As you’re struggling with the outcome of the primary, your own personal losses, and ongoing genocides around the planet, you’re not alone. And you’re not alone no matter when you feel it, either. Grief has no timeline. But it won’t be buried.

On both the state and federal levels, those backed by people power, rather than donors are both more likely to win the general, and to have better policies in office. I also believe that offering the people of Wisconsin permanent affordability will deal fascist creep Republicans a more permanent defeat.

At the Congressional District 4 convention in March, Gwen Moore said there is no genocide in Gaza while arguing against a party resolution supporting Block the Bombs. 

She also watered down language in another resolution opposing the terror of immigration enforcement, and local coordination with ICE, known as 287(g).

There is an opportunity here. If we put effort into it, we can shift the priorities of the Democratic Party, marginalizing corporate centrists, Islamophobic bigots, and other regressive elites, turning the party closer to left populism or democratic socialism, and then actually delivering on campaign promises.

Care workers are not leaving their professions to run for office because those professions are overstaffed and not needing them. They are going into politics to fix politics and make care work viable for more providers.

Thoroughly and precisely calculating thousands of nomination signatures and pages is beyond the scope of my attention to detail, but I did scroll through a handful of candidates of interest and can share some interesting takeaways.

“Amy Donahue will give voters in this district a democratic socialist option who supports healthcare for all, fair taxation of billionaires and corporations, and who will fight to end genocide and apartheid in Palestine.”

“My second act in Congress will be signing on to Medicare for All (119th Congress H.R. 3069). Politicians say we can’t afford universal healthcare, public education, environmental protections, and so many other policies and programs essential for human thriving and flourishing. Meanwhile, those same people provide blank checks for wars, militarism, and corporate subsidies.

That’s why my first act in office will be signing Block the Bombs (H.R. 3565), to restrict arms sales to Israel.”

In the US, the Democratic Party is the only political vehicle situated to challenge Trump in the midterms, but it is also controlled by the only people inept, sycophantic, heartless, and unpopular enough to lose against him. This is a very stupid situation.