House Republicans deliver Trump a stinging rebuke
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House Republicans join with Democrats to override Trump’s veto of defence bill
Even many of his most devout bootlickers could not let the outgoing Oval Office occupant abandon our nation’s defenses for an ego trip and white supremacist agenda.
VIDEO OF THE DAY: Jake Tapper castigates Kayleigh McEnany on air for lying
CNN’s Tapper roasted the outgoing president’s press secretary, noting, “McEnany lies the way that most people breathe.”
Trump’s “dead voters” claim backfires on his own campaign
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: This one is humiliating.
Bernie Sanders to filibuster defense veto override to force vote on $2,000 checks
Sanders will filibuster an override of Trump’s defense bill veto unless the Senate holds a vote on legislation providing $2,000 direct payments to Americans that just overwhelmingly passed the House. The move could undermine Republican senators competing in the heated Georgia runoffs.
Take Action: Tell McConnell to get out of the way of Americans’ $2,000 checks!
Biden rips Trump political appointees for obstructing transition process
President-elect Biden accused the outgoing administration of continuing to obstruct the transition process, warning that a fumbled handoff could leave an opening for America’s adversaries to exploit.
Republican officials target Mike Pence in desperate lawsuit to get Trump a second term
As inauguration day draws near, the Republican Party is cannibalizing itself as it tries to keep its disastrous leader in power.
Take Action: Tell Republicans to put country over party and condemn Trump’s made-for-TV coup!
Judge blocks voter purge in two counties disenfranchising thousands of Georgians
Federal Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner — the sister of former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams — ordered two counties to reverse a decision removing more than 4,000 voters from the rolls ahead of the Jan. 5 runoff elections that will decide control of the US Senate.
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Texas fracking billionaires drew federal pandemic aid after Ted Cruz intervened on their behalf
Dan and Farris Wilks, longtime financial backers of Sen. Cruz, received a $35 million relief loan to help one of their fracking companies stay afloat after the GOP senator forced changes to stimulus legislation passed in the spring.
Major climate change measures included in pandemic relief bill
The bipartisan relief package includes $35 billion in spending over the next five years on solar, wind and other clean power sources.
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Today’s Action: Two weeks left to flip the Senate!
Two weeks from today, Georgia voters will decide who controls the Senate for the next two years — either Democrats who have been fighting the grim reaper to support working families and build a more equitable society, or Republicans who would quite literally rather let Americans starve during a pandemic than tax billionaires.
This is isn’t rocket science. We MUST win the Senate!
- Sign up with Swing Left to make calls or canvass in-person if you’re a local
- Sign up with Color of Change to make calls to Black voters in Georgia
- Spanish speakers! Sign up with Mijente to GOTV with Latinx voters
If we cannot win the Senate next week, Mitch McConnell will be just as much a roadblock for Biden’s agenda as he has been for House Democrats. And he won’t mind at all if we get nothing done for the American people the next two years.
Georgia’s Senate candidates, Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, are fantastic Democrats for the state and fully capable of beating the Trump-chump incumbents. But voters will need your encouragement to battle the raging suppression that the GOP is bringing, still scalding from their loss of the presidency and making this last effort to block our goals.
Let’s put 2020 behind us and ring in the new year right: with the ability to enact a progressive agenda in 2021.
Sign up for a two-hour shift this weekend to Get Out The Vote in Georgia!
- Sign up with Swing Left to make calls or canvass in-person if you’re a local
- Sign up with Color of Change to connect with Black voters in Georgia
- Spanish speakers! Sign up with Mijente to GOTV with Latinx voters
PS — Please don’t forget to sign the petition calling on EPA to rescind its approval on a deadly pesticide after Trump repealed the ban, 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.
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