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I'm an old lady ( I don't feel like one but that doesn't alter the fact). I am so grateful for Meidas Touch. It gets me fired up and gives me hope. I find myself shouting at the screen at the end of a video when Jordy says "love this video" -- Yes, Yes! I love this video. And at the end of a brother's podcast, I wait for the "Shout out to the Meidas Mighty!" and I shout out to the Meidas Mighty. I can face a new year with terrifying unknowns (and knowns) with a new found determination to fight back. Thank you for that.

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I'm old but I've never been a lady. <g> Proud to be shoulder to virtual shoulder with you and the rest of the MMs.

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Becky I'm old too. sometimes I find myself falling into a funk of "the good old days". But the Meidas Mighty ALWAYS makes my day. I tell people they help keep me sane. So thanks to all of you here for keeping me positive - I have faith this year will be more wins than losses and in the end, good will overcome evil. Stay strong Meidas Mighty - I'm counting on all of you!

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Be blessed, Ms. Becky. I am honored to fight along your side.

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I love your post.. It almost made me cry

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I may be old in years but I have a hellva lot of fight left in me.

Boomers after all are the OG of civil protest.

We are!

The Viet Nam war (never forget Kent State!), the womens rights movement, Abortion rights the black civil rights movement, grape boycotts, Gay Rights. ALL great protest movements of the Boomers.

When you look at protests you look at the silver haired and white haired (and no hair!) protestors. We got this people, we can do this.

It is great to have youthful people like the Meiseles brothers step up, I don't have quite the energy to lead any more but I certainly have enough energy to follow and do my share of protesting. 2025 BRING IT ON!

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I'm old too, by the calendar, but if Trump messes with my SS or Medicare I'll be at the White House so fast his head will spin. I didn't get this old and mean by being stupid or docile!!

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Right on Sista!

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Happy New Year all!!

What a great theme for 2025: Love beats hate! 💕😂

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Happy New Year Mighty Meidas! Government workers like me will fight against MAGA Christofascism and undermine like we did during his first term. Will be posting about our Project 2025 resistance tomorrow.

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We are with you! Let us know how we can help.

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Oh this is a new thought — today for me — of course the government, everywhere in our great democracy, has government workers, THANK HEAVENS !

You’ve lived through a Trump White House once before… and this time you are prepared in ways we cannot imagine, I’m sure.

GO Great Workers! Let us know how we can help you!

WITH great appreciation for everything you do daily to keep our institutions (buildings, grounds, roles and rules, intact and guarding our collective structures for and of DEMOCRACY.)

For you I pray strength and resilience bolstered by lightness of heart.

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Yes. Thanks for reminding us Carol. Most of these underated essential workers go unnoticed. OMG some may even be Immigrants! Will we be deporting them too? I don't think so! Maga will only succeed in destroying themselves, with our help of course. Have a Mighty Happy New Year!

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Thank you!!

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Thank you!!!! Please do let us know how we can help!!

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If love beats hate then kindly explain to me how hateful Don-old Dump beat loving Kamala Harris.

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Hate has been gathering strength in the Republican Party at least since the mid-1960s. It became blatant with the Reagan administration and continued to gather strength in the decades that followed. Too many people weren't paying enough attention, often because they were doing OK even if others weren't. They finally began to wake up when Trump was elected the first time. In other words, hate had a big head start, and hate is rolling in money. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz did a *great* job against serious odds. Chalk that up to the power of love, especially love of country.

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Beautiful writing (and thinking here ).

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Thank you! As a college student in D.C. ca. 1970, I and several antiwar activist buddies attended incognito one of Carl McIntyre's Rallies for America. It was scary and creepy and we only lasted an hour or so. But it sure woke me up to what the religious right was up to.

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And that was fifty years ago! W all the instant info disinforming online free “news” multitudes of overtired, underpaid, often unhoused voters & their families…. Who do you believe?

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This is a problem! If you know how government works and know at least some U.S. history, you can make reasonably informed decisions about who's credible and who isn't. But if you don't, you're pretty much at the mercy of political advertising and the news tsunami that precedes major elections. And it gets harder every year to find reliable news sources.

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And a whole lot of right wing hate rush limbaugh radio that Romney bought up

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Brainwashed Magas

Deprogramming them is going to be a long process

Or it was fixed

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The “main-stream-media” refused to tell their audience (viewers, readers, listeners) that tRump was "Putin’s Puppet” and nothing more than the boss of a NY crime family forced to relocate to Miami. They treated the insurrection he led as “normal” protesting and pretended that Project 2025 was just a big joke. The Founders wrote the 2nd amendment to assure we would be provided facts, but the MSM used the 2nd amendment to provide us with fiction disguised as facts.

