tRump BETRAYING VETERANS OVER & OVER & OVER ....

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Trump knew since Mar 2020 that Russia paid bounties to kill American troops, yet he has done nothing.

In May 2020, the White House ended National Guard deployments one day before they could claim benefits

The Trump admin seized 5 million masks intended for VA hospitals. Kushner distributes these masks to private entities for a fee, who then sells the masks to the government

Trump fired the captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt after he warned superiors that COVID19 was spreading among his crew. The virus subsequently spread amongst the crew.

After Iran's retaliatory strike, 109 US troops suffered brain injuries. Trump dismissed these as "headaches"

On July 20, 2017, in room 2E924 of the Pentagon, Trump told a room full of Generals, "You’re a bunch of dopes and babies"

Pardoned multiple war criminals, which stomped on long standing military values, discipline, and command. Trump has no military experience (May&Nov, 2019)

Trump mocked Lt. Col. Vindman for his rank and uniform. He threatened said purple heart officer, resulting in the Army providing him protection

Trump’s Chief of Staff worked—in secret—to deny comprehensive health coverage to Vietnam Vets who suffered from Agent Orange.

There is a facility in Tijuana for US veterans that Trump deported. Wounded war vet, Sen Duckworth (D) marked Veterans Day 2019 by visiting this facility

Russia took control of the main U.S. military facility in Syria abandoned on Trump’s orders. Russia now owns the airstrip we built

On Oct 7, 2019, Trump abruptly withdrew support from America's allies in Syria after a phone call with Turkey's president (Erdogan). Turkey subsequently bombed US Special Forces.

Trump sent thousands of American troops to defend the oil assets of the country that perpetrated 9/11

In Sept 2019, he made an Air Force cargo crew, flying from the U.S. to Kuwait stop in Scotland (where there's no U.S. base) to refuel at a commercial airport (where it costs more), so they could stay overnight at a Trump property (which isn't close to the airport). Trump’s golf courses are losing money, so he's forcing the military to pay for 5-star nights there.

In Sept, 2019, Pentagon pulled funds for military schools, military housing funds, and daycare to pay for Trump's border wall.

In Aug, 2019, emails revealed that three of Trump's Mar-a-Lago pals, who are now running Veterans Affairs, are rampant with meddling. "They had no experience in veterans affairs (none of them even served in the military) nor underwent any kind of approval process to serve as de facto managers. Yet, with Trump’s approval, they directed actions and criticized operations without any oversight. They wasted valuable staff time in hundreds of pages of communications and meetings, emails show. Emails reveal disdainful attitudes within the department to the trio’s meddling."

Veterans graves will be "dug up" for the border wall, after Trump instructed aides to seize private property. Trump told officials he would pardon them if they break the law by illegally seizing property

Children of deployed US troops are no longer guaranteed citizenship. This includes US troops posted abroad for years at a time (August 28, 2019)

On Aug 2, 2019, Trump requisitioned military retirement funds towards border wall

On July 31, 2019, Trump ordered the Navy rescind medals to prosecutors who were prosecuted war criminals

Trump denied a U.S. Marine of 6 years entry into the United States for his citizenship interview (Reported July 17, 2019)

Trump made the U.S. Navy Blue Angels violate ethics rules by having them fly at his July 4th political campaign event (July 4, 2019)

Trump demanded US military chiefs stand next to him at 4th of July parade (reported July 2, 2019)

In June, 2019, Trump sent troops to the border to paint the fence for a better "aesthetic appearance"

Trump used his D-Day interview at a cemetery commemorating fallen US soldiers to attack a Vietnam veteran (June 6, 2019)

Trump started his D-Day commemoration speech by attacking a private citizen (Bette Midler, of all people) (reported on June 4th, 2019)

Trump made his 2nd wife, Marla Maples, sign a prenup that would have cut off all child support if Tiffany joined the military (reported June 4th, 2019)

On May 27, 2019, Trump turned away US military from his Memorial Day speech because they were from the destroyer USS John S. McCain

Trump ordered the USS John McCain out of sight during his visit to Japan (May 15, 2019). The ship's name was subsequently covered. (May 27, 2019)

Trump purged 200,000 vets' healthcare applications (due to known administrative errors within VA’s enrollment system) (reported on May 13, 2019)

