Thursday 3/15
1. DISARM Act
Congress needs to pass legislation to enforce existing sanctions and hold Russia accountable for its attack on our democracy. Since the poisoning of the former Russian spy in the UK, Prime Minister May has taken action and set out measures to strengthen their defenses against Russia. Meanwhile Trump has chosen to be mostly silent on this matter. Congress cannot ignore this threat even though Trump chooses to. Let’s tell Congress to pass the DISARM Act.
2. Pruitt for AG?
Something to stick a pin in. If Trump fires Jeff Sessions and appoints Scott Pruitt for Attorney General, he would need to go through a second Senate confirmation hearing because he would be moving to a different department. If he is confirmed he’d be able to fire Mueller since he is not recused from the Russia investigation.
3. Local
Check out what is happening today in the Minnesota State Legislature today. Mostly bad but something that could use support.
4. Governor Dayton
Minnesota has soared under Governor Dayton’s leadership. If you didn’t get a chance to watch his final State of State Address you can watch it here.
5. #NationalWalkoutDay
I am blown away by the activism by all the students across this country and their determination to stand up to the NRA and the lawmakers that are complicit. The kids are all right!
6. Act of Terrorism
“Gov. Mark Dayton called out the Bloomington mosque bombing as an “act of terrorism” when he visited the site last August. The charges strongly suggest this is an accurate summation. This was not an “inside job” intended to create sympathy for Muslims, as some commentators claimed. Nor was it an act of patriotism, a delusion that the suspects harbored.
Instead, court documents suggest that the perpetrators were homegrown terrorists apparently radicalized in the tiny hamlet of Clarence, Ill. The proliferation of white-nationalist websites is frightening evidence that there are others out there with similar extreme beliefs. National security strategies must aggressively encompass this internal threat.
Reassurance is sorely needed from Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen that domestic terrorism is taken seriously and adequate resources are available to thwart it. A good first step: Trump doing what he hasn’t so far — condemning the Bloomington mosque bombing in the same way as Dayton, as an “act of terrorism.””
March 24th March for Our Lives http://rallybus.net/march-for-our-lives/
Find an event in your area https://event.marchforourlives.com/…/march-our-live…/search/
April 20th #NationalSchoolWalkout
Find an event in your area http://act.indivisible.org/event/national-school-walkout/
Klobuchar-202-224-3244
Smith (202) 224-5641
House of Representative switchboard: (202) 224-3121
MN Legislators: https://www.leg.state.mn.us/leg/legislators
Resistbot: https://resistbot.io/
Governor Dayton- https://mn.gov/governor/contact-us/
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