Robert Cruickshank, Demand Progress · [email protected]

December 23, 2020 at 11:19 PM

$2000 stimulus checks

Hi, We have a golden opportunity to deliver a $2000 stimulus check to American households -- more than $600, which is woefully insufficient -- but we need your help right now to make it happen. Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she wants the House to pass $2000 checks.1 Even Donald Trump wa…

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  Stop Louis DeJoy · [email protected]

December 19, 2020 at 10:57 PM

No Christmas for USPS employees

Many of Trump’s political appointees could jam up the Biden administration. Dear Friend, Joe Biden is filling out his cabinet—but some of Trump’s worst appointees, like Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, may stick around unless Biden fires them. And there’s plenty of reason to fire the…

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  Robert Cruickshank, Demandprogress.org · [email protected]

December 17, 2020 at 10:38 PM

Sign the petition: No corporate inauguration

Hi, President-Elect Biden's inauguration is just over a month away. And while Biden's inaugural committee has rightly rejected money from fossil fuel corporations, they're still planning to accept donations up to $1 million from individual corporations -- even though Barack Obama r…

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  Demand Progress COVID Alert · [email protected]

December 16, 2020 at 11:09 PM

McConnell is holding on to your stimulus check

We have until Friday to overpower Mitch McConnell. Dear Friend, Time is running out for Congress to rush emergency aid to workers and small businesses. The House and the Senate have a deadline of Friday at midnight to pass a government funding bill, and they are trying to attach a CO…

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  Tihi Hayslett, DemandProgress.org · [email protected]

December 16, 2020 at 8:05 PM

Sign the petition: No Amazon Ring recommendations!

Hi, Amazon Ring doorbell cameras are small enough to be a stocking stuffer, but connect to the largest private surveillance network that feeds data over to 1,600 police departments. And oh yeah, sometimes they just catch on fire.1 The true terrifying cost of Amazon Ring’s surveillan…

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  Demand Progress COVID Alert · [email protected]

December 12, 2020 at 1:03 PM

McConnell is about to let corporations get away with murder

Mitch McConnell is holding up a badly-needed stimulus bill. Dear Friend, Representative Katie Porter just blasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for siding with the worst of the worst in corporate malpractice. The superstar congresswoman tweeted yesterday that the one person …

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  David Segal, DemandProgress.org · [email protected]

December 6, 2020 at 7:45 PM

Sign the petition: Don’t let Trump torch the world on his way out of office!

Hi, Trump is hellbent on lighting the world on fire. Here in the US, he’s touting unfounding claims that undermine our very democracy. But in the Middle East, Trump wants more US-made bombs to drop in and around an already bombed-out Yemen. Trump wants to sell $23 billion worth of j…

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  Social Security Defense Team · [email protected]

December 4, 2020 at 3:36 PM

Sign and send this petition about Social Security

Hi, Donald Trump is determined to destroy as much as he can before he leaves office -- including Social Security. With just weeks remaining in the Trump administration, he's pushing through last-minute changes will make it harder to apply for Social Security benefits, and harder to…

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  Save Net Neutrality · [email protected]

November 29, 2020 at 4:23 PM

Comcast is capping your data

Biden must choose an FCC that reinstates net neutrality. Dear Friend, Comcast just announced a data cap for all of its broadband internet customers—unless they fork over another $30 a month.1 The ISP giant is taking advantage of the millions of people who have begun to work from home…

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  Maria Langholz, Demand Progress · [email protected]

November 25, 2020 at 8:00 PM

Sign the petition: Don't let corporate insiders run Joe Biden's administration

Friend, For four years, Donald Trump has deployed the government to serve powerful corporations at the expense of everyday Americans. Now, despite Trump's asinine attempts to undermine the election, Joe Biden will become the 46th President of the United States on January 20th, 2021.…

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  Robert Cruickshank, Demandprogress.org · [email protected]

November 19, 2020 at 5:24 PM

Sign the petition: Congress can stop Trump from obstructing the transition

Hi, The Administrator of the General Services Agency, Emily Murphy, is risking public health by continuing to refuse to sign crucial paperwork that unlocks public funding, staff, and resources to allow the presidential transition to go smoothly and on time.1 Even Dr. Anthony Fauci i…

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  Robert Cruickshank, Demandprogress.org · [email protected]

November 19, 2020 at 12:43 AM

McConnell just got his wish

Biden’s first appointees are a big disappointment. Dear Friend, Joe Biden has made his first major appointments—and some of them are looking like K Street business as usual. His chief counselor will be Steve Ricchetti, a former Big Pharma lobbyist.1 Biden must pick a cabinet that is …

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  Democracy Defense Team · [email protected]

November 10, 2020 at 7:31 PM

Sign the petition: Trump is obstructing the transition

Hi, Joe Biden is going to be the next President of the United States, and he has already begun the essential work of planning the transition of power. But Donald Trump's administration is already trying to undermine the transition. The Administrator of the General Services Administr…

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  Protect Our Elections · [email protected]

November 5, 2020 at 9:13 PM

Count. Every. Ballot.

