#national immigrants day

[travsd]

"Perfect Strangers" (R.I.P. Dale McRaven)

“Perfect Strangers” (R.I.P. Dale McRaven)

This post serves double duty — a salute to National Immigrants Day, and a send-off to TV sitcom creator/producer Dale McRaven, who passed away on September 5 at age 83. Perfect Strangers ran from 1986 through 1993, years when, for the first time in my life I was NOT watching several hours of television a day. But I recall watching Perfect Strangers from time to time, and instantly recognized it…

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#Bronson Pinchot #Dale McRaven #immigrant #Mark Linn-Baker #National Immigrants Day #Perfect Strangers #sit com #situation comedy

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

San Diego International Workers' Day Rally & March

Wednesday, May 1 - 4:30 p.m.

Meet at the Federal Building, 880 Front Street, San Diego

#MayDay2024 #May Day #protest #San Diego #communist #socialism #national liberation #workers #class struggle #FreePalestine #immigrants #Struggle La Lucha #Union del Barrio

[homosexual-having-tea]

Fourth of July? You mean drag day, queer art day, protest songs day, international food day, fuck the rich day?

#fourth of july is my no. 1 protest day. ive been listening to antiwar music all day #fuck nationalism celebrate the real people who make america amazing like queer people immigrants and the working class #i love upsetting republicans on their little bootlicking day

[aroacehanzawa]

gonna kms what is this dystopia

#/j #one of the predictions for the parliamentary election is that the majority will be won by the right wing conservative anti-immigration part #that is literally called 'true finns' so you can imagine what kind of party it is #@people who are like oh finland is super socialist and cares about the welfare of everyone etc NO we are not immune to national conservatis #every election they are gaining more and more traction and this one has the risk that we will end up with a True Finn prime minister #UNLESS the left wing parties pull through on the actual election day #because predictions are still just predictions and hopefully these news will get more people to reconsider who they'll vote for

[mybrainproblems]

sorry but i am going to be very american and selfish and navel gaze-y for a moment but this is on my mind a lot as we approach february. just... ignore me.

i'm of ukrainian heritage. i'm also completely disconnected from my heritage because my great-great/great-grandparents fully assimilated as americans.

with the exception of my great-uncle (who lives far away and i rarely see), i have no living relatives who know much about our heritage (or are willing to talk about it in any detail beyond the romanticized ~*immigrant experience*~). everything i know about our family comes from my uncle because everyone else is dead; either died elderly and comfortable in the US or likely died in the holodomor. trying to research my family is useless bc my great-grandpa changed his last name to something completely made up so he could find work when he was in his early teens. this has always been a "fun" legend in our family; the choice to disconnect. it's a story our family has always told like it was some sort of wacky hijinks and as a kid was very funny but now, in my 30s and watching a cultural genocide unfold in ukraine, it feels devastating.

there are a small handful of things my family has held onto while also losing. there's the lost recipe for my great-grandma's holubsti (a word i didn't know how to spell until recently) that my family mourns every time we get together. i used to make pysanky for easter with my parents, which was passed down from my great-great aunt. my dad inherited her pysanky dyes after she passed away and we had them for years before most of the jars broke in a move. we have one remaining unbroken pysanka from her that i think she made in the 70s. i cannot imagine having hands so steady to make those intricate designs. mine always came out looking like shit.

i've always been curious about this part of my heritage but never felt any great need to seek it out until now. it feels fake and disingenuous to be interested in learning about this part of my heritage as a result of a war. that i didn't seek it out sooner. what is wrong with me that i care now.

i'm not sure where i'm going with this. i'm not sure what or how i'm supposed to feel. what i do feel is lost and angry and sad and selfish for feeling this way.

#wasn't sure whether to just save this to my drafts bc this feels so selfish but the more i see the destruction in ukraine the more i feel... #i don't know. fury? sadness? a mix of extremely complicated emotions i can't put a name to? #i know i have no right to be so upset as someone who lives comfortably in america and isn't impacted by russia's war #but regardless of how it impacts me personally this is an existential threat to a culture and a people #it's also interesting bc ukraine as a nation didn't exist when my relatives immigrated to the US but we know enough about them #to know that they are from the region and culture that is modern day ukraine #it's sad that generations ago my family chose to assimilate and i'm not going to pretend it was a choice made in a vacuum #bc it was the result of pressure on immigrants to assimilate and become 'american'. but there was still *some* choice to it. #parts of that heritage were preserved and yes were lost over decades but it wasn't a complete destruction #no clue where i'm continuing to go with this but i'm going to start making pysanky for easter again. maybe learn to make holubtsi. #i can't replicate a recipe i've never tasted but i guess it's a start #just.... fucking ignore my bullshit.

[rubysevens]

hating ireland is an inevitable consequence of living here. heart emoji.

#its just that it is abysmally racist here #and while the donations to the choctaw and navajo nations are good deeds which helped people going through terrible things #where is that energy for travelers. where is that energy when people of color are targeted in the streets. by teens and adults #where is that energy for non white refugees and asylum seekers. where is it for homeless people #like the hypocrisy of a country that talks about its colonial past while still upholding racist and colonial structures every day. insane #honestly im just not. interested. in hearing stories about irish people reckoning with the famine which do not address #the way that ireland treats immigrants and refugees in similar situations. #like shut the fuck up #in all fairness im drunk but i feel this way when im sober as well

[glittersglow]

i'm not going to come out to my mother.

mother, i'm sorry that i was always so wrong

that i came out of you screaming and haven't stopped since

that you love the person you think i am

and that i lie to you every day.

i'm sorry you love me in your way that i can never understand

and that your love fills my lungs like water and i still kept screaming even when i couldn't breathe

and that you wish there were no more secrets but the truth would hurt you worse

mother, i'm sorry that i don't even want to be that person you love

when i could try to be.

mother, i'm sorry you love me in cut fruit and smoothies and aloo ke parathe and cardigans for when i'm not even cold

and that i love you in hurt and tears and choking and drowning and secrets.

mother, i'm sorry that i can't tell you the truth

when you made me promise i wouldn't lie anymore,

when you weren't even angry when you found out i've lied before.

mother, i'm sorry that i'm hurting you

even though you have no idea that i am.

mother, i'm sorry that i'm still screaming

and that you haven't heard me once since the day i came out of you.

#how do i tag #mother #mom #daughter #lgbt #coming out #queer #queer poetry #desi #south asian poetry #queer south asian #immigrant mom #sad #closeted #it's almost national coming out day #poetry on tumblr #poems on tumblr #mine #i wrote this in september 22

[pirates-and-ninja-lover]

fuck politics btw <3

#why is the most horrible political party expected to get so many votes??? #like they want to take away people's rights #they are racist #they actively and publically hate on everyone who isnt a straight white christian conservative cis man #they hate our neighbouring country and would love to start an actual war #they claim that “the homogeneity of our nation is our biggest strength” #just say youre a racist nationalist and shut up #yes we have been having more immigrants #yes we are becoming waaaay more racially diverse #nobody cared about the immigrants until they werent white #racial diversity is a GOOD THING #sharing out culture is a GOOD THING #people from around the world moving here is a GOOD THING!!!!! #and yes women and lgbtqa+ people DESERVE FUCKING EQUAL RIGHTS #its 2024 and gay people still cant have families here!!! thats outrageous #how are thes people getting SO MANY VOTES??? #wtf is up with my country and why is everyone so extremely conservative #the election is in 2. days. #im so terrified #gotta start learning german and just fucking run #like im genuinely terrified of loosing my basic human rights #we have the highest rent/household prices in the EU #78% of people are MIDDLE AGED when they can finally afford to move out of their parents house #we have huge inflation #our food prices are higher than germany and belgium but our min wage is around €600 a MONTH #the amount of violence on women has gotten up #we have the worst corruption and worst justice system in the EU #our education system is starting to fail #the medical system is horrible and we have the 2nd highest mortality rates in the EU #theres men protesting for the “submission of women” EVERY WEEK. AND THEY'RE PLANNING TO SPREAD THE PROTESTS TO MORE CITIES

[maddy-ferguson]

cried for over 30 minutes over a new law being passed never thought i'd see the day fuck this country

#what do you do when you're 22 and your country is descending into fascism #i'm being very literal i don't even just mean bad people who are on the right to my political left i mean police state party founded by #nazis permeating everything and slowly getting everyone to parrot their ideology insane islamophobia and racism all day every day on tv and #from the governement strict immigration laws like you haven't seen since the early 20th century. #not just strict immigration laws laws that make anyone who's of a different nationality the enemy #and the rise of far right politicians being a trend in europe rn. okay. #my dad's an immigrant so many people from my dad's side of the family are here and are obviously immigrants too like i'm gonna throw up #and what's crazy is when polls come out about how many people think there's too many foreigners etc you KNOW they don't actually mean #anyone who's foreign and they don't mean all foreigners because no one in this day and age cares about italians being here and someone #having the nationality isn't something you can tell by looking at them they just mean anyone who isn't white and especially black people #and arab people👍 #like how crazy is it that i've definitely crossed paths with people who when seeing me on the street went oh *racist rant* #30% of people who voted in the first round of the last presidential election voted for a far-right party like...pays finito #anyway. i feel like throwing up #nsm le néolibéralisme emmanuel macron ntm françois hollande ntm manuel valls ntm gérald darmanin ntm élisabeth borne ntm #yaël braun-pivet ntm gabriel attal ntm édouard philippe ntm jean castex ntm marine le pen ntm et darmanin et macron une deuxième fois #oh et de gaulle et debré pr la putain de Ve République #and like i say: brf slt

[zincbot]

i think the spontaneous airbenders are so interesting

#lok #like ok #i know the show focuses on bending cause it's sick and cool (and it is) #but there's more to each culture than just their bending (though of course the cultural importance of bending can not be denied) #so there's this really interesting dichotomy where these people suddenly gain this culturally significant trait #from a culture and nation that's been all but wiped out #and suddenly there's this pressure to learn about this unfamiliar history and rebuild a slain people #but all the new airbender recruits. they're all earth kingdom #though they were from ba sing se which is unique in it's status as being 'unaffected' by the war #(and of course by unaffected i mean the war gave the ruling power of ba sing se an excuse to assert absolute power over its citizens) #creating perhaps the starkest rich and poor imbalance of all cities across the nations #so obviously their feelings towards their home culture would be mixed already #but there's more to being earth kingdom than the treatment from the dai li. like their families and food and things like that #i know they couldn't have gone back to their homes because of the safety concern. but it's crazy to have your life uprooted and implanted #into a culture you're expected to make anew. #i guess it's a really unique way to be an immigrant #i'd have liked to see more airbenders from the fire nation and water tribes but i know the last few seasons of korra were heavily focused on #the troubles arising in a post-war earth kingdom #because. for all intents and purposes. the earth kingdom won the war. #it must be assumed that the fire nation was made to pay repairations towards the earth kingdom and water tribes. especially because of #how much the southern tribe was able to be rebuilt (zuko seems very familiar with tonraq who seemed to be the defacto southern leader before #before they officially took independance from the north #and so despite the creation of republic city on what was originally colonized earth kingdom land #the earth kingdom is doing very wall after the war #we didn't get to see much of the fire nation at all in korra and i'm sad because i'm so interested in what a post-war fire nation is like. #we know that they turned their military resources freely out to republic city as the 'united republic' #but other than that it's pretty sparse information #and i say the earth kingdom is doing well but i mostly mean financially #which doesn't help the people especially with the weath imbalance #the scars of war are on every nation. and the earth kingdom isn't any better off for winning

[daylerogers]

Independently Dependent

They call themselves BCFF–best cousin friends forever. They don’t get to see each other often, but when they do, they’re connected at the hip. What one doesn’t think of doing, the other does. Together they’re a force of nature. Brooklyn and Sloane, at seven years of age, know what they want. They’re way better at making decisions than I am–I love to hold onto my options. And when they both…

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#Bible #connections #Dayle Rogers #dependence #force of nature #God #independence #Independence Day #Independently Dependent #Jesus #love your enemies #nation of immigrants and indigenous people #pierced ears #Tip of My Iceberg

[esseindiablog]

