Life of Wry

It was a damn good night.

An off-year election: a year ahead of the midterms, two years away from another off-year election, and three years away from the general…. maybe we shouldn’t make too, too much of it. We certainly shouldn’t count our chickens. We most certainly shouldn’t retire our canvassing sneakers, or stop making calls to Padilla and Schiff and Thompson. As Obama said last night, there is much work left to be done. But yeah, it was a great night and definitely cause for celebration.

The pundits have pretty much said all there is to say about it: clean sweep; country-wide; up and down ballot; a solid repudiation of the administration; validation for the anti-authoritarian resistance movement and a clear message for democratic electeds: fight harder, be like Gavin.

Here are some pics:

The big races: VA, NJ, Mamdani and Prop 50!

The new mayor of NYC, a proud democratic socialist. If this gets us closer to Sweden in 1976, bring it.

Our election night party and volunteer celebration at Dunloe’s Brewery.. my estimate was 70-80 folks showed up throughout the evening.

Our efforts over the election season. This is Sister District Yolo’s work and doesn’t include all the work that Indivisible Yolo did. A huge percentage of SDY volunteers are also IY volunteers.

I like this picture.. Maya holding up her “I voted” sticker from Ann Arbor. Theirs was a tiny election.. local funding for career and technical education! Hope it won.