This is what hope looks like:

[guillaumeb]

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It looks like 40 seats flipping from the GOP to the Democrats in the House.

It looks like Democrats making large gains on the state level.

It looks like Democrats picking up Governor’s s eats.

It looks like 49% voting versus 37% in 2014. And this higher turnout came in the face of increased GOP obstruction and suppression designed to weaken the Democrats.

It looks like a wave of schoolteachers rising up, many in reliably red states.

It looks like Beto O’Rourke falling short, but showing that Texas is slowly turning from red to purple on the way to, one hopes, blue.

It looks like 19 new women in the House.

It looks like younger voters starting to vote.

And all of these things represent bad news for the GOP.

It looks like Robert Mueller doing his work, and drawing every closer to the Trump crime family with each indictment, each conviction, each plea agreement.

Feel free to add more reasons, and more hope.

Guill

edited to add: 2 years of intense House investigations of the Trump crime cabal.

[malaise]

1. Great post

Get thee to the greatest page
Happy New Year

[guillaumeb]

3. Happy New year to you as well Malaise.

[marble falls]

9. A lot more good news there than some of us here want to admit.

[malaise]

21. +1,000

Lots of good things happened in 2018

[marble falls]

22. And it gonna get better as long as we stay awake and don't let down.

[NastyRiffraff]

2. K&R

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It looks like a strong Democratic field for 2020

It looks like more people running for office for the first time, and winning

It looks like Nancy Pelosi licking her chops at the thought of bringing legislation that will actually help the country

It looks like House Committee Chairs running substantive investigations of Trump, his family, his administration, and his businesses.

[guillaumeb]

4. Excellent additions.

Thank you.

[NastyRiffraff]

7. You're welcome

Happy New Year!

[marble falls]

10. Especially strong Democratic field for 2020, right?

[NastyRiffraff]

27. Doh! Yeah

Corrected, thanks.

[marble falls]

29. Its all good! I'm still giddy about tomorrow!

[luvtheGWN]

12. 2012? Huh?

[lpbk2713]

5. Trump might have served a useful purpose after all.

Hooda guessed it?

[guillaumeb]

6. But at what cost?

Trump did reveal the GOP as the party of racists.

[Laffy Kat]

8. Thanks, I needed this!

[guillaumeb]

15. We all need this.

Focus on the positive, but be aware of all we still need to do.

[Soph0571]

11. Can I add a UK one?

It looks like we will get a new referendum and stop this Brexit bollocks

[guillaumeb]

16. Yes, you May.

And the capitalization was deliberate.

Amazing how uninformed voting can lead to unintended results.

[Amaryllis]

20. Of course you May! We are all in this together.

[marble falls]

23. I was hoping that could/would happen!! It shows manipulated run-away trains ...

can be derailed. Take note cheetolini!

[pecosbob]

13. Rick Snyder and Scott Walker been removed from office...

and in my home state both Dean Heller and Joe Heck were eighty-sixed.

[guillaumeb]

17. 4 excellent additions. eom

[warmfeet]

14. It looks like republicans

crushed on all fronts.

It looks like the orange asshole, going to prison, for life.

[guillaumeb]

18. We can hope.

And it looks like 2 years of intense House investigations.

[marble falls]

25. And we can't let up now. This about a lot more than than which one of a bumper ...

croup of capable Democratic POTUS possibilities gets to the WH. Everyone knowing cheetolini is going down might suppress the vote, we need our national convention to be about more than choosing who going to be the next President. We'll need it to support other national and state races. Some of our new Reps won with very narrow margins. We need to go to the polls in record number for the next four years. There are a couple of other SCOTUS seats to be considered, too.

[JudyM]

19. Good post to start the year.

Your posts usually make me smile though, guillaumeb.

Have to add a little pun: cannabis is gaining ground. (Now if only the repukes would start using it we might vastly multiply the USA’s progress.)

Happy 2019!

[guillaumeb]

31. Thank you Judy.

I agree that cannabis is gaining ground, and about time.

Happy 2019 to you also.

Guill

[mcar]

24. K&R!

[FM123]

26. HOPE - pass it on.....

[pecosbob]

28. This is what hope looks like

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211614220

Rumor/speculation. Dozens of Senators/Reps and evangelical groups linked to Butina

[guillaumeb]

30. Thank you.

Very interesting how much the GOP is caught in their own web of corruption.

[pecosbob]

32. Indeed

and unfortunately I expect a few blue dogs as well...

[guillaumeb]

33. Money is corrupting our politics.

With the approval of the GOP controlled SCOTUS.