AMERICAN WAY NOVEMBER 2019
--WITH IMMENSE GRATITUDE--
With the holidays upon us, I wanted to briefly reflect on your tremendous support and what it has allowed us to accomplish this year.
Earlier this month, PFAW celebrated truly historic wins in the Virginia elections (flipping the state legislature!), which will allow for some long overdue progressive reforms to be implemented in the next legislative session. We also helped elect more than 100 young progressives across the country with our Next Up Victory Fund program – building a deep bench of young elected officials in local and state office.
With your support, we continue to push back against the Far Right by exposing their hate and bigotry and demonstrating that progressive and inclusive policies can and do win in the hearts and minds of voters across the country.
As we continue preparations and planning for 2020, PFAW is strengthened by the support and advocacy of members like you and we deeply appreciate your efforts.
PFAW's accomplishments are indeed your own.
I'm forever grateful – thank you.
– Michael Keegan
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SPOTLIGHT
New Right Wing Watch Report Details Republicans' Dangerous Voter Suppression Tactics in the Trump Era
A new PFAW Right Wing Watch report on voter suppression reveals the grand sweep of the right-wing national project to suppress the hard-won right to vote of Americans across the country – a project that accelerated as backlash to the outcome of the 2008 presidential election. Voter enthusiasm surged that year as Barack Obama campaigned to become our country’s first African American president. His efforts paid off – and the electorate that year set new records for being the largest and most racially and ethnically diverse in U.S. history.
The report, written by journalist Bob Moser, details the development and evolution of the GOP’s voter suppression efforts in the Trump era, and the ways that progressive voting rights activists are fighting back.
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THIS MONTH
Trump Republicans' Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Election Day
PFAW is thrilled to celebrate the big progressive wins earlier this month in Virginia with progressives and activists, where PFAW pulled out all the stops to FLIP both chambers of Virginia’s General Assembly. Now Democrats control the state’s legislature for the first time in nearly a quarter century paving the way for a new era of progressive policies and reforms that will benefit the people of Virginia and the country as a whole. Virginia is now the shining example of what can happen in the South with sustained investment and work.
The victories don't start and end with Virginia – Democrats scored victories across the country in hard-fought statewide races that indicates a clear eagerness of the American electorate to repudiate Trump Republicans and the extreme agenda and hate that has fueled their rise to power.
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Register Now for an Impeachment Vote Rally!
While the House continues the impeachment inquiry into Trump's attempts to pressure Ukraine into investigating his political rivals, PFAW and our partners are preparing a massive mobilization effort – to take place in cities and towns across the country on the eve of the vote if the House brings articles of impeachment to the floor.
The goal? To continue demonstrating that nobody is above the law – not even the President of the United States. If you haven't signed up for a grassroots impeachment rally near you, please find a local event now!
RSVP Now>>
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More Trump Judges on the Federal Bench: A Cause for Alarm, Not Celebration
Earlier this month, President Trump celebrated the confirmation of his federal judicial nominees as a “milestone” during a press event at the White House. Since he took office, Trump has appointed 43 ultra-conservative judges to lifetime positions on our federal appellate courts. But this is not a milestone to celebrate, and Americans should be alarmed rather than exuberant. In just over two years, Trump’s appeals court judges have severely harmed the rights and jeopardized the health and safety of millions of us.
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CONFIRMED JUDGES, CONFIRMED FEARS: THE DEVASTATING HARM ALREADY DONE BY CONFIRMED TRUMP FEDERAL JUDGES
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Trump Judges' Dissents Send Case on House Subpoena of His Tax Records to Supreme Court
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Trump Judge Tries to Authorize Indefinite Imprisonment of Refugees
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Trump Judge Bade Would Have Blocked Student's Disabilities Accommodation Claim
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MORE NEWS & ANALYSIS
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Julián Castro Appointing Judges to Protect LGBTQ+ Workers
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Trump Judge Affirms the Denial of U.S. Citizen's Sponsorship of Wife and Ignores U. S. Immigration Services Precedent Decisions
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Trump Judges Vote to Deny Full Court Rehearing and Affirm Denial of Damages for Violation of a Prisoner's First Amendment Rights
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Barrett, Brennan and Scudder Try to Reconsider Decision That Blocks Improper Parental Notification Requirement in Indiana Abortion Law
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Trump Judge Casts the Deciding Vote Denying Parents the Benefits for the Accidental Death of Their Son
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Trump Judge Casts Deciding Vote to Require Public Transit Company to Display Ads Related to Religion
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California Senators Say NO to Ninth Circuit Judicial Nominee Patrick Bumatay
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Judicial Nominee Lawrence VanDyke Is an Unqualified, Ideological Extremist
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PFAW Applauds Ruling on McGahn Subpoena
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Stop Overlooking Courts in Presidential Debates
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A “John Dean Moment” from Gordon Sondland?
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PFAW Digital Ad Targets Senators on Menashi
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Lives Are on the Line in SCOTUS DACA Case
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RIGHT WING WATCH
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Paula White Has New White House Job and New Book, Says God Used Her to Get Trump Elected
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Ralph Reed: Christians Deserve Persecution if They Fail to Reelect Trump in 2020
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Trump World Spins During Sondland's Testimony at Impeachment Hearing
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Trump Should Give Roger Stone a Pardon and a Presidential Medal of Freedom, Says Ed Martin
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Meet Jim Jordan, the Congressman Brought in by Team Trump for Impeachment Hearings
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Laura Loomer Tried to Sue CAIR and Failed Miserably
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Leaked Emails Reveal Extent of Stephen Miller's Extremism and GOP's Moral Rot
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Trump's Evangelical Boosters Rally Around Him as Impeachment Moves Forward
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Intercessors for America's Prayer Guide on Impeachment Lies About Inquiry
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Eric Walker: Trump 'Is a Modern-Day Prophet' Taking on the Pharisees, Just Like Jesus
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