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September 22, 2020 at 8:46 PM

Trump leads Biden nationally in new poll

        Friends,    The Trump administration has reversed an anti-segregation policy -- rolling back a rule that requiried cities to report racist housing discrimination.   The president has also called for an end to racial sensitivity trainings in g…

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September 22, 2020 at 5:46 PM

Barr tries to scare Americans from voting

        Friends,    CNN reports that Attorney General William Barr has “continued to push false and negative narratives about mail-in voting,” telling Americans that “There's no more secret vote...the government and the people involved can find out and…

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September 22, 2020 at 2:46 PM

Help us close the voter registration gap

        Friends,    It’s National Voter Registration Day -- which means it’s the perfect time for Democrats to make up the voter registration gap between us and Republicans.   Axios News reported just last month that “The Trump campaign and RNC have …

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September 22, 2020 at 1:01 AM

Trump literally can’t get Obama out of his head

        Friends,    Donald Trump, a man with no political background who campaigned on white supremacy: “Obama is lucky he ran against Mitt Romney, a man with very little talent or political skill, as opposed to someone who knows how to fight and win!” …

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September 21, 2020 at 11:48 PM

Trump: POTUS Kamala Harris would be “an insult to our country”

        Friends,    "People don't like her. Nobody likes her. She could never be the first woman president. She could never be. That would be an insult to our country."   That’s what Donald Trump told his North Carolina rally crowd about Kamala Harris…

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September 21, 2020 at 9:46 PM

RBG’s final award -- and Trump’s next steps

          Friends,    The 2020 Liberty Medal was one of the last honors bestowed upon Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She received this award from the National Constitution Center in recognition of her “efforts to advance liberty and equality for all.”  …

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September 21, 2020 at 6:47 PM

Naked corruption

        Friends,    A recent poll shows 56% of Americans now support removing Louis DeJoy from office.   That’s only slightly more than the percentage who’ve noticed their mail has gotten worse in the past month -- 53% of Americans say they’ve recentl…

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September 21, 2020 at 3:46 PM

Trump warns suburbs will be overrun with anarchists

        Friends,    Donald Trump is using fear tactics and threats of violence to compel an increasingly radical base. He just warned his supporters: “If I don’t win, America’s suburbs will be OVERRUN with low income projects, anarchists, agitators...an…

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September 19, 2020 at 3:32 PM

An immeasurable void

        Hi there,    “Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”   Justice Ginsburg lived the truth of her words every single day. She fought for the most crucial issues of our time -- reproductive ri…

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September 18, 2020 at 6:04 PM

56% of AAPI voters have not been contacted at all by the Democratic Party

        Friends,   Early data from the 2020 Asian American voter survey shows that 56% of Asian American and Pacific Islander voters have not been contacted at all by the Democratic Party. That means Democratic voter outreach is falling short at a time wh…

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September 17, 2020 at 6:05 PM

Trump: Kamala Harris as POTUS would be “an insult to our country”

        Friends,    "People don't like her. Nobody likes her. She could never be the first woman president. She could never be. That would be an insult to our country."   That’s what Donald Trump told his North Carolina rally crowd about Kamala Harris…

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September 17, 2020 at 3:01 PM

RBG wins an award, Trump plans her retirement

        Friends,    Today is the day that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg receives the 2020 Liberty Medal, as the National Constitution Center applauds RBG’s “efforts to advance liberty and equality for all.”   Justice Ginsburg deserves the high honor, an…

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September 16, 2020 at 3:01 PM

Nate Silver: Biden must win by at least 5 points

        Friends,    Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight fame has made a general election prediction: the electoral college is not “safe” for Joe Biden unless he wins the popular vote by at least 5 points.   The expert analyst’s conclusion confirms what we al…

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September 14, 2020 at 11:15 PM

One of our candidates hit by racist attack ad

        Hi there,    One of our endorsed candidates, practicing physician Dr. Cameron Webb, was just hit with a racist attack ad from the GOP.   The video begins with inflammatory footage of fires, riots, and looting in American streets, and then present…

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September 9, 2020 at 5:46 PM

NAACP sues Dejoy for electioneering

        Friends,    “This willful and blatant attempt to obstruct the mail system amidst a pandemic and on the precipice of a pivotal election is a direct threat to the people of this nation’s right to vote in a fair and free election.”   These are th…

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September 9, 2020 at 2:46 PM

Indian American voters could defect from Democrats to vote Trump

        Friends,    At the end of August, Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight gave Donald Trump a 30% chance of winning the presidency -- even higher than his odds going into the 2016 election.   Our chair, Rep. Grace Meng, is sounding the alarm and calling…

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September 8, 2020 at 11:46 PM

NAACP sues Louis DeJoy over voter suppression

        Friends,    “This willful and blatant attempt to obstruct the mail system amidst a pandemic and on the precipice of a pivotal election is a direct threat to the people of this nation’s right to vote in a fair and free election.”   These are th…

