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  Insurrectionist Alert (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 16, 2021 at 2:18 PM

Far-right extremism on the rise

        Friend —   Make no mistake: The looming threat of far-right extremism is getting worse across this country and in Washington.   New reporting by the Washington Post shows that there were 73 domestic terror incidents perpetrated by far-right radicals in 2020, the largest …
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
April 16, 2021 at 12:30 AM

Republicans claim Dr. Jill Biden is “a pandering idiot”

        Hi there,   Dr. Biden recently traveled to California to thank farmworkers and union leaders for their essential work during the pandemic because, in Dr. Biden's words, “We wouldn't have made it through this year” without them.   Our First Lady leads by ex…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
April 16, 2021 at 12:19 AM

The head of the insurrection is still a threat

          Hello,   Around two-thirds of the House Freedom Caucus signed on to support Donald Trump's demand that the Supreme Court overturn the 2020 election results -- with Rep. Andy Biggs leading the charge.   Too many of us are forgetting that just three months ago, over 100 …
  Trump Endorsement Watch (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 15, 2021 at 10:19 PM

Doug Jones is ready to take back Alabama

        Hello,   Donald Trump just endorsed Rep. Mo Brooks for for Alabama's Senate seat. Brooks is a MAGA ally who told Trump's mob to “start taking down names and kicking ass” right before they stormed the Capitol three months ago.   Trump's supporters in the Senate saved him …
  Blue Texas (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 15, 2021 at 7:18 PM

Beto O'Rourke can flip the GOP's favorite "red" state

        Hello there,   Beto O'Rourke used his platform as a presidential candidate to bring attention to gun reform and protect our elections from the GOP's voter suppression tactics. Now he's picking up where he left off and speaking with Texas communities as he considers a run …
  Insurrection Update (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 15, 2021 at 5:19 PM

National security experts fear "an exigent and growing threat"

        Hi there,   140 national security experts, military leaders, and elected officials are urging Congress to create a bipartisan January 6 commission to investigate the Capitol riot and prevent another violent attack.   The Justice Department has already charged more than 3…
  We Need Your Input (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 15, 2021 at 4:18 PM

Republicans attack Dr. Jill Biden as a "hag" for daring to wear fishnets

          there,   “Hag,” “hooker,” “trashy.” Those are just some of the demeaning words Republicans used to describe First Lady Dr. Jill Biden this past weekend.   Why were conservatives so outraged? Dr. Biden stepped out of Air Force One wearing a black skirt and fishnet stock…
  Legislative Update (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 15, 2021 at 2:19 PM

Biden has plans for corporate America

          Hello there,   Corporations and billionaires got 54% richer during the pandemic -- while millions of working families and small-business owners struggled to make ends meet.   They profited off our isolation and changing public health needs, enabled by Republicans who'v…
  Trump Endorsement Watch (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 15, 2021 at 2:18 AM

Doug Jones is all in on winning in Alabama

        Hello,   Donald Trump just endorsed Rep. Mo Brooks for Alabama's Senate seat. Brooks is a MAGA ally who told Trump's mob to “start taking down names and kicking ass” right before they stormed the Capitol three months ago.   Trump's supporters in the Senate saved him from…
  Insurrectionist Alert (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 15, 2021 at 1:18 AM

We need to talk about Marjorie Taylor Greene

        Friend --   Last week we emailed you about Marjorie Taylor Greene's historic fundraising in the first 3 months of 2021. While the first quarter of a new Congress is normally slow for fundraising, Marjorie Taylor Greene's supporters have defied expectations while Democrats…
  Progressive Alert (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 15, 2021 at 12:17 AM

America needs unions

        there --   America was built by the working class -- but in spite of progressives' efforts, our economy has left them behind. As Republicans and major corporations villainize unions in order to turn a profit, income inequality in our country has skyrocketed.   Thankfully…
  Insurrection Update (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 14, 2021 at 11:18 PM

National security experts increasingly fear "an exigent and growing threat"

        Hi there,   140 national security experts, military leaders, and elected officials are urging Congress to create a bipartisan January 6 commission to investigate the Capitol riot and prevent another violent attack.   The Justice Department has already charged more than 3…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
April 14, 2021 at 10:15 PM

Conservatives think Dr. Jill Biden is "a pandering idiot"

