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August 12, 2020 at 8:31 PM

Our next VP will be Kamala Harris

        Friends,   It’s official -- Kamala Harris will join Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket.    There was a long list of candidates in contention, but ultimately, Harris’s success as a prosecutor and a lawmaker as well as her historic diversity (bo…

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August 12, 2020 at 3:00 PM

There’s no excuse for denying the right to vote

        Hello there,   “Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have to ensure that right.”   President Lyndo…

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August 11, 2020 at 9:01 PM

Trump adds a wealth test to citizenship

        Friends,   The price of becoming an American citizen just skyrocketed.   Apparently Trump views this pandemic as a great time to make a quick buck -- because his administration just hiked the fee on citizenship applications by over 80%.    It w…

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August 11, 2020 at 5:46 PM

Stephen Miller and Fox attack Barack Obama

        Friends,   Trump advisor and white supremacist Stephen Miller has set his sights on President Barack Obama.   Miller criticized Obama on Fox and Friends, calling the president’s eulogy for John Lewis “totally disconnected from reality,” and “sc…

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August 10, 2020 at 5:46 PM

Stephen Miller and Tucker Carlson attack Barack Obama

        Friends,   Trump advisor and white supremacist Stephen Miller has set his sights on President Barack Obama.   Miller criticized Obama on Fox and Friends, calling the president’s eulogy for John Lewis “totally disconnected from reality,” and “sc…

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August 10, 2020 at 3:03 PM

Trump’s Census will make Congress “whiter and more Republican”

        Friends,   “Under Trump’s scheme, congressional districts, apportioned by Congress every 10 years, will become whiter and more Republican, despite population trends that run the exact opposite direction.”   Congresswoman Karen Bass and activist…

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August 9, 2020 at 3:01 PM

Fauci calls attention to racial gap, Trump insists country is “doing very well”

        Friends,   Dr. Fauci is speaking out on the “unfortunate disparity of health” -- telling BET that the federal government should focus its resources on communities of color.   Systemic racism -- the kind that forces ethnic minorities into jobs w…

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August 8, 2020 at 3:01 PM

Stephen Miller attacks Barack Obama

        Friends,   Trump advisor and white supremacist Stephen Miller has set his sights on President Barack Obama.   Miller criticized Obama on Fox and Friends, calling the president’s eulogy for John Lewis “totally disconnected from reality,” and “sc…

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August 7, 2020 at 3:05 PM

Bush torture lawyer encourages Trump to break law

        Friends,   The lawyer who wrote a legal defense of waterboarding for George W. Bush is now giving Trump advice on the best way to break the law.   He wrote in a National Review article that the Supreme Court’s ruling to protect DACA actually g…

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August 5, 2020 at 4:02 PM

ICE agents say they’re just following orders

        Friends,   “We don’t pick and choose groups of people based on race, color, religion. We just look for people who are removable.”   That’s a quote from an ICE agent defending his agency’s work to detain and deport undocumented Americans and their…

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August 4, 2020 at 5:45 PM

Trump bucks Supreme Court, undermines DACA himself

        Friends,   The Trump administration is rolling back protections for DACA recipients -- Supreme Court be damned.   According to NBC News, “A senior administration official said that despite the Supreme Court ruling, the White House still viewed …

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August 4, 2020 at 3:01 PM

NAACP demands DeVos stop her attack on public schools

        Friends,   The NAACP is suing to protect public schools from Besty DeVos.   DeVos wants to make public schools, which teach predominantly students of color, hand their federal relief funding over to wealthy, white private schools that don’t even…

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August 3, 2020 at 10:31 PM

Trump bucks Supreme Court, undermines DACA himself

        Friends,   The Trump administration is rolling back protections for DACA recipients -- Supreme Court be damned.   According to NBC News, “A senior administration official said that despite the Supreme Court ruling, the White House still viewed …

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August 3, 2020 at 3:01 PM

Tell the Senate to reject racist William Perry Pendley

        Hello there,   William Perry Pendley has called undocumented immigrants “a cancer.” He’s said the Black Lives Matter movement is “based on a lie.” He’s even suggested selling off public lands in order to pay for Donald Trump’s border wall -- and ove…

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August 2, 2020 at 3:01 PM

How Donald Trump could win with less votes

        Friends  --    After all the ballots were counted, Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump by almost 3 million votes.   It wasn’t enough. Donald Trump won because of 80,000 people in 3 states -- Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. If the several mi…

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August 1, 2020 at 3:02 PM

Trump bucks Supreme Court, slashes DACA anyway

        Friends,   The Trump administration is rolling back protections for DACA recipients -- Supreme Court be damned.   According to NBC News, “A senior administration official said that despite the Supreme Court ruling, the White House still viewed …

