AMERICAN WAY November 2021
SPOTLIGHT
No More Excuses. We Demanded Voting Rights.
During our series of direct actions for voting rights this fall, nearly 300 civil rights advocates were arrested at the White House. Our numbers included people from their early teens into their late seventies, faith leaders, elected officials from all over the country, labor leaders, women’s rights advocates, environmental advocates, racial justice activists, LGBTQ+ activists, and more.
We did it for one reason: because we believe the President of the United States has an obligation to do everything in his power to protect voting rights from the worst assaults we have seen in 60 years. We still believe that today. And we’re optimistic that largely because of our efforts, this goal is within reach.
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THIS MONTH
Norman Lear: “We need each other”
As we near the end of People For the American Way’s 40th year of fighting for equality and justice for all, co-founder Norman Lear reflects on our origins. A television ad and conversations among Lear, the late Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, and Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., were what started it all.
“I could not be more grateful for your interest in People For the American Way,” says Lear, “which is another way of expressing interest for the American Promise.” Make sure to watch his full message to members!
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Next in the Fight to Take Back Our Courts
Cases percolating in the federal courts this month show just how extreme the judiciary has become under the influence of far-right judges. They also remind us of why we are fighting so hard to repair the damage by getting outstanding Biden nominees confirmed.
Abortion care and COVID-19 are two issue areas in which we’re currently seeing what happens when the judicial system doesn’t protect us the way it’s supposed to. Read on for what will be coming up next in our courts!
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Lessons for Democrats in Virginia Defeat
Every election is complicated. There is no single explanation for Republican Glenn Youngkin’s upset victory in Virginia this month. But there are plenty of warning signs. We can’t let the 2022 elections be dominated by bogus culture war issues drummed up by right-wing politicians.
If too many voters fall for the Far Right’s cynical culture war campaigns – or too many of us stay away out of frustration – we will give more power to the same politicians who are devising new ways to keep Black people away from the ballot box and leave us underrepresented in the halls of power. Read on for People For President Ben Jealous’s op-ed on the lessons we must learn from Virginia’s election results.
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Racism, the Right Wing, and Schools
Our Right Wing Watch team has been hard at work this month tracking the misinformation that the Far Right is using to manipulate the public and rile up its base. One of the most common threads is the right-wing campaign against the teaching of so-called “critical race theory” in K-12 schools, a tactic designed to enable fearmongering about race across political lines.
From Virginia to North Dakota, Right Wing Watch has tracked a number of key ways that this narrative has infiltrated not only right-wing media, but also has become a political football in schools across the country. Read on for what you need to know about the Right’s attacks on the teaching of American history as we move towards the next critical election cycle!
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OUR COURTS, OUR FIGHT: The Devastating Harm Done by Trump's Federal Judges
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Trump Judges Halt Biden Administration COVID-19 Vaccine Requirement for Big Business
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Trump Justices’ Opinions Threaten to Mandate Religious Exemptions from COVID Vaccination Requirements
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Trump Judges Stop FDA From Acting Against Corporate Sale of Flavored E-Cigarettes
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MORE NEWS & ANALYSIS
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Giving Thanks
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This is Our Moment: More Than 200 Arrested in Powerful Voting Rights Protest at White House
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Trump Judges Extend Ban on Biden Administration COVID-19 Vaccine Requirement for Big Business
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Investing In American People And Communities
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Trump Judge Reverses District Court and Requires Arbitration of Farmworkers’ Minimum Wage and Benefit Claims
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Senate Republicans Block This Generation’s Voting Rights Act: Will President Biden Meet the Challenge?
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Trump Judge Casts Deciding Vote to Revoke COVID-Related Compassionate Release of Black Man
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We The Young People Will Vote: Youth Activists and Civil Rights Leaders Demonstrate at White House
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Trump Judges Strike Down Rules to Improve Fuel Efficiency and Cut Air Pollution from Truck Trailers
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RIGHT WING WATCH
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Cleta Mitchell, Who Advised Trump’s Efforts to Overturn 2020 Election, Named to Election Advisory Board
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Religious-Right Groups Celebrate Youngkin’s Win, Look Toward 2022
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New North Dakota Law Makes It Illegal to Teach About Systemic Racism
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Ed Martin Says the Media Wants ‘Race Riots’ Following Rittenhouse Trial
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Sherri Tenpenny Says Giving Children COVID-19 Vaccines Is a Form of ‘Very, Very, Very, Very Late-Term Abortion’
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Hillsdale College Tells Millions of Conservatives: Jan. 6 Insurrection Was a ‘Hoax’
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Mark Robinson Says Conservatives Must Get ‘Warlike’ in the ‘Fight’ Against ‘The Enemies of Freedom’
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Russ Vought—Trump’s Critical Race Theory Guy—Says Virginia Win Proves Political Power of Culture-War Fights
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Right-Wing Operative Ed Martin: ‘Kyle Rittenhouse Is a Hero’
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Lance Wallnau: ‘Wokeness’ Is an Antichrist Religion, Systemic Racism Doesn’t Exist
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