It’s been a week of waiting. I finished my last phone and text bank shifts on Monday, and then tried to sink purposefully into a state of not-knowing. I'd read enough to assume that it would take days to figure out who had crossed the 270 electoral-vote threshold, and I vowed not to follow every twist and turn of the count. 

Of course I caved and refreshed the blue-and-red map a few times a day. I was prepared for the polls to be wrong about a Biden landslide. I expected millions of Americans to vote for the violent and overtly racist agenda of a cruel narcissist. But I was not prepared for how sad I would feel as I looked at the numbers. 
 

As I write this, news organizations have just started to declare a Biden victory. I’m still in liminal mode, not quite able to believe it yet and juuuust starting to think through what might come next—for this country, and for me as a person pushing it to live up to its professed ideals. 

On the podcast: Waiting and what's next. And from our archive, interviews with Kamala Harris and Stacey Abrams.

but don’t kid yourself: government

is not where it’s at: it’s only

a good place to start

- Revolutionary Letter #9

Watch and listen to her read a few of these.