Trump is mobilizing his supporters to stop votes from being counted. Dear Friend, Donald Trump is literally trying to "stop the count," because he is behind in electoral votes and trailing Joe Biden by 3.5 million votes nationally.1 Trump has not only deployed a legal team to Pennsy…

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  Election Protection Team · [email protected]

November 5, 2020 at 12:32 AM

Sign the petition: Don't let Trump steal the election

Hi, Last night's election isn't over yet. Several crucial states remain too close to call, with millions of ballots left to count -- and Donald Trump wants to stop them from being counted. We need to make it extremely clear to elected officials in these states that they must count e…

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  Protect Our Elections · [email protected]

October 29, 2020 at 6:59 PM

Trump is already suing to stop ballot counts

Trump has already said he “can’t go along with” an election decided by mail-in ballots. Dear Friend, In the cover of darkness Monday night, Trump had his third Supreme Court justice, Amy Coney Barrett, sworn in. And the Supreme Court is signaling it might hand next week’s election to…

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  COVID-19 ALERT via Demand Progress · [email protected]

October 28, 2020 at 6:37 PM

Trump Chief of Staff: “We’re not going to control the pandemic”

Trump had decided to give up on COVID. Dear Friend, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows just said that the administration is “not going to control the pandemic.”1 According to Donald Trump’s right-hand man, the government is just giving up on doing what every other developed cou…

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  Robert Cruickshank, Demandprogress.org · [email protected]

October 26, 2020 at 7:04 PM

Sign the petition: The Trump Administration is bailing out the fossil fuel industry

Hi, While the Trump administration expects ordinary Americans to weather this crisis with a single $1,200 check, it has bailed out fossil fuel companies through the Federal Reserve program to buy corporate debt. Congress must not allow the Federal Reserve to bail out the companies …

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  Save the Supreme Court · [email protected]

October 24, 2020 at 6:19 PM

This is it. Just days left. All hands on deck.

The Senate Judiciary Committee just pushed Trump’s SCOTUS nominee to the floor. Friend—I wanted to make sure you saw this email. We have just days until the final vote on Trump's Supreme Court nominee. We're doing one final push to the Senate to demand that representatives do everyth…

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  Save the Supreme Court · [email protected]

October 22, 2020 at 6:00 PM

This is it. All hands on deck.

The Senate Judiciary Committee just pushed Trump’s SCOTUS nominee to the floor. Dear Friend, BREAKING: Senator Lindsey Graham just pushed Amy Coney Barrett's nomination through by a vote without a single Democrat in attendance. Graham held the vote even though it broke his own commit…

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  Robert Cruickshank, Demandprogress.org · [email protected]

October 20, 2020 at 7:50 PM

Sign the petition: Impeach Trump's Attorney General

Hi, It's time to impeach Attorney General Bill Barr -- and there's not a moment to lose. Barr has made a career out of undermining our democracy. Now he is ramping up efforts to help Donald Trump undermine the upcoming elections and invalidate the votes of millions of Americans. Th…

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  Tihi Hayslett, DemandProgress.org · [email protected]

October 17, 2020 at 3:25 PM

Sign the petition: End forced sterilization in ICE detention camps!

Hi, As the nation's attention is understandably focused on Trump having the coronavirus and on the Supreme Court, we must continue to remember and stop the violence being done to immigrant women. Last week members of Congress heard directly from immigrant women that ICE has been per…

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  Stop Amy Coney Barrett · [email protected]

October 13, 2020 at 9:55 PM

“This is not normal”

Senators are still acting like the Supreme Court hearings are legitimate. Dear Friend, This morning Senator Dianne Feinstein warmly greeted Donald Trump's extremist nominee for the Supreme Court—ignoring the majority of the American people who want this confirmation process to wait u…

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  Supreme Court Defense Team · [email protected]

October 12, 2020 at 2:04 PM

Sign the petition: Stop the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation

Hi, The confirmation hearings for Donald Trump's far-right nominee to take Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat on the Supreme Court are starting today -- but they shouldn't be happening at all. The public does not support this illegitimate confirmation process, and wants to wait until the ne…

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  Stop Amy Coney Barrett · [email protected]

October 8, 2020 at 7:15 PM

Our real shot at stopping Trump's Supreme Court pick

Mitch McConnell is ramming through Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation despite a COVID-19 outbreak in the Senate. Friend—We have just a few days left before hearings begin on Trump's SCOTUS nominee. McConnell is barreling ahead, but the American people don't want this confirmation to co…

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  Tihi Hayslett, DemandProgress.org · [email protected]

October 7, 2020 at 6:18 PM

Sign the petition: Don’t install Trump’s goon in Homeland Security!

