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You Need to Get In the Game.", "url": "https://smalldeedsdone.com/2024/07/02/democracy-is-on-the-ballot-you-need-to-get-in-the-game/", "published_at": "2024-07-02T18:42:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d08a-c71a-70a6-8aac-51b65967a3ec", "title": "To All the Little Girls", "url": "https://smalldeedsdone.com/2024/06/25/to-all-the-little-girls-2/", "published_at": "2024-06-25T21:15:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d08a-c71a-70a6-8aac-51b65a4e2d99", "title": "We Have to Stop Giving Republicans Runway", "url": "https://smalldeedsdone.com/2024/06/18/we-have-to-stop-giving-republicans-runway/", "published_at": "2024-06-18T17:17:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d08a-c71a-70a6-8aac-51b65aab6acc", "title": "What I Wish Blue State Democrats Understood", "url": "https://smalldeedsdone.com/2024/06/11/what-i-wish-blue-state-democrats-understood/", "published_at": "2024-06-11T23:24:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d08a-c71a-70a6-8aac-51b65ba7838c", "title": "If a Republican Is Convicted of 34 Felonies in a Lonely Forest, Does He Make a Sound?", "url": "https://smalldeedsdone.com/2024/06/04/if-a-republican-is-convicted-of-34-felonies-in-a-lonely-forest-does-he-make-a-sound/", "published_at": "2024-06-04T21:21:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d08b-12d6-73f5-ab62-4f320cf1db6e", "title": "On Hope: It’s A Choice, Not An Emotion", "url": "https://smalldeedsdone.com/2024/05/28/on-hope-its-a-choice-not-an-emotion/", "published_at": "2024-05-28T21:39:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d08b-12d6-73f5-ab62-4f320ddcbc03", "title": "How Long Does It Take to Split a Mountain In Two?", "url": "https://smalldeedsdone.com/2024/05/21/how-long-does-it-take-to-split-a-mountain-in-two/", "published_at": "2024-05-21T23:14:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d08b-12d6-73f5-ab62-4f320e576138", "title": "Lessons From the Great American Novel", "url": "https://smalldeedsdone.com/2024/05/14/lessons-from-the-great-american-novel/", "published_at": "2024-05-14T22:24:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d08b-12d6-73f5-ab62-4f320f171b73", "title": "Another Red State Goes Pink: Signature Gathering Success in MO", "url": "https://smalldeedsdone.com/2024/05/07/another-red-state-goes-pink-signature-gathering-success-in-mo/", "published_at": "2024-05-07T22:50:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d08b-12d6-73f5-ab62-4f320f8763ac", "title": "Everything Had to Fall Apart, For Everything to Come Together", "url": "https://smalldeedsdone.com/2024/04/30/everything-had-to-fall-apart-for-everything-to-come-together/", "published_at": "2024-04-30T22:33:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d08b-12d6-73f5-ab62-4f32105739a2", "title": "Learned Optimism, Learned Helplessness, And Why Some Folks In Red States Just Never Give Up", "url": "https://smalldeedsdone.com/2024/04/23/learned-optimism-learned-helplessness-and-why-some-folks-in-red-states-just-never-give-up/", "published_at": "2024-04-23T20:35:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d08b-12d6-73f5-ab62-4f3210f0b950", "title": "I Have Hot Flashes and a Republican Senator. Don’t Tell Me To Calm