Never Give Up, Never Surrender

Here's a tiny bright spot re: electronic privacy: a bipartisan and bicameral bill to end searches of US citizens' devices at international borders. (Now if they can just work themselves up to the whole idea that the 4th Amendment covers the rest of our digital "papers", but this is a start!)

Also, I don't know if I've mentioned this here before, but in addition to the assorted "new" groups that have formed and also, as someone else suggested, your state or local Democratic party, sometimes a local chapter of an "old" organization (NOW, League of Women Voters, PFLAG, etc., etc. etc.) can also be a good thing to join--- or to find out about starting if there's not one in your area--- not least because the "old school" organizations sometimes know even more about tactics and strategy, especially at a state/local level, and can keep "new" groups from tripping over unexpected political landmines and inadvertently sabotaging your own goals.

Last but not least, maybe I'm wrong about this, but personally, I think it is HILARIOUS that the GOP is trying to portray Jon Ossoff as being immature for doing Star Wars parody cosplay in college... when the district in which he is running is just north of the city that hosts DRAGONCON. DRAGONCON. They are trying to tell voters that only silly frat boys do cosplay in a city that annually hosts one of the biggest and best-known speculative fiction conventions in the nation. Somebody didn't do their regional research, methinks. The only way that makes any sense is if they're gambling on their own base being largely made up of non-fen who are grumpy about or ignorant of the con's presence. Which is not a bet I'd take in a well-educated and diverse district that's also thisclose to Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia--- instead I'll bet on them having alienated some portion of fencesitting nerds and maybe even some of the gamergate/brogrammer sorts. (Personally, I'd love to see Ossoff play up that angle, with a punch line along the lines of, I wonder what ELSE the GOP is out of touch with ordinary Georgians on?) (That, and something about how the GOP's at it again--- blasting a Democrat for having hobbies, like Trump did to Obama, while his own golfing habit is costing the taxpayers zillions and probably enriching him at our expense.)