Esse India – National Doctors Day

#studyvisa  #Canadaimmigration #Visaconsultant #migratetocanada #permanentresidency #immigratetocanada #canadaprs #expressentry #expressentrycanada #immigration #esseindia

#Esse India – National Doctors Day #studyvisa #Canadaimmigration #Visaconsultant #migratetocanada #permanentresidency #immigratetocanada #canadaprs #expressentry #expressentrycanada #immigration #esseindia

[fiercynn]

okay, if you have ever made or reblogged a “hold your nose and vote for biden” post, this is for you.

here’s the fucking thing about these kinds of posts. i've been seeing them since i first returned to tumblr in, I think, late 2022? they've certainly increased in frequency since october 7, but they were there before too, ready to counter any kind of opposition to biden that has cropped up. many of them are not just trying to educate people about what positive things biden has done, which, like, at least I can understand the motivation behind those ones? but so many of them are directly in response to people criticizing biden, and their only real point is “sure you’re upset at this thing biden did, but have you considered the election?” starting YEARS before the next presidential election, mind you.

and october 7 only made that clearer. i don’t think it had been a week before i saw these posts cropping up. can you not see how fucking ghoulish that is? to look at the rightful pain and anger of those whose relatives and communities are being slaughtered with active american support, to respond to one of the few pieces of agency most americans have in influencing what their governments do – their vote – by saying “yes but trump would be worse.” as if the primary people you’re lecturing – palestinians, muslims, arabs, black people, indigenous people, disabled people, other marginalized people – don’t remember exactly how bad it was under trump!

and even if you think not voting is an empty gesture – something i, who studied political science at a mainstream american lib college, who has worked as a field organizer on a previous democratic presidential campaign and for several policy campaigns, who currently works in public policy in america, used to believe, but have absolutely changed my mind on – what is in no way an empty gesture is saying publicly that you will not vote for someone. the arguments people usually have about why simply not voting is bad are that you can’t tell why someone is not voting, so it is as likely to be apathy or disenfranchisement as it is a political statement. but saying publicly that you will not vote for someone, and why you will not vote for them, absolutely is a political statement, and potentially a powerful one! but you choose to negate and/or ignore that by trotting out the “lesser of two evils” bullshit.

and then there’s the whole “yes but people will DIE under trump”. PEOPLE ARE DYING NOW. even if you’re fucking racist and have decided that palestinian lives don’t count, have you forgotten biden’s ongoing covid minimalism and dismantling of the CDC’s covid research and prevention infrastructure? have you forgotten his increase in spending for law enforcement scant years after the murder of george floyd and his administration's surveillance of protesters, including cop city protesters? have you forgotten his recent ramp-up in deportations of undocumented immigrants, including the active continuation of many trump-era policies?

maybe you have forgotten all those things and do purport to care about palestinians, but you just think that biden is doing his best to influence netanyahu and is getting nowhere! but then you must have forgotten all of the things that biden and his administration themselves have done to further this fucking genocide, including:

continuing to send arms to israel

putting together a military task force within days of yemen’s red sea blockade and attacking yemeni ships

bombing yemen

bombing syria

bombing iraq

vetoing three ceasefire resolutions at the united nations

testifying to defend israel and its genocide and occupation at the international court of justice

refusing to rescue palestinian-americans stuck in gaza

halting funding to the united nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees (UNRWA) based on israeli claims that 12 of UNRWA’s over 30,000 staff were hamas agents, even though u.s. intelligence has not been able to independently verify this

lying that he’s personally seen photos of babies beheaded by hamas when he hadn’t because they didn’t exist (and even when his own staff cautioned him that reports of beheaded babies may not be credible)

questioning the number of palestinian deaths reported by the gaza ministry of health (when even israel has not questioned them, since they are in fact proud of those numbers)

perpetuating lies about hamas having committed the attack on al-aqsa hospital

questioning united nations reports of adults and children raped by israeli soldiers while claiming to have proof (that no one else has seen) of hamas doing the same

honestly so many more things that i can’t remember them all but others feel free to add

or maybe you haven’t forgotten any of that, and think that you’re still justified in lecturing people about why they should vote for biden, because you genuinely believe trump would still be worse. if that is the case, you have still failed to see that by saying you will vote for biden no matter what, you are part of the problem of biden continuing to act like this. because biden is counting on fear of trump to win him this next election no matter what else he does. despite his appalling polling numbers, despite the knowledge that he is losing the palestinian-american vote, the arab-american vote, the muslim-american vote, the black american vote, the youth vote – despite all of that, he is secure in the idea that he will still win because he is better than trump. can you not see how that allows him to act without impunity? how it becomes increasingly impossible for his base to influence what he’s doing if he thinks that they will be with him no matter what? this is how you make yourself complicit to biden’s actions, by not affording anyone even the slightest power to hold him accountable for anything.

