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

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As we head into Night 3 of Trump's Republican National Convention, we had
to make sure you saw our Night 1 and Night 2 recaps of the GOP's festival
of lies and bigotry.

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NIGHT 1:

Oh the things you learned if you watched Episode 1 of the Republican
National Convention last night, my friend!

Did you know that Trump understood the threat of COVID-19 before anyone
else and his swift action saved the lives of millions? Or that we have the
pandemic “courtesy of the Chinese Communist Party”? That Republicans
represent “church, work, and school” while Democrats want “rioting,
looting, and vandalism”?

Did you know that progressives and Democrats want to make America weaker
so we can “replace her,” or that progressives and Democrats want to
abolish the suburbs, or that it’s Democrats – not Trump – who are
threatening the Postal Service??

And this was only the first night!



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It’s sad that one of America’s major parties has been completely captured
by bigotry and cultish authoritarianism…

Republican leaders who once seemed, if not moderate, then at least decent,
went to bat for Trump without any reservation, parroting Trump’s lies and
delivering a full-throated endorsement of Trump’s narrative and agenda.

The hateful attacks on progressives, on people marching for racial
justice, on immigrants, people of color, and others, were abhorrent.

The rosy picture that convention speakers painted of Trump’s first term
was disrespectful to the victims of COVID-19 and their families, to those
left behind by Republicans’ one-sided economic policies, and to the
communities that have been under constant assault under Trump and
Trumpism.

We’re fighting back. We’re going to hold Trump AND Republicans
accountable, and, with your help, we’re going to deliver them a historic
defeat up and down the ballot, all across the country.

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We saw last night – and will see all week – why the stakes are so high and
why losing this election cannot be an option.

Thanks so much for all of your hard work and support.

-- PFAW Elections Team

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NIGHT 2:

my friend,

Episode 2 of the Republican National Convention last night saw distortions
of truly Orwellian proportions … laws were broken, marginalized
communities were demonized, and speaker after speaker drowned viewers in a
rapid-fire tsunami of lies, barely affording them a chance to catch their
breath in between.

The most anti-immigrant president in modern times held a staged
naturalization ceremony with the acting Homeland Security secretary
(acting because he was never confirmed by the Senate, like many Trump
administration officials). This was only one of the night’s several
apparent violations of the Hatch Act – the federal law that prohibits
government officials from campaigning for political purposes using
government property or resources.

And the outrages continued… read more below, but first please do what the
main purpose of this email is to ask of you:



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Cissie Graham Lynch, the granddaughter of televangelist Billy Graham, used
her speech to slam the Obama-Biden administration for its supposed attacks
on religious liberty (like, you know, not allowing adoption agencies to
discriminate against LGBTQ people) and offered gushing praise for Trump’s
efforts to protect freedom of religion.

Later in the night, Trump’s son Eric appealed to “all people of faith
stripped of our religious freedoms and religious liberties,” saying, “my
father will fight for you.”

Reality check:

* Trump ran for president on enacting a BAN on Muslims entering the
country, the epitome of religious bigotry.

* He and his supporters have stoked intense Islamophobia and
anti-Semitism.

* Several Republican candidates running for office – including Congress
– promote discrimination against Muslims and believe Muslims should
not be allowed to hold public office.

* And one of last night’s featured scheduled speakers was even pulled
from the schedule at the last minute “after she retweeted a thread
promoting an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory with ties to the fringe
conspiracy theory, QAnon”!!! ^[1]

The false narratives being advance by Republicans at Trump’s convention
are not only untrue, they’re dangerous.

They talk about the coronavirus pandemic in the past tense and celebrate
Trump for handling it heroically while we’re still right in the middle of
the crisis with infections and deaths continuing to rise.

They blast Democrats for acknowledging police violence and systemic racism
(which they say does not exist) even as more Black men are shot multiple
times in the back by police, like 29-year-old father Jacob Blake in
Kenosha, WI, who this week was shot by officers at least 7 times and left
paralyzed while trying to assist in breaking up a domestic dispute.

Up is down. Day is night. The sky is green. And history is whatever
Republicans say it is…

Unless WE stop them and stand up for TRUTH. (AND justice. AND … The
American Way.)



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Thank you for everything.

-- Ben Betz, Sr. Director of Digital & Organizing

“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war
with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.” – George Orwell,
1984



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Sources:

[ [link removed] ]"Speaker removed from RNC program after tweeting anti-Semitic
conspiracy theory," CNN, August 25, 2020


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