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Any political rev progressives interested? This is Monday 8/5 at 8 pm est/ 5 pm pdt. If yes, Sign up here for the link to the call:
https://actionnetwork.org/events/progressive-for-harris-kickoff-call

Heads up:   there are SEVERAL state primaries in the month of August.  If you live in TN, your state primary is 8/1/24.  If you live in KS, MI, MO, or WA, your state  primaries are 8/6/24,  If you live in HI, your state primary is 8/10/24.  If you live in CT, MN, VT, or WI, you have state primaries on 8/13/24.  Finally, if you live in AK, FL, or WY your state primaries are on 8/20/24.    Please plan to vote in the Democratic primaries in your state.  And to help you pick the best candidate, load the address you are registered at at the Blue Voter Guide website.  This website provides you all Democratic candidates running down to county levels AND the organizations endorsing them.   In the 11/5 General Election, Dem leaning non-partisans will be provided for school board and judges.

www.bluevoterguide.org

Join Indivisible MA (IN-SLWM) on Monday, August 7th, to hear from national expert, Jenifer McKenna, who literally wrote the book on this very topic ("Designed to Deceive: A Study of the Crisis Pregnancy Center Industry in Nine States.") Jenifer will discuss the current status of CPC's, who funds them, and how we can fight back effectively to strengthen our reproductive freedom!

Jenifer McKenna

Exposing & Defeating the Right's Hidden War on Bodily Autonomy

Monday, August 7th, 7-8pmET 6-7 pm cst

(Zoom opens at 6:50pm)

Register in advance for this meeting:
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Student Debt Relief | Our Revolution

From Bernie: this is definitely a concern of many people. Please this last weekend, do what you can to get out the Blue vote! https://www.facebook.com/berniesanders/videos/5497319113718370

There are currently 3 Progressive candidates running in Congressional races that have been rated as Toss Up by Cook Reporting (Toss Up means it could go either way). They are 1) Jared Golden running in Maine's CD-2, 2) Angie Craig running in Minnesota's CD-2, and 3) Wiley Nickel running in North Carolina's CD-13. Both Jared's and Angie's races are rated Toss up Leaning Dem. Wiley's race is rated Toss Up Leaning Repug. If you are wondering what politicians you might want to support with your time or money, these 3 would be great choices. Especially exciting would be if Wiley won his race in NC.: in order for the Dems to maintain control of the House, they have to win all their projected Dem Leaning races and in addition, all of their projected Lean Dem Toss Ups (21) and another 4 of Lean Repug Toss Ups. Again, if you are not sure which progressives you might want to support, consider these three. And please get out friends and family in these states to vote for these candidates.

Our Rev is phone banking Sun to Thursday from now until election day on November 8th. If you don't mind calling voters, please sign up to GOTV for Progressives.! If you haven't tried it, it can be a lot of fun: sign up at the website below to find out if phone banking is for you.

https://www.mobilize.us/ourrevolution/event/435743/?followup\_modal\_context=email\_shift\_followup\_same\_event&timeslot=3492279

Please pass this along to family, friends and others you know in these states who vote progressive:

If you want to vote Progressive in the August Democratic primaries, the Political Revolution has posted nationally endorsed Progressive candidates for states which have primaries through August 23rd. These candidates are endorsed by Our Rev, Brand New Congress, Democratic Socialist of America, Justice Democrats, Progressive Change Campaign, and/or The Political Revolution. Primary candidates are posted for the following upcoming primaries: AK, AZ, CT, FL, HI, KS, MI, MN, MO, TN, VT, WA, WI, and WY, with NY being posted now. Find the candidates in your state at: [https://political-revolution.com/campaigns/]

I am doing debate prep with my candidates and I am looking for some lists from right-wing groups or questions you have seen asked of candidates from the right. I want to make sure my candidate is prepared to hear and deal with the audience submitted questions.
The last election I was able to find a few rightwing endorsing groups questionnaires and use those, but I did not come across any this election cycle so far.

https://www.sos.state.mn.us/elections-voting/register-to-vote/

And if you forget or don't make it tonight, you can still register on March 3rd:

Register on Election Day

You can register or update your registration when you vote, whether that is at your polling place on Election Day or at an early voting location. You will need proof of residence to register. Learn more about registering when you vote:

https://www.sos.state.mn.us/media/3270/election-day-registration-2018.pdf

Spread The Word:

I'm here with a list of candidates to raise attention on their races. I'm only here to help. If this is wrong in anyway to post, I apologize. So, don't only support Bernie Sanders. It'll help if we elect people like him to the two chambers of Congress. I've managed to gather a group of progressives we can help get into Congress. I'll also be adding open seats in case there is interest in the progressive movement to get a candidate to run for that race. Let's support these other progressives for House & Senate as well if you can:

Bold = NEW

Johnny Akzam - MN-01

David Sandbeck - MN-04 M4A, GND

Ilhan Omar - MN-05 DFC, M4A/SPS, $15, HIR, GND, CJR/ML/EDW, AH, IRB, ETW, GR, EC, VER

Ian Todd - MN-06 M4A, NC$, DFC, GR

Support:

