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October 22, 2021 at 6:11 PM

just a couple of regular Joes

“We’re going to have to move to the point where we fundamentally alter the filibuster.” That’s what President Joe Biden said last night on national television about the outdated Senate procedure Republicans habitually exploit to stonewall progress. But a different Joe, Democratic Senator Joe …

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October 21, 2021 at 11:14 PM

What now, Senator Manchin?

Not one. Not one of the 50 Republicans in the United States Senate voted yesterday just to allow debate to begin on the Freedom To Vote Act. Here’s the thing: The Freedom To Vote Act was drafted *specifically* to satisfy demands from Democratic Senator Joe Manchin for a compromise bill he i…

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October 20, 2021 at 4:28 PM

landmark voting rights bill TODAY in Senate

Here we go. The Senate is voting THIS AFTERNOON to begin debate on the landmark Freedom To Vote Act. As a reminder, this is the retooled version of the earlier For the People Act (a.k.a. H.R.1/S.1) crafted to accommodate Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia. The Freedom To Vote Act is a pac…

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October 19, 2021 at 7:14 PM

a direct message to Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema

Two people — Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona — are standing in the way of history. If Manchin and Sinema continue to block progress on President Biden’s landmark Build Back Better package of critical investments in America’s future, here’s just some of what c…

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October 18, 2021 at 5:53 PM

Manchin and Sinema are letting us ALL down

Two people — Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona — are standing in the way of history. If Manchin and Sinema continue to block progress on President Biden’s landmark Build Back Better package of critical investments in America’s future, here’s just some of what c…

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October 14, 2021 at 8:20 PM

not the right person for the job

Here we go again ... Yesterday, I emailed you about a Big Pharma lobbyist President Biden was considering to be the next head of the Food and Drug Administration. Today, the media is reporting that the president is now leaning toward another possible FDA leader — Robert Califf — with a long h…

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October 13, 2021 at 6:49 PM

Biden considering fox for top job at henhouse

President Biden is looking for the next head of the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA, of course, is the federal agency that is supposed to make sure the food we eat is safe and the medicines we take are safe and effective. And apparently Biden’s short list for the job includes a former B…

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October 12, 2021 at 7:47 PM

another gazillionaire tax loophole

Imagine you’re a gazillionaire. Maybe your name is Geoff Bozos or Ellen Mush. Now, suppose you bought a modest yacht — for a mere $4 million, say — way back before you even made your first billion. A few years go by. Then a decade or two. And then — tragically — you perish when a rocket shi…

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October 7, 2021 at 7:25 PM

sometimes it's OK to be selfish

The United States must do its part to end the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide. Why? For one, there’s the humanitarian imperative to do what we can to prevent needless suffering and death. More selfishly, there’s the reality that even as we work to control the pandemic here in America, we could …

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October 5, 2021 at 9:30 PM

whistleblower says Facebook ‘has repeatedly misled the public’

Facebook “has repeatedly misled the public.” That’s according to a whistleblower — Frances Haugen — who testified before Congress TODAY following her release of thousands of internal company documents and a series of damning reports about Facebook in The Wall Street Journal. Thanks to Haugen,…

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September 30, 2021 at 11:11 PM

like a glazed donut?

Support Public Citizen There’s no way to sugarcoat this. Unless we see a serious uptick in online donations in the few hours left before TONIGHT’S MIDNIGHT DEADLINE, we will begin our new fiscal year tomorrow already behind the eight ball. See my earlier note — copied below in case you missed …

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September 30, 2021 at 8:06 PM

they're threatening to come to D.C. and wipe us out

Support Public Citizen We get a lot of hate mail at Public Citizen. Here’s just a sampling: “I would feel better if we came to D.C. and wiped out your miserable existence.” “Should have guessed you’re a f---ing Jew.” “There will be a serious reckoning when you hypocritical, evil bastards are…

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September 30, 2021 at 5:11 PM

check my math?

Support Public Citizen I’m just going to put my cards on the table. On September 30 last year, we had 697 donations come through in response to my emails about our critical end-of-the-month deadline. So far today, we’re at 81. Please give my earlier note a look — I’ve copied it below in case…

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September 30, 2021 at 2:06 PM

it could happen today

Support Public Citizen We are less than 14 hours from tonight’s make-or-break deadline. How things go between now and midnight will directly impact how aggressive Public Citizen can be in the months ahead — including our campaign to prevent “centrist” Democrats from stonewalling President Biden’…

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September 29, 2021 at 11:50 PM

look, we have to get this done

Support Public Citizen The deadline is closing in — please take a minute to read through this update. We are barely more than 24 hours from a make-or-break deadline. How things go between now and midnight tomorrow will directly impact how aggressive Public Citizen can be in the months ahead — …

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September 29, 2021 at 7:37 PM

this *Democratic* senator is sabotaging progress

Support Public Citizen We need to talk about Senator Kyrsten Sinema. Sinema is supposedly a “centrist” Democrat. Except — first as a member of Congress and then as a senator — she voted *with* Donald Trump’s position more than half the time during his catastrophic presidency. And she is refu…