Trump deported a spouse of fallen Army soldier killed in Afghanistan, leaving their daughter parentless (April 16, 2019)

On March 20, 2019, Trump complained that a deceased war hero didn't thank him for his funeral

Between 12/22/2018, and 1/25/2019, Trump refused to sign his party's funding bill, which shut down the government, forcing the Coast Guard to go without pay, which made service members rely on food pantries. However, his appointees got a $10,000 pay raise

He banned service members from serving based on gender identity (1/22/2019)

He denied female troops access to birth control to limit sexual activity (on-going. Published Jan 18, 2019)

He tried to deport a marine vet who is a U.S.-born citizen (Jan 16, 2019)

When a man was caught swindling veterans pensions for high-interest “cash advances," Trump's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined him $1 (Jan 26, 2019)

He called a retired general a 'dog' with a 'big, dumb mouth' (Jan 1, 2019)

He increased privatization of the VA, leading to longer waits and higher taxpayer cost (2018)

He finally visited troops 2 years after taking office, but only after 154 vacation days at his properties (Dec 26, 2018)

He revealed a covert Seal Team 5 deployment, including names and faces, on Twitter during his visit to Iraq (Dec 26, 2018)

Trump lied to deployed troops that he gave them a 10% raise (12/26/2018). He tried giving the military a raise that was lower than the standard living adjustment. Congress told him that idea wasn't going to work. Then after giving them the raise that Congress made him, he lied about it pretending that it was larger than Obama's. It wasn't.

He fired service members living with HIV just before the 2018 holidays

He tried to slash disability and unemployment benefits for Veterans to $0, and eliminate the unemployability extrascheduler rating (Dec 17, 2018)

He called troops on Thanksgiving and told them he's most thankful for himself (Thanksgiving, 2018)

He urged Florida to not count deployed military votes (Nov 12, 2018)

He canceled an Arlington Cemetery visit on Veterans Day due to light rain (Nov 12, 2018)

While in Europe commemorating the end of WWI, he didn't attend the ceremony at a US cemetery due to the rain -- other world leaders went anyway (Nov 10, 2018)

He used troops as a political prop by sending them on a phantom mission to the border and made them miss Thanksgiving with their families (Oct-Dec, 2018)

He stopped using troops as a political prop immediately after the election. However, the troops remained in muddy camps on the border (Nov 7, 2018)

Trump changed the GI Bill through his Forever GI Act, causing the VA to miss veteran benefits, including housing allowances. This caused many vets to run out of food and rent. (reported October 7, 2018)

Trump doubled the rejection rate for veterans requesting family deportation protections (July 5, 2018)

Trump deported active-duty spouses (11,800 military families face this problem as of April 2018)

He forgot a fallen soldier's name (below) during a call to his pregnant widow, then attacked her the next day (Oct 23-24, 2017)

He sent commandos into an ambush due to a lack of intel, and sends contractors to pick them up, resulting in a commando being left behind, tortured, and executed. (Trump approved the mission because Bannon told him Obama didn't have the guts to do it) (Oct 4, 2017)

He blocked a veteran group on Twitter (June 2017)

He ordered the discharge of active-duty immigrant troops with good records (2017-present)

He deported veterans (2017-present)

He said he knows more about ISIS than American generals (Oct 2016)

On Oct 3, 2016, Trump said vets get PTSD because they aren't strong (note: yes, he said it's 'because they aren't strong.' He didn't say it's 'because they're weak.' This distinction is important because of Snopes)

Trump accepted a Purple Heart from a fan at one of his rallies and said: “I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier.” (Aug 2, 2016)

Trump attacks Gold Star families: Myeshia Johnson (gold star widow), Khan family (gold star parents) etc. (2016-present)

Trump sent funds raised from a Jan 2016 veterans benefit to the Donald J Trump Foundation instead of veterans charities (the foundation has since been ordered shut because of fraud) (Jan, 2016)

Trump said he has "more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military" because he went to a military-style academy (2015 biography)

Trump said he doesn't consider POWs heroes because they were caught. He said he prefers people who were not caught (July 18, 2015)

Trump said having unprotected sex was his own personal Vietnam (1998)

For a decade, Trump sought to kick veterans off of Fifth Avenue because he found them unsightly nuisances outside of Trump Tower. 1991

Trump dodged the draft 5 times by having a doctor diagnose him with bone spurs.

