Three Dot Don
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Former Democratic CA State Senate President Pro-Tem Don Perata launches Three Dot Don — a short, three-times-weekly newsletter: brief lines, clear context, curated headlines and perspective you can finish over coffee. Three dots, three mornings
Who remembers reading this in school and thinking how grateful you were for living in America, where such things could never happen?
January 11, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Who remembers reading this in school and thinking how grateful you were for living in America, where such things could never happen?
Christmas Eve wish for you:
A quiet moment.
A lifted weight.
The knowing you’re not alone.
May the night return to you a fraction of the warmth, grace, and hope the year took.
Peace tonight.
#ChristmasEve #Peace #Hope
A quiet moment.
A lifted weight.
The knowing you’re not alone.
May the night return to you a fraction of the warmth, grace, and hope the year took.
Peace tonight.
#ChristmasEve #Peace #Hope
December 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Christmas Eve wish for you:
A quiet moment.
A lifted weight.
The knowing you’re not alone.
May the night return to you a fraction of the warmth, grace, and hope the year took.
Peace tonight.
#ChristmasEve #Peace #Hope
A quiet moment.
A lifted weight.
The knowing you’re not alone.
May the night return to you a fraction of the warmth, grace, and hope the year took.
Peace tonight.
#ChristmasEve #Peace #Hope
The first step is to be informed. The next is to do our best to make sure others are informed as well - armed with data, facts, science. Finally, we must be prepared to ACT - to sacrifice as we’ve never sacrificed before, to step outside of our comfort zones. To join others to amplify our voices!
December 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The first step is to be informed. The next is to do our best to make sure others are informed as well - armed with data, facts, science. Finally, we must be prepared to ACT - to sacrifice as we’ve never sacrificed before, to step outside of our comfort zones. To join others to amplify our voices!
E Puribus Unum. Out of many, one.
The United States is a pluralistic society, made up of and built by Native Americans, Immigrants, Chattel Slaves and their descendants, and thanks to the 14th Amendment, all who are born here.
That requires us to make room for all faiths, creeds, cultures.
The United States is a pluralistic society, made up of and built by Native Americans, Immigrants, Chattel Slaves and their descendants, and thanks to the 14th Amendment, all who are born here.
That requires us to make room for all faiths, creeds, cultures.
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
E Puribus Unum. Out of many, one.
The United States is a pluralistic society, made up of and built by Native Americans, Immigrants, Chattel Slaves and their descendants, and thanks to the 14th Amendment, all who are born here.
That requires us to make room for all faiths, creeds, cultures.
The United States is a pluralistic society, made up of and built by Native Americans, Immigrants, Chattel Slaves and their descendants, and thanks to the 14th Amendment, all who are born here.
That requires us to make room for all faiths, creeds, cultures.
It was supposed to be a comedy. Political satire. Who knew it would become a documentary?
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM
It was supposed to be a comedy. Political satire. Who knew it would become a documentary?
The World Series MVP is an immigrant. Only in America.
November 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The World Series MVP is an immigrant. Only in America.
Evidence that our founding fathers were not infallible. The greatest gift they left us was the ability to chart our own course. Are you happy with the direction we are heading?
October 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Evidence that our founding fathers were not infallible. The greatest gift they left us was the ability to chart our own course. Are you happy with the direction we are heading?
Make sure that you exercise this right loudly and often before it’s no longer your right to do so!
October 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Make sure that you exercise this right loudly and often before it’s no longer your right to do so!
