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  Rep. Jamie Raskin via BoldProgressives.org · [email protected]
July 23, 2022 at 12:32 PM

Politics in the Moral Center

This is Rep. Jamie Raskin. The most important political epiphany I ever had was on the day I announced my first campaign for public office, when I was running for the Maryland State Senate many years ago. I made a speech setting forth everything I wanted to accomplish: abolish the death penalty…
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
July 22, 2022 at 8:57 PM

Jan 6: Trump KNEW, and he did nothing.

“President Trump didn’t fail to act. He chose not to act… Within minutes of stepping off the Ellipse stage, Trump knew about the violent attack on the Capitol. From the comfort of his dining room, he watched [Fox] on TV as the attack escalated.” Last night’s primetime January 6 hearing confirmed…
  Bernie Sanders via BoldProgressives.org · [email protected]
July 20, 2022 at 4:10 PM

Mandela Barnes

Right now he is up against some very wealthy opponents who are spending millions of dollars of their own money to self-fund their campaigns. John, I am writing to ask you to make a contribution to Mandela Barnes' campaign for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin. Please give me a chance to explain why your…
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
July 19, 2022 at 11:18 PM

Maddow breaks news about Merrick Garland "ELECTION YEAR SENSITIVITIES"

Last night, MSNBC broke alarming news that Attorney General Merrick Garland has re-upped a Trump-era policy from then-AG William Barr stating, as Rachel Maddow explained, "Nobody is allowed to investigate anybody connected to a presidential candidate without his permission, personally, as Attor…
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
July 18, 2022 at 11:28 PM

Snooki trolls Dr. Oz!

You've got to see this! Did you see Snooki's video for John Fetterman's U.S. Senate campaign in PA? Watch Snooki's video here. Then, chip in to John Fetterman's campaign. Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman spent all of $393 on an online ad where Jersey Shore's "Sno…
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
July 18, 2022 at 6:37 PM

Lucas Kunce and Mandela Barnes take fight to Manchin

New York Times OpEd: "It’s now clear that Mr. Manchin has wasted what little time this Congress had left to make real progress on the climate crisis." Politico: "Sanders says Manchin 'sabotaged the president's agenda'" The Hill: "Manchin’s decision provokes fury over potential for warmer world"…
  PCCC Elections · [email protected]
July 17, 2022 at 10:51 PM

Republicans have their elbow on the scale in Democratic primaries.

Republican billionaires are flooding Dem primaries with dark money and misinformation. We can’t let big money tear down bold progressives. This is scary. Republican megadonors are yet again flooding Democratic primaries with dark money and misinformation. In Maryland’s 4th dis…
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
July 16, 2022 at 3:38 PM

Make Joe Manchin's corruption EXTREMELY uncomfortable for him

Quite a few Dems in the House are willing to call out Joe Manchin. What if we had a Dem in the "collegial" Senate who was willing to take him on straight up? Donate to Lucas Kunce's U.S. Senate campaign in Missouri. Lucas is already holding Manchin accountable and he isn't even in those cozy li…
  Lucas Kunce via BoldProgressives.org · [email protected]
July 15, 2022 at 9:35 PM

Joe Manchin can’t seem to figure out how to invest in America

It's time to start nation building here at home. Lucas Kunce here. I'm running for U.S. Senate in Missouri. Here's one reason why: Joe Manchin found a way to justify spending trillions on pointless wars, defense contractors, and "nation building" overseas. But now, when it’s time …
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
July 15, 2022 at 5:18 PM

End Joe Manchin's reign of terror

NEW YORK TIMES:  "Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, who took more campaign cash from the oil and gas industry than any other senator, and who became a millionaire from his family coal business, independently blew up the Democratic Party’s legislative plans to fight climate change. "The …
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
July 15, 2022 at 1:27 PM

Watch Beto slam TX Gov. Abbott on MSNBC

Beto O'Rourke slams Texas Gov. Abbott's inaction on gun safety since Uvalde as video exposes police inaction and cover-ups. Watch here. Then, donate $3 to Beto's campaign to replace Republican gun-apologist Greg Abbott as Texas Governor. Thanks for being a bold progressive. -- The PCCC Team (@…
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
July 15, 2022 at 12:56 AM

Senate Republicans invent "abortion tourism" to justify new obstruction

BREAKING: Senate Republicans block bill to protect travel across state lines for abortion care. This morning, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto asked for unanimous consent to pass a bill saying women can travel safely across state lines -- people like the 10-year-old girl who was raped and recently f…
  Rep. Jamie Raskin via BoldProgressives.org · [email protected]
July 14, 2022 at 10:03 PM

Will you watch as Trump's Republicans DESTROY our House Majority?

