"Making Good Trouble Means Doubling Down" with Rachel Bitecofer & VA Candidates

Time to double down - you are on the right side of history.

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Season 5 - Episode 24 - Show 216

Is it possible to do the impossible?

We are doubling down on making good trouble - nothing is the same - and we can’t do the same ol thing while folks are being disappeared and locked in cages. We are witnessing history in the making - and right now, it needs the courage and passion of leaders like John Lewis and Fannie Lou Hamer whose lives were defined by courage and resilience in the face of systemic racism and voter suppression. There were no guarantees then that things would change or get better or not get worse like on the day Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.

The point is we don’t know what will happen moving forward. This unknown causes great anxiety and restlessness that is hard to describe. When it all feels impossible, when we doubt our ability to counter the powerful ruling coming from the Supreme Court that undermines justice or the Big Ugly Bill’s funding of ICE, or when we find it hard to sleep knowing others are crying, alone, and locked up, it feels overwhelming. Franklin Roosevelt said: “There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.” We have to try everything we can because if we stand still - we go nowhere.

This week’s show is inspired by Rachel Bitecofer’s article on Substack titled “The Sky Bridge - How America Saved Berlin.” She told this story for a reason - to remind us how history does get made: “Not when it’s easy. When it’s impossible.”

Rachel "The Doc" Bitecofer 📈🔭

will join us this Friday for some talk about winning and losing, about fighting, and and why quitting isn’t an option. We will discuss how history isn’t made by those who knew why they would win, instead it is made by those who chose to keep going when every sign said they would lose.

When you need a real talk, we turn to leaders like Rachel Bitecofer who injects emotive facts into this fight.

Next up, we will cover Virginia elections and introduce the Williamsburg/Peninsula PowerPack. This PowerPack is on the Virginia Peninsula, running along the James River from Williamsburg to Hampton to Norfolk.

All four of these House of Delegates races could be close — but winnable!

Jessica Anderson ran in 2023 and lost by fewer than 700 votes! Yes, we can make history in Virginia by flipping the state BLUE and flipping House seats from red to blue. It’s time for a blue trifecta like in 2019! Time to take back power. Let’s adopt these candidates to run the board and smash MAGA. Republicans should be unelectable this year.

Mark Downey - Candidate HD69

Jessica Anderson - Candidate HD71

Virgil Thornton Sr.- Candidate HD86

Phil Hernandez - Candidate HD94

We will make the possible POSSIBLE by supporting these candidates. See you in the room Friday at 12 NOON.

Cheers!
BIG MIC: Katherine White

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