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July 31, 2020 at 3:02 PM

Trump’s war on American cities

        Friends --    Donald Trump is ramping up his war on peaceful protesters.   For weeks, we’ve seen the horrors coming out of Portland -- federal agents wearing camouflage and tactical gear as they snatch protesters into unmarked vans and drive of…

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July 30, 2020 at 9:02 PM

Dr. Hiral Tipirneni’s crucial candidacy

        Hi there,   There’s never been a more crucial time to have medical experts in Congress.   We’ve seen what happens when they’re sidelined -- it’s a disaster. Rep. Louie Gohmert berated his own staff for wearing masks -- and then after he tested po…

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July 30, 2020 at 6:04 PM

Shockingly, white men still hold 71% of the Senate

        Hello there,   Our Congress now has more women and more diverse members than ever before.   We’ve already seen how a more representative government better reflects the voices of everyday Americans. Representatives like Pramila Jayapal and Alexan…

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July 30, 2020 at 1:30 PM

Can you imagine being in a detention center right now?

        Hello there,   In the middle of a global pandemic, there’s no worse place to be than a detention center.   ICE had forced immigrant detainees into cramped, crowded, dirty, and dangerous conditions well before COVID-19. According to the ACLU, “the…

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July 29, 2020 at 3:01 PM

The GOP attacks an American institution

        Hello there,    USPS saves lives. But the GOP is doing their best to destroy it.   Trump replaced a qualified postmaster general with one of his favorite loyalists and top donors -- a man with no Postal Service experience whatsoever.    Then,…

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July 28, 2020 at 3:01 PM

Donald Trump, “the least racist person there is”

        Friends,    Donald Trump has called Mexicans criminals, drug mules, and rapists.    He called white supremacists “very fine people.” He referred to Haiti and a group of African nations as “sh*thole countries.”   But if you ask him directly, Trum…

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July 27, 2020 at 9:05 PM

The millions of Democrats who could sit out the 2020 election

        Friends,   Last election, 25.5% of voters supported Donald Trump. 25.6% supported Hillary Clinton.   And 46.9% of voters didn’t vote at all. That historic amount of apathy handed Donald Trump the White House.    Trump is currently trailing in…

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July 27, 2020 at 3:01 PM

State Democrats endorse Duckworth for VP

        Friends,   The Illinois Democratic Party has officially endorsed Senator Tammy Duckworth for Vice President of the United States of America.    It’s no surprise the state party is calling for their junior senator -- only the second AAPI to ever …

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July 26, 2020 at 9:01 PM

Trump thinks Confederate lives matter

        Friends,   Donald Trump wants us all to agree that Confederate lives matter.   During an interview with Fox News, the president defended the racist symbol that is the Confederate flag, saying, “When people proudly have their Confederate flags, th…

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July 26, 2020 at 3:01 PM

22 states sue to stop DeVos’s attack on students

        Friends,   Half the country is suing to stop Betsy DeVos’s war on students.   The Attorneys General of 22 states (and the District of Columbia) have united to push back against DeVos’s new rule to block loan forgiveness for students who were the …

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July 25, 2020 at 9:01 PM

Millions of Democrats saying they’ll sit out the 2020 election

        Friends,   Last election, 25.5% of voters supported Donald Trump. 25.6% supported Hillary Clinton.   And 46.9% of voters didn’t vote at all. That historic amount of apathy handed Donald Trump the White House.    Trump is currently trailing in…

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July 25, 2020 at 3:01 PM

Democrats act to protect communities of color

        Friends,   If Democrats get their way, Americans of color could finally get the help they need.   POLITICO reports that Senate Democrats, led by Chuck Schumer, have proposed a $350 billion relief effort that would provide child care, job train…

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July 24, 2020 at 9:01 PM

Rachel Maddow gets Susan Rice’s answer on VP rumors

        Friends,   Susan Rice was America’s first black UN ambassador, Barack Obama’s national security advisor, and is now -- potentially -- America’s next vice president.   When Rachel Maddow asked Rice about her take on VP speculation, Rice said she…

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July 24, 2020 at 3:02 PM

The highly decorated VP candidate who has burst onto the scene

          Friends,   “You had all the other names there, and it was as if she didn’t exist...suddenly people began to look at her -- this highly decorated woman, member of Congress, senator.”   That’s former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry …

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July 23, 2020 at 9:01 PM

Treasury Secretary Elizabeth Warren?

        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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July 23, 2020 at 3:01 PM

Help us Make America Sane Again

        Friends,   Ted Lieu, we couldn’t agree more.   Source: Twitter   Press Secretary McEnany’s statement was completely insane -- and so is the idea of putting millions of teachers and families in harm’s way just because Trump wants us to pret…

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July 23, 2020 at 12:02 AM

GOP Governor Kemp bans local governments from mandating masks

        Friends,   With Coronavirus hitting record highs nearly every day and Trump and the GOP failing to govern, here’s the latest from GOP Georgia Governor Brian Kemp:   NBC News reports that “The governor of Georgia has thrown a wrench into the dr…

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July 22, 2020 at 9:01 PM

USPS saves lives. The GOP wants to kill it.