This is Rep. Jamie Raskin. I'm asking you to make a choice: You can either "stand back and stand by" and watch as Trump's authoritarian Republicans DESTROY our House Majority and everything we're fighting for, or you can step up to PROTECT and EXPAND our narrow Democratic majority across Americ…
  Rep. Jamie Raskin via BoldProgressives.org · [email protected]
July 14, 2022 at 1:47 PM

Will you watch as Trump's Republicans DESTROY our House Majority?

This is Rep. Jamie Raskin. I'm asking you to make a choice: You can either "stand back and stand by" and watch as Trump's authoritarian Republicans DESTROY our House Majority and everything we're fighting for, or you can step up to PROTECT and EXPAND our narrow Democratic majority across Americ…
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
July 13, 2022 at 7:28 PM

Jamie Raskin's closing statement was pure fire. Watch here.

"Raskin's closing was pure fire." "If you haven't watched Jamie Raskin's closing statement yet - and I mean *all* of it – do yourself a favor and watch it now." "Jamie Raskin’s closing statement at the Jan 6 hearing is one of the most powerful speeches any member of Congress has given in recent…
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
July 13, 2022 at 12:55 AM

MSNBC: Today's Jan 6 hearing "most momentous yet."

Sign the petition to prosecute Trump At today's Jan 6 hearing, Congressman Jamie Raskin connected the dots proving that Trump coordinated with far-right extremist groups to incite the violent mob that attacked the Capitol. MSNBC described it as the most momentous hearing yet. By the time today's…
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
July 11, 2022 at 10:58 PM

200,000 say SCOTUS faces legitimacy crisis

PETITION: This Supreme Court is increasingly facing a legitimacy crisis. Nearly 200,000 people have signed the PCCC-led petition calling on Congress to reform this increasingly illegitimate Supreme Court following its atrocious rulings on abortion rights, guns, climate, gerrymandering, and more.…
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
July 10, 2022 at 6:53 PM

Hot mic captures right-wing lobbying to overturn Roe

A right-wing evangelical activist was caught on a hot mic outside SCOTUS bragging about praying with justices INSIDE the Supreme Court. Did you see this? In a bombshell story reported by Rolling Stone this week, a right-wing evangelical activist with Liberty Counsel was caught on…
  PCCC Surveys · [email protected]
July 10, 2022 at 2:37 PM

SURVEY: Are Democrats frustrated by party’s response to abortion ruling?

"Democrats frustrated by party’s response to abortion ruling," reports CNN. What about you? How are you feeling about the response of Democratic leadership to recent Supreme Court decisions and the existential crises we face on everything from guns to abortion to climate to voting rights? Pleas…
  PCCC Surveys · [email protected]
July 9, 2022 at 5:05 PM

SURVEY: “Dems wonder if Biden White House capable of urgency the moment demands" -- take our survey.

"After string of Supreme Court setbacks, Democrats wonder whether the Biden White House is capable of the urgency this moment demands," reports CNN. What about you? How are you feeling about the response of Democratic leadership to recent Supreme Court decisions and the existential crises we fa…
  The PCCC Team · [email protected]
July 8, 2022 at 11:17 PM

Bernie Sanders endorses Becca Balint for the seat he once held

Bernie is endorsing Becca precisely because she will stand up to Wall Street lobbyists funding her opponent. Becca Balint is a champion for working families who has united progressives Huge news: This week, Senator Bernie Sanders endorsed Becca Balint for Congress in the Vermont …
  PCCC Surveys · [email protected]
July 8, 2022 at 2:38 PM

SURVEY: “Dems wonder if Biden White House capable of urgency the moment demands" -- take our survey.

"After string of Supreme Court setbacks, Democrats wonder whether the Biden White House is capable of the urgency this moment demands," reports CNN. What about you? How are you feeling about the response of Democratic leadership to recent Supreme Court decisions and the existential crises we fa…
  PCCC Surveys · [email protected]
July 8, 2022 at 1:07 AM

SURVEY: “A growing number of Democrats are voicing anger" -- take our survey.

"A growing number of Democrats are voicing anger at what they see as the passivity of Biden and other party leaders in the face of hard-hitting GOP tactics on abortion and other issues," reports the Washington Post. What about you? How are you feeling about the response of Democratic leadership…
  PCCC Surveys · [email protected]
July 7, 2022 at 1:57 PM

SURVEY: “A growing number of Democrats are voicing anger" -- take our survey.

"A growing number of Democrats are voicing anger at what they see as the passivity of Biden and other party leaders in the face of hard-hitting GOP tactics on abortion and other issues," reports the Washington Post. What about you? How are you feeling about the response of Democratic leadership…
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
July 6, 2022 at 10:54 PM

SCOTUS just took up a case that could end democracy

PETITION: This Supreme Court is increasingly facing a legitimacy crisis. 6 Republicans on the Supreme Court just took up a case for next year that represents a ticking time-bomb under our democracy. This case could give Republican-controlled state legislatures the power to overrule voters in 202…
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
July 5, 2022 at 1:08 PM

The Supreme Court has declared war on governing. SIGN THE PETITION.

