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Allllll right y’all…I want to begin by saying, I know. We’re all fucking sick of holding our noses and voting for someone just because they’re the only choice. The time for leaders who are risk averse at the expense of their constituents, who squeak by not on their own merits but on how disqualifying their opponents are, and who rest on simple

Before I head back into articles about preparing for resistance and what that looks like in our daily lives, I want to take a moment to reflect on where we are. Yes, I am going to get all meta here for a moment, but if now is not the time for it, I don’t know when is. Plus, I am about due for a post in which I primarily muse.

If you have read my

Most Americans think of voting as a single event. You go to the polls or mail in your ballot, and then you are done. Even in terms of organizing, we tend to think of all the lead up to voting: getting people registered, watching polls, and pushing early voting. This places our elections at risk, as they remain

Jair Bolsonaro was Brazil’s far-right president from 2019-2023. After Bolsonaro won the presidency, Brazilians were faced with the far-reaching consequences. He was a vocal opponent of environmental regulations, LGBTQ+ rights, abortion, and immigration and supported the privatization of state-owned companies. As the 2022 election neared, there

As someone who has been involved in activism for decades, I can see and feel the shift that has occurred in the last 18 months. People who say they “aren’t really into politics” are showing up to protests because they know they have to do something. We are seeing our free fall from democracy to authoritarianism occur at an alarming rate (for more

Alright, y’all. I know that I am skipping over the PROVE of the four phases of voting for now, but there are reasons for that. First of all, this one is more fun to think and write about. This is where we make sure our votes count in a way that most of us have never considered

In January of 2025, after a few days of wallowing post inauguration, I began to look for something to do. I initially got out to connect with others pushing back against Trump. What I did not expect was so many people coming out to express their desire for change. I have never seen such a varied crowd at any political

For a deeper dive, here’s my original diatribe

Drazan in a Nutshell

• Led a walkout in 2020 to block greenhouse gas emissions legislation, SB 1530…she and the rest of the Minority state legislators went to Reno for four days.

  • effectively killed SB 1530, which would’ve set a cap on greenhouse gas emissions, with a mandate that Oregon’s emissions be 45%,

I think we have all experienced looking down at our ballot, weighing between candidates we don’t really support and noticing all the uncontested positions. I certainly have chosen to vote for no one over two lackluster options that I know are unlikely to lead to any tangible improvements.

We have accepted this as reality, instead of recognizing

Like most Americans, I grew up with one idea of democracy: the land of the free, the good old U.S. of A. Democracy and America were one and the same in my mind; the shining beacon for the Western World. Even when I began to see the cracks, the ways our system worked for some and not others, the way other democracies seemed