Thread by @benwikler

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.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1306797270445166594

Facts.

https://twitter.com/loveandprogress/status/1306807246307897353