Today's Top Stories:
New emails reveal how Trump and his allies pressured Justice Department to challenge 2020 election results
Newly revealed correspondence from the Trump administration lays bare the extraordinary efforts taken to pressure the DOJ to pursue outlandish allegations of election fraud.
Take Action: Add your name to tell Congress the time to take big action on climate is NOW!
VIDEO OF THE DAY: McConnell issues disgusting threat against Biden
Constitution be damned, there is no limit to the depths McConnell will sink to consolidate power in his own hands.
Take Action: Expand the Supreme Court!
Republicans signal defeat in MAJOR concession
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Wow!
House panel to investigate pervasive Trump-era DOJ data seizures
The House Judiciary Committee is launching a formal probe into Trump's seizure of data from devices belonging to members of Congress, their aides, journalists and then-White House counsel.
Marjorie Taylor Greene learns horrors of genocide at the Holocaust Museum, now realizes mask mandates aren't really the same thing
Well, glad we got that cleared up!
Take Action: Demand funding for zero emission transit and busses immediately!
Arizona readies gas chamber executions, horrifying Jewish groups, sentient beings, literally anyone with a conscience
The American Jewish Committee, one of the nation's oldest Jewish advocacy groups, said it was especially troubled by the state's purchase of materials to make hydrogen cyanide gas, which was part of a pesticide known as Zyklon B that the Nazis used in Auschwitz.
Hundreds protest Joe Manchin over his opposition to voting rights legislation
The Poor People's Campaign organized the "Moral March on Manchin" after the West Virginia senator refused to abandon the filibuster to pass critical election reform along party lines.
Progressive West Virginia leader RIPS Manchin in fiery "March on Manchin" speech
No Democrat Left Behind: The war hero turned Democratic star pulled no punches in his defense of democracy.
AOC reads the room, hints Justice Stephen Breyer should retire
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is "inclined to say yes" as to whether the 82-year-old Breyer should retire from the Supreme Court in the coming weeks so President Biden can nominate a liberal jurist to replace him.
Former GOP congressman and Putin apologist marched on Capitol at MAGA riot
Dana Rohrabacher, the former California rep who earned the moniker "Putin’s favorite congressman" for his coziness with the Russian president, confirmed Monday that he participated in the Jan. 6 march on the US Capitol.
Senate confirms Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to powerful DC federal appeals court
Jackson won the backing of just three GOP senators in what could be a preview of a Supreme Court nomination battle bound to come.
In critical race theory, conservative activists have found their latest bogeyman in ongoing war on education
In towns nationwide, well-connected conservative activists, and Fox News, have ramped up the tension in fights over race and equity in schools.
Seriously?
Yes. Seriously.
Hope...
Today’s Action: Tell Biden to set an expiration date for burning coal in his infrastructure plan!
President Biden was a welcomed presence at the G7 summit (which annually gathers leaders from the world’s top economies to discuss major global issues) after four years of Trump’s belligerent America-First philosophy. Specifically, Biden brought the United States back in line with a science-based climate change approach.
But there’s a major climate milestone G7 did not achieve (and Biden failed to provide strong leadership on): putting an expiration date on burning coal. Coal burning is one of the biggest global contributors to climate change...and without an end-goal in sight, we will continue to drive toward irreversible global damage, and in a weakened negotiating position for encouraging other countries to tackle their own coal emissions.
But Biden can somewhat correct his position now, by including a deadline in his infrastructure package.
Call or email your Members of Congress and demand a domestic expiration date in the 2030’s on burning coal is included in the upcoming infrastructure package, as well as green energy job training for American coal workers!
Real talk: Biden may have held back from setting a G7 timeline on eliminating coal burning due to the fact that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), our toughest Democratic hold-out for the upcoming vote on Biden’s infrastructure package, represents our second-largest coal-producing state. (The largest, Wyoming, has two Republican Senators who will vote against Biden’s package no matter what.)
And we get it: families that depend on coal production to put food on the table need to have good answers about where their income will come from when coal production is shut down. This is why any infrastructure plan Democrats produce will need to proactively address green energy job replacement and training for coal workers as their jobs disappear.
We have the ability to take care of American workers at home and global citizens abroad at the same time, if our leaders just have the courage to actually do it.
Email or call (202.224.3121) your Members of Congress and demand a deadline in the 2030’s for eliminating coal burning in the United States in the upcoming infrastructure package – and green energy job training for coal workers!
PS — Please don't forget to sign the petition to invest in clean transportation in the infrastructure plan, and be sure to follow OD Action on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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