My #Resistance journey took me on many roads with countless twists and turns, fighting in several arenas for myriad issues, from Obamacare to CHIP to Climate Change to DACA to Special Elections to the Mueller Investigation, among others. This 2-year journey ultimately landed me, in November 2017, on a final destination that would encompass all of those arenas, and the destination was my 50-State #BlueWave💙Democratic candidate profiles (please see link below).
-Your 50-State #BlueWave candidates, America-
One year before voters went to the polls in the 2018 Midterms, I embarked on a project where my primary objective was to introduce our extraordinary candidates running for public office to people across the country. Through research and study, I was able to highlight their unique bios and enumerate their outstanding qualifications, my hope being to help encourage apathetic voters to get off the sidelines and vote, but also help nudge those undecideds who were on the fence to make a choice and vote for our candidates.
I teamed up with #Resistance warrior @BatmanResist who was beginning his own project at the time, which was focused on shining a light on the GOP #CultureOfCorruption rampant among U.S. House and Senate incumbents, through doing exposés on unethical practices and shady monetary contributions, and revealing donors and special interests those incumbent GOP were beholden to. And with that, a two-pronged Scarlet/Batman project was born.
Today, on the eve of 2019, we are on the cusp of a new dawn that the New Year is about to usher in, when, on January 3, the culmination of those resistance-driven efforts, along with everyone else’s in the #Resistance who worked on promoting these candidates, is about to manifest in the swearing-in of 40 new Congresspersons-Elect, 7 State governors, and senators from NV and AZ, who blew GOP incumbents, as well as Midterm expectations, out of the water, many against all odds, and most notably dozens of whom are female and/or people of color.
I will never know for certain how much of an impact my efforts may have had on the final outcome of the Midterm elections. However, I’m eternally gratified as a citizen activist that perhaps, even in the smallest of ways, I may have been able to make a contribution towards the resounding success we’ve had in flipping red districts and regaining a solid majority in the House.
I am committed to continuing my efforts over the next two years down the same road, with the objective of winning back control of the White House and the Senate, and keeping the House in Democratic hands.
Onwards and upwards‼️
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