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WHITE HOUSE DECLARES VICTORY IN WAR ON POVERTY

FEDERAL DAILY ACTION: Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Submitted by Sherry Thompson
Your script:
Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from (your area)).
I am calling to demand [Politicians name] vote no on cutting food stamps. Some of the most vulnerable people in society rely on food stamps, including children and Veterans. The war on poverty is not over.…

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HUFFINGTONPOST.COM
Cut Food Stamps Because We Already Won The War On Poverty, White House Says

Republicans want more poor people to work.
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NO PARADE, HELP VETS INSTEAD

FEDERAL DAILY ACTION: Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Submitted by Sherry Thompson

DEMAND That Trump use the money his is wasting on a military parade to instead use it for Veterans. Veterans are committing suicide at a rate of 2 per day and need money spent on mental health care and other Veterans issues.

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PROTECT MUELLER, VOTE NO ON KAVANAUGH

FEDERAL DAILY ACTION: Monday, July 23, 2018
Submitted by Joanne Pero

PROTECT THE SPECIAL COUNSEL: VOTE NO ON KAVANAUGH

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Russian firm indicted in special counsel probe cites Kavanaugh decision to argue that charge should be dismissed

The Supreme Court nominee’s opinion in the 2011 case and other decisions indicates he may be skeptical of restrictions on money in politics.
