The Resistance Arrives at Its Biggest Chance to Resist - The New York Times - 0 views
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Ms. Gibbs is driven by a sense of anger and residual shock. How could so many of her neighbors in western Pennsylvania vote for a man she saw as a threat
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“I had begun to think we were including and serving everybody in this country,” Ms. Gibbs said. “But that’s totally not true anymore
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For the past four years, Ms. Gibbs and half a dozen women (along with one man) have poured countless hours into Progress PA, a political group they created to get Democratic candidates elected in western Pennsylvania
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They represent not just the kind of feminist activism that Mr. Trump’s victory ignited, but the particular had-it-up-to-here-with-my-Republican-neighbors anger of suburban western Pennsylvania, where dozens of similar groups have cropped up in the past four years.
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s coming up on its more direct and important chance to resist: voting Mr. Trump out of office, and encouraging others to do the same.
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The sadness mixed with rage permeated every Zoom session, which sprinkled personal frustrations with the strategizing.
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the virus kept her away from visiting her mother in the nursing facility, a situation she described as “crushing,” as she moved her into hospice in September.
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And every day brought a new aggravation for them with the Trump administration’s response to the pandemic.The group’s political action committees raised nearly $110,000 fo