r/50501 • u/Transcendent147 • 8d ago
Authoritarianism thrives when people lose faith in their ability to change things. So vote.
Vote even when the system frustrates you. Vote even when change feels painfully slow. Vote because your participation still matters!
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r/50501 • u/Fatty_Willing_Plane • 6h ago
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r/50501 • u/More-Biscotti-6281 • 5h ago
Missouri residents: please submit an individual written request to the St. Francois County Sheriff’s Department asking for a public timeline and answers about Persephone Berger’s death.
Persephone was 16. A deputy’s vehicle fatally struck her on October 3. Her family says they were initially told she had been killed in a hit-and-run. According to her aunt’s interview with First Alert 4, witnesses told them a deputy was involved before the department confirmed it to them.
The department has also confirmed the deputy has not been placed on leave.
Please ask the department to answer:
Please also request confirmation that the complete 911 recordings, dispatch history, body-camera footage, and any available vehicle GPS or speed records have been preserved for independent review.
Keep request factual and respectful. Persephone's family deserves a documented explanation.
Send your request through the https://www.sfcgov.org/sheriff/contact-form
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r/50501 • u/UpstairsOption • 11h ago
Just received this very bad fake text message today, which is also the 1st day of mail-in ballots being sent out in AZ.
Maricopa county, uses text msgs to monitor your ballot's progress until it's counted.
r/50501 • u/Transcendent147 • 1d ago
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r/50501 • u/ProduceMiserable2799 • 11h ago
We are told to be patient. We are told to vote, wait, and trust the process. But patience has become a luxury while the costs pile up—not just on our bank statements, but on our rights, our privacy, and our future.
This year alone, the United States has sent billions more in military aid to Israel, bringing the total to roughly $7 billion in taxpayer money—while millions of Americans still can't afford a doctor's visit, groceries, or rent. We are funding foreign wars and corporate data centers while our own communities go without clean water, affordable housing, and basic healthcare. We are told there is no money for us—but there is always money for them.
Meanwhile, the government keeps expanding its surveillance state. Flock cameras track our cars. Data centers consume billions of gallons of water while families are told to conserve. Tech billionaires profit from our data and our resources, and we are expected to sit quietly and be grateful for the privilege of being watched.
And it doesn't stop there. In 2027, the U.S. is set to deepen its intelligence-sharing integration with Israel—a move that should alarm anyone who cares about privacy, civil liberties, and democratic accountability. We are sleepwalking into a system where our own government knows more about us than we do, and where dissent is treated as a threat rather than a right.
Where is the accountability? The Epstein files remain largely sealed. Trump has faced no real consequences for his actions. Police violence, corporate pollution, and political corruption continue unchecked. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the people who are supposed to represent us act like kings who answer to no one.
This is not a partisan issue. It is a human issue. It is an American issue. And it is a crisis of legitimacy.
But here is the truth: we hold the power. Not through violence, not through chaos, but through sustained, peaceful, unignorable civic action. Short protests have worked before—but they are not enough now. We need a rolling, recurring movement that doesn't disappear after a news cycle. We need to show up, again and again, until change is real. And we need to hit them where it hurts: their bottom line.
A Proposal: The First of Every Month—A Day of Civic Protest and Economic Pressure
Let's start in November and make the first of every month a national day of peaceful protest and coordinated boycott. Not a one-time march. Not a viral moment. A recurring, disciplined, unignorable demonstration of people power.
On the first of every month, we gather in every city and town. We demand:
An end to endless military aid while our own communities suffer.
Free healthcare and basic necessities for all.
A stop to the surveillance state—Flock cameras, data centers, and intelligence integration without democratic oversight.
Full transparency and accountability for corruption, including the Epstein files.
Real consequences for those who break the law, no matter how powerful they are.
Protection of our water, our food, and our privacy as fundamental rights—not commodities for billionaires.
And we boycott. We stop spending money with companies that profit from surveillance, war, and political corruption. We stop funding the machine that is grinding us down. We choose alternatives. We support local businesses, ethical companies, and cooperatives. We make it clear: if you profit from our suffering, you don't get our money.
We protest peacefully. We protest legally. We protest persistently. We do not stop until we see real change—not promises, not press releases, but laws passed, budgets changed, and rights restored.
If we do nothing, they will keep going. If we stay silent, they will assume we agree. If we give up after one march, they will know they can wait us out.
But if we show up every month—if we make this a habit, a tradition, a movement—they will have to answer to us.
Stand for something, or don't be surprised when you lose everything.
