That mail ballot had to travel a long way — from Joliet to the Vatican City, where Pope Leo XIV has led the Catholic church since white smoke appeared from the Sistine Chapel in May 2025.
My kid is trans, our home country’s trans acceptance policies and free speech policies impact our passport renewal process.
I live in another country, my home country’s foreign policy decisions directly impact my ability to live and work in my residence country and impacts how and which countries I can travel through.
Decisions made in my home country can impact my life on the other side of the world, education, free speech, and anti corruption policies indirectly impact me by influencing voting behaviour in my home country.
It also impacts stuff like willingness to return in issues like this as well. If I feel the country is too unsafe to stay in I’d hate to not be able to vote to change it back
It’s not only taxes.
My kid is trans, our home country’s trans acceptance policies and free speech policies impact our passport renewal process.
I live in another country, my home country’s foreign policy decisions directly impact my ability to live and work in my residence country and impacts how and which countries I can travel through.
Decisions made in my home country can impact my life on the other side of the world, education, free speech, and anti corruption policies indirectly impact me by influencing voting behaviour in my home country.
It also impacts stuff like willingness to return in issues like this as well. If I feel the country is too unsafe to stay in I’d hate to not be able to vote to change it back