Bringing Our Resolutions Project To Communities Across The Country - An Uplifting Discussion With Dr. Deborah Potter and Rachel PolinerRecent polling makes clear Trump has lost the consent of the governed
Greetings from Santa Fe, New Mexico where I am spending a week with family and celebrating my oldest son’s birthday. He turns 25 on Saturday! Still a bit hard to believe. Hopium will be operating at slower speed through Labor Day as I try to rest and recharge a bit. Posts will come but we won’t be having our get togethers and talks until September. Folks looking for compelling discussions and deep dives into the big topics of the moment can head to our meaty Podcast archive. Lots of great stuff there…… I look forward to seeing folks tomorrow in Albuquerque at the BlueCD2 New Mexico event. Tickets start at $100 and I will be talking around 2pm MT. Join us! Today is a special day here at Hopium Chronicles. I am excited to share a new discussion (above) with two members of our community - Deborah Potter of Alameda, New Mexico and Rachel Poliner of Boston, Massachusetts. Deborah and Rachel have each successfully passed “resolutions of condemnation” this summer, and I asked them to come by and tell us how they did it and offer advice for those who want to follow their lead. I think our discussion will inspire you as you will hear from two proud, plucky patriots putting their love of country into action in powerful and consequential ways. Our Resolutions Project has taken off in recent weeks. We have now resolutions moving in 63 different jurisdictions in 20 states. A resolution just passed in Amherst, MA on Monday, Mass Indivisible is recommending it as an action for their statewide membership and yesterday Rep. Jamie Raskin, once a Constitutional Law professor, backed the project and offered to help us get it moving in Maryland. My ambitious goal is to have resolutions moving in all 50 states by Election Day, 2025. Can you help? The big idea to bring the necessary discussion about Trump’s abandonment of the Constitutional order and his unprecedented betrayal of the country to every community in America. To turn disparate voices into a loud road of disapproval from every corner of the nation; to encourage our local electeds, at every level of government, to find their voice in this historic fight for our democracy and freedoms. In our discussion Deborah and Rachel do a great job bringing this idea of local resolutions, inspired by similar actions by our Founders, to life. Watch it when you can. Be inspired. Learn more about our Resolutions Project. Read the resolutions that have passed, and learn about the ones that are working their way through towns and countries across the country. While this whole thing began as a Hopium post back in March hundreds of Hopium members gone to work - as this community does - and it has now really taken off. Consider joining them and bringing our Resolutions Project to your community this fall. It is one way we can all, together, help our movement keep finding a “higher gear” in this moment of unprecedented national crisis. Finally, join me in thanking Deborah and Rachel for their courage, their patriotism and their willingness to put it on the line for this great country!
A few other things this morning….. Professor Adam Bonica has an update to his “Mothership” article on Dem scam PACs and the corrupt and destructive fundraising tactics in our family. Gird yourself, and yes this is a fight we will be taking on in September. The Economist put the data we look at each week into a great new graph. The bottom line - Trump has lost the consent of the governed.
Our friend Rob Shapiro has a terrific new article up on Washington Monthly, The Lies Behind Trump’s DC Troop Surge.
The NYT has a new article on the challenges Dems face with voter registration, something we’ve discussed here at length and have been working to address with all of you. For more on this see the presentation Tom Bonier gave to our community a few weeks ago. No one has done more to put this important challenge in front of our party than Tom. For our paid subscribers a reminder our robust and lively daily chat is moderated, and we operate under these loose guidelines:
Shocker! Putin is not interested in peace and sure looks like he played Trump for a fool last week. William Burns, one of America’s leading diplomats, has published a remarkable new letter in the Atlantic to those career government employees purged by the Trump regime. A powerful excerpt that echos many of the themes we discuss here:
And then there is mighty Gavin, the new king of memes and social….
Time To Get To Work People!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Our “Must Win/Everyone In” Races
Our updated fundraising goals are now for the end of the year, December 31st, except for the 2025 races, which are now for Election Day, 2025. For more on Hopium’s approach to elections check out 1) our big recommendations to the family coming out of the 2024 elections 2) the many important wins we had together last cycle 3) my latest thinking on where we are and the path forward for the Hopium community.
Our Recommended Actions - We are prioritizing three actions today. You can get our full list of recommended actions here. Let’s get to it: 1 - Call Your Senators and Member Of The House And Demand They Act Upon Our Four-Part Agenda - While it is recess we need to be loud this week, very, very loud. Make the case for our our emerging four part agenda, and demand they 1) Stand with Ukraine and work to block Trump’s selling out of the West to Putin 2) Roll back Trump’s terrible tariffs 3) Block the expansion of ICE and the use of the military on our streets 4) End the war on science, higher education and the public health of the American people, and demand the removal of Bobby Kennedy (aka “the quack) from the leadership of HHS. 2 - Bring “Resolutions Of Condemnation” To Your Community - Inspired by the tactics of our Founders learn about how Hopium members are advancing “Resolutions of Condemnation” in their communities across the country and consider bringing this initiative to your state, country or city/town. Remarkably, members of this community are now advancing 63 (!!!!) resolutions projects in 20 states. Can we get to all 50 states by the fall election? Our newly updated Resolutions page includes a new chat for folks to report in on their progress or seek counsel from those interested in launching a resolutions project in their community. This is one way to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented abandonment of our Constitutional order. Congratulations to Hopium community member Sarah Marshall whose resolution, “Town of Amherst Resolution in Support of Democracy and Calling for a Return to the Constitutional Principles that are the Foundation of our Republic,” passed the Amherst, Massachusetts town council Monday night. 3 - Grow Hopium And This Wonderful Community Of Proud, Plucky, Patriots - We’ve set a goal of trying to grow the Hopium community from the 152,000 we are now to 175,000 by Election Day, 2025. Do what you can to encourage your friends, family and colleagues to become a summer subscriber to Hopium, free or paid. If each current paid subscriber brings in just one new subscriber this summer and fall we will hit our goal. To encourage the growth of our community annual paid subscriptions are 10% off through Labor Day. Use that link to buy gift or group subscriptions, and join our new referral rewards program too. A further note - if you want to up your support of Hopium a powerful way to do it is to buy group or gift subscriptions for others. Finally, please self-report your activities to our daily paid subscriber chat. These reports help inspire all of us to do more and fight harder! Been impressive to see how many of you remain involved in local, in person protests of all kinds in your communities. Keep it up!!! Friends, remember Hopium is hope with a plan. We don’t just hope that we will get to the other side of Trumpism. We are doing the work to make it so - Simon You're currently a free subscriber to Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription.
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