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January 3, 2023 at 9:23 PM

Republicans about to neuter ethics office in Congress

Republicans are now in control of the United States House of Representatives. (Though, as I write this, things seem to be out of control in terms of who the next Speaker of the House will be.) And what are they poised to do first? Gut the Office of Congressional Ethics. That’s right — onc…

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  Robert Weissman, Public Citizen · [email protected]

January 1, 2023 at 3:16 AM

thank you, and happy New Year

Support Public Citizen Public Citizen is nothing — nothing — without supporters like you. For my team and me, it is an absolute privilege to work with you and on your behalf as we tackle some of the most important issues facing our country. With everything on the line in the year ahead, your o…

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January 1, 2023 at 1:46 AM

can't remember where I parked my time machine

Support Public Citizen I don’t know. I just don’t know. We need another 206 Public Citizen supporters to donate before midnight or we won’t meet our critical year-end fundraising target. But donations have really slowed down. And wouldn’t you know it, my time machine is in the shop. So I…

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January 1, 2023 at 12:16 AM

Can you help me find my shoe?

Support Public Citizen After midnight, I turn into a pumpkin. Or something. Here’s what else happens after midnight: Anything you donate to Public Citizen *after* midnight tonight will *not* be matched dollar-for-dollar. They’ll still be grateful for your support at a later date, of course…

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December 31, 2022 at 10:46 PM

people liked this one

Support Public Citizen Folks really seemed to appreciate my earlier note about why this particular day — December 31 — is so important for nonprofit organizations like Public Citizen. It’s copied below in case you missed it. And now we are just hours from our most critical fundraising deadline…

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  President's Office · [email protected]

December 31, 2022 at 9:16 PM

we have A LOT of work to do in 2023

Support Public Citizen A lot of folks are asking what Public Citizen has in store for 2023. Here are just some of Public Citizen’s priorities for the coming year in our ongoing mission — we’ve been at this for half a century and counting — to fight corporate power, hold government accountable, a…

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December 31, 2022 at 7:46 PM

you won't believe what came in the mail

Support Public Citizen We get a lot of hate mail at Public Citizen. Here are just a few examples: “I will kill you without remorse.” “What is really sad is that no one has killed the twisted morons at Public Citizen.” “The cops should beat you all within an inch of your lives.” “You all …

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  Robert · [email protected]

December 31, 2022 at 6:16 PM

I wanted to have better news for you

Support Public Citizen Here’s where things stand: On December 31 last year, we saw over $79,000 in online donations. So far today we’re at just $10,886. And we have less than 11 hours to make up that shortfall before the deadline at midnight tonight. Let me give you a peek behind the curta…

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December 31, 2022 at 4:44 PM

you help make real, lasting progress happen

Support Public Citizen The deadline is midnight tonight. Please take a minute to review my earlier note — copied below in case you missed it — about the progress you and Public Citizen have already achieved together and our priorities for the year ahead. And please chip in right now if you can…

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  Public Citizen · [email protected]

December 31, 2022 at 2:31 PM

for anyone who thinks this doesn't really matter

Support Public Citizen I know you’re getting a lot of emails right now from organizations whose work you support. Let me explain why this is the most important day of the year when it comes to fundraising for nonprofits like Public Citizen: Public Citizen spreads our fundraising out over the c…

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December 31, 2022 at 1:32 AM

we've been doing this since Richard Nixon was president

Support Public Citizen Just wanted to make sure you saw my earlier note — copied below in case you missed it — about the progress you and Public Citizen have already achieved together and our priorities for the year ahead. Please take a minute to give it a look. Thank you! - Robert ****** …

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  Public Citizen · [email protected]

December 30, 2022 at 10:17 PM

this is worrying

Support Public Citizen We need 514 people to step up before midnight tonight. If we come up short today, Public Citizen will not be at maximum strength as we work to fight corporate greed and government inaction throughout the coming year. So I’m asking, straight up: Will you be one of the 5…

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  President's Office · [email protected]

December 30, 2022 at 7:31 PM

'You all deserve a bullet.'

