This woman is bragging about how easy it is to destroy democracy from the inside out.

Tell your senators to work harder on getting “S.1” passed and the filibuster eliminated.

The woman’s boss and Heritage Foundation co-founder Paul Weyrich bluntly articulated his radical views on voting rights. “I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of the people. They never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.”

Democratic groups should be emulating Matt Sinovic, executive director of progressive lobbying group Progress Iowa, who plans to submit open records requests to determine if Iowa’s legislative leaders worked with Heritage.

“The governor and Republicans in the Legislature must release every bit of communication they’ve had with the Heritage Foundation, so we can know the truth about their work with this shadowy group.” (See their members here. Hi, Betsy!)

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Tues 5/18: It’s time to get serious about toxins in baby food.

Photo: Exposure to heavy metals arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury pose heightened health risks for babies, even at low levels. Credit: yalehealth via Pixabay

“YES” on S. 1019 – Baby Food Safety Act

Unless it’s punching down, like “gagging” health providers from sharing abortion and contraceptive options, or permitting discrimination against LGBTQ patients, today’s GOP despises regulations as supposed destroyers of personal freedom, jobs and economic growth. Never mind that their political forebear – President Nixon, created the Clean Water Act in response to a river CATCHING ON FIRE! Trump overturned over a 100 health and safety environmental protections and it’s no surprise that Caitlyn Jenner’s biggest plank in her campaign to unseat Governor is to strip out CA’s regulations, while simultaneously increasing them against trans girls and women who compete in sports.

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Other countries think U.S. health care is both expensive and barbaric. They are right.

Ask your legislators to support the State-Based Universal Health Care (SBUHC) Act of 2021

Action #1: Call your House Representative to be cosponsors. A call takes less than a minute.
Action #2: Email a letter your House representative and their aides to be cosponsors. (Sample letter included)

AB 1400-CalCare, CA’s latest single-payer proposal to fix for our bloated, yet cruelly inadequate health care system, has been temporarily placed on hold over the question of funding, including whether or not the federal government would grant us a waiver to obtain control over our Medicare and Medicaid costs. (Statement by Asm. Kalra)

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Rep. Cheney just accused her own party of undermining democracy. It’s up to us to save it with (3) basic actions.

Need an emotional lift today? Listen to this amazing song for National John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Action Day and remember why we do this work! Remember what we’re fighting for and pick up your phone!

Action #1: “S.1 – For the People Act” – the guardrails for democracy we never knew we needed – until a lawless and corrupt man became president.

The GOP is now at war with itself, with Rep. Liz Cheney accusing fellow GOP legislators who follow Trump of perpetrating the Big Lie which is undermining America.

S. 1 -“For the People Act” will protect Americans’ voting rights NATIONWIDE, and it just advanced to the floor, after being deadlocked 9-9 on partisan lines in the Rules Committee. The meeting’s GOP contingent included Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, armed with destructive amendments which failed, along with Senator Ted Cruz, who called the bill “Jim Crow 2.0” and falsely claimed that it would allow undocumented immigrants to vote. (Apparently the GOP no longer worries about their lies being recorded.) However, despite the GOP’s best efforts, S.1 includes reforms that are broadly popular with Americans across the political spectrum.

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AB 1139 is an investor-owned utility proposal to kill rooftop solar in CA. Seriously.

“NO” on AB-1139 – “Utilities are threatened by solar panels because it cuts into their profits. Tell your legislator to stop their profit grab.

(from Indivisible CA Green Team) Consumers suffer when power is concentrated in the hands of a few. This was the lesson learned from the 2000 electricity crisis and out of that grew California’s commitment to consumer solar and localized energy.

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PFAS are forever. Literally. Inside us. Let’s stop making them now.

Action #1: Tell your legislators that you want them to support the PFAS Action Act.
Action #2: Write a comment to the EPA to stop the dumping of these “forever chemicals” into our drinking water. Deadline May 17.

Action #1: Tell your legislators that you want them to support the PFAS Action Act.

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America hurts its kids. It’s time to stop. “YES” on H.R. 1234 – Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act.

Action #1: Tell your legislators to vote “YES” to H.R. 1234 – Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act of 2021.
Action #2: Tell Joe Biden to use an executive order to stop corporal punishment now.

Action #1: Tell your legislators to vote “YES” to H.R. 1234 – Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act of 2021.

(Trigger warning – violence towards a child.) Video cameras inside our smartphones are affecting justice in ways we could not have conceived of a decade or so ago. A brave teenager’s footage of the murder of George Floyd put a bad cop in jail. Now, we’re hoping that a mother’s video, who filmed the violence as proof that it happened, will be the end of this abusive and racially discriminatory practice of corporal punishment in our country. But it will need your voice to happen.

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May Day! Support American workers. “YES” on the PRO Act.

Action #1: Sign this petition to Democratic senators who haven’t signed onto S.420 – The PRO Act yet.
Action #2: Contact your senator and tell them vote “YES” on the S.420 – the PRO Act.
Action #3: Tell Jeff Bezos that he’s not keeping the customers satisfied.

Action #1: Sign this petition

Amazon won it’s first round of unionization against it’s own workers, but it will not win the public relations war.

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AB-20: Clean Money Act is coming up Thursday morning. (4/29) Put in a call or email to Asm. Steve Bennett.

Minimal script: I’m calling from [zip code] and I want Assemblymember [___] to vote “YES” on AB 20, the “Clean Money Act.”

This act is first up at 10:30 tomorrow (4/29) in the Assembly Elections Committee. Our Asm. Steve Bennett is a member. Call or leave a message on his machine, even after 5:00 pm.

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Tucker Carlson is just a symptom. We are the cure.

Action #1: Stop their money machine. We are paying for Fox through our cable fees.
Action #2: Write to your cable company’s CEO.
Action #3: Write to the NFL. Their largely Black players profit Fox, while being denigrated by them.
Action #4: Write to the FEC – The Federal Election Commission. Fox is providing services to the GOP.

UPDATE: “Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Signs a Voter Suppression Bill, and Fox News Has the Only Camera” (MotherJones) (Axios) Hard-right politicians recognize Fox “News” for what it is – the propaganda wing of the GOP, just as Roger Ailes envisioned. DeSantis baldly using them as a force-multiplier for his message, while denying all other news media access, makes Fox a political actor rendering services. Contact the FEC. (Action #4 below)

(Graphic quote here.) Watch the CNN video below here. Then we have four actions for you to do.