Watching the crowds celebrating Tuesday night in New York and Chicago I couldn’t help but smile and feel happiness for their elation. They see their struggle in the face of Barack Obama. His election is a victory of historic proportion for black Americans and a struggle that is 300 years old. They were deeply joyous and I wanted to share their joy. I was moved by it — how could anyone not be? I wanted to share their joy. But I can’t. We didn’t have a candidate in this race and even if Obama had been defeated I wouldn’t have felt HAPPY. I would have been proud of the country for not falling prey to a cult of personality and a $600,000,000 dollar marketing campaign. I can’t congratulate Obama because he cheated and used fraud to win. I can’t congratulate that and I won’t endorse it. Watching the celebration I thought of Hillary and Sarah Palin and I realized the final glass ceiling is still firmly in place today. Unbudged, unbroken. Worse, a vision came to me of an alternate reality where Hillary had been allowed to be the nominee and had won the presidential election last night. Would there have been dancing in the streets? Would women have filled the parks and public squares to cry tears of relief and elation? Would the news commenters have reported in voices full of emotion and respectful homage to our great success? And the answer is no. Profoundly no. The celebrations would have been small and private.  We would have celebrated, of course, but we would have done it quietly. Our joy would have been hemmed on all sides by the implacable rejection of our presence in the public sphere, and the relentless undermining of our insistence on being as free and as powerful as men. And so we are homeless today. The Democratic Party is no longer our home and the Republican Party never was. But we are not alone. There really ARE millions of us. But we don’t have the habit of being free and acting together as a force. That must change. Puma PAC goes on. We are officially EX-PARTISAN now. Not Democrats and not Republicans.  There are millions of unhappy Republicans and Independents today of course. We’ve met many of them here in the last several weeks. As of today, ALL are welcome to be a part of Puma PAC. Our mission has not changed, except for one thing — we are no longer working to reform the Democratic Party. Our job is bigger than that, as we learned last night. We are working to reform the ENTIRE political landscape, including both of the major parties and all of our public institutions, especially the media. I invite every American to join us. If you believe in the fundamental preciousness of democracy and our constitution, you are a Puma. If you believe EVERY American deserves the chance to compete fairly and fully in whatever arena they choose, you are a Puma. If you believe our political process has been OVERRUN by dirty money and influence, you are a Puma. If you believe the media is fatally corrupted and America needs a free and functioning press, you are a Puma. If you believe political discussion in this country has become a frenzied hate-fest that divides the people and makes us weak, and you want to help change that, you are a Puma. Join us. The only way we will beat $600 million dollars is with 20 million people. People who are decent and brave and willing to fight and to work. People who believe in fair play, honesty, integrity, and honor. If Barack Obama had been a good and honorable man, if he had fairly won his election, I would have been dancing in the streets along with my black fellow and sister Americans. But he is not and he did not. And so I cannot. Our struggle is bigger today than we had hoped it might be. We now have a higher hill to climb. That’s okay with me. I’m a woman and I’m used to struggle. I’m part of one that is SIX THOUSAND YEARS OLD. I won’t give up. Our goal is to make democracy work again for every American, every time and in every place. So that the PEOPLE of our country once again ARE the government of our great nation. Join us.