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September 29, 2021 at 2:13 PM

I got some hate mail

Support Public Citizen We get a lot of hate mail at Public Citizen. Here’s just a sampling: I would feel better if we came to D.C. and wiped out your miserable existence. Should have guessed you’re a f---ing Jew. There will be a serious reckoning when you hypocritical, evil bastards are expo…

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September 28, 2021 at 9:06 PM

these 'centrist' Democrats

Support Public Citizen Please take a minute to read through this update. We are less than three days from a make-or-break deadline. How things go between now and midnight Thursday will directly impact how aggressive Public Citizen can be in the months ahead — including our campaign to prevent …

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September 28, 2021 at 3:21 PM

our independence and integrity are not for sale

Support Public Citizen Please take a minute to read through this update. We are less than three days from a make-or-break deadline. How things go between now and midnight Thursday will directly impact how aggressive Public Citizen can be in the months ahead — including our campaign to prevent …

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September 27, 2021 at 7:14 PM

how much water can one senator carry?

Senate Democrats can still make progress on a few things despite Mitch McConnell’s shameless and incessant abuse of the filibuster. But only if they stick together. Which brings us to Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. For some reason — maybe to satisfy her wealthy funders or just because s…

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September 26, 2021 at 9:16 PM

tell this senator to knock it off

Senate Democrats can still make progress on a few things despite Mitch McConnell’s shameless and incessant abuse of the filibuster. But only if they stick together. Which brings us to Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. For some reason — maybe to satisfy her wealthy funders or just because s…

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September 23, 2021 at 7:12 PM

they might give the Pentagon even more funding

The House is voting TODAY on how much more of our tax dollars the military-industrial complex is going to get. Take action right NOW urging Congress to pass these two amendments to the Pentagon budget: 1. Deny almost $24 billion that was tacked on over and above the $715 billion the Biden adm…

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September 22, 2021 at 12:32 PM

we can't bomb the pandemic away

Our country is facing so many severe challenges: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic fallout, which have been made far worse by deliberate, politically-motivated inaction and disunity. Climate disruption, which is causing more frequent and more devastating heat waves, fires, …

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September 21, 2021 at 11:34 PM

stopping the next Trump

Donald Trump abused the power of the presidency. To enrich himself. To carry out vendettas against critics and political enemies. To shield himself, his children, and assorted sycophants from accountability. With the introduction this morning of the Protecting Our Democracy Act, Congress …

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September 18, 2021 at 4:11 PM

these corporations have been profiteering from the pandemic

Support Public Citizen Things are moving fast, but I wanted to give you a quick update on some significant developments in the work you and Public Citizen are doing together. All of this happened on just one day this week (and it’s not even all we did that day). - ONE - On Wednesday — as rep…

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September 17, 2021 at 7:42 PM

snapshot

Support Public Citizen Things are moving fast, but I wanted to give you a quick update on some significant developments in the work you and Public Citizen are doing together. All of this happened on just one day this week (and it’s not even all we did that day). - ONE - On Wednesday — as rep…

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September 15, 2021 at 6:25 PM

a voting rights bill that Joe Manchin supports

They did it! Yesterday, new voting rights legislation was proposed in the United States Senate that will be supported by every Democrat including Senator Joe Manchin. The bill — the Freedom To Vote Act — preserves key elements of the earlier For the People Act (a.k.a. H.R.1/S.1) AND ALSO has …

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September 14, 2021 at 7:18 PM

stop letting corporations dodge their taxes

Democrats in Congress are working night and day to pass President Biden’s “Build Back Better” plan. That’s a $3.5 trillion investment over the next decade to help everyday Americans in a way our country hasn’t seen since the New Deal era almost a century ago. Meanwhile ... The net worth of …

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September 12, 2021 at 3:21 PM

a terrible morning

Just wanted to check if you saw my email yesterday about 9/11. It’s copied below in case you missed it. - Robert ****** Twenty years ago today, two hijacked planes smashed into the World Trade Center, another slammed into the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania…

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September 11, 2021 at 1:42 PM

in memory of the lives lost

Twenty years ago today, two hijacked planes smashed into the World Trade Center, another slammed into the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania. 3,000 people lost their lives that sad and terrible morning. Like so many of us, I know exactly where I was and what I w…

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September 10, 2021 at 2:33 PM

Biden must close Guantanamo

Saturday marks 20 years since the atrocities of 9/11 — a day that changed our country forever. I’ll have much more to say about this grim anniversary tomorrow. Today, I want to focus on just one of the tragedies to unfold in the wake of that fateful day. For two decades, people we’ve rounde…

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September 9, 2021 at 6:17 PM

they must be held criminally accountable if they broke any laws

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and its owners, members of the bazillionaire Sackler family, have exploited the bankruptcy system to evade lawsuits from victims of the opioid crisis they are in large part responsible for. That’s infuriating. But we can’t let it be the end of the story. The Bi…

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September 8, 2021 at 5:48 PM

will opioid tycoons go to jail?

