My notes show three action items, besides finishing the Virginia postcards, which I have mailed to Jessica Anderson Campaign HQ in Williamsburg, VA.

• Most of the donation action is going to happen in 2026, although I have gotten multiple requests from Dems running against each other in Michigan and Illinois. I haven’t looked hard at any of these races. Eighteen[!] Democrats have filed to replace retiring Jan Schakowsky in IL–09, a very blue district where the primary is everything. Sister District has sent a donation link for this year’s Virginia House of Delegates races. Early voting has just started in Virginia. Voting in swing districts has been off to a quick start, but not at all clear whose voters were in a big rush to turn out.
• Buy Blue. We can see from Disney’s hasty and inadequate retreat that boycotts are a serious worry for the cowards running our major corporations. (The Washington Post has lost 500,000 digital subscribers since 2021.) But we can use our money two ways: depriving the bad guys, but also supporting the good ones. I think I was promised a source for politically liberal companies (e.g., Costco), but I don’t see it. Whoever promised, please send again. There was a Buy Blue website years ago, but it’s gone.
• Thank the judiciary. Standing up to Trump is a thankless job. Judges have been doing it since the beginning of this Trump regime, even though the Supreme Court has seldom shown inclination to back them up. We can write them thank-you notes. I believe someone has assembled a list of addresses. I simply started with a list of some of the most heroic judges: Paula Xinis [immigration], James Boasberg [immigration], Allison D. Burroughs [Harvard], Beryl Howell [spite against law firms]. As you can see, Google finds email and snail mail addresses with one click. (Two for some of the snail mail.) I’m going to get out the nice pen and stationery.

Friday protests continue.

Yes, I know I haven’t done minutes of the previous meeting yet. And if I have omitted something from this meeting, the edit button is never far away.