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We are so grateful for the hundreds of thousands of Warren supporters who used our tools to help our grassroots movement: Thank you.

In our work, we leaned heavily on open source technology — and want to contribute back to that community. So today we’re taking the important step of open-sourcing some of the most important projects of the Elizabeth Warren campaign for anyone to use.

Our hope is that other Democratic candidates and progressive causes will use the ideas and code we developed to run stronger campaigns and help Democrats win.

This article links to a Washington Post article on Ron Wyden’s proposed  federal election-by-mail bill (following Oregon’s system).

In The Car Podcast Episode 4 – Home Impeachment Edition

In this episode of the In The Car Podcast, I sing a song about the impeachment of Donald Trump. The episode was recorded on December 19th, but I had to do a little editing and was not able to complete that until today.

The tune is “The Christmas Song” by Robert Wells and Mel Torme, new lyrics are as shown below:

The Impeachment Song

Donald Trump wanted to inflict some pain

On Joe Biden, yes, his biggest foe

A perfect phone call with the head of Ukraine

And a chance to make a quid pro quo

 

Everybody knew they had to start the coverup

Hide the transcript as quickly as they could

But then a whistleblower stood and spoke up

That Trump did not act like he should

 

The House began to join the fray

By calling witnesses who had a lot to say

And after several weeks, they found the truth

That everyone was in the loop

 

And so our country had a choice to make

To figure out what we had to do

For Donald Trump, after solemn debate

It’s impeachment for you

In this recent article by Ken Smith, he makes an effective argument that all of us will soon need to be more involved in our democracy….

We need to use more potent words than words like do something. We need some particular ideas, some actual knowledge, not just ideas about climate change but, with the same urgency, ideas about activism. How it really works.

Finally – the Donald Trump cave-in has happened!

From CNN: Donald Trump has caved. And now the government is going to re-open.

The actual bill the Senate and House are approving: House Joint Resolution 28: Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019. I could not find a link to the Senate version of the bill, will add that when it is available.

The two Senate amendments from January 24th: