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May 16, 2020 at 6:47 PM

will Jared Kushner get away with this?

Our petition against a scheme promoted by Jared Kushner to dismantle Social Security already has over 13,000 signatures. Add your name now. Jared Kushner: Keep your hands off Social Security. My earlier note, copied below in case you missed it, has more info. - Robert ****** A quick b…

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May 15, 2020 at 5:57 PM

he thinks you're nothing but chum for corporate sharks

Always keep an eye on Mitch McConnell. In the midst of a crisis unlike anything humanity has faced for at least a century, Mitch McConnell is pushing for the Senate to give businesses immunity from liability even if they fail to take reasonable steps to keep workers, patients and consumers from…

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May 14, 2020 at 5:58 PM

where are your senators on vote-by-mail?

No American should have to risk their health to vote during the coronavirus emergency. That’s why Public Citizen is helping lead a nationwide campaign to make sure a system for easily voting by mail is in place in all 50 states for the election this November. The U.S. House of Representatives…

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May 12, 2020 at 8:05 PM

Jared Kushner pushes plan to end Social Security

A quick but important update today. Jared Kushner is pushing the White House to consider a scheme that would end Social Security as we know it. Of course, it’s not even his scheme. It was devised by a buddy of his. Who works in the State Department. Which has nothing to do with Social Secur…

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May 11, 2020 at 9:06 PM

Warren & AOC’s new pandemic plan

stop abusive coronavirus mergers Friend,​ COVID-19 has put many businesses in crisis mode. To help protect these companies, their workers and their customers, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have come up with a pla…

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May 9, 2020 at 3:32 PM

Trump admin's secret infection forecast

Right now, about 30,000 new coronavirus infections are reported every day in America. A document leaked Monday from within the Trump administration itself predicts that number could explode to 200,000 infections every day by the end of this month. With an absolutely staggering rise in fatalit…

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May 8, 2020 at 1:02 PM

Bernie Sanders and Pramila Jayapal

I hope you had a chance to read the note I sent you yesterday — copied below in case you missed it — about the work we’re doing in partnership with Bernie Sanders and Pramila Jayapal. Please give it a quick read. And don’t forget to add your name in support of expanding Medicare and Medicaid …

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May 7, 2020 at 8:01 PM

open up Medicare and Medicaid right now

Humanity has endured pandemics before — even without the vast medical knowledge and economic resources at our disposal today. Yet here in America, we remain hostage to a corporate health insurance regime that further reveals its sheer immorality and unsustainability with every passing day. Th…

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May 6, 2020 at 8:03 PM

leaked federal estimates on imminent surge in infections

Right now, about 30,000 new coronavirus infections are reported every day in America. A document leaked Monday from within the Trump administration itself predicts that number could explode to 200,000 infections every day by the end of this month. With an absolutely staggering rise in fatalit…

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May 4, 2020 at 5:54 PM

helping families in their darkest moments

I want to talk about one especially heartbreaking way the coronavirus can ambush families. The crisis is obviously causing unprecedented financial hardship for millions of Americans — indeed, for our entire economy. This can affect us even if nobody we know gets sick. Then there are the tens …

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May 2, 2020 at 3:02 PM

a quick victory against corruption

no more stock trading for Congress ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  Friend,​ This is a scandal that shouldn’t have happened. Two weeks before COVID-19 caused record-setting market crashes, U.S. Sen. Richard Burr sold off up to $1.72 million in stocks. T…

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May 1, 2020 at 10:01 PM

a real plan to produce needed medical supplies

Major news from Senator Elizabeth Warren and Public Citizen. Warren — along with Representative Jan Schakowsky in the House — is announcing a bill called the COVID-19 Emergency Manufacturing Act. This comprehensive legislation would help make sure we can produce the hospital supplies and medi…