Hi, Trump isn’t just trying to ram another Supreme Court Justice nomination through the Senate. He also wants the Senate to make acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf permanent. If that name sounds familiar, it’s because he’s the guy who sent unmarked federal agents into Portland a few mon…

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  Stop Amy Coney Barrett · [email protected]

October 6, 2020 at 9:24 PM

We suddenly have a real shot at stopping Trump's Supreme Court pick

Mitch McConnell is ramming through Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation despite a COVID-19 outbreak in the Senate. Dear Friend, Despite polls showing that a clear majority of the American people don't want a new Supreme Court justice confirmed before a new president is inaugurated, Mitch…

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  Protect Our Election · [email protected]

September 30, 2020 at 8:41 PM

Trump: “There won’t be a transfer” of power

We’re taking Trump’s comments about the election literally and seriously. Dear Friend, In last night's debate, Donald Trump said outright that he "can't go along with" an election decided with mail-in ballots.1 This is after Trump called for all mail-in ballots to be discarded—and sa…

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  Supreme Court Defense Team · [email protected]

September 28, 2020 at 9:02 PM

Sign the petition -- Amy Coney Barrett

Tell Senators to shut down the Senate and save the Supreme Court Hi, momentum is building across America to stop Trump's extremist pick to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. New polls show a majority of Americans want the vacancy filled only after a new president is in…

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  Supreme Court Defense Team · [email protected]

September 27, 2020 at 12:37 AM

Sign the petition: Amy Coney Barrett

Tell Senators to shut down the Senate and save the Supreme Court Hi, Donald Trump has nominated a new Supreme Court justice -- and she's every bit as extreme as you'd expect. Mitch McConnell has vowed to speed through the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett not just because of her long…

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  Supreme Court Defense Team · [email protected]

September 23, 2020 at 11:58 PM

Sign the petition -- RBG

Shut down the Senate and stop Trump and McConnell from picking RBG's successor! Hi, Donald Trump has made it clear he plans to nominate a right-wing extremist to the Supreme Court, and Mitch McConnell has vowed to speed them to confirmation. The best chance we have to stop this is fo…

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  Robert Cruickshank, Demandprogress.org · [email protected]

September 22, 2020 at 7:59 PM

BREAKING: Mitt Romney sides with Trump

Help stop Trump’s nominee from reaching a floor vote. Dear Friend, Senator Mitt Romney just announced that he will go along with a Senate confirmation vote on Donald Trump's nominee to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg.1 Trump is announcing his nominee on Saturday, and now he has the votes…

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  Robert Cruickshank, Demandprogress.org · [email protected]

September 20, 2020 at 11:05 PM

RBG’s dying wish

McConnell didn’t even wait two hours to announce he’d be pushing through Trump’s replacement. Dear Friend, Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dying wish was that her replacement not be confirmed until a new president has been installed.1 But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has announced he…

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  Zephyr Teachout · [email protected]

September 19, 2020 at 8:39 PM

Sign the petition -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Shut down the Senate and stop Trump and McConnell from picking RBG's successor! Hi, I, like many of you, am swinging between grief, anger, and determination in the wake of RBG's passing and McConnell's unconscionable announcement that Republicans would rush to replace her. Too many n…

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  David Segal, DemandProgress.org · [email protected]

September 19, 2020 at 4:32 AM

Sign the petition: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Shut down the Senate and stop Trump and McConnell from picking RBG's successor! Hi, The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday evening comes as a shock and a tragedy. We honor her forty years of pathbreaking service on the federal bench, including 27 years on th…

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  Stop Jeff Bezos · [email protected]

September 17, 2020 at 2:27 PM

Amazon called the cops on the Squad

Amazon is actively fighting any efforts to improve working conditions. Dear Friend, Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Debbie Dingell were visiting an Amazon warehouse in Michigan to see evidence of poor working conditions and investigate constituent companies about lack of coronavirus…

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  Julia Rock, Demand Progress · [email protected]

September 7, 2020 at 3:45 PM

Sign the petition: Investigate the Trump administration for Hatch Act Violations

Hi, Donald Trump and his administration are systematically violating federal laws governing political activities -- and it’s time for Congress to stop them. When Trump spoke at the Republican convention from the South Lawn of the White House, that was a violation of federal laws pre…

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  Tihi Hayslett, DemandProgress.org · [email protected]

August 30, 2020 at 6:41 PM

Sign the petition: Don’t let Blackstone buy your DNA!

