Note this kind comment from Gene, a new paid subscriber: "Steven is always on point, his articles accurate, timely and with insight that not many have. Always a highlight to my day when I see an email pop into my inbox." How 1864 May Decide the 2024 ElectionThe passage of a near total abortion ban in Arizona is a horror for women and women's reproductive health—and will be a battle cry for change in November
There are days when finding a silver lining in the news is a serious challenge. Tuesday was one of those days after learning that the Arizona Supreme Court made it possible for the Republican-led state legislature to enforce an 1864 law that almost totally bans abortion, even in cases of rape and incest, except to save the life of the mother. It was the latest among increasingly draconian legislation in America that denies women their fundamental reproductive rights and criminalizes doctors who aid abortions. How mad is this? The law dates to a time when women could not vote, the Civil War was raging, the territory of Arizona would not be a state for another 48 years—and the medical science of reproduction was poorly understood. Of course, Donald Trump has been proudly boasting about being the president who ended Roe v. Wade, calling it just yesterday “an incredible thing, a great achievement.” He was the one who appointed three Supreme Court justices who claimed that they accepted Roe as settled law in their nomination hearings, then took their first chance to strip away a right women have counted on for half a century. Yesterday he was crowing about states rights, pretending that he would not pass a national ban if given the chance (then insisted the Arizona law goes too far, in yet another opportunistic move without an iota of actual conviction). Yes, the Arizona case is infuriating and dispiriting (especially since Arizona is the state where both of my daughters grew up). But by listening to the Democratic leadership in Arizona—that includes Gov. Katie Hobbs, Attorney General Kris Mayes and U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly—I was reminded that this appalling decision will motivate women voters and everyone who cares about ensuring basic freedoms. A ballot initiative was already gaining steam to enshrine access to abortion in the Arizona state constitution: Its backers have already collected over half a million signatures, over 120,000 more than they need to get the measure on November’s ballot. As much as this awful decision is a setback for the state and the health of pregnant women, it represents a vivid call to action for voters who don’t want Republican politicians deciding what women can do with their own bodies. This ban, Hobbs said, “is extreme and hurts women…As governor, I will do everything in my power to protect women’s reproductive freedoms.” Hobbs noted the executive order she issued last year that gives the state attorney general discretion over prosecuting anyone charged with the “crime” of pursuing an abortion. AG Mayes has made clear that she will not prosecute any abortion case. “No woman or doctor will be prosecuted under this law as long as I am attorney general,” Mayes said Tuesday. “Not by me, nor by any county attorney serving in our state, not on my watch.” Mayes also weighed in on the political implications. “I think this was a seismic decision, and maybe not in the way Republicans thought it was going to be for Arizona politics and the election in November," she said. "I think this changes everything. I think it supercharges the ballot initiative and it supercharges the elections of all pro-choice candidates.” Also on Tuesday, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly expressed both his sadness and anger toward Trump and others who made this “disastrous” moment possible. This 160-year-old law, Kelly said, “is only being reinstated now because of politicians who worked to overturn Roe v. Wade. In fact, in the Supreme Court ruling today, it mentioned the Dobbs decision 22 times. This is devastating for Arizona women…I refuse to allow Arizona to become a state where doctors are going to be afraid to practice, to just do their jobs.” While GOP extremists are rejoicing the arrival of this cruel law that will cause unnecessary suffering and medical danger for Arizona women and their families involved in the most private of decisions, you can be sure there are plenty of Republicans who have grasped that their chance of holding onto the U.S. House, taking the U.S. Senate and regaining the presidency just got more difficult. Consider election-denying, Trump-adoring, gubernatorial-losing extremist Kari Lake who is now running for outgoing Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s seat. Two years ago she called abortion “the ultimate sin” and the 1864 law “a great law.” Tuesday she was cravenly backtracking: “I speak to more Arizonans than anyone and it is abundantly clear that the pre-statehood law is out of step with Arizonans.” Think Lake just heard the door closing on her chances of winning her Senate race against Marine Corps veteran, Harvard grad and progressive Democrat Rep. Ruben Gallego? I do. In states where abortion access was put on the ballot since Roe v. Wade was overturned, voters strongly approved of securing this freedom. That includes conservative states like Kansas and Ohio. We should expect that Arizonans will overwhelmingly pass the “Arizona for Abortion Access Initiative” ballot measure this fall—and come out to vote in record numbers. The impact will be felt up and down the ballot. Nearly a dozen other states have proposed or secured abortion-related ballot initiatives this fall, including Florida, Missouri, New York and Maryland. The likely outcome is good for democracy. But the road between here and there remains a nasty and ugly one with real consequences in the lives of women, families and the physicians and health clinics seeking to provide support. Every time you hear a Republican cheer for laws like these that ignore the people’s will and inflict real harm, remember this is just one example of the cruel and backward direction they’re dreaming of taking our public and private lives. It’s a future that is not inevitable if enough voters show up in November. |
Thursday, April 11, 2024
How 1864 May Decide the 2024 Election
Thursday, October 19, 2023
New MEGAVIRAL Video finally EXPOSES INSANITY of GOP Extremists
Dr. Amanda Weinstein is an Air Force Academy graduate and co-host of The Suburban Women Problem podcast and YouTube series. She and Ken Harbaugh discuss the concerted and organized efforts by GOP extremists to pursue extremist agendas in statehouses and on school boards across the nation and showcase a viral video from an organization called Progress Action Fund.