Support Public Citizen So many people responded to my note yesterday about the hate mail we’ve been getting here at Public Citizen. As the president of this organization — and the target of some of these attacks — I can’t thank you enough for standing with us as we continue standing up to plutoc…

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  Public Citizen · [email protected]

December 30, 2022 at 5:02 PM

it's not like you can just hop out and kickstart a jet engine in midair

Support Public Citizen As you may have heard me say before, Public Citizen has more than 500,000 supporters all across America and the world. We need at least 840 of you to donate today to avoid falling behind on this, the second-to-last day of our critical year-end fundraising campaign. (That’s…

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  Robert Weissman, Public Citizen · [email protected]

December 30, 2022 at 3:03 PM

what the heck are we gonna do?

Support Public Citizen “Hey Robert, what does Public Citizen have in store for 2023?” Great question! Here are just some of Public Citizen’s priorities for the coming year in our ongoing mission — we’ve been at this for half a century and counting — to fight corporate power, hold government ac…

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  Public Citizen · [email protected]

December 29, 2022 at 10:31 PM

throwing punches

Support Public Citizen We hear something a lot: “Public Citizen punches above its weight.” We do. Proudly. And not by accident. That means we get more done than we should be able to given our size. And it means that Public Citizen is more effective than other organizations with similar…

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  Robert · [email protected]

December 29, 2022 at 7:02 PM

let me explain

Support Public Citizen You’re probably getting a lot of emails right now from organizations like Public Citizen. Let me explain what’s going on. If — after reading this note — you still think it’s too much, at least it will be clear where things stand. This is a peek behind the curtain that …

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  Public Citizen · [email protected]

December 29, 2022 at 3:32 PM

'I will kill you without remorse.'

Support Public Citizen We get a lot of hate mail at Public Citizen. Here are just a few examples: “I will kill you without remorse.” “What is really sad is that no one has killed the twisted morons at Public Citizen.” “The cops should beat you all within an inch of your lives.” “You all …

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  Public Citizen · [email protected]

December 28, 2022 at 11:01 PM

what if it happens again?

Support Public Citizen I’ll explain it as plainly as I can: We need just 116 more people to donate today to avoid falling behind in our critical year-end fundraising. But this is where things always seem to stall out. We get this close to a make-or-break goal, then so many people seem to fig…

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  Robert · [email protected]

December 28, 2022 at 7:31 PM

what have you done?

Support Public Citizen Maybe you’ve been getting emails from Public Citizen for years. Or maybe you heard about us for the first time just in the past few months. Either way, you might be wondering: “In the 50 years since Public Citizen was founded, what have you done?” “How did Public Citi…

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  Public Citizen · [email protected]

December 28, 2022 at 4:04 PM

you deserve an explanation

Support Public Citizen You’re probably getting a lot of emails right now from organizations like Public Citizen. Let me explain what’s going on. If — after reading this note — you still think it’s too much, at least it will be clear where things stand. This is a peek behind the curtain that …

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  Public Citizen · [email protected]

December 23, 2022 at 6:49 PM

a preview of 2023

Support Public Citizen Before we take a break for a few days, I wanted to make sure you saw my earlier note (copied below in case you missed it). It’s all about the kinds of progress that you and Public Citizen have achieved together and a preview of where we’ll be focusing our collective energy…

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  Robert · [email protected]

December 22, 2022 at 8:37 PM

yesterday, today, tomorrow

Support Public Citizen In case you missed it, my note from yesterday — highlighting just some of what you and Public Citizen have accomplished together and a few of our most critical priorities for 2023 — is copied below. Since this is the time of year when many people donate to organizations th…

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  Public Citizen · [email protected]

December 22, 2022 at 5:25 PM

why didn't the IRS audit Donald Trump?

We now know that the Internal Revenue Service did not audit Donald Trump while he was president in 2017 or 2018. This is perplexing for at least three reasons: One, Trump told us over and over again that he couldn’t release his taxes because he was being audited by the IRS. Turns out Trump wa…

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  Public Citizen · [email protected]

December 21, 2022 at 7:27 PM

who are you?