and in most cases, the “hold your nose and vote for biden” thing is the response of people who aren’t even being instructed by others not to vote for biden. it is their response to people saying they themselves are choosing not to vote for biden. fucking ghoulish.

#fuck biden #u.s. politics #free palestine #genocide #covid #immigrant justice #prison abolition #police abolition #ableism #from the river to the sea palestine will be free

[murderousink23]

06/01/2023 is International Childrens Day 🧒🌏, ALS Awareness Month 🇨🇦, National Indigenous History Month 🇨🇦, World Milk Day 🥛🌏, World Reef Day 🌏, National Go Barefoot Day 🦶🇺🇲, National Hazelnut Cake Day 🇺🇲, National Heimlich Maneuver Day 🇺🇲, National Penpal Day ✒🇺🇲, National Say Something Nice Day 🇺🇲, Caribbean American Heritage Month 🇺🇲, National Oceans Month 🌊🇺🇲, LGBTQIA Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇲, Great Outdoors Month 🇺🇲, Black Music Appreciation Month 🇺🇲, Dairy Month 🐄🐐🐑🇺🇲, National Immigrant Heritage Month 🇺🇲, Volunteers' Week 🇬🇧, Global Day of Parents 👪🇺🇳

#international childrens day #als awareness month #national indigenous history month #world milk day #world reef day #national go barefoot day #national hazelnut cake day #national heimlich maneuover day #national penpal day #national say something nice day #caribbean american heritage month #national oceans month #pride month #great outdoors month #black music appreciation month #dairy month #national immigrant heritage month #global day of parents

[batboyblog]

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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I don't know if you're American or not but in my experience as a person who is not American, American events and media are so incredibly loud and visible that they tend to leech into everything.

Like I'm Canadian born and raised and can name more American presidents than I can Canadian Prime Ministers. I have Canadian friends from Canada who can accurately describe themselves as Liberals but are still sorta foggy on NDP policies. Do you know what day Canada Day is? It's July 1st. Do you know what's on my dashboard on July 1st? Early posts about July 4th.

And if you're an American reading this: Or, hell, anyone else reading this: We all know George Washington was the first American President. Do you know who the first Prime Minister of Canada was? Can you name two British political parties? What are two countries that have Monarchies, not Democracies? What was the most recent political scandal you can think of that took place outside the US? What's your favourite TV show that takes place anywhere outside of America? What are your top three favourite non-american musicians? If English is your first language, how many foreign countries can you go to where you don't speak the language, but don't have to worry about it?

I said "International America Day" as a joke, but there is a very real phenomenon in countries outside of the US where the general population becomes Americanized through the prevalent American media.

We know American current events, we know American scandals, we know about American cops and American movies and American accents and American fast food chains. We have serious opinions on the American legal system and we talk about American law and American policy and American celebrities, and many of us don't know Jack Shit about what's going on where we live.

I'm Canadian. I've heard all about 'building the wall' and ICE and Jan 6th, the intentional government distribution of narcotics in Black communities and the use of Marijuana Illegalization to persecute Black and Mexican people under the Nixon administration.

Do you know what Canada did to Chinese immigrants to build the Canadian railroad? What about the Sterilization Act? Residential Schools? Do you know what a Status Card is? Does it, or does it not cost money to ride in an ambulance? Can people with breasts legally walk around topless? What's the legal drinking age? What are our biggest cities? Who was our least-popular PM? What are our allied nations? Where does the Canadian military get deployed?

"International America Day" was a goof. But Jesus, it's a little bit serious

*edit: yeah I wrote June instead of Jan my bad

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