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  Supporter Survey (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
January 27, 2021 at 6:19 PM

Facebook considers allowing Trump back

        Hey there,   Trump might be allowed back on Facebook -- and the odds seem to be in his favor.   The New York Times reports that within the next three months, a global oversight board will virtually meet to discuss Facebook's censorship of Trump after he incited violent r…
  Supporter Survey (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
January 27, 2021 at 4:54 PM

The GOP's attacks against Fauci aren't dying down

        Hey there,   We're just days into the Biden administration, and Dr. Fauci is already celebrating the “liberating feeling” of being able to “get up here and talk about what you know -- what the evidence, what the science is -- and know that's it, let the science speak.”   …
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
January 27, 2021 at 3:19 PM

Joe Biden spoke against white supremacy -- and Republicans are feeling personally attacked

        Hello,   In his inaugural address, President Joe Biden spoke eloquently against white supremacy, domestic terrorism, and political extremism -- and Republicans are upset.   Senator Rand Paul claimed, “If you read his speech and listen to it carefully, much of it is thinl…
  Your Input Requested (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
January 27, 2021 at 3:40 AM

Capitol rioters may be facing sedition charges

        Hey there,   “My office organized a strike force of prosecutors whose only orders are to build sedition charges related to most heinous acts that occurred in the Capitol.”   That’s from Michael Sherwin, the acting United States attorney for the District of Columbia. …
  Supporter Survey (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
January 27, 2021 at 2:39 AM

Speaker Pelosi wants to prosecute House members who aided Jan. 6 insurrectionists

        Hey there,   Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced that she will bring down the hammer on ANY member of Congress who aided Trump's attempted coup. As POLITICO reports:   “‘If in fact it is found that members of Congress were accomplices to this insurrection, if they aided a…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
January 27, 2021 at 1:51 AM

Steve Bannon has got to be stopped.

        Hi there,   On his final day in office, Trump pardoned Steve Bannon, the alt-right master propagandist behind his rise to power.   Bannon fed the insurrection and will feed more now that he's free. On January 5, a day before the attack on the Capitol, Bannon said: “All…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
January 27, 2021 at 12:19 AM

Pres. Biden's team has been astounded by what Trump left behind

        Hi friend,   According to POLITICO, the Biden team is already scrambling to pick up the pieces of Trump's presidency after a rocky transition that was only the “tip of the iceberg.”   Biden's staff noted that the Trump team blocked access to intelligence data on the COVI…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
January 26, 2021 at 10:53 PM

Jan. 6 insurrectionists blame Trump

        Hello,   According to the New York Times, “one group of people has already come forward and directly implicated Mr. Trump in the riot at the Capitol: some of his own supporters who were arrested while taking part in it.”   Trump's supporters are trying to save themselves…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
January 26, 2021 at 9:39 PM

Joe Biden might have a limited window to get things done

        Hi there,   The New York Times: “Bumping Senator Mitch McConnell to the minority increases Joe Biden's odds of passing his agenda, but there is a catch. In the Senate in recent decades, the filibuster has morphed … into a silent but lethal tool that lets any one senator r…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
January 26, 2021 at 8:20 PM

The myth of a "diminished GOP"

        Hey there,   We're sure you've seen the headlines. ‘The GOP is in shambles.' ‘Republicans don't know who to turn to.' Even POLITICO is reporting that Trump is leaving behind a “diminished GOP.”   We don't like that narrative, and we'll tell you why: Underestimating the f…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
January 26, 2021 at 7:05 PM

Biden is already making moves on immigration reform

        Hi there,   The Washington Post: “The Biden administration has ordered U.S. immigration agencies to focus their energies on threats to national security, public safety and recent border crossers, ending a four-year stretch during the Trump administration that exposed anyo…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
January 26, 2021 at 5:52 PM

The insurrectionists' forums MUST be investigated

        Hi there,   The Washington Post: “The chairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Thursday asked the FBI to conduct a ‘robust examination' of the alleged role in the Jan. 6 Capitol siege of Parler, the now-disabled social media site that bristled with violen…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
January 26, 2021 at 4:40 PM

Biden's already gotten rid of Trump's anti-union crony

        Hi there,   The Washington Post: “The Biden administration fired the National Labor Relations Board's general counsel Wednesday night, breaking with precedent to end the tenure of a figure seen as a foe by worker advocates and labor unions.”   Peter Robb, Trump's labor h…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
January 26, 2021 at 1:52 AM

What should we do with Fox News?

