This came into our inbox from author Susan Austin. (Naomi fixed the phone number: this one is correct.)

Here are some specific requests we can make of our Senators.

Our candidate is Susan Crawford.

This is one of the most consequential elections of the year, to retain our 4–3 majority. Among other accomplishments, the Court nuked one of the two most extreme state legislative gerrymanders in the country, where one year Republicans attained a veto-proof supermajority with fewer total votes than the Democrats. (North Carolina also has an extreme gerrymander, where the State Supreme Court may award the 2024 Supreme Court judicial election to the loser on some-or-another pretext. Best guess is that the most moderate Republican on that court will follow the law instead of his party; the other three are definite weasels.)

Those who found us from the national Indivisible search link, we look forward to meeting you in person.

Let me also mention, for everyone, that political commentary of Yours Truly, grumpy guy, can be found on Substack.

Nicole Zambrano of Sister District will be joining us at 4:30 via Zoom.

Hope to see everyone there.

New members: drop me an email if you need the address.

Adam Grey is now ahead in CA-13 by over 100 votes.

And, I have a second Substack post.

Well, the champagne stayed in the cupboard. We had good turnout anyway.

I reviewed data from the election. Harris did about 3 points better in the battleground states where we put our money and efforts. But the national trend was about 6 points against us.

I have begun a Substack. My first posts will be on Why Harris Lost, or, perhaps, These Weren’t the Reasons Harris Lost. (Only one post is up, on Harris and Gaza.) I won’t repeat them here.

Naomi handed out copies of the Indivisible 2.0 Guide. We also distributed a list of our personal media subscriptions, which will grow and shrink and a worksheet, Helping Everyone Find a Home in the Opposition/Resistance. Please distribute to your friends, or link.

We have decided to reduce our commitment to hosting future meetings. Janice Weingrod is picking up the baton and will host our next meeting, which will be Sunday, January 12. We will avoid scheduling meetings on the same days as other local Indivisible groups, so that people can attend as many as needed. “My name is Andy L., and I have been a Resistance member for seven years and eleven months.”

There was widespread feeling that these meetings help us stay sane as we prepare for the next battles. Please contact one of us, or Janice, for her address, which will not be published here. In the meantime, she has an exhibit at the local knitting store.

(This Sunday I am checking out another Indivisible Group, and I will see who has better snacks.)

Well, it certainly was not the election we wanted, and the world will be worse for it. Many liberals and Democrats are assigning blame in ways that coincidentally agree with their priors. I’m still thinking about what happened, but I will say there are two numbers whose importance I underestimated. Biden’s approval is still 20 points underwater, and two thirds of the electorate thinks the country is on the wrong track. I will write more on this, once I can bear it.

When we look back the the Obama Administration, we see his great health care achievements. We also look back on his failure to punish either the bankers who wrecked the economy at our expense, or the torturers who defiled us. When we look back on the Biden Administration, we will see his economic miracle. We will also see Merrick Garland’s epic cowardice disguised as personal rectitude, the moral collapse on Israel and Palestine, and perhaps worst of all, the failure to warn the people up front what exiting the pandemic era was going to mean economically.

We can play the long game. Others have.