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The Lincoln Project Presents the Chilling “How it Starts” showing “It is Happening Here”
July 20, 2020
The Lincoln Project’s latest digital ad, the chilling “How it Starts” could as easily have been a parody of the Sinclair Lewis work “It Can’t Happen Here” with the title “It Is Happening Here.” What is happening? Unidentified and uninvited federal troops are, apparently without warrants, harassing, beating, and detaining nonviolent protestors on the streets
Lawless Trump is taking advice on ‘how to violate the law’ from war criminal John Yoo
July 20, 2020
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past” ― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun. I long ago made my position clear on the war crimes of the Bush-Cheney regime. The architects of illegal torture deserve to be prosecuted under the Nuremberg Principles for their war crimes, at least at a minimum, prosecuted under
Donald Trump’s ‘GOPstapo’ agents are an occupying force for ‘Democrat-run’ cities
July 20, 2020
Update to Donald Trump’s ‘GOPstapo’ agents in Portland a preview of things to come? It appears the answer is “yes.” The Washington Post reports Federal officials dismiss Portland leaders’ calls to leave city as clashes with protesters continue: A top Homeland Security official on Sunday said the agency will maintain a heavy presence in Portland
Why I Don’t Trust the Polls — and Neither Should You
July 20, 2020
Call it PTSD from the 2016 election, but I don’t trust the new polls that show Biden ahead of Trump by 15 points. The surveys are wildly inaccurate and are lulling Democrats into a dangerous sense of complacency. As Joe Biden would say, the polls are malarky. The Rasmussen Reports show Biden ahead by only
Arizona Response Rate to US Census at 58.8%
July 20, 2020
Have you filled out your 2020 Census form? The Census taking started in March 2020, to record the number of people in your household on April 1, 2020. Arizona’s response rate as of today is 58.8%, behind the National average of 62.1%. Minnesota has the highest response rate at 71.6% with Puerto Rico (Trust Territory)
Joe Biden hits Eureka with his Build Back Better Clean Energy Infrastructure Plan
July 20, 2020
Last week, Joe Biden and his team showed the country the initial payoff of the joint Biden-Sanders platform task force by the unveiling of his Build Back Better Infrastructure Plan. It is the second installment of the Democratic Presidential Nominee’s Build Back Better Plan for the United States. What is in the Infrastructure Plan? The
Donald Trump’s ‘GOPstapo’ agents in Portland a preview of things to come?
July 19, 2020
In June, heavily armed federal agents wearing no badges or identifying markings were patrolling the streets of Washington, D.C., as part of Donald Trump’s bid to “dominate” protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd. Heavily armed men who refuse to identify themselves are patrolling the streets of Washington, DC. They were sent
In “Wake Up” the Lincoln Project pays tribute to John Lewis and Encourages all Americans to Live by his Example
July 19, 2020
Starting with John Lewis’s speech in Washington DC during the Civil Rights March of 1963, The Lincoln Project’s latest ad “Wake Up” presents a moving tribute to the life and courage of the late Representative who passed away two days ago. The narrator recounts how John Lewis never gave up the fight for Civil Rights