        Hi there,   After Fox News called the election for Joe Biden, they then questioned the veracity of the results on-air over 700 times.   Some politicians are getting banned from social media. Some right-wing apps are getting taken down. But the elephant in the room (or, m…
  Supporter Survey (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
January 26, 2021 at 12:52 AM

Speaker Pelosi wants to prosecute House members who aided the Capitol insurrectionists

        Hey there,   Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced that she will bring down the hammer on ANY member of Congress who aided Trump's attempted coup. As POLITICO reports:   “‘If in fact it is found that members of Congress were accomplices to this insurrection, if they aided a…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
January 25, 2021 at 11:51 PM

Dr. Levine certainly isn't "unfit" to lead.

        Hi there,   Joe Biden: “Dr. Rachel Levine will bring the steady leadership and essential expertise we need to get people through this pandemic … She is a historic and deeply qualified choice.”   Guess what the Republicans that serve you in Congress are saying about Bide…
  Your Input Requested (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
January 25, 2021 at 10:52 PM

Capitol rioters could face sedition charges very soon

        Hey there,   “My office organized a strike force of prosecutors whose only orders are to build sedition charges related to most heinous acts that occurred in the Capitol.”   That’s from Michael Sherwin, the acting United States attorney for the District of Columbia. …
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
January 25, 2021 at 9:53 PM

Help us catch Steve Bannon. Right Now.

        Hi there,   On his final day in office, Trump pardoned Steve Bannon, the alt-right master propagandist behind his rise to power.   Bannon fed the insurrection and will feed more now that he's free. On January 5, a day before the attack on the Capitol, Bannon said: “All…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
January 25, 2021 at 8:53 PM

Joe Biden is about to change the course of the pandemic

        Hi there,   Joe Biden just signed 10 executive orders to ramp up COVID testing and vaccinations, enforce safety rules, and increase economic relief spending. As POLITICO reports:   “‘For almost a year now, Americans could not look to the federal government for any strate…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
January 25, 2021 at 7:51 PM

Pelosi: Forgoing impeachment would be harmful to unity

        Hi friend,   The Huffington Post reports that Nancy Pelosi has rejected the GOP's transparent claims that convicting Trump would lead to move division in our country and we should instead just let him off the hook.   Pelosi said, “I don't see that at all. I think that wo…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
January 25, 2021 at 6:51 PM

How low will they go?

        Dear friend,   CNBC reports: “Trump retains overwhelming support from Republicans after deadly U.S. Capitol attack.”   Even though the sun has set on the Trump administration, it's become terrifyingly clear -- the GOP base has permanently devolved from being a mainstrea…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
January 25, 2021 at 5:51 PM

Extremism at every turn

        Dear friend,   “The job of the Department of Defense is to keep America safe from our enemies,” says Lloyd Austin, President Biden's pick for Secretary of Defense, “we can't do that if some of those enemies lie within our own ranks.”   This rise of extremism in our milit…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
January 25, 2021 at 4:53 PM

Pompeo: Multiculturalism is un-American

        Hi friend,   "Woke-ism, multiculturalism, all the -isms — they're not who America is," tweets ex-secretary of state Mike Pompeo.   We couldn't disagree more, Mr. Pompeo. America's diversity is our greatest asset -- united we stand, divided we fall.   Republicans have ca…
  Supporter Survey (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
January 24, 2021 at 10:56 PM

Jim Clyburn on MAGA riots: The "flag of white supremacy" flew that day

        Hi there, friend,   Prior to Democrats drafting the article of impeachment, Representative Jim Clyburn reminded Americans that the pro-Trump rioters who stormed the Capitol brought “the flag of white supremacy” with them.   During his campaign, Donald Trump instructed w…
  Congressional News (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
January 24, 2021 at 9:18 PM

It's time for Marjorie Taylor Greene to be removed from the House

        Friend,   “Depraved.” “Dangerous.”   Democratic Rep. Jason Crow used those words, along with “morally bankrupt” and a few choice others, to describe his new colleague -- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.   Per POLITICO, Greene is “a freshman congresswoman elected last Nove…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
January 24, 2021 at 7:52 PM

