We have made it to 100 days without giving up, be proud of yourselves. Before I get to my list of what went right this week, let me say that Daily Kos did a wonderfully inspiring post of our accomplishments for the past 100 days, read it here!

1. Bill O’Reilly out! Now who will give the trumpettes all their news? Chaffetz not running for re-election!!!!  Sorry Utah he’s all yours now. And the racial and sexist slur spouting Florida State Senator Frank Artiles resigned from the legislature after getting caught releasing a diatribe of insults against two lawmakers, so now we have another seat up for grabs for you dems in Florida looking for something to do.
2. Another mega millionaire couldn’t buy his way into a position in the administration because of conflicts of interest. Ricketts, who donated a million dollars to Trump’s campaign, withdrew his nomination as deputy commerce secretary, because he couldn’t untangle his finances to the satisfaction of the Office of Government Ethics.
3. Woman Power! Kathrine Switzer, who was a 20-year-old college student when she made history in 1967 by becoming the first woman to both officially enter and finish, the Boston Marathon even after officials tried to tackle her and rip off her number, crossed the Boston Marathon finish line again 50 years later.  Jeanette Vizguerra, an undocumented mother of four who has been living in a Denver church to avoid deportation and separation form her citizen children since February, was named one of 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine, along with the organizers of the Women’s March on Washington, Samantha Bee, and many more.
4. Democrat Jackie Smith pulled an upset in a largely republican area of Virginia and won for Prince William County Clerk even though her opponent out spent her by 7:1. I may sound like a broken record by now, but change starts at the local level. Tony Evers won the election for Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction, running as a pro-public education candidate against his opponent who ran as a pro-DeVos/voucher candidate.
5. Two republicans in Colorado joined with democrats to defeat a bill that would have allowed businesses to deny services to customers based on personal beliefs. What were those other republicans smoking when they proposed it?
6. The Supreme Court ruled that states have to give back criminal fines when people are exonerated and they can’t require them to prove their innocence again in civil court for criminal penalties to be returned. A federal judge ordered the Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to turn over a copy of a proposal he was photographed taking into a meeting with Trump before the inauguration to the ACLU. A photographer captured a partial view of the document, containing Trump’s immigration plan but also revealed the documents included a reference to voter rolls. The ACLU sought the documents as part of a lawsuit against a Kansas Voter-ID law.
7. American Oversight, a group formed by liberal lawyers has filed two lawsuits. They sued the Justice Dept. and FBI over their refusal to comply with their freedom of information request seeking information regarding the allegation of wiretapping of Trump Tower by President Obama, alleging they are not classified as they have been referred to in public tweets and by Comey at public hearings. They also demanded records regarding Russian interference in the presidential campaign.  The SPLC sued Andrew Anglin, the man who runs the Daily Stormer, a well-known neo-Nazi website, on behalf of a Jewish family in Montana for harassment by inciting a “troll storm” against them and putting their lives at risk.
8. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued Ocwen Financial Corporation, one of the nation’s largest non-bank mortgage servicing companies, alleging that company mismanagement that lead to improper foreclosures and other serious problems for homeowners related to their mortgage services and the Treasury Dept. denied Exxon Mobil’s request to bypass U.S. sanctions against Russia to resume drilling for oil in a joint venture in Russia.
9. The twittler-in-chief told the AP news in an interview, that “dreamers” should not be worried about deportation.
10. Those of us who know better, continue to save this planet. Since the implementation of a plastic bag fee of 7 cents, plastic grocery bag usage is down 42% in Chicago. On April 21^st the U.K. had its first full day without burning coal to make electricity since the Industrial Revolution in the 1880’s. Hundreds of thousands turned out around the country to stand up for science and the planet at the March for Science, with some of the most intelligent and inspiring signs.

My plugs for the week are that the organization Sister District has announced their partner districts so sign up now to volunteer to flip your nearest red district blue, and Run for Something is looking for volunteers to research school board elections across the country, it only takes an hour or two of your time and can be done without even leaving your couch. Come back soon for more updates on resistance resources.

