Go ahead, get mad. Get loud. Then vote.
We’ve never liked writing about the immoral Donald Trump and his “big lie,” especially when he deliberately incited a coup attempt to keep power when he clearly lost – and knew he lost – the 2020 election. But we like less writing about Tennessee and Georgia federal lawmakers who continue to propagate his lies and cling to him and his Trumpism.
We’ve never liked writing about abortion. But we like even less writing about the Tennessee and Georgia elected officials who want to pretend the majority of us don’t think abortion should remain legally accessible. When we do. Those lawmakers also want us to believe they, like Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, aren’t looking forward to even more rights reversals.
We’ve never liked writing so much about too many guns on the streets, but we like less feeling compelled to writing about Republican-controlled Tennessee and Georgia legislatures and GOP Congress and Senate members who refuse to vote for common-sense gun safety regulations. Yes, here we’re specifically referring to Tennessee Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty who couldn’t find it in their thoughts and prayers to vote for the bipartisan gun deal last month.
Likewise we’re talking about every single Republican Tennessee and Georgia member of the U.S. House of Representatives who couldn’t find any value in expanding background checks for prospective gun buyers between the ages of 18 and 21. Who didn’t want to incentivize states to provide access to juvenile records for background checks. Who didn’t think adding a few days to the purchase waiting period was a good idea.