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Sep 18, 2020 • 15 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
THREAD: Trump is speaking right now in Wisconsin, apparently from a different universe where he's not trying to rip away millions of Americans' health care during a pandemic. (In this one, he is.) But more importantly, absentee ballots were mailed today. It's begun. 1/
Trump keeps coming back to Wisconsin because he's losing here—and if he loses Wisconsin, his presidency ends. The electoral college math is stark. He's panicked about it. So he's holding in-person rallies. But Wisconsinites see right through him.
Roughly a million Wisconsinites have already requested absentee ballots for the November election. That's about a third of the total turnout from recent presidential elections. Those ballots are now in the mail. Want one? Go to iwillvote.com and sign up.
You can request an absentee ballot and return it—no stamp needed—by mail. You can drop it off at a drop box or clerk's office. (List of those: vote.wisdems.org.) Or, for the two weeks before the election, you can vote early—or you can vote on Election Day. Just #VOTE.
Trump's done talking and mingling with the unmasked crowd. He's speaking in Marathon County, where the local health officials say the COVID-19 activity level is "HIGH: Significant increase in cases in the past two weeks." co.marathon.wi.us/Departments/He…
Trump said last year was the best year Wisconsin has ever had.

Maybe he should ask some family farmers.

wisfarmer.com/story/news/202…
Wisconsin, proudly, has same-day voter registration. But if you're concerned about voting in person this year, you can register to vote online—as long as you do it by 11:59pm on October 14. In fact, why not register right now?

Start here: IWillVote.com
In-person early voting begins October 20. Find your local early vote locations—and, again, drop boxes for your absentee ballots—at this beautiful page cooked up by the @WisDems voter protection team:

vote.wisdems.org
In Wisconsin, you can request an absentee ballot until October 29. If you request it that late in the game, you'll definitely want to turn it in. But why wait? Just do it now. iwillvote.com has what you need. (It works for the rest of the country too!)
Voting is the minimum. Shoot for the moon. There's a LOT more you can do. You don't need to be an eligible voter in Wisconsin to help. We want your time! You can sign up to volunteer right here, and we'll put you to work from home: mobilize.us/wi2020victory/…
Weekend after weekend, Wisconsin has had *thousands* of volunteers making calls to voters in every community and every corner of the state. We're finding remarkable energy. This year, COVID or no, turnout will be up.
Trump wants to make this all about him. It isn't. Ultimately, it's about you. What kind of person do you want to be? How do you want to remember how you spent the hours between now and 8pm on Tuesday, November 3? Think back from the future and ask what you'd tell yourself to do.
When polls close, it's still not over. Ballots have to be counted. You can volunteer for our voter protection team to make sure that step happens right. vote.wisdems.org/volunteer/
Striking how Trump believes that photos of large numbers of people attending his events underscore his power, but for so many of us, they're just brutal reminders of his complete disregard for the lives of every person other than himself.

Facts.

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Nov 20
The first critical election of the new Trump era is just 132 days from now: Wisconsin’s state Supreme Court race. 🧵
This week, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin endorsed Judge Susan Crawford, the one pro-freedom, pro-democracy candidate. We’re in the fight. Join us. Image
With Wisconsin still at the white-hot center of American politics, our state Supreme Court remains one of the most crucial judicial bodies in America. Decisions by this court shape national outcomes. Image
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Nov 15
As we enter a harrowing new chapter in American life, remember this: we are stronger than we think. 🧵
Before I dig in here, let me flag: donating to WisDems funds our year-round organizing and communication work—critical for elections here, including the state Supreme Court, in less than six months. Can you chip in?
secure.actblue.com/donate/octeom_…
Trump is doing exactly what he promised to do: making the worst possible choices about who should run the federal government.

Or perhaps that’s not their job—their job is to dismantle it, to break it, to ensure that it can’t carry out the will of the American people.
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Nov 9
Here’s what happened in Wisconsin. And a note of gratitude. 🧵
On Election Day, I thought we were winning the presidential race.

We came up short. Losing was a gut punch. Enormous peril lies ahead.

As we prepare for what’s next, we also have to find space for curiosity about what just happened.
We’re beginning to see the outlines: a red wave. A nationwide shift toward Trump of 6%.

But in Wisconsin, we nearly defeated that wave.

The shift here was just one quarter the size: 1.5%. Not because Trump was weaker here than elsewhere, but because we were stronger.
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Nov 8
Just crunched some numbers.

Turnout generally dropped nationwide. But battleground states had slightly *higher* turnout among eligible voters than 2020—and a smaller-than-avg swing towards Trump.

Wisconsin had the highest turnout rise in the nation: +1.3% of eligible voters.🧵
The data here come from @ElectProject: election.lab.ufl.edu/2024-general-e…

Crunched in this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Some big states are still counting ballots, so left CA, WA, DC, MD, and OR out of this calculation.

Included AZ and NV even though they're still counting.
@ElectProject Here's the table: the change in turnout (relative to the voting-eligible population) from 2020 to 2024 in the seven battlegrounds vs the rest of the country.

A pretty clear case that the campaign + party + allies turned out Dems in states they focused on. Image
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Nov 7
The red wave hit this year: a ~6% national swing to Trump, from 2020 margins.

In Wisconsin, thousands of heroes pulled the swing down to 1.5%. More D votes statewide & in 46 counties. Tammy Baldwin won. Huge wins in the state legislature.

Deeply grateful to all—it mattered.
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This is a perilous moment, and a frightening one. Especially for the people in communities whose freedoms, livelihoods, and safety are now threatened by an emboldened, unfettered Trump and the extremists around him.

We fought to prevent this. We came up short.
We will need to focus soon on somehow containing the damage of the second Trump term, standing in solidarity with one another, and fighting back.

But now, let's thank Harris and Walz for their 107-day sprint—and the countless people who poured themselves into the work.
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Nov 5
Before Walz took the stage in Milwaukee tonight, I got a call from a number unlike any I'd ever seen. It ended with four zeroes. I picked it up.

It was Joe Biden. 🧵 Image
The President was calling to say thanks—to all of us in Wisconsin who've been working our hearts out to make this moment possible.

If you're reading this, that might very well include you.
I told him how honored I felt to receive his call, on behalf of thousands of people here who worked to elect him—and then never stopped organizing.

"God bless ya," he said, 100% himself.

What an extraordinary human being he is. Let's do him proud. Let's win tomorrow.
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