Political Appointee Update (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]

December 22, 2020 at 9:20 PM

Mayor Pete in the Cabinet

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi there,   It’s been weeks of waiting for Pete Buttigieg, but finally the mayor has something to celebrate: President-elect Biden will name him secretary of transportation, making him the first-ever openly gay person to serve in a Cabinet position.   But…

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  Sarah Palin Alert (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]

December 22, 2020 at 7:59 PM

Sarah Palin still thinks it's 2012 -- and it's rallying the GOP's base

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi there,   “The provisions about it’s OK to kill a baby in the womb -- there are so many things that Barack Obama stands for still and he just doesn’t get it. The solution to our issues in this country, it all comes down to simply loving truth. He does no…

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  Progressive Majority · [email protected]

December 22, 2020 at 4:52 PM

Trump is creating a false pandemic history

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   NBC News: “A former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and member of Pfizer’s board of directors said ... that President Donald Trump’s administration declined to secure millions of additional doses of Pfizer and BioNTech coron…

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December 22, 2020 at 3:21 PM

The GOP may leave Joe Biden without a Cabinet on Day One

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi there,   “As long as there’s litigation ongoing, and the election result is disputed, I do not think you will see the Senate act to confirm any nominee.”   Senator Ted Cruz just confirmed one of our worst fears: Joe Biden may have overwhelmingly won th…

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December 22, 2020 at 12:20 AM

Joe Biden desperately needs to meet the moment on climate change

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   Two-thirds of Americans believe that more MUST be done to address climate change. And as Rep. Raúl Grijalva writes for POLITICO:   “In the coming weeks and months, there will be enormous pressure -- from Republicans, from polluting and self…

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December 21, 2020 at 10:52 PM

What the Black activist groups who won GA think about next month's Senate runoffs

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   Nse Ufot, CEO of the New Georgia Project, helped flip Georgia blue in the general election. Here’s what she’s got to say about the Senate runoffs:   “There’s no world where a [12,670] vote difference, a 0.25 percent vote difference, would h…

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  Progressive Majority · [email protected]

December 21, 2020 at 9:20 PM

The GOP's latest stunt is laughable -- but it's still eroding our democracy

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi there,   The Texas Attorney General seeking Supreme Court intervention to overturn the election results in several battleground states was considered by many to be an embarrassingly desperate publicity stunt. Luckily, the Court dismissed the case.   Ho…

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  Your Input Requested (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]

December 21, 2020 at 7:52 PM

Trump won't attend Biden's inauguration; plans rally instead

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi there,   Axios: “President Trump is considering a made-for-TV grand finale: a White House departure on Marine One and final Air Force One flight to Florida for a political rally opposite Joe Biden's inauguration.”   Wow. Forget presidential norms and a…

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  LIVE POLL (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]

December 21, 2020 at 4:51 PM

Axios: "Biden's post-election stock bump tops Trump's"

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi there,   As Axios News reports, “Stocks rose faster in the one month of trading following the 2020 election than in the month of trading that followed the 2016 election.”   Well, it looks like Trump was dead wrong when he claimed that “if [Biden] is el…

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  Your Input Requested (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]

December 21, 2020 at 3:19 PM

The Atlantic on "The Trump You've Yet to Meet"

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi there,   The Atlantic recently ran a piece titled “The Trump You’ve Yet to Meet,” speculating that “just because we know bad things about the 45th president, don’t assume that there’s nothing bad left to find out.”   We’re horrified at the prospect. We…

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  Progressive News Update (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]

December 21, 2020 at 12:20 AM

Trump's team -- of all people -- proposes a rule for the Biden admin

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   The Trump team has a new rule for the Biden administration: Now that you’re in charge, you have to review just about every single Health and Human Services Department regulation on the books -- all 2,400 of them. If you don’t, they’ll all ex…

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  Support a Blue GA via Progressive Majority · [email protected]

December 20, 2020 at 10:51 PM

Georgia has enough Dems to flip the Senate -- it just needs the resources

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   A new piece in The Nation says it best: “Georgia has enough people to turn Georgia blue. They did it. It works. Georgia just needs the resources, given everything Republicans are going to throw into this race. Folks who know say give directl…

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  Progressive Alert via Progressive Majority · [email protected]

