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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good mornin’, good people, Haymarket Books is offering discounted tickets to this conversation with Angela Y. Davis. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Sarah Haley, and Ula Y. Taylor about the Combahee River Collective and its legacy for activism today.

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This whole entire thread. Read and share.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This post really pissed me off. As someone who has been an activist for forty years and training activists, organizers and non-profit leaders for 15 years, one of the most relevant factors for continued engagement is whether people enjoy the work, feel like they belong, and find community in it.

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When Stosh Cotler writes...it's a must-read and a must-share. Check out the homie's brilliance: What living systems teach us about surviving systemic breakdown, protecting essential functions, and reorganizing for what comes next.

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Nature Has a Framework for Democracy in Crisis

What living systems teach us about surviving systemic breakdown, protecting essential functions, and reorganizing for what comes next.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What To Do During A Coup by Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson medium.com/p/what-to-do... - for those who are focused on electoral organizing, @ashdashlee.bsky.social has some guidance for what you can be doing now.

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What To Do During A Coup

“Are we solving this or admiring it?” — @hardhatsandheels_ on Instagram.

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Are we solving this or admiring it?" That question, from @hardhatsandheels_ on Instagram, is the reason I wrote this one. A thread on what to do during a coup, and the full essay at the end. 🧵

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11/09/2026

“You heard me. I think this will be a historic season yet again for the No Kings family and all of the movements that come together across our differences to activate on Oct. 17th” - @ashdashlee.bsky.social

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published a new webpage that will help carry out President Donald Trump’s plans to create a national voter registry and shape who can vote in the upcoming midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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DHS posts ‘Citizenship Lists Portal’ to advance Trump’s anti-voting order

It’s the latest sign that the federal government is hurtling forward with Trump’s anti-voting executive order.

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Convergence Magazine @convergencemag.com · 28/08/2026

@ashdashlee.bsky.social's latest in Convergence highlights the way that the old calculus of "battleground" vs. "safe" states needs to be upended in a post-Callais world.

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The Battleground Map Is Lying to You

Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, the first Black woman to serve as Co-Executive Director of Highlander Center, explains how focusing resources on “battleground” states can lead to further neglecting…

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 29/08/2026

As @ashdashlee.bsky.social has recently shown (in a piece now also published in the great @convergencemag.com), the Battleground Map is a too short-term + myopic a lens through which to prioritize electoral base-building. The Left's plans must include MAKING turf flippable. bsky.app/profile/conv...

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Sending love to all of our people who are answering the call to bend the moral arch of the universe toward justice. It’s our responsibility to build the kinda world we want to live in.

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Had a whole lot to say about a whole bunch of things…Gary. Memphis. Elections. Etc. And now Dolly Parton is an ancestor so, I’m calling it a day. Love y’all.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

There isn’t a hell hot enough.

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Hey good people, Saturday update, from what I could source as of August 22nd: Approximately 20,807 Gary residents are still in the dark. Nearly half of everyone still without power in the region.

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

NIPSCO promised everyone would have power back today post the severe storms in Indiana. As of this morning, their own website schedules East Chicago tonight, Hammond tomorrow, Munster Monday, & Gary on Tuesday, 8/25. Last on the list, alongside Portage. 4 days past the day they promised everyone.

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I was scrolling yesterday & saw folks posting things like, "I'm pissed that more folks aren't talking about what's happening in Gary" or "gary, indiana." So I got curious. Asked Dr. Google what was going on in Gary. What I already knew about Gary: It's a great migration city. It's the UpSouth.

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It's not an accident, serendipitous, or coincidence that within hours of each other a Jacksonville organizer won a Senate primary where she was outraised 16-to-1 and four Memphis City Council members took the first of three votes to say no more permits for data centers.

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#FREEDOMSUMMER26: Not just vibes. STRATEGY. Join our next Mass Call TONIGHT. 8pm ET. Get educated. Get active. Get free. RSVP at bit.ly/fsmasscall2 ❤️‍🔥✊🏾

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

In 1963 Birmingham, you probably didn't just show up to a march. You likely came to church first. Night after night: singing, testimonies, preached word, then the call to action. Answering it meant getting trained up.

Black and white photograph of a packed church sanctuary during a mass meeting in the early 1960s, seen from the back of the room

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

In 1870, census takers went across the South and counted Black people as whole persons for the first time in this country's history. Not three-fifths. Whole. The Fourteenth Amendment says representation is apportioned by counting the whole number of persons. Persons. Not citizens. Not voters.

Map of the United States showing projected congressional seat changes after the 2030 census. Texas gains four seats, Florida three, Georgia and North Carolina one each. California and New York are projected to lose seats.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

MEHDI: “If the midterms don’t go Trump’s way, is there any world where Todd Blanche stands up to Trump if he’s asked to find fake evidence of voter fraud? Or are we screwed now?” EX TRUMP WHITE HOUSE ATTORNEY TY COBB: “We’re screwed.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social: “Great.” 😕🇺🇸

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Yesterday, Tennessee voted under the new jim crow map for the first time. Here's what the ground said back.

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It's Election Day in Tennessee. Memphis, formerly known as the last majority-Black congressional district in the state, is voting right now. Polls across Shelby County are open until 7pm CT tonight.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/08/2026

🔥 Here's Whitehouse's entire remarkable speech opposing Blanche: "What's left of this committee when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has DOJ been asked what became of the $50k that the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our R colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, & speak no evil."

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Whitehouse on Blanche: "Today is a sad and embarrassing day"

YouTube video by Aaron Rupar

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The battleground map measures 1 thing: whether a state's close to flipping. It doesn't measure where people's fight is raging under inhumane conditions. Right now those are two very different maps, and the gap between them is where the country is being redrawn. Welcome to a thread with receipts.

