These flyers have been cropping up all over Republican Rep. Gabe Evans’ Denver-area district. Kudos to whoever’s responsible!
Hi, all, and happy Sunday.
It’s been a hell of a week, yet some phenomenal things still happened! Let’s take a few moments to read about them below.
Remember, what we focus on tends to grow, so let’s make sure we give at least equal time to the victories and wins we’re seeing all over the country—and the world! After all, how can we keep doing this hard work if doomscrolling kills our morale?
We can’t. So don’t let it happen!
Enjoy, my dear friends. And please share this list with a friend in need.
Read This 📖
Someone sent me this famous underground poem by Shizhi (Lusheng Guo) that was circulated from one handwritten note to another during the Cultural Revolution. Spectacular.
Believe in the Future
As cobwebs relentlessly seal off my stove,As dying smoke sighs for the sadness of poverty.I will stubbornly dig out the ash of disappointment,And write with beautiful snowflakes: Believe in the Future.
When my overripe grapes melt into late autumn dew,When my fresh flower lies in another’s arms.I will stubbornly write on the bleak earth,With a dry frozen vine: Believe in the Future.
I point to the waves billowing to the sky,I want to be the sea that holds the sun in its palm.Take hold of the beautiful warm pen of the dawn,And write with a child-like hand: Believe in the Future.
The reason why I believe so resolutely in the future is: I believe in the eyes of the future’s people,They have eyelashes that can brush away the ash of history,They have pupils that can see through the texts of time.
It doesn’t matter whether people shed moved tears,For our rotten flesh, our sadness of hesitancy or our bitterness of failure.Whether they view us with sneers or deep-felt sympathy,Or scornful smiles or pungent satire.
I firmly believe that people will judge our spines,Our endless explorations, losses, failures and successes,With an enthusiastic, objective and fair evaluation,Yes, I await their judgment anxiously.
Friends, please let us believe in the future firmly.Believe in our indomitable striving.Believe in our youth that will conquer death.Believe in the Future: Love the Life.
Celebrate This! 🎉
In a rare victory for wildlife, Game and Fish unanimously rejected pressure from ranching and oil interests to cut key migration routes used by the Sublette pronghorn herd in Wyoming’s Red Desert.
An appeals board ruled that the state of Iowa must pay $85,000 to a group of transgender students after they were barred from entering a restroom at the Capitol five years ago.
Global solar deployment hit 380 GW in the first half of this year, a 64% increase from the same period in 2024.
At the VMAs, Sabrina Carpenter used her debut performance of “Tears” off her new album to support trans rights.
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D) formally rejected the DOJ’s second demand to access the state’s voter rolls and other sensitive voter data.
Democrats notched a victory against the civil rights division of the Department of Justice, negotiating an agreement to keep about 98,000 North Carolina voters from being prevented from voting.
Global maternal mortality rates have fallen by almost 60% since 1985.
“Bearing Witness @ ICE,” a group committed to peaceful, nonviolent protest, is holding standouts in front of the ICE Field Office in Burlington, MA every Wednesday. Each week the crowd joining them grows larger.
Protesters gathered in Yorba Linda, CA to vocalize their dissent to Amy Coney Barrett, who was in town as part of her book tour.
Rhode Island and Connecticut are suing the Trump administration over its decision to halt construction on a massive offshore wind farm that is 80% complete.
After years of accounting for over half of the U.S. EV market and reaching an 80% high, Tesla made up just 38% of total EV sales in August, marking an eight-year low.
Philanthropist Melinda French Gates has announced a new partnership that will commit $100 million to accelerate women’s health research.
Registered nurses at HCA Florida Fort Walton-Destin Hospital in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. voted decisively in favor of joining National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United (NNOC/NNU). This win is all the more significant because 70% of the people in Okaloosa County voted for Trump.
California’s first solar-covered canal is now fully online!
Tesla released an upgraded version of its grid-battery product that will allow developers to build bigger energy-storage projects faster. (Hate the company, love the climate-positive innovations.)
In an effort to further drive down shootings, Philadelphia is now requiring gun stores to post warning signs about the criminality and consequences of purchasing firearms for someone who is legally barred from owning them.
An appeals court upheld E. Jean Carroll’s 83 million dollar judgement against Donald Trump.
A federal court has intervened to temporarily restrict unprecedented data sharing between the IRS and ICE.
Nearly two dozen Arizonans gathered outside Arizona Public Services headquarters to protest their decision to roll back their clean energy commitments.
The Sister District volunteer community has already made 729,760 early dials for their candidates in Virginia — and they’ve raised $567,449 in support of their campaigns! AMAZING WORK!