December 20, 2020 at 9:19 PM

Why the 2020 election had no campaign finance oversight

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   For the first time in years, the Federal Elections Commission is fully staffed.   “The agency has been without a quorum of four commissioners for most of 2020,” POLITICO reports, “leaving it unable to enforce campaign finance rules, hold he…

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  Georgia Update via Progressive Majority · [email protected]

December 20, 2020 at 7:51 PM

Obama: Support Ossoff for Senate next month "like our lives depend on it"

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   None other than Barack Obama is getting out the vote for Democratic Senate challenger Jon Ossoff, with Obama recently telling Americans, “If we vote like our lives depend on it, because they do, we will elect Jon [Ossoff] to the United State…

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  Progressive Majority · [email protected]

December 20, 2020 at 4:50 PM

76 percent of Republicans think Trump will run again in 2024 -- do you agree?

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi there,   “A large majority of Republicans and independents have faith President Donald Trump will follow through on his musings about running for president again in 2024,” finds a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.   “Among Republicans, 76 percent beli…

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  Grassroots Support Needed via Progressive Majority · [email protected]

December 20, 2020 at 3:21 PM

Republican Sen. Hawley criticizes YouTube's move to curb election fraud lies

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   YouTube has begun "removing any videos that falsely claim widespread voting fraud changed the outcome of the 2020 presidential race now that the deadline for states to resolve disputes over the results has passed,” POLITICO reports.   But w…

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  Progressive Majority · [email protected]

December 20, 2020 at 12:19 AM

Biden cannot be a "failed" president

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   We are witnessing history being made in America, and we have a clear choice: We can stand back and let Republicans obstruct President-elect Biden’s agenda just like they did with President Obama, or we can step up now and stop them.   Mitch…

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  Gathering Support (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]

December 19, 2020 at 10:52 PM

House Democrats firmly reject Trump's veto threat

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   Trump was threatening to veto the defense bill House Democrats wanted to pass. But then, House Democrats passed the bill with a VETO-PROOF majority, meaning that nothing the president says or does will make a difference.   It’s a great feel…

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  Stacey Warned Us (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]

December 19, 2020 at 9:19 PM

Biden's blue Senate could be stolen next month

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler are both running for Senate in Georgia. They face special elections against Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, respectively. If both Democrats don’t win, then the Senate will stay under GOP control. Aft…

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  Your Input Requested (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]

December 19, 2020 at 7:50 PM

In his final days, Trump's drug scam is exposed

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi there,   POLITICO: “The White House is trying to surmount a previously unreported hurdle in its bid to make good on President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to give senior citizens $200 in drug-discount cards: An industry panel says the cards don’t mee…

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  LIVE POLL (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]

December 19, 2020 at 4:51 PM

Trump says the stock market redeems him. Do you agree?

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi there,   Source: Twitter   We hate to admit it, but Trump’s right. The stock market HAS hit an all-time high, with the Dow closing above 30,000 in past weeks -- something Trump called a “sacred number.”   But we personally think that the market is …

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  Pandemic Status Update (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]

December 19, 2020 at 3:20 PM

Top scientist: "I literally don't know" what Trump is talking about

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   Even the top scientist of Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed” could not explain the absolutely ridiculous executive order the 45th president chose to issue concerning the prioritization of vaccine delivery.   How exactly does Trump think his ord…

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  Pandemic Update (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]

December 19, 2020 at 1:51 AM

Trump wants all the credit for the COVID-19 vaccines

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   Throughout this pandemic, Trump and his administration have made their selfishness and incompetence clear. Now, with the Pfizer vaccine already being distributed and more at various stages of FDA review and approval, Trump is trying to claim…

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  Obama on Georgia (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]

December 19, 2020 at 12:19 AM

Barack Obama: Raphael Warnock facing "the same kind of stuff" as he did

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   “In my campaign, I had to constantly manage the fact that truths that Black folks experience on a day-to-day basis are not going to be the same as the truths that the country as a whole experience. But, if you want to operate at the highest …

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  Progressive Alert via Progressive Majority · [email protected]

December 18, 2020 at 10:52 PM

Why 2020 had no campaign finance oversight

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   For the first time in years, the Federal Elections Commission is fully staffed.   “The agency has been without a quorum of four commissioners for most of 2020,” POLITICO reports, “leaving it unable to enforce campaign finance rules, hold he…

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  Work To Do in Georgia (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]

December 18, 2020 at 9:19 PM

What the Black activist groups who won in GA think about next month's Senate runoffs

