If the patriarchy of the Republican Party, along with their white Supremacist co-horts and Catholic Church funders, didn’t understand the raging fire they had ignited, well, they do now. I mean, how angry, how committed do you have to be to drive to the polls on a near 100-degree day, stand in line for an hour — and then just go in and mark a single “X” on the ballot?! But Sherrill said she doubted DeGroot’s pro-choice credentials since he’s said the issue should be left up to the states, leaving abortion banned for millions of people.

I’ve been counting on the vast majority with whom I share this land, the ones who believe in the human rights of women, who believe that the human species is in deep environmental danger, who believe the rich, by getting richer, have made life harder for everyone else — I believe we, together, are going to turn this all around. Beginning today. Right? The most recent hit to GOP was a Democratic victory in a special congressional election in a competitive suburban district in New York. The winning Democratic candidate, Pat Ryan, made his campaign a referendum on the Dobbs decision, and it paid off big time. The new member of Congress might have won an even more decisive victory if Graham had proposed his national abortion ban before the special election When anti-choice politicians want to force a 10-year-old rape victim to give birth, it proves they don't care about a sexually violated child forced into compulsory pregnancy; when we're just a few years away from the point where any action we take may no longer make a difference on climate change and Republicans are still denying its existence; when a former U.S. President roams free after staging a violent coup against the legitimately elected President and steals top secret, nuclear documents on his way out the door, you must know that this election is critical, perhaps as much as any other in our collective history. Voters get to write American history and the future in this midterm election. That was the message on a T-shirt worn the other night by Amalia Duarte, the Morris County Democratic chair. She was not alone.Truth #16 : As Alex Jones has now been fined a billion dollars for his lies, that is nothing compared to the punishment other Republicans are going to get on November 8th. Since huge majorities of Americans support Roe v. Wade and prioritize climate action, we think this will be an historic mid-term when voters reject the idea of 5, unelected justices and their accomplices in Congress making these existential decisions by fiat in our democracy, adversely impacting millions of women and their families. With the addition of support for Roe v. Wade to our national climate change voter's guide, for every incumbent and challenger for the U.S. House, U.S. Senate and Governors, Vote Climate U.S. PAC will help inform voter's decisions on climate-action and pro-choice candidates. Given that my opponent said it was proper to overturn Roe, and given that he thinks it’s ok for a state to fully ban abortion with no exceptions … I don’t think he is pro-choice,” Sherrill said. There is a colossal uprising underway right now and it doesn’t involve an armed mob storming the Capitol, or a mass shooting at a July 4th parade, or guys I went to high school with trying to kidnap the governor of Michigan.

The (mostly) men who pass abortion bans do so with the political help of white women voters who (wrongly) believe that we and our daughters will always be able to access the uniquely righteous abortions to which we are entitled and others are not. But regardless of Sherrill’s chances, speakers at today’s Roevember rally were unanimous in urging residents of the 11th district and of New Jersey to come out in November and vote. In recent chats with those attending GOP gatherings this summer, the sentiment is clear. Inflation and high gas prices are more of a concern for most people than abortion. Paul DeGroot in CD-11 is linking his opponent Mikie Sherrill to “empty shelves” and “soaring food prices.”Still, Roevember is definitely alive and well, especially on Tumblr. Both the #Roevember and #Roevember FFXIV tags are very active there. Truth #14 : If the Mainstream Media Thinks There’s a Chance We May Be Right about Roevember, Watch Out. In each of the four Democratic-held seats targeted by the GOP (New Hampshire, Nevada, Arizona and Georgia) polls now show the incumbent Democrats ahead of their challengers. The senate polls look particularly bad in Arizona, where Mark Kelly is polling eight points above Blake Masters, who once favored abortion rights but now supports a nationwide ban and a “federal personhood law” for fetuses.

A handful of others wore shirts displaying the same message as county Dems gathered for a barbecue in the Brookside section of this Morris County town. Despite the doom their own poll predicts for Democrats, Eli Yokely of Morning Consult still tries to give Democrats a glimmer of hope by pointing out that “other surveys have shown that Democrats have an enthusiasm advantage over the GOP, implying the figures could change over the coming weeks.” Women in states like California, Illinois and New York who thought they had nothing to fear from draconian state bans on reproductive rights in places like Texas, Idaho and Alabama now have lots to worry about, thanks to the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. It’s been all downhill for the GOP ever since the sad and mournful day of the Dobbs decision. Graham just added fuel to the fire that incinerated the fading GOP dream of a big win in November. NYT: Our analysis shows that the Kansas vote on abortion rights would be approved by voters in all but 7 states.

The headline-behind-the-headlines is that mainstream and legacy media are only now covering abortion access as if Americans generally support it, and only recently writing about the issue from the lens that the GOP is out of touch with average folks who don’t love the idea of forcing people to stay pregnant against their will. In fact, it has always been strange, politically speaking, that abortion restrictions and bans have proliferated despite widespread support for abortion access, including historically bipartisan support for early abortion, and especially for access with so-called “exceptions” for rape, incest, and the life of the pregnant person (the reality of these exceptions in practice is highly debatable ).