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April 30, 2020 at 8:14 PM

what Elizabeth Warren did today

Major news today from Senator Elizabeth Warren and Public Citizen. Warren — along with Representative Jan Schakowsky in the House — is announcing a bill called the COVID-19 Emergency Manufacturing Act. This comprehensive legislation would help make sure we can produce the hospital supplies an…

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April 29, 2020 at 6:47 PM

Mitch McConnell admits your life doesn’t matter

You may have heard that Mitch McConnell is calling the United States Senate back into session next week. Take a guess as to what Mitch McConnell thinks is “an urgent need” for the Senate to address: Making sure our nation’s health workers have the personal protective equipment and medical sup…

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April 28, 2020 at 6:43 PM

since 1775

The Post Office in America traces its origins all the way back to 1775, with Benjamin Franklin as the first postmaster general. And now Donald Trump is trying to snuff it out. Please read my previous message — copied below in case you missed it — for more about what Trump is trying to do to t…

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April 27, 2020 at 7:17 PM

no more mail?

Take a moment and imagine how our lives might be different without the United States Postal Service: Do you look forward to getting cards and letters from friends and family? Subscribe to any magazines? Were you planning to vote by mail in the presidential election this November? Are you …

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April 25, 2020 at 7:45 PM

human beings or bowling shoes?

On Thursday — during his nightly farce of a press briefing — Donald Trump suggested that people infected with the coronavirus could be cured by being injected with disinfectant. Does Trump also think it would be a good idea to spray Lysol down everyone’s throat, as if the human body is no diffe…

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April 22, 2020 at 6:09 PM

hurling into the abyss of deregulation

One very simple question today: In the midst of a global health emergency unlike anything humanity has faced for at least a century, is now the time to do more to protect people or less? Foolishly — and just as predictably — mutterings are emerging from the White House of plans to suspend or …

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April 21, 2020 at 7:05 PM

immigration

Late last night, Donald Trump announced (via Twitter, of course) that he intends to suspend all immigration into the United States. Will Trump actually follow through on this threat, or is it just one more thing intended to incite his base and distract the rest of us? Time will tell. But on…

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April 20, 2020 at 5:18 PM

Department of Just Isn’t?

It’s tough to keep track of all the ways the Trump administration and Big Business are exploiting the coronavirus emergency for their own benefit. But, as always, Public Citizen is doing our level best. Here’s one that may have flown under your radar. The United States Department of Justice…

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April 19, 2020 at 10:06 PM

projector-in-chief

Try to guess what these quotes are about: “severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus” “failed to adequately ... share information in a timely and transparent fashion” “failed in this basic duty and must be held accountable” “failed to investigate credible reports”…

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April 18, 2020 at 3:31 PM

dying to vote

Support Public Citizen Sickness. Economic collapse. Social distancing. Lockdowns. Gerrymandering. Voter suppression. Those are just a few reasons Public Citizen is taking steps NOW to make sure that Americans can freely — and safely — vote this November. Please take a minute to read m…

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April 17, 2020 at 5:21 PM

'never have a Republican elected ... again'

Support Public Citizen It has come to this: Republicans are weaponizing the coronavirus to disenfranchise voters and distort elections. In Wisconsin last week, people literally had to risk their lives to vote. That’s why Public Citizen is helping lead a nationwide campaign to make sure a sys…

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April 16, 2020 at 5:38 PM

Trump blames who?

Sigh. Donald Trump has announced that he will discontinue U.S. funding to the World Health Organization. Here are direct quotes — ostensibly about the World Health Organization — from the official White House transcript of Trump’s announcement Tuesday night: “severely mismanaging and coveri…

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April 15, 2020 at 9:47 PM

Trump claims total authority

“When somebody’s president of the United States, the authority is total.” That’s what Donald Trump said Monday, claiming he can overrule any governor who doesn’t conform to his recklessly rushed timeline for “reopening” the country. In case it needs to be said, Trump has no such authority wha…

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April 14, 2020 at 4:04 PM

why can't you vote by mail?

