Kristin BF
@kristinbf.bsky.social
Author of The Pornographer's Daughter, social worker, and political volunteer. I am on the editorial board of The Grassroots Connector. I co-coordinate Women Forward's LTE project. Subscribe to my Substack https://substack.com/@kristinb
Check out @rbhubbell.bsky.social latest newsletter. So excited about the mention of The Grassroots Connector and the INTS episode with Leah Greenberg @indivisible.org. Grassroots activists have truly made a difference. roberthubbell.substack.com/p/reasons-fo...
December 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Check out @rbhubbell.bsky.social latest newsletter. So excited about the mention of The Grassroots Connector and the INTS episode with Leah Greenberg @indivisible.org. Grassroots activists have truly made a difference. roberthubbell.substack.com/p/reasons-fo...
Thank you for writing for The Grassroots Connector. This is great.
December 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Thank you for writing for The Grassroots Connector. This is great.
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I love the Grassroots Connector because it covers - with a practitioner's lens - the real work that is happening behind the election night headlines.
Here from @robbzw.bsky.social is the real story of the leaders and organizers who flipped Virginia: grassrootsconnector.substack.com/p/how-virgin...
Here from @robbzw.bsky.social is the real story of the leaders and organizers who flipped Virginia: grassrootsconnector.substack.com/p/how-virgin...
How Virginia Won Big — A Story of the Grassroots
It’s Time We Take Credit
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November 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I love the Grassroots Connector because it covers - with a practitioner's lens - the real work that is happening behind the election night headlines.
Here from @robbzw.bsky.social is the real story of the leaders and organizers who flipped Virginia: grassrootsconnector.substack.com/p/how-virgin...
Here from @robbzw.bsky.social is the real story of the leaders and organizers who flipped Virginia: grassrootsconnector.substack.com/p/how-virgin...
The religious resistance is showing up in a big way. Activists should pay attention.
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Away from the manger: Church sparks controversy with ICE nativity scene - Premier Christian News | Headlines, Breaking News, Comment & Analysis
Instead of figures from the Christmas scene, the manger and stable remain empty, as a sign reads: “ICE was here”.
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December 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The religious resistance is showing up in a big way. Activists should pay attention.
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Congrats to the City of Miami and Eileen Higgins! www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Democrat Eileen Higgins wins Miami mayor’s race, beats Trump’s pick
In addition to being the city’s first female mayor, Higgins is also the first Democrat and non-Hispanic elected to the position in decades.
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December 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Congrats to the City of Miami and Eileen Higgins! www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
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NEW POST: Trickle up? Middle out? Floors and ceilings? Fair shots? Why do we create messaging that fails to connect with voters? Our messaging fails when we throw words together that do not correspond to the mental models people use to make sense of our world.
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Why Dem Messaging Sounds Like it was Written by A.I.
How we build and use mental models.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
NEW POST: Trickle up? Middle out? Floors and ceilings? Fair shots? Why do we create messaging that fails to connect with voters? Our messaging fails when we throw words together that do not correspond to the mental models people use to make sense of our world.
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Upcoming LIVE with Leah Greenberg (12/11 9pm EST) - The Woman Who Co-Founded Indivisible
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Upcoming LIVE with Leah Greenberg (12/11 9pm EST) - The Woman Who Co-Founded Indivisible
It Needs to Be Said
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December 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Upcoming LIVE with Leah Greenberg (12/11 9pm EST) - The Woman Who Co-Founded Indivisible
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#ResistanceRoots
Today in history, 2008: Barack Obama becomes the first person of African American or biracial descent to be elected President of the United States.
May we channel the joy and hope we felt on that day as we forge a path forward for democracy in America.
Today in history, 2008: Barack Obama becomes the first person of African American or biracial descent to be elected President of the United States.
May we channel the joy and hope we felt on that day as we forge a path forward for democracy in America.
November 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
#ResistanceRoots
Today in history, 2008: Barack Obama becomes the first person of African American or biracial descent to be elected President of the United States.
May we channel the joy and hope we felt on that day as we forge a path forward for democracy in America.
Today in history, 2008: Barack Obama becomes the first person of African American or biracial descent to be elected President of the United States.
May we channel the joy and hope we felt on that day as we forge a path forward for democracy in America.
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Virginia Emergency Nutrition Assistance available. Spread the word.
November 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Virginia Emergency Nutrition Assistance available. Spread the word.
My recent post. Election day is tomorrow. If you haven’t voted in Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and every single local election, do so today. It’s too important. We can’t afford to suffer fools. #VoteBlue kristinbattistafrazee.substack.com/p/virginians...
Virginians Can’t Afford to Suffer Fools
In the final days of the governor’s race in Virginia, what’s clear is Winsome Earle-Sears, the current Republican candidate for governor, is more focused on where people go to the bathroom and support...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
My recent post. Election day is tomorrow. If you haven’t voted in Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and every single local election, do so today. It’s too important. We can’t afford to suffer fools. #VoteBlue kristinbattistafrazee.substack.com/p/virginians...