PETITION: This Supreme Court is increasingly facing a legitimacy crisis. "The US supreme court has declared war on the Earth’s future." - The Guardian said about the Republican justices gutting of the EPA's power to fight climate change. But what those justices did goes far beyond that even. As …
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
July 4, 2022 at 7:08 PM

Sick and tired of Dems who are stuck in the past?

You don't have to donate today. But if you do decide to donate, please consider donating to progressive candidates who are showing Party leadership what it looks like to REALLY FIGHT BACK. Chip in $1 each to a new generation of progressive candidates who are already fighting to end the filibust…
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
July 4, 2022 at 1:07 PM

SCOTUS just took up a case that could end democracy

PETITION: This Supreme Court is increasingly facing a legitimacy crisis. 6 Republicans on the Supreme Court just took up a case for next year that represents a ticking time-bomb under our democracy. This case could give Republican-controlled state legislatures the power to overrule voters in 202…
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
July 3, 2022 at 8:17 PM

HISTORIAN: In 1 term, Trump's 3 Justices have decimated the legal landscape

Sign the petition This July 4th weekend, nationally-read political historian Heather Cox Richardson writes about the Supreme Court: "In the one term Trump’s three justices have been on the court, they have decimated the legal landscape under which we have lived for generations, slashing power fr…
  Bradley Whitford (via Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
July 2, 2022 at 1:30 PM

Pre-Roe: What's at stake.

Hi John, This is Bradley Whitford. I’m an actor and you might know me as the character Commander Lawrence in The Handmaid’s Tale. Some of you might know a little bit about the dystopian world depicted in that show, but I’m writing to you about the very real stakes for so many women and margina…
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
July 1, 2022 at 8:56 PM

PETITION: Congress must consider Supreme Court reforms

PETITION: This Supreme Court is increasingly facing a legitimacy crisis. REMINDER: 6 Republican Supreme Court Justices overturned Roe. Not only did they side with partisan extremists on abortion rights -- they indicated gay marriage, contraceptives, and much more are at risk. We've now pulled to…
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
July 1, 2022 at 2:57 AM

Sick and tired of Dems who are stuck in the past?

This evening, you're probably getting bombarded with annoying fundraising emails because of the nationally-watched deadline tonight. Remember, you don't have to donate today. That said...if you do decide to donate, please consider donating to progressive candidates who are showing Party leaders…
  Stephanie Garcia Richard via BoldProgressives.org · [email protected]
June 30, 2022 at 9:05 PM

SCOTUS just sided with Big Oil -- This is a climate change disaster.

I've spent the last four years holding the oil and gas industry accountable. Now, I'm up for re-election. Can you chip in $3 to my campaign and the PCCC's work to elect climate champions? I'm Stephanie Garcia Richard, New Mexico's public lands commissioner. Today, the Supreme C…
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
June 30, 2022 at 6:17 PM

PCCC members' activism pays off. BIG BANKS ARE FURIOUS!

Politico reports, "The Chamber of Commerce is going after CFPB Director Rohit Chopra in a public campaign, accusing him of attempting to 'radically reshape' American finance." Why are they so mad? Because after Americans, including thousands of PCCC members, submitted public comments this Sprin…
  David Segal via BoldProgressives.org · [email protected]
June 29, 2022 at 11:06 PM

TOMORROW: Elizabeth Warren & I discuss taming unchecked corporate power - RSVP!

This event is TOMORROW. RSVP here! Hi, this is David Segal -- candidate for Congress in Rhode Island's Second District. As we contend with a Supreme Court that's intent on stripping away basic rights and doing the bidding of the biggest corporations, it's clear that people are losing faith in ou…
  Kesha Ram Hinsdale via BoldProgressives.org · [email protected]
June 29, 2022 at 12:24 PM

Why did I endorse my opponent? So progressives can DEFEAT a corporate Dem

It would be malpractice to let this seat go to a more conservative Democrat Today, I am proud to share with you that the PCCC is making a major congressional endorsement for Vermont’s open congressional seat: State Senator Becca Balint. She is making economic populism key to her c…
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
June 28, 2022 at 8:01 PM

BREAKING: Trump and his inner circle knew EVERYTHING

Sign the petition to prosecute Trump and his coup conspirators for lawbreaking. BREAKING: Moments ago at the Jan 6 hearing, a key White House aide disclosed and confirmed: Trump was told that people at his rally had AR-15s, knives, bear spray, and other weapons and had plans to enter the Capito…
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
June 27, 2022 at 8:56 PM

WARREN: "This Court has lost legitimacy." SIGN THE PETITION.