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and its owners, members of the bazillionaire Sackler family, have exploited the bankruptcy system to evade lawsuits from victims of the opioid crisis they are in large part responsible for. That’s infuriating. But we can’t let it be the end of the story. The Bi…

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September 7, 2021 at 8:59 PM

the wealthy and corporations should pay their fair share

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September 1, 2021 at 6:32 PM

calling BS on 'election integrity'

“Election integrity.” That’s the Orwellian catchphrase Republican politicians keep spouting as they push regressive voting restrictions in almost every state in the nation. Here’s the thing: Our elections already had integrity. Actual instances of election fraud are so rare as to be immater…

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August 31, 2021 at 9:10 PM

Can you look at this?

Support Public Citizen The right to vote is under attack to a degree we have not seen for generations. That’s why Public Citizen is doing everything in our power to win passage of two landmark pieces of democracy legislation, the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Ac…

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August 31, 2021 at 5:35 PM

the numbers are what they are

Support Public Citizen This is a make-or-break moment. I need 406 people to step up before midnight. Please take a minute to review my earlier note (copied below in case you missed it) and please help us out if you can. Thank you! - Robert ****** Saturday marked the 58th anniversary of…

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August 31, 2021 at 2:11 PM

the right to vote is under attack to a degree we have not seen for generations

Support Public Citizen Saturday marked the 58th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech. Almost six decades after Dr. King proclaimed that “now is the time to make real the promises of democracy,” we are again c…

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August 30, 2021 at 9:11 PM

it's not a typo

Support Public Citizen Saturday marked the 58th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech. Almost six decades after Dr. King proclaimed that “now is the time to make real the promises of democracy,” we are again c…

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August 30, 2021 at 3:12 PM

you might have missed this

Support Public Citizen Did you see the note I sent you earlier today? Please give it a quick look — it’s copied below in case you missed it — and please help us out if you can. Thank you! - Robert ****** Saturday marked the 58th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, where Dr. Mart…

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August 30, 2021 at 5:07 AM

it was 58 years ago

Support Public Citizen Saturday marked the 58th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech. Almost six decades after Dr. King proclaimed that “now is the time to make real the promises of democracy,” we are again c…

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August 27, 2021 at 7:46 PM

another horrible Supreme Court ruling

Last night, the Supreme Court — more precisely, the six Republicans on it, including the three Donald Trump put there — ruled that landlords are now free to evict potentially millions of Americans. To state the obvious about COVID-19: We are not out of the woods. The Delta variant now surging t…

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August 25, 2021 at 7:05 PM

killing people in Florida and all across America

Right now, more people are dying every day from COVID-19 in Florida than at any previous moment in the entire year and a half that we’ve all been enduring this catastrophic pandemic. This tragedy could have been averted. But Florida governor Ron DeSantis continues to cast basic precautions li…

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August 24, 2021 at 6:25 PM

Congress is about to vote on two major priorities

Thanks in part to thousands of Public Citizen supporters who took action yesterday ... It looks like the handful of so-called “moderates” in the House of Representatives who were stalling action on voting rights and progressive budget priorities may have come to their senses. But we can’t sit…

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August 23, 2021 at 7:23 PM

House Democrats just have to get this done

The House of Representatives is back from recess to work on two legislative actions that could not be more essential: The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act — which would restore elements of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that were gutted by recent rulings from Republicans on the Supreme Cour…

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August 20, 2021 at 6:36 PM

our economy has never faced a threat this severe

I need to tell you about a powerful person whose name you may not hear a lot. Jerome Powell runs the Federal Reserve (a.k.a. “the Fed”), which was established by Congress over a century ago to supervise banks and to stabilize our financial system. And it’s not even close: Our economy has ne…

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August 19, 2021 at 6:33 PM

pass this law to restore voting rights

56 years ago this month, President Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark Voting Rights Act into law. For nearly half a century, that historic legislation — which Congress renewed many times on an overwhelmingly bipartisan basis — made it possible to move toward true multiracial democracy in our co…

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August 18, 2021 at 8:32 PM

Who's on first?

This is no joke, sadly. Texas Governor Greg Abbott tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday. First, we wish the governor a full and speedy recovery. Second, a few points: Abbott gets tested every day. That’s not an option for most people, in Texas or anywhere else in America. The night be…

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August 17, 2021 at 7:36 PM

dying to work

Heat is the deadliest weather-related threat in the United States. In fact, heat kills more people than hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods combined. But the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) — the federal agency that is supposed to protect workers — has failed to issue workp…

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August 16, 2021 at 4:30 PM

fighting Pharma

Prescription drugs are “outrageously expensive in America.” That’s what President Biden said last week in a speech imploring Congress to do something about Big Pharma’s price gouging. And, thanks to our work over many years, Congress is poised to take meaningful action in the upcoming budget …

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