Virginia! Vote YES on Redistricting

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🗓️ 11 April 2026

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FDR had to take some bold swings to transform America for the better. He had his pearl-clutching critics who thought he was going too far. But that's what was needed to usher in the New Deal and strengthen democracy and improve people's lives. The "good guys" must not be passive. We must fight back. Virginia, the world's eyes are on you to vote YES on redistricting -- vote now through April 21. You will help restore balance to Republican authoritarian gerrymandering. Your YES vote in Virginia is an emergency stop-gap meant to save our national ship from sinking and take back the gavel from Kremlin MAGA Mike Johnson in the House. Thank you to all who spread the word about this important, urgent vote, and get out the vote. If you still have questions, here's an overview from Arlington Democrats: https://www.arlingtondemocrats.org/redistricting

If you're in NYC or nearby, join us April 13 at 7pm at Powerhouse Arts Arena in DUMBO, Brooklyn, one of the most beautiful neighborhoods in all of NYC. We're going to celebrate Mrs. Orwell, Andrea's new graphic novel with the genius illustrator Brahm Revel, about an unsung heroine of literature, Eileen O'Shaughnessy Blair, the wife, muse, and unsung creative partner of Eric Blair, aka George Orwell. There would have been no Homage to Catalonia, Animal Farm, 1984 without Eileen O'Shaughnessy Blair. Patreon supporters get in for free and get a Mrs. Orwell tote bag. Message us on Patreon.com/Gaslit to get on the guest list. See you Monday night for an unforgettable evening dedicated to a defiant heroine of the power of the pen.

Thank you to Razom for Ukraine and the Media and Democracy Project for being co-sponsors of this event.

Details here: https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/powerhousebookstores/book-launch-mrs-orwell-by-andrea-chalupa

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone. I am excited to remind my audience in the New York City area, and that includes
0:12.5	you, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, all right, the six and seventh boroughs of New York City.
0:20.1	We are doing a launch for Mrs. Orwell, a story that has lived inside me for well over a decade.
0:26.7	It was born out of my Hlo-a-Moor film, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine.
0:34.2	In fact, the opening pages of an very old draft of Mr. Jones opened with Eileen and
0:42.6	Eric Blair on their honeymoon fighting fascists in the Spanish Civil War. And obviously,
0:49.3	Eileen Oshaknessy Blair, the Irish English poet who saved her husband's life twice and helped transform
0:56.8	him into the artist he always longed to be. Her spirit was much too grand for that one film
1:02.9	that was already packed with big, powerful spirits. So she needed her own story, and that is now
1:08.0	Mrs. Orwell. So we will be celebrating her, her story, her legacy,
1:12.4	and her energy for us today in being defiant, in holding fast to the truth that the pen is
1:18.8	mightier than the sword, that art matters, that it is our role in this moment to stay creative,
1:25.9	enjoy being creative, join with other forces and being creative,
1:29.5	because that is how you overcome the forces of destruction that are ultimately, as Eileen would tell us,
1:37.5	unnatural. They're completely unnatural. We are the forces of nature and we will ultimately prevail,
1:42.9	just like they did. And I lean in Eric Blair's time.
1:45.9	So we are doing a launch party this Monday at Powerhouse Arena, which is a nonprofit in Brooklyn, New York, in the gorgeous neighborhood of Dumbo, one of the most beautiful neighborhoods in all of New York City.
1:58.5	And I'm proud to share with you some recent breaking news that one of the vice presidents at Powerhouse Arts, the Brooklyn Art
2:05.8	Nonprofit, Dia, sorry, I want to make sure I'm saying this right, Diavij. Diavich has just been
2:12.8	appointed by our mayor, Mayor, Mayor Mom Donnie, to lead the city's New York, to lead the Department of Cultural Affairs.
2:21.7	She is the first person of Southeast Asian descent to do so. And so I'm very excited to have this
2:29.7	unsung heroine of literature, Eileen O'Sha Nessie Blair, celebrated at such an esteemed institution
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