Down.", "url": "https://smalldeedsdone.com/2024/04/16/i-have-hot-flashes-and-a-republican-senator-dont-tell-me-to-calm-down/", "published_at": "2024-04-16T21:35:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d08b-12d6-73f5-ab62-4f3211e37b10", "title": "The Eclipse: A Full Circle and a Jumping Off Point", "url": "https://smalldeedsdone.com/2024/04/09/the-eclipse-a-full-circle-and-a-jumping-off-point/", "published_at": "2024-04-09T20:38:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d08b-12d6-73f5-ab62-4f3212278aba", "title": "Is the message finally getting through?", "url": "https://smalldeedsdone.com/2024/04/02/is-the-message-finally-getting-through/", "published_at": "2024-04-02T18:37:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d08b-12d6-73f5-ab62-4f32129a4b84", "title": "The Humanity Behind the News", "url": "https://smalldeedsdone.com/2024/03/26/the-humanity-behind-the-news/", "published_at": "2024-03-26T18:32:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d08b-4dde-7330-8c9b-0ad09cf172d5", "title": "Go Fly A Kite: Patience, Persistence, and a Last Minute Plan", "url": "https://smalldeedsdone.com/2024/03/19/go-fly-a-kite-patience-persistence-and-a-last-minute-plan/", "published_at": "2024-03-19T17:05:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d08b-4dde-7330-8c9b-0ad09d7e7a14", "title": "To You, Ten Years From Now", "url": "https://smalldeedsdone.com/2024/03/12/to-you-ten-years-from-now/", "published_at": "2024-03-13T00:16:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d08b-4dde-7330-8c9b-0ad09da1434b", "title": "There’s No Silver Bullet", "url": "https://smalldeedsdone.com/2024/03/05/theres-no-silver-bullet/", "published_at": "2024-03-06T00:13:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d08b-4dde-7330-8c9b-0ad09e88f302", "title": "The Grassroots Does It Again", "url": "https://smalldeedsdone.com/2024/02/27/the-grassroots-does-it-again/", "published_at": "2024-02-27T17:03:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d08b-4dde-7330-8c9b-0ad09f749ccf", "title": "When Good People Do Nothing", "url": "https://smalldeedsdone.com/2024/02/20/when-good-people-do-nothing/", "published_at": "2024-02-20T16:37:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d08b-4dde-7330-8c9b-0ad0a0702aa4", "title": "We Are Living in a Plastic Moment", "url": "https://smalldeedsdone.com/2024/02/13/we-are-living-in-a-plastic-moment/", "published_at": "2024-02-13T12:49:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d08b-4dde-7330-8c9b-0ad0a0c9ffe4", "title": "It’s Seed Starting Time", "url": "https://smalldeedsdone.com/2024/02/06/its-seed-starting-time/", "published_at": "2024-02-07T01:29:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d08b-4dde-7330-8c9b-0ad0a0cd5d87", "title": "He, Himself, Was Nothing", "url": "https://smalldeedsdone.com/2024/01/30/he-himself-was-nothing/", "published_at": "2024-01-31T02:17:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d08b-4dde-7330-8c9b-0ad0a17979cb", "title": "On Resilience, Roe, and Monster Slayers", "url": "https://smalldeedsdone.com/2024/01/23/on-resilience-roe-and-monster-slayers/", "published_at": "2024-01-24T00:51:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d08b-4dde-7330-8c9b-0ad0a2022b2a", "title": "Some Much-Needed Perspective and Context for Iowa", "url": "https://smalldeedsdone.com/2024/01/16/some-much-needed-perspective-and-context-for-iowa/", "published_at": "2024-01-16T18:47:36+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog

