'Things To Worry About': 2022/2024 - The Last National Elections?

Prior pages for the mid-term and presidential election cycles (since 2004) are now moot. As the noose tightened around democracy in the United States, it became less and less likely that the next national election would reverse the agenda of the fascists to establish rule by the oligarchs and the corporations. Those prior election pages were never completed, as the news was either too massive or too depressing to get a timely update by this harried activist.

So for this next election cycle, the first task is to develop a new plan of attack. Rather than attempting to keep track of the mob of presidential contenders and the 30-odd races for U.S. Senate and the 435 races for U.S. Congress, plus the handful of key state races, we start afresh – which in January 2019 means adding officially-announced candidates in the 22-month-long race for President and a few selected Congressional seats that merit our attention. Less data, more accurate and timely data, more like a weblog than a detailed status report.
(The race for 2020 begins too damn early, but here we are . . .)

The Republican Party and the A.L.E.C. conspiracy and the anti-democracy billionaires like the Koch Brothers remain the enemy. The fascists currently control the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Senate and the Executive Branch; maybe the Blue Tsunami of 2018 will turn the tide, but if the fascists somehow win back the House, you and I may never be able to vote again. Their plan to destroy America's economy, to take away Constitutional rights (such as voting), and to profit from bribery, treason, and war crimes is documented all over the place.

The fascists must be stopped or democracy will die, America as the beacon of freedom will be extinguished. The battle for freedom on this planet will be over.

There was a meme going around that the 2016 U.S. National Election was not so much about taking/keeping the White House, but about the Supreme Court.
Whoever does win the next several elections for President can be expected to appoint one or more replacements for aging members of the Supreme Court,
which could very well have more and longer-lasting consequences than anything else that the President might do while in office.
Contingent, of course, on events leading up to 2024. So, yes indeedy, Emperor Trump was able to appoint three Justices:
the able but wrong-headed Neil Gorsuch, the completely unqualified Brett Kavanaugh, and religious fanatic Amy Coney Barrett.

Further changes included Ruth Bader Ginsburg [1933-2020] dying suddenly at age 87, Stephen G. Breyer [born 1938, age 83] announcing his retirement at the end
of the 2022 session, and his replacement Ketanji Brown Jackson (age 51) confirmed in April 2022 as the first female Afro-American Supreme Court justice, to be sworn later.

The nine+one current Justices in order by age (5/2022) are: retiring Stephen G. Breyer [born 1938, age 83]; Clarence Thomas [born 1948, age 73]; Samuel A. Alito
[born 1950, age 72]; Sonia Sotomayor [born 1954, age 67]; Chief Justice John G. Roberts [born 1955, age 67]; Elena Kagan [born 1960, age 62]; Brett Kavanaugh
[born 1965, age 57]; and Neil Gorsuch [born 1967, age 54], justice-elect Ketanji Brown Jackson [born 1970, age 51], and Amy Coney Barrett [born 1972, age 50]

Progressive Candidates book by Kate Childs Graham

"Why I Run: 35 Progressive Candidates Who Are Changing Politics" [2019]
Edited by Kate Childs Graham, Foreword by Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois
contributors include Stacey Abrams of Georgia, Cong. Deb Haaland [NM-01], Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, Pramila Jayapal [WA-07], Andrea Jenkins of Minneapolis, Jason Kander of Missouri, Cong. Barbara Lee [CA-13], and Amy McGrath of Kentucky
Kindle Edition from Abrams Image [3/2019] for $9.99
Abrams Image 9x6 hardcover [3/2019] for $16.50

PRIMARY ELECTIONS 17 May 2022
Idaho
Kentucky
North Carolina: There’s fierce Republican competition for a Senate seat, as well as for controversial Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s spot in the House.
Oregon
Pennsylvania: A bunch of candidates — including Republican Dr. Oz, backed by former president Trump — are running for Senate

The Commission on Presidential Debates announced the debate schedule on November 20, 2023: they will host four events in 2024.
September 16 presidential debate at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas
September 25 vice presidential debate at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania
October 1 presidential debate at Virginia State University in Petersburg, Virginia
October 9 presidential debate at University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah

... And Now Let's Play 'Last Candidate Standing'
The list of Republicans considered as 'in the game' showed 19 individuals in May 2015 thru November 2016, at which point Emperor Trump stole the election with the help of Vladimir Putin and Russian oligarchs and trolls, and the Electoral College. The 2020 race for the Republican nomination is Trump and one other idiot (Republican former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld announced in April); the Democratic Party already has twenty-five announced contenders in May 2019; after two double-evening debates, the field was reduced to 20 active candidates but only twelve spots on the single-evening third debate in September; Tim Ryan & Beto O'Rourke dropped out, and the rules got tougher, so only ten candidates qualified for the Fifth Debate on November 20th. Then Bloomberg opted in, Shestak and Bullock and Harris quit, so as-of December 3rd, there are 15 Democratic candidates in play.
2024 Democratic debate schedule

incumbent Joe Biden	based in Delaware	--	--	website	books	secured nomination 3/12/2024
VP Kamala D. Harris	based in California	--	--	website	books	chosen as Biden's V.P. in 2020
Jason Palmer	based in Maryland	launched 10/2023	--	--	--	venture capitalist

Donald J. Trump	based in Miami, Florida	launched 11/2022	--	GOP presumptive nominee	--	--
Gov. Doug Burgum	based in North Dakota	launched 6/2023	quit 12/2023	GOP	--	--
Chris Christie	based in New Jersey	launched 6/2023	quit 1/2024	GOP	--	--
Gov. Ron DeSantis	based in Florida	launched 5/2023	quit 1/2024	GOP	--	--
Larry Elder	based in California	launched 4/2023	quit 10/2023	GOP	--	--
Nikki Haley	based in South Carolina	launched 2/2023	quit 3/2024	won 2 small states, only 96 delegates	--	--
ex-Cong. Will Hurd	based in Texas	launched 6/2023	quit 10/2023	GOP	--	--
Gov. Asa Hutchinson	based in Arkansas	launched 4/2023	quit 1/2024	GOP	--	--
Perry Johnson	based in Michigan	launched 3/2023	quit 10/2023	GOP	--	--
ex-VP Mike Pence	based in Indiana	launched 6/2023	quit 10/2023	GOP	--	--
Vivek Ramaswamy	based in Ohio	launched 2/2023	quit 1/2024	GOP	--	--
Sen. Tim Scott	based in South Carolina	launched 4/2023	quit 11/2023	GOP	--	--
Mayor Francis Suarez	based in Miami, Florida	launched 6/2023	quit 8/2023	GOP	--	--

Charles Ballay	based in Louisiana	launched 8/2023	quit ??	leading Libertarian Party candidate	--	--
anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr.	based in Massachusetts	launched 4/2023	switched to Independent 10/2023	spoiler candidate	--	chose Nicole Shanahan for VP
No Labels Party	based in DC	launched 11/2023	quit 4/4/2024	party fell apart	--	--
Jill Stein	based in Massachusetts	launched 10/2023	quit ??	Green Party spoiler candidate	--	--
Cornel West	based in California	launched 6/2023	quit ??	minor spoiler candidate	--	--
Marianne Williamson	based in California	launched 3/2023	quit/unsuspended 2/2024	Democratic Party spoiler candidate	--	--

Well, yuck, the fascists bought the November 2016 election and essentially gained control of all three branches of the U.S. federal government. The Democratic Party and other progressive forces were engaged in an uphill battle over the following four years, just to prevent backward movement to pre-Civil Rights Era oppression and even to pre-Revolutionary conditions. Even without unintended consequences such as collapse of the world economy, the fascist game plan does not bode well for Freedom or Justice or the American Dream. Trump was in violation of his Oath of Office at the very moment that he spoke it. The first impeachment would have give us President Mike Pence, but Mitch McConnell's Republican Senate avoided the issue and there was no trial. The second impeachment was delivered to the Senate and a trial is pending (1/2021). Even with the 50-50 split in the Senate plus tie-breaker Kamala Harris, America is still not a bastion of Freedom, in any sense. Expect that fascist America will attempt to use its might to foment corporatist takeovers in other sovereign nations because there is not much left to stop them. Civil war? World War 3? We shall see.
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2022 U.S. Senate Races
One-third of the members in the Senate run for re-election in each 2-year cycle.
The 117th Congress includes 48 Democratic Senators & 2 independents versus 50 Republicans.
The Senate Class I of 2024 includes 21 Democrat and 10 Republican & 2 independent seats.
The Senate Class II of 2026 included 13 Democrat and 20 Republican seats.
The Senate Class III of 2022 includes 14 Democrat and 20 Republican races.

2022 U.S. Congressional Races
Everybody in the House of Representatives has to run for re-election every two years.

Arkansas a 1/2021
primary election June 26th; general election November 3rd 2020
★ Governor Asa Hutchinson is term-limited and cannot seek a third term.

★ Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced 25 January 2021.
Sarah is former Trump White House Press Secretary and the daughter of former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee

★ Attorney General Leslie Rutledge = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Rutledge

New Yorker Magazine 3/2016 cartoon:
“Only fifty-six months to go until the 2020 election”

Things To Worry About2022/2024: The Last National Elections?

Things To Worry About
2022/2024: The Last National Elections?