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
October 17, 2023 (Tuesday) HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
This morning, the Ukrainian military launched a surprise attack on two Russian airfields in occupied Ukraine, using a longer-range missile system secretly supplied in the last few weeks by the United States. The Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, has a range of about 100 miles, or 161 kilometers. It enabled the Ukrainians to damage runways and destroy nine Russian helicopters. The missiles also killed a number of Russian soldiers. One of the conditions of Ukraine’s acquisition of these weapons was that they would only be used within Ukraine against the occupiers, not in Russia itself. The thirty-one M1 Abrams main battle tanks the U.S. had promised Ukraine have all arrived, the U.S. confirmed today. All the Ukrainian military personnel who trained to use those tanks in Germany have also returned. A recent Russian offensive has been largely unsuccessful, while the Ukrainian goal of dividing the Russian invaders in two (much as the U.S. did to the Confederacy) has been partially achieved but troops have not punched through. At the same time, strategic Ukrainian attacks have pushed Russia’s Black Sea fleet out of its main base in the Crimean port of Sevastopol, and the Institute for the Study of War assesses that the attacks on the airfields will force Russia to pull its aircraft back and either to disperse its ammunition depots or to fortify them. Meanwhile, the struggle in the House of Representatives today looked like a preview of the 2024 election. Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), a staunch supporter of former president Trump and a key figure in the attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, is pushing hard for election as speaker, emphasizing how imperative it is for the House Republicans to enable the House to get back to business. As Karoun Demirjian outlined in the New York Times, Jordan and his allies have deployed a pressure campaign against those Republicans opposed to him, as she puts it, “working to unleash the rage of the party’s base voters against any lawmaker standing in his way.” This is the same tactic that the extremists have used for decades to move the Republican Party to the right. But there is a different dynamic at play in this speakership crisis. Jordan and his allies created the crisis in the first place by supporting Trump’s demands to shut down the government, tossing out former speaker Kevin McCarthy because he would not agree to shut down the government, and refusing to abide by the vote of the Republican conference to accept the choice of the majority: first McCarthy and then Representative Steve Scalise (R-LA). There is another way in which this moment is different. Jordan is a flamethrower who was one of the original organizers of the right-wing Freedom Caucus. Republicans saw McCarthy, who was an excellent fundraiser, as a pro-business Republican who worked with the far right, but Jordan is the real deal: a far-right extremist. Republican donors have already suggested they are not enthusiastic about working with him to fund Republican candidates. The third way this moment is different is that putting Jordan in the speaker’s chair makes him, along with Trump, the face of the Republican Party going into the 2024 election. Representative Pete Aguilar (D-CA) previewed the many downsides of Jordan as speaker when he nominated Democratic minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) for the speaker’s chair. Aguilar blamed extremism and partisanship for the unprecedented chaos of the House and urged the Republicans to embrace bipartisanship to do the work the American people had sent them to Washington, D.C., to conduct. Aguilar noted that Jordan was “the architect of a nationwide abortion ban, a vocal election denier, and an insurrection inciter.” He has “spent his entire career trying to hold our country back, putting our national security in danger, attempting government shutdown after government shutdown, wasting taxpayer dollars on