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   Nse Ufot, CEO of the New Georgia Project, helped flip Georgia blue in the general election. Here’s what she’s got to say about the Senate runoffs:   “There’s no world where a [12,670] vote difference, a 0.25 percent vote difference, would h…

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  Progressive Majority · [email protected]

December 18, 2020 at 7:54 PM

Trump officials don't belong in a Biden cabinet

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   We’re writing to you because we need your help fixing our country and restoring the democratic norms that the Republican party has shattered.   Trump packed his administration with loyalists and ideologues who were dead set on undermining t…

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  Paint the Senate Blue (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]

December 18, 2020 at 6:21 PM

Our best chance at healing Trump's damage

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   Our best chance at repairing the damage done by Donald Trump under President Biden comes with a Democrat-controlled Congress.   And the most crucial congressional elections, the ones that will decide whether Mitch McConnell holds the power …

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  Grassroots Support Needed (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]

December 18, 2020 at 4:52 PM

Let's throw our full weight behind the next administration

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   Millions of Americans are crying out for progressive action right now -- but Republicans don’t care.   We know their games by now. We know they’ll criticize every plan Democrats propose, and we know that if they control the Senate, they’ll …

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  Trump Update (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]

December 18, 2020 at 1:53 AM

Trump could step down early -- for a pardon from President Pence

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi there,   New York Attorney General: “[Trump] can preemptively pardon individuals, and the vast majority of legal scholars have indicated that he cannot pardon himself. What he could do is step down and allow the vice president -- Vice President Pence --…

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  Progressive Majority · [email protected]

December 18, 2020 at 12:20 AM

Former presidents don't usually serve jail time -- Trump could

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi there,   “Former presidents normally don’t go to jail, but few have committed so many obvious crimes unrelated to their duties in office.”   The Intercept is right -- Donald Trump has been linked to an incredible list of illegal activity during his tim…

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  Progressive Majority · [email protected]

December 17, 2020 at 10:54 PM

The election results may finally be safe. Elections officials are not.

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   “People on Twitter have posted photographs of my house.”   Ann Jacobs, chair of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, recently told the New York Times about the “constant threats” she and her family have received. Trump supporters have even m…

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December 17, 2020 at 9:21 PM

POLITICO - "Democrats signal early opposition to Biden's defense pick"

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi there,   Some Democrats are already opposing Biden’s pick to lead the Pentagon, Retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, who would be the first Black secretary of defense.   The opposition comes down to a disagreement over whether or not Austin should be grante…

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  Stop Trump’s Tyranny (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]

December 17, 2020 at 7:53 PM

Trump could clean house -- and sabotage Biden's administration

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   Trump is on his way out and about to clean the house of his disloyal servants. And no, this time it won’t just be the usual suspects of conniving, inexperienced loyalists that he ushered into power when he ascended to the throne.   Next on …

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  Tina Fey Alert (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]

December 17, 2020 at 6:19 PM

Sarah Palin is still running against Pres. Obama

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi there,   “The provisions about it’s OK to kill a baby in the womb -- there are so many things that Barack Obama stands for still and he just doesn’t get it. The solution to our issues in this country, it all comes down to simply loving truth. He does no…

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  Progressive Majority · [email protected]

December 17, 2020 at 4:54 PM

Pres. Obama: We need to support Ossoff for Senate "like our lives depend on it"

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   None other than Barack Obama is getting out the vote for Democratic Senate challenger Jon Ossoff, with Obama recently telling Americans, “If we vote like our lives depend on it, because they do, we will elect Jon [Ossoff] to the United State…

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  LIVE POLL (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]

December 17, 2020 at 4:05 PM

POLITICO - "Whitmer reveals conversations she had with Biden about joining his team"

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi there,   POLITICO: “In an interview with POLITICO’s Women Rule, Whitmer said she was ‘really surprised’ when Biden, then the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, ‘called and asked me to go through the process.’”   Apparently, Governor Whitmer, …

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  Pandemic Status Update via Progressive Majority · [email protected]

December 17, 2020 at 3:03 PM

Giuliani gets special treatment as COVID-19 deaths skyrocket

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   The New York Times: “‘If it wasn’t me, I wouldn’t have been put in a hospital frankly,’ Mr. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, told WABC radio in New York. ‘Sometimes when you’re a celebrity, they’re worried if something happens to y…

