In their year and a half in power, Democrats have put in place policies that are widely popular—indeed, the infrastructure projects provided for under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act are so popular that Republicans who voted against the law are nonetheless taking credit for them. Voters have long called for Medicare to be able to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies (83% in favor), now made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act, which also caps certain drug expenses, including the cost of insulin. Between 80 and 90% of Americans want basic gun control laws—the Democrats just passed the first one in decades—and a majority want funding for action against climate change (65%) and relief for educational debt (55%).
In case you think things won't be bad enough if the Trump Traitors win the election in three weeks, it's now been reported that Trump is thinking of giving Marjorie Taylor Greene "a senior position in the Justice Department" in a second Trump Administration.
Remember - if they win three weeks from tonight, they make sure Trump wins on January 6, 2025.
Also- last week, just to show where they want to go, the Trumpscum submitted bills in the House to rescind Medicare being able to negotiate drug prices and removing the cap on insulin. It's almost like they want to kill their own voters, no?
Is there not something fundamentally wrong when voters by wide margins support the most prominent positions of Democrats nationally but the party appears likely to lose control of the House and not gain seats in the Senate? And Republicans leaders strongly oppose what voters want and at the same time appear ready to cripple or take a sledgehammer to democracy?
We'll soon know if the Democrat turnout will be large enough to overcome gerrymandering, voter suppression, and the ceaseless propaganda spewing from right-wing media. Perhaps I'm guilty of wishful thinking, but I sense that polling is wrong and women will save the day.
Are the Democrats screaming in advertising campaigns and in the media the narrative that Republicans want to end or reform Medicare and Social Security? I cannot believe the many Greatest Generation and Baby Boomer, etc. voters who depend on and paid into those think that's okay. Who wouldn't want lower drug prices? The Democrats need to amp it up and get-in-your-face mad about the b.s. of the Republicans and all the negative undoing they plan to do. Voting for Democracy, (as I watch Ukraine desperately and valiantly fight for it). Blue, blue, blue, blue...
I find the fact that the Democrats are being held hostage by the Minority unsettling at best.
The Midterms, like it or not will determine the fate of this Nation. Never have the Midterms been as pivotal as now.
As much as I would like to say, we are living in the times that will catapult this Nation forward, it's the unknown of how this period in time will prevail is what keeps me up at night.....just like it is tonight.
Its 2:40 am EST and sleeping eludes me, once again.
While everything the Republicans want to change if they regain power is abominable and loathsome, nothing is worse than abandoning Ukraine!
“Republicans are also signaling a change in U.S. support for Ukraine. Although current Republican leaders have supported aid to Ukraine, House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) suggested today that if the Republicans regain the majority thanks to more MAGA candidates, they will oppose giving more aid to Ukraine in the war with Russia. Putin has just launched the largest wave of airstrikes against Ukraine since the early days of the war, hitting civilian areas with the plan to cut off gas and electricity before the winter.”
As the crazy train hurtles towards the midterms we can only hope that the track shifts to the left before it’s too late. Marjorie Taylor Greene to a senior position in the justice department? You gotta be kidding me. Hell, if they’re going to do that we might as well appoint Herschel Walker treasury secretary. Every day writes a new chapter of nutty.
130,000 First Day Voters in GA per HCR! I voted by mail here in CA within 3 Days of the arrival of the Ballot. I am still sending donations to Stacey Abrams & other hardworking Teams.
Has AARP quoted the Republican agenda of cutting Medicare and Social Security? They want to remove Medicare from negotiating drug prices. The greed and lack of humanity in policies like these is beyond belief. Their position on abortion controlling woman’s rights ito decide their own healthcare is outrageous. What is the repug’s position on vasectomy’s. ? Do men have the right to make that decision? Maybe all men at 40 should be forced to have a vasectomy? I doubt they want the government making those decisions. Welcome to the woman’s world
I hope your missive reaches the 8-10% that makes these wins (in our Country), wins, despite any protestations. We do what the people like and support. We have democratic rule. It’s always on the ballot but rarely has it mattered as much as it does now. 1 out of every person you see is all it takes. Talk about politics. Talk about democracy. Talk to your neighbor. 10% wins.👏🏽🙏🏼
It’s critical that voters who are most affected by a repub takeover of our government, aka a win in coming election, understand what they stand to lose. One man, a diehard repub for unknown reasons and I spar regularly and today, I listed what he gains and loses depending on who wins the election. The list is long for a senior citizen with limited income: reduced VA medical benefits (repubs tried to severely limit these) possibilities of changes in social security, postal services, food insecurity benefit, food stamps now called SNAP, rent control or subsidies for low income, control of costs specific medications like Insulin, affordable care act reduced benefits, compromised gun safety and control. And a federal ban on abortion, which will affect all citizens in some way. I’ll run out of space if I continue this list. The point is the repubs lie about their commitment to the American people. They raise the taxes of ordinary citizens and give tax breaks to the wealthy. They limit the liability and regulations of corporations. It’s midnight and if I don’t stop I’ll have nightmares about the far reaching changes in our Democracy if repubs win. I cannot understand how an educated person on a limited income can hold on to a repub party that plans to remove the safety net for our citizens, especially low or limited income people. But that’s been the story in the USA forever. Vote the party or the personality. Maybe, just maybe, this time, my argument is convincing.