baseless investigations with dead ends, authoring the very bill that would ban abortion nationwide without exceptions, and inciting violence on this chamber. Even leaders of his own party have called him ‘a legislative terrorist.’” Aguilar pointed out Jordan’s opposition to disaster relief, veterans’ relief, support for Ukraine, and military aid to our allies, including Israel, and added: “This body is debating elevating a speaker nominee who has not passed a single bill in 16 years. These are not the actions of someone interested in governing or bettering the lives of everyday Americans.” Jordan as speaker would mean the Republican Party would “continue taking marching orders from a twice-impeached former president with more than 90 pending felony charges.” Even without mentioning Jordan’s involvement with the cover-up of a sexual assault scandal at Ohio State, Aguilar put Republicans on notice that placing Jordan at the head of the party would have brutal consequences in Democratic campaign ads. When House members voted for speaker, the Democrats were unified behind Jeffries, who won all 212 of their votes. Jordan won only 200 of the 217 votes necessary to become speaker, with 20 Republicans voting for someone else. His allies initially said they would call a second vote tonight but changed their minds, apparently realizing that another loss would weaken his candidacy significantly. They say they will hold another vote tomorrow. Tonight, hundreds of people were killed in an explosion at a packed hospital in Gaza City. Palestinian authorities blamed an Israeli airstrike for the explosion; hours later, Israel Defense Forces said the explosion was a misfired missile launched as part of a “barrage of rockets” by the Islamic Jihad militant group. Neither version of events has been confirmed. Governments around the region have blamed Israel and sometimes the U.S. for the catastrophic loss of life, and protests have broken out in Lebanon, Iran, and Turkey as President Joe Biden travels to the region personally to demonstrate U.S. support for Israel, pressure Israel to permit humanitarian aid into Gaza, learn any new information about the hostages, and to try to keep the conflict from widening and escalating. Biden will meet in Tel Aviv, Israel, with Israeli leaders, first responders, and families of hostages, but the second leg of his trip—to Jordan, for a meeting with King Abdullah II, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, and Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi—was canceled as Abbas rushed home. National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby told reporters Biden would speak with Abbas and Sisi on the trip back to the U.S. — Notes: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/14/us/house-speaker-republicans-jordan.html https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-october-17-2023 https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/16/politics/jim-jordan-fundraising-concerns/index.html https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/17/conservative-pressure-jordan-speaker-bid-00122089 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/18/israel-hamas-war-news-gaza-update/ Twitter (X): |
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Extremism
The last week has been *crazy* — so let's take a minute to recap.
First: Extreme Republicans in the House nearly shut down the government, but Dems came to the rescue + made sure working folks wouldn't get screwed by the GOP's chaos.
Then: Those same Republicans pitched a fit and threw out Kevin McCarthy, ensuring that no business can get done until they get their sh*t together.
Now: The GOP is… blaming Democrats for their own Chaos Caucus?? 🙄
It's only been a few months and the fringe right has all but derailed our government. It's clear: We can't trust this Republican Party to fight for working folks.
We're going to keep fighting this BS, but I need you on the team. Can you chip in a donation of any amount today?
Let's hope that the clown car caucus over in the House GOP gets their act together so we can get back to work soon.
