Christine, Public Citizen · [email protected]

September 22, 2020 at 2:31 PM

six weeks until election day ⏱

open for this week’s election countdown action ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌…

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September 21, 2020 at 6:38 PM

town hall with Bernie Sanders on health care

Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Pramila Jayapal are leading an online town hall meeting about health care justice and building the movement to win Medicare for All. I’ll be speaking as well — along with Representative Ayanna Pressley, Rev. William Barber II, Ady Barkan, and many other…

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September 20, 2020 at 8:19 PM

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wish was that her replacement not be confirmed until the next president is inaugurated. Add your name to honor RBG’s legacy: The Senate must not vote on a Supreme Court nominee until the winner of the 2020 election is in office. The nation lost a…

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September 17, 2020 at 8:41 PM

are we just going to let everything burn to the ground?

Our country is on fire. Literally: There are currently 79 large wildfires actively burning in California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. So far this year, one out of every 33 acres in the state of California has burned. In Oregon, ov…

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  Bret, Public Citizen · [email protected]

September 16, 2020 at 3:54 PM

do their job

Mitch let us down ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌…

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September 16, 2020 at 12:46 AM

going to court to fight mail delays

Support Public Citizen Louis DeJoy, Donald Trump’s postmaster, has disrupted mail delivery all across the country. Read my earlier update — copied below in case you missed it — about the latest development in our lawsuit to stop DeJoy. And, if you can, donate today to let us know you’re with u…

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  Robert · [email protected]

September 15, 2020 at 7:38 PM

this lawsuit

Support Public Citizen Mail delivery has been disrupted nationwide as a result of changes pushed through by Louis DeJoy, the Republican mega-donor Donald Trump installed to run the United States Postal Service. There’s a major development in our lawsuit to stop DeJoy (my previous note is copied …

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September 15, 2020 at 1:21 PM

suing Trump's postmaster

Support Public Citizen Donald Trump’s postmaster, Louis DeJoy, has disrupted mail delivery all across the country. Please read my previous note — copied below in case you missed it — about the latest development in our lawsuit to stop DeJoy. And, if you can, please donate today. Thank you fo…

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September 14, 2020 at 7:37 PM

major update on lawsuit to restore Postal Service

Support Public Citizen Please take a minute to read through this update. Here’s what’s going on: Public Citizen and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit in federal court last month, on behalf of the NAACP, to stop Louis DeJoy — the Republican mega-donor Donald Trump installed to run (o…

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September 12, 2020 at 1:01 PM

losers and suckers

Perhaps by now you’ve seen the news. A story first reported last week in The Atlantic — with details since confirmed by The Washington Post and other outlets — reveals the sheer, inhuman depths of Donald Trump’s disdain for people who choose to serve in our nation’s armed forces, especially tho…

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September 10, 2020 at 7:15 PM

it's not Trump's fault

Throughout our country’s history, presidents have had a lot to say about leadership and responsibility. George Washington: “99% of failures come from people who make excuses.” John Quincy Adams: “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then you ar…

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September 9, 2020 at 1:32 PM

suing to stop Trump's latest assault on immigration

Support Public Citizen To be a sanctuary for people from other parts of the world escaping religious, political, ethnic, or economic persecution. To give new generations of immigrants — like those who came before us — the opportunity to live out the American Dream. These are essential component…

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September 4, 2020 at 1:17 PM

did Trump just commit a felony on live TV?

