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AMERICAN WAY January 2022
SPOTLIGHT
The Voting Rights Fight is Far From Over
There’s no way to sugarcoat it: the Senate’s failure to overcome a Republican filibuster of voting rights bills this month was a disappointment. But history is on our side, and there are still many things we can do to protect the right to vote and ensure that our democracy not only survives – but thrives.
The voting rights movement you helped us to build this year is one of the biggest and most diverse political movements of our time: Thank you. Make sure to read People For President Ben Jealous’s op-ed in The Hill on how we’re going to keep the fight going and what comes next!
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THIS MONTH
Citizens United: 11 Years Later
Eleven years ago this week an ultra-conservative majority on the Court stepped up its attacks on our democracy with their ruling in the case Citizens United v. FEC.
That decision opened the floodgates to huge sums of outside money, including dark, undisclosed money in our elections. That decision and ones that followed is why we so desperately need concrete regulation of dark money and a robust small donor funded campaign finance system. Watch our new video on the anniversary, showing how this and other recent court decisions have helped the Far Right, now!
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The Big Problem Since January 6 is the Big Lie
The insurrectionists who violently attacked the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021 were motivated by the former president’s Big Lie that he won the election but that his victory was somehow stolen from him.
That lie has been debunked over and over again by journalists and election officials, both Republicans and Democrats – and by the courts. But it has never been abandoned by Trump or his right-wing allies. And so one year after it fueled an attack on Congress and the Constitution, the Big Lie is still a huge threat to our democracy.
Read Ben Jealous’s full op-ed here! >>
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Watch People For members and staff commemorate the anniversary at candlelight vigils nationwide >>
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We’re Fighting For A Justice For All
With the just-announced retirement of Justice Breyer, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. President Biden has made it clear that he will appoint to the Supreme Court an eminently qualified individual, with a demonstrated commitment to civil rights, who will bring to the Court her unique perspective as a Black woman. This continues his record of nominating superbly qualified and diverse nominees with a demonstrated commitment to upholding the rights of all Americans.
President Biden has indicated his plans to make a nomination by the end of February and we urge the Senate to move expeditiously to confirm the historic nominee, who will be the first Black woman Supreme Court justice. In making this nomination, President Biden will be drawing from the extraordinary pool of brilliant and skilled women who during their careers have demonstrated their commitment to ensuring equality and justice for all. Watch our new video now!
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Read our latest update on President Biden’s impressive judicial nominations progress >>
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People For’s Right Wing Watch is tracking the Far Right’s reactions to Justice Breyer’s retirement >>
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Trump’s Latest Inflammatory Lie
Former President Donald Trump marked Martin Luther King day weekend by using a speech in Arizona to make false and racially inflammatory comments claiming that white people are being denied access to COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.
Trump’s wildly irresponsible charge was tailor-made to promote racial resentment and stoke the kind of anger and grievance that is fomented by white nationalists and has already led to violence and mass murder. Read the full story from our Right Wing Watch now!
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OUR COURTS, OUR FIGHT: The Devastating Harm Done by Trump's Federal Judges
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Trump Justices Endanger America’s Health and Safety Due to COVID-19
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Trump Justices Cast Deciding Votes to Again Rebuff Challenge to Texas Abortion Ban
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Trump Judge Upholds Extended Police Stop of Black Man in Ruling that Threatens to Allow Police to “Harass and Humiliate” Drivers
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MORE NEWS & ANALYSIS
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We’re in the Fight for Justice For All
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Roe is the minimum - not the goal
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From MLK’s Alma Mater and John Lewis’s District, Reminders of the Power of Direct Action
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Senate Debates Voting Rights Legislation
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Democrats Are Taking Needed Action to Repair Circuit Courts in Red States
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Trump, the MLK Holiday, and the Big Lie
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Another Trump Judge Stops Enforcement Nationwide of Another Important COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement
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How Low Will Attacks on Biden’s First Red-State Circuit Nominee Go?
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Trump Judges Stop Vaccine and Mask Rules Set to Protect Health of Vulnerable Children and Families in Head Start Program
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One Year After the Capitol Insurrection, Election Subversion Continues
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Louisiana’s Sen. Kennedy Pretends to Take a Principled Stand
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Trump Judge Continues Injunction Against Important COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement Concerning Federal Contractors
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RIGHT WING WATCH
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Twitter and TikTok Still Have an Election Misinformation Problem
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The Jan. 6 Insurrection Should Have Been No Surprise, and Neither Should the Next Right-Wing Coup Attempt
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Trump Prophecies and the Big Lie: One Year In
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Glenn Youngkin’s Secretary of State Pick Promotes Voter Suppression, Voter Fraud Claims
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White Supremacists, Christian Nationalists Celebrate Existential Threat to Roe at the March for Life
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Is Brazil’s Far Right Looking to Replicate Jan. 6?
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Religious-Right Leaders Who Promoted Trump’s Big Lie Object to Biden’s Voting Rights Push
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Ali Alexander Claims Capitol Insurrection Was a Deep State ‘Psyop’
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MAGA or Antifa? The Right-Wing War for Control of the Insurrection Narrative
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‘This Is World War IV’: QAnon Conspiracy Theorist Scott McKay Vows to Wage War on Doctors and Nurses
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David Barton and the Evolution of Lies
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FRC ‘Biblical Worldview’ Fellow: Racial Diversity in Congregations Is Not a ‘Moral Good’
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