Thank you 🙏
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Tuesday, October 3, 2023
October 2, 2023 HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
The trial of former president Trump, his oldest sons, two associates, and the Trump Organization began today in Manhattan. Jose Pagliery, political investigations reporter for The Daily Beast, noted that the presiding judge, New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, started with a reference to Friday’s rainstorm that flooded New York City, saying: "Weeks ago, I said we would start today 'come hell or high water.’ Meteorologically speaking, we’ve had the high water." New York Attorney General Letitia James launched the investigation in 2019 after Trump fixer Michael Cohen testified before Congress that Trump had been engaging in fraud by inflating the value of his property. Last week, Justice Engoron issued a partial decision establishing that the organization and its executives committed fraud. Engoron canceled the licenses under which the organization’s New York businesses operated, provided for those businesses to be dissolved, and provided for an independent monitor to oversee the company. With that major point already established, the trial that began today will establish how much of the ill-gotten money must be given up, or “disgorged,” by the defendants and whether they falsified records or engaged in insurance fraud in the process of committing fraud. James has asked for a minimum of $250 million in disgorgement, along with a ruling permanently prohibiting Trump and his older sons from doing business in New York, and a five-year ban on commercial real estate transactions for Trump and the organization. Trump is attending the trial in person, likely because, as Pagliery noted, he cited this trial as the reason he couldn’t show up for two days of depositions in his federal case against Michael Cohen. If he didn’t show up, he would be in contempt of court. So he is there, but his goal in all his legal cases seems to be to play to the public, where his displays of victimization and dominance have always served him. He has already said it is “unfair” that he isn’t getting a jury trial in New York, but his lawyers explicitly said they did not want one, possibly because a bench trial gives Trump a single judge to attack rather than a jury. Today, his lawyer Alina Habba, who along with her law firm and Trump has been fined close to $1 million by a federal judge for filing a frivolous lawsuit, gave a fiery opening statement aimed at “the American people” rather than the judge. When the court broke for lunch, Trump went straight to reporters to rail at the prosecutors holding him to account. Historian Lawrence Glickman noted that the press is emphasizing Trump’s anger at the proceedings as if a defendant’s anger matters, but it is starting to feel as if bullying and bluster to get away with breaking the rules is not as effective as it used to be. Legal analyst Lisa Rubin notes that this case is a form of “corporate death penalty” that strikes at his wealth and image, both of which are central to his identity and to his political power. And it is not just Trump; another case announced on Friday suggests the era of real estate crime is ending. The Department of Justice announced that a California real estate executive had pleaded guilty the previous day to a multi-year scheme that looked a lot like the one Trump’s organization is charged with: fraudulently inflating the value of real estate holdings of a Michigan company in order to defraud lenders. “My office will not hesitate to prosecute those who lie in order to engage in financial crimes, regardless of the titles they may have,” said U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Dawn N. Ison. The drive for the impartial application of the rule of law is showing up among the Democrats, as they seek to illustrate the difference between them and the Republicans. New Jersey Democratic senator Bob Menendez is insisting that the federal indictment against him and his wife for bribery, fraud, and extortion in exchange for helping Egypt is a political smear campaign, but more than half of Democratic senators have called on him to resign. Trump is increasingly being held to account by former staff, as well. In the wake of his attacks on former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, Trump’s former chief of staff Marine Corps General John Kelly went on the record today with Jake Tapper of CNN, confirming a number of the damning stories that emerged during Trump’s presidency about his denigration of wounded, captured, or killed military personnel as “suckers” and “losers,” with whom he didn’t want to be seen. Kelly called Trump: “A person that has no idea what America stands for and has no idea what America is all about. A person who cavalierly suggests that a selfless warrior who has served his country for 40 years in peacetime and war should lose his life for treason—in expectation that someone will take action. A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law…. There is nothing more that can be said,” he added. “God help us.” The confirmation of Trump’s attacks on wounded or killed military personnel will not help his political support. After reading Kelly’s remarks, retired Army Major General Paul Eaton, a key advocate for veteran voting, released a video he recorded more than two years ago when he first heard the stories about Trump’s attack on the military. “Who could vote for this traitor Trump?” he asked on social media. In the video, Eaton urges veterans to “vote Democratic,” because “our country’s honor depends on it.” That Trump is concerned about his ebbing popularity showed tonight when his campaign released a statement demanding that the Republican National Committee cancel all future debates and focus on Trump’s evidence-free allegations that the Democrats are going to steal the 2024 election. If it refuses, the statement says, it will just