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Hi friend,
Are you following Pete on Substack?
If not, we invite you to read his latest post. It speaks to something
fundamental about who we are as a country – and what’s at stake when
leaders treat our own communities like battlegrounds. Here’s a preview:
“Uniformed troops are being deployed to communities whose leaders have
made clear they are not needed - putting these service members in a
terrible situation. To be clear, this has nothing to do with being able to
quickly respond to legitimately dangerous situations. (For the
administration's true priorities on emergency response, look no further
than Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s decision
earlier this year to sit for 72 hours on urgent requests for help with
Texas flooding, while search and rescue teams waited for her to finally
authorize them to deploy and save lives.) If anything, this is intended to
increase tension and potentially violence on the ground, turning ordinary
protests into dangerous confrontations that can then be exploited after
the fact to justify even more militarization. Nor is this really about
crime - indeed, the same local law enforcement agencies that have driven
crime down over the years in these cities could do even more if given even
a fraction of the massive cost of these deployments to work with locally.
Worst of all, the President has repeatedly referred to Americans - not
foreign adversaries, but Americans who criticize him - as “the enemy” and
even as “vermin,” sending the message that he is more interested in
crushing those who dare to oppose him politically than the actual enemy
that our military trains to confront.
These actions have been so unrelenting and are executed with such faux
confidence by Trump and his appointees that it would be easy to miss the
simple and extremely important fact that Americans aren’t falling for it.
A strong majority of the American people disapprove of these actions,
knowing they do not make us safer and recognizing that the politicization
of the military, and the militarization of policing, makes everyone worse
off.“
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Pete has been using every platform available to him – social media like
Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok, podcasts, in-person events, these
emails, and Substack – to draw attention to the most urgent issues of the
moment.
He’s going everywhere to reach as many people as possible and have
conversations about our country, our future, and our shared values. Thank
you for reading and engaging with his message across all of his
platforms.
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Pete Buttigieg is a husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner.
He formerly served as the 19th US Secretary of Transportation and Mayor of
South Bend. Now, he’s committed to supporting emerging leaders, showing up
in communities we too often ignore, and helping win more elections.
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