UPDATE: Here’s another cause! Republican Senators think they have a ‘lock’ on votes for Trump’s race-baiting,
xenophobic Attorney General nominee, Jeff Sessions. Don’t let them
do it! Here are organizations fighting for the cause. NAACP http://www.naacp.org/ Welcome to the
Democracy Initiative Education Fund http://www.democracyinitiative.org/
Call Mitch McConnell at 202-224-2541 and call US Senators at https://commoncause.org/take-action/find-elected-officicals/ . Tell
them to ditch Sessions!
Check out Sessions’ true colors at 12
Reasons Jeff Sessions Should Never Be Attorney General http://www.rightwingwatch.org/.../12-reasons-jeff-sessions-should-never-be-attorney-gener...
and Senators Must Vote ‘No’ to Jeff Sessions as Attorney General http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.../the-debate-over-sessions-nomination-for-attorney-genera...
Bring it on!
Barely ¼ (26%) of eligible voters put Trump in Office having loss to Hillary’s nearly 3 million popular votes, and overall, many Democrats won more votes than Republicans at congressional and state elections but 'loss' because of the fix associated with Republican gerrymandered election rigging made easier by low voter turnout Midterm Elections in 2010, 2014 and the 2016 General Election!
The good news is Democrats didn’t do as badly as Fact Free
FOXifiers and
other Right Wing
pundits would like you to believe in the 2016 General Election!
With high voter turnout, think how far we can go in the 2018 Midterms with no Electoral College!
So - With high voter turnout, think how far we can go in the 2018 Midterms with no Electoral College!
Bring it on!
Add these winning ideas
to your New Year Resolutions list!
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Bring back democracy by learning about and taking action against Republican gerrymandering - Learn about Republican election rigging at Gerrymandering helped Republicans take control of Congress https://www.latimes.com/.../la-na-pol-trump-divides-congress-20161001-snap-s, Republicans rigged the House through
gerrymandering https://www.dailykox.com/.../-Republicans-rigged-the-House-through-gerryman...
and This
is how the GOP rigged Congress: The secret plan that handcuffed https://www.salon/com/this_is_how_the_gop_rigged_congress_the_secret_plan...
. Take action! Support the Common Cause Redistricting coalition at https://www.commoncause.org/issues/voting-and-elections/redistricting/
Take action! Be on the look out
and be sure to attend and encourage
others to attend any state legislative sessions involving redistricting and/or voting. You can keep track of sessions and more at Find
your Elected Official - Common Cause https://commoncause.org/take-action/find-elected-officicals/
Take action! Get out the vote for
high voter turnout in the 2018
Midterms to get the gerrymandering Republicans
out of office at the gubernatorial and state legislature levels from now. Waiting until 2018 will be too late.
Get involved in important causes - If you are concerned about the Republican Congress’, Republican
governors’ and Republican state
legislators’ pledge to destroy Obamacare, Planned Parenthood, to hand-over Medicare,
public education, veterans services, and the like to corporate welfare on the backs of the middle class and the poor, call or visit and get others to call or visit your congressional and state reps via
the following links.
Find contact information for
federal, state and local government officials at Contact Elected Official
-USA.gov https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials
Find out how to contact your elected
officials, bills they’ve introduced, committees they serve on and political
contributions at Find your Elected Official - Common Cause https://commoncause.org/take-action/find-elected-officicals/
Get involved with The American
Civil Liberties Union - ACLU - Join
forces with the ACLU at https://www.aclu.org/
The ACLU is a nationwide organization with more than 1 million activists and
supporters that has been a guardian of liberty, working in courts, legislatures
and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that
the Constitution and the laws of the United State guarantee everyone in this
country. Whether it relates to reinstating
voting rights that the Republican Congress
refuses to act upon; protecting the sovereign
nation lands of Native Americans whose sacred burial grounds are being ruined
by the militaristic take-over of big oil companies, or investigating the all
too frequent deaths of unarmed African
American youth and men at the hands of bad
apples within the law enforcement community.
Get involved with protecting Planned Parenthood and Roe v Wade - Republican congressional reps, governors and state
legislators have declared war on Planned Parenthood. Stand with Planned
Parenthood and help support access to reproductive health care, cancer
screenings, the prevention of sexually transmitted infections and hepatitis B and emergency
contraception at https://www.plannedparenthood.org/
Also, let everybody in your
social networks know the name and state
represented by every Republican
congressional rep who votes against Planned Parenthood via http://www.projectvotesmart.com
Get involved with
protecting voting rights - The Republican Congress
refuses to reinstate voting rights so that Republican
governors and state legislators can, freely, institute voting suppression. Fight
for the right to vote by joining and supporting the League
of Women Voters at https://lwv.org/issues/protecting-voters;
Common Cause - Protect the Vote at https://www.commoncause.org/issues/voting-and-elections/voter-protection/
, and/or Election Protection - You Have
the Right to Vote at https://www.855ourvote.org/
Meet with your congressional representatives - Trump will be governing with virtually no checks and balances with Republican
control of the House and Senate. You don’t need to buy a plane, train or bus
ticket to visit your congressional rep.
Every rep has one or more offices in the state they represent and they
go home on weekends, holidays or their frequent taxpayer-paid “breaks”.
Find out how to contact your
congressional reps at OpenCongress https://www.opencongress.org/people/zipcidelookup
Tips on how to conduct your
meeting as well as follow-up can be found at https://usgovinfo.about.com/od/thepoliticalsyster
Finally -
Smell the roses! - Think of three good things in your life each morning before you get out of bed and enjoy the ride!
ELECTION SOURCES:
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It’s official: Clinton outpaced Trump in popular vote by almost 3 millionhttp://wtvr.com/2016/12/21/its-oficial-clinton-o
26
Percent of Eligible Voters Voted for Trump | Mises Wire
https://mises.org/blog/26-percent-eligible-voters-voted-trump
Voter Turnout Data - United States Election Project
https://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/voter-turnout-data
On to 2018!
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