A lot went right this week,so with much joy in my heart I bring you another edition of What Went Right.
1. The creepy tweeter had a terrible, no good, very bad week. Comney, testified before Congress that there was no evidence to support the tweet that Trump Tower was “wire tapped” and that there is evidence of Trump/Russian collusion in the election and the FBI is investigating. His former campaign chief, Paul Manafort, is wanted for questioning for crimes in the Ukraine. He fell 220 places on the Forbes list of the richest people. His approval rating sank to a new low of 37%, according to the latest Gallup Poll (the lowest in polling history of any president this early in their presidency). Oh, and just in case you missed it, his Trumpcare plan to repeal and replace Obamacare failed because the republicans didn’t have enough votes and withdrew it. Our voices were heard – activism works.
2. Even red states can do the right thing. Charlottesville’s City Council approved a resolution calling on Congress to reject the military-heavy federal budget proposed by the White House. Arkansas passed a law ending the state’s celebrating of Gen. Robert E. Lee on the same holiday as Martin Luther King Jr. Celebrating General Lee has been downgraded from a state holiday to a day with a state proclamation. The law also requires schools to expand what’s taught to include more emphasis on civil rights leaders such as King.
3. The U.S. Supreme Court expanded the scope of students’ special education rights, ruling unanimously that schools must do more than provide a “merely more than de minimis” education program to a student with a disability. Chief Justice Roberts wrote “When all is said and done, a student offered an educational program providing ‘merely more than de minimis’ progress from year to year can hardly be said to have been offered an education at all.”
4. The Justice Department entered into a settlement with a large pizza chain that violated immigration law by demanding foreign-born legal resident workers produce green cards as proof of employment eligibility, but did not require similar document from U.S. citizen workers. The pizza chain will pay a civil penalty of $140,000 and face monitoring.
5. Google has made it easier for advertisers to limit their ad placements from appearing on hate sites and expanded their definition of hate speech after large brands halted advertising on Google and YouTube over concerns about offensive content.
6. Ivanka Trump’s company was hit with a class-action lawsuit by a California-based retailer claiming her company gets an unfair advantage over other retailers because of its association with the president and are seeking a restraining order preventing her line from being sold in California. The NCAA gave NC an ultimatum to repeal the anti-LGBTQ bathroom bill HB2 by next week or face being blackballed from hosting collegiate athletic championships until 2022.
7. The assistant U.S. Attorney who led public-corruption prosecutions under Preet Bharara was hired by the NY state Attorney General as a senior enforcement counsel, focusing on issues relating to the White House and public corruption in general.
8. Fox News has benched legal analyst Andrew Napolitano because of his unfounded (ie. fake) claims on TV that President Barack Obama used British intelligence officials to spy on Trump Tower.
9. Democrat contender Kim Weaver, in Iowa raised $100,000 in 4 days to unseat republican Congressman Steve King (r) after he made racist tweets giving her a jumpstart in her second bid for the seat. Consider supporting her on ActBlue.com. Beth Fukumoto, who was ousted last month as the Republican leader of Hawaii’s House of Representatives after publicly criticizing the tweeter-in-chief, resigned from the party and is seeking membership as a Democrat. She says a poll of her constituents shows 75% support her decision.
10. I missed this story last week, but felt it important to include even if older. Without the fear of guns being taken away since the election, people aren’t stockpiling guns, so gun sellers aren’t selling as many, which has resulted in gun makers in the US laying off workers at US gun factories (including Colt and Remington), and the stock value of the companies has dropped significantly. Fewer gun makers is always a good thing.

If you feel inspired after reading this, post a comment with one action, big or small, you will try to do this week to help bring about progressive change to your local community, state, or country. One easy step is to sign up for www.dailyaction.org.

We all know what went wrong this week, so now it is time again for what went right. Not every win is directly twittler-in-chief related, but many will help us as a country stay on the right track.

