L O L G O P: After an interview with Marcy for my earlyworm podcast, I kept saying, "Given the threat we face, every publication should be doing the kind of rich narrative reporting that Marcy is doing with Ball of Thread." After I begged enough, Marcy let me help.

6 months ago, I announced I'd hired myself to work for democracy. Here's an update. The good news is I've done the most satisfying work of my life. The bad news is that I don't think it's sustainable, but that's okay. I'm not sure democracy is either.

SOME PERSONAL NEWS: I’ve hired myself to work for democracyi-know-how-much-you-care.ghost.io Like many white American dudes of an age that can only be measured by the dim rings under my eyes, I’ve been lucky. Probably too lucky.* Now, I’m afraid, my luck requires me to try something new. As...

The two main projects have occupied my time. The first is earlyworm, which helps people wake up each morning to something concrete they can do for democracy. And that has flowered into several projects I'll explain because I'm in the mood! www.patreon.com/EarlyWormSoc...

But first, I'll introduce Ball of Thread. This is a project I didn't expect. It's a podcast series based on Marcy Wheeler's Ball of Thread blog series and her reporting on the assault on democracy that has brought us to the brink of fascism.

After an interview with Marcy for my earlyworm podcast, I kept saying, "Given the threat we face, every publication should be doing the kind of rich narrative reporting that Marcy is doing with Ball of Thread." After I begged enough, Marcy let me help.

By the nuts: Russia's attack on the 2016 election | Ball of Thread | Episode 1www.youtube.com You remember “Russia, if you’re listening” and the flood of social media disinformation. But you’ve never heard the strands of Putin’s attack on the 2016 election tied together like this. Want to know more? Join https://www.patreon.com/BallofThread to ask your questions, which could be answered in a bonus Q&A episode coming soon. For as little as $1 a month, you can support us and help spread the word. You can also subscribe on: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ball-of-thread/id1746189942 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0GV6tGSk5fSJdAH0Jrle99 Audible: https://www.audible.com/podcast/Ball-of-Thread/B0D42HXNTD

Sorry, dog walk break.

Back to earlyworm. Since the goal of earlyworm is to make democracy something you can do every day, the first project was www.erlywrm.com, a site where you can wake up to a story you need to know and an action you take every day.

Wake up to what you can do to help save democracy every daywww.erlywrm.com earlyworm exists to keep the people that care the most about democracy informed, amused, and inspired.

And because a big part of my origin story is wanting to make sure good people don't waste money on races where their money isn't doing as much good as it could...

How Marjorie Taylor Greene gave my life purposei-know-how-much-you-care.ghost.io All we have is our focus. And that becomes more valuable as people try to use it against us. This all started because a bunch of good people can’t stand Marjorie Taylor Greene. And because we mostly...

...we started Flipping Arizona, which is all about raising targeted donations to help flip the 4 seats needed to create a trifecta for democracy in Arizona. We're 20% of the way to our goal of $20,024 (or 2% of the way to my real goal of raising $200,024). www.grapevine.org/giving-circl...

Flipping Arizona | The States Projectwww.grapevine.org Learn more about Flipping Arizona such as its mission, community impact, and how you can join or make a one-time online donation.

There are many reasons why we believe Arizona is the right focus for 2024 (and if you disagree, great; we need people doing everything).

This is the most important thing we can do right now | the earlyworm societywww.patreon.com Get more from the earlyworm society on Patreon

And I started a podcast "How are you feeling about democracy?" that allows me to beg some brilliant person to tell me how to save democracy every week. www.patreon.com/collection/4...

How are you feeling? | Collection from the earlyworm society | 17 posts | Patreonwww.patreon.com Get more from the earlyworm society on Patreon

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