AMERICAN WAY JULY 2020
SPOTLIGHT
PFAW Launches Multimedia Art Campaign to Mobilize Voters in Key Battleground States
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Ever since the 2016 election, people have been saying that we need to get creative to defeat Donald Trump – we decided to do just that. We just launched the ENOUGH of Trump campaign – a groundbreaking initiative using ART to mobilize the vote against Trump in key presidential battleground states, with special focus on Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
We've partnered with some of America’s top artists – Carrie Mae Weems, Shepard Fairey, and Ed Ruscha, among many others – as well as innovative local artists from our target states. And we’ll be engaging artists (across various art media) and influencers all around the country to push online and offline products, including strategically placed billboards, aimed at getting out the vote against Trump.
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THIS MONTH
Remembering John Lewis
Rep. Lewis’s life stands as a reminder to all Americans about the transformative power of our nation’s faith in universal equality and freedom. Our hope is that we remember his sacrifices and his lived testament for all humanity: be bold, be courageous, be hopeful, and never stop stirring up good trouble because together we can make our greatest dreams real.
We also hope you’ll join us in reflecting on the incredible life and teachings of this true American hero and civil rights giant. Rep. Lewis’s courage and wisdom will continue to provide endless inspiration in PFAW’s ongoing fight to stop hate and defend democracy from the endless attacks from the Far Right to undermine and suppress the Black vote.
In the coming weeks PFAW will be launching a new initiative with the goal of mobilizing and defending the Black community's vote against the sustained attacks it has endured over the years. Stay tuned for more details.
Join us in honoring the legacy of John Lewis by urging the Senate to immediately hold a vote on the John Lewis Voting Rights Act!>>
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Kavanaugh Pleases the Base: The Supreme Court’s 2019-2020 Term
The impact of Donald Trump’s election victory in 2016 has been enormous. He and his Republican supporters have undermined core democratic principles and will answer to history for putting politics ahead of our lives during the worsening COVID crisis. History will also long remember the consequences of a Supreme Court moved inexorably to the right by Trump justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh—both of whom, but especially Kavanaugh, have taken virtually every opportunity to undermine Americans’ core rights and liberties.
Our new report examines the latest Supreme Court term and how Gorsuch and Kavanaugh are accomplishing exactly what they were put on the court to do: overrule abortion rights precedent, attack voting rights, help President Trump evade the rule of law, embitter the lives of immigrants, end the nation’s social safety net, funnel state money into religious education, and transform religious liberty protections from a shield into a sword.
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Trump's Mismanagement of COVID-19 Has Led to Over a Million New Cases in 15 Days
Trump may have finally again acknowledged COVID-19 from the briefing room podium last week, but he also couldn't resist incorporating falsehoods and self-congratulation while doing so. "We're leading the world," he lied. But last week the U.S. surpassed four million confirmed cases of coronavirus nationwide – with a million cases having been added in only 15 days.
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Op-ed: "Don't wait for Congress. Start police reform in 20 cities with largest black populations."
In an op-ed in USA Today, PFAW President Ben Jealous makes the case for policing reform to begin now in the cities and communities where it has the potential for greatest impact:
The spring of 2020 has a historic before and after. Before the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery and after — when the rage and pain over police violence and systemic racism erupted in powerful protests that brought us, finally, to a national moment of clarity about racist, violent policing. Americans across all demographics now acknowledge that these scourges exist and must be stopped.
However hard-won, this is a gift. It’s a moment to seize.
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CONFIRMED JUDGES, CONFIRMED FEARS: THE DEVASTATING HARM ALREADY DONE BY CONFIRMED TRUMP FEDERAL JUDGES
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Instead of a Shield to Protect Religious Liberty, the Roberts Court has Turned Free Exercise into a Sword to Harm Rights
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Trump Justices Cast Deciding Votes to Continue in Effect Florida Voting Restrictions
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Trump Judge Gives Deference To Officers for Their Unjustified Use of Force
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MORE NEWS & ANALYSIS
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Trump Judge Casts Deciding Vote to Authorize Male Student Expelled for Sexual Assault to Sue University for Sex Bias
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D.C. Statehood Is a Racial Equity Issue for All of Us
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Trump Judge Hinders Unionized Workers’ Ability to Prove Unfair Labor Practices
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Trump Judge Casts Deciding Vote to Dismiss Sexual Harassment Case
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Falsehoods and Failures: Trump During COVID-19 (7/17 Update)
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Trump Judge Casts Deciding Vote to Deport Permanent Legal Resident
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Trump Judges Reverse Ruling that Agency Should Consider Broad Environmental Impact of Pipeline Oil Spill Plan
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Trump Judge Barrett Would Have Upheld Trump’s Punitive Anti-Immigrant “Public Charge” Rule
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Trump Judge Would Allow Trump To Violate The Constitution By Diverting Appropriated Funds To Build Border Wall
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Trump Judge Tries to Uphold Kentucky Law that Bans Most Second Trimester Abortions
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Trump Judge Sides with Big Bank in Case Challenging Mortgage Handling Failure
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RIGHT WING WATCH
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Roger Stone: The Man Trump Rescued
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The Year of the GQP
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Mike Pompeo Says Property Rights and Religious Liberty Are ‘Foremost’ Human Rights, ‘Expanding Catalog’ of Rights ‘Trivializes’ American Values
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QAnon Conspiracy Theorist DeAnna Lorraine Is Struggling to ‘Trust the Plan’
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Trump Campaign Staffer’s History as Far-Right Blogger, Examined
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Far-Right Mourns Exit of Lead Tucker Carlson Writer Following Revelations of Racist Beliefs
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Trump’s Religious-Right Backers Get Millions in COVID-19 Relief
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Chris McDonald Smears John Lewis As a ‘Rabid Racist’ Who ‘Never Fought for Anything’
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Dave Rubin Says He’s Voting Trump to Protect ‘Freedom and Capitalism’
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Robert Maginnis Ranks Barack Obama, George Soros Among ‘Satan’s Greatest Human Proxies’
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