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Trump Watch November 27 2018

Day 646:

Keep the focus on inequality

Analysis: If you’re rich, you’re more lucky than smart. And there’s math to prove it

‘CEOs don’t want this released’: US study lays bare extreme pay-ratio problem

GDP vs human thriving: a “healthy” economy means debt-haunted people, desperately searching for housing

America’s 1% hasn’t controlled this much wealth since before the Great Depression

The wealth of America’s three richest families grew by 6,000% since 1982

Tax the rich, or eat the rich, let the rich decide.

Further Reading:

‘Crime Against Humanity’ and ‘International Embarrassment’: Trump Refuses to ‘Believe’ Climate Report – His administration just released a major report detailing far-reaching impacts of the climate crisis. His response? “I don’t believe it.”

For the country’s most vulnerable, the new government climate report is especially dire The National Climate Assessment emphasizes that for those already bearing the brunt of global warming, things will only get worse.

G20 draft statement on climate change crafted to appease Trump, report says Document doesn’t give its full support to Paris climate agreement.

Bill McKibben: New Report Reconfirms Climate Change is Shrinking Inhabitable Parts of the Planet

Trump Admin Tries to Bury 1,656-Page Climate Report Warning of Devastating Health Impacts of Warming

GOP pundits accuse U.S. scientists of greed in attempt to downplay climate report’s dire findings One conservative commentator resurrects former go-to phrase “I’m not a scientist.”

To Tackle Climate Crisis, US Must ‘Be Bold and Aggressive in Standing Up to Greed of Fossil Fuel Industry’: “We have got to rally the American people. The scientific community has made it 100 percent clear… this is a major crisis facing this country and our planet.”

A Lot of People Want Bernie Sanders to Run in 2020

Major State Department Report Says Jamal Khashoggi’s Problems Began Not When He Criticized Saudis, But Trump

How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable. But the fossil-fuel industry continues its assault on the facts.

Big Pharma Bankrolled Pro-Trump Group As Trump Pushed Pharma Tax Cut In 2017 the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America gave $2.5 million to America First Policies Inc. — a major dark money group supporting President Donald Trump’s political and economic agenda.

A March to Disaster: Noam Chomsky Condemns Trump for Pulling Out of Landmark Nuclear Arms Treaty

Maine’s Gov. LePage uses final days in office to resist expanding Medicaid LePage has said he’d rather go to jail than expand the Obamacare Medicare expansion approved by voters in his state.

Donald Trump Gets Fact-Checked By Reporter Right To His Face, Walks Away

The FDA Killed a Rule That Could Have Prevented the Latest E. Coli Outbreak

Ocasio-Cortez blasts Gorka: ‘We’re on the right side of history if you’re my opposition’

Panel: More than 50 percent of Americans say Election Day should be federal holiday

There are two kinds of people in the president’s orbit — the immoral and the amoral. There are sincere nativists, like Bannon and senior adviser Stephen Miller, and people of almost incomprehensible insincerity. Trump is unique as a magnet for grifters, climbers and self-promoters. | NY Times

Trump: ‘I don’t believe’ government climate report finding

For the country’s most vulnerable, the new government climate report is especially dire The National Climate Assessment emphasizes that for those already bearing the brunt of global warming, things will only get worse.

Meet The Press Booking a Denier to Discuss Climate Change Is a Portrait of Our Dangerously Dumb Times

‘Corporate Greed at Its Worst’: After Reaping $514 Million From GOP Tax Scam and Billions in Public Subsidies, GM to Fire Nearly 15,000 Workers

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Tools of change:

Feel like this is all a bunch of bullshit? Want to do something about it?

Lets kick Chuck Grassley out of congress!

If Susan Collins Votes Yes on Kavanaugh we fund her opponent!

Calling your government representative:

Call your Senator
Call your House Rep (Or use this spreadsheet)
Call your Governor
Call your Attorney General
Or try this website
Fax Congress here (free!)

You can also use 5Calls.org if you are having a hard time figuring out what to say.

Tell them in no uncertain terms that you want them to fight to stop Trump from doing these things. Tell them you will be watching them closely on how they vote, and will hold them accountable during the next election if they cave to Trump. You can also call other states congress people and threaten to donate to their opponent if they don’t do what you want.

Phone Bank for Progressive Candidates:

https://www.grassrootspb.com/

Call the White House:

202-456-1111

Call the “White House”:

Use this website to call one of Trump’s many properties he has not put into a blind trust yet, and let them know how you feel (be polite, they are workers just like us, but be firm).

Do a little Slacktivism:

Send Some Text Messages for progressive causes (I know it says textforbernie, but its for a range of progressive candidates) Or you can have your texts turned into faxes by the ResistBot

Go to a town hall and talk to your congress person in person:

Check when the next town hall is here

Monitor your congressperson:

Keep track of how your senator is voting on cabinet picks here, so you can call them up and give them hell if they vote for any of these worthless fuckers.

See how your elected representatives are voting for or against Trump.

Elections!

Also be sure to keep track if you live in a district with an upcoming flip-able seat (flip to the left that is)

See if you have a special election in your area!

Is your mayor up for election? Find out, get involved!

Upcoming house votes:

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/

Upcoming senate bills:

http://www.senateseeker.com/vote.php?upcoming=true

Monitor Trumps Conflict of Interests:

From CNN of all people.

The Atlantic

General Guides:

Guidelines by former Congress staffers on how to get Congress to listen. https://www.indivisibleguide.com/

Run For Office!:

Want to run for office in your area to fight back, check this out for positions that are open in your area, how to register, and what you need to do to win office!

Remove the Corporate Democrats!:

Join the fight to clean out the democratic party: Justice Democrats!

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