Today’s Action: Support the End Polluter Welfare Act!
Today's Top Stories:
Texas House Democrats leave state to block Republicans from passing heinous voting restrictions
Democrats left Texas for Washington, DC en masse Monday evening in a bold attempt to thwart Republican efforts to pass sweeping voter-suppression legislation.
Take Action: Donate to support Texas Democrats amid walkout
Trump embraces Capitol rioters, rewrites Jan. 6 history during Fox News appearance
"They were peaceful people, these were great people... the love in the air, I’ve never seen anything like it."
Tucker Carlson finally goes overboard on COVID vaccine
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: OMG.
Indicted Trump Organization executive Allen Weisselberg removed from top roles at two dozen subsidiaries
Weisselberg, the Trump Organization chief financial officer indicted on tax fraud charges this month, has quietly been removed from top positions with at least 28 Trump subsidiaries, replaced in several instances by Donald Trump Jr.
FDA adds warning to J&J vaccine for possible link to rare neurological disorder
The move comes after reports of 100 cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome following the Johnson & Johnson shot. If confirmed, the 100 cases would represent a tiny fraction — less than 0.001 percent — of the more than 12.8 million J&J doses that have been administered in the United States.
Take Action: Add your name to call for EVERY STATE to expand Medicaid to those who need it!
Biden says US "stands firmly" with Cuban people amid protests against communist regime
The president hailed the' "clarion call for freedom" from the thousands of Cubans who've mounted the biggest protests against the communist government in decades.
Gov. Gavin Newsom can't be listed as a Democrat on California recall ballot
A Sacramento County Superior Court judge ruled against Newsom after he missed a deadline for the Sept. 14 election to state his political affiliation following a paperwork oversight.
NDLB releases first ad of the campaign, and it pulls no punches
No Dem Left Behind: "Republicans are terrorists."
Trump turns on Justice Kavanaugh in new book by Michael Wolff
"Where would he be without me? I saved his life. He wouldn't even be in a law firm. Who would have had him? Nobody. Totally disgraced. Only I saved him."
California to pay sterilization victims
More than 60,000 people across the United States were forcibly sterilized by state-run programs throughout the 20th century, including more than 20,000 people over seven decades in California, under a eugenics law enacted in 1909.
Biden administration says states can restart pandemic unemployment benefits as lawsuits moun
The guidance comes as jobless residents in more states file lawsuits to reinstate the benefits. Unemployed workers in Ohio and Oklahoma this month joined those in Indiana, Maryland, and Texas in turning to state courts to force their Republican governors to resume the payments.
Judge grills lawyers on flimsy election fraud claims at Michigan hearing on possible sanctions
Judge Linda Parker pinned down "Kraken lawyers" Sydney Powell and Lin Wood in a marathon video court hearing Monday on whether they had done due diligence before filing election fraud claims in federal court in November.
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Today’s Action: Support the End Polluter Welfare Act!
Millions of people have experienced flash flood warnings in the past weeks due to hurricane Elsa, despite it being downgraded from a tropical storm. Critical infrastructure, like the Subway system in New York City, has been overwhelmed by the amount of rainfall causing mass flooding. Hurricane Elsa has broken the record just set last year for the earliest recorded formation in the Atlantic basin thanks to climate change.
Despite increasing climate catastrophes, American taxpayers fund $15 billion dollars every year directly subsidizing fossil fuel companies (who are directly responsible for our climate crisis.) It does not matter how many people do their part to cut down on individual energy use, oil and gas corporations are still planning new drilling projects.
It is not the fossil fuel executives that will suffer from burning forests, melted infrastructure, flooded transit -- it is the working class. We need consequences for big businesses exploiting our natural nonrenewable resources.
Call (202-224-3121) or email your representatives and demand that they support the End Polluter Welfare Act, which would eliminate federal subsidies and close tax loopholes for coal, gas, and oil industries!
With climate change worsening, we can only expect more record breaking hurricane seasons. As we have seen in the Northeast, the majority of the infrastructure that millions of people rely on in their cities is nowhere near able to withstand the climate disasters our present holds-- let alone the future.
Climate initiatives are needed now, but clean energy has some powerful enemies working to ensure that crude oil is here to stay.
Our tax dollars need to be divested elsewhere, into initiatives that protect our most vulnerable communities from our warming planet.
Call (202-224-3121) or email your representatives and tell them to fight for our future and protect our environment from exploitation by supporting the End Polluter Welfare Act!
