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Links:

Guide to Voting: Learn about when and where to vote, voter ID, language support, accessibility, & voter protections. View specific voter guides for new U.S. citizens, people with disabilities, unhoused people, people with felony convictions, and people under 18 who will become eligible to vote.

Resources for trans voters

Register to Vote: Information about registering to vote, checking your registration, changing your address/name/party, and voting outside the U.S.

Elections Calendar: Find the dates for your elections by state (vote in the primaries too!)

Ballotpedia: View sample ballots, look up candidates

Absentee ballot rules by state

Track your ballot

States that allow ballot curing (fixing errors if your ballot is rejected)

Blue Voter Guide: "Blue Voter Guide helps you make informed, pro-democracy, and pro-working-family choices. Our voter guides show you the candidates and propositions on your ballot with endorsements from trusted, forward-looking organizations."

Run for Something: "Run for Something manages the biggest candidate pipeline in Democratic politics, filled with young, diverse progressives who truly represent the people." (Search for candidates in your area)

Do you align with your congress representative?: Interactive spreadsheet that allows you to mark what legislation you agree with and then gives you a score for how well each House Representative aligns with you.

Does my vote matter if I'm not in a swing state?: Video explaining why voting matters even if you live in a "red" or "blue" state. There is also a playlist with breakdowns of the data for OK, TX, KY, OH, FL, NC, CA, & TN.

Some key votes:

These were two big controversial votes that occurred recently, that people may want to pay particular attention to. Below are the Democrats who voted for legislation controversial among progressive voters.

SENATE

Caved on government shutdown without getting extended ACA tax credits (skyrocketing healthcare costs):

Virginia: Tim Kaine

New Hampshire: Jeanne Shaheen & Maggie Hassan

Nevada: Catherine Cortez Masto & Jacky Rosen

Pennsylvania: John Fetterman

Illinois: Dick Durbin

Maine: Angus King

HOUSE

Voted for spending bill with ICE funding:

Texas: Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez

Maine: Jared Golden

Washington: Marie Gluesenkamp Perez

North Carolina: Don Davis

if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.

if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to

PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply

so couple of clarifications. comments are disabled as default for primary blogs that have their likes disabled. they are seemingly enabled for all other blogs that have replied to posts

I'm not dating or married or related to anyone I live with, and our household of four adults can't get any kind of financial or food or housing aid because we count as three separate households despite our semi-blended finances and living together for a decade. There are laws that have been proposed (at least, I don't know if any passed) that limit housing to nuclear families.

sleep issues can make people sleep all day and be awake all night no matter what they do. they can make people sleep for over half the day every day. they can make people stay up for over 24 hours frequently - and it just goes up from there. being up for days at a time just unable to sleep.

they can make people have a completely unpredictable sleep schedule too. not everyone is capable of going to bed and waking up at generally the same time, or maintaining it.

all this could be more temporary, or it could just be indefinite. like. having to live your life not knowing if you will or will not be conscious at any given time. you can't plan for fucking anything. you can miss almost every plan or event or obligation.

and everyone just hates you for it pretty much, thinking you're irresponsible and lazy.

Some Fucking Scam, it seems a little sketchy now, but its lent legitimacy by the number of people they're paying to talk about it. Five years from now there will be a four hour video essay about how its a fucking scam and stole millions of dollars and leaked literally all of your data, but right now? It seems mildly convenient.

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