A new message from your friends at People For the American Way.

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PFAW Member,

As we continue to celebrate Independence Day this holiday weekend, it's
shocking to see the vision Trump Republicans have for America.

Trump's America is one that has turned its back on our nation's long and
rich immigrant history at every opportunity – choosing instead to lock up
children and families in cages and force them to endure squalid living
conditions. This brutality towards immigrants is not only [ [link removed] ]standard
procedure for Trump; it's quickly becoming official Republican immigration
policy as few in his party are willing to condemn the administration's
actions or lift a finger to do anything about them.

Thankfully, we still have patriots like the thousands of people –
including hundreds of PFAW supporters – who showed us what democracy and
the American Way look like when they [ [link removed] ]rallied this past Tuesday in at
least 175 cities across the country to stand up to the administration's
abhorrent treatment of immigrants – even if some of their members of
Congress won't.

Here are some other important updates on the work that your amazing
support continues to make possible:

SCOTUS Hands Down Its Decisions on the Census and Gerrymandering

We're fighting hard against the Republican effort to weaponize the 2020
census and drive immigrant communities further into the shadows by
blocking their attempt to require respondents to disclose their
citizenship status.

Despite the Supreme Court rejecting the Trump administration's rationale
for including the citizenship question on the Census, the administration
has since responded in a ruthless manner, first with the Commerce
Department and DOJ stating they would abandon their legal battle to get
the citizenship question on the census and begin printing census
questionnaires without the question; only to later be undercut by Trump
who assured the administration would proceed by exploring all options to
include the question in the Census, including potentially issuing an
executive order.

While PFAW members who had called in to our [ [link removed] ]Supreme Court end-of-term
telebriefing featuring Senate Judiciary Committee member, Senator Richard
Blumenthal, on Tuesday were among the first people to hear that the
government was going to abandon plans to include the question, the future
of this hard fought battle remains unclear.

PFAW and our members will continue fighting hard to mobilize grassroots
opposition to this attack on our democracy and we'll keep fighting for a
fair census.

While we await the final outcome on the Census, on the question of
gerrymandering, we got an unmitigatedly bad decision. The Supreme Court,
thanks to the [ [link removed] ]addition of Justice Kavanaugh to the conservative bloc,
gave the green light to partisan gerrymandering – no matter how extreme or
anti-democratic. This makes our work to elect progressive majorities in
state legislatures all the more urgent, since the party that controls
state legislative majorities following Election 2020 will control the
redistricting process for districts that will last for the following 10
years! And we know how eager Republicans are to abuse this power to rig
the game to their advantage – now with the blessing of the 5-justice
right-wing majority on the Supreme Court.

PFAW's work to build progressive power from the ground up and have a major
impact in state legislative races will be on full display this fall in
Virginia, where the balance of power in the General Assembly can be tipped
from red to blue by flipping just TWO SEATS in each chamber.

Vote the Courts 2020 & Taking Back the Senate

We already have staff on the ground in the early presidential caucus
states of Nevada and Iowa, where we're making sure the issue of the
Supreme Court and the federal judiciary stays front and center among the
Democratic presidential hopefuls. (Iowa also has one of our top-tier
Senate races with vulnerable Joni Ernst on the ballot.)

We're mobilizing volunteers on the ground to keep asking presidential
candidates about their views on the importance of the courts and we're
also waging campaigns to hold accountable the GOP senators who have
enabled Trump and Mitch McConnell's assault on our federal judiciary at
every turn.

Right Wing Watch

For those who have read PFAW's Right Wing Watch for years, the horrific
treatment of immigrants at the hands of the Trump administration is
shocking, but sadly not surprising. It's outrageous that such human rights
abuses could be committed on our soil, by our government, in our name, but
nativism and anti-immigrant hate have [ [link removed] ]festered and grown on the Far
Right a long time. Trump didn't create the problem. He's the result of it.

Netroots Nation

PFAW's experts will be in Philadelphia next week for the annual Netroots
Nation gathering of progressive activists.

* Right Wing Watch editor Adele Stan will add her remarkable insight to
a panel discussion on the U.S. Right and the Rise of Authoritarianism
Around the World.
* Political Director, Lizet Ocampo will be moderating a panel about
young women of color winning elections, where panelists will discuss
the role that racism and sexism played throughout their elections.
* PFAW's Senior Director of Outreach and Partner Engagement, Diallo
Brooks, will be joining a panel discussion on how progressives can
transform the courts and win in 2020.

While we reflect on the significance of our nation's independence and
Americans' freedoms and rights this holiday weekend, let us continue to
prepare for the fights that lay ahead of us and those we've currently yet
to win.

Thank you for standing beside us and for all that you do.

Best,
Michael Keegan, President

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