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Trump Watch October 1 2018

Day 590:

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

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

Further Reading:

Outrage Grows As Omissions From Kavanaugh Probe Become Apparent

Millionaire Sen. Chuck Grassley Applying For Trump’s Farm Bailout Funds

Russia’s Cyberattacks Aren’t Meddling—They’re Acts of War

Mueller’s Office Cites Watergate Precedent In Defending Special Counsel’s Authority

Feinstein: Kavanaugh misled about grand jury secrecy in Vince Foster probe

Another Trump coverup? Former FBI agents question limits on probe of Kavanaugh.

Ted Cruz is Running as a Populist. Here’s His Little Known History as a Corporate Lobbyist

Where is Elaine Chao? ‘Private’ time fills long stretches of the Transportation secretary’s daily calendar, according to POLITICO’s review of 14 months of records.

Prosecutor’s “Reprehensible” Memo Proves GOP Aimed to Put Accuser Dr. Ford on Trial, Not Brett Kavanaugh

Judge Kavanaugh Is One Angry Man

The bottom 90 percent are still poorer than they were in 2007

The FBI ‘has been handcuffed’ in investigation, says source

Flake: If I Were Running For Reelection There’s ‘Not A Chance’ I’d Call For FBI Probe

Flake says if FBI investigation finds Kavanaugh lied, nomination is over

Kavanaugh classmate to tell FBI of nominee’s ‘violent drunken’ behavior in college

Brett Kavanaugh was a ‘frequent drinker, and a heavy drinker,’ Yale classmate says

Kavanaugh’s Yale classmate: Brett once started a fight that ended with our friend in jail

Kavanaugh’s Yale Friend: He Was an ‘Aggressive,’ ‘Belligerent’ Drunk

‘You can’t … look away’: Halifax cartoonist on his image of Lady Justice with a hand over her mouth

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Is An American Hero

College Friend Goes to FBI With Tales of Kavanaugh’s Violent Drunken Behavior

Psychiatrist Justin Frank on Trump, the infant president: “He gives people permission to hate”

Brett Kavanaugh’s Gay College Roommate Recalls Dead Pigeon Nailed to Door

Kavanaugh was ‘heavy drinker,’ ‘often belligerent’ at Yale, NC State professor says

Kavanaugh wants us to forget his yearbook jokes. I don’t.

Calif Gov Signs Strictest Net Neutrality Bill in the Country: New law restores Obama-era regulations forbidding telecoms from favoring some sites over others. The state is going it alone in regulating the internet, serving for others to follow suit.

Worker Co-ops Catch on in Philadelphia

Americans have more faith in legislatures where women are equally represented, suggests new research which found that the presence of women in a decision-making body increases the public’s perception of that body’s legitimacy, especially when that group makes decisions that impact women.

U.S. Sues California After It Restored Net Neutrality

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Tools of change:

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

Calling your government representative:

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Call your House Rep (Or use this spreadsheet)
Call your Governor
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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!:

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