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It was an abrivated campaign. The shortest ever maybe and she almost won. Plus the Trump Magas has a running head start and hate up to the max. It was a lot to overcome in a short period of time

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He invited his new best friend to buy some votes for him in key poverty struck southern states

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The Far Right Christian Influence imho. Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society. The usual phony hypocrites. Thomas, Alito & other neo faciasts. Don't forget the rich door slammin' immigrants who think THEY should run the joint.

Find a safe zone, think about where you are vulneranle & prepare for whats next. ❤☮💙

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I planned on going off grid if orange had won the 2020 election. I thought about it when he won in 2024. But I need this group! I need to know I am not alone & I know I will get the truth here! We are stronger together!

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We aren't going anywhere!And neither are you! Happy New Year ❤️🏴‍☠️

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I wish I could go off-grid too or out of the country. I really hate I have to live my last years listening to that farce of a president. It’s so depressing. But reading all the inspiring posts keeps me going. Thank you.

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There’s a lot of work to be done

H E R E . Stick w/us and you’ll see where your special strengths are most needed and you’ll flower with all of us in the coming changes of weather and landscapes, etc!

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I feel your pain Debi

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We need you too Diana. Strength in Truth, Strength in numbers. We are with you.☮

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Yes, let's do this! There really isn't anyone else that will "save us". We are all going to have to chip in and do our part in the areas that we are good at / have interest in. I'm done with MSM...and we will have to nudge our House members to fight on our behalf. We will have to be loud because we have no choice. Continue to tell the truth, and call out m@ga's BS every time we see it. Thanks MeidasTouch for creating this community!!!

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Happy New Year to you and your family and congratulations on building such a strong network that keeps us all afloat with some hope for the future.

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Happy New Year to you and your lovely family. I don’t expect 2025 to be a picnic but I have a lot more hope for 2025 than I did the day after the election and that’s because of you and the Meidas Mighty and all the other champions for democracy.

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truth

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Thank you for hiving me hope

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*giving

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..although I like the idea of "hiving hope" as a legion of worker bees fly out of a hive to find goodness around us.

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Hiving like bees may be what we need. Politicians do pay attention to one pesky bee but an entire, large hive will put fear into most people.

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I’m beginning to like my mistake

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😘giving me hope and encouragement to find my best usefulness each day 🎶💕

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The most used app I have is YouTube and the first click I make is to check in on THE MIGHTY MEIDAS!!!

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Yes! Me too! Along with Heather Cox Richardson’s letters and Joyce White Vance’s legal summaries. You all keep me informed!

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Happy New Year MTN and all the Meidas Mighty!!

I have some hope for the future because of the amazing network of caring and committed people that's been created here.

"Five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes

How do you measure, measure a year?"

"How about love?"

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And in keeping with the 'we will' tags: "Will we join together and fight harder" -- let's add one more, in glorious memory and future goals: "I understand the assignment". All of us here do indeed understand the assignment, and hope that the originator of this tag will again say it loud.

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"Join together and fight harder"........As the clock runs down to Jan 20....my one wisht is that Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivian be intigrated into the Meidas Touch community somehow. They have single handedly run IHIPNEWS under the noses of a Red state.

Their postitive energy, progressive ideas would be a perfect addition when February rolls around.........the early months of this 2025 based dictatorship will be make or break.

All hands must be on deck.

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Joined yesterday because this fight is important to me. And I want to support it. I know (as I was one of them for months) that there are MANY more supporting you than subscribers here. Happy New Year!

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Same!! Happy New Year!

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Thank you, Ben, for shining your beautiful light and love into the world. Wishing Happy New Year and a year filled with abundance on all levels to you, all your family and all the Meidas Mighty! 🙏🏻

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Happy New Year Meidas Mighty and all my fellow Americans 🎆

I have a feeling 2025 will be a long stressful year so it’s more important than ever to look to those moments of Joy, Love ❤️, and Peace ☮️ ! Cherish each moment with the ones that you truly love and cut out any toxicity. Take care of yourselves and one another mind, body, and spirit! And remember, one small act of kindness could make a person’s entire day brighter! Let us be the light in this time of darkness.

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We stand by Meidas Migty, we're not backing down

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Thanks for your service and your dedication to your Meidas posts. Happy New Year to you and your family. May 2025 get off on the right foot. As for myself I was home at 10:00. I enjoyed one glass of wine. But I did make it to see the ball drop. 🩵💙

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You inspire me daily! I love your family. I have followed you guys since your beginning! Thank you helping me hold on to my sanity. I am ready to fight with you.

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