Let's get Trump like Capone

        Hi there,   POLITICO: “Trump's lawyers are asking a federal judge for a conference call… to discuss what happens next with House Democrats' long-running suit for his tax returns.”   Perfect. Let's get him like we got Capone -- for tax evasion.   But Trump's lawyers ha…
  Progressive Alert (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
January 24, 2021 at 6:18 PM

Biden's team has been astounded by what Trump left behind

        Hi friend,   According to POLITICO, the Biden team is already scrambling to pick up the pieces of Trump's presidency after a rocky transition that was only the “tip of the iceberg.”   Biden's staff noted that the Trump team blocked access to intelligence data on the COVI…
  Progressive Alert (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
January 24, 2021 at 4:54 PM

Stupid names, evil mission

        Hi there,   Groups with names like the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, and the Boogaloo Boys hinted at planning on how best to use the weeks after Biden's inauguration.   Would it be the right time for an attack? Or a recruiting drive? A social media push?   The vast ma…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
January 24, 2021 at 3:19 PM

The new obstacle to our vaccines

        Hi there,   Scientists are raising a flag. Per the Washington Post, “the world is witnessing a vivid and unnerving demonstration of Darwinian natural selection. The virus potentially could evolve its way around natural human immunity or escape the immune response elicited…
  Your Input Requested (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
January 24, 2021 at 12:19 AM

Hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters may soon face sedition charges

        Hey there,   “My office organized a strike force of prosecutors whose only orders are to build sedition charges related to most heinous acts that occurred in the Capitol.”   That’s from Michael Sherwin, the acting United States attorney for the District of Columbia. …
  Congressional News (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
January 23, 2021 at 10:52 PM

It's time for Marjorie Taylor Greene to go

        Friend,   “Depraved.” “Dangerous.”   Democratic Rep. Jason Crow used those words, along with “morally bankrupt” and a few choice others, to describe his new colleague -- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.   Per POLITICO, Greene is “a freshman congresswoman elected last Nove…
  BREAKING (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
January 23, 2021 at 9:19 PM

QAnon talked posing as National Guard

        Hi there,   Read it here: According to the Washington Post, “The FBI privately warned law enforcement agencies … far-right extremists have discussed posing as National Guard members in Washington.”   These “QAnon” cultists were, per the Post and the FBI, “downloading and …
  Progressive News Update (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
January 23, 2021 at 7:52 PM

Gorbachev has a direct message for Biden

        Hi there, friend,   Speaking to POLITICO, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev stated that the relationship between the United States and Russia is of “great concern” and that “something has to be done...in order to normalize relations.”   We can't say we don't agree. T…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
January 23, 2021 at 6:18 PM

The Speaker needs you to charge 45

        Hi there,   “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says President Donald Trump could be an accessory to murder after this month's deadly riots at the U.S. Capitol.”   “The crime… was murder,” said Speaker Pelosi. “And this president is an accessory to that crime because he instigate…
  Grassroots Support Needed (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
January 23, 2021 at 4:52 PM

Let's help Kamala pick out the shards

        Hi there,   “When you are the first, when you are cracking the glass ceiling, it's your scalp that ends up with the shards. It comes with the pain of the effort to get there and the expectation of those who are waiting behind you.”   That was Kim Foxx, Cook County State's…
  Progressive Alert (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
January 23, 2021 at 3:19 PM

Trump packed the swamp before he gave it to Biden

        Hi there,   POLITICO: “After campaigning on a promise to ‘drain the swamp,' Donald Trump ended his presidency by revoking his own rule meant to prevent White House staff from lobbying.”   So it appears that, right before he gave the White House to Biden, Trump opened the …
  Supporter Survey (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
January 23, 2021 at 1:51 AM

Jim Clyburn on Capitol riots: The "flag of white supremacy" flew in the halls of Congress

        Hi there, friend,   Prior to Democrats drafting the article of impeachment, Representative Jim Clyburn reminded Americans that the pro-Trump rioters who stormed the Capitol brought “the flag of white supremacy” with them.   During his campaign, Donald Trump instructed w…
  Congressional News (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
January 23, 2021 at 12:19 AM