Wednesday, on live TV, Donald Trump told his supporters in North Carolina to vote twice in the upcoming election: “Send it in early and then go and vote.” Let’s set aside, for now, that voting twice, or inducing another person to do so, is a felony in North Carolina and a violation of federal…

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September 3, 2020 at 8:02 PM

Congressman threatens to kill Black activists

A member of Congress just suggested he would execute Black activists in cold blood. On Tuesday, Clay Higgins — a Trump loyalist who represents Louisiana’s 3rd District in the United States House of Representatives — posted a photo on Facebook of armed Black demonstrators three states away in Ke…

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September 2, 2020 at 2:31 PM

in Kenosha and Portland

As events unfold in Kenosha, Portland, and elsewhere, a quick ask for solidarity: Join Public Citizen in standing with victims of police violence. Standing against institutional racism. Standing with peaceful protesters. Standing up to fascism. Add your name. Thank you. In unity, - Robe…

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August 28, 2020 at 1:12 PM

Jacob Blake

As you no doubt know by now, this past Sunday, police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, shot an unarmed Black man. In the back. Fom point-blank range. Seven times. Right in front of his young children. His name is Jacob Blake. The horror of that shooting was compounded Tuesday night, when two people pro…

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August 26, 2020 at 4:11 PM

FDA official caves to Trump

Want to know something that’s NOT helpful during a public health crisis unlike anything humanity has faced in at least a century? When the head of a federal agency that is supposed to be politically independent and scientifically diligent stands next to Donald Trump and makes wildly misleading …

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August 25, 2020 at 4:32 PM

why did Congress do something so extraordinary?

Just wanted to make sure you saw my note from yesterday (copied below in case you didn’t get it). Please take a moment to sign the petition if you haven’t already. Thanks! - Robert ****** This hardly ever happens. The House of Representatives cut short its traditional August recess to…

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August 24, 2020 at 1:31 PM

Mitch McConnell enabling sabotage of Post Office

This hardly ever happens. The House of Representatives cut short its traditional August recess to reconvene here in Washington, D.C., this past week. Why did the House do something so extraordinary? Because Donald Trump had gone on TV and openly admitted that he is trying to disrupt the Uni…

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August 22, 2020 at 9:16 PM

update on lawsuit

Public Citizen is suing to stop the United States Postal Service from being used to sabotage our democracy. Donate today to help us defend democracy. Take a look at my earlier note, copied below in case you missed it, for more details about the lawsuit. - Robert ****** Yesterday, Public…

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  Public Citizen · [email protected]

August 22, 2020 at 1:31 PM

see you in court

This is an all-hands-on-deck moment. Trump’s postmaster, Louis DeJoy, is pushing through service cuts and other disruptions that could interfere with the election. Public Citizen is suing to stop the United States Postal Service from being used to sabotage our democracy. But lawsuits are ne…

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  Robert · [email protected]

August 21, 2020 at 8:09 PM

our court date

Public Citizen is suing to stop the United States Postal Service from being used to sabotage the election. Lawsuits are never easy. But we will do what it takes to defend democracy. Just as we’ve done for half a century. If you can, please donate today to help us continue the fight. Con…

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August 21, 2020 at 3:32 PM

Trump postmaster's assault on democracy

Yesterday, Public Citizen — along with the NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund — filed a lawsuit in federal court to stop Donald Trump’s postmaster from disrupting the election. A quick recap of what Trump has been up to: In May, Trump put a Republican mega-donor named Louis DeJoy in charg…

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  Robert, Public Citizen · [email protected]

August 20, 2020 at 7:32 PM

we are suing a Trump official

Public Citizen is suing to stop the new postmaster from sabotaging the election. Please take a moment to read my earlier update, copied below in case you missed it. And please be part of this with us! Donate today to help us win this lawsuit and keep fighting for democracy. Thank you. -…

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August 20, 2020 at 1:37 PM

we're suing to stop the sabotage of the Post Office

Major news, everyone. Just moments ago, Public Citizen — along with the NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund — filed a lawsuit in federal court to stop Donald Trump’s Postmaster from disrupting the election. A quick recap of what Trump has been up to: In May, Trump put a Republican mega-d…

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August 18, 2020 at 9:11 PM

Donald Trump and his wife do it

Donald Trump does it. So does his wife. So do his daughter and son-in-law. So do millions of Americans. In fact, more than 1 out of every 4 Americans voted by mail in 2018. But Trump is nonetheless taking every chance he can get to spread blatant lies about mail-in voting. Last week, …

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August 17, 2020 at 3:31 PM

does the Pentagon have coronavirus?

