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From this article: “Some Democrats have privately complained that Indivisible and MoveOn, another liberal advocacy group, were pressuring them too much, considering Republicans hold the levers of government power, Axios reported. Faced with a barrage of phone calls, Democratic representative Don Beyer said: ‘It’s been a constant theme of us saying, ‘Please call the Republicans.’”

Especially if you are represented by any Republican, please let them hear from you. Just a few Republicans with actual backbones could make a huge difference.

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“Around the world, they imprison journalists and intellectuals, writers and poets,” Mr. Longley said. “Tyrants fear the word.”

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In the late 1970s, the heavily segregated Bob Jones University had its tax-exempt status revoked by the IRS, a move that was interpreted by many evangelical pastors as the government shutting down a church. The ruling was blamed on Jimmy Carter’s new Department of Education (which would become a whipping boy for evangelicals in the years to come) despite the IRS acting on a court ruling from several years earlier.

The perceived attack on segregated Christian schools by the US government helped galvanize evangelicals into voting Republican.

— Josiah Hesse

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David French offers perhaps the best analysis of Trump mania that I’ve seen.

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“The African diaspora came through the Bahamas, Jamaica, Bahia, and Cuba — and went up to New Orleans. New Orleans is the northernmost tip of the Caribbean, in many ways.”

— Jon Batiste