Not Every Number Tells the Truth
November 06, 2026 Before you share that viral chart, here’s what we’re checking and what you can do today. In this newsletter: What we’re digging into right now, and why we’re not rushing it The post-election livestream on what we’re watching next Your five-minute assignment: check your voter record Hi Friend, Election Day is behind us. The questions? Not so much. Right now your feed is full of screenshots, charts and “proof.” Some of those numbers are real, but some of the conclusions people...
about 21 hours ago • 1 min read2028 starts today.
November 06, 2026 | Read Online 2028 starts today. Yesterday was a rout. Failed leadership. Squandered opportunities. Too many people entrusted with responsibility who could not find the courage to meet it. But if we come out of this with nothing more than a list of people to blame, we will have wasted even this. Something deeper is happening to our country. And we had better find the courage to face it. We have become careless with an extraordinary inheritance. Careless with our freedom....
2 days ago • 2 min read2028 starts today.
November 06, 2026 | Read Online 2028 starts today. Yesterday was a rout. Failed leadership. Squandered opportunities. Too many people entrusted with responsibility who could not find the courage to meet it. But if we come out of this with nothing more than a list of people to blame, we will have wasted even this. Something deeper is happening to our country. And we had better find the courage to face it. We have become careless with an extraordinary inheritance. Careless with our freedom....
2 days ago • 2 min readTuesday Is Coming. Keep the Faith. And VOTE
November 06, 2026 | Read Online From Catherine Support True the Vote’s work Hi Friend — Well, here we are. The midterm run for the roses is almost at its end. To the thousands who used Scan. Check. Protect. to check your records, and everyone using 7 Votes to help friends vote: thank you. And to all of you who are working with campaigns to make calls, knock on doors, and support everything from GOTV to ballot curing, thank you. You saw something worth doing, and you did it. That is how a...
5 days ago • 6 min readTuesday Is Coming. Keep the Faith. And VOTE
November 06, 2026 | Read Online From Catherine Support True the Vote’s work Hi Friend — Well, here we are. The midterm run for the roses is almost at its end. To the thousands who used Scan. Check. Protect. to check your records, and everyone using 7 Votes to help friends vote: thank you. And to all of you who are working with campaigns to make calls, knock on doors, and support everything from GOTV to ballot curing, thank you. You saw something worth doing, and you did it. That is how a...
5 days ago • 6 min readThe Work Nobody Sees
November 06, 2026 Five days until Election Day, and this one is for you. In this newsletter: The work you’ve done that will never make a headline Why November 3 is a milestone, not a finish line Your three-part final assignment before Tuesday Hi Friend, There are things you may never know. Whose registration got corrected because you asked a question, or who walked into the polls prepared because you took ten minutes to help. Whether that records request made a difference, or that one social...
7 days ago • 3 min readDon’t Believe the Hype — and Other Tales from the Frontlines
November 06, 2026 | Read Online From Catherine Support True the Vote’s work Hi Friend — Keeping up with the news these days means constantly sorting through what’s true, what’s distorted, and what’s been made up entirely ... it’s exhausting, but necessary. This week, we learned that fabricated polls have defined this season's national election coverage — the very numbers relied upon to tell the country who’s winning were bogus. In election season, polling can build or break momentum. Polls...
12 days ago • 5 min readDon’t Believe the Hype — and Other Tales from the Frontlines
November 06, 2026 | Read Online From Catherine Support True the Vote’s work Hi Friend — Keeping up with the news these days means constantly sorting through what’s true, what’s distorted, and what’s been made up entirely ... it’s exhausting, but necessary. This week, we learned that fabricated polls have defined this season's national election coverage — the very numbers relied upon to tell the country who’s winning were bogus. In election season, polling can build or break momentum. Polls...
12 days ago • 5 min readStop the Spread (It's not what you think)
November 06, 2026 Discouragement is spreading. Here’s the cure, and it starts with people you already know. In this newsletter: Why “why bother?” is the most dangerous message of 2026 Your three-minute assignment: seven people Hawaii and Wyoming: we need you! Hi Friend, Something is spreading across America, and it isn’t just political division. It’s a shrug. It’s the text from a friend that says, “What’s the point?” It’s the neighbor who’s “sitting this one out.” It’s the quiet belief that...
15 days ago • 2 min readHere Am I. Send Me. — A Birthday Lesson
November 06, 2026 | Read Online From Catherine Hi Friend — Sometimes a few words from someone you love stay with you longer than you expect. Tuesday was Gregg’s birthday. A member of my family sent him a text that I’ve been thinking about ever since: Happy Birthday! I ran across a bible verse that made me think of you. It’s Isaiah 6:8. Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?’ And I said, ‘Here am I. Send me!’ I strive to be that guy. You actually...
19 days ago • 7 min read