Last week, voters in Wisconsin were forced to choose between protecting their health and participating in our democracy. We can’t let this happen again. Congress must institute reforms that will allow voters to safely cast their ballots and that will provide states the funding to run safe and…

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April 13, 2020 at 6:15 PM

because it's not democracy

Thousands and thousands of people all across America have donated to be part of everything Public Citizen does to protect democracy. That includes our bold new campaign to make sure that a system for easily voting by mail is in place in all 50 states for the election this November. It's not d…

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April 13, 2020 at 1:31 PM

Trump admits the real voter 'fraud'

Well, at least Donald Trump has openly admitted what we all knew. Here’s what Trump said on Fox “News” (of course) about protecting every American’s fundamental right to vote amid the coronavirus emergency: “You’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.” As we saw last week i…

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April 11, 2020 at 6:14 PM

Do you trust Jared Kushner?

The response to my earlier note — about Jared Kushner and the Orwellian times in which we find ourselves — has made one thing resoundingly clear: Public Citizen supporters are NOT fans of Donald Trump’s son-in-law! I’ve copied that note below in case you missed it. If you read it already, t…

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April 10, 2020 at 5:31 PM

if only we could forget Trump

A quick — but not inconsequential — update today. As the coronavirus emergency continues to intensify, this is what Donald Trump said this week (via Twitter): Once we OPEN UP OUR GREAT COUNTRY, and it will be sooner rather than later, the horror of the Invisible Enemy, except for those that s…

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April 9, 2020 at 6:41 PM

Jared Kushner and chocolate rations

This email is about Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and “adviser.” But first, a brief literary digression: In 1984 — George Orwell’s disturbingly relevant dystopian novel — the all-powerful “Party” manipulates historical records to match whatever it’s telling people in the present. …

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April 8, 2020 at 9:37 PM

Trump is purging the government

“Well, look, I’ll be the oversight. I’ll be the oversight.” That’s what Donald Trump said, just a little over two weeks ago, when Public Citizen and others were rightly sounding alarms about a secretive $500 billion corporate slush fund that Republicans were trying to sneak into the coronavirus…

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April 7, 2020 at 8:42 PM

vote or virus?

Republicans are weaponzing the coronavirus to disenfranchise voters and distort elections. And yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of their latest scheme. So — despite a statewide stay-at-home order to limit the spread of the coronavirus, and even though many other states have po…

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April 6, 2020 at 6:42 PM

which are you, Joan of Arc or Wyatt Earp?

Arkansas. Iowa. Nebraska. North Dakota. South Carolina. South Dakota. Utah. Wyoming. Those are the only states in the nation whose governors have not yet issued statewide stay-at-home directives that could be critical to limiting the spread of the coronavirus. It should go without saying that…

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April 4, 2020 at 7:08 PM

Trump invited who to the White House?

Our country is desperately trying to survive the worst health and economic crisis we’ve faced for generations, maybe ever. So who did Donald Trump invite to the White House for a closed-door meeting yesterday? Oil industry executives. A little recent history: Since the coronavirus emerged…

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April 3, 2020 at 6:26 PM

maybe you were alive then

Unprecedented. Staggering. Heartbreaking. In the past two weeks alone, nearly 10 million Americans have filed for unemployment. Our nation’s unemployment rate could soon spike beyond what it was even in 1933, at the bleakest period of the Great Depression. Maybe you were alive then. M…

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April 2, 2020 at 5:32 PM

racist in chief

When this crisis is at last behind us, it’s entirely possible that nobody will have been responsible for more human suffering, economic hardship and loss of life than Donald J. Trump, president of the United States of America. Today I want to talk about just one of the many cowardly, despicable…

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April 1, 2020 at 2:02 PM

it's contemptible, frankly

Public Citizen Action Alert In what may be its most shameless exploitation of the coronavirus emergency yet, the Trump administration has announced that it will stop enforcing our nation’s environmental rules. And it won’t say when — or even if — it will go back to protecting our air and water f…

