Too Soon? Nope. (Part 1)

Efforts toward winning the 2026 election should be happening now. Opportunities abound.

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We’re living in a time in which many of us dread reading the morning newspaper or turning on the evening news because we know we’ll learn of some new horrible thing that our government is doing in our names. New cuts to vital services, new illegal detentions and deportations, new lies being told to our faces.

Doom scrolling has become a national pastime.

It feels important, then, to spend some time mining some positives from the news ecosystem and to focus on some of the things we can still do to staunch the bleeding and offset some of the horrors.

I’m not advocating burying one’s head in the sand or plugging one’s ears. It’s almost unavoidable for some of the negativity to enter our consciousness. But for there to be a viable opposition that carries some political clout (and for one’s own sanity), it’s crucial …