina Powell also worked for the George W. Bush administration and was a senior aid to Trump as well. If you're in Pennsylvania make sure to get out and vote for a solid Democrat out to solve child poverty in America and keep the Hedge Fund guy from Connecticut out, and Volunteer if you can. Remember you can donate where ever you are.

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Texas

Colin Allred (flip)

Texas is currently represented by likely the most hated man in Washington, Ted Cruz. Republicans hate him, Democrats hate him more, he has a very punchable face, he might be the zodiac killer (thats a joke and meme). From shutting down the government in 2013 to try to overturn Obamacare, to leading the charge in Congress to overturn the 2020 election on January 6th Ted Cruz is a greatest hits of the worst parts of the Republican Party of the last 10 years. When Texas lost power in the middle of a historic ice storm in 2021 Ted Cruz and family ditched the state to go on vacation in Mexico, classy. Cruz in the Biden years has cast himself as a culture warrior fighting against "woke" publishing a book "Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America" in 2023 to kick off his re-election campaign. Texas is a traditionally red state but things are starting to shift and in 2018 Cruz narrowly won re-election over Beto O'Rourke. Democrats hope with the right candidate they can turn Texas blue and beat the most hated Senator in America. Democrats think Congressman Colin Allred is the man for the job. Allred is a former NFL Linebacker for the Titans. After the NFL he went on to get his law degree from UC Berkeley, and work in the Obama administration. Allred was first elected to Congress in 2018, unseating a Republican who'd been in office since 1997 and becoming the first Democrat to represent the area in Congress since 1968. In Congress Allred has supported bills to expand voting right and protect abortion rights, as well as gun control. In the Senate he promises to address Texas' shaky power grid and make sure Texas is never left in the dark again with its leaders missing. Lets do this Texas, make blue Texas a reality if you live in Texas remember to vote and volunteer, if you're an American who hates Ted Cruz you can donate to make in unemployed.

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Wisconsin

Tammy Baldwin (re-elect)

When Tammy Baldwin first ran for Congress in 1998 she was the first openly gay person elected to the US House and the first open Lesbian to serve in Congress. In 2012 she became the first openly gay person elected to the US Senate and the first Lesbian to be a Senator, she is still the only openly gay Senator. Through out her time in office Baldwin has been a tireless voice for LGBT rights, in 2022 she helped spear head the passage of the Respect for Marriage Act to help protect gay marriage, she's also a sponsor of the Equality Act to protect all LGBT people from discrimination. Baldwin is a progressive who was a member of the House Progressive caucus, opposed the Iraq War and supported impeaching Dick Cheney. In the House she introduced bills for a single payer healthcare system in 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2005. In the Senate Baldwin is regularly listed as one of the most progressive members, voting against tax cuts for the rich, supporting a bill to require companies to have workers on their boards, she sponsored a bill to create a public option in Health Care, and has supported gun control efforts. The Republican field to challenge Senator Baldwin is uncertain, but former Milwaukee sheriff David Clarke dominates the polls if he decides to run. Clarke's sheriff's department is accused a number of human rights violations from his time as sheriff, including allowing a prisoner to die of dehydration after 6 days without water in the Milwaukee County Jail. Clarke is a Trump super fan who has pushed conspiracy theories about mass shootings being fake, attacked Black Lives Matter, called Planned Parenthood "Planned Genocide", and called for the mass detention without trial of Americans because he believed there were a million ISIS supporters in America. If you're in Wisconsin make sure to get out and vote for a trailblazing icon and also volunteer if you can, all Americans can donate and support Baldwin wherever they are.

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