        Hi there,   Dr. Biden recently traveled to California to thank farmworkers and union leaders for their essential work during the pandemic because, in Dr. Biden's words, “We wouldn't have made it through this year” without them.   Our First Lady leads by ex…
  Legislative Update (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 14, 2021 at 8:18 PM

Progressives move to reverse Citizens United

          Hi there,   Mitch McConnell was so angry about the corporate pushback on Georgia's voter suppression law that he spoke without thinking: “my warning to corporate America is to stay out of politics.   But he was quick to catch on to his hypocrisy with one exception: “I'…
  Progressive Alert (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 14, 2021 at 6:18 PM

Stephen Miller and Mike Pence are teaming up

          Hello,   Mike Pence and Stephen Miller -- a dynamic duo of evil -- just announced that they are launching their own right-wing organizations to fight “the radical left” takeover.   According to The Hill, Miller's America First Legal will use a slew of lawsuits to prote…
  Progressive Alert (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 14, 2021 at 4:19 PM

Trump and Putin's puppet is up for re-election

          Hello,   California Democrat Phil Arballo is running against Donald Trump's most loyal puppet in Congress -- Rep. Devin Nunes.   We have a couple of reasons why Nunes has to go, in 2022. But at the top of the list is a new report from the Office of the Director of Nati…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
April 14, 2021 at 2:18 PM

The head of the insurrection is still lurking in Congress

          Hello,   Around two-thirds of the House Freedom Caucus signed on to support Donald Trump's demand that the Supreme Court overturn the 2020 election results -- with Rep. Andy Biggs leading the charge.   Too many of us are forgetting that just three months ago, over 100 …
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
April 14, 2021 at 1:15 AM

We're seeing 2018 all over again in Georgia

        Hi there,   In 2018, Stacey Abrams was denied Georgia's governorship as a result of massive racially-targeted voter suppression efforts led by Governor Kemp and the GOP.   Now in 2021, history seems doomed to repeat itself -- Raphael Warnock's chances of b…
  Insurrection Update (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 14, 2021 at 12:19 AM

National security experts afraid of "an exigent and growing threat"

        Hi there,   140 national security experts, military leaders, and elected officials are urging Congress to create a bipartisan January 6 commission to investigate the Capitol riot and prevent another violent attack.   The Justice Department has already charged more than 3…
  Insurrectionist Alert (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 13, 2021 at 11:19 PM

About Marjorie Taylor Greene

        Friend --   Last week we emailed you about Marjorie Taylor Greene's historic fundraising in the first 3 months of 2021. While the first quarter of a new Congress is normally slow for fundraising, Marjorie Taylor Greene's supporters have defied expectations while Democrats…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
April 13, 2021 at 10:18 PM

Why Republican politicians keep winning

        Hi there,   It's frightening what Republicans have been able to accomplish since 2016. We all laughed when Donald Trump decided to run for office. People thought that he could never be president because he degraded women, attacked immigrants as “rapists,” and mocked disab…
  Blue Texas (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 13, 2021 at 7:18 PM

Governor Beto has a nice ring to it

        Hello there,   Beto O'Rourke came within 3 points of defeating Ted Cruz in 2018 in Texas -- a state Republicans continue to claim is reliably red.   Since then, Beto has used his platform to organize Democrats in Texas and register voters, and he used his platform as a p…
  Trump Endorsement Watch (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 13, 2021 at 6:19 PM

Doug Jones believes we can win in Alabama

        Hello,   Donald Trump just endorsed Rep. Mo Brooks for the Alabama Senate. Brooks is a MAGA ally who told Trump's mob to “start taking down names and kicking ass” right before they stormed the Capitol three months ago.   Trump's supporters in the Senate saved him from im…
  GOP Fundraising Alert (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 13, 2021 at 4:19 PM

Rep. Boebert: "Chip in $20 to stop amnesty for 20 million illegals."