M4A = Medicare For All

GND = Green New Deal

NC$ = No Corruption Money

RMW = Raise Minimum Wage

$15 = $15 Minimum Wage

ETW = End The Wars

VER = Voting/Election Reform

CJR = Criminal Justice Reform

RCV = Ranked Choice Voting

ML = Marijuana Legalization

EDW = End Drug War

GR = Gun Reform

DFC = Debt-Free College

HIR = Humane Immigration Reform

EC = End Corruption

AH = Affordable Housing

IRB = Infrastructure Rebuilding

SPS = Single-Payer System

LW = Living Wage

UBI = Universal Basic Income

EH = End Homelessness

Endorsements:

JD = Justice Democrats

BNC = Brand New Congress

OR = Our Revolution

WFP = Working Families Party

DSA = Democratic Socialists Of America

RC = Rose Caucus

“At this point, the bigger national scandal isn’t the president’s lawbreaking behavior—it is the Democratic Party’s refusal to impeach him for it.” -- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)

Representative Ocasio-Cortez is right: the inaction of congress members on impeachment, particularly those who claim they are Democrats, is in some ways more detrimental than the Trumpists' crimes: Democrats' collective dithering and lack of moral courage magnifies the damage the Trumpist criminals are already doing to our norms and institutions.

Below is our state's congressional roster of eight representatives, 3 Republicans and 5 Democrats. Of the Democrats, only two have come out publicly in favor of impeachment, Omar and McCollum:

(Incidentally: https://cookpolitical.com/pvi-map-and-district-list)

1st — Cook PVI +5 Republican -- Jim Hagedorn (R) 2nd — Cook PVI +2 Republican -- Angie Craig (D) 3rd — Cook PVI +1 Democrat -- Dean Phillips (D) 4th — Cook PVI +14 Democrat -- Betty McCollum (D) — YES 5th — Cook PVI +26 Democrat -- Ilhan Omar (D) — YES 6th — Cook PVI +12 Republican -- Tom Emmer (R) 7th — Cook PVI +12 Republican -- Colin Peterson (D) 8th — Cook PVI +4 Republican -- Pete Stauber (R)

The rest of the Democrats hold positions on impeachment that seem to reflect the general partisan sentiment of their districts: the 2nd and 3rd fairly centrist, white the 7th is most def Trump Country.

2nd Angie Craig: https://www.needtoimpeach.com/congress/angie-craig/ As of yesterday, 9/21/19, she says she supports hearings on impeachment, but has not made up her mind. FiveThirtyEight Trump Score: 4.3%

3rd Dean Phillips: https://www.needtoimpeach.com/congress/dean-phillips/ As of June meetings, he said he's not in favor of impeachment because he doesn't want to jeopardize bipartisan work with Republicans. FiveThirtyEight Trump Score: also 4.3%

7th Colin Peterson https://www.needtoimpeach.com/congress/collin-peterson/ As of April, against impeachment. FiveThirtyEight' Trump Score: 51.1% -- so really, Peterson is a Republican in a Republican district, wearing a blue t-shirt; he's the poster child for a DINO. (No joke, he's on record as in favor of building the border wall.) (Hey DNC: this guy is allowed to call himself a Democrat? Really? Pardon my sarcastic golf clap at the great job you people are doing running the Democratic Party... Peterson probably has lunch with Rep. Steve King (R) of Iowa... SMH... If this is where the centrist strategists start pointing out that Peterson "only* votes with Trump 51.5% of the time... yeah, maybe it is better to have him than a Trumpist Republican in power, but I can't really see the difference... we have people who are ideologically Republican running as candidates for both parties, so it seems like the party identities are becoming meaningless...)

From the above information, I'd say Craig, Phillips, and, perhaps surprisingly, possibly Republican Stauber of the 8th District -- representing MN's least partisan / most centrist voting districts -- are most likely to be successfully pressured into publicly supporting impeachment, given recent news events.

Stauber (8th District) is admittedly less likely, given he's Republican -- but he won by a relatively narrow margin (Sandman ran as an independent, diverting progressive/left votes from Democrat Joe Radinovich; even with the votes that went to Sandman, Radinovich likely would have lost by ~1.4%)... The point is, the 8th District is pretty split between party bases, often in play -- rural, but it has that Iron Range union / Democratic voting tradition -- so a strong public outcry for impeachment could push Stauber to take a more centrist/open position on impeachment. (Meanwhile, healthcare advocate Quinn Nystrom (D) of Brainerd is allegedly mulling a run for the 8th district seat in 2020...)

I live in the 3rd district. I'm going to organize a call-in campaign in my district among pro-impeachment allies, to start pressuring Phillips to publicly support impeachment.

Given the daily news stories, I'd say the right moment to start exerting pressure is now.

Anyone here from the 2nd District? West St. Paul? Eagan? Burnsville?

Anywhere else on reddit where progressives from MN hang out?

The Chair is the position with a DNC vote and so the most significant. All the other positions are being voted on by SCC Delegates at the March 2 convention. The current 5 can be seen here (the Secretary has resigned): https://www.dfl.org/about/party-leaders/

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