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Make Them Eat Their Policies original ↗

30 Dec 2025

Go Sing Your Song: Joy As Resistance and Fuel original ↗

16 Dec 2025

The Long Game, Trees, and TN-07: Building Infrastructure, Not Just Winning Races original ↗

9 Dec 2025

Growing In the Dark: Seeds and Water and Warmth and Time original ↗

2 Dec 2025

Are You Going This Year?: Holidays for Red State Democrats original ↗

26 Nov 2025

What’s Stopping You?original ↗

18 Nov 2025

You, Too, Can Lift A Car: Life Demands Courage original ↗

4 Nov 2025

Tank Man Had Shopping Bags. She Had a Polka Dot Dress.original ↗

29 Oct 2025

Small Towns, Red States, No Kings original ↗

21 Oct 2025

The Party I Almost Missed original ↗

14 Oct 2025

A Sea of Thorns Amidst a Cascade of Inhumanities original ↗

7 Oct 2025

If Republicans Get Their Way, It Could Cause an ACA Death Spiral: the Explainer I Hate to Write original ↗

30 Sept 2025

Welcome to the Show: When democracy becomes spectacle – and how we take back the script original ↗

23 Sept 2025

Lost In Translation: Why Do Democratic Policies Win While Democratic Candidates Lose?original ↗

16 Sept 2025

I Guess I’m a “Red State Moocher”original ↗

10 Sept 2025

Leaning In: Built to Bend, Not Break original ↗

2 Sept 2025

Stop Clipping Our Own Wings original ↗

27 Aug 2025

If You Can’t Take a Break, Take a Breath: Notes From the Road original ↗

12 Aug 2025

Community, Mothership, and How We Go On From Here original ↗

6 Aug 2025

The Root of Trump’s Big Polling Problem original ↗

30 Jul 2025

Maternal Healthcare Access is a Disaster original ↗

22 Jul 2025

Just Because You Carry It Well Doesn’t Mean It’s Not Heavy original ↗

15 Jul 2025

Smashing Pumpkins, Or Grieving What Might Have Been original ↗

8 Jul 2025

Let Them Eat (Wedding) Cake: The Bezos Wedding and the Story of How a Banquet Helped End a Monarchy original ↗

1 Jul 2025

A Losing Battle is Still Worth Fighting original ↗

24 Jun 2025

The Smaller Protests Are the Bigger Story original ↗

17 Jun 2025

Life Imitates Art; Art Interprets Life original ↗

10 Jun 2025

A Wildfire of Inspiration original ↗

3 Jun 2025

How Do You Summer … When Fascism?original ↗

27 May 2025

The GOP’s War of Attrition original ↗

20 May 2025

Like A Mother: A Plastic Square, a Chip Clip, and a Flat Tire original ↗

13 May 2025

Under Pressure: Forcing Choices original ↗

7 May 2025

Fight–Everywhere, All At Once original ↗

30 Apr 2025

Shared Humanity and Unconditional Value original ↗

23 Apr 2025

Taking Steps, Planting Seeds, It All Matters original ↗

15 Apr 2025

Democrats. Democrats, Everywhere original ↗

9 Apr 2025

All Rise: It’s Time To Stand original ↗

1 Apr 2025

Bumbling, Dangerous, Incompetent Fools original ↗

25 Mar 2025

Growing From the Broken Bits: My Favorite Tree original ↗

18 Mar 2025

Shifting Ground and Bedrock original ↗

12 Mar 2025

Leading and Inspiring the Free World original ↗

5 Mar 2025

Do You Hear the People Sing?original ↗

26 Feb 2025

Lead, Evolve, or Get Out of the Way original ↗

18 Feb 2025

Of the Billionaires, By the Billionaires, For the Billionaires original ↗

11 Feb 2025

Come to Terms With Reality: Fight Accordingly original ↗

5 Feb 2025

Swinging at Monsters: Small Things Can Pack a Punch original ↗

28 Jan 2025

My Response to the Question: What Do We Do Now?original ↗

21 Jan 2025

The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott: There Was a Woman Behind it All original ↗

14 Jan 2025

The Big Win I’ll Bet You Forgot (and the Most Unexpected Senators Who Delivered It)original ↗

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An Ode to My Baby Van Cat: My Best Good Boy original ↗

