Thank you to everyone who knocked doors, made phone calls, wrote postcards, worked the polls, voted, and did everything else they could to defend freedom and democracy in America. There are no silver linings, but it is worth noting that Cumberland is one of only six PA counties that voted more Democratic in 2024 than in 2020, and it had the biggest leftward shift. You showed how it should be done.

America is in for dark times, and it will be especially dire for women and immigrants. But Americans have been through hell at the hands of their fellow citizens in the past. We cannot abandon them. However long it took, maybe generations, Americans fought for justice and came out on the other side with more freedom.

We want to be clear-eyed about the danger we face and to be ready. We have no doubt that one of Trump’s first actions in office will be to prepare to steal the 2026 election with something like the “voter fraud” commission he tried to create in 2017. But we still have to be prepared to win elections next year and beyond. Our next meeting is November 13th, 7 pm at the Cumberland County Dems Headquarters. Join us.