        Hello: That's the hook Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert is really using to raise her money.   No human being is illegal, but villainizing migrant families fleeing violence has always worked for the GOP, and so they'll keep running the strategy to the detriment of our most vul…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
April 13, 2021 at 2:18 PM

Sen. Warnock's warning: "History is watching us"

        Hello,   Senator Raphael Warnock had an urgent message for Democrats while speaking with Rachel Maddow: “If you think that this is something happening down in Georgia, you are misapprehending the moment that we're living in. … This is a defining moment for the American de…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
April 13, 2021 at 12:15 AM

POLITICO: Some Capitol rioters won't get jail time

        Hi there,   POLITICO: “Many of those who invaded the halls of Congress on Jan. 6 are likely to get little or no jail time.”   Defenders of the Capitol rioters are now playing off the deadly insurrection as a peaceful protest against the government -- and i…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
April 12, 2021 at 10:18 PM

Why the Republicans keep winning

        Hi there,   It's frightening what Republicans have been able to accomplish since 2016. We all laughed when Donald Trump decided to run for office. People thought that he could never be president because he degraded women, attacked immigrants as “rapists,” and mocked disab…
  Insurrectionist Alert (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 12, 2021 at 8:18 PM

Re: Marjorie Taylor Greene

        Friend --   This morning we emailed you about Marjorie Taylor Greene's historic fundraising in the first 3 months of 2021. While the first quarter of a new Congress is normally slow for fundraising, Marjorie Taylor Greene's supporters have defied expectations while Democr…
  Blue Texas (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 12, 2021 at 7:18 PM

Texas Governor Beto O'Rourke has a nice ring to it

        Hello there,   Beto O'Rourke came within 3 points of defeating Ted Cruz in 2018 in Texas -- a state Republicans continue to claim is reliably red.   Since then, Beto has used his platform to organize Democrats in Texas and register voters, and he used his platform as a…
  Insurrectionist Alert (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 12, 2021 at 4:18 PM

Marjorie Taylor Greene's record-breaking fundraising

        Hi there,   Bad news -- the fundraising numbers for January through March of 2021 just came in, and Marjorie Taylor Greene defied all expectations.   That's right -- the radical Congresswoman from Georgia who has supported insurrectionists and is a follower of a group th…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
April 12, 2021 at 2:19 PM

Tom Cotton's got to go

        Hi there,   Far-right senator Tom Cotton is at it again, standing right in the way of progress. Last week he tweeted this:     If Tom Cotton thinks we have an under-incarceration problem in America, one thing is clear: He does not care about people of color in this cou…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
April 11, 2021 at 8:15 PM

What Democrats have been considering:

        Hi there,   Democratic senators are torn over whether or not to abolish the filibuster — a relic of the Jim Crow South that is actively preventing Democrats from pushing through a powerful progressive agenda.   If we want to pass the critical legislation n…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
April 11, 2021 at 6:18 PM

Why Republicans keep winning

        Hi there,   It's frightening what Republicans have been able to accomplish since 2016. We all laughed when Donald Trump decided to run for office. People thought that he could never be president because he degraded women, attacked immigrants as “rapists,” and mocked disab…
  Blue Texas (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 11, 2021 at 4:18 PM

Governor Beto O'Rourke has a nice ring to it

        Hello there,   Beto O'Rourke came within 3 points of defeating Ted Cruz in 2018 in Texas -- a state Republicans continue to claim is reliably red.   Since then, Beto has used his platform to organize Democrats in Texas and register voters, and he used his platform as a p…
  Insurrectionist Alert (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 11, 2021 at 2:18 PM

Paul Gosar's siblings are begging Democrats to act

        Hi there,   “There is no one member of Congress more responsible for the attack on the Capitol than Congressman Paul Gosar.”   “He should be held accountable for all the lies he told that led to the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6.”   Those aren't our words, though we a…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
April 10, 2021 at 9:15 PM

Louis DeJoy ruined USPS -- and now he wants to save his job

        Friend --   John Fetterman, PA's Lt. Governor, is running for an open Senate seat in his home state. He's an unapologetic progressive whose platform includes a $15 minimum wage, legalizing marijuana, and eliminating the Senate filibuster -- and he's not af…
  ALERT (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 10, 2021 at 7:17 PM

Republicans' record-breaking fundraising

        Bad news, friend.   Republicans in statehouses across the country are using their power to pass unprecedented restrictions on voting rights. And their base is fired up.   The Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC), which is dedicated to electing Republicans at the …
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
April 10, 2021 at 5:18 PM

Republicans are at it again

        Friend --   Republicans are at it again. The House Freedom Caucus -- a collection of some of the most far-right members of the House of Representatives -- is causing problems for Democrats AND Republicans in the House.   The Freedom Caucus members are actively obstructin…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
April 10, 2021 at 3:19 PM

