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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I talked with Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson about how our communities can defend the voting process this November. Some folks reached out and asked me if I could make an episode about this subject because they were tired of simply being told to vote harder and wanted to know what more we could do. ❤️

truthout.org

Activists Are Preparing to Defend Elections This November

“It’s about relational organizing,” says organizer Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson.

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

The event is at The Henry in Oakland, tonight, September 28, at 7 pm (doors at 6 pm). Holler at me if you need the discount code. You can find more events details here: ci.ovationtix.com/36995/produc... ❤️✊🏾

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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.

naturesintelligence.substack.com

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.

medium.com

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

Make a plan. Build a crew. Know your role and play it excellently. That's our mission. Let's see it done. Full essay, with certification guides for every state: medium.com/@ashleewooda... #ElectionProtection #VotingRights #Midterms2026

medium.com

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

4. When does my county certify, and can the board refuse? 5. Who do I call if something goes wrong? For Georgia: counties certify Nov. 9 at 5 p.m.; the state certifies Nov. 20. Tennessee counties certify by Nov. 23. Congress is seated Jan. 3, 2027.

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

Five questions to get answered in writing from your county before November: 1. Can my organization credential poll watchers, or only a party? 2. Can I hand out food and water in line, and how far from the door? 3. Where do the ballots go when the polls close, and can I watch?

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

Before Election Day: work the polls. On Election Day: drivers, childcare, food, de-escalators, & 866-OUR-VOTE at the ready. After polls close: a person at every handoff in the chain of custody. Until the seat's filled: be in the room when the county certifies, & on Jan. 3 when Congress is sworn in.

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

So, the turnout program is the first line of election protection, and the election protection program is what keeps the vote from being stolen. We need both. Anybody who tells you we get to choose is asking you to lose slowly.

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

But think about what proof actually is. A recount can move a few hundred votes. A challenge can throw out a few thousand. None of them can move a landslide. The cheapest proof there is, the kind no judge has to rule on and no board can refuse, is a margin too big to argue with.

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

Some of the smartest people I organize with say the prove-and-enforce work now matters more than turnout. They're right about half of it. For years, turnout had a budget line, and chain of custody didn't. That assumption is gone.

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

Three in ten of us voted by mail in 2024. The president voted by mail himself in Florida this year. None of this is about fraud. It's about making enough noise before the election that regular people give up, and about making the count itself something we can be made to argue about.

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

Let me be clear about my take on what's happening. The far right is in the early stages of a full-blown coup while screaming that there is an election security crisis, a crisis they will not admit they are creating.

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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/...

democracydocket.com

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.

convergencemag.com

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

Turning my grief, grief for this season and for all the divine humans whose lives have ended too soon, toward our mission, and determined as ever to see our victory in our lifetimes. For all those who’ve fought and passed on and to make it so for all the living. Let’s make it so.

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

Whether you’re in DC for #marchonwashington2026 or sending solidarity while fighting for our liberation where you are, I see you and love you.

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

For voting rights. For economic dignity. For a future families can afford. For all of this and more.

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

Folks aren’t marching on Washington today just to commemorate what happened. What used to be. Folks are marching on Washington today for what has to become true in this place.

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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

I literally just wrote a message to another loved one on threads saying can you imagine that welcome wagon?!? *insert Baptist fit here* Absolutely. With an ancestor like her, a powerhouse angel, we can’t help but win. If we follow the best of her example…might have to write about this…

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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

Keep watching. Keep sharing. Keep agitating for our people. I love y’all.

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

And Friday, a class-action lawsuit was filed against NIPSCO, saying the outages could have been prevented if the company had maintained the trees around its own lines. Tuesday is the company’s own deadline for Gary. And still no investigation opened, that I’ve been able to see.

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

Folks are paying $25 to $70 a day in generator gas to keep food cold & phones charged. The Mayor of Gary said it plainly this week: “Communities of color are left behind and always feel like they’re the last to get turned on or the last to get rescued in these situations.”

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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

gary.gov/stormrecovery for needs, the Greater Gary Storm Recovery and Relief Fund at the Legacy Foundation for financial donations, Capital B Gary for the info on what's happening on the ground. I love y'all.

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

In the meantime, keep paying attention, sharing and amplify what's happening, calling for the power to get restored as quickly as possible and the investigation and accountability for what just happened. Keep giving to groups on the ground that are supporting our neighbors and loved ones in Indiana.

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

If it's on management, prove it. Open the inquiry. Compel the crew deployments. Get the damage counts. See where the grid money went.

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

Even Governor Braun said it's unacceptable and on NIPSCO management (or lack thereof, I'd argue). He appointed four of the five commissioners on the body with the power to investigate NIPSCO, and no investigation has been opened that I've been able to see.

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

This isn't a claim that nothing's moving. But it is too slow and we have folks in our beloved community that are still in the dark in the Blackest city who seems to be waiting the longest, again, and nobody outside NIPSCO can check why, because the numbers are confidential...

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

The dates for the region's Black and brown cities appeared only after the deadline collapsed and people like us started asking why...loudly. It's infuriating to have to ask that question and let's sit with what it says that we find ourselves in a situation where we'd have to ask...

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

When I posted last, Gary, Hammond, & East Chicago weren't on the schedule at all (I archived their page, so there's receipts on this). 32 other communities had dates.

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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

A real storm-response investigation wouldn't just be for Gary. It'd set the standard for every utility in the state. The same system that leaves the Blackest city waiting longest is the one gouging everybody. Transparency is the whole fight.

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

This is the point exactly. Different utility, same state, same story: high bills, slow trucks, no way to check where the money goes. It seems like NIPSCO customers pay the highest residential electric rate in Indiana, and the regulator finally opened an affordability inquiry this spring.

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

Spread the word and pay attention. The next deadline to get the power on is tomorrow.

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

And check out and follow @capitalb.bsky.social, the Black-led newsroom that's been on this from the start.

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

Folks can donate to the Greater Gary Storm Recovery and Relief Fund (legacyfdn.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...) at the Legacy Foundation.

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

I'm still looking for folks we trust on the ground there to tell us how to support, but for now: gary.gov/stormrecovery for info and resources.

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

There outta be an Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission storm investigation. We want to know how many crew deployments happened, in which communities, damage counts by community, & where the grid money actually went. They did this very thing after storms in 2023, so there's precedent.

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