Robert Cruickshank, Demand Progress · [email protected]

March 13, 2021 at 4:07 PM

Sign the petition about the filibuster (please read)

Hi, The American people can't wait any longer for change and relief from this pandemic and the economic crisis. But Republican Senators continue to vow to use the filibuster to frustrate Joe Biden's plans.  And some conservative Senate Democrats are trying to preserve the filibuster…

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  Stop Jeff Bezos · [email protected]

March 11, 2021 at 10:04 PM

Sign and send this petition to stop Amazon from crushing a union

Hi, This is a BFD: President Biden just spoke out in support of a unionizing drive at Amazon's Bessemer warehouse in Alabama, where over 6,000 workers are about to vote whether to form Amazon's first unionized warehouse in the US.1 This could pave the way for more worker organizing …

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  Stop the Filibuster · [email protected]

March 10, 2021 at 9:17 PM

Forget Mitch McConnell. Pass H.R. 1

Republicans bring the war on voting rights to the Senate. Dear Friend, The House of Representatives just passed the For the People Act (H.R. 1), a landmark voting-rights bill to combat the more than 250 voter suppression bills that have swept state legislatures since the 2020 electio…

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  Save the USPS · [email protected]

February 24, 2021 at 11:00 PM

Congress grills Trump appointee

Joe Biden must act now to fix the USPS. Dear Friend, Today, Congress is grilling Trump Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, demanding answers about how he has crippled the U.S. Postal Service, leading to record-slow mail service.1 When asked today how much longer he plans to stay in the j…

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  Stop the Filibuster · [email protected]

February 19, 2021 at 1:12 AM

The Senate Dems are protecting Jim Crow.

The filibuster is protecting Jim Crow in the legislature. Dear Friend, Right now, the Senate has in its hands a critical bill that could finally correct the Supreme Court’s 2013 gutting of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which allowed the suppression of Black and brown votes across the c…

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  Robert Cruickshank, Demand Progress · [email protected]

February 15, 2021 at 3:10 PM

Sign the petition and save the postal service

Hi, Donald Trump is out of office -- but Louis DeJoy is still running the postal service. And as we saw during the recent holiday season, Trump and DeJoy's actions have created lasting damage to the post office. Right now Joe Biden has an important opportunity to save the US Postal …

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  Convict Trump Now · [email protected]

February 14, 2021 at 8:20 PM

Betrayal. Full stop.

These Senate Republicans let us down. Dear Friend, On Saturday, House managers for Donald Trump's impeachment trial tried to introduce witnesses based on revelations late last week that members of Congress heard Trump side with the rioters at the Capitol Building. In retaliation, Sen…

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  Democracy Defense Team · [email protected]

February 11, 2021 at 5:44 PM

Sign the Petition: Convict Trump

Hi, The videos make it clear: the Senate must convict Trump. On Wednesday, House impeachment managers opened their case with a stunning, shocking video that showed how Trump helped encourage the right-wing mob that stormed the Capitol.1 Yesterday they showed never-before-seen vide…

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  Stop Trumpism · [email protected]

February 8, 2021 at 4:27 PM

Biden must fire these Trump appointees

It’s critical that the people responsible for furthering Trump’s agenda are weeded out. Dear Friend, It’s been 18 days since Donald Trump was booted out of office and sent back to Mar-a-Lago. But Trump appointees are still filling key positions all over the federal government, and t…

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  Stop Trumpism · [email protected]

February 6, 2021 at 5:43 PM

How does Louis DeJoy still have a job?

It’s critical that the people responsible for furthering Trump’s agenda are weeded out. Dear Friend, Six weeks past Christmas, the post office is still a mess. Donald Trump may be gone, but his terrible postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, is still at work, keeping the postal service dro…

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  Robert Cruickshank, Demand Progress · [email protected]

February 5, 2021 at 10:34 PM

Sign the petition: Tell Congress to pass a new voting rights law!