No Trump in America has ever served in the military; this spans 5 generations, and every branch of the family tree. In fact, the reason his grandfather immigrated to America was to avoid military service

AMERICAN SLAVE OWNERS & TRUMP FAILURES

An older gentleman I spoke with this evening lamented that a statue of George Washington was destroyed ....

IMHO, the statutes need to be removed to a MUSEUM that incudes the HISTORY, as do ALL of the CONFEDERATE statues.

EDUCATION works! ENLIGHTENMENT works!

If Americans were educated, understood FASCISM , would it be so easy for RUSSIAN BOTS to divide the nation?

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Rosenblum writes: "Whether Donald Trump slips into history as a bitter laugh line or weasels his way into a second term, his ham-handed hubris toward China has done more to change the shape of global geopolitics than the rise and fall of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich."

Trump lost face in China by alternately bullying and fawning over Xi Jinping in full public view. That turned an essential ally in confronting global crises into a wary, hostile adversary bent on muscling aside the United States for world supremacy.

Previous American policy, engagement, was a discreet minuet. Both partners took intricate steps at arm’s length. Trump’s approach was estrangement. He berated China in public for dirty dealing, declared a trade war. Yet when it suited his needs, he shifted to abject flattery.

As Trump charges, China steals intellectual property, knocks off American products, and infringes on copyrights. But his tariffs and taunts have reversed decades of progress toward a common accord. Now scapegoating China for his failure to contain Covid-19 provokes unmarked anger.

Trump repeats a one-word sneer, “Gina,” and talks of “kung flu.” Republicans follow his lead. In a crucial race in Arizona, Sen. Martha McSally’s ads berate “those communists.” She says her favored opponent has “Chinese investments.” So do most Americans with mutual funds.

Republicans slur Joe Biden as being close to China. Democrats explain why a lifelong statesman steeped in history knows better than to jab sticks at a dragon that is waking from a long sleep, eating our lunch, and getting hungry again an hour later.

China is fortifying its nuclear arsenal and deep-water fleet. It patrols vital sea lanes in the South China Sea, plants its flag from the ocean floor to the dark side of the moon, and bribes its way into poor states across the world for strategic materials, markets, and U.N. votes.

Badly in need of the West, China is open to quiet diplomacy if both sides can claim victory. But Xi, leader for life in a society that thinks in millennia rather than four-year terms, is in no hurry. The Middle Kingdom can endure setbacks and lasting pain in pursuit of global domination.

The past matters in China, which suffered a century of humiliation under European and Japanese occupation after so many successive emperors kept foreign barbarians at bay. When Japan was finally driven out in 1945, two opposing factions fought for control.

America spent heavily to pick up the pieces of World War II. It helped forge a United Nations and championed democracy in a postwar world. But it backed the wrong side in China. Mao Zedong took a sharp left turn and slammed the door.

The world knew little of the famine that took at least 30 million lives — perhaps up to 55 million — in the early 1960s. Reuters was later allowed in briefly, but Red Guards expelled its correspondent in 1969 after holding him captive 777 days. At one point, they tortured his cat to death in front of him.

Reporters saw China through the looking glass from Hong Kong, interviewing diplomats and travelers to amplify guesswork about who stood where in ceremonial photos.

Early in 1971, I bumped into F. Tillman Durdin, a dour New York Times Asian hand who didn’t smile much. He grinned like a Cheshire cat as he fluttered a telegram at me as if it announced he had won the Irish Sweepstakes. It was better. “This,” he said, “is my China visa.”

After a hint from China, Henry Kissinger flew secretly to Peking. Richard Nixon followed with reporters in tow. James Reston’s analysis in the Times is still fresh today: “China’s attitude and tactics toward the United States are obviously changing, but her strategy and principles remain the same.”

Trump missed that message. John Bolton’s new book says he pleaded with Xi to help him win a second term, offering favorable trade terms in exchange. He praised ethnic cleansing and brutal concentration camps for a million Muslims in Xinjiang.

Xi concluded the obvious. American moralizing about democratic principles, press freedom, and the rest is cynical hypocrisy. Trump — malleable, self-obsessed, and ignorant of global realities — is far more paper than tiger.