show that national Republicans are “more concerned about helping Joe Biden than ensuring a safe and secure election.” Popular pressure against the extremism of the Republican Party showed up today when Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recused himself from participating in a case related to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Thomas’s wife, Ginni, was a staunch supporter of Trump’s attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and in the past, Thomas had voted on related cases nonetheless. Today’s case involved John Eastman, formerly one of Thomas’s law clerks. There were interesting signs today that the tide seems to be turning against the MAGA Republicans elsewhere, too. In an op-ed in the New York Times, former South Carolina representative Bob Inglis told his “Fellow Republicans: It’s Time to Grow Up.” He expressed regret for his votes in 1995 to shut down the government and in 1998 to impeach President Bill Clinton, and for his opposition to addressing climate change on the grounds that if Al Gore was for it, Republicans should be against it. But he had come to realize that “the fight wasn’t against Al Gore; it was against climate change. Just as the challenge of funding the government isn’t a referendum on Speaker McCarthy; it’s a challenge of making one out of many—E pluribus unum—and of bringing the country together to do basic things.” He called on Republicans to remember that we must face the huge challenges in our future together: language that echoes President Joe Biden, who has been making that pitch since he took office. The fight over funding the government has contributed to growing pressure on the extremists. The chaos in the Republican Party as the factions fought each other with no plan to fund the government until McCarthy finally had to rely on the Democrats for help passing a continuing resolution was a sign that the extremists’ power is at risk. Today, there was much chafing over the threats of Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to challenge Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California, and he actually did it this evening, although it is not clear that he has the votes either to remove McCarthy or to prevent his reelection as speaker. What is clear is that Gaetz is forcing a showdown between the extremists and the rest of the party, and while such a showdown is sure to garner media attention, it is unlikely to leave the extremists in a stronger position. Indeed, when he left the floor after making the motion to vacate the chair, some Democrats laughed. — Notes: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/02/trump-fraud-trial-ny/  https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/20/donald-trump-fine-court-clinton/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/02/trump-fraud-trial-ny-2/ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/26/nyregion/trump-james-fraud-trial.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/opinion/kevin-mccarthy-house-republicans-shutdown.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/02/kevin-mccarthy-matt-gaetz/ https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23989449-menendez-indictment https://abcnews.go.com/US/york-ag-letitia-james-files-250m-lawsuit-trump/story?id=90240332 https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23991865-trump-ny-fraud-ruling Twitter (X): Jose_Pagliery/status/1708851476410298684 Jose_Pagliery/status/1708840760873816243 atrupar/status/1708944037556674764 RonFilipkowski/status/1708987298166055186 LarryGlickman/status/1708924422642356477 LincolnsBible/status/1708965893580161238 PaulDEaton52/status/1709033710673121621 |
Friday, August 26, 2022
Trump favorite throws hilarious fit after primary loss
Today’s Action: Make plans to take action during congressional recess!
Today's Top Stories:
MUST READ!
Defeated GOP extremist Laura Loomer: 'I'm not conceding, because I'm a winner!'
Reap what you sow. Professional racist Laura Loomer refused to concede following her primary loss in Florida's 11th district, claiming the "Republican Party is broken to the core." Well, she's right about that last party anyway.
Take Action: Tell Facebook to crack down on dangerous Republican lies about the IRS!
VIDEO OF THE DAY: Republican sinks himself with dumbest answer possible to incriminating question
Foot, meet mouth!
MY NOTE:
MANDELA BARNES is running to replace RON JOHNSON.
PLEASE SUPPORT HIM!
Take Action: Expel Ron Johnson for trying to overturn the election with fake Trump electors!
STUNNING new midterm polls signal good news for Democrats
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Whoa.
Court upholds Mississippi’s 1890 Jim Crow voting law
A law that one of its drafters explicitly said was designed to "eliminate the n****r from politics" has been upheld by an appeals court. It permanently disenfranchises those found guilty of a slew of minor property crimes.
Take Action: Tell Congress to force political groups to disclose their wealthy backers!
Florida pair plead guilty to stealing Ashley Biden's diary, selling it to Project Veritas
That's MAGA for you: stealing a diary full of intimate thoughts, and then selling it to the highest bidder to be exploited for delusional political conspiracies. Aimee Harris stole the Biden diary from a mutual friend's house and then sold it to scumbag fake news organization Project Veritas, who paid $40,000 for it. Their bumbling attempts to verify the contents of the diary led to the whole scam being exposed.
Take Action: Tell the Justice Department to hold Trump accountable for his crimes!
Missouri school district adopts opt-in corporal punishment policy
Child beating will resume "only in reasonable form" and when "all other alternative means of discipline have failed," and only with the approval of the parents, but still, it's beyond parody for those proclaiming they care so much about fetuses that they'll beat them once they are born and begin growing up.