Gratitude to you, Dear Heather, for your courage and constant truths.
Where are Dems with their dollars and advertising? Where is the rabble-rousing voice? Where is the media? Sing it loud and sing it proud: we need advocacy!
It's crunch time here in Forsyth County, NC preparing for the election. Our precinct has 1300 doorhangers to distribute, about 5 volunteers to help, and early voting starts tomorrow. Yikes! Also on the agenda is placing dozens of hand made campaign signs with fun slogans like "This Budd's NOT for You!" (re:Ted Budd running for congress) "Abortion is Healthcare", "Roe Roe Roe Your Vote", "Censorship is the Child of Fear and the Father of Ignorance", "Keep Extremists off the School Board", etc.
You can check them out on Facebook at the Creative Sign Brigade page.
Heather’s wholly accurate recitation fails to mention the cause of Republican success and the logic behind the failure of Democrats unable to sell the incredible successes of President Biden’s all powerful policies and the potential of his presidency in Ukraine and dominating domestically: racism. Underlying the loathsome problems of our national sin of slavery and oppression of the indigenous peoples of America is white supremacy and so-called Christain Right, the American religion war against, not for, tolerance. Newt Gingrich is and was evil, but Biden’s approach ignores focusing racism as an American or human sin.. for one simple reason: we Americans are schizophrenic when color enters the picture. We have never faced that one down in either party. We’ve passed the ball on to the next generation with words, not enduring action.
In short, sex, love, passion and color have ruled in their different ways, and the soft underbelly of our national ambivalence in racial justice has crippled our nation and our society rendering all other decisions vulnerable. Our great campuses blink; not one university president has declared Trump and the GOP fascist. Sen. Ben Sass wormed his way out the racial door to Florida where the students have erupted. He never really confronted his white voters in a way that called the question.
Jews will not replace us? Ignored. The legacy of slavery in disenfranchisement of the Negro since the Civil War, Black women’s leadership in ALL matters is ignored. The BIG lie politicians rule with DENIAL and get away with it, with the silent killer RACISM powering Graham, McConnell, DeSantis, Scott, Johnson, Lake, Abbott, Cruz and Hawley and the SCOTUS stench of Gorsuch et al...
Neither party will confront what Lincoln feared and FDR ducked: gut punch racism.
Heather’s litany is 100% correct - and colorblind. She smells the cause and holds her nose.
Boston College educated one of the best and remains a problem. Words fail us.
Our national sin, human rights and democracy itself are compromised completely by human tribalism and the color thing. We say we are color blinded and we are. We remain emotionally segregated and eternally compromised. Stefanik is a lying hypocrite and a racist playing the white 21st that erupted November 5th, 1998 - see www.SBLewis.com. A Treatment Center with Black staff blew their minds. Stefanik chose racist Willsoro and Essex County to call home. She never lived here. She shilled for racist Trump and swept Tedra Cobb and will likely slam Matt Castelli.
The Civil War never ended for the racists of either party. Reformation died with Abraham Lincoln and Newt Gingrich & Company. JFK chose LBJ for a reason. Biden chose Harris and the fabulous Ketanji Brown Jackson following the great James Clyburn for a reason, infuriating and inspiring the GOP racist base.
The midterms are but the latest evidence. We will list the accomplishments and the threat of a GOP victory, we will plead for the young people to save us, but we will not address racism flat out.
Why? We are ambivalent and Putin, Orban and Trump know this only too well.
Dynamics of Prejudice was required reading by Eisenhower after WWII but he dared not desegregate his army. FDR turned the boats around rather than confront the oldest hatred known in Western civilization.
Until we truly love our fellow citizens to death, we will continue to rot in denial. Letters from an American is the best of it. Steve Is better and he’s flailing. He has not mastered the art of coddling and guiding us to a better world.