Young Americans now face the prospect of a Chinese-accented world in which governments can be blatantly corrupt, free expression is muzzled, and individuals are punished for resisting the party line. China wants resources and subservience. Human rights are not part of the picture.

Bob Dylan, reflecting on generational change in a New York Times interview, observed: “We have a tendency to live in the past, but that’s only us. Youngsters … have no past, so all they know is what they see and hear, and they’ll believe anything.… That’s going to be the reality.” Our schools should be teaching Mandarin.

Few young people grasp China’s sense of manifest destiny. Armed conflict, if unlikely, is a grim prospect. A nuclear exchange would devastate both sides. Assault by sea is iffy. A few Covid-19 cases put a U.S. aircraft carrier out of service. Wars are won or lost on the ground.

In the Korean War, which broke out 70 years ago on June 25, 120,000 Chinese troops overran U.S. Marines and soldiers. By the armistice in 1953, China had deployed nearly 3 million men.

“Ripley’s Believe It or Not!” once noted an old calculation when China had 600 million inhabitants. If they marched four abreast at military pace, they would never stop coming. Newborns would grow up and join the ranks. China’s population is now 1.4 billion.

Mao’s old People’s Liberation Army is two-million strong, the world’s largest, nearly twice the total of American armed forces. And it is aggressively on the move.

Chinese and Indian troops clashed on June 15 along the disputed Himalayan frontier, where India is building a north-south road for trade between the world’s two most populous nations. In a tense new atmosphere, each side has amassed thousands of troops.

Chinese soldiers with nail-studded clubs and rocks killed at least 20 Indians, wounding many more. Beijing said little about the skirmish but admitted that a senior commander died. Any escalation would likely involve tanks and heavy artillery.

Narendra Modi last year imposed tight controls in Kashmir, pushing against Pakistani positions. Emboldened by a $3.5 billion U.S. arms deal and Trump’s warm embrace, he is raising the heat. China backs Pakistan, where it is planning a naval base. India’s fury at China for the June attack compounds simmering enmity against Pakistan. Each of the old foes has nukes; a showdown would risk involving the United States and China.

In the South China Sea, U.S. warships challenge Xi’s right to restrict traffic to Asia and the Pacific. Near collisions have almost sparked hostilities. Diplomacy has protected Taiwan’s independence since 1949. But Xi abruptly took over Hong Kong despite China’s pledge to keep it autonomous until 2047. Today, anything can happen.

As Trump cuts aid to African countries, China moves in fast. Its ships are back again on the East African coast, which a Chinese fleet briefly colonized 500 years ago. A French Foreign Legion outpost was alone in the sleepy port of Djibouti until 9/11 when Americans built Camp Lemonnier as an African foothold. Now a PLA naval base effectively controls entry to the port.

Economic setbacks have delayed Xi’s multi-trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative involving 70 countries, but a new trade route retraces Marco Polo’s steps back to Italy. The old Silk Road links China to the Middle East and Asia Minor. For the rest, China can wait.

China tried to hide the coronavirus outbreak, but U.S. intelligence warned of it in December. By mid-January, courageous Chinese doctors, defying orders, spread the word. Correspondents converged on Wuhan for detailed accounts of the mysterious pathogen. The WHO and other governments worked urgently to contain it. World markets were shaken.

This was hardly a time to return to the 1960s with American reporters peering through opaque windows while Chinese state media show its own self-portrait to the world. Xi seized the moment.

After a March op-ed headline in The Wall Street Journal called China the sick weak man of Asia, China expelled the paper’s three reporters. When Pompeo responded harshly, China added The New York Times, The Washington Post, and others. Real dictators are better at tit-for-tat than aspiring ones.

In January and February, wrapping up a trade deal, Trump praised China’s transparency and effective action in curbing the virus. In March, when it ran wild in America because of his own inaction, Trump laid the blame squarely on China and the WHO. Hanger-on Republicans ignored indisputable facts to echo his distortions.

Xi joined world leaders to confront the pandemic. He gave $2 billion to WHO, four times the annual dues that Trump withheld. World leaders see plainly who is at fault. The European Union now bans visitors from the United States. Chinese are welcomed with open arms.

