who knows if democratic senators up to that task, but voters who want that outcome seem to have a very clear strategy for trying to get it. if you want your senator to fight, if you want to stiffen your senator's spine, you to show up and you can show one a cardboard cutout. civic engagement in the trump era. we have seen this before and we have seen it work. this week marks the start of the july 4 recess which means the senate is back home for the holiday. we know from experience what that can look like when the country is fired up about something. the last fourth of july break was the apex of the fight over republicans' effort to take away the affordable care act, to take away health insurance from millions of people. when congress left d.c. for the fourth of july process last year, they came to people lining the streets and holding die-ins and candlelight vigils, people following their representatives across the state, dogging them