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It is our policymakers’ job to ensure voting systems are secure and work for all voters, especially when there’s a crisis like this pandemic. What we’ve seen this primary season has been a wakeup call for our democracy. These tragedies can’t happen again. #ProtectOurVote #VRA55
The HEROES Act recognizes the scale of the challenge before us and allocates $3.6 billion to states to make the changes and updates we need to make it possible for every eligible voter in America to cast a ballot and have it counted. Time for the Senate to #ProtectOurVote. #VRA55
As we celebrate 55 years of the Voting Rights Act, our work to ensure access to the ballot isn’t over. We need Congress to #ProtectOurVote, and we need states to give voters a clear range of options in November. Voters shouldn’t have to choose between their health & vote. #VRA55
Today marks 55 years since President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law and we’re still fighting modern-day forms of voter suppression. On #VRA55, we must urge our lawmakers to #ProtectOurVote and fund our elections. Our democracy can’t wait!
As Trump's facing backlash for his false claims about voter fraud and saying voting by mail is bad despite using that option himself, he's suddenly changing course and essentially admitted absentee voting and vote by mail are the same thing. He's also now encouraging people in swing states like Florida to vote by mail.
Trump backtracks on mail-in voting, says it's OK to do in Florida
www.politico.com
The president's shift on mail-in voting comes as new data indicates the president’s assault on the practice may backfire on him come November.The Senate is considering the next round of coronavirus relief and we MUST make sure that paid sick, family and medical leave is included in the package. If we want to slow the spread and reopen the country safely then every worker must be able to take time off work when sick without fear of losing their job. Join us today at 3pm eastern at the Rally for Paid Leave!
Economists say 2009's stimulus bill to help recover from the Great Recession is evidence of how we need to have a big investment in our communities to ensure the economic recovery is as strong as possible.
About That Next Bailout: One Big Lesson from 2009
www.politico.com
Massive as it sounds, the next Covid bailout deal may already be too small.Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos are trying to force schools to fully reopen this fall, even as COVID infections and deaths surge across the country. Thousands of students, parents, educators and allies are joining together TODAY for a National Day of Resistance to Demand the Safe, Healthy and Equitable Reopening of schools. Visit www.demandsafeschools.org to pledge your support. #DemandSafeSchools
Join us for a Moral Monday to Stop McConnell’s Misery, Meanness and Mayhem - today at 3:30 pm eastern! www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/livestream/?link_id=1&can_id=0442fbc4dbffaa17d90cb0afa31e464d&source=...
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Coming Up: Join us for a Moral Monday to Stop McConnell’s Misery, Meanness and Mayhem, on Monday, August 3, 2020 at 3:30pm ET / 12:30pm PT. We will honor the dead and flood the phones of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to push for a full and just relief package. Click here to RSVP.In yet another example of how Trump's trying to become a dictator since an open democratic process wouldn't allow him to advance his agenda, he's now refusing to allow press to cover the Republican National Convention.
The biggest question obviously is: what's Trump trying to hide from the American people and why's he so worried about a free press?
GOP: Renomination of Trump to be held in private - The Boston Globe
www.bostonglobe.com
The vote to renominate President Donald Trump is set to be conducted in private later this month, without members of the press present. Nominating conventions are traditionally meant to be media bonanzas, and if the GOP decision stands, it will mark the first party nominating convention in modern hi...With Trump's poor handling of the coronavirus playing a huge role in the record decline of the economy, his poll numbers plummeting as the US has some of the highest numbers of new cases, and Americans fed up with him spewing hatred and sending unmarked federal agents in to tear gas and arrest peaceful protesters, this article really gets to the heart of what's going on. Trump wants to distract voters from his horrible record by claiming he'll delay the election.
Trump revisits his playbook for disastrous news: An explosive spectacle
www.politico.com
Minutes after the government announced the worst economic contraction on record, the president upended a day in Washington with his suggestion of delaying the election.As Donald Trump is trying to delay the election and trying to act like measures to allow people to vote safely would create voter fraud (despite no real evidence supporting the claim), Obama was busy honoring a civil rights legend and spoke about how we have to continue the fight John Lewis and others took on to ensure Americans from all backgrounds have the right to vote.
Obama calls for renewing Voting Rights Act at Lewis funeral: WATCH
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Obama compared current national circumstances to the earlier civil rights era when Lewis helped lead the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.ADA: What You Should Know
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ADA Awards Gala. Register today!
Join us September 23rd in DC to honor progressive champions such as Leo Gerard of the United Steel Workers, Journalist E.J. Dionne, and Author/Activist Yolanda Caraway. Register HERE.
ADA Vote 2020
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Covid-19 Resources
Check out updates, information, and actions related to the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic.
ADA Fireside Chats
ADA is doing weekly Fireside Chats on different topics. Join us at 8pm eastern. CLICK HERE TO WATCH LIVE or on ADA's Facebook Page HERE. View last week's ADA Fireside Chat HERE.
ADA Time Machine
Check out this interesting exchange between Daniel Patrick Moynihan and John Kenneth Galbraith about ADA Membership. https://adaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/ADAGalbraithMoynihan1970.pdf
Check back from time to time to see other ADA History.
How has Congressional partisanship evolved?
A researcher in London has used ADA Voting Records over the past 70 years to create a tool that shows all sorts of interactive information on partisanship trends. Check out the tool HERE.