Reminder to vote in your local elections! (USA)
March is primary and local election season. Make a difference in your area by voting.
I recommend looking at a few voters guides because the provided material can be overwhelming.
If you do get overwhelmed, complete what you can. Anything worth doing is worth doing half-assed because perfect is the enemy of done. If you vote on literally one issue that is better than none. You got this.
As someone who is some kind of progressive socialist, here's some ways I get started:
Ballotpedia.org and Vote411.org for basic information and often a sample of each candidates' stances. A neutral information source. There are other sources that tend to be state-specific
Search for "progressive voters guide primaries 2024"
Search for "DSA voters guide" [etc. same as above]. I don't always agree with their recommendations, but I find it a helpful source anyway
Local papers that you find trustworthy, such as Knock-LA for southern California. Some will be informational only which can be good.
And finally something I started doing more recently:
Search for right wing/Republican/conservative voters guides to figure out what to vote against. One year I found a local landlords association recommendation in a conservative area and wow it was a gold mine of things not to support.
It's not always true that you should vote against it of course, but if you can find one with reasons stated, they'll show which will, for example, support a "tough on crime" approach to issues.
They will say things like "candidates who will defend freedom, stand for free enterprise, or have a conservative worldview, based on their ability to stand firm against efforts to increase taxes, size of government, weaken law and order, and crush individual freedom."
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