Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson
@ashdashlee.bsky.social
I wanna get free & see all our folk, together, at the finish line.
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I heard y'all. The "what can I do" texts. The burnout. Wanting to show up but not knowing how to sustain it.
So I built something called WeAct. Because resistance at its best is collective action in practice not just a moment.
So I built something called WeAct. Because resistance at its best is collective action in practice not just a moment.
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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.
What To Do During A Coup
“Are we solving this or admiring it?” — @hardhatsandheels_ on Instagram.
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September 14, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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.
"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. 🧵
September 14, 2026 at 7:15 PM
"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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“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
September 11, 2026 at 12:17 AM
“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
Come on in the room! #nokings
No Kings: Vote Early Kickoff Call
YouTube video by No Kings
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September 10, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Come on in the room! #nokings
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🚨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/...
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.
www.democracydocket.com
September 1, 2026 at 7:25 PM
🚨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/...
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@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.
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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August 28, 2026 at 1:00 PM
@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.
Reposted by Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson
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...
bsky.app/profile/conv...
@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.
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…
convergencemag.com
August 29, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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...
bsky.app/profile/conv...
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.
August 28, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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.
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.
And now Dolly Parton is an ancestor so, I’m calling it a day.
Love y’all.
August 25, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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.
And now Dolly Parton is an ancestor so, I’m calling it a day.
Love y’all.
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There isn’t a hell hot enough.
A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation this week in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation.
https://www.notus.org/immigration/baby-asylum-hearing
https://www.notus.org/immigration/baby-asylum-hearing
Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application
The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.
www.notus.org
August 22, 2026 at 5:44 PM
There isn’t a hell hot enough.
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.
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.
August 22, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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.
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.
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.
August 21, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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.
I was scrolling yesterday & saw folks posting things like, "I'm pissed that more folks aren't talking about what's happening in Gary" or "gary, indiana." So I got curious. Asked Dr. Google what was going on in Gary.
What I already knew about Gary: It's a great migration city. It's the UpSouth.
What I already knew about Gary: It's a great migration city. It's the UpSouth.
August 21, 2026 at 3:55 AM
I was scrolling yesterday & saw folks posting things like, "I'm pissed that more folks aren't talking about what's happening in Gary" or "gary, indiana." So I got curious. Asked Dr. Google what was going on in Gary.
What I already knew about Gary: It's a great migration city. It's the UpSouth.
What I already knew about Gary: It's a great migration city. It's the UpSouth.
It's not an accident, serendipitous, or coincidence that within hours of each other a Jacksonville organizer won a Senate primary where she was outraised 16-to-1 and four Memphis City Council members took the first of three votes to say no more permits for data centers.
August 19, 2026 at 4:43 AM
It's not an accident, serendipitous, or coincidence that within hours of each other a Jacksonville organizer won a Senate primary where she was outraised 16-to-1 and four Memphis City Council members took the first of three votes to say no more permits for data centers.
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Get educated. Get active. Get free.
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August 18, 2026 at 4:50 PM
#FREEDOMSUMMER26: Not just vibes. STRATEGY.
Join our next Mass Call TONIGHT. 8pm ET.
Get educated. Get active. Get free.
RSVP at bit.ly/fsmasscall2
❤️🔥✊🏾
Join our next Mass Call TONIGHT. 8pm ET.
Get educated. Get active. Get free.
RSVP at bit.ly/fsmasscall2
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In 1963 Birmingham, you probably didn't just show up to a march. You likely came to church first. Night after night: singing, testimonies, preached word, then the call to action. Answering it meant getting trained up.
August 17, 2026 at 10:55 PM
In 1963 Birmingham, you probably didn't just show up to a march. You likely came to church first. Night after night: singing, testimonies, preached word, then the call to action. Answering it meant getting trained up.
In 1870, census takers went across the South and counted Black people as whole persons for the first time in this country's history. Not three-fifths. Whole. The Fourteenth Amendment says representation is apportioned by counting the whole number of persons. Persons. Not citizens. Not voters.
