🗳️Whose house? Our house! We can’t vote them out of our house if we don’t vote! Have you voted? Have you checked in with friends and family in the States ...

NOVEMBER IS NOW! It's hard to believe it but it's time to vote! This newsletter is focused specifically on Voting Info, several Upcoming Events & an update on Social Security.  ...

POWER IN TAKING ACTION & VOTING!  From Rebecca Solnit on FB - thanks to DASA member KLD for sharing.  There are numerous reasons for concern and outrage, too ...

DASA LOVES To See Our Members Get Excited About A Candidate! Former NC Governor Roy Cooper and Charles Belk  We love to see our members get excited about candidates back ...

Ah yes, we are entering June, the month our president probably hates the most. While many back home look forward to the national Juneteenth holiday and will take part in Pride Month celebrations nationwide, our fine leader will be huffing and puffing and hosting a huge military parade on the 14th, his birthday.

Attacks on DEI, stripping away Black History and imagery from libraries and government websites, they are all part of his white supremacist agenda. These actions and many others must be confronted head on by both our elected representatives and the citizenry at large. DASA will be hosting No Kings, No Tyrants - Day of Defiance activities on June 14th as a direct response to the planned parade. We also continue to host our Take Action Tuesdays. Consider joining both – you’ll feel better knowing you did your part to confront and resist unethical, exclusionary and undemocratic leadership.

Dear -- I hope you all had a little time to refresh and recharge over the April holidays. There has been a lot going on and its impossible to ...

An Assault on our Federal Systems: USAID was just the Beginning The headlines describe events at a distance, but I witnessed the clinical and swift assault on USAID up close. ...

This will likely be one of the most difficult periods of US history in our lifetimes. We knew it would be bad, but this onslaught seems worse than expected, right from the outset. We’re experiencing a serious threat to the country we as know it, rolling back decades of progress. The implications for South Africa and the world are dire. 

I think it's safe to say that we’re all feeling high levels of anxiety and concern for our country, as people’s dignity, rights, freedoms, identities, livelihoods and lives are threatened. There are too many specific issues to mention but our humanity and democratic norms are under attack. Let’s all open our hearts, minds and eyes - and stand up. Standing together - seeing and leveraging the range of our interests, identities, experiences and political perspectives as our collective strength - is the way we get through this. Raising awareness of the Trump administration's actions is critical but it must be coupled with action. There are wide-ranging opinions on how we fight this – it’s clear that Trump and his cronies are willing to test Congress, the law, the Constitution, and the American people. It will require a multi-pronged legal, political, legislative and social response. 

As Dr. King said, “Voting is the foundation stone for political action." Our core work as Democrats Abroad is to help US Citizens living outside the country to vote. The one weapon we each have in this battle for our country is our ballot. There are elections this year in several states and we also need to work now to be ready to mobilise voters for the 2026 midterms to increase our power in Congress and across the country. Request your 2025 ballots now at www.votefromabroad.org and ask every American you know if they are registered. If they’re in SA or elsewhere abroad, lead them to Vote From Abroad and invite them to join us at www.democratsabroad.org/join

No, this will not be enough! We’ve been discussing ideas for additional tools to share resources between us and specifically focusing on action / solution-based resources and opportunities. Please email [email protected] if you have ideas or would like to be involved in crowdsourcing these resources! We’re having discussions with members and will keep engaging.