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It’s not news that Trump is a pathetic excuse for a human being but...the astonishing pace at which he demonstrates proof is still hard to come to grips with.
New Podcast up!
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Challenges, opportunities, and actions for activists around the 2020 election.Mitch McConnell apparently has no problem with huge, multi-billion dollar corporations receiving bailout funds, but wants Attorney General Bob Barr to investigate Planned Parenthood since it received a loan to help keep employees on the payroll.
This makes it perfectly clear that Moscow Mitch is more interested in scoring political points with Donald Trump's base rather than actually helping the public (in this case, people who work for an organization that provides a variety of healthcare services).
McConnell calls on Barr to investigate Planned Parenthood loans
www.politico.com
The Republican complaints about the Planned Parenthood loans add a new dynamic of conservative outrage around the small business rescue.Anybody else find it rather interesting that the Trump family has its clothing lines made in China, but then claims China's launching a trade war and stealing American jobs.
Also, looks like Trump's "Make America Great Again" stuff was ... wait for it .... MADE IN CHINA.
Donald Trump recently said "we're going after Virginia, with your crazy governor, we're going after Virginia. They want to take your Second Amendment. You know that, right? You'll have nobody guarding your potatoes."
So Democratic Rep. Don Beyer from Northern Virginia had the perfect reply.
Remembering ADA leader, Allard Lowenstein. Great article.
A leader lost: Remembering activist Al Lowenstein
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In 1967, an unknown 38-year-old civil rights activist from New York took it upon himself to change the world, and then he did. Allard Lowenstein, a Yale-educated lawyer who had steadfastly avoided ...Many ADAers including VA Organizer Bryan Scrafford. Perhaps you can join the event.
Fireside: Updates w/Chris Schwartz by Lighting The Darkness • A podcast on Anchor
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Updates on a range of issues with ADA Iowa Organizer and Black Hawk County IA Supervisor, Chris SchwartzTrump Admin (mob family) fires (rubs out) yet another inspector general. We cannot grow tired of expressing outrage, we cannot grow numb to the steady drip of corruption and incompetence, and we cannot sit on our hands as the election approaches.
State Department inspector general fired; Democrats decry ‘dangerous pattern of retaliation’
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Rep. Eliot L. Engel, chairman of House Foreign Affairs Committee, alleged the State Inspector General was fired after opening an investigation into Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and said the timing suggested “an unlawful act of retaliation.”Tune in to ADA’s latest podcast, a conversation with ADA leader Kurt Meyer.
ADA Profiles in Action: Kurt Meyer by Lighting The Darkness • A podcast on Anchor
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We get to know ADA Executive Committee Chair Kurt Meyer and explore his influences and activist profile.ADA: What You Should Know
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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
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ADA Endorses Bernie Sanders for Democratic Nomination
“As Americans for Democratic Action we stand for a liberalism that moves with the times.” Those words are the opening to Americans for Democratic Action’s founding statement drafted more than 70 years ago by such iconic political figures as Eleanor Roosevelt, Hubert...
ADA Awards Gala. Register today!
Join us June 18th in DC to honor progressive champions such as Leo Gerard of the United Steel Workers and Author/Activist Yoland Caraway. Register HERE.
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.