Support Public Citizen Maybe you’ve been getting emails from Public Citizen for years. Or maybe you heard about us for the first time just in the past few months. Either way, you might be wondering: “In the 50 years since Public Citizen was founded, what have you done?” “How did Public Citi…

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  Public Citizen · [email protected]

December 20, 2022 at 7:00 PM

tell them to prosecute Donald Trump for January 6

Donald Trump should be prosecuted by the United States Department of Justice. That’s the conclusion of the congressional January 6th Committee, which held its final hearing yesterday on efforts to keep Trump in power illegally despite his loss in the 2020 election. The bipartisan committee — …

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  Public Citizen · [email protected]

December 19, 2022 at 11:06 PM

we're going to let you in on a secret

Support Public Citizen This could be my final email to you for a while. Here’s the situation: We’ve reached the time of year when your inbox will be filling up with emails asking you to support organizations you care about. Nonprofits like Public Citizen can’t *not* be part of this flurry, b…

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  Public Citizen · [email protected]

December 19, 2022 at 8:11 PM

January 6th Committee says Trump should be prosecuted

Donald Trump should be prosecuted by the United States Department of Justice. That’s the just-announced determination of the congressional January 6th Committee, which moments ago concluded its final hearing on efforts to keep Trump in power illegally despite his loss in the 2020 election. Th…

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  Robert Weissman, Public Citizen · [email protected]

December 19, 2022 at 4:08 PM

this could be the last email you get from me until next year

Support Public Citizen This could be my final email to you for a while. Here’s the situation: We’ve reached the time of year when your inbox will be filling up with emails asking you to support organizations you care about. Nonprofits like Public Citizen simply can’t afford *not* to be part …

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  Public Citizen · [email protected]

December 16, 2022 at 7:23 PM

'our last hope is martial law'

“Our LAST HOPE is invoking Marshall Law!! PLEASE URGE TO PRESIDENT TO DO SO!!” That’s what one Republican member of Congress, Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina, texted to Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff, on January 17, 2021 — just days before President Biden was to be sworn into o…

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  Public Citizen · [email protected]

December 15, 2022 at 7:59 PM

these 34 members of Congress texted about overturning the 2020 election

“Our LAST HOPE is invoking Marshall Law!! PLEASE URGE TO PRESIDENT TO DO SO!!” That’s what one Republican member of Congress, Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina, texted to Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff, on January 17, 2021 — just days before President Biden was to be sworn into o…

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  Public Citizen · [email protected]

December 13, 2022 at 7:20 PM

a message for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema

Last week, Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona announced that she will no longer be registered as a Democrat. In many ways, this is not surprising. Sinema has voted more conservatively than any Democratic senator besides West Virginia’s Joe Manchin. Sinema thwarted efforts over the past two y…

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December 12, 2022 at 10:11 PM

tell Senator Kyrsten Sinema what you think

Last week, Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona announced that she will no longer be registered as a Democrat. In many ways, this is not surprising. Sinema has voted more conservatively than any Democratic senator besides West Virginia’s Joe Manchin. Sinema thwarted efforts over the past two y…

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December 11, 2022 at 8:50 PM

prosecuting Donald Trump for January 6

It has been almost two years since Donald Trump — in an attempt to remain in power illegally that would have ended American democracy as we know it — incited a violent mob to storm the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. And Trump has *still* not been formally charged for any crimes relat…

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December 9, 2022 at 9:09 PM

Donald Trump must be prosecuted

A quick but crucial note today. It has been almost two years since Donald Trump — in an attempt to remain in power illegally that would have ended American democracy as we know it — incited a violent mob to storm the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. And Trump has *still* not been for…

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December 8, 2022 at 10:11 PM

Tell Congress: No more corporate tax breaks

Congress is only in session for a couple more weeks this year. Your members of Congress should be doing everything they can to improve the lives of Americans before Republicans take over the House next year. But corporate lobbyists are in DC right now trying to convince Congress to lock in thr…

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December 7, 2022 at 7:32 PM

one essential piece of unfinished business

We are running out of time to pass critical legislation before Republicans take control of the U.S. House of Representatives. One essential piece of unfinished business is passing the Electoral Count Reform Act. This bipartisan legislation would prevent sore losers, liars, and cheats from exp…