        Hello there,   The United States Postal Services is saving lives, from delivering medications to social security checks.    But the Republican Party is ready to let USPS go bankrupt.   First, Donald Trump put a top donor with no Postal Service…

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July 22, 2020 at 6:34 PM

With your help, we can realize John Lewis’s dream

        Friends,   Congressman John Lewis was an American hero. And in the wake of his death, we should all be fighting even harder to further the causes he championed.   Unfortunately Mitch McConnell has offered empty gestures -- calling Lewis “great” w…

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July 21, 2020 at 9:02 PM

Is Trump starting to change his ways?

        Friends,   It seems impossible, we know -- but Donald Trump’s latest statement has us thinking it’s possible that he’s starting to change his ways.   The President previously said that face masks weren’t his ‘style’ -- telling reporters, “Someho…

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July 21, 2020 at 3:01 PM

We can’t wait for what RBG will do next

        Friends,   Where would we be without Ruth Bader Ginsburg?   She’s been an iconoclast since the very start. And she’s proven that, in a government full of old white men, strong women leaders can pave the way for a brighter future.   That’s exac…

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July 20, 2020 at 9:00 PM

White Americans are waking up

        Friends,   It looks like white Americans are starting to realize how widespread racial discrimination really is -- at least if the state of California is any guide.   According to survey data published in the LA Times, “White Californians are…

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July 20, 2020 at 3:01 PM

Warren & Pressley demand Trump administration follow the law

        Friends,   Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services is in violation of the law.   According to POLITICO, “Under the terms of the Affordable Care Act, HHS is required to submit a report to Congress detailing its efforts to allevi…

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July 19, 2020 at 9:01 PM

Senator Kamala Harris speaks truth to power

        Friends,   Leave it to a prosecutor to call out wrongdoing. Source: Twitter   It’s no surprise that Senator Harris, who has led the charge for police reform in Congress, is now taking on the systemic racism deep within our justice system --…

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July 19, 2020 at 3:01 PM

32% of households couldn’t make July rent

        Friends,   One week into July, 32% of American households hadn’t yet paid their rent.   It marked the fourth consecutive month of record-setting rent defaults. Of course, we can hardly blame American renters -- the government has completely fa…

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July 18, 2020 at 9:01 PM

History proves Obama right and Trump wrong

        Friends,   Anti-racist activists have won another battle.   Washington D.C.’s NFL team has announced they’ll be dropping their racist name and logo after public outcry made waves across social media and across the country.   And to think tha…

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July 18, 2020 at 3:01 PM

Mitch McConnell wants credit just for considering relief measures

        Friends,   Do you think Mitch McConnell is enjoying his two week vacation?   The Senate hasn’t yet returned from their July recess -- although it didn’t seem like they were working all that hard before the break either.   But McConnell has now …

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July 17, 2020 at 9:01 PM

How racist voting laws could give Trump the election

        Friends,   A new study proves that strict voter ID laws suppress votes from Americans of color -- and could swing the election toward Donald Trump.   The study, published by the Western Political Science Association, finds that people of color …

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July 17, 2020 at 6:07 PM

The highly decorated senator who has burst onto the VP scene

          Friends,   “You had all the other names there, and it was as if she didn’t exist...suddenly people began to look at her -- this highly decorated woman, member of Congress, senator.”   That’s former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry …

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July 17, 2020 at 3:01 PM

The effects of Trump’s xenophobia

        Friends,   According to Pew Research Center, 31% of Asian Americans have been subjected to racist slurs or jokes since the start of the pandemic.   26% say they’ve feared physical attack.   Donald Trump’s xenophobia has forced wide swaths of …

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July 16, 2020 at 9:03 PM

Trump moves to ban refugees during historic crisis

        Friends,   Donald Trump is using the ongoing pandemic as an excuse to restrict immigration even further.    According to CNN, a newly-proposed rule by the Trump administration “would make it more difficult for migrants to seek refuge in the Un…

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July 16, 2020 at 6:02 PM

Facebook won’t stop defending Trump -- so advertisers boycott

        Friends,   If Facebook wants anything to do with Trump’s glorification of violence, then we don’t want anything to do with Facebook.   That’s the message that almost 100 backers -- including civil rights groups like the NAACP and the Anti-Defa…

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July 16, 2020 at 3:01 PM

Trump speaks out against Black Lives Matter

        Friends,   In the middle of a national reckoning on systemic racial injustice, Trump has made his views on Black Lives Matter clear -- according to the president, it’s a “symbol of hate.”   Donald Trump’s campaign has run Facebook ads that fea…

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July 15, 2020 at 9:01 PM

Treasury Secretary Warren?

        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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