Hi, The last four years have made it clear we need to fix our democracy by expanding voting rights, getting big money out of politics, and taking on corruption. Congress has a plan for that. It's called HR 1, the "For the People Act," and it would be the most sweeping voting rights …

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  Stop McConnell NOW · [email protected]

January 30, 2021 at 5:05 PM

The entire Biden agenda could be dead in a week

The Democratic-controlled Senate needs to end the ability of Republicans to strangle Biden’s agenda before it’s even begun. Dear Friend, On Inauguration Day last week, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock were sworn in, giving Democrats the majority in the U.S. Senate. But Mitch McConnell…

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  Net Neutrality Alert · [email protected]

January 28, 2021 at 8:03 PM

Huge news for net neutrality

We’re one giant step closer to net neutrality! Dear Friend, Former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai just stepped down after four awful years at the helm of the Federal Communications Commission, which began when Trump installed him as chair. This is potentially huge news for net neutrality an…

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  Stop McConnell · [email protected]

January 27, 2021 at 5:05 PM

Sign the petition: Filibuster

Hi, Joe Biden hasn't even been president for a week, and Republican Senators already are working hard to undermine his ability to deliver for the American people. Sen. Mitch McConnell is desperate to preserve the legislative filibuster and has blocked the Senate from getting to work…

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  Stop McConnell NOW · [email protected]

January 22, 2021 at 12:33 AM

Hawley and McConnell are blocking Biden

Republicans can still stop legislation from moving in the Senate. Dear Friend, Joe Biden has only been president for 24 hours, and Senators Josh Hawley and Mitch McConnell are already throwing roadblocks in the way of his progress. McConnell is refusing to give Democrats their commit…

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  Trump Impeachment Team · [email protected]

January 15, 2021 at 4:38 PM

This is huge: Mitch McConnell backs impeachment

The NY Times reports that Mitch McConnell is privately supporting Trump’s impeachment. Dear Friend, The Republican wall of support for Donald Trump is finally starting to crumble, and we could have a real chance to remove him before the end of his term. Yesterday, 10 House Republica…

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  Robert Cruickshank, Demandprogress.org · [email protected]

January 12, 2021 at 7:06 PM

The Capitol Police need to answer for its actions

Congress was in danger. Dear Friend, The Capitol Police need to answer for what happened last Wednesday. Despite promises to members of Congress, the Capitol Police were completely unprepared for the mob of right-wing insurrectionists who overran the Capitol building. An even worse …

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  David Segal, DemandProgress.org · [email protected]

January 12, 2021 at 12:35 AM

The anniversary of Aaron's passing

Hi, Today we mark the 8th anniversary of the tragic passing of my cofounder at Demand Progress, the activist and technologist Aaron Swartz.  Aaron took his own life, at the age of 26, while being threatened with decades in prison, accused of having violated the antiquated Computer …

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  Demand Progress Impeachment Team · [email protected]

January 11, 2021 at 1:47 AM

Sign and send the petition: Impeachment

Hi, "We came close to half the House nearly dying on Wednesday," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said about the insurrection at the Capitol.1  But Democratic leaders are considering delaying Trump's impeachment proceedings, for days or even months. We cannot let that happen. Sign the …

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  Robert Cruickshank, Demand Progress · [email protected]

January 7, 2021 at 1:01 AM

Sign the petition: Congress has to impeach Trump right now

Hi, A right-wing mob stormed Congress today in an attempt to stop the electoral vote count -- minutes after Donald Trump spoke at their rally.  It took hours for Trump to speak out about this attack. When he finally did, he spent most of time talking about how he believes the electi…

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  Robert Cruickshank, Demandprogress.org · [email protected]

January 4, 2021 at 10:35 PM

He’s attempting a coup.

Trump has taken to threatening a state official to overturn the election. Dear Friend, Donald Trump pressured the Georgia secretary of state to overturn certified election results in a shocking phone call on Saturday.1 The media is minimizing it, but let’s call it what it is: an atte…

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  Robert Cruickshank, Demand Progress · [email protected]

January 3, 2021 at 11:56 PM

Sign the petition: Impeach Trump

Hi, Donald Trump was just caught on tape trying to overturn the result of the 2020 election. We cannot let him get away with it. Yesterday Trump called Georgia's Secretary of State and, according to an audio recording of the call obtained by the Washington Post, Trump asked him to f…

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  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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