In case you think things won't be bad enough if the Trump Traitors win the election in three weeks, it's now been reported that Trump is thinking of giving Marjorie Taylor Greene "a senior position in the Justice Department" in a second Trump Administration.
Remember - if they win three weeks from tonight, they make sure Trump wins on January 6, 2025.
Also- last week, just to show where they want to go, the Trumpscum submitted bills in the House to rescind Medicare being able to negotiate drug prices and removing the cap on insulin. It's almost like they want to kill their own voters, no?
Is there not something fundamentally wrong when voters by wide margins support the most prominent positions of Democrats nationally but the party appears likely to lose control of the House and not gain seats in the Senate? And Republicans leaders strongly oppose what voters want and at the same time appear ready to cripple or take a sledgehammer to democracy?
We'll soon know if the Democrat turnout will be large enough to overcome gerrymandering, voter suppression, and the ceaseless propaganda spewing from right-wing media. Perhaps I'm guilty of wishful thinking, but I sense that polling is wrong and women will save the day.
Are the Democrats screaming in advertising campaigns and in the media the narrative that Republicans want to end or reform Medicare and Social Security? I cannot believe the many Greatest Generation and Baby Boomer, etc. voters who depend on and paid into those think that's okay. Who wouldn't want lower drug prices? The Democrats need to amp it up and get-in-your-face mad about the b.s. of the Republicans and all the negative undoing they plan to do. Voting for Democracy, (as I watch Ukraine desperately and valiantly fight for it). Blue, blue, blue, blue...
Thank you Heather.
I find the fact that the Democrats are being held hostage by the Minority unsettling at best.
The Midterms, like it or not will determine the fate of this Nation. Never have the Midterms been as pivotal as now.
As much as I would like to say, we are living in the times that will catapult this Nation forward, it's the unknown of how this period in time will prevail is what keeps me up at night.....just like it is tonight.
Its 2:40 am EST and sleeping eludes me, once again.
Be safe. Be well.
While everything the Republicans want to change if they regain power is abominable and loathsome, nothing is worse than abandoning Ukraine!
“Republicans are also signaling a change in U.S. support for Ukraine. Although current Republican leaders have supported aid to Ukraine, House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) suggested today that if the Republicans regain the majority thanks to more MAGA candidates, they will oppose giving more aid to Ukraine in the war with Russia. Putin has just launched the largest wave of airstrikes against Ukraine since the early days of the war, hitting civilian areas with the plan to cut off gas and electricity before the winter.”
As the crazy train hurtles towards the midterms we can only hope that the track shifts to the left before it’s too late. Marjorie Taylor Greene to a senior position in the justice department? You gotta be kidding me. Hell, if they’re going to do that we might as well appoint Herschel Walker treasury secretary. Every day writes a new chapter of nutty.
130,000 First Day Voters in GA per HCR! I voted by mail here in CA within 3 Days of the arrival of the Ballot. I am still sending donations to Stacey Abrams & other hardworking Teams.
A vote for the "Republican Party".
A vote for Vladimir Putin.
[Show promises to defund Ukraine. Then...
Images of mass destruction. Images of civilians' bodies. Images of Kremlin spokesmen threatening to reduce America to radioactive dust...]
If you like all this, vote for the Russian Party.
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Has AARP quoted the Republican agenda of cutting Medicare and Social Security? They want to remove Medicare from negotiating drug prices. The greed and lack of humanity in policies like these is beyond belief. Their position on abortion controlling woman’s rights ito decide their own healthcare is outrageous. What is the repug’s position on vasectomy’s. ? Do men have the right to make that decision? Maybe all men at 40 should be forced to have a vasectomy? I doubt they want the government making those decisions. Welcome to the woman’s world
I hope your missive reaches the 8-10% that makes these wins (in our Country), wins, despite any protestations. We do what the people like and support. We have democratic rule. It’s always on the ballot but rarely has it mattered as much as it does now. 1 out of every person you see is all it takes. Talk about politics. Talk about democracy. Talk to your neighbor. 10% wins.👏🏽🙏🏼
It’s critical that voters who are most affected by a repub takeover of our government, aka a win in coming election, understand what they stand to lose. One man, a diehard repub for unknown reasons and I spar regularly and today, I listed what he gains and loses depending on who wins the election. The list is long for a senior citizen with limited income: reduced VA medical benefits (repubs tried to severely limit these) possibilities of changes in social security, postal services, food insecurity benefit, food stamps now called SNAP, rent control or subsidies for low income, control of costs specific medications like Insulin, affordable care act reduced benefits, compromised gun safety and control. And a federal ban on abortion, which will affect all citizens in some way. I’ll run out of space if I continue this list. The point is the repubs lie about their commitment to the American people. They raise the taxes of ordinary citizens and give tax breaks to the wealthy. They limit the liability and regulations of corporations. It’s midnight and if I don’t stop I’ll have nightmares about the far reaching changes in our Democracy if repubs win. I cannot understand how an educated person on a limited income can hold on to a repub party that plans to remove the safety net for our citizens, especially low or limited income people. But that’s been the story in the USA forever. Vote the party or the personality. Maybe, just maybe, this time, my argument is convincing.