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September 8, 2020 at 8:46 PM

Indian American voters could defect from the Democratic Party

        Friends,    At the end of August, Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight gave Donald Trump a 30% chance of winning the presidency -- even higher than his odds going into the 2016 election.   Our chair, Rep. Grace Meng, is sounding the alarm and calling…

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September 6, 2020 at 3:02 PM

NAACP sues DeJoy over voter suppression

        Friends,    “This willful and blatant attempt to obstruct the mail system amidst a pandemic and on the precipice of a pivotal election is a direct threat to the people of this nation’s right to vote in a fair and free election.”   These are th…

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September 5, 2020 at 3:01 PM

The Trump remarks you haven’t read

        Friends,    Three months after Donald Trump announced his candidacy, two of his supporters beat a sleeping homeless immigrant with a metal pipe. They left him with a broken nose, bruised ribs, and unimaginable trauma. Trump’s response was to com…

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September 4, 2020 at 3:01 PM

“Indian American voters could defect from the Democratic Party and vote for President Trump.”

        Friends,    At the end of August, Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight gave Donald Trump a 30% chance of winning the presidency -- even higher than his odds going into the 2016 election.   Our chair, Rep. Grace Meng, is sounding the alarm and calling…

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September 2, 2020 at 2:46 PM

Warren brings spotlight to USPS corruption

        Friends,    We’ll let Elizabeth Warren speak for herself:   Source: Twitter    There’s a reason the USPS Board of Governors is protecting Louis DeJoy -- they’ve all been appointed by Donald Trump!    All of these cronies who have been usi…

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August 31, 2020 at 3:02 PM

Warren reveals USPS’s corruption

        Friends,    We’ll let Elizabeth Warren speak for herself:   Source: Twitter    There’s a reason the USPS Board of Governors is protecting Louis DeJoy -- they’ve all been appointed by Donald Trump!    All of these cronies who have been usi…

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August 30, 2020 at 3:02 PM

Stephen Miller calls Barack Obama a liar

        Friends,    Barack Obama repudiated Republicans’ war on the ballot in his remarks at the recent Democratic convention, saying: “The right to vote is sacred, and we should be making it easier for people to cast their ballot, not harder.”   Now, …

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August 29, 2020 at 3:02 PM

Louis DeJoy lies to Congress

        Friends,    Louis DeJoy blatantly lied to the Senate in his testimony, saying he hadn’t cut overtime pay for postal workers -- even though internal USPS documents show that’s exactly what he’s done.    Democrats are now calling on DeJoy to resi…

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August 28, 2020 at 3:01 PM

In attacks on DACA, we see a dream deferred

        Friends,    Today marks the 57th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In his famous “I Have a Dream” speech delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr declared: “Now is the time to lift our n…

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August 27, 2020 at 9:31 PM

The Voting Rights Advancement Act must be passed

        Hello there,   Donald Trump’s presidency has been incredibly destructive to Americans of color.   Now, on the eve of the most important election of our lifetimes, voters of color are gearing up to reject President Trump and his racist policies i…

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August 27, 2020 at 3:01 PM

How Pence has pulled the strings

        Friends,   As governor, Mike Pence made his anti-choice and anti-LGBTQ+ policies the law of the land in Indiana.    As vice president, he’s manipulated Trump into starving reproductive health groups that offer abortion services of their fundin…

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August 26, 2020 at 10:03 PM

The most corrupt first family in history

        Friends --    In the midst of a historic economic crisis, the Trump family continues to use the White House to prop up their personal business ventures.   According to Politifact: “The Trump Organization said it would not make new foreign deals…

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August 26, 2020 at 6:31 PM

100 years after the 19th Amendment, women’s voices are still muzzled

        Hello there,    Today is Women’s Equality Day -- and the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited the government from denying any citizen the right to vote on the basis of sex.   But for…

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August 24, 2020 at 4:02 PM

You’re judged by the company you keep

        Friends,   The St. Louis couple who drew guns on peaceful activists during the protests honoring George Floyd. An anti-choice activist who’s attacked Planned Parenthood as “untrustworthy” and claims abortion strips women of their dignity. And the…

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August 23, 2020 at 9:01 PM

Stopping Trump’s efforts to delay the election

        Hello there,   Donald Trump will never delay the presidential election.   That’s what we’d like to believe. But we never thought he’d win the presidency at all -- or get away with all of the blatant attacks on the rule of law that he and his all…

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August 23, 2020 at 3:01 PM

Federal judge rebukes Trump admin over DACA

        Friends,   “Uncalled for and disturbing.”   POLITICO reports that’s how federal judge Nicholas Garaufis described the Trump administration’s efforts to dismiss the Supreme Court ruling over the DACA program.   Judge Garaufis was furious with…