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  Save Warnock’s Bid via Progressive Majority · [email protected]

December 17, 2020 at 12:18 AM

The GOP plays the "socialist" card against Warnock

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   He’s an ally of Fidel Castro. He’s a socialist. He “will change our country forever,” and, if Republicans lose, “we won’t be able to bring it back.”   At least that’s what Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler would have you believe about Democ…

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  Congressional News (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]

December 16, 2020 at 10:53 PM

Why every Republican must acknowledge Biden's win

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi there,   If even one pair of Republicans from the House and Senate challenge any one of the 50 states’ ballots on January 6, both chambers have to meet separately for a vote.   Democrats control the House. But Republicans control the Senate -- which gi…

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  Progressive Majority · [email protected]

December 16, 2020 at 9:20 PM

Biden needs to meet the moment on climate change

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   Two-thirds of Americans believe that more MUST be done to address climate change. And as Rep. Raúl Grijalva writes for POLITICO:   “In the coming weeks and months, there will be enormous pressure -- from Republicans, from polluting and self…

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  Trump Update (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]

December 16, 2020 at 7:51 PM

A President Pence could pardon Trump

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi there,   New York Attorney General: “[Trump] can preemptively pardon individuals, and the vast majority of legal scholars have indicated that he cannot pardon himself. What he could do is step down and allow the vice president -- Vice President Pence --…

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  LIVE POLL (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]

December 16, 2020 at 6:19 PM

POLITICO: "Whitmer reveals conversations she had with Biden about joining his team"

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi there,   POLITICO: “In an interview with POLITICO’s Women Rule, Whitmer said she was ‘really surprised’ when Biden, then the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, ‘called and asked me to go through the process.’”   Apparently, Governor Whitmer, …

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  Pandemic Status Update (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]

December 16, 2020 at 4:58 PM

How we can get a relief deal like Europe

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   Canadian workers who lost their jobs are getting $2,000 a month. Germany is paying its companies to keep employees on payroll. France is giving struggling businesses 10,000 euro (just over $12,000) a month. And even Boris Johnson, the conser…

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  Progressive News Update (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]

December 16, 2020 at 3:20 PM

Trump team proposes a rule for Biden admin

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   The Trump team has a new rule for the Biden administration: Now that you’re in charge, you have to review just about every single Health and Human Services Department regulation on the books -- all 2,400 of them. If you don’t, they’ll all ex…

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  Progressive Majority · [email protected]

December 16, 2020 at 1:51 AM

Pete Buttigieg becomes the first openly LGBTQ+ Cabinet appointment in history

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi there,   After a period of intense speculation, Pete Buttigieg has been nominated for Secretary of Transportation. Not only is Mayor Pete immensely qualified for his new job, he would be the first LGBTQ+ Cabinet secretary to ever be approved by the U.S…

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  Paint the Senate Blue via Progressive Majority · [email protected]

December 16, 2020 at 1:40 AM

Google allows political ads to circulate in lead-up to GA elections

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi friend --   POLITICO: Google lifted its political ad ban on December 10, “ending its five-week-long prohibition aimed at curbing disinformation in the aftermath of the 2020 election.”   We at Progressive Majority would like to ask: WHAT is Google think…

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  Stimulus Update via Progressive Majority · [email protected]

December 16, 2020 at 12:52 AM

POLITICO - "Bernie Sanders leads Dem charge for new stimulus checks"

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi there,   Bernie Sanders is gathering Democratic support for a new and robust stimulus package after months of GOP obstruction.   He and others from the Senate Democratic Caucus are pushing against the meager stimulus bill Republicans are proposing, say…

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  Your Input Requested via Progressive Majority · [email protected]

December 15, 2020 at 9:20 PM

76 percent of Republicans think Trump will run in 2024 -- do you?

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi there,   “A large majority of Republicans and independents have faith President Donald Trump will follow through on his musings about running for president again in 2024,” finds a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.   “Among Republicans, 76 percent beli…

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  Progressive Alert via Progressive Majority · [email protected]

December 15, 2020 at 7:51 PM

POLITICO: "Democrats signal early opposition to Biden's defense pick"

Progressive Majority PAC         Hi there,   Some Democrats are already opposing Biden’s pick to lead the Pentagon, Retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, who would be the first Black secretary of defense.   The opposition comes down to a disagreement over whether or not Austin should be grante…

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