Hi, Blackstone, a private equity firm with deep ties to Trump wants to buyout Ancestry, and your DNA data along with it. Even if you’ve never taken a genealogy DNA test, if your relatives have, then your DNA data would still wind up in Blackstone’s pockets. Millions of Americans hav…

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  Social Security Defense Team · [email protected]

August 28, 2020 at 4:46 PM

Sign the petition and stop Trump from stealing your retirement

Hi, Donald Trump is putting Social Security at dire risk of collapse. A new analysis shows that his vow to slash the payroll tax in a second term would bankrupt Social Security by 2023.1 Trump already took the first step earlier this month with an executive order that would delay pa…

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  Save the Post Office · [email protected]

August 20, 2020 at 12:23 AM

DeJoy's fake-out on the US Postal Service

We can’t let the Senate give Trump’s postmaster general a pass. Dear Friend, On Friday, Donald Trump’s mega-donor postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, will testify in front of the Senate.1 The outrage over Trump's purposeful mail slowdown has caused Congress to finally take action—the Ho…

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  Robert Cruickshank, Demandprogress.org · [email protected]

August 18, 2020 at 8:06 PM

Sign the petition and tell Congress to save the postal service!

friend -- Thanks in part to your activism, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy just announced he's "suspending" further removal of postal equipment -- but that's not good enough. He also needs to restore what he already removed, otherwise he and Trump will have gotten away with undermini…

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  Save the Post Office · [email protected]

August 16, 2020 at 4:31 PM

RED ALERT: 23 executives fired from the postal service

Trump told Fox News he's stopping the mail on purpose. Friend—News of Trump's attempt to stop vote by mail by killing the U.S. Postal Service is blowing up. Demand Progress members have sent 250,000 emails to Congress so far, and now we are ramping up our campaign. Will you donate to…

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  Robert Cruickshank, Demandprogress.org · [email protected]

August 15, 2020 at 7:34 PM

Sign the petition and save the postal service!

Dear friend, By now I'm sure you've seen the horrific news: Donald Trump is destroying the post office in order to undermine the November election. He even admitted it this week.1 Across America we're seeing Trump's goons taking away mailboxes, destroying sorting equipment, and caus…

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  Save the Post Office · [email protected]

August 14, 2020 at 2:11 PM

23 executives fired from the postal service

Trump told Fox News he's stopping the mail on purpose. Dear Friend, Donald Trump just went on Fox News and admitted that he is purposely blocking funding for the post office to prevent universal mail-in voting.1 Trump's bombshell confession comes on the heels of his administration's …

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  Social Security Defense Team · [email protected]

August 13, 2020 at 5:52 PM

Sign the petition: Stop Trump from stealing your retirement

Hi, President Trump signed an executive order last weekend that could be the first step towards ending Social Security as we know it, threatening to cut the benefits of 65 million Americans.1 After signing the order, Trump promised that if he is reelected, he will slash Social Secur…

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  Save the Post Office · [email protected]

August 10, 2020 at 7:35 PM

The mail's been delivered for 245 years. Trump is killing it.

Paychecks and prescription drugs are stuck at warehouses because of Trump’s postmaster general. Dear Friend, Donald Trump's campaign to destroy the post office is working. Since Trump's new Postmaster General instituted new cuts designed to slow the mail, deliveries are languishing a…

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  Save the Post Office · [email protected]

August 7, 2020 at 6:14 PM

The mail has been delivered for 245 years. Trump is killing it.

Paychecks and prescription drugs are stuck at warehouses because of Trump’s postmaster general. Dear Friend, Donald Trump's campaign to destroy the post office is working. Since Trump's new Postmaster General instituted new cuts designed to slow the mail, deliveries are languishing a…

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  Team Demand Progress · [email protected]

July 31, 2020 at 9:51 PM

Sign the petition: Investigate Facebook

This week, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg was among four tech CEOs to testify before Congress. The historic testimony helped make clear that tech monopolies have achieved dominance by conducting dangerous surveillance, gobbling up startups to kill off competition, and directly threateni…

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  Stop Trump's Secret Police · [email protected]

July 28, 2020 at 7:16 PM

BREAKING: Trump sending more secret police to Portland

Secret police are snatching protestors off the streets of Portland. Dear Friend, The Washington Post is reporting that the Trump administration is sending an additional 100 secret police agents to Portland.1 Trump's secret police have been caught snatching peaceful demonstrators off…

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  David Segal, DemandProgress.org · [email protected]

July 25, 2020 at 10:56 PM

Sign the petition: Trump is sending secret police to NEW cities!

Hi -- It’s not just Portland anymore! Trump has announced sending federal agents to several more US cities, including Chicago, Albuquerque and more. Over 40,000 Demand Progress members have already emailed Congress demanding an end to this. Now, it’s your turn. Sign the petition: Tell Cong…

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