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Today’s Action: Tell the Senate to pass a #NoWall budget
Today’s Top Stories:
Martin Luther King’s son torches Mike Pence for dishonoring his father with Trump’s bigotry
The Vice-President tried to hijack his dad’s legacy and got called out publicly.
Trump makes what may be the worst MLK Day presidential commemoration ever
Many Americans are calling it a slap in the face to civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
People in all 50 states are defying Trump’s efforts to undo Obama’s climate saving legacy with this online service
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Trump makes an appallingly racist tweet on Martin Luther King Day
As America mourned the murder of the civil rights leader, the Republican president had other plans.
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Trump’s staff gets busted doctoring his social media photos to make him more attractive
Judge for yourself with the before and after photos.
Trump’s Press Secretary gets hammered for whitewashing white supremacy in MLK Day tweet
Sarah Huckabee Sanders sparked outrage on social media with her disrespectful tweet.
A basketball team quits a tournament after its own fans taunt black rivals with Trump
A controversy has erupted in Minnesota and school officials have launched an investigation.
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Giuliani walks back Sunday’s bombshell and Kellyanne Conway’s husband roasts him for it
He put his foot in his mouth, got grilled by Trump, and pulled a jaw-dropping 180º.
Today’s Action: Tell the Senate to pass a #NoWall budget
We are now in week five of Trump’s shutdown. This weekend, the president presented Democrats with a non-starter “deal,” offering Dreamers undefined and temporary protections against his own threats in exchange for a border wall most Americans don’t want and none of us need. Democratic leaders thankfully rejected it for the unacceptable garbage plan that it was.
Democrats in the House have passed legislation to open the government that Republicans already approved in the Senate in December, which includes additional funding for border security but no wall. Republicans in the Senate only need to pass the same legislation they were perfectly happy with last month before Trump’s Russian Roulette game with federal workers lives kicked into high gear.
If the government does not reopen by this Friday, the 800,000 federal employees working without pay will miss their second paycheck. Tens of thousands of additional federal contractors are out of work, losing $200 million a day. TSA staffing is down, causing strain at all airports. And even the science community has seen heartbreaking losses in disrupted research due to pulled funding and shuttered doors.
The pressure is on Senate Republicans and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who has refused to bring any funding legislation which would actually pass the Senate to a vote.
Remember: Congress can overturn presidential veto…so we don’t need Trump to like our plan to make it happen.
PS — Please don’t forget to sign the petition to indict Trump for felony conspiracy, 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.