Sister Cristan, my feminist ethics call for me to own my vote and also to speak to the situation that now confronts us. In California -- and it may be my moral obligation to live here rather than in a swing state -- I knew that voting my conscience against the death penalty and extrajudicial killings would not effect this State's electoral college result in favor of Hillary Clinton. Given my religious and ethical scruples, the last major party candidate for the presidency I supported was Michael Dukakis in 1988. However, after the experience of 2000, I have also made it rule not to campaign against the Democratic nominee, for example by urging people who might support Obama or Clinton in the most recent elections to vote for a third party instead. This year, although a registered Green, I felt that Jill Stein's campaign lent too much credibility to Donald Trump, and so voted instead for Gloria La Riva of the Peace and Freedom Party. If Hillary had been against the death penalty (as is the Democratic Party platform, I should emphasize in fairness) and extrajudicial killings, I would have voted and campaigned for her. As it was, I refuted sexist and other personal attacks against her, sometimes being suspected as a "troll" in certain self-identified progressive circles for considering her my sister, which she is. And I see her positions as reflecting mainstream politics, not some personal faults of character: the continued popularity of the death penalty (even in such a progressive state as California); and the widespread acceptance of assassination by drone or otherwise as a prerogative of the imperial presidency. What seems vital to me now is solidarity with those under threat from a Trump presidency: People of Color, women, the Latinx community and Muslim community, the LGBTIQA community, and the working class and poor in general. I would also add Hillary Clinton, against whom Trump has threatened politically-motivated persecution. It's a bit ironic that a pardon from President Obama, the same solution at which President Ford arrived to close the legal matter of Richard Nixon's offenses including his "enemies list," may be needed now to protect Hillary from Trump's contemplated abuses of executive power. But "I'm with her," and in favor of whatever legal measures can best protect her. In confronting the next four years, one moment from the antiwar struggle against the slaughter in Indochina stands out to me. It was 1972, a few months before I began to physically transition through HRT, and a military spokesperson was asked what limits there were on escalation of the war in Viet Nam. He answered that "public opinion" would set that limit. Setting limits on the (mis)adventures of Donald Trump will require both mobilizing our communities in effective alliance, with special emphasis on the most vulnerable, and reaching out to form larger alliances of decency. A figure such as Senator Susan Collins of Maine, who broke with Trump early in August, could help make a dramatic difference in saving Social Security and preventing disastrous alterations to Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare in general. An unromantic as it may be from my own socialist perspective, the equivalent in Congress of a "Gang of Eight" could help protect the Supreme Court against appointments with a potential for overturning women's reproductive rights and marriage equality. May this urgent crisis bring out the best in us all.