Wednesday
1. Treasonous Trump
Yesterday, Trump walked back the statement he made claiming that Russia had nothing to do with interfering in our elections. Before a meeting with GOP lawmakers on Tuesday, Trump told reporters that he misspoke in Helsinki and that when he said he saw no reason why it "would" be Russia that interfered, he meant to say he saw no reason why it "wouldn't." (I and most of the sane world call BS!) Besides a few tweets and statements scolding Trump, Congress has done nothing. Congress has been useless at protecting the country against Trump’s dastardly deeds. To be honest, if the statements Trump made in Helsinki didn’t prompt members of Congress to act, nothing will. It is looking more and more like our only course of action is to vote these stalemates out in November. I still don’t think it’s wrong to keep the pressure on them. Consider it our job to remind our members on Congress of what they should be doing. No reason they should be comfortable while they are screwing us over.
https://www.npr.org/…/ryan-vladimir-putin-does-not-share-ou…
Yesterday, Trump walked back the statement he made claiming that Russia had nothing to do with interfering in our elections. Before a meeting with GOP lawmakers on Tuesday, Trump told reporters that he misspoke in Helsinki and that when he said he saw no reason why it "would" be Russia that interfered, he meant to say he saw no reason why it "wouldn't." (I and most of the sane world call BS!) Besides a few tweets and statements scolding Trump, Congress has done nothing. Congress has been useless at protecting the country against Trump’s dastardly deeds. To be honest, if the statements Trump made in Helsinki didn’t prompt members of Congress to act, nothing will. It is looking more and more like our only course of action is to vote these stalemates out in November. I still don’t think it’s wrong to keep the pressure on them. Consider it our job to remind our members on Congress of what they should be doing. No reason they should be comfortable while they are screwing us over.
https://www.npr.org/…/ryan-vladimir-putin-does-not-share-ou…
Here of some topics you can use to call you members of Congress. Full disclosure, I stole all of these ideas from Rachel Maddow.
Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a member of the Foreign Relations committee, has called for a hearing with the U. S. interpreter that was in the room with Trump and Putin during their two hour meeting. This interpreter can help determine what Trump discussed/promised during their time together. This is especially important considering that a Russian military spokesman, said in a statement Tuesday that the Russian military "is ready to intensify contacts with the US colleagues in the General Staff and other available channels to discuss the extension of the START treaty, cooperation in Syria, as well as other issues of ensuring military security.” What? We need to know what went on in that meeting. Here are the members of the Foreign Relations Committee if you would like to contact them. None of them are from MN. https://www.foreign.senate.gov/about/membership
We should be increasing funding to the states so that they can work on their election security. Dan Coates, Director of National Intelligence has stated that our digital infrastructure is under attack. Agents are meaning to undermine America’s democracy. We have an election in just a few months and almost nothing has been done to protect those votes. Keep in mind that the Trump administration just fired the top cybersecurity coordinator on the National Security Council. No one was hired to replace him and his job was eliminated. This further hampers our ability to ward off cyber attacks. Are you alarmed? You should be alarmed! Congress should be asking why this is happening. They could be holding hearings on why the United States’ digital infrastructure is at risk. This is a call that can be made to all of our members of Congress.
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1019375218526228480?s=12
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1019375218526228480?s=12
Reports have shown that Russia has been targeting the United States’ critical infrastructure, such as energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and manufacturing sectors. We are essentially sitting ducks vulnerable to a cyber attack that would take away our ability to function. You can call your members of Congress and ask them to hold hearing on this.
Trump called to cancel joint military exercises in South Korea without consulting South Korea or U. S. Governments. This was something Putin had asked him to do on a phone call the two had earlier in the year. Why not call your members of Congress and ask them to hold hearing about this. Who approved this policy change?
Trump’s son-in-law, Jaren Kushner, took a meeting with a head of a sanctioned bank. Why did that meeting happen?
