Candidates who take on power and promise real progressive change are the ones voters are rallying behind, because anything less isn’t worth showing up for… Today is the May 1st National Day of Action; I’ll be wearing a black armband on TV and millions will be skipping school, work, and shopping to protest Trump and his fascist policies… Maine just handed Democrats a wake-up call that they’d damn well better actually listen to this time. Governor Janet Mills suspended her Senate campaign yesterday, leaving Marine veteran and oyster farmer Graham Platner as the presumptive Democratic nominee to take on Republican Senator Susan Collins in November. The message Maine voters are frankly shouting is the same one I’ve been hearing from listeners on my radio/TV show for years and the same one that pollsters across the spectrum keep picking up across the country: people are sick and tired of mealy-mouthed corporate Democrats who run on focus-grouped slogans and govern like they’re scared of their own shadow. They want fighters.