Broad City: When Ordinary Citizens Run Against Powerful Incumbants
A month ago, when Congressman Steve King tweeted that “We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies,” it helped to pinpoint exactly where conservative politics are in 2017. The high-profile Iowa lawmaker showed that his xenophobic ideas no longer needed to be hidden, and he was actively trying to make immigrants and refugees feel unwelcome in the United States. In many ways, King and his ilk have been emboldened by the election of Donald J. Trump, and King, in fact, doubled down on his rhetoric in the days that followed. When offered an opportunity to back off his stance, King said no, there was no misunderstanding: he meant exactly what he said.
This year has been defined by powerful white men and their lies. Parsing out fact from fiction has become a daily chore for ordinary Americans, making it difficult to even know where to begin with combatting the agenda of the new administration. It’s not an easy job, holding elected officials’ feet to the fire and reminding them of their own vulnerability, but two women in two of the reddest parts of conservative America are hoping to go where no other woman from their district has gone before: the U.S. House of Representatives. And for the first time, well, maybe ever, they just might have a shot.
http://www.gq.com/story/challenging-congressional-incumbents?mbid=social_twitter
Here is where you can go to help these ReSisters
http://weaverforcongress.nationbuilder.com/
https://www.crowdpac.com/campaigns/181376/the-us-congress-needs-a-caring-physician/updates/423
and here's another from Georgia's 5th
http://www.frank4congress.com/
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