Gratitude to you, Dear Heather, for your courage and constant truths.
Where are Dems with their dollars and advertising? Where is the rabble-rousing voice? Where is the media? Sing it loud and sing it proud: we need advocacy!
It's crunch time here in Forsyth County, NC preparing for the election. Our precinct has 1300 doorhangers to distribute, about 5 volunteers to help, and early voting starts tomorrow. Yikes! Also on the agenda is placing dozens of hand made campaign signs with fun slogans like "This Budd's NOT for You!" (re:Ted Budd running for congress) "Abortion is Healthcare", "Roe Roe Roe Your Vote", "Censorship is the Child of Fear and the Father of Ignorance", "Keep Extremists off the School Board", etc.
You can check them out on Facebook at the Creative Sign Brigade page.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1985505531582505
Republicans have destroyed the norms. If they win in 2022, they will destroy the rules. Vote for democracy.
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"Put it this way, in 2016 the British economy was 90% the size of Germany's. Now it is less than 70%."
Heather’s wholly accurate recitation fails to mention the cause of Republican success and the logic behind the failure of Democrats unable to sell the incredible successes of President Biden’s all powerful policies and the potential of his presidency in Ukraine and dominating domestically: racism. Underlying the loathsome problems of our national sin of slavery and oppression of the indigenous peoples of America is white supremacy and so-called Christain Right, the American religion war against, not for, tolerance. Newt Gingrich is and was evil, but Biden’s approach ignores focusing racism as an American or human sin.. for one simple reason: we Americans are schizophrenic when color enters the picture. We have never faced that one down in either party. We’ve passed the ball on to the next generation with words, not enduring action.
In short, sex, love, passion and color have ruled in their different ways, and the soft underbelly of our national ambivalence in racial justice has crippled our nation and our society rendering all other decisions vulnerable. Our great campuses blink; not one university president has declared Trump and the GOP fascist. Sen. Ben Sass wormed his way out the racial door to Florida where the students have erupted. He never really confronted his white voters in a way that called the question.
Jews will not replace us? Ignored. The legacy of slavery in disenfranchisement of the Negro since the Civil War, Black women’s leadership in ALL matters is ignored. The BIG lie politicians rule with DENIAL and get away with it, with the silent killer RACISM powering Graham, McConnell, DeSantis, Scott, Johnson, Lake, Abbott, Cruz and Hawley and the SCOTUS stench of Gorsuch et al...
Neither party will confront what Lincoln feared and FDR ducked: gut punch racism.
Heather’s litany is 100% correct - and colorblind. She smells the cause and holds her nose.
Boston College educated one of the best and remains a problem. Words fail us.
Our national sin, human rights and democracy itself are compromised completely by human tribalism and the color thing. We say we are color blinded and we are. We remain emotionally segregated and eternally compromised. Stefanik is a lying hypocrite and a racist playing the white 21st that erupted November 5th, 1998 - see www.SBLewis.com. A Treatment Center with Black staff blew their minds. Stefanik chose racist Willsoro and Essex County to call home. She never lived here. She shilled for racist Trump and swept Tedra Cobb and will likely slam Matt Castelli.
The Civil War never ended for the racists of either party. Reformation died with Abraham Lincoln and Newt Gingrich & Company. JFK chose LBJ for a reason. Biden chose Harris and the fabulous Ketanji Brown Jackson following the great James Clyburn for a reason, infuriating and inspiring the GOP racist base.
The midterms are but the latest evidence. We will list the accomplishments and the threat of a GOP victory, we will plead for the young people to save us, but we will not address racism flat out.
Why? We are ambivalent and Putin, Orban and Trump know this only too well.
Dynamics of Prejudice was required reading by Eisenhower after WWII but he dared not desegregate his army. FDR turned the boats around rather than confront the oldest hatred known in Western civilization.
Until we truly love our fellow citizens to death, we will continue to rot in denial. Letters from an American is the best of it. Steve Is better and he’s flailing. He has not mastered the art of coddling and guiding us to a better world.
Steve who?