Remember yesterday how we talked about Maria Butina? Butina was arrested this week and charged with conspiracy to act as an agent of the Russian Federation. Butina was funneling money through the National Rifle Association (NRA) to gain influence with members of the GOP. On the same day, the Treasury Department announced that it will no longer require certain tax-exempt organizations including politically active nonprofit groups, such as the National Rifle Association to identify their financial donors to U.S. tax authorities. Hmm.
https://www.reuters.com/…/u-s-treasury-moves-to-protect-ide…
Congress could use their time in office preventing this change from happening. Why not give them a call.
https://www.reuters.com/…/u-s-treasury-moves-to-protect-ide…
Congress could use their time in office preventing this change from happening. Why not give them a call.
In terms of news, last Friday seems so long ago. Remember when the Mueller investigation released an indictment that accused 12 Russian intelligence officers with conducting a hacking campaign that targeted Democratic political organizations to attempt to influence the 2016 election? Prosecutors charged that the hackers breached the computers of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, then stole troves of emails and other records that the Russian government later made public
The indictment also stated that an unnamed congressional candidate sought hacked documents about his or her opponent in the 2016 election from Russian intelligence officers who were posing as an online activist. Please read that sentence again because it is a doozy. If Congress wanted to do something, they could try to figure out who that person is, especially those members of the House Ethics Committee (https://ethics.house.gov/about/committee-members)
https://www.usatoday.com/…/mueller-congressional…/783317002/
The indictment also stated that an unnamed congressional candidate sought hacked documents about his or her opponent in the 2016 election from Russian intelligence officers who were posing as an online activist. Please read that sentence again because it is a doozy. If Congress wanted to do something, they could try to figure out who that person is, especially those members of the House Ethics Committee (https://ethics.house.gov/about/committee-members)
https://www.usatoday.com/…/mueller-congressional…/783317002/
Please use these topics today to call, email, and tweet your members of Congress.
2. Let’s Get out The Vote!
I think it’s going to take an overwhelming wave of blue voters to stop this terrible Trump administration in November. All hands on deck! At this point, you should be helping out a campaign at least once a week. Expect to do more as the midterm elections get closer.
I think it’s going to take an overwhelming wave of blue voters to stop this terrible Trump administration in November. All hands on deck! At this point, you should be helping out a campaign at least once a week. Expect to do more as the midterm elections get closer.
Check out these calendars for upcoming events near you.
https://cd2action.com/calendar/
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed…
https://cd2action.com/calendar/
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed…
Study after study shows that the most effective way to get people to vote is by having conversations with them in the four days before Election Day (Saturday, November 3rd–Tuesday, November 6th). Volunteer here to be part of the last big push. https://thelastweekend.org/?source=MN02
3. Don’t forget about SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh or the children still separated from their parents at the border.
4. Vote Now From Home!
**Secretary of State Steve Simon is reporting a 60% increase in absentee voter applications from the last election cycle! This is awesome!!**
**Secretary of State Steve Simon is reporting a 60% increase in absentee voter applications from the last election cycle! This is awesome!!**
Minnesota is lucky. We have a great voting program that makes it easy for us to get out the vote. You are now able vote early for the Primaries that take place on August 14th. Check out this page from CD2Action that answers some FAQ’s about primary voting. https://cd2action.com/voting-in-the-primaries-101/
Don’t forget, you can vote from home in your jammies. Just sign up here (https://mnvotes.sos.state.mn.us/AB…/ABRegistrationStep1.aspx) for an absentee ballot and one will be mailed to you for free.
Don’t forget, you can vote from home in your jammies. Just sign up here (https://mnvotes.sos.state.mn.us/AB…/ABRegistrationStep1.aspx) for an absentee ballot and one will be mailed to you for free.
If Trump fires Mueller or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, please be ready to take to the streets in protest.
https://act.moveon.org/…/mueller-firing-rapid-respon…/search
https://act.moveon.org/…/mueller-firing-rapid-respon…/search
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/
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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