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Trump Watch September 26 2018

Day 585:

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:

Christine Blasey Ford Offers Senate 4 Affidavits Backing Her Claim Against Kavanaugh

Merkley to seek injunction to stop Kavanaugh vote

An ‘Outrageous’ Move by ‘Chickensh*t’ GOP as Grassley Schedules Kavanaugh Vote Less Than 24 Hours After Ford Hearing

House Republicans tucked a section into the Farm Bill that could exempt the entire chemical industry from critical safety rules

Amid Effort to Ram Kavanaugh Through Senate, House GOP Refusing to Reauthorize Violence Against Women Act

This 17-Year-Old Has Become Michigan’s Leading Right to Repair Advocate – When Surya Raghavendran dropped his iPhone, he learned to repair it himself. Now he wants to protect that right for everyone in his home state of Michigan.

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

Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford offers Senate four people who corroborate her assault claims

Why lying, rather than sexual assault, could topple Brett Kavanaugh

Rudy Giuliani Photographed With White Nationalist Mayoral Candidate

Newly Uncovered Memo Suggests Kirstjen Nielsen Lied to Congress About Family Separation

Three Yale Law School classmates who endorsed Kavanaugh call for investigation into sexual misconduct claims

Second Kavanaugh accuser willing to testify, lawyer says

Deborah Ramirez’s Lawyer Claims Senate Judiciary Committee ‘Refused’ to Meet

Kavanaugh accuser’s attorney says GOP staff blew off scheduled call

Lawyer for second Kavanaugh accuser says Republicans refuse to talk

Attorney: Republicans skipped call with second Kavanaugh accuser

In Detailed Letters, Friends Recall Years-Ago Conversations With Blasey Ford About Alleged Attack

Trump’s Plan To Deny Green Cards To People On Medicaid or Food Stamps Is A Full-Blown Attack on the Immigrant Poor

McConnell Says Not to Worry About the All-Male GOP Judiciary Committee, They Hired a “Female Assistant” to Ask Questions for Them

Report: Sen. Rand Paul files amendment to remove Russia sanctions

‘People actually laughed at a president’: At U.N. speech, Trump suffers the fate he always feared

Twitter Users Burn Sarah Sanders After She Says Every Supreme Court Nominee Deserves A Vote

Brett Kavanaugh’s College Classmates Out Him as ‘Sloppy Drunk’

Trump’s ‘She Was Drunk’ Argument Is a Disaster for Republicans

Kavanaugh’s ‘choir boy’ image on Fox interview rankles former Yale classmates

H.I.V. Drugs Cost $75 in Africa, $39,000 in the U.S. Does It Matter?

Democrats: Hold Kavanaugh to his Own Standard for Bill Clinton, and Take Him Apart Piece by Painful Piece

Four People Told The Senate That Christine Blasey Ford Told Them She Was Sexually Assaulted In High School

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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:

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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