31 Dec 2024

How One Little Girl Brightened A Thousand Days at Christmas original ↗

24 Dec 2024

Our Country, Ourselves: Lessons From 1969 original ↗

17 Dec 2024

Frankenstein, Not Robin Hood: Luigi Mangione original ↗

11 Dec 2024

Blue Sky and Birds: When Good People Don’t Tolerate Bad Behavior original ↗

3 Dec 2024

A Holiday Apart: In Defense of a Solitary Thanksgiving original ↗

26 Nov 2024

She Was A Hell Raiser, Not a Humanitarian: Be Like Mother Jones original ↗

19 Nov 2024

The Sun Always Comes Up original ↗

12 Nov 2024

The Shock is Shocking: Pundits Don’t Seem to Get This Election original ↗

3 Nov 2024

Fear Factor: Halloween Edition original ↗

29 Oct 2024

Of Course You Can Laugh: This Moment is Serious and Ridiculous original ↗

22 Oct 2024

Not Like That: The Criticism of Harris Is the Chorus of Our Lives original ↗

15 Oct 2024

Why This Red State Democrat Couldn’t Watch the Vice Presidential Debate original ↗

8 Oct 2024

Interrupted Women, Interrupting: Excuse Us, We’re Speaking original ↗

1 Oct 2024

Bearing Witness: Democrats Holding Space and Opening Doors original ↗

24 Sept 2024

Messages Need Messengers. Democrats’ Messaging Problem, and How We Fix It.original ↗

18 Sept 2024

The Pressure, the Exhaustion: Red State Republican Strategy original ↗

10 Sept 2024

My Dad, the Dittohead: Rush Limbaugh Stole Our Fathers original ↗

4 Sept 2024

The Physics of Politics: the First Law of Motion original ↗

28 Aug 2024

The Heroes Living Next Door: Down Ballot Democrats original ↗

21 Aug 2024

The Power of Being Seen: Red State Democrats Are Having a Moment original ↗

13 Aug 2024

Walz Is From Nebraska: This Small Town Girl Approves original ↗

6 Aug 2024

Democrats Get Weird: Revenge of the Nerds original ↗

30 Jul 2024

The Grassroots Speaks With a Unified Voice original ↗

23 Jul 2024

Turning the Temperature Down By Showing Up: Meet Elad Gross original ↗

16 Jul 2024

Do Not Obey In Advance: How Democrats Have Broken the First Rule original ↗

9 Jul 2024

Democracy is On the Ballot. You Need to Get In the Game.original ↗

2 Jul 2024

To All the Little Girls original ↗

25 Jun 2024

We Have to Stop Giving Republicans Runway original ↗

18 Jun 2024

What I Wish Blue State Democrats Understood original ↗

11 Jun 2024

If a Republican Is Convicted of 34 Felonies in a Lonely Forest, Does He Make a Sound?original ↗

4 Jun 2024

On Hope: It’s A Choice, Not An Emotion original ↗

28 May 2024

How Long Does It Take to Split a Mountain In Two?original ↗

21 May 2024

Lessons From the Great American Novel original ↗

14 May 2024

Another Red State Goes Pink: Signature Gathering Success in MO original ↗

7 May 2024

Everything Had to Fall Apart, For Everything to Come Together original ↗

30 Apr 2024

Learned Optimism, Learned Helplessness, And Why Some Folks In Red States Just Never Give Up original ↗

23 Apr 2024

I Have Hot Flashes and a Republican Senator. Don’t Tell Me To Calm Down.original ↗

16 Apr 2024

The Eclipse: A Full Circle and a Jumping Off Point original ↗

9 Apr 2024

Is the message finally getting through?original ↗

2 Apr 2024

The Humanity Behind the News original ↗

26 Mar 2024

Go Fly A Kite: Patience, Persistence, and a Last Minute Plan original ↗

19 Mar 2024

To You, Ten Years From Now original ↗

13 Mar 2024

There’s No Silver Bullet original ↗

6 Mar 2024

The Grassroots Does It Again original ↗

27 Feb 2024

When Good People Do Nothing original ↗

20 Feb 2024

We Are Living in a Plastic Moment original ↗

13 Feb 2024

It’s Seed Starting Time original ↗

7 Feb 2024

He, Himself, Was Nothing original ↗

31 Jan 2024

On Resilience, Roe, and Monster Slayers original ↗

24 Jan 2024

Some Much-Needed Perspective and Context for Iowa original ↗

16 Jan 2024