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Still digesting what an experience The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries Leadership Conference has been. One of the highlights was a family reunion with my Soulforce fam, Rev. Alba Onofrio. Get this book. Read this book. Support the work of Soulforce. 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵✊🏾💙💜🤎🖤🩶🤍

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It is our responsibility to bend the moral arc of the universe toward justice. Come make meaning about what’s going on, get this good political education, and hear what we’re going to do to stop the attacks on our people and build the society we’ve always deserved. I’ll see yall there.

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Freedom Summer Mass Call

All across the country, people are rising into the legacy of our elders and ancestors who fought for voting, civil, and human rights during Freedom Summer. We are bringing that energy, strategy, and p...

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Mech-Might 🏳️‍🌈 @mechmight.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Be checking your voter registration at least every month, if not every couple of weeks. You need to be buttoned up and ready to vote come November, and definitely for any special elections if you are in those areas.

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

So much happening... Lindsey Graham died Saturday night. Mitch McConnell is "recovering from a fall" and can't return to vote yet. Whatever you thought of either man, the actual machinery of the Senate just changed, and I want to walk through how it works in plain language.

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

What an honor to join the MeidasTouch and Legal AF teams to talk about who and what the United States is as the country turns 250, and foreshadow what’s next. youtu.be/WE7eLHgtE4c?...

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Trump MELTS DOWN as He’s RIDICULED for his HIJACKING of America 250!

YouTube video by Legal AF

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

For a long time our loudest word has been no. No kings. No raids. No to the men who act like this country belongs to them. Necessary! And...a no can't tell our people what life looks like on the other side of the fight. 🧵

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

For days now in New York, I've watched belonging happen at scale. Not forced by crisis, but by joy. A championship. A city holding every difference it has and belonging to each other anyway.

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

My last night being forty, so I've been asking Prince what he'd say. The whole architecture of the funk is interdependence. Bass and drums lock so tight that two instruments make one sound. Everybody plays for the pocket, not themselves.

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

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SiriusXM Progress @siriusxmprog.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

ICYMI: @johnfugelsang.bsky.social spoke with Alex Lawson of @socialsecurityworks.org about how the Trump administration is making it harder for Americans to claim their earned Social Security benefits.

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Y'all...Authoritarians aren't just trying to win elections. They're trying to grab and consolidate power. Those are two different jobs. We keep fighting on the electoral front like the terrain hasn't shifted.

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Good morning, good people. I love y’all. #GEO2026 I’m headed your way. Come rock with me this afternoon ❤️✊🏾

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MediaJustice @mediajustice.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

🎤 Panelists: @marisa-franco.bsky.social, Co-founder and Director of @conmijente.bsky.social, @safiyanoble.bsky.social, Director of UCLA’s Center on Resilience & Digital Justice, and @gilduran.com, founder of The Nerd Reich Podcast ⏱️ Moderator: @ashdashlee.bsky.social, long-time movement strategist

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MediaJustice @mediajustice.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

🎬 Join the last part of our #TakeBackTech rebroadcast series on THURS, 6/4 @ 7PM ET | 4PM PT. 🏛⚙️ The line between Silicon Valley and Washington was never as thick as they wanted us to think. Join us in breaking down how tech power and fascism feed into each other. streamyard.com/watch/tNbdVA...

Graphic for our final session for our Take Back Tech III rebroadcast series. For our final part, we're livesteraming our plenary: "TechnoFachos: How Tech Power Became State Power." Below the title are our three panelists, Marisa Franco, co-founder and Director of Mijente, Dr. Safiya Noble, Director of UCLA’s Center on Resilience and Digital Justice, and Gil Duran, founder of The Nerd Reich Podcast. Below them is the time we're going live, Thursday, June 4th at 7PM | 4PM PT.

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The DNC's 2024 autopsy is 192 pages. The entire executive summary: one sentence — "This section was not provided by author." Not vague. Not hedged. Missing. Authored without interviewing Biden, Harris, or Walz. The chair publicly disowned it. A short thread.

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Every time a white person disengages from another white person, the regime gets stronger. I just published an essay about it. A defection map for the fight we're already in. White folks especially: read it, holler back, share it. medium.com/@ashleewooda...

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Go Get Your People

A Defection Map for the Fight We Are Already In

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

From THE Rachael Goodwin Spriggs: “We need all organizers, electeds, change makers, trusted messengers, and community members in the room! Join us tomorrow night in our focused efforts to continue building people power! Link in the chat!”

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We Ain't Done Yet: Mass Mobilization Call · The Equity Alliance

## We're Still Moving, Still Organizing, Still Fighting For Ours! Two weeks. A lot of damage. One clear truth -- **THE PEOPLE HOLD THE POWER!!!** Join The Equity Alliance, elected leaders, and na...

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Tonight's Working Families Party Mass Call was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥!!! In case you missed it, here's a clip from our political education session. Watch the full recording here: www.youtube.com/live/GwkpRdx...

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

These conversations matter. This weekend, people across the South showed up for voting rights, democracy, and each other. Now it's time to turn that energy into strategy and action. Join us tonight at 8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT for the Working Families Party Mass Call.

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Rich people bought and paid for our politicians. Politicians sold our government to the highest bidder. Corporations stripped our government for parts.

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Taylor Spicer wrote something I needed this week. After the Court gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act last month, she let herself grieve in public and turned it into love letters to the people who shaped her. Read it: www.linkedin.com/pulse/grief-...

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Grief and Love for a Multiracial Democracy

This past two weeks, I have been experiencing a new kind of grief, a grief I did not know how to name. I am writing in case you are also seeking to feel, acknowledge, or simply name something similar.

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