Trump’s alma mater confirms Cohen’s explosive claim
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Today’s Action: Tell the House to strengthen background checks – vote is TODAY
Today’s Top Stories:
Trump’s alma mater speaks out about Michael Cohen’s explosive House testimony claim
Trump’s lawyer made a serious accusation against him, and the university was forced to chime in.
Michael Cohen puts Ivanka Trump squarely in investigators’ crosshairs
The president’s longtime fixer and lawyer threw the First Daughter and her brother to the wolves in his stunning testimony.
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GOP operative indicted for election fraud in nullified North Carolina election
McCrae Dowless, the political operative at the heart of the NC election fraud case, is indicted on seven charges.
A Fox host threatens to throw his co-host out as panel descends into chaos over Cohen testimony
Trump’s cheerleaders are descending into civil war as the harsh truth about their president sinks in.
The Florida Bar Association launches an investigation into one of Trump’s favorite Congressmen
Rep. Matt Gaetz did Trump’s dirty work, and now he’s facing the music.
Landmark gun violence protection legislation passes House
The House passed what advocates call the most significant gun control measure in more than two decades
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Michael Cohen humiliates House Republicans to their faces over their bootlicking defense of Trump
The president’s ex-lawyer flipped the script on his questioners and hammered them for the whole nation to see.
The Republican Party faceplants into an enormous self-own with smear attack on Michael Cohen
Social media had a FIELD DAY mocking the GOP for their head-scratching move.
Two progressive women of color make history, advance to Chicago Mayoral runoff
Five weeks from now, history will be made in Chicago and the city will have its first African-American female mayor.
Trump bans four US journalists from covering Kim dinner
Reporters from the AP, Bloomberg, the LA Times and Reuters were excluded because of what the White House said were “sensitivities over shouted questions in the previous sprays.”
Today’s Action: Tell the House to strengthen background checks – vote is TODAY
Yesterday, House Democrats and eight Republicans passed a major piece of gun safety legislation to close the “gun show loophole,” mandating that (with few exceptions) all gun purchases must be run through a background check.
Today, the companion piece takes the stage: H.R.1112, which extends the waiting period on background checks that require additional examination by the FBI from 3 days to 10 days.
Both bills are simple: they don’t include any gun reform beyond background checks. Republicans will be forced to finally answer whether they’re for or against this common sense and incredibly popular safety precaution, rather than hiding behind the excuses around more controversial measures.
The vote is today. Call or email your Representatives and tell them to vote YES on H.R.1112. Remind them that 90% of Americans support background checks, and so should they.
An improved background check system might have prevented the 2015 white supremacy-inspired mass shooting at a historic Black church in Charleston, SC…ditto to the 2017 Sutherland Springs shooting that killed 25. And a Washington State study found that 1-in-10 online gun purchases were made by individuals who would have been otherwise prevented by background checks due to rape, domestic violence, and other charges.
Universal background checks are, of course, not the ‘final answer’ in gun safety (Parkland, Las Vegas, and other shooters used guns purchased with a background check). But, there is no question that it would save lives. An improved process is a first of many needed steps to not only help prevent future mass shootings…but save thousands of lives lost each year that never make the headlines.
Email or call (202.224.3121) your Representatives and demand their support of H.R.1112. Tell them gun safety must be our highest priority for reducing the epidemic of bloodshed in our country, and strengthening background checks are a popular and common sense step in the right direction.
PS — Please don’t forget to sign the petition to charge Trump’s ex-acting Attorney General with perjury for lying to Congress, 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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