By turning his back on the world, Trump leaves it wide open to China. And as an ancient Middle Kingdom epigram puts it, a careful foot can step anywhere.

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Mort Rosenblum has reported from seven continents as Associated Press special correspondent, edited the International Herald Tribune in Paris, and written 14 books on subjects ranging from global geopolitics to chocolate. He now runs MortReport.org.

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Our far-right opponent blames Adam for COVID-19 deaths

Our far-right Republican opponent recently launched a new attack ad against Adam, and it’s… completely bonkers.

Eric Early, who is clearly trying to emulate his hero President Trump, not only uses Trump falsehoods to attack Adam in his new ad, but goes as far as blaming him for COVID-19 deaths: “Schiff lied, Americans died.”

We know Trump refuses to take responsibility for mishandling the pandemic, but this is absurd.

If Early wants to blame anyone for the more than 125,000 American deaths from coronavirus, perhaps he should look to his hero’s failed response, since Trump this week admitted he pushed for less testing to make the numbers look better and announced an end to federal COVID-19 testing stations despite the fact that our country is witnessing a second spike in cases.

This is the guy trying to “send Adam packing” in November. Will you have Adam’s back in this race by pitching in $10 or whatever you can before Tuesday’s critical FEC deadline?

Let’s show our opponent that Americans want a leader who stands up to Trump, not someone who’s blindly devoted to him and his dangerous agenda. – Team Schiff

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FOCUS: Trump Is Getting Absolutely Destroyed in the States That Matter Most

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Joseph writes: "President Trump is getting blown out by Joe Biden in the states that will decide the 2020 presidential election, according to a bevy of high-quality new polls that give the clearest picture yet of how dire things look for the president's reelection prospects right now."

Polls are polls but these show Joe Biden with a double-digit lead over President Trump in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.

New polls from New York Times and Siena College found Trump losing six different states he won in 2016, trailing former Vice President Joe Biden by between six and 11 percentage points in those states.

In the three states Trump narrowly carried en route to his surprise 2016 win, Biden is beating him among registered voters by double-digit margins. Biden leads Trump by nine points (47% to 36%) in Michigan, eleven points (49% to 38%) in Wisconsin, and ten points (50% to 40%) in Pennsylvania. He’s also leading by 49%-40% in North Carolina, 48% to 41% in Arizona and 47% to 41% in Florida.

If Biden sweeps those states, he’d be at least 333 Electoral College votes, far more than the 270 needed to carry the White House and slightly more than President Obama managed in his 2012 reelection campaign.

And while the six states polled by the New York Times are the core of the 2020 battleground, if the election map doesn’t shift dramatically between now and November, Biden would have a real shot at winning a number of other states once thought to be firmly in Trump’s column.

The ongoing economic crisis and public health disaster caused by the coronavirus pandemic, as well as Trump’s polarizing response to ongoing Black Lives Matter protests, have put him far behind Biden in places like Ohio, Iowa, and even Texas.

Biden held a 46%-45% lead in Ohio in a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday. The last high-quality poll of Iowa, from the Des Moines Register, had Trump up by just 44%-43%. And recent polling in Georgia and Texas has found margin-of-error races in both states as well. Trump won Iowa and Ohio by wide margins in 2016. The last Democratic presidential candidate to carry Georgia was Bill Clinton in 1992, and the last Democrat who won Texas was Jimmy Carter in 1976.

If Biden somehow wins those states, an unlikely scenario but one in the realm of possibility, he’d be at 413 Electoral College votes, the largest margin since President George H.W. Bush thumped Michael Dukakis in 1988.

The NYT/Siena’s state polls reflect the same reality that their national survey released Wednesday showed: If the election were held today, Biden would crush Trump. That poll showed Biden with a 14-point national lead, and his average lead in recent national public polling just hit 10 points.

The NYT/Siena polls are high-quality, and considered more reliable than basically any other public pollster. And their state-level polling doesn’t look like an outlier compared to other recent high-quality polling, either — a poll released Wednesday from the respected Marquette University found Biden with a 49%-41% lead in Wisconsin.

Those numbers also match Republicans’ own internal polls — numbers that have had them panicking for weeks that they’re headed to a complete electoral wipeout that would likely hand Democrats Senate control, as well.