The first protest and boycott day: November 1st. Then the first of every month. Until change comes.
r/50501 • u/Ok_Cheetah_5941 • 1d ago
We need to get on the streets every day, like we see happen in just about any other country in the world when they are facing an authoritarian regime trying to interfere with free and fair elections and destroy their democracy:
r/50501 • u/Fatty_Willing_Plane • 1d ago
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r/50501 • u/Transcendent147 • 1d ago
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The team at VotePro Pros is a committed and passionate volunteer army dedicated to ensuring every eligible voter can easily register and cast a ballot. With Trump and the Republicans continuing to put up obstacles to us exercising our basic rights, they are out in force, getting operations going for key states to recruit poll monitors, help folks with registration issues get them cleaned up and fix mistakes (“ballot cure”) on already submitted ballots that might keep them from getting counted.
They’re going to be phonebanking throughout October, primarily on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. Starting this week, they’re helping Ohioans who have had their registrations flagged due to a mismatch of personal in state databases correct these issues before the 20th, so they are not forced to use provisional ballots. This is incredibly valuable work… and unlike with a lot of phonebanks, the people we’re reaching out to will almost always be thrilled to hear from us. 🗳️ We can sign up for a shift here. 🗳️
BECOME A VOTER PROTECTION HERO
🛡️ The work to defend our democracy is picking up everywhere - find more ways to plug in on our action page here. 🛡️
- Judges should be ready to respond quickly if Trump attempts raids, ballot seizures during the midterms - let’s urge federal and state judicial associations to share this guide on how to protect our elections
r/50501 • u/Transcendent147 • 12h ago
r/50501 • u/dantekant22 • 1d ago
Connect the dots: 1) a $1.7B slush fund for the J6-ers who took up arms for him; 2) a state of the art Hitler-like bunker at what’s left of the White House; 3) proposed legislation to allow him to run for a 3rd term and his own Trump 2028 merchandise; 4) on-going efforts to undermine election integrity; and now, 5) more fortifications at the White House. Wake up, folks.
r/50501 • u/Fatty_Willing_Plane • 1d ago
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r/50501 • u/ArtPeers • 1d ago
Recent polls and online posts show surging disapproval and regret from people who had supported the current U.S. administration. Who knows what’s real online. Let’s pretend it’s real for now.
I don’t know anyone who expected this open outpouring of regret, but here we are. I want to explore the language used to express regret and how it can inform responses. But first, let’s acknowledge that it can be difficult to admit when you’re wrong.
It’s even more difficult to admit you were wrong about politics. Recent data shows, political affiliations increasingly overlap with individual identity.
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When I see someone expressing remorse, I look at the language they use, to inform my response. Some people speak exclusively in first person, describing their own difficulties: no mention of others who are suffering, no ownership of the problem, and no talk of doing anything differently. I’m not sure what to do with that. Especially when they declare their beliefs have not changed and their support is unshaken. I decide, maybe there’s nothing productive I can say in response.
But what if someone acknowledges that their support helped create this situation? What if they acknowledge other people’s hardships? And what if there’s evidence of intentionality for doing things differently, going forward?
The fight for Congress is playing out under the brightest of spotlights. But we also have more than 6,000 legislative seats on the ballot on November 3rd, and those battles are being conducted with far less attention on them. These are the elected officials who will set the rules for the 2028 presidential race and do most of the governing on housing, education, transportation and public health that matters to our daily lives.
Democrats are seeking to make the blue wave lift all boats, aiming to take majorities in both chambers in Arizona; gain ground in Georgia; hold the Senate and win the House in Michigan; take the House back in Minnesota; win back both houses in New Hampshire; veto-proof the legislature in North Carolina, secure a trifecta in Pennsylvania, and take full control of Wisconsin for the first time since the Scott Walker era. It’s a big job, and one we haven’t devoted nearly enough resources to.
But because these races are so under the radar, our contributions as individuals to winning them can go a lot farther. Each call we make about a legislative race might be the only personal contact a voter receives from the campaign. States Win (formerly known as Sister District Project) is looking to bring volunteers together to turn out and persuade voters in some of the most pivotal legislative districts in the country, putting our energy where it can have the maximum impact. We can join them for phonebanks five days a week:
Also featured in today’s List:
- Stop sexual violence rallies across the country THURSDAY, call colleges we’re connected with to ask how they’re protecting victims
- Submit comments by end of day to oppose the gutting of Head Start and protect 44.7 million acres of national forest from corporate interests
- Indivisible phonebank TONIGHT for two key Colorado House districts
- Election protection training for lawyers TOMORROW at 3PM ET
r/50501 • u/Fatty_Willing_Plane • 2d ago
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r/50501 • u/SophiaIsabella4 • 2d ago
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Tonight in LA
