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Poster: Get Ready for Primary Season with VOTE411

There's a new resource at VOTE411.org listing dates for all the 2026 state primaries
✅ English vote411.org/primaries2026
✅ Spanish vote411.org/es/primaries...
The first state primaries of the season are set for March — next month! Make a plan.
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Los Angeles Citizens Revival Screening Celebrating the power of ordinary people, artivists & politicians FOR democracy as hope triumphs over fear and doors open for participation.

Anyone going to be in Los Angeles on March 3rd? If you are, join us for a special Director's Cut screening & discussion of the Citizens Revival doc at Eastwood Performing Arts Center. It's a free screening with limited seating, so please RSVP. Hope to see you there!

New SAVE Act Bills Would Still Block Millions of Americans From Voting The “show your papers” requirement is an attack on the freedom to vote.

The SAVE Act would disenfranchise millions of Americans of all ages and races, but younger voters and voters of color would suffer disproportionately. bit.ly/4rA2p4R

Citizens Revival Through intimate screenings and real stories, Citizens Revival inspires dialogue, connection, and action in communities nationwide.

'Citizens Revival' uses the power of storytelling to strengthen civic understanding and community connection. Please help us get to our 20K goal for the final edit of the film.

Rewards Include: Screen Print Poster, Live Event, Credits in Film, Original Art, Rain Jacket, Totes and more!

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- Quote basics from the New York Times - Image from BronxWorks

The number of noncitizens who cast ballots in elections is so small as to be statistically insignificant. The real problem is that there are 80 million U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote and did not do so in the 2024 presidential election.
--- New York Representative Joseph Morelle

Bredesen to Chair Mayor’s Commission on NES Storm Response Also: Metro Council passes winter-storm-related resolutions aimed at financial relief

Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell has tapped former Gov. Phil Bredesen — also a previous Nashville mayor — to chair a commission investigating Nashville Electric Service’s preparation and response to Winter Storm Fern.
--- @julianneakers.bsky.social @nashvillescene.com

“I am somebody” shaped how millions of us saw ourselves as kids, including me. That message mattered. It still does.

Rest in power, Jesse Jackson
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Citizens Revival Through intimate screenings and real stories, Citizens Revival inspires dialogue, connection, and action in communities nationwide.

'Citizens Revival' uses the power of storytelling to strengthen civic understanding and community connection. Please help us get to our 20K goal for the final edit of the film.

Rewards Include: Screen Print Poster, Live Event, Credits in Film, Original Art, Rain Jacket, Totes and more!

Jesse Jackson, civil rights activist and presidential candidate, dies at 84 His success in the 1984 and 1988 Democratic primaries ushered in a new era in Democratic Party politics.

“When I look out at this convention, I see the face of America, red, yellow, brown, black and white. We are all precious in God’s sight — the real rainbow coalition.” - Rev. Jesse Jackson at the 1988 Democratic National Convention

Rest in Peace & Power, Rev. Jackson

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.

We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

The SAVE Act failed to pass last year because of nationwide public opposition. Now it’s back, and Congress should reject it again. Add your voice: bit.ly/4tmVIor

Atlanta Citizens Revival Screening Celebrating the power of ordinary people who contribute to our democracy, demonstrating how hope triumphs over fear, and participation wins.

Come join us for a special Director's Cut screening & discussion of the documentary Citizens Revival at the Tara Theater in Atlanta on March 5th. This is a free screening with limited seating, so please RSVP. See more details on the screening below ⬇️

Los Angeles Citizens Revival Screening Celebrating the power of ordinary people, artivists & politicians FOR democracy as hope triumphs over fear and doors open for participation.

Join us for a special Director's Cut screening & discussion of the Citizens Revival documentary at Eastwood Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles on March 3rd. This is a free screening with limited seating, so please RSVP. The film will feature Los Angeles musician & writer, Jordan Brown.

Today marks eight years since the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, FL.

This anniversary is a painful reminder that gun violence prevention is on the ballot this year. It’s up to the politicians WE elect to pass gun safety laws to protect our communities.