The new NYT/Siena numbers show Trump’s poor prospects are putting Senate Republicans in danger: Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) trails by 9 points and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) is down by three in a race many think could be the tipping-point race for Democratic Senate control. In Michigan, one of only two targets for the GOP this election, Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) is up by ten.

A few caveats. First, these polls are all of registered voters, not likely voters — and Republicans tend to perform slightly better in likely voter polls.

Second, there are still four long months until the 2020 election. Biden’s current national polling lead over Trump roughly matches Hillary Clinton’s lead over Trump in April 2016, and just a few weeks before the election she was still up by six points on average (things tightened fast and hard in the closing week of that race). Four months ago, Trump’s impeachment was just wrapping up, Bernie Sanders was still the Democratic front-runner and most Americans hadn’t started worrying in earnest about the coronavirus. A lot can happen in four months.

But the economic and health effects of the coronavirus appear to be growing worse: the unemployment rate remains high, and COVID-19 cases are spiking. Republicans say unless something dramatic changes on that front, they’re likely to be wiped out in the fall.

When VICE News asked one GOP strategist on Wednesday what needed to change for Republicans to avoid a electoral bloodbath in November, their answer was telling: “Go get a fucking vaccine.”

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why I believe we must re-elect Ed Markey:

I need to ask you to support my friend, Senator Ed Markey.

He is in the toughest race of his career, and the last end-of-quarter FEC deadline before his primary is quickly approaching.

Will you rush a $25 donation to his campaign today? He is one of the strongest, boldest progressive leaders in the Senate, and we need his leadership more than ever at this critical moment.

I’ve known Ed for many years, and I’ve seen his commitment and leadership up close. He is hard wired for public service.

We first met at a hearing on nuclear non-proliferation in 2003. Together, we urged Ed’s colleagues in Congress to find global solutions to the problems our planet is facing. We were pushing for global cooperation on nuclear non-proliferation and also on the climate crisis, protecting the environment and our people from the threat of pandemic infectious diseases.

Ed has long been a leader on these issues. He’s the Congressional expert on nuclear non-proliferation and addressing the climate crisis. He’s been at the forefront of the fight for our progressive agenda.

Time is running out to save the planet. We’re in the midst of a global pandemic. And we have never been weaker in the eyes of our allies than under Trump.

That’s why I believe we must re-elect Ed Markey. There is no United States Senator with more experience and knowledge to help lead us out of this moment than Ed Markey.

But his race is in a dead heat, and he needs our help heading into the final stretch of this primary.

Please make a $25 donation to Ed’s campaign today. We need him leading on the most important fights of our time, but he can only do that with our help.

Thank you for supporting Ed. I’m proud to be in this movement with him and with you. If we work together, united in this fight, then we will win.

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This year is a defining moment for our climate movement. Defeating the climate crisis requires action at every level of government, and we need to make sure that we’re electing climate champions across the country.

That’s why Jay Inslee and I are teaming up for a virtual event to raise money for our campaigns. Both of us are up for re-election, and we need supporters like you behind us every step of the way to make sure we win.

If you can, please consider splitting a $100 donation (or more!) between our campaigns to reserve your spot. We’ll talk about how our movement can make sure we win at the ballot box this fall and then save our planet!

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Job-killing czar? Our policies would create tens of millions of jobs!

Just a few days after AOC’s primary victory, Trump’s team is already back with attacks against our movement:

It’s obvious that Trump’s scared of us. But this particular line of attack rings even more hollow than his regular tirades, because in her very first month in Congress, Alexandria introduced legislation that would have created over 30 million union, green jobs..

Now that the conservative primary challenge is a failure, Trump’s team has to go back to personal attacks to try and blunt our progressive momentum. Can you chip in to help us keep up the fight?

Here’s what Trump’s so afraid of: Alexandria isn’t afraid to call out his bluster. From day one of his presidency, he’s tried to use bullying to stamp down on meaningful dissent and accountability. That doesn’t work against us.

A national progressive movement that can speak to the struggles of working people from coast to coast is exactly what threatens the foundation of Trump’s presidency. Together, with grassroots support, we’ve built that.

But there’s still more work to be done, and you can be sure that Trump doesn’t want to see us complete it. Will you chip in to help us fight for progressive priorities like a Green New Deal and Medicare for All?

In solidarity,

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