You should be every day voting with your wallet to prevent money flowing into the wrong hands. Boycott these ALEC members who non-stop fund the republican war chests:
- FedEx
- UPS
- Motorola
- Anheuser Busch
- American Express
- Chevron
- Marlboro
- Sony
- Texaco
- Boeing (fly on Airbus instead)
Quit driving. It’s not just the fuel burn that harms the environment. When you buy fuel, you fund the oil companies who fund republicans. Trump’s 4th biggest cash source came from oil giants. There is nothing worse for the environment than republicans.
Find out which companies funded Trump’s war chest directly, and boycott them.
list of most notable Pro-Trump lobbyists (who funded them? We need to follow the money)
Make America Great Again Inc SuperPAC $331,464,578
America PAC (Texas) SuperPAC $130,300,020
Preserve America PAC SuperPAC $106,088,226
Save America Leadership PAC $91,695,410
Right for America SuperPAC $68,457,574
Turnout for America SuperPAC $25,390,000
Duty to America PAC SuperPAC $20,650,000
Make America Great Again PAC Leadership PAC $16,732,669
SAG PAC SuperPAC $16,412,306
Maha Alliance SuperPAC $4,632,637
Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund SuperPAC $1,848,824
Defend Us PAC SuperPAC $1,544,688
CatholicVote.org SuperPAC $1,432,742
Committee to Defeat the President Carey $536,739
Concerned Americans for America SuperPAC $478,293
Sticker PAC SuperPAC $450,000
American Resolve PAC (Virginia) SuperPAC $442,684
FOUR MORE YEARS PAC SuperPAC $267,216
Greater Georgia Action SuperPAC $242,441
College Republicans of America SuperPAC $85,409
Billboards 47 Swing States SuperPAC $81,694
Asians Making America Great Again SuperPAC $77,064
Win USA PAC SuperPAC $46,807
Great America PAC Carey $34,822
America First Veterans PAC SuperPAC $30,000
New Gen 47 Carey $20,397
Wilberforce PAC SuperPAC $5,000
People & Politics PAC SuperPAC $1,981
Make America Great Again, Again! SuperPAC $200
America First Action SuperPAC $36
There is likely a long list of banks. Banks love republicans in general. We need to get that list and get people off those banks. People should be using cash anyway since banks finance fossil fuels, private prisons, and republicans. In the very least, if you give a shit and you are not a deadbeat then you will avoid using these banks.
(edit) Home Depot, Disney, …, probably others. That’s a long article not an easy list so work required.
grab your wallet is an election cycle out of date, and sadly it’s in Google docs (so use Tor). But it still has a bit of relevance.
Europeans— You can take these actions too. You couldn’t vote for Kamala but you always have the power to vote with your feet.
The popular vote does not matter. It has no effect and no consequences. So you can give up on that.
Boycotts have consequences, so no good reason to neglect to boycott. In the very least you can rest knowing that you are not part of the problem.
Folks in my family vote D every opportunity. That’s a periodic drop-in-the-ocean single micro action. Then every single fucking day spanning the next 4 years they will continue to vote for all the republicans in the country (esp. Greg Abbott) by putting gas in their cars and feeding banks. It’s reckless. Then they wonder why republicans take power.
(edit) I have only ever heard anti-boycott folks claim (incorrectly¹) that boycotts do not work. Never has anyone given good cause for wasting your consumer power for nothing in return. It’s obviously a fool’s move to give up power for nothing.
¹ Recent example of boycotts working: McDonalds in Israel gave free meals to soldiers. Consumers outside Israel boycotted McDonalds, even though it was completely different store ownership, which would almost seem silly superficailly. But it worked so well that McDonalds bought all the Israeli shops with their brand just to nix the free meal promo to protect their brand.
That’s not how gerrymandering works. Gerrymandering affects the house and has zero effect on the POTUS election. So you are looking at irrelevant factors while ignoring opportunities to have effect – and worse in fact, encouraging others to not use their power. Your stance is purely destructive to your own apparent political posture.
The inaction you advocate only supports Project 2025.
I didn’t say it’d have any practical consequence. It would, however, maybe keep alive the dying ember in my soul that there’s a tiny shed of hope for some future generation.
Do they? I’ve been boycotting Nestlé for about a decade now, and they seem to be utterly indifferent to the fact.
I… look I get your point, but at the risk of nitpicking, how are they supposed to not put gas in their car? Quit their jobs, or get fired because they won’t come in to work? Even if you live in a city, most in the US have barely serviceable public transportation systems, and companies are going hard-core rolling back WFH.
Has it stopped Israel’s invasion of Gaza yet? Heck, it’s even limited in effectiveness when whole countries join a boycott. Russia’s under sanctions, which is just a fancy word for country-level boycotts, and while it may have slowed them down, they still seem to be making steady progress. “Blood diamond” boycotts haven’t put Debeers out of business yet.
Boycotting is mostly a feel-good gesture, or, I’ll grant, “at least I can feel like I’m not contributing” moral superiority - which certainly has value.
You seem to think I’m anti-boycott, when I actually just think they only rarely move needles.
Gerrymandering affects state legislature, which translates directly into local laws that directly affect things that influence general elections - like voter intimidation laws, registration laws, mail-in voting laws, judicial and law enforcement elections, and countless legislation.
Uh huh. Boycotting’s going to reinstate Roe v Wade. You go ahead and message me an “I Told You So” when that happens.
lol