The cruelty is the point. The goal is not just to deport immigrants who commit crimes but to reduce the number of legal immigrants. JD Vance criticized Biden policies, that allowed too many people into the country and threatened the social fabric of the United States. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol....
November 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The cruelty is the point. The goal is not just to deport immigrants who commit crimes but to reduce the number of legal immigrants. JD Vance criticized Biden policies, that allowed too many people into the country and threatened the social fabric of the United States. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol....
How gruesome and shameful. www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna241...
'Happy Halloween!': DHS spokeswoman responds to report of immigration agents wearing horror masks in L.A.
The story by a local news site featured images posted to social media showing what the outlet says were agents in unmarked cars donning Chucky and Momo masks.
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November 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
How gruesome and shameful. www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna241...
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It’s Halloween — and there’s nothing more haunting than my opponent’s vision for the future of our Commonwealth.
October 31, 2025 at 12:33 PM
It’s Halloween — and there’s nothing more haunting than my opponent’s vision for the future of our Commonwealth.
Share this great letter, Republicans’ refusal to negotiate with Democrats over funding the government is unhealthy for North Carolinians, written by Laura Allendorf for Coastal Times. Write your letter>https://www.womenforward.us/lte-project
Read more at: www.thecoastlandtimes.com/2025/10/27/l...
Read more at: www.thecoastlandtimes.com/2025/10/27/l...
LTE Project — Women Forward
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October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Share this great letter, Republicans’ refusal to negotiate with Democrats over funding the government is unhealthy for North Carolinians, written by Laura Allendorf for Coastal Times. Write your letter>https://www.womenforward.us/lte-project
Read more at: www.thecoastlandtimes.com/2025/10/27/l...
Read more at: www.thecoastlandtimes.com/2025/10/27/l...
It's the small things that make the biggest difference. #paperclipresistance #democracy joycevance.substack.com/p/paper-clip...
Paper Clip Protest
On Thursday, E.
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October 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
It's the small things that make the biggest difference. #paperclipresistance #democracy joycevance.substack.com/p/paper-clip...
You know the saying from Maya Angelou... if someone shows you who they are, believe them. Please, believe them, condemn them, and vote them out.
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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October 15, 2025 at 2:14 AM
You know the saying from Maya Angelou... if someone shows you who they are, believe them. Please, believe them, condemn them, and vote them out.
I am so glad the Israeli hostages have been released, Palestinian prisoners let go, and the bombing has stopped in Gaza. I will give Trump credit, where credit is due.
October 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I am so glad the Israeli hostages have been released, Palestinian prisoners let go, and the bombing has stopped in Gaza. I will give Trump credit, where credit is due.
Well, I think hell has officially frozen over.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, tearing into her own party, says GOP men in Congress are ‘weak’
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, tearing into her own party, says GOP men in Congress are ‘weak’
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, tearing into her own party, says GOP men in Congress are ‘weak’
“There’s a lot of weak Republican men and they’re more afraid of strong Republican women,” Greene said.
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October 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Well, I think hell has officially frozen over.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, tearing into her own party, says GOP men in Congress are ‘weak’
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Marjorie Taylor Greene, tearing into her own party, says GOP men in Congress are ‘weak’
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Here are two great letters to the editor published in the Yonkers Times about Rep. Mike Lawler's complicity in the lies about the ACA subsidies and the devasting cuts to foreign aid.
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Letters to the Editor: | Yonkers Times
To the Editor: After reading the recent newsletter from Representative Mike Lawler, I feel compelled to point out that the budget bill he is so proud to have supported will end Affordable Care Act sub...
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October 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Here are two great letters to the editor published in the Yonkers Times about Rep. Mike Lawler's complicity in the lies about the ACA subsidies and the devasting cuts to foreign aid.
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On Tues., Oct. 14 at 4 pm ET I will be co-hosting a letters to the editor writing workshop. If you are interesting in writing, register here> www.womenforward.us/lte-project There are also workshops in Nov. and Dec. Have your voice heard during a time when free speech is under attack. #freespeech
October 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
On Tues., Oct. 14 at 4 pm ET I will be co-hosting a letters to the editor writing workshop. If you are interesting in writing, register here> www.womenforward.us/lte-project There are also workshops in Nov. and Dec. Have your voice heard during a time when free speech is under attack. #freespeech
It's been a long-time dream of the Republicans to destroy the ACA and take away healthcare from millions. What's happening this year in the Trump Administration is no different. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Why Republicans’ attempts to kill Obamacare keep backfiring
The White House and some Republicans are growing nervous that Democrats’ demand to boost Obamacare as part of a government funding bill has salience with voters.
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October 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
It's been a long-time dream of the Republicans to destroy the ACA and take away healthcare from millions. What's happening this year in the Trump Administration is no different. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
I have to say, I'm impressed. Good idea for No Kings Day protests too. #NoKingsDay
October 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I have to say, I'm impressed. Good idea for No Kings Day protests too. #NoKingsDay