Same. I was a former public school teacher, served on a city board, was working at a nonprofit doing great work locally in education, and was starting to build a resume looking towards an eventual run for school board and possibly, one day, city council. Then a relative joined their local school board in 2020 and I became friends with someone who served on our school board and I knixed the plan entirely. It’s not worth death threats to my family, even if I did feel like I would have been an asset.

Then, I switched nonprofits and my coworkers got death threats because, of course, no good deed goes unpunished in this political hellscape.

that's horrifying. Especially when it's someone from the grassroots who's actually going into politics to make a change for themselves & people around them