11 Messages

  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
September 12, 2020 at 1:11 PM

A serious roadblock

Friends, imagine that we defeat Donald Trump in November’s election, but Democrats fail to win control of the Senate. This would create a serious roadblock to President Biden’s ambitious, reform-minded agenda. Given the opportunity, Mitch McConnell will stop Democratic legislation…
  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
August 21, 2020 at 1:07 PM

United and ready

Friends, The Convention made it clear: With Joe Biden and Kamala Harris at the top of a historic ticket, Democrats are united and ready to take on Donald Trump. From day one, President Biden and Vice President Harris will work to clean up the dreadful mess Trump has made. They wi…
  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
June 30, 2020 at 7:09 PM

Quick note (won't take long)

Friends, Our one and only chance to defeat Donald Trump and his minions is drawing closer. Yet, every day, dark money sloshes into races across the country to smear candidates who have the courage to take on big polluters and corrupt special interests. This is no time to sit on the…
  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
June 23, 2020 at 9:41 PM

Spines of Foam

Friends, Donald Trump continues to lower the integrity bar. His latest outrage is firing the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. The whole affair reeks, and, as usual, it’s the handiwork of AG William Barr, Trump’s trusty sidekick in abuse of power. Once upon a time…
  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
March 7, 2020 at 2:08 PM

Let's help Senator Tina Smith win in Minnesota

Friends – If Democrats are going to defeat President Trump’s extremist agenda in 2020 and stop Mitch McConnell and Trump from filling another Supreme Court seat, we must protect every Democratic seat. The stakes are high, and our path to a Democratic Senate majority depends on winni…
  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
November 1, 2019 at 2:52 PM

Shining a light on this masquerade

Special interests and extremist billionaires are holding our democracy hostage, friends. A prime example of this is the right-wing effort to turn the Supreme Court into the judicial arm of Republican donor interests. Since the shady extremists can’t muster enough popular support to p…
  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
August 29, 2019 at 1:07 PM

Beyond doubt

Friends, It’s beyond doubt: foreign nations continue to attack American elections. Republicans know this, but won’t do anything about it. Closing loopholes that allow secret foreign influence might interfere with the dark money that supports their extremist agenda. Think about that …
  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
August 24, 2019 at 1:08 PM

Can't let the special interests win another round

July 2019 was the hottest month in recorded history, friends. There is no question whatsoever that the reckless burning of carbon is driving up temperatures, but the fossil fuel lobby continues to spend tens of millions of dollars to prop up an extremist ideology that has brought us t…
  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
July 19, 2019 at 2:08 PM

A giant red warning sign for the climate crisis

Friends – A new study of Arctic permafrost reports that permafrost is melting at levels previously not expected until 2090 – that’s 70 years ahead of schedule. This is a giant red warning sign for the climate crisis. This study comes only months after scientists saw temperatures rea…
  Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
July 2, 2019 at 10:07 PM

The biggest climate villains in Washington

Friends, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has a death grip on Congress. Despite Americans’ increasing awareness of the existential threat of climate change and the billions of dollars it will cost our economy, the “Chamber of Carbon” continues to promote junk science to prevent climate a…
  Senator Sheldon Whitehouse · [email protected]
June 29, 2019 at 12:27 PM

Welcome to the team

Friends, 2018 was the fourth-hottest year on record, topped only by 2015, 2016, and 2017. Catastrophic fires and hurricanes struck the U.S. over and over again, yet the president’s response to this ongoing disaster has been to tweet inanities about the weather. This is not a new tri…