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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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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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