The Trump administration on Thursday repealed the landmark 2009 legal finding that climate change poses a threat to the public — and axed climate rules for cars and trucks that were regulated under the finding.
--- @thehill.com

We should be protecting the freedom to vote, not restricting it. Congress should once again reject the anti-voter SAVE Act: bit.ly/4tmVIor

As we think about President Lincoln on what would have been his 217th birthday, let’s listen to, and be inspired by, his words. Each generation is asked to preserve and extend the ideas of freedom and democracy.

Register to Vote To register in Davidson County: You must be a U.S. citizen, and You must be a resident of Davidson County (refer to these residency guidelines),...

Attention Berry Hill voters: Are you registered to vote? Is your address up to date? Prepare for your March 17th municipal election here: www.nashville.gov/departments/...

Most Americans don’t pay for news and don’t think they need to For a new report released Wednesday, the Pew Research Center surveyed 3,560 U.S. adults in December 2025 about their relationship to the news and how they perceive its value in everyday life. The stud...

If people stopped paying for food, supermarket and farms would go under and there'd be no more food

Why would news be any different? www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/most...

Atlanta Citizens Revival Screening Celebrating the power of ordinary people who contribute to our democracy, demonstrating how hope triumphs over fear, and participation wins.

Come join us for a special Director's Cut screening & discussion of the documentary Citizens Revival at the Tara Theater in Atlanta on March 5th. This is a free screening with limited seating, so please RSVP. See more details on the screening below ⬇️

Metro Council reviews NES winter storm response - Nashville Banner The Metro Council begins its review of the response by Nashville Electric Service other entities to the winter storm that knocked out power for many last month.

Metro Nashville councilmembers took time to thank NES and Metro employees for working long shifts clearing roads, restoring power and staffing shelters during the ice storm, but NES' CEO admitted that “we did not meet the expectations of our customers.”
- @nashvillebanner.bsky.social

House Speaker Mike Johnson failed late last night to contain GOP unrest over the Trump administration’s trade war.

Los Angeles Citizens Revival Screening Celebrating the power of ordinary people, artivists & politicians FOR democracy as hope triumphs over fear and doors open for participation.

Join us for a special Director's Cut screening & discussion of the Citizens Revival documentary at Eastwood Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles on March 3rd. This is a free screening with limited seating, so please RSVP. The film will feature Los Angeles musician & writer, Jordan Brown.

What is #RankedChoiceVoting in a nutshell?

Jack Cunningham of @rankthevoteohio.bsky.social gives a quick overview here!

Visit rankthevoteohio.org to learn more and to get involved with them!

NES absorbs criticism, to face a review of winter storm response - Nashville Banner Nashville officials remain frustrated with Nashville Electric Service's handling of a winter storm that left thousands without power for more than a week.

As the dire facts, figures and anecdotes of a historic winter storm have accumulated, the same question has dominated exasperated conversations around the city: how did the Nashville Electric Service mess this up so badly?
--- @nashvillebanner.bsky.social

O’Connell Puts Distance Between Metro and NES For the first time since Sunday, the mayor’s office and the electricity provider held separate press conferences

As of Thursday afternoon, more than 85,000 Nashvillians remain without power and about 300 utility poles are still down in the wake of a historic winter ice storm. NES has continued to call its response a “multiday event” with no clear timeline.
- @nashvillescene.com

Nashville braces snow and ice: Safety tips and updates - Nashville Banner Get prepared for snow and ice in Nashville with these resources on transportation, road conditions, shelters, power outages, and more.

Nashvillians are under a winter storm warning for a system set to arrive over the weekend. The @nashvillebanner.bsky.social has compiled a thoughtful guide with tips and resources to help you cope with whatever comes our way.

YouTube video by Grateful Dead Grateful Dead - Estimated Prophet (Philadelphia, PA 7/7/1989)

Friday Mood Brightener: Bobby Weir's 'Estimated Prophet' from a 1989 Grateful Dead show in Philly.

Image: TheCollector

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.” - John Adams