Welcome back to Lucid, and hello to all new subscribers. Our next Q&A will take place on Friday, August 8, 1-2pmET. Our guest will be Marc Elias, Firm Chair of Elias Law Group. He is an authority on campaign finance, voting rights, redistricting law, and litigation. He has litigated hundreds of cases in these areas, including four successful case in the U.S. Supreme Court. He is also the founder of Democracy Docket, the leading platform for progressive advocacy and information about voting rights, elections, and democracy.
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Yesterday I had an inspiring conversation with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove and William J. Barber, II. Rev. Barber is the founder of the Repairers of the Breach social justice movement which holds the Moral Mondays protests. With Wilson-Hartgrove, he publishes the Substack newsletter Our Moral Moment.
The idea for the conversation came from a reading of this piece on moral collapse:
We talked about how to resist the enticements to forget your conscience and moral dictates, love thy neighbor among them, and how Donald Trump has conditioned Americans for a decade now to accept the idea that violence is a legitimate means of dealing with differences.
The piece I refer to about the coming revelation and reckoning among Americans with the costs of the corruption and cruelty of the Trump administration is here:
The discussion at the end about love as part of anti-authoritarian strategy draws on this piece and the amazing work that Rev. Barber and his collaborators are doing on behalf of our democracy and the fight for a more just society.
