Last week, when we asked for 15,000 of you to call New York, we honestly weren't sure if we could hit that target. But Sunday night when we ran the numbers, we found that you smashed through our original goal of two million calls, and put more than THREE million calls into New York in just two days.

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Corrupt ultra-conservative parliament votes to impeach corrupt first woman president amid economic crisis [in Brazil].

That made me shudder, how about you?

Read more on the BBC or at the Guardian

Riding a run-away train.

X-poster from reddit/Kossacks for Sanders: There are a lot of problems already reported with voting, which began at 6am, but please pass this all along to NY voters if you hear of any problems:

Sanders’ Campaign HQ in NY:

IF YOU HAVE ANY SERIOUS ISSUES CALL THE CAMPAIGN VOTER HOTLINE 347-379-4298

I came across this today and urge everyone to read it all the way through.

http://www.xojane.com/issues/north-carolina-mississippi-boycott-misguided

I'm so tired of Carlsbad, New Mexico. I haven't had any friends here in years. This mining town is in some mighty pretty country, but the whole point of the economy here is to ruin it.

I miss California. California is, of course, rather a mess of late. But it would feel like familiar ground, home turf.

Not back to Los Angeles, never that. Nowhere south of the City.

This is the part of the day I look forward to most. I know there's something bizarre out there. I just don't know what it is yet.

The 2016 presidential campaign, it is now officially stupid and boring. And it needs to go away.

60,000 fewer registered Democrats in Brooklyn for some reason compared to before November 2015. Or so says WNYC:

60,000 Fewer Democrats in Brooklyn and No Clear Reason Why

I thought there was a surge in new Democratic voters in New York

MONDAY APRIL 18, 2016,
The Day Before the New York Primary

"This is our one moment in history when we can make a choice..as ordinary citizens..on how we're gonna change the world...!" -Danny Glover

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"We need a Political Revolution, and you are that Revolution."

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