Some of these might be old, but they still have important information or ideas for Democrats.
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POLITICAL MESSAGING/Articles to Amplify PINTEREST BOARD
This Pinterest board collects excellent articles for Democrats to amplify
https://www.pinterest.com/singbooksemily/political-messaging/
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THE VOTE IS THE ANTIDOTE’s PINTEREST BOARD
This Pinterest board collects VoteBlue related content from posters and slogans, to vote organizations and inspiration
https://www.pinterest.com/singbooksemily/vote-the-vote-is-the-antidote/
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Guns are now the number one cause of death in children:
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/firearms-leading-cause-of-death-children-2020/
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A lot more people die each year from guns than cars, two sources follow:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm
https://vpc.org/regulating-the-gun-industry/gun-deaths-compared-to-motor-vehicle-deaths/
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Top 10 most dangerous cities un USA are in red states:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2022/02/23/crime-in-america-study-reveals-the-10-most-dangerous-cities-its-not-where-you-think/
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States with LOWEST\HIGHEST gun death rates + how they voted:
https://twitter.com/noliewithbtc/status/1537918014787444736?s=21&t=o-0lWqd7GXLtGhzVYGL36w
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Pro-Trump counties continue to suffer far higher COVID death tolls
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/19/1098543849/pro-trump-counties-continue-to-suffer-far-higher-covid-death-tolls
“The scale of the preventable loss of life is staggering.”
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A visual record of the artifacts that accumulate after school shootings.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/school-shooting-condolence-artifacts/661303/
School Shootings are a Republican Policy Choice.
Republicans are to blame for school shootings and dead children.
#GunReformNow
#RepublicanSchoolShootings
#RepublicanDeathCult
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Infant Mortality Significantly Highter in Red States
When Republicans control state legislatures, infant mortality is higher.
“…infant and postneonatal mortality rates are substantively higher under Republican-controlled state legislatures…”
https://www.newswise.com/articles/when-republicans-control-state-legislatures-infant-mortality-is-higher?sc=dwhn
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How Democrats Clean Up Republican Messes
https://robertreich.org/post/190905737165
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Protect the bodily autonomy of women: Rep. Ayanna Pressley urged Congress to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act (May 2022)
https://thevoteistheantidote.com/2022/05/25/protect-the-bodily-autonomy-of-women-rep-ayanna-pressley-urged-congress-to-pass-the-womens-health-protection-act-may-2022/
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#BansOffOurBodies Women’s March in Washington, DC on May 14, 2022
https://thevoteistheantidote.com/2022/05/26/bansoffourbodies-womens-march-in-washington-dc-on-may-14-2022/
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FINALLY (and it takes a British Reporter) Ted Cruz is Asked the Most Important Question: If gun control isn’t the answer, why is USA (with virtually no gun control) the only country in the civilized world (the rest of which controls guns) that has these kinds of Mass Shootings? (May 2022)
https://thevoteistheantidote.com/2022/05/26/finally-and-it-takes-a-british-reporter-ted-cruz-is-asked-the-most-important-question-if-gun-control-isnt-the-answer-why-is-usa-with-virtually-no-gun-control-the-only-country-in-the-civilized/
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Kirsten Gillibrand’s Passionate Support of #WomensRights #AbortionIsHealthcare #AWomansRightToChoose
https://thevoteistheantidote.com/2022/05/06/kirsten-gillibrands-passionate-support-of-womensrights-abortionishealthcare-awomansrighttochoose/
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Ben Franklin’s Abortion Recipe
Ben Franklin Put an Abortion Recipe in His Math Textbook. To colonial Americans, termination was as normal as the ABCs and 123s.
#AbortionIsHealthcare #KeepAbortionSafeAndLegal https://thevoteistheantidote.com/2022/05/25/ben-franklins-abortion-recipe/
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Available on Kindle and paperback, published March 2022
HOW TO SAVE DEMOCRACY IN SIX MONTHS – OUR LAST CHANCE: THE 2022 MIDTERM ELECTIONS
By John Murray
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We should do everything we can NOT to go back to a time when this sort of data can be collected:
(January 2021)
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Yale Professor Jeffrey Sonnefeld’s Naughty or Nice list of Companies that have Withdrawn Business from Russia
(March 2022)
https://thevoteistheantidote.com/2022/03/11/yale-professor-joeffrey-sonnefelds-naughty-or-nice-list-of-companies-that-have-withdrawn-business-from-russia/
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As a ‘Seismic Shift’ Fractures Evangelicals, an Arkansas Pastor Leaves Home: Kevin Thompson thought he would lead his hometown church for the rest of his life. Then came Trump and everything after.
