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# The + Friday + Five | on the Election
- URL: https://www.reyes-chow.com/the-friday-five-101824/
- Published: 2024-10-18T23:47:50.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-25T03:26:26.000Z
- Description: The Election Edition and Five Folks to Add to Your Feed
- Author: Bruce Reyes-Chow
- Tags: friday + five

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[The + Friday + Five](https://www.reyes-chow.com/tag/friday-five/) is a brief list of things I have found meaningful, challenging, joyful, soothing, or quirky from the week. [**The Original Friday Five*](https://web.archive.org/web/20130509215352/http://www.patheos.com/blogs/breyeschow/tag/friday-five/) was from my 2010's [**SF Gate’s City Brights*](https://web.archive.org/web/20160422020841/http://blog.sfgate.com/reyeschow/) blog. Enjoy.

#### Your Friday Five: 10.18.24

I am not sure if you know this, but we are in election season :-)

There is no shortage of opinions about who you should vote for, especially regarding the Harris/Walz ticket, protest votes, and third-party candidates.

**To be clear, I will not tell you who you should vote for president. This election cycle, I am also choosing not to reveal how I intend to vote.**

With all of the "who you should vote for" shaming, dismissiveness, condescension, judgment, contempt, fear-mongering, racism, ageism, and the disrespectful questioning of morality, intellect, and commitment to issues of justice — all I hope for is that you vote your conscience. I hope you vote in a way that honors who God has made you today and in a way that moves all of us toward God’s greatest hopes and intentions for tomorrow. Elections can feel overwhelmingly like an empire activity, but they are also a concrete expression of our faith and hope in and for our civic life together.

Here are a few folks who appear in my newsfeed as I engage in my discernment process. I do not always agree with them, but they are voices worth listening to.

> is thoughtfully but forcefully walking that space between supporting Harris/Walz while calling out their ongoing support of Isreal’s assault on Palestine, Lebanon, etc. You should make sure to follow her on Instagram where she is most active and take a read of: [*Bearing Witness at the DNC: With the vote, all things are possible in 2025\. Without it, nothing is*](https://lisasharonharper.substack.com/p/bearing-witness-at-the-dnc).  
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> is writing a bunch on and is all in on Harris/Walz. He seems to be primarily focused on reaching post-evangelicals, those looking for reasons not to vote for Trump, and challenging anti-Harris messaging. Not my social media cup of tea, he active [on Threads](https://www.threads.net/@johnpavlovitz/replies?ref=reyes-chow.com) and [*White Evangelicals Must Lose in November*](https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/white-evangelicals-must-lose-in-november) and [*This is Why I’m Voting*](https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/this-is-why-im-voting) are both worthy reads.  
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> If your newsfeed is filled with “both sides”, “stop critiquing Harris” or “genocide is a single issue” read every single post from [The Leftist Lawyer on Threads](https://www.threads.net/@theleftistlawyer?ref=reyes-chow.com) and on Substack. Not only do I respect what she does in the world, but I have also appreciated how she has been clear about her perspectives on the election and nuanced explanations of supporting or not supporting Harris.  
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> Many you probably already follow here on Subtack via , but you shold also follow her [on Instgram](https://www.instagram.com/ijeomaoluo/?ref=reyes-chow.com) and [on Threads](https://www.threads.net/@ijeomaoluo?ref=reyes-chow.com) for her unapologetic and deeply moving election insights about activism, engagement, and the soul.  
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> Finally, read the election multi-post series [*Tell Me How to Vote!: Nope. But I will accompany you as you discern*](https://laurengrubaughthomas.substack.com/p/tell-me-how-to-vote) fromon her susbtack, . She poses some good questions for discernment and reflection.

Again, this year, I will not publicly post my presidential voting plans. You can read some of my thoughts about it all as I respond to the friends, colleagues, and strangers dragging me for not immediately jumping on the public Harris/Walz supporter train — [*The Grief, Disappointment, and Inevitability of Losing Acquaintances and Colleagues*](https://www.reyes-chow.com/the-grief-disappointment-and-inevitability/).

I will say that no matter how you vote in the presidential elections, local elections are not driven by the electoral college, so your vote matters differently — I hope you will exercise it to the best of your ability.

Keep breathing and I’ll see you soon.

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**From the Camera Roll**: I just spent a week with a Clergy and Leadership of Color gathering at [Zephyr Point Conference Center in Lake Tahoe](https://zephyrpoint.org/?ref=reyes-chow.com) and captured this shot on our last day. Yes, the only bombs I would like to see up close or from a distance are of the rainbow variety.

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**\***[The Original Friday Five](https://web.archive.org/web/20130509215352/http://www.patheos.com/blogs/breyeschow/tag/friday-five/) was a weekly-ish post from my 2010s [SF Gate’s City Brights](https://web.archive.org/web/20160422020841/http://blog.sfgate.com/reyeschow/) blog. If you stumble across anything that you think would fit, please feel free to [drop me a note](mailto:theamalgmation@reyes-chow.com).