Sunday, November 5, 2017

Twenty reasons why WE need to defeat the GOP on November 7, 2017!

 
UPDATE: 11/8/2017
Showing up makes all the difference! Resist onward to 2018!
Democrats win big in elections widely viewed as referendums on Trump
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/.../democrats-win-up-and-down-the-ballot-in-legislative-...

  1. Voter suppression!
  2. Alternative facts!
  3. Denying affordable health care!
  4. Promoting corporate welfare!
  5. Poisoning the Flint water system!
  6. Racial, cultural and religious intolerance!
  7. Xenophobia!
  8. Homophobia!
  9. Placing corporate interests over the needs of the poor!
  10. Making the middle class shoulder the burden of state-level corporate welfare!
  11. Promoting and enforcing Republican congressional obstruction at the state level during the Obama presidency!
  12. Promoting and enforcing Republican Congress’ deregulation of Obama’s clean air regulations!
  13. Promoting and enforcing Republican Congress’ deregulation of Obama’s consumer protections from predatory lenders!
  14. Promoting and enforcing Republican Congress’ deregulating of Obama’s toxin-free water regulations!
  15. Legislating open carry and guns everywhere laws!
  16. Promoting racial injustice for Blacks and other minorities!
  17. Cutting social service funding for veterans, the elderly, infants, children, the disabled and the poor to benefit state-level corporate welfare!
  18. Cutting education funding!
  19. School boards rewriting history to deny slavery!
  20. Enforcing Trump’s and Sessions' bigoted anti-immigrant policies!

GOTTA’ VOTE!
NOVEMBER 7, 2017!


Mobilize to vote out Republican Governors
https://ballotpedia.org/Gubernatorial_elections,_2018

Mobilize to vote out Republican State Legislators
https://ballotpedia.org/State_legislative_elections_2018
 
Project Vote Smart

Common Cause - Protect the Vote
https://www.commoncause.org/issues/voting-and-elections/voter-protection/

Election Protection - You Have the Right to Vote
 https://www.855ourvote.org/

5 Voter Rights Orgs You Should Follow | craigconnects
www.craigconnects.org/2014/09/5-voter-rights-orgs-you-should-folow.html

Organizations: Voting Rights - Reclaim the American Dream
www.reclaimtheamericandream.org/organizations-vote/

Project Vote: Home
www.projevyvote.org/

FairVote - Nonpartisan Voter Protection Organizations
http://archive.fairvote.org/?page=2468

Combat Republican election rigging
Common Cause
 
 
Spread the word!
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SOURCES:
 

VOTER SUPPRESSION

Stripping Away Voting Rights To Maintain Control -

www.changeisonus.org/removal-voting-rights-michigans-black-voters/ 
Weird and Extreme Republican Voter Suppression Tricks for ...www.politicususa.com/.../republican-voter-suppression-guide-2014-editi...

Jon Stewart Tears Apart Republican Election Tactics, New ...

www.forwardprogressives.com/jon-stewart-tears-apart-republican-electio...
Voter Suppression | American Civil Liberties Union
https://www.aclu.org/.../voter-suppression ‎
 
The Great Gerrymander of 2012 - NYTimes.com
www.nytimes.com/.../the-great-gerrymander-of-20... ‎
The Numbers Don't Lie - Slate
www.slate.com/.../2012/.../the_supreme_court_s_citizens_united_de.. ‎
 
CORPORATE WELFARE

Conservative States Starve Public Schools, Feed Rich With ...

https://ourfuture.org/.../conservative-state...
The Corporate Takeover of Public Education - Huffington Post
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../the-corporate-takeover...
 

Government Spends More on Corporate Welfare Subsidies ...

www.thinkbynumbers.org/...welfare/corporate-welfare-statistics-vs-social-welf...

Republicans love welfare...for corporations

www.jsonline.com  › Blogs › Purple Wisconsin

Republicans Starve The Poor While Handing $20 Billion to ...

www.politicususa.com/.../republicans-starve-poor-handing-20-billion-co..

How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich | Rolling Stone

www.rollingstone.com/.../how-the-gop-became-the-party-o...
 
DENIAL OF AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE
GOP Governors Cost Their States Billions To Deny Poor People ...
www.crooksandliars.com/.../gop-governors-cost-their-states-b... ‎
 
Republican governors take critical care away from everyone by ...
www.dailykos.com/.../-Republican-governors-take-crit...‎
 
MAP: The 5 Million People The GOP Cut Out Of Obamacare
www.talkingpointsmemo.com/.../medicaid-expansion-ma...
‎
 
 
WAR ON THE MIDDLE CLASS AND POOR
Priorities? GOP Governors Shift Burden to Poor, Middle Class…

Article: 8 Phony GOP Solutions for Poverty That Will Only bring More

The Republican War on the Poor - The Globalist

Meet the poverty liars: GOP peddles more garbage in war on the poor…

14 ways Republicans have declared war on the middle class-

From Middle Class to Peasant Class: How Republicans Made…


 
GUNS EVERYWHERE LAWS
Georgia Republican Says New 'Guns Everywhere' Law A ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../paul-broun-guns_n_55...
Little-known laws shed light on NRA influence - USA Today
www.usatoday.com/story/.../politics/.../nra-gun...laws/18337...

New laws since Newtown - Law Center to Prevent Gun ...

NRA Winning the Influence Battle Over Gun Control - Forbes
www.forbes.com/.../nra-winning-the-influence-battle-over-gun-co...
The GOP's mind-blowing gun-control hypocrisy: Americans ...
www.salon.com/.../the_gops_mind_blowing_gun_control_hypocri...
 
PROMOTION OF GOP CONGRESS' OBAMA OBSTRUCTION
 
ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION 
The Poisoning of Flint's Water - The New York Timeswww.nytimes.com/.../the-poisoning-of-flints-water.ht...
Gov. Rick Snyder replaced the elected leadership of Flint ...
www.ashevilleprogressive.com/.../gov-rick-snyder-replaced-elected-leadership...

5 Reasons Why the Keystone Pipeline is Bad for the Economy

 

Keystone XL Pipeline - National Wildlife Federation

www.nwf.org/.../Keystone-XL-Pipeline.aspx
Cowboys and Indians Keystone XL protest - 1 of 16 - Politico
www.politico.com/.../cowboys-and-indians-keystone...protest/00../ ‎

 
CRIMINAL INJUSTICE
Criminal Justice Fact Sheet | NAACPwww.naacp.org/pages/criminal-justice-fact-sheet
Racial gap in U.S. arrest rates: 'Staggering disparity'www.usatoday.com/story/...black-arrest-rates/19043207/  
Young black men killed by US police at highest rate in year of 1,134…
Police killed more than 1,000 people in 2015 |Washington Post
Cops Had No Justification for Killing Terence Crutcherwww.huffingtonpost.com/.../cops-had-no-justificatio...
Ferguson Prosecutor RobertP. McCulloch's Long History of ...
www.newsweek.com/ferguson-prosecutor-robert-p-mccullochs-long-hist..
www.thenation.com › Blogs › John Nichols
 
 
RACISM

Yes, the Republican Party is Racist, and here's why - The ...

www.thedailybanter.com/.../yes-the-republican-party-is-racist-and-heres-why

 

REWRITING HISTORY

Texas schools board rewrites US history with lessons ...

www.theguardian.com  › US News › Religion
 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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