(May 2022)
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/09/us/arkansas-pastor-evangelical-churches.html
Ben Franklin Put an Abortion Recipe in His Math Textbook
To colonial Americans, termination was as normal as the ABCs and 123s.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/05/ben-franklin-american-instructor-textbook-abortion-recipe.html
#AbortionIsHealthcare #KeepAbortionSafeAndLegal
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U.S. added 467,000 jobs in January despite omicron variant surge
‘America is back to work,’ Biden proclaims as economy has added nearly 7 million jobs over the past 12 months
(February 2022)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/02/04/january-jobs-report-unemployment-2022/
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DEMOCRATS’ GOOD NEWS
A collection of articles to amplify Good News from the Democrats
https://www.pinterest.com/singbooksemily/vote-blue-articles/
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Five Reasons for Optimism in 2022
Lincoln Project Sr. Advisor @JoeTrippi
https://lincolnproject.us/joe-trippi-five-reasons-for-optimism-in-2022/
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Biden Boom hits new heights — press buries the good news
https://pressrun.media/p/biden-boom-hits-new-heights-press?r=4i2kc
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US Economy Historically Does Far Better Under Democrats than Republicans.
(February 2021)
https://tinyurl.com/mej43xfv
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This horrible trend is largely result of Anti-Woman/Anti-Abortion/Anti-Maternal Support/Anti-Child Welfare Republican policies in action:
The USA (esp bc of R states like TX & MS) is one of the deadliest places in the developed world to be pregnant. Forcing women into unwanted pregnancy is bad for economies & is also often a death sentence. (November 2021)
https://tinyurl.com/3wfbe366
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Retail won’t tackle the labor shortage until it reverses decades of worker neglect and becomes a viable, long-term career again (November 2021)
https://www.businessinsider.com/labor-shortage-working-in-retail-workers-stores-pay-conditions-2021-11
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22 Civic Actions Companies Can Take In 2022
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeseq/2022/01/13/22-civic-actions-companies-can-take-in-2022/?sh=501ad4ee15e5
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Booming Biden Economy
https://www.salon.com/2022/01/08/behind-bidens-booming-economy/
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Gallup: Democrats now outnumber Republicans by 9 percentage points, thanks to independents (April 2021)
https://news.yahoo.com/gallup-democrats-now-outnumber-republicans-111006678.html
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GLAAD 2020 POST-ELECTION POLL: 81% OF LGBTQ VOTERS VOTED FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN; 93% OF REGISTERED LGBTQ VOTERS TURNED OUT TO VOTE AND 25% WERE FIRST-TIME VOTERS (November 2020)
https://www.glaad.org/releases/glaad-2020-post-election-poll-81-lgbtq-voters-voted-president-elect-biden-93-registered
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You Damn Karens Are Killing America
OOPS, THEY DID IT AGAIN (November 2021)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-white-women-who-just-elected-glenn-youngkin-are-killing-america
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The Most Detailed Map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution in the U.S. (November 2021)
https://projects.propublica.org/toxmap/
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Article from April 2020, keeping it here as a reminder of what happens when Republicans run the government:
The Huge Cost of Waiting to Contain the Pandemic
As the numbers show, the timing of social distancing can have an enormous impact on death tolls.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/opinion/covid-social-distancing.html?referringSource=articleShare
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Article from April 2020, keeping it here as a reminder of what happens when Republicans run the government:
US’s global reputation hits rock-bottom over Trump’s coronavirus response
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/12/us-global-reputation-rock-bottom-donald-trump-coronavirus
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Article from April 2020, keeping it here as a reminder of what happens when Republicans run the government:
The President and the Plague
How Donald Trump failed at the single most important task of the Oval Office: keeping the American people safe from harm
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-president-coronavirus-plague-982150/
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Article from April 2020, keeping it here as a reminder of what happens when Republicans run the government:
The ‘Red Dawn’ Emails: 8 Key Exchanges on the Faltering Response to the Coronavirus
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/politics/coronavirus-red-dawn-emails-trump.html
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Article from 2019, a reminder of the vast untapped reservoirs of potential voters for Democrats!
Any Democratic Frontrunner Could Beat Trump if All Unregistered LGBTQ People Voted in 2020
http://www.newnownext.com/impact-if-lgbtq-unregistered-voters-registered-in-2020/11/2019/
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Article from 2020 will be just as true at anytime as it was then. #GOTV wins elections
‘Overwhelm the system’ to thwart voter suppression, Stacey Abrams counsels blacks
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2020/02/04/stacey-abrams-message-black-voters-2020/4490921002/
The Vote Is The Antidote 