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August 22, 2020 at 5:46 PM

Joe Biden lives up to his promise

        Friends,   Thursday night, Joe Biden made us a promise: “I will protect America. I will defend us from every attack. Seen. And unseen. Always. Without exception. Every time.”   Right now, Biden is working hard to protect us from Trump’s attack…

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August 22, 2020 at 3:02 PM

Tell us who you want in Biden’s administration

        Friends,   There were plenty of qualified women who weren’t chosen to serve as Biden’s VP. You didn’t think we’d seen the last of them, did you?   CNN reports that “Biden spoke to the women he considered about other roles they could play if he…

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August 21, 2020 at 11:46 PM

Joe Biden makes us a promise

        Friends,   Last night, Joe Biden made us a promise: “I will protect America. I will defend us from every attack. Seen. And unseen. Always. Without exception. Every time.”   Right now, Biden is working hard to protect us from Trump’s attacks on …

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August 21, 2020 at 8:16 PM

Obama calls out the Republican Party

        Friends --   Did you see Obama speak at the Democratic convention this week? Of the GOP, he said: "...this president and those in power -- those who benefit from keeping things the way they are -- they are counting on your cynicism. They know t…

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August 21, 2020 at 3:31 PM

Democrats have DeJoy right where they want him

        Friends,   Louis DeJoy had better enjoy the cushy home-field advantage he’ll get testifying before Senate Republicans today -- because all the niceties will disappear once he faces House Democrats on Monday.   Speaker Pelosi put it simply: “T…

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August 21, 2020 at 12:03 AM

Obama calls out the GOP

        Friends --   Did you see Obama speak at the Democratic convention last night? Of the GOP, he said: "this president and those in power -- those who benefit from keeping things the way they are -- they are counting on your cynicism. They know the…

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August 20, 2020 at 4:03 PM

A preview of the president we’ll see tonight

        Friends,   “We have too often allowed our differences to prevail among us. We have too often allowed ambitious men to play off those differences for political gain. We have too often retreated behind our differences when no one really tried to le…

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August 19, 2020 at 7:46 PM

Michelle Obama: “A presidential election can reveal who we are”

        Friends,   In her address to the nation at the Democratic National Convention, Michelle Obama reminded us how we got to where we are now when she said, “four years ago, too many people chose to believe that their votes didn't matter.”   She doe…

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August 19, 2020 at 2:31 PM

Did you see who’s speaking tonight?

        Friends --    Tonight will be a once-in-a-lifetime event.   We’ll hear from the 44th President of the United States of America. We’ll hear from the Speaker of the House. We’ll hear from a former First Lady, Secretary of State, and fiercely-adored…

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August 18, 2020 at 3:03 PM

Trump is terrified of Kamala

        Friends,   Donald Trump is terrified of Kamala Harris.   He saw the way Senator Harris held Brett Kavanugh accountable during his confirmation hearing -- and was obviously listening when Harris compared Trump to Nixon during the impeachment tri…

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August 17, 2020 at 3:01 PM

Many voters refuse to acknowledge racism

        Friends,   Racism is hurting AAPI communities across the country.   A new study from UCLA shows that 83% of Asian Americans with a high school diploma or less have filed for unemployment in California -- compared to just 37% of the rest of the…

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August 16, 2020 at 3:02 PM

USPS head should resign in disgrace

        Friends,   Democrats are calling on Trump appointee Louis DeJoy to resign in disgrace.   Completely unqualified and with no Postal Service experience whatsoever, DeJoy was made USPS Postmaster General as a reward for the millions of dollars he’…

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August 15, 2020 at 8:01 PM

What are your thoughts on Kamala Harris?

        Friends,   Senator Kamala Harris has said it was the heroism of civil rights icons that inspired her to pursue a career in law in the first place.   Now VP-in-waiting, Kamala Harris is fighting for racial justice on all fronts -- leading the ch…

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August 15, 2020 at 3:01 PM

Even if Trump loses, Republicans could win

        Friends,   Even if Trump loses, Republicans in Congress could win.   A new battleground poll shows that while Trump trails Biden by double digits nationally, congressional races are much closer, with Democrats ahead by only 6 points.    That…

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August 14, 2020 at 8:03 PM

Building the rest of Biden’s cabinet

        Friends,   Big Banks have been a huge obstacle to racial justice over the years -- underserving communities of color, engaging in housing discrimination, and taking untold sums of taxpayer bailout money at the expense of small businesses struggl…

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August 14, 2020 at 3:01 PM

Trump attacks Obama before the convention

        Friends --   Donald Trump has joined his advisor Stephen Miller in attacking President Barack Obama -- painting Obama’s advocacy for voting rights as angry rantings.    First Miller criticized Obama on Fox and Friends, calling the president’s…

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August 13, 2020 at 3:02 PM

Pence sees a way to win in 2020

        Friends --   Mike Pence has picked a fight with the Supreme Court.   Just last week, the vice president publicly blasted Chief Justice John Roberts as a “disappointment to conservatives.” It looks like Pence is displeased by the way Roberts ha…

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