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March 31, 2020 at 7:22 PM

these companies should do the right thing

First, some good news: Several health insurance companies have waived co-payments and deductibles for at least some coronavirus-related treatments their customers may need. But: These waivers may not cover all patients or treatments, and some are set to expire at the end of May. Meanwhile…

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March 30, 2020 at 6:17 PM

read those two sentences again

Public Citizen Action Alert In what may be its most shameless exploitation of the coronavirus emergency yet, the Trump administration has announced that it will stop enforcing our nation’s environmental rules. And it won’t say when — or even if — it will go back to protecting our air and water f…

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March 28, 2020 at 1:31 PM

just maybe a way forward

Public Citizen Action Alert No petition to sign or senators to call today. Instead, I want to share an article with you — by Ed Yong, a science writer at The Atlantic — that many of us here at Public Citizen have been talking about: “How the Pandemic Will End” The article is a thorough — and…

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March 27, 2020 at 4:43 PM

Jared Kushner gets stimulated

Public Citizen Action Alert Good grief. Turn with me now to page 203 of the 880-page economic stimulus package — which the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to take up today — where we find a devious little surprise inserted by Senate Republicans. Under the proposed stimulus plan, the …

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March 26, 2020 at 5:11 PM

coronavirus profiteering thwarted

Public Citizen Action Alert Public Citizen — that’s you, me and hundreds of thousands of other supporters — just won an important victory. But there’s more to do. Here’s the story of a corporate profiteering scheme thwarted: Gilead Sciences makes an experimental medication that might prove e…

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March 25, 2020 at 9:30 PM

Senate giving Mnuchin the power?

Public Citizen Action Alert The Senate is very close to finalizing its coronavirus stimulus plan. But we just caught the Republicans trying to pull a fast one. One section of the 1,000-page plan contains good language that would prevent companies from using bailout money to buy back their own …

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March 24, 2020 at 5:45 PM

cancelling the election in November?

Public Citizen Action Alert It’s entirely possible that the coronavirus will make holding an in-person election impossible in November 2020. Does that mean we have to postpone or even cancel the 2020 election? No. (Breathe a sigh of relief.) We can prevent that scenario. But we must act now.…

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March 23, 2020 at 11:04 PM

Mitch McConnell keeps wasting time

Public Citizen Action Alert Quick update ... Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans keep wasting time — time we don’t have — putting out unworkable schemes for how the federal government intends to help us all weather the impending financial storm. Their proposals are crammed with bailouts and…

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March 22, 2020 at 11:02 PM

the ‘plan’ is a disaster

Public Citizen Action Alert Senate Republicans just announced their long-awaited plan to help people and businesses weather the impending economic storm. Their scheme — burped up by Mitch McConnell in league with Donald Trump’s sycophantic Treasury Secretary, Steve Mnuchin — would be a dream com…

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March 21, 2020 at 7:03 PM

we are at war

Public Citizen Action Alert The coronavirus is threatening to overwhelm our entire health care system. Medical professionals don’t even have enough of basic supplies like the cotton swabs needed to administer tests. Think about that for a second. Our ability to defend ourselves from this pan…

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March 19, 2020 at 7:03 PM

not since WWII

Public Citizen Action Alert Not since World War II has humanity faced a challenge on the scale of this coronavirus pandemic. I’m writing to you today to share a little bit about how Public Citizen will help you stay informed and involved. Going forward, keep an eye on your inbox for more frequ…

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March 16, 2020 at 7:09 PM

Trump and Shakespeare

Support Public Citizen Sometimes, the most dire peril can inspire the most stirring words — oratory so unforgettable it long outlives its speaker. We’re all familiar with the opening line of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first inaugural address in 1933, at the height of the Great Depression: “So, fi…

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