TLDR: I have a lot of anxious energy and feel powerless. Any suggestions for what to do about the election?

(also this is a bit of a rant, so I’m sorry. I know a lot of you guys are probably very tired of it.)

So I live in Utah, and I’m… gonna be honest I’ve had a massive pit in the bottom of my stomach since the election. It’s a bit long cause I’ve been very stressed and also just wanna put out my thoughts.

I am a cis, white, male, home owner, who looks like the perfect Mormon boy who never swears and never even got a parking ticket . I will be fine (For awhile at least depending on things. )

But there are people I care about very very much that will not be okay very fast, on top of how much I worry about the poor people of Ukraine because I can’t imagine what a nightmare it is to live in Ukraine where Russia is allowed to do whatever they want and your allies are following some weird set of rules that no one can clarify.

I did what I could prior to election I think.

I voted and got all my friends and family that I could to vote

Donated to Kamala campaign

Did a bit of phone banking where I called people in swing states (Sorry swing state people, I know you probably got overwhelmed.) Maybe I should have just taken a bus to Nevada and put in work on the ground. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to do it differently in 2 years.

Since the election I’ve sent emails to DNC/white house asking that they do the recount and investigate, since Trump tried to cheat last election it feels insane not to investigate.

I have sent (many) emails to my (very conservative) senators with a variety of concerns including:

Please just stop this mad man criminal rapist who said he’ll use the army on US states and refuse to certify the election

Tariffs will bankrupt us here in Utah please don’t allow it

Please don’t allow insane people to be given high ranking government stations. I didn’t think Trump could find people crazier than him, but he now has a televangelist scam artist and Alex Jones saddling up. So I was wrong.

Trump sent fake electors, and is on recording begging people to “find” votes in 2020. Please support a thorough investigation to dismiss all doubt about the validity of the elections.

Main thought being only a handful of senators need to help the Democrats and we suddenly have “something” to slow things down.

But I honestly, don’t know what else to do at the moment. It seems very minor what I can do.

The current thought is wait and see if anything crazy happens on the day it’s time to certify the election while still pestering my senators as much as possible. But the amount of pressure my senators are getting is probably very small given the state, so I’m no more than an email/phone call that an underpaid intern can dismiss (I’ve received many copy and pastes from those interns that start with “Hi I’m x replying on behalf of Mitt Romney.”) I could go protest outside their houses, but they aren’t there I don’t think. Their phones are pretty much locked up as well.

Then assuming Trump is put in, reach out to my local DNC and get to work trying to help influence good candidate choice to try and take the house and senate away from Trump in 2022. Which will most likely be lots of phone banking to a state with a snowball chance in hell of electing a non republican and being a source of encouragement to whoever runs.

But of course there is non 0% chance we don’t get another even close to fair election. So we’ll see!

Other idea is maybe just donate to causes that help people relocate that need to get out of the state they are currently in very quickly?

But yeah I’m just stressed.

So with all that useless context, here is the question:

“Hey guys I’m really stressed out about Trump winning the election. Any suggestions on what actions I can take to help make the situation better and feel less powerless?”