By Saulo Colón, Nancy Holmstrom, Dan La Botz, Jason Schulman, and Julia Wrigley. We wish our readers a Happy New Year, though we know that you take little joy in it, politically speaking. If we take no joy, we do sometimes find humor in President Donald J. Socialists, Democrats, the Working Class, and Our Future.

We Are building a movement to fix our politics and transform our democracy. We need those who have put everything aside to serve America outside of politics to continue to serve our country now as political leaders. Mdash; David Gergen, advisor to four U.

I hope all is well. Things at the City are moving along smoothly. The holidays are just around the corner. Fall is in the air. We live in a wonderful place! With less than two weeks remaining before the November 8. Elections, many people are focused on the candidate races and ballot issues that will be decided that day. Well, there are two of them.

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