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December 6, 2022 at 8:53 PM

so many American children living in poverty

America is the richest country on Earth. Yet millions — millions — of our nation’s children live in poverty. Congress actually did something about that last year by expanding a key tax break known as the Child Tax Credit. By the end of 2021, the rate of child poverty in America had been cut b…

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December 5, 2022 at 6:25 PM

what to do about crime in America

There is an epidemic of crime in America. Innocent, hard-working Americans are being terrorized and even killed by depraved criminals emboldened by a system of so-called justice that far too often administers little more than a slap on the wrist — if it investigates and prosecutes the perpetrat…

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December 3, 2022 at 7:46 PM

letting law enforcement deploy robots with lethal force

I’m not making this up. In a matter of days, one of America’s largest cities may give its police force the green light to use robots to kill people. And if somewhere as liberal as San Francisco allows this dystopian insanity, it is only a matter of time before cities and towns all across the …

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December 2, 2022 at 8:32 PM

killer police robots

I’m not making this up. In a matter of days, one of America’s largest cities may give its police force the green light to use robots to kill people. And if somewhere as liberal as San Francisco allows this dystopian insanity, it is only a matter of time before cities and towns all across the …

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  Public Citizen · [email protected]

November 30, 2022 at 8:13 PM

almost out of time to get this law passed

We have just a matter of weeks to pass critical legislation before Republicans take control of the U.S. House of Representatives. One essential piece of unfinished business is passing the Electoral Count Reform Act. This bipartisan legislation would prevent sore losers, liars, and cheats from…

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November 22, 2022 at 8:49 PM

do *not* let Trump back on Facebook

Elon Musk — still, somehow, the richest person on Earth — is letting Donald Trump back on Twitter. Trump’s exploitation of Twitter propelled him to the White House in 2016 and enabled his disastrous presidency, right up to his incitement of the January 6 insurrection. Letting Trump back on th…

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November 21, 2022 at 6:57 PM

tell them not to slow down investigation of Trump

On Friday, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to run investigations by the Department of Justice into Donald Trump’s role in the January 6 insurrection and the former president’s hoarding of government documents at his compound in Florida. The special counsel is a vete…

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November 19, 2022 at 8:25 PM

prosecute Trump already

Yesterday, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to run investigations by the Department of Justice into Donald Trump’s role in the January 6 insurrection and the former president’s hoarding of government documents at his compound in Florida. The special counsel is a vete…

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November 17, 2022 at 7:46 PM

Congress needs to pass this law NOW

The so-called “lame duck” session of Congress started this week. That’s the time between an election in November and the start of a new congressional term in January. We have just a matter of weeks to pass critical legislation in *this* Congress. (The U.S. House of Representatives will be under…

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  Public Citizen · [email protected]

November 16, 2022 at 3:32 PM

what Donald Trump announced last night

Support Public Citizen Last night, Donald Trump formally announced that he is running for president again. Trump’s presidency delivered an upward transfer of wealth at the expense of regular people, accelerated the planet’s rush to climate chaos, and turned cronyism and corruption into governing…

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  Public Citizen · [email protected]

November 15, 2022 at 7:17 PM

this could be the thing that saves our democracy

The so-called “lame duck” session of Congress started yesterday. That’s the time between an election in November and the start of a new congressional term in January. We have just a matter of weeks to pass critical legislation in *this* Congress. (The U.S. House of Representatives may be under …

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November 14, 2022 at 8:18 PM

how a wounded bird could prevent another January 6

The so-called “lame duck” session of Congress starts today. That’s the time between an election in November and the start of a new congressional term in January. We have just a matter of weeks to pass critical legislation in *this* Congress. (The U.S. House of Representatives may be under Repub…

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  Robert · [email protected]

November 12, 2022 at 7:05 PM

worried you might have missed this

Support Public Citizen The response to my post-election email — all about Public Citizen’s vision for advancing a progressive populist agenda and mobilizing to protect democracy — has been truly inspiring. My earlier note is copied below in case you missed it. I hope you can take just a few minu…

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