Clarence Thomas gives a warning

        Hi there,   Bad news out of the Supreme Court this week.   Justices heard a case on Twitter's choice to prevent then-President Trump from blocking users on his Twitter account, but Justice Clarence Thomas took it a step further.   While the case was thrown out, Justice …
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
April 9, 2021 at 11:15 PM

Trump's presidential library

        Hello,   Donald Trump is focusing his fundraising apparatus on retaking Washington with right-wing loyalists -- but he's also thinking about building a presidential library.   On Trump's last day in office, The National Archives established a “Donald J. Tr…
  We Need Your Input (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 9, 2021 at 9:18 PM

Conservatives claim that our First Lady is "a pandering idiot"

        Hi there,   Dr. Biden recently traveled to California to thank farmworkers and union leaders for their essential work during the pandemic because, in Dr. Biden's words, “We wouldn't have made it through this year” without them.   Our First Lady leads by example, and she …
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
April 9, 2021 at 6:18 PM

America's favorite pastime turns its back on Georgia

        there --   Georgia Republicans are doing everything in their power to lead the country back into the days before the 1965 Voting Rights Act. With laws targeting voters of color and new provisions to make voting more difficult in Georgia, they are blazing a trail for Repub…
  Insurrection Update (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 9, 2021 at 5:17 PM

The Oath Keepers and Proud Boys "organized an alliance" to invade the Capitol

        Hi there,   The Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys coordinated their violence ahead of the January 6 insurrection, according to federal prosecutors.   Investigations into the days before the insurrection show that the extremist groups “organized an alliance” to keep Donald …
  Your Input Requested (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 9, 2021 at 2:18 PM

The GOP's bizarre attacks on Dr. Fauci

        Hello there,   The GOP is revamping its attacks on Dr. Fauci. Lindsey Graham is telling our top infectious disease expert to “go visit the border.” Former Trump aide Peter Navarro claims Dr. Fauci is “a sociopath and a liar” who “had nothing to do with the vaccine.”   An…
  We Need Your Input (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 9, 2021 at 1:18 AM

Republicans claim Dr. Jill Biden is "a pandering idiot"

        Hi there,   Dr. Biden recently traveled to California to thank farmworkers and union leaders for their essential work during the pandemic because, in Dr. Biden's words, “We wouldn't have made it through this year” without them.   Our First Lady leads by example, and she …
  Insurrection Update (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 8, 2021 at 11:17 PM

POLITICO: Capitol rioters aren't facing jail time

        there,   POLITICO: “Many of those who invaded the halls of Congress on Jan. 6 are likely to get little or no jail time.”   Defenders of the Capitol rioters are now playing off the deadly insurrection as a peaceful protest against the government -- and it's working. Accor…
  Progressive Majority · [email protected]
April 8, 2021 at 10:15 PM

We have a plan to unseat the white supremacist hidden in the House

        Hi there,   You might not know about Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar yet, but he's become one of our main targets in 2022 (and if Gosar's already on your radar, thank you for being one of the engaged Democrats who are helping us protect our democracy).   Gosar, a …
  House Update (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 8, 2021 at 9:18 PM

Madison Cawthorn's latest hypocrisy

        Hi there,   North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn took to Twitter to give his constituents some good news:   Source: Twitter   To clarify: Madison Cawthorn voted AGAINST the American Rescue Plan that awarded these grants. Every Republican in the House and Senate did.  …
  Gathering Support (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 8, 2021 at 6:19 PM

Donald Trump's presidential library

        Hello,   Donald Trump is focusing his fundraising apparatus on retaking Washington with right-wing loyalists -- but he's also thinking about building a presidential library.   On Trump's last day in office, The National Archives established a “Donald J. Trump Presidentia…
  STOP DEJOY (via Progressive Majority) · [email protected]
April 8, 2021 at 4:19 PM

Democrats have plans to protect the USPS from DeJoy

        Hi there,   Trump left months ago, but his biggest ally in the Big Lie is still in power.   Louis Dejoy ruined the USPS to delay mail-in-voting and give Trump the grounds to contest the election results -- and now he has a 10-year plan to cut an additional $160 billion i…