The 2026 blue wave could end up washing away the Electoral College. In addition to winning Congress, Democrats won full control of state governments in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. That means that a two-decades-in-the-making plan to switch our presidential elections to a popular vote system — a plan 18 states have already approved— […]
The wave isn’t about those who were elected. it’s about the voters. We voted for people who can actually be swayed by public pressure. It’s. it up to those who are elected to lead. We have to be active in this. They’re just our representatives. We’re the boss. We need to communicate to them that we put them there, and we decide what they’re going to do.
Honestly, that’s how the right did things. There was a thing where they asked Congress people why they voted the way they did, and the Congress people said that they were responding to the phone calls and comments they got [at least for things that weren’t directly paid for, I assume]. The Congress people said they got an average of four right wing message for every one leftist message. Fox News gets them agitated and angry and they call their Reps to see demand action. The left falls down on that follow through. We need to keep up the pressure. 5calls is a good place to start.