Sign the petition Yesterday, Elizabeth Warren said on ABC News' This Week what everybody knows but more people need to say out loud: This Supreme Court "has burned whatever legitimacy they may still have had... they just took the last of it and set a torch to it." WATCH THE WARREN CLIP HERE. If …
  Beto O'Rourke via BoldProgressives.org · [email protected]
June 26, 2022 at 2:38 PM

The only way to overcome this attack on women

The Supreme Court has ruled that reproductive health care is no longer federally protected and will now be decided by the individual states. In Texas, Greg Abbott has already signed a "trigger law" that criminalizes all abortion -- with no exception for rape or incest -- and goes into effect 30…
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
June 25, 2022 at 10:10 PM

PETITION: Congress must consider Supreme Court reforms

PETITION: This Supreme Court is increasingly facing a legitimacy crisis. Friday, 6 Republican Supreme Court Justices overturned Roe. Not only did they side with partisan extremists on abortion rights -- they indicated gay marriage, contraceptives, and much more are at risk. SIGN THE PETITION TO …
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
June 25, 2022 at 4:11 PM

UPDATE: Prominent Dems challenge this Supreme Court's legitimacy

PETITION: This Supreme Court is increasingly facing a legitimacy crisis. Prominent Democrats across the country are echoing the voices of tens of thousands of PCCC members and our message that "This Supreme Court increasingly faces a legitimacy crisis." In light of Roe being overturned, we are o…
  Mandela Barnes via BoldProgressives.org · [email protected]
June 25, 2022 at 3:46 AM

Roe v. Wade

It has never been more urgent for the Senate to abolish the filibuster and take action to protect abortion rights for millions of people across the country. Now that the Supreme Court has officially announced its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, let me be very clear: It has never been more urg…
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
June 24, 2022 at 11:57 PM

PETITION: This Supreme Court is increasingly facing a legitimacy crisis.

Prominent Democrats across the country are echoing the voices of tens of thousands of PCCC members and our message that "This Supreme Court increasingly faces a legitimacy crisis." In light of Roe being overturned, we are organizing major efforts to get every politician to cry this from the roo…
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
June 24, 2022 at 4:41 PM

PETITION: This Supreme Court is increasingly facing a legitimacy crisis.

BREAKING NEWS: 6 Republican Supreme Court justices just struck down Roe. Two have faced credible sexual harassment and assault accusations and are not trusted by the American people to decide the future of women’s reproductive rights. Five were appointed by Republican presidents who lost the po…
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
June 23, 2022 at 10:39 PM

New evidence! SIGN THE PETITION TO MERRICK GARLAND

Sign the petition to prosecute Trump Moments ago, the Jan 6 investigators disclosed the names of Republican members of Congress who sought pardons for their roles in Trump's attempted coup. PBS NEWS: "An aide to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told the January 6 committee that Repub…
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
June 23, 2022 at 5:39 PM

BREAKING: Supreme Court sides with guns over children

BREAKING NEWS: 6 Republican Supreme Court justices just struck down a New York State gun safety law -- choosing guns over children. Clarence Thomas wrote the opinion. Once again, this Supreme Court has issued a political ruling that goes against the will of the people. More anti-democratic deci…
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
June 23, 2022 at 3:21 PM

Handing a district to a Trump Republican is political malpractice. We won't have it.

Today, the PCCC is endorsing bold progressive legislator Alessandra Biaggi over Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Chair Sean Patrick Maloney in the open primary for New York's 17th Congressional District. Maloney, who currently represents NY-18, decided to leave …
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
June 22, 2022 at 3:50 PM

After $2 million in AIPAC attacks, Cisneros falls 289 votes short.

Democrats will lose if leaders fail to act (INFURIATING) UPDATE: After AIPAC spent nearly $2 million in dark-money attacks on progressive congressional candidate Jessica Cisneros in TX-28, she came up 289 votes short last night against Henry Cuellar -- the only anti-choice Democrat in the House.…
  PCCC (Bold Progressives) · [email protected]
June 22, 2022 at 1:33 AM

Jan 6 hearing reveals pattern of political terrorism

Sign the petition to prosecute Trump Witnesses at today's Jan 6 hearing gave testimony showing that the Jan 6 attack at the Capitol was part of a broader pattern of violence, threats, and intimidation an MSNBC commentator called "political terrorism." One election worker testified "The president…
  PCCC Elections · [email protected]
June 21, 2022 at 10:47 PM

CBS News: Ron Johnson wanted to hand deliver fake electors to Pence

Ron Johnson doesn't belong in the Senate The bombshell revelation from today's Jan 6 hearing implicates Wisconsin U.S. Senator Ron Johnson in Trump's attack on democracy: NBC News: Trump team orchestrated 'fake electors' to try to overturn election, Jan. 6 committee details MSNBC:…