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I run Political Charge to give people the knowledge and inspiration to take charge of their political activism. You can also follow me on Twitter at @dhstokyo.

• The Week’s Best Cartoons: FBI Seize Sensitive Docs from Mar-a-Lago

  By TokyoSand on August 13, 2022 • ( 4 )

  

  The week started off with a big win for Joe Biden (the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act) and ended with the bombshell that the FBI seized a trove of extremely sensitive documents from Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago. Here’s how… Read More ›

• Another Week Full of Good News to Celebrate

  By TokyoSand on August 12, 2022 • ( 4 )

  

  I figured after the incredible amount of good news that we had last week, this week might be a bit quieter, and well… Let’s just say it wasn’t quieter! Here’s some great news to share! Attorney General Merrick Garland confirmed… Read More ›

• How to Convince People to Vote in 2022

  By TokyoSand on August 10, 2022 • ( 9 )

  

  Whenever I ask my readers or social media followers what they’d like to learn more about when it comes to electoral politics, I often get the question, “How can I convince people to vote?” I’ve pulled the following information mostly… Read More ›

• The Dems Deliver Yet Again

  By TokyoSand on August 8, 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  You know, at the start of this 117th Congress, not many people thought that the Democrats could get much done with a 50-50 split Senate and a Republican caucus hellbent on obstructing them. Yet here we are, having watched the… Read More ›

• The Week’s Best Cartoons 8/6

  By TokyoSand on August 6, 2022 • ( 6 )

  

  Kansas Decides Pelosi in Taiwan US Kills Al-Qaida Leader PACT Act And Other News In Memoriam

• What To Do With All This Good News!

  By TokyoSand on August 5, 2022 • ( 5 )

  

  Man, this week was jam packed with good news! For those of you who might be new here, for me, good news is anything you might classify as a Democratic win, bad things happening to Republicans, accountability for those who… Read More ›

• Kansas Voters For the Win!

  By TokyoSand on August 3, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  There was a lot of primary election results to sort through last night, but the one I was paying the most attention to was the amendment vote in Kansas. As a reminder, Kansas Republicans put a constitutional amendment on the… Read More ›

• Popular Vote Compact: The Reason The Federalist is Freaking Out

  By TokyoSand on August 1, 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  So, a few days ago, the Federalist tweeted out an article with this ominous sounding post: “Democrats Are Dangerously Close To Changing Laws So Our President Is Elected By Popular Vote.” Besides making it clear that Republicans are terrified of… Read More ›

• The Week’s Best Cartoons 7/30

  By TokyoSand on July 30, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  The Cartoons

• It’s About Time for Some Good News!

  By TokyoSand on July 29, 2022 • ( 5 )

  

  Perhaps it is just that I am feeling positive these days, but there’s been a lot of good news these past couple of weeks. Need a political pick-me-up? Read on! Voter registrations spiked the week of the Roe v Wade… Read More ›

• Republican Dirty Tricks on the Primary Ballot

  By TokyoSand on July 27, 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  Republicans have made it abundantly clear that they want to take away women’s rights to healthcare, particularly abortion access. The lengths they are going to in Kansas is, well, just keep reading. Back in 2019, Kansas’ state Supreme Court delivered… Read More ›

• I’m Back

  By TokyoSand on July 25, 2022 • ( 11 )

  

  As you may have noticed, I’ve been taking a bit of a break from Political Charge this summer. I’ve still been very active on Twitter, TikTok, & Instagram, which I run with the same goal I have for this blog — that… Read More ›

• The Week’s Best Cartoons 7/23

  By TokyoSand on July 23, 2022 • ( 4 )

  

  The Cartoons

• The Week’s Best Cartoons 7/16

  By TokyoSand on July 16, 2022 • ( 2 )

  

  January 6th Committee Fallout from Dobbs And Other News

• The Week’s Best Cartoons

  By TokyoSand on July 9, 2022 • ( 1 )

  

• The Week’s Best Cartoons 7/2

  By TokyoSand on July 2, 2022 • ( 3 )

  

  SCOTUS Jan. 6 Hearings And Other News

• The Week’s Best Cartoons: SCOTUS Overturns Roe

  By TokyoSand on June 25, 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  I feel like we’ve all been waiting for this axe to fall for weeks. And today, it did. Here’s how editorial cartoonists covered Roe v Wade being overturned.

• How to Commemorate Juneteenth

  By TokyoSand on June 20, 2022 • ( 2 )

  

  I should clarify — This post is specifically about how white people should commemorate Juneteenth. And to further clarify — This is just an opportunity to share how I’m planning to commemorate the holiday in the hopes that other folks… Read More ›

• The Week’s Best Cartoons 6/18

  By TokyoSand on June 18, 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  January 6th Hearings And Other News

• Primary Election Calendar for Summer 2022

  By TokyoSand on June 15, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  What better way to protect our democracy than to encourage folks to participate in it? (Well, that and expanding voting rights, of course.) One of the ways we can do that is by sharing the information about elections that are… Read More ›