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Today’s Action: Write letters to register voters and overturn gerrymandering!
Today’s Top Stories:
The Orlando Sentinel issues unprecedented 2020 endorsement ahead of Trump’s kickoff rally
Orlando’s biggest newspaper rained on Trump’s big parade before it even began.
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Support for impeachment is growing, and AOC lays out exactly why it’s the right thing to do.
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Trump’s Secretary of State gets hit with surprise Putin lawsuit by watchdog group
The president and his cronies thought their Russia troubles were over, but they were sadly mistaken.
Trump’s acting Defense Secretary resigns after a disturbing scandal surfaces
After an FBI background check found skeletons in his closet, Shanahan leaves the Pentagon rudderless.
Ocasio-Cortez wrecks Dick Cheney’s daughter over Trump’s concentration camps
The prominent Democrat took Rep. Cheney to task over her defense of the president’s cruelty.
A prominent Republican Attorney General is hit with a disturbing sexual misconduct scandal
Yet another family values Republican has been exposed for the hypocrite he is – and now he’s paying the price.
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Trump takes credit for passing veterans bill that passed under Obama
There is no lie too brazen for this president.
Mitch McConnell says America made up for slavery by electing Barack Obama
He also suggested reparations weren’t worth addressing because “no one currently alive was responsible for that.”
Sandy Hook victim’s father wins defamation suit against Alex Jones
The conservative conspiracy theorist was sanctioned for his heinous lies.
Today’s Action: Write letters to register voters and overturn gerrymandering!
For years, the GOP has seen declines in the popular vote. And instead of, you know, adjusting their policies to win back voters, in 2010 they instead turned to strategic and undemocratic gerrymandering – aggressively redrawing legislative district lines to give themselves an unfair edge.
Republican Gerrymandering outside of your own state affects you a lot, no matter where you live. For example, in 2018, North Carolina Republicans won 50.3% of the popular vote for House seats – but kept control of a disproportionate 10 out of 13 seats (76.9%) in the House of Representatives, stealing three Democratic seats. The state leadership draws the district lines for those seats, but we all feel national results.
The courts are slowly tackling some of this GOP manipulation, but not all of it. That’s why it’s vital we do everything we can to register every single Democratic voter in affected states – because electing more Democrats at the state level is our best way to ensure fair Congressional District lines.
Some states like Washington and California generally vote broadly Democratic, while others are solidly red (for now…). However, seven red/purple states could be blue, where voters exist to defeat the GOP *if* we get them registered and committed to voting.
The seven target gerrymandered states are: Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin. Many of these states may be familiar to you already as historic ideological battlegrounds…while others like Texas and Georgia are signals of changing progressive times!
Writing letters to unregistered voters is one of the most effective AND convenient methods to building Democratic voting blocs…and the good folks of Vote Forward make it easy.
PS — Please don’t forget to sign the petition for Congress to act over Trump’s invitation for foreign interference in the 2020 Election, and check out the brilliant “Don’t Think of an Elephant” by George Lakoff — a quick read that contains the ultimate keys for Democrats to win elections — and arguments.