Join us for another Dems and Coffee Meeting
Tuesday, Sept 2, 8:00 to 9:00 am
Program: Open Mic Session
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LABOR DAY
"Trump can put his poster on the building. But he would never have built a Department of Labor. His kind of politics only destroys institutions. He can take a day off for Labor Day. But he would never have created a holiday for those who labor." open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Join us for the next Democrats and Coffee Zoom meeting, Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 8:00 am to 9:00 am. Program: Guest Speaker Marlene Galan-Woods, candidate for US Congress - AZ CD1.
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Join us for the next Democrats and Coffee Zoom meeting, Tuesday, June 3, 2025, 8:00 am to 9:00 am. Guest speaker: Jonathan Treble - Candidate, AZ CD1
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Join us for the next Democrats and Coffee Zoom meeting, Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 8:00 am to 9:00 am. Tentative: Open Mic
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Join us for the next Democrats and Coffee Zoom meeting, Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 8:00 am to 9:00 am. Tentative: Open Mic
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Join us for the next Democrats and Coffee Zoom meeting, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 8:00 am to 9:00 am. Tentative: Meet the Candidate - Mark Robert Gordon (CD1)
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Next Democrats and Coffee Zoom meeting, Tue, April 22, 8:00 to 9:00 am. A conversation with Dr Teresa Leyba Ruiz, candidate for AZ Superintendent of Public Instruction
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Join us for the next Democrats and Coffee Zoom meeting, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 8:00 am to 9:00 am. Topic: TBA
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Amid the backdrop that more than a dozen members of Trump's Cabinet are billionaires, a reminder that this is what happened to income inequality in this country once the tax rate for top earners was slashed after 1980. Trickle down does not work and top earners' priority is themselves.

OUR FUTURE?
Timothy Snyder in ON TYRANNY says we should "learn from peers in other countries." We have an opportunity to do so right now by paying attention to current events in South Korea which illustrate many of the resistance principles cited in Snyder's book
www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...

Fear - The Elephant in the Room
“It’s important to understand that fear is not an ancillary bi-product of Trumpism. It is a method and a mode. A goal unto itself.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/be-not-afr...

The communities of resistance we create should not be dependent for their existence on technology that someone else controls.

It's as if an atom bomb has just exploded 30 miles away... We see the flash and the growing mushroom cloud and we know it's going to be bad, but we haven't yet heard the blast or felt it's impact: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQg...

In the context of authoritarian aspiration for total control, creating and maintaining any type of non-governmental, free association, community or group is an "expression and safeguard of freedom" (Snyder), and as such, "a radical act" (Moore) of resistance.

Just my 2 cents. But my goal is to ignore the trolls. Give them zero attention. Block them if they annoy me.

I think the worst thing we can do on this site is re-create the ad hominem/ personal attacks that occur across comments on Twitter/insta/tiktok/ etc

Do Not Uncritically Accept Lists
The idea of block listing sounds good, but make sure you trust the source and even then the list should be carefully reviewed before blocking the individual profiles included on it. Take similar care with Starter Pack lists.

RESIST!