Hey Americans, feeling politically powerless? You have an election tomorrow. Fascists are targeting those boring state and local positions and using them for everything from abortion restrictions to book bans to criminalizing trans healthcare. It's up to you to stop them.
What are they voting for tomorrow if the presidential elections are not till Nov 2024?
@zleap @maxkennerly Here in #Minnesota, we have city government and school board elections.
Which a group of extremists are trying to use to promote racist, sexist, heterosexist, and cissexist book bans and harass & discriminate against trans & nonbinary kids.
They must not be allowed to do that.
(Said extremists are mostly running for office in the suburbs of the Twin Cities - in Saint Paul and Minneapolis they could not make it to the election.)
This is really worrying and also terrifying how the US can just sleepwalk in to this.
@zleap Hence the importance of everyone who can vote in the US voting by tomorrow; as @maxkennerly wrote.
Unfortunately, I learn from @sundogplanets and others that this particular set of tactics by omnibigoted authoritarians has also been exported north of the line.