$29.4 billion. That’s how much extra Pentagon spending Senate Republicans snuck into the pathetic coronavirus relief proposal they spat up before going on recess for the entire month of August (as if the virus is taking a break). This is on top of the $740.5 billion military budget Congress a…

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August 15, 2020 at 7:35 PM

Trump admits he's sabotaging election

Donald Trump just admitted that he is trying to sabotage the election. Here’s what the President of the United States said Thursday morning (on a Fox News channel, of course) about proposals in Congress to provide funding the Post Office needs so that Americans can safely and easily vote by mai…

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August 14, 2020 at 2:32 PM

a coup d'etat on American soil

If you missed the note I sent yesterday afternoon, it’s copied below. Please take a moment to read it. And please join Public Citizen in rejecting Trump’s attempt to sabotage the election. Thank you. - Robert ****** Well, Donald Trump just admitted that he is trying to sabotage the el…

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August 13, 2020 at 9:20 PM

election sabotage

Well, Donald Trump just admitted that he is trying to sabotage the election. Here’s what the President of the United States said this morning (on a Fox News channel, of course) about proposals in Congress to provide funding the Post Office needs so that Americans can safely and easily vote by m…

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August 12, 2020 at 1:31 PM

immoral price gouging

Real quick: Public Citizen is demanding that any and all vaccines and treatments for COVID-19 developed using taxpayer money be accessible to everyone — with no outrageous, immoral price gouging by Big Pharma. If you haven’t already, please sign our petition right away. See my earlier note,…

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August 10, 2020 at 6:28 PM

when there's a vaccine

The pharmaceutical industry has already gotten billions in taxpayer funding to develop vaccines and treatments for COVID-19. As Public Citizen has uncovered: The bulk of research on coronaviruses before the outbreak of COVID-19 was done by the federal government. All but one of the most pro…

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August 7, 2020 at 3:31 PM

do the right thing for once

Here is the reality as the Trump Pandemic continues to go unchecked: Federal unemployment assistance has run out for millions of Americans. Schools are being pressured to re-open even though it is becoming increasingly clear that doing so could risk the lives of millions of students, teachers…

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August 6, 2020 at 7:06 PM

every festering wound and reopened scar

No petition to sign today. Instead, I want to recommend a recent article by Ed Yong, who writes for The Atlantic: “How the Pandemic Defeated America” This isn’t the first time I’ve shared one of Ed Yong’s articles with you. Over the past seven months, he has been chronicling — in clear, eng…

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August 5, 2020 at 2:31 PM

Trump's racist dismissal of a civil rights icon

In an interview that aired Monday, Donald Trump once again exposed how petulant, narcissistic, and racist he is. Reporter: “John Lewis is lying in state in the U.S. Capitol. How do you think history will remember John Lewis?” Trump: “I don’t know. I really don’t know. Uh, I don’t know. Uh, …

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August 4, 2020 at 5:47 PM

coronavirus treatment shelved by Big Pharma?

Gilead is at it again. Back in March — following pressure from Public Citizen and others — the pharmaceutical giant backed down from an immoral scheme to expand its monopoly on remdesivir as the medication began showing promise as a possible treatment for COVID-19. Now, Public Citizen is reve…

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July 31, 2020 at 1:28 PM

Trump is telling the truth

Donald Trump just did something I wasn’t sure he was even capable of. He told the truth. Here’s what Trump said (via Twitter, of course) yesterday: “With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It …

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July 30, 2020 at 8:29 PM

'Delay the Election'

Did the subject line of this email alarm you? It should. Because Donald Trump just wondered out loud (via Twitter, of course) if we should “Delay the Election.” To be absolutely clear, the election should NOT be postponed. And Public Citizen is doing everything we can to see to it that th…

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July 29, 2020 at 7:57 PM

the paramilitary invasion

Yesterday, William Barr spent over five hours dodging questions from members of Congress who were exposing the extent to which he has debased the office of Attorney General and failed in his sworn duty to uphold the Constitution. I could send you quite a few emails about the assorted ways Barr …

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July 28, 2020 at 7:04 PM

are you kidding me?