US deploys helicopters, gunships, and airstrikes against militias in Syria
In response to rocket attacks against US defensive positions around the oilfields (of course) of Deir-ez-Zor in northeast Syria, the US made a show of force against the Iranian-backed Liwa Fatemiyoun militia, a group of Afghan Shia warriors who fought on behalf of Bashar al-Assad's Syrian government to clear the region of ISIS forces in 2017.
If young people vote in November, Democrats keep Congress. It's that simple!
NextGen: The youngest generation of adults is the largest and most progressive in US history, but they also vote in low numbers. That’s the only thing giving Trump Republicans a chance at taking back Congress this year. NextGen is doing the work to make sure that doesn’t happen, creating the largest youth mobilization effort in US history. But they can’t do it alone! Can you chip in to protect our Congressional majority?
Justice Department ordered to release redacted Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit
The Justice Department must release a redacted version of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit by noon on Friday, a federal judge ruled. The affidavit lays out why investigators believe there was probable cause that crimes had been committed. The government has been fighting to redact the order to ensure that information pertinent to its grand jury investigation of Donald Trump is not compromised.
Top staffer for major anti-abortion group arrested for soliciting a minor
Lucas Bowen, the former political director of the Texas Right to Life group, is the latest to follow the time-honored tradition of right-wing "family values" zealot turning out to be a sexual predator who preys on the young. He was charged with a second-degree felony for soliciting sex from a minor.
The NLRB accuses Starbucks of withholding pay raises, promotions from workers at unionized stores
This is just the latest outrage that the coffee giant has perpetrated on its employees. NLRB offices have filed at least 20 complaints against Starbucks as it continues bullying its workers out of unionizing — proving just why they need that union in the first place.
$386M veteran retraining program only gave jobs to 397 vets
In yet another colossal waste of taxpayer money, an investigation found that a pandemic-era veteran retraining program was simply used as an opportunity by for profit "training schools" to scam money out of the government, which they will almost certainly never see consequence for.
Get a load of these jabronis
That's a lot of bad apples
Hope...
Today’s Action: Make plans to take action during congressional recess!
We’re nearing the end of another congressional recess, but just because there’s a break in the legislative action doesn’t mean there’s not a way to make our voices heard!
Various members of Congress are holding town halls, taking meetings, and attending local events — which gives us plenty of opportunities to make our demands face to face. Make a commitment during this recess to get personal with at least one of your congressional reps, in whichever manner you feel most comfortable.
Ask for a one-on-one meeting. Contact your rep’s local office to make your meeting request, and follow up after a few days if you haven’t heard back! Arrive with your three biggest requests prepared, and ask for clear action on each (e.g., cosponsor a bill, make a public statement, join a caucus). Type up your requests in a letter to deliver to your rep at the end of the meeting, just in case they don’t take notes!
Attend a town hall. If your reps are offering a public forum, this is a great opportunity to make your demands with witnesses. Contact their office and ask if any town halls have been scheduled (and if not, why not?). Visit Town Hall Project to search for events near you.
Organize a protest visit. Is your rep refusing to hold a town hall and declining private meetings? No problem. Ask their offices if they’ll be attending ANY public events during recess, and join them there to ask your questions. Be sure to film it and broadcast it on social media! No events? Make the signal loud and clear: you cannot hide from your constituents. Gather your friends, family, and community to protest at their offices.
And the topics? There are so many, but here are a few to get you started:
- Demand they abolish the filibuster so meaningful legislation can be passed
- Call for them to champion strong, progressive climate action
- Fight for crucial voting rights legislation to protect the most marginalized constituents’ right to vote
- Raise the national minimum wage to $15/hour – cosponsor and pass the Raise the Wage Act
- Pass the transgender bill of rights
- Secure equal rights protections with the Equal Rights Amendment for women and the Equality Act for the LGBTQ+ community
- Pass the PRO Act in support of striking workers across the country
A congressional recess isn’t time off — it’s your opportunity to remind our leaders who elected them and what our communities’ needs are!
PS — Please consider a small monthly contribution of as little as $5 to help us elect Democrats and fight back against the Trump-Republican agenda. We can't do it without you. Keep fighting the good fight!
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