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration illegally tried to cancel TPS for more than 1 million residents from Venezuela and Haiti, calling the move unreasoned and racially motivated.
Nepali citizens had a WILD week! Led by Gen Z protestors, they toppled a corrupt government, put their first female, anti-corruption PM in power, and then went and cleaned up the streets. New elections are set for March 5, 2026.
CA passed a bill banning police and ICE from wearing masks during operations. (If you live in California please call Newsom and tell him to sign it!)
Two Texas House Republicans, Michael McCaul and Morgan Luttrell, announced they are retiring at the end of their terms.
Trump’s “crime emergency” in Washington, D.C. — which put local police under federal control and sent in the National Guard — officially expired this week after Congress refused to extend it.
A federal appeals court left in place an injunction preventing Trump’s dismantling of three federal agencies that support museums, libraries, minority-owned businesses, and labor mediation.
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction barring DHS and Los Angeles Police Department from using tear gas, rubber bullets and other weapons on journalists and protesters who pose no threat to public safety.
The 4th Circuit struck down a North Carolina law imposing criminal penalties on residents with felony convictions who vote before their rights are restored — even if they mistakenly believe or were told they are eligible.
Zohran Mamdani has launched a “Game Over Greed” petition that calls on FIFA to abandon its plan to use dynamic pricing for the 2026 World Cup
The US Government approved $32.5 million for the World Food Program in Nigeria to support food and nutrition programs
Three former top FBI officials sued FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi saying their firings were mandated by the White House and Department of Justice.
A federal judge temporarily blocked Trump from removing Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, allowing her to continue serving as she contests her recent dismissal.
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to subpoena medical records of transgender patients who received gender-affirming care at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Democrat James Walkinshaw won Virginia’s deep-blue 11th Congressional District by wide margins, over-performing Kamala Harris by 16 points. Democrats have now officially won or overperformed in 42 out of 43 key elections this year.
A federal appeals court ruled that Shira Perlmutter, the nation’s top copyright official, can continue serving in her post following Trump’s attempt to fire her.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert won its first-ever Emmy on Sunday, less than two months after news of its cancellation.
A federal judge in Arizona temporarily blocked the Trump administration from removing dozens of Guatemalan and Honduran children living in shelters or foster care after coming to the U.S. alone
Trump got booed at a Yankees game.
The Trump administration seems to have backed off of its threats to send the National Guard into Chicago. To every Chicagoan who got out into the streets THANK YOU AND CONGRATS!!! You got Trump to TACO!!
President Trump ventured one-tenth of a mile beyond the gates of the White House for dinner on Tuesday night, only to be met almost immediately by protesters who called him “the Hitler of our time.”
California volunteers are standing guard at day laborer corners amid ICE sweeps as part of a program called “Adopt a Corner.”
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a package of legislation intended to strengthen worker and labor protections statewide.
The federal government [will now allow its firefighters to mask up](http://the/ federal government will now allow its firefighters to mask up — upending a decades-long policy that had left them exposed to toxic flurries of illness-inducing wildfire smoke.) — upending a decades-long policy that had left them exposed to toxic flurries of illness-inducing wildfire smoke.
New Mexico is becoming the first state in the U.S. to offer free early childhood education to every family in the state. HUGE!
Britain’s now-former Ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, has been fired over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
The government of New South Wales, Australia confirmed its creation of a great koala national park, adding 176,000 hectares of forest to existing reserves and creating one of the state’s largest national parks.
The nation’s first onshore wave energy site began operating at the Port of Los Angeles.
Despite millions spent by companies like Delta, United, and the American Hotel and Lodging Association,a full signature count by the Los Angeles County Registrar found that the referendum campaign to repeal a minimum wage increase for Olympic workers did not meet the qualifications to be placed on the ballot. THIS IS HUGE!
Solar power has overtaken gas to become Hungary’s second-largest energy source.
Washington became the first state in the nation to ban all chemicals that release formaldehyde in cosmetics and personal care products.
A mapping tool that aims to provide forecasters and communities with flooding information has expanded to cover 60% of the U.S. population.
Arc, the Los Angeles-based electric boat company, announced a $160 million contract with a leading U.S. marine company to build 8 hybrid-electric tugboats.
ICE agents were forced to retreat from a roofing job site in an affluent Rochester, NY neighborhood after being confronted by more than 100 protesters shouting “shame!” and “Gestapo!”
Watch This! 👀
Greg Johnstone takes on Trump’s latest Epstein claims, RFK, and Hegseth. Awesome. Don’t watch if cursing offends you.
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