1.   Democratic candidate for State Senate in Delaware, Stephanie Hansen won by 58% of the vote, enabling the Democrats to retain a majority in the State Senate. Hundreds of in-state and out-of-state volunteers campaigned and donated close to a million dollars to keep Delaware blue.
2.   The Vice Chair of the Wasatch County Republican Party, James Green, was forced to resign after backlash from his letter to the editor supporting a gender pay gap as way to keep mothers from entering the workforce.
3.  Virginia Democrats announced plans to challenge 45 GOP incumbents in the republican controlled House of Delegates this November. If successful, it would be an increase over 2015, when only 21 Democrats ran against GOP lawmakers.
4.   The Arizona Senate rejected a bill that would have prevented cities from creating ID cards available to all residents, regardless of their immigration status.
5.   A U.S. Court of Appeals upheld Maryland’s ban on assault rifles by a 10-4 vote. The Court ruled gun owners are not protected under the second amendment off the U.S. Constitution to possess “weapons of war.”
6.   The largest coal-fired generating plant west of the Mississippi announced they would close in 2019, decades earlier than expected. The plant was third on the EPA list of major carbon-emitting facilities.
7.   Betsy DeVos actually came out as against repealing bathroom protects for transgender students, who would have thought?
8.   Outdoor Retailer, a major industry trade show that brings in millions of dollars in revenue announced Utah could no longer host the trade show starting in 2018. This was in response to a boycott of the show by Patagonia, REI, North Face, and others after the Republican Governor refused to rescind his call for the reversal of a new national monument designation for Bear Ears Monument. (a bit late on this one as it was 10 days ago).
9.   Activists hung an enormous 20 foot “Refugees Welcome” banner at the base of the Statute of Liberty. Beautiful photos of the banner appeared all over the news.

It’s time for another weekly round-up of the good. Yes, he should not be named is still president. However, not everything went well on his side of the wall this week.
1.    Michael Flynn resigned as National Security Advisor when White House leaks revealed that he lied to the VP about pre-inauguration conversations with Russia.
2.   Andy Puzder withdrew his nomination as Labor Secretary after he admitted to hiring an undocumented worker and not paying taxes on her salary. It also became clear a dozen Republicans were threatening to break with party and reject his nomination, significantly more than the two that voted against Devos last week.
3.   Kellyann Conway was blacklisted from a number of mainstream news shows for her fake news and habitual lying.
4.   Extreme gerrymandering in Wisconsin to create a disproportionate balance of Republican districts was struck down by a Federal Court.
5.   Six staffers at the White House were fired and escorted out because they failed background checks.
6.   Under Armour CEO publicly backed away from his support of presidential positions and took out a full page ad in the Baltimore Sun praising immigrants for their contributions.
7.   Immigrants around the country caused the shut-down of businesses and supportive protests brought out thousands in “A Day without Immigrants.”

Don’t stop your calls, protests, emails, volunteer work, and donations. Try not to get discouraged in this barrage of horrors, and if you do, shake it off, and get back up.

Another reminder that action matters and our battle is not hopeless, for those standing up to Trump in ways big and small we accomplished a lot this week.
1. US Appeals Court upholds suspension of travel ban by 3-0 allowing refugees and green card holders to continue to enter or return home.
2. Two republican Senators broke party lines and voted AGAINST Betsy DeVos confirmation. Parents then blocked her from entering a public school in Washington, DC.
3. Major retailers such as Nordstroms, Neiman Marcus, Kmart, Sears, Shoes.com, and Bellacort have dumped Trump brand products inspired by boycotts led by groups such as #GrabYourWallet.
4. SleepingGiants @slpng_giants has confirmed over 2000 advertisers have agreed to stop advertising on the hate/fake news site Breitbart.com.
5. Reebok announces the sale of “Nevertheless She Persisted” T-shirt, with all profits going to support the Woman’s March organization after Senator Warren is shut down from reading Coretta Scott King’s letter on the Senate floor.
6. At Town Hall meetings and Local Offices nationwide, Republicans and Democrats have encountered large, angry crowds of constituents. Thousands are protesting almost every day in cities across the country, including 70,000 people who showed up in Raleigh, North Carolina.
7. Dailyaction.org announced that they have recorded 1.5 million minutes of calls to members of Congress and other officials since they began.
Remember, we are in this for the long haul. We will lose many battles along the way, but we will win this war. So this week, please read a good book, have a drink with friends, go to an art exhibit, or knit another pussy hat, in between your phone calls, postcard writing, protesting, or whatever actions you do, to keep yourself sane.