We had some time last night to dive into the Senate Republicans’ pathetic proposal for coronavirus relief. My reaction in a phrase: Are you kidding me? Here’s just a sampling of the nonsense that Mitch McConnell and his band of not-so-merry jokesters put in their package: Presumptive immu…

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July 27, 2020 at 10:49 PM

Mitch McConnell is out of his mind

May 15. That’s when the next round of coronavirus relief Americans desperately need was passed in the House of Representatives. But, for 73 days, Mitch McConnell has callously stonewalled any similar legislation in the Senate, where he alone decides what bills do and do not get voted on. Be…

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July 25, 2020 at 2:31 PM

will the American people reject Trump’s march toward fascism?

A pandemic is raging unchecked across our country because of the criminal incompetence of the Trump administration. The murder of George Floyd has initiated an unprecedented, long overdue period of nationwide introspection on racism. The cruelty and ineptitude of Mitch McConnell and Senate Re…

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July 23, 2020 at 6:00 PM

penniless and homeless

It’s 1:50 p.m. here in Washington, D.C., and ... Republicans in the Senate and White House STILL can’t agree on how severely to botch their long overdue response to legislation Democrats passed in the House — over two months ago — for the next round of coronavirus relief Americans desperately n…

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  Robert, Public Citizen · [email protected]

July 22, 2020 at 9:00 PM

Trump troops on your street?

16,739 Public Citizen supporters have already taken action to fight Donald Trump’s secret police. Let’s make that 20,000 before Trump goes to bed tonight. Urge your senators to support legislation to rein in Trump’s secret paramilitary police. Add your name now. My note from earlier today…

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July 22, 2020 at 1:31 PM

unidentified paramilitary forces invading American cities

First it was Washington, D.C. Then Portland, Oregon. And now Chicago. Next up? Maybe Baltimore or Detroit. Philadelphia or Oakland. Even New York City. Under the ruse of “law and order” — in the tradition of all authoritarians before him — Donald Trump is sending unidentified paramilitary…

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July 20, 2020 at 11:14 PM

think it can't happen where you live?

Donald Trump’s march toward fascism is moving rapidly across the country. This morning, I sent you a note about Trump’s authoritarian deployment of unidentified paramilitary forces in Portland, Oregon. This afternoon, we learned that Trump is sending more of these secret troops to invade Chic…

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July 20, 2020 at 1:32 PM

can you guess what country this is?

A story: Imagine a nation that has been taken over by a far-right political party under the thrall of a “populist” demagogue and beholden to the perverse whims of its richest citizens and corporations. Throughout the country, police forces routinely violate the civil rights of law-abiding cit…

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July 19, 2020 at 9:21 PM

John Lewis

America lost a hero on Friday, with the death of civil rights icon and longtime member of Congress John Lewis. Lewis helped usher in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act — as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and through h…

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July 17, 2020 at 8:38 PM

an actual ostrich would be better

Contrary to a common myth, ostriches do not stick their heads in the sand when confronted by a threat. Donald Trump, on the other hand, seems to believe that if he can’t see the case numbers and body counts, people aren’t getting sick and dying from the coronavirus. Trump has repeatedly insis…

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July 16, 2020 at 6:59 PM

something to help you be prepared

This is such a fraught and perilous moment. Humanity is confronted by a global health emergency unlike any threat we’ve faced for at least a century. Meanwhile, millions of other serious medical conditions are going untreated as hospitals become overwhelmed by patients with COVID-19 — which h…

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