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has got to be removed from the House

        Friend,   “Depraved.” “Dangerous.”   Democratic Rep. Jason Crow used those words, along with “morally bankrupt” and a few choice others, to describe his new colleague -- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.   Per POLITICO, Greene is “a freshman congresswoman elected last Nove…
  Your Input Requested (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
January 22, 2021 at 10:52 PM

Hundreds of Capitol rioters might face sedition charges

        Hey there,   “My office organized a strike force of prosecutors whose only orders are to build sedition charges related to most heinous acts that occurred in the Capitol.”   That’s from Michael Sherwin, the acting United States attorney for the District of Columbia. …
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
January 22, 2021 at 9:19 PM

Help us catch Bannon. Right Now.

        Hi there,   On his final day in office, Trump pardoned Steve Bannon, the alt-right master propagandist behind his rise to power.   Bannon fed the insurrection and will feed more now that he's free. On January 5, a day before the attack on the Capitol, Bannon said: “All…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
January 22, 2021 at 7:53 PM

Dr. Levine is not "unfit" to lead.

        Hi there,   Joe Biden: “Dr. Rachel Levine will bring the steady leadership and essential expertise we need to get people through this pandemic … She is a historic and deeply qualified choice.”   Guess what the Republicans that serve you in Congress are saying about Bide…
  Congressional News (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
January 22, 2021 at 6:20 PM

17 seconds of silence

        Hi there,   Jim Jordan took 17 seconds to answer the question.   It was a simple one, posed in committee by Democrat Jim McGovern: “Will you admit that Joe Biden won fair and square, and the election was not rigged or stolen?”   Eventually, Jordan stated a fact -- that B…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
January 22, 2021 at 4:54 PM

Your neighbor, the totalitarian

        Hi there,   “I can't just sit back and say, ‘OK, I'll just go back to watching football.'”   That's The New York Times quoting 43-year-old Daniel Scheerer, a Colorado truck driver.   With all the recent events going on, Scheerer is now an engaged politico! But he doesn't…
  Pandemic Status Update (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
January 22, 2021 at 3:20 PM

About 90% of Americans share this COVID belief

        Hi there,   A Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that just about 90% of Americans don't think COVID is under control.   We're just glad to hear 90% of Americans realize that COVID continues to be an enormous problem despite the right-wing misinformation machine churnin…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
January 22, 2021 at 2:51 AM

Letitia James is serving justice to Trump

        Hi there,   ABC News: “Donald Trump faces a civil investigation, led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, into whether Trump's company lied about the value of its assets to get loans or tax benefits.”   We knew that Trump would have to brace for a worl…
  Supporter Survey (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
January 22, 2021 at 1:53 AM

Speaker Pelosi wants to prosecute House members who aided the insurrectionists

        Hey there,   Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced that she will bring down the hammer on ANY member of Congress who aided Trump's attempted coup. As POLITICO reports:   “‘If in fact it is found that members of Congress were accomplices to this insurrection, if they aided a…
  Your Input Requested (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
January 22, 2021 at 12:19 AM

Federal prosecutors concerned about further right-wing violence

        Hey there,   POLITICO reported on January 15: “Federal prosecutors on Thursday for the first time described last week's assault on the U.S. Capitol as a ‘violent insurrection that attempted to overthrow the United States Government” -- and one they consider to still be un…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
January 21, 2021 at 10:53 PM

Biden's "sweeping overhaul"

        Hi there,   Washington Post: President Joe Biden “will roll out a sweeping overhaul of the nation's immigration laws… including an eight-year pathway to citizenship for immigrants without legal status and an expansion of refugee admissions, along with an enforcement pla…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
January 21, 2021 at 9:18 PM

What should we do with Fox?

        Hi there,   After Fox News called the election for Joe Biden, they then questioned the veracity of the results on-air over 700 times.   Some politicians are getting banned from social media. Some right-wing apps are getting taken down. But the elephant in the room (or, m…
  Congressional News (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
January 21, 2021 at 6:20 PM

Marjorie Taylor Greene gets banned

        Hi there,   Did you hear this news from NPR? “Twitter locked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene out of her account on the social media platform on Sunday, citing violations of a company policy that it recently used to remove thousands of QAnon-related accounts.”   Greene -- who…