So a few of my followers have asked me how I feel about Rod & Wray now, given their apparent complicity in the Kavanaugh “process.” I will be honest: I’ve had a pit in my stomach since Saturday. I’m much less interested in a tidbit here or there about Russia. I don’t feel like /1
Being snarky or flip. I don’t feel like looking at the news or Twitter at all. I don’t care what any pundit has to say. I’m disappointed to say the least and my wise 15-year-old reminded me tonight that Trump is temporary, and Kavanaugh isn’t going to be on the wrong side of /2
Everything all the time. She is right and offered good perspective. Watching the news and waiting for the next shoe to drop is a hard way to exist for any of us, and we’ve all been in this mode for probably the longest period of our lives. I wish I could tell you Rod has some /3
Master plan that I am confident that he and Mueller are working toward. I do believe in many ways they do have a plan, but I come back to the conclusion that we can’t wait for one man or 2 to save our democracy. And by the same token, 1 man or 2 won’t destroy it. We have more /4
Of us out here fighting than they do destroying and we have done an AMAZING job of fighting, succeeding, and of keeping up our endurance. But coming back to the pit in my stomach since Saturday, I know I need self care and many of you do too. I know for me part of that will be /5
Putting some of my energy toward November 6. I can only be my honest self (especially because I don’t get paid for this), and say that this is it for Nov. 6. If we don’t make major inroads, we are going to have to live with a much worse 2 years than we have endured. And those /6
With much less than me or you will be likely to feel the impact much more deeply than the ideological and theoretical differences that we find disheartening and depressing. I can’t promise you that Rod or Mueller or Wray will “save” us. It is up to us, and that is going to /7
Require many of us to get out of our comfort zones to help these next few weeks. It may not be what you want to hear. I’m sorry about that. But in my heart it is the only thing we have right now, because as much as Rod & Wray & Mueller are “helping” us from total unaccountable /8
Chaos, they are not perfect men, they are not Democrats, and they are not all powerful. That is hard to swallow, even for me. I have complete faith that we can elect the right folks in November (remember Doug Jones in AL? Conor Lamb in PA?), if we do the work. And by we I mean /9
You and me. Not just the candidates and their campaigns. In 2016, I quit my job and organized a national grass roots group of moms who like me by telling them that their vote was not enough for Hillary. That they had to do more than vote - they had to volunteer and get out /10
Vote. And they did it. They got busy for Hillary and it wasn’t enough. But I’m going to make this point again in the hope that it will mean more now: men & women who care - your vote isn’t enough. It’s not. I wish it was. It shouldn’t be this hard. But right now I can only /11
Promise you one thing, and that is that we need you to do more. Mueller and his lawyers will do more than any of us combined to save this democracy. But they need our help to have any shot of getting it across the finish line. So do it for them. Work hard so their work won’t /12
Have been in vein as they get closer to whatever there is to find. I can promise they can’t do this alone. I can promise the Republicans won’t put a pretty bow on what, if anything, they ultimately find. But Democrats will. If you get them that power. I’m exhausted & I know /13
Y’all are as well. I’m not sugar coating how I feel tonight. I feel heartbroken after these last 2 weeks, as many of you do. But I’m not sure how much momentum any of us will have left in us if we don’t flip the House. I’m wish I could be more of a cheerleader, but we are at /14
A precipice and many of us who have worked in D.C. for a long time feel it. I would be disingenuous if I didn’t share that. I’m going to continue to kick it up a notch & get out of my comfort zone & off my Twitter feed to do what I can. All I ask is that you try too. P.S. my /15
Dog literally vomited on my bed after my first tweet about the pit in MY stomach. So there’s that. And now she seems fine. As we all will be. 💪🏻💪🏼💪🏽💪🏾😘😘😘
