Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson
@ashdashlee.bsky.social
I wanna get free & see all our folk, together, at the finish line.
🔥 Here's Whitehouse's entire remarkable speech opposing Blanche: "What's left of this committee when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has DOJ been asked what became of the $50k that the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our R colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, & speak no evil."
Whitehouse on Blanche: "Today is a sad and embarrassing day"
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The battleground map measures 1 thing: whether a state's close to flipping. It doesn't measure where people's fight is raging under inhumane conditions. Right now those are two very different maps, and the gap between them is where the country is being redrawn. Welcome to a thread with receipts.
Still digesting what an experience The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries Leadership Conference has been. One of the highlights was a family reunion with my Soulforce fam, Rev. Alba Onofrio. Get this book. Read this book. Support the work of Soulforce. 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵✊🏾💙💜🤎🖤🩶🤍
It is our responsibility to bend the moral arc of the universe toward justice. Come make meaning about what’s going on, get this good political education, and hear what we’re going to do to stop the attacks on our people and build the society we’ve always deserved. I’ll see yall there.
Freedom Summer Mass Call
All across the country, people are rising into the legacy of our elders and ancestors who fought for voting, civil, and human rights during Freedom Summer. We are bringing that energy, strategy, and p...
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Be checking your voter registration at least every month, if not every couple of weeks. You need to be buttoned up and ready to vote come November, and definitely for any special elections if you are in those areas.
Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson@ashdashlee.bsky.social · 3w agoWherever you are: check your voter registration today, then monthly (at least), because purges don't run on your calendar. And bring one person with you who wasn't going to do any of this. We can't win without each other.
So much happening... Lindsey Graham died Saturday night. Mitch McConnell is "recovering from a fall" and can't return to vote yet. Whatever you thought of either man, the actual machinery of the Senate just changed, and I want to walk through how it works in plain language.
What an honor to join the MeidasTouch and Legal AF teams to talk about who and what the United States is as the country turns 250, and foreshadow what’s next. youtu.be/WE7eLHgtE4c?...
Trump MELTS DOWN as He’s RIDICULED for his HIJACKING of America 250!
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For a long time our loudest word has been no. No kings. No raids. No to the men who act like this country belongs to them. Necessary! And...a no can't tell our people what life looks like on the other side of the fight. 🧵
For days now in New York, I've watched belonging happen at scale. Not forced by crisis, but by joy. A championship. A city holding every difference it has and belonging to each other anyway.
My last night being forty, so I've been asking Prince what he'd say. The whole architecture of the funk is interdependence. Bass and drums lock so tight that two instruments make one sound. Everybody plays for the pocket, not themselves.
ICYMI: @johnfugelsang.bsky.social spoke with Alex Lawson of @socialsecurityworks.org about how the Trump administration is making it harder for Americans to claim their earned Social Security benefits.
Y'all...Authoritarians aren't just trying to win elections. They're trying to grab and consolidate power. Those are two different jobs. We keep fighting on the electoral front like the terrain hasn't shifted.
Good morning, good people. I love y’all. #GEO2026 I’m headed your way. Come rock with me this afternoon ❤️✊🏾
🎤 Panelists: @marisa-franco.bsky.social, Co-founder and Director of @conmijente.bsky.social, @safiyanoble.bsky.social, Director of UCLA’s Center on Resilience & Digital Justice, and @gilduran.com, founder of The Nerd Reich Podcast ⏱️ Moderator: @ashdashlee.bsky.social, long-time movement strategist
🎬 Join the last part of our #TakeBackTech rebroadcast series on THURS, 6/4 @ 7PM ET | 4PM PT. 🏛⚙️ The line between Silicon Valley and Washington was never as thick as they wanted us to think. Join us in breaking down how tech power and fascism feed into each other. streamyard.com/watch/tNbdVA...
The DNC's 2024 autopsy is 192 pages. The entire executive summary: one sentence — "This section was not provided by author." Not vague. Not hedged. Missing. Authored without interviewing Biden, Harris, or Walz. The chair publicly disowned it. A short thread.
Every time a white person disengages from another white person, the regime gets stronger. I just published an essay about it. A defection map for the fight we're already in. White folks especially: read it, holler back, share it. medium.com/@ashleewooda...
Go Get Your People
A Defection Map for the Fight We Are Already In
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From THE Rachael Goodwin Spriggs: “We need all organizers, electeds, change makers, trusted messengers, and community members in the room! Join us tomorrow night in our focused efforts to continue building people power! Link in the chat!”
We Ain't Done Yet: Mass Mobilization Call · The Equity Alliance
## We're Still Moving, Still Organizing, Still Fighting For Ours! Two weeks. A lot of damage. One clear truth -- **THE PEOPLE HOLD THE POWER!!!** Join The Equity Alliance, elected leaders, and na...
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Tonight's Working Families Party Mass Call was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥!!! In case you missed it, here's a clip from our political education session. Watch the full recording here: www.youtube.com/live/GwkpRdx...
These conversations matter. This weekend, people across the South showed up for voting rights, democracy, and each other. Now it's time to turn that energy into strategy and action. Join us tonight at 8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT for the Working Families Party Mass Call.
Rich people bought and paid for our politicians. Politicians sold our government to the highest bidder. Corporations stripped our government for parts.
Taylor Spicer wrote something I needed this week. After the Court gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act last month, she let herself grieve in public and turned it into love letters to the people who shaped her. Read it: www.linkedin.com/pulse/grief-...
Grief and Love for a Multiracial Democracy
This past two weeks, I have been experiencing a new kind of grief, a grief I did not know how to name. I am writing in case you are also seeking to feel, acknowledge, or simply name something similar.
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Join us on the "Good Trouble Lives On Mass Call: Solidarity with the South" happening NOW with @ashdashlee.bsky.social to learn how we can (and must) take action to defend our freedoms and make equal justice a reality for ALL Americans; so excited to hear from the powerful Barbara Arnwine!!!
Good Trouble Lives On Mass Call: Solidarity with the South
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Saying that democracy died in Tennessee last week is incorrect & boring. Saying that Tennesseans are under attack by authoritarians (a minority of the actual population & electorate, who want to consolidate their own wealth & power at the expense of everything and everyone…) is correct and useful.
HAPPENING NOW… marching on the Capitol…. #NewJimCrow @GovBillLee
