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Top Stories for September 23:
Top GOP senators reject Trump’s declassification comments and call for proper storage of secret records
As Trump resorts to increasingly absurd defenses for his chronically criminal behavior he’s discovering that even his longtime Republican enablers have their limits.
Take Action: Charge the Trump supporters who compromised ballot machines!
VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump humiliates himself on national TV with dumbest comment of the year
The disgraced ex-president, under mounting legal pressure from seemingly all sides, wheeled out the motherlode of moronic claims.
Take Action: Endorse 37 climate champions running this November!
Ron DeSantis’ migrant stunt BACKFIRES spectacularly
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Not what he expected…
Special master in Mar-a-Lago case asks Trump to back up his allegation that FBI “planted” evidence
The serial con man’s attorneys now have the unenviable task of somehow producing proof that simply does not exist.
Take Action: Call on the Democratic Party to stop working with corporate mercenary firms!
Zero GOP senators vote to curb dark money’s stranglehold on democracy
Republicans filibustered the widely popular DISCLOSE Act yesterday, which seeks to expose super-wealthy donors who are spending huge sums of money to ensure that the US government advances their interests at the expense of the rest of us. Vote these fools out of office in November, folks!
Take Action: Demand Congress pass the Respect for Marriage Act!
Secret Service knew of neo-Nazi threat on Jan. 6
Secret Service members were aware that a notable neo-Nazi group was planning to engage in violence in Washington, DC, on Jan. 6 but appear to have done little to act on it, according to new documents obtained by a watchdog group.
Take Action: Tell Facebook to crack down on dangerous Republican lies about the IRS!
House GOP cuts loose candidate who lied about military service
The House GOP campaign arm abandoned a near-$1 million ad buy meant to boost JR Majewski’s bid to unseat longtime Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur, essentially walking away from what could have been an easy pickup for the party in a newly competitive, gerrymandered district.
📹: Don (pun intended) your tinfoil hats – things are about to get MAGA level crazy
OD Action Partner: Our country was founded on the idea that someone like THIS would never be able to hold office, or in their mind DOMINON, over us as people.
Judge blocks Indiana abortion ban one week after it took effect
Republicans hellbent on telling women what to do with their own bodies keep running into pesky obstacles — the very constitutions they’ve sworn to abide and uphold.
Stacey Abrams enrages Republicans by citing actual science on “fetal heartbeats”
“There is no such thing as a [fetal] heartbeat at six weeks,” Abrams said during a panel discussion in Atlanta this week. “It is a manufactured sound designed to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman’s body away from her.”
Lindsey Graham doubles down on his deeply unpopular abortion-ban politics
Asked what he would tell fellow Republicans who are “not happy” and want him to “be quiet” and wait until after the midterms to push his horrific abortion ban, the Trump lackey replied, “You’re naive… We owe it to the American people to tell them who we are, and here’s who we are as a national party.”
Ex-official takes a plea deal in Brett Favre-connected welfare embezzlement scheme
John Davis, the former executive director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services, took part in a brazen conspiratorial scheme, siphoning $77 million from state programs for the poor to line the pockets of fat cats and the well-to-do. Favre is not facing charges and has maintained he didn’t know where the money came from — but texts uncovered by Mississippi Free Press this month suggested otherwise.
America the beautiful?
What a wonderful world?
Hope…
Today’s Action: Tell your senators to reject Lindsey Graham’s national abortion ban!
While GOP political candidates across the country are quickly attempting to backtrack on their craven anti-abortion extremism, Senate Republicans stand ready as ever to escalate their war on a woman’s right to choose.
Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced a wildly unpopular national ban on abortions after 15 weeks under the deeply misleadingly excuse of ending “late-term” abortions — a right-wing political construct, not an actual term used by medical professionals. The truth is, the vast majority of abortions performed after 21 weeks are done so to save the life of the mother or to end a nonviable pregnancy. As if things couldn’t get worse, doctors have warned that the GOP’s proposed ban would force some women to have invasive transvaginal ultrasounds.
Call (202-224-3121) or email your senators and tell them to vote down Lindsey Graham’s draconian abortion ban!
Graham’s radical bill is a direct threat to the lives of American women. We’ve already seen how the new anti-abortion bans in red states have had a chilling effect on the medical community, delaying treatment for women and forcing them to endure immense physical suffering out of fear of criminal prosecution.
There is no time to waste. We must send a loud and clear message to the United States Senate that the American people support abortion rights and that we reject Lindsey Graham’s effort to impose the GOP’s distorted religious agenda on an unwilling American public.
Call (202-224-3121) or email your senators and demand they reject Lindsey Graham’s national abortion ban!
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