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n2doc's Journal'It's a Women's Wave Coming.' The Women's March Is Turning Into a True Political Force
Dixie OConnells older brother cast a write-in ballot for Mickey Mouse in the 2016 presidential election. Fifteen months later, OConnell marched in the 2018 New York Womens March with a sign that said, Im pissed.
She couldnt vote in 2016, but OConnell is already doing everything she can to cancel out her brothers throwaway ballot. She and her friends, Kaitlyn Viola and Briana Taddeo, both 17, plan to march whenever they can, make phone calls for candidates, and encourage their older relatives to vote responsibly. And this November, theyll be showing up to the polls. Im definitely going to vote, says OConnell, who canvassed and phone banked for Bernie Sanders during the 2016 election, even if I dont have a candidate I strongly believe in. (Taddeo, who will still be 17 in November, plans to convince her homebound grandmother to vote in her stead.)
One year after the Womens March became the largest single-day protest in U.S. history, OConnell and her friends represent the movements new direction: Doing anything and everything to wrestle control of Congress from a Republican Party that has largely worked to advance President Trumps agenda. An unprecedented surge of Democratic women are running for office this year, but thats just the crest of the Pink Wave. In interviews with some of those among the estimated 120,000 people who marched in New York City Saturday, a pattern emerged. If theyre not running, theyre organizing. If theyre not organizing, theyre donating. If theyre not donating, theyre voting. Nobody is doing nothing.
The official Womens March organizers have translated this motivation into a new strategy for 2018: Power to the Polls, a nationwide voter registration drive targeting first-timers in swing states ahead of the midterms. Marchers have created their own ways to expand their political impact, too.
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http://time.com/5111480/womens-march/
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Texas judge interrupts jury, says God told him defendant is not guilty
A state district judge in Comal County said God told him to intervene in jury deliberations to sway jurors to return a not guilty verdict in the trial of a Buda woman accused of trafficking a teen girl for sex.
Judge Jack Robison apologized to jurors for the interruption, but defended his actions by telling them when God tells me I gotta do something, I gotta do it, according to the Herald-Zeitung in New Braunfels.
The jury went against the judges wishes, finding Gloria Romero-Perez guilty of continuous trafficking of a person and later sentenced her to 25 years in prison. They found her not guilty of a separate charge of sale or purchase of a child.
Robison, who also presides in Hays and Caldwell counties, did not respond to a message left with his court coordinator, Steve Thomas, who said the case is still pending. Robison is scheduled to return to the bench in Comal County on Jan. 31.
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http://www.statesman.com/news/crime--law/texas-judge-interrupts-jury-says-god-told-him-defendant-not-guilty/ZRdGbT7xPu7lc6kMMPeWKL/
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