August 10, 2026 at 11:45 AM
In 1870, census takers went across the South and counted Black people as whole persons for the first time in this country's history. Not three-fifths. Whole. The Fourteenth Amendment says representation is apportioned by counting the whole number of persons. Persons. Not citizens. Not voters.
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MEHDI: “If the midterms don’t go Trump’s way, is there any world where Todd Blanche stands up to Trump if he’s asked to find fake evidence of voter fraud? Or are we screwed now?”
EX TRUMP WHITE HOUSE ATTORNEY TY COBB: “We’re screwed.”
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social: “Great.” 😕🇺🇸
EX TRUMP WHITE HOUSE ATTORNEY TY COBB: “We’re screwed.”
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social: “Great.” 😕🇺🇸
August 9, 2026 at 2:54 AM
MEHDI: “If the midterms don’t go Trump’s way, is there any world where Todd Blanche stands up to Trump if he’s asked to find fake evidence of voter fraud? Or are we screwed now?”
EX TRUMP WHITE HOUSE ATTORNEY TY COBB: “We’re screwed.”
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social: “Great.” 😕🇺🇸
EX TRUMP WHITE HOUSE ATTORNEY TY COBB: “We’re screwed.”
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social: “Great.” 😕🇺🇸
Yesterday, Tennessee voted under the new jim crow map for the first time. Here's what the ground said back.
August 8, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Yesterday, Tennessee voted under the new jim crow map for the first time. Here's what the ground said back.
It's Election Day in Tennessee. Memphis, formerly known as the last majority-Black congressional district in the state, is voting right now.
Polls across Shelby County are open until 7pm CT tonight.
Polls across Shelby County are open until 7pm CT tonight.
August 6, 2026 at 12:19 PM
It's Election Day in Tennessee. Memphis, formerly known as the last majority-Black congressional district in the state, is voting right now.
Polls across Shelby County are open until 7pm CT tonight.
Polls across Shelby County are open until 7pm CT tonight.
Reposted by Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson
🔥 Here's Whitehouse's entire remarkable speech opposing Blanche: "What's left of this committee when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has DOJ been asked what became of the $50k that the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our R colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, & speak no evil."
Whitehouse on Blanche: "Today is a sad and embarrassing day"
YouTube video by Aaron Rupar
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August 4, 2026 at 2:28 PM
🔥 Here's Whitehouse's entire remarkable speech opposing Blanche: "What's left of this committee when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has DOJ been asked what became of the $50k that the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our R colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, & speak no evil."
The battleground map measures 1 thing: whether a state's close to flipping. It doesn't measure where people's fight is raging under inhumane conditions. Right now those are two very different maps, and the gap between them is where the country is being redrawn.
Welcome to a thread with receipts.
Welcome to a thread with receipts.
July 29, 2026 at 10:55 PM
The battleground map measures 1 thing: whether a state's close to flipping. It doesn't measure where people's fight is raging under inhumane conditions. Right now those are two very different maps, and the gap between them is where the country is being redrawn.
Welcome to a thread with receipts.
Welcome to a thread with receipts.
Still digesting what an experience The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries Leadership Conference has been.
One of the highlights was a family reunion with my Soulforce fam, Rev. Alba Onofrio.
Get this book. Read this book. Support the work of Soulforce.
🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵✊🏾💙💜🤎🖤🩶🤍
One of the highlights was a family reunion with my Soulforce fam, Rev. Alba Onofrio.
Get this book. Read this book. Support the work of Soulforce.
🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵✊🏾💙💜🤎🖤🩶🤍
July 24, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Still digesting what an experience The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries Leadership Conference has been.
One of the highlights was a family reunion with my Soulforce fam, Rev. Alba Onofrio.
Get this book. Read this book. Support the work of Soulforce.
🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵✊🏾💙💜🤎🖤🩶🤍
One of the highlights was a family reunion with my Soulforce fam, Rev. Alba Onofrio.
Get this book. Read this book. Support the work of Soulforce.
🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵✊🏾💙💜🤎🖤🩶🤍
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