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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Republicans declare war on DOJ with bombshell move
Brian Tyler Cohen and legal expert Marc Elias break down the situation where several GOP-run states blocking Department of Justice election monitors from watching over polling sites.

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Some Maga men seem to think women don’t have rights – starting with their wives
Rebecca Solnit, The Guardian: "This week, the fundamentalist Christian pastor Dale Partridge argued in a series of tweets that 'in a Christian marriage, a wife should vote according to her husband’s direction.' In other words, he pits his version of the religion against the constitution, which, since the 19th amendment passed a century ago, guarantees adult citizens the right to vote regardless of sex. He argues that in marriage, the husband annexes and owns his wife’s voice and rights, so that he in effect gets two votes and she gets none. The far-right preacher is not alone in this argument that women should not have the right to participate in public life and act on their views and values. These men are offering warnings about what awaits women who marry men like them. Maybe it’s worth noting here that the rightwing opposition to marriage equality as same-sex marriage is in part because they’re opposed to marriage equality within heterosexual marriage. They want marriage to be an inherently unequal relationship with a subordinate wife and an entitled husband, a cozy little authoritarian regime at home. One of the things the 2024 US presidential election is about is whether or not women should be free and equal full citizens of this republic. Right now too many women are not – women in conservative states are denied reproductive rights, meaning jurisdiction over their own bodies and in some cases survival if an abortion or pregnancy becomes a medical emergency. This election is about a lot of things, and whether women are endowed with certain inalienable rights is one of them."

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Our last chance to stop Donald Trump
Stand Up America: We have just a few days left before the 2024 election, and time is running out. Everything we hold dear, from our democracy itself to abortion rights, LGBT rights, the future of our planet, our economic prosperity, our free press, is all on the chopping block if Donald Trump gets back into the White House. We know that every Democrat wants to do their part to help elect Kamala Harris, and the number one thing that voters like you can do is to volunteer your time. Click here to find out how YOU can be a part of this national movement to elect Kamala Harris!

I’m an environmentalist. That’s why I can’t vote Green.
Josh Fox, The Nation: "Not long ago the entire upper Delaware River basin in Pennsylvania—one of the most beautiful areas in the country, in the watershed for New York City, southern New Jersey and Philadelphia—was on the chopping block for fracking. A 75 mile stretch of the Delaware River could have become a toxic oil field. Our community was quick to understand the threat and organize and mobilize against it. Amazingly, we won. We banned fracking in the Delaware River basin and in New York State, saving the water supply for 16 million people. One of the greatest achievements of the environmental movement in this century. We did this by convincing the Democratic governors of New York and Delaware and the president at the time—Barack Obama—to ban fracking here. These were all moderate Democrats. Not exactly Bernie Sanders, if you know what I mean. Hundreds of thousands of people showed up to protect this place and to hold moderate Democrats accountable, and that was the key to victory here. You know who didn’t show up for this place? Jill Stein. She doesn’t show up for these frontline battles. Ever. Stein says she’s against fracking, but Stein has hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in the oil and gas industry. Did you know that? Did you know that she actually profits off of the oil and gas industry, that she has had investments in the Keystone XL pipeline and multiple fracking companies? Did you know that she has investments in Raytheon, that she’s had investments in ExxonMobil? Did you know that she has investments in Home Depot—one of the most rapacious companies in the world, guilty of horrific deforestation throughout the world? It’s sheer hypocrisy. And so is the strategy of running for president every four years but never showing up for battles like this. A vote for Harris is a vote for us, a vote for our movements to have a fighting chance for change. Progressive politics and advancing our agenda in this country is not something that happens every four years when you vote, or every four years when a toxic egomaniac like Stein (or Trump, for that matter) runs for president. It is a daily commitment. So vote for Kamala Harris. Join the movement—and I’ll see you on the front lines."

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It’s going to take a constant fight to preserve the historical record
Nathan J. Robinson, Current Affairs: "The National Archives museum, under Biden-appointed U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan, has been working to reshape its narrative of American history in order to make white conservatives more comfortable. The [Wall Street] Journal describes a pattern of efforts to shape its newest upcoming exhibits to better fit right-wing narratives of U.S. history. The museum has removed references to Martin Luther King Jr., Japanese internment, Native Americans, union organizers, and birth control, because presenting American history honestly would make Republicans upset. The changes to the new exhibits are remarkable. A photo of King was replaced with one of Richard Nixon meeting Elvis Presley. A “proposed exhibit exploring changes to the Constitution since 1787,” including “amendments abolishing slavery and expanding the right to vote,” was reduced in size, and employees were told that “focusing on the amendments portrayed the Founding Fathers in a negative light.” A photo of Betty Ford wearing an Equal Rights Amendment pin was removed from a video, and in an exhibit of “patents that changed the world,” the birth control pill was replaced with, of all things, the bump stock. The explicit justification here was that the facts would hurt the feelings of guests who didn’t want to hear about union organizers and Native Americans. Visitors shouldn’t “feel confronted,” the Archivist said, but rather “welcomed.” Of course, Japanese Americans or Native Americans are unlikely to feel “confronted” by exhibits on their history, so the archivist was clearly referring to making white conservatives feel more at ease. In fact, an employee was specifically “told to look for success stories about white people.” And, looking over an exhibit about westward expansion, Shogan asked a staffer 'Why is it so much about Indians?'It is a constant struggle to get stories of oppression and injustice to public attention, because these stories are depressing and unsettling. Sometimes they raise harsh questions that many people would rather not have to answer, such as: if this is how it was, doesn’t that make you the beneficiary of a terrible injustice?"

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Big Oil unleashes new DISASTER in Amazon rainforest
350.org: You probably won’t have heard about it, but there’s a disaster unfolding in the Amazon rainforest. The Northern Peruvian Pipeline just leaked 6,000 liters of oil into the Amazon, poisoning the ground and contaminating the lakes that indigenous communities use for food, water, and their livelihoods. To make matters worse, Big Oil’s new plans for new oil and gas development cover an estimated 250,000 square miles of undisturbed rainforest across the basin, an area that is home to more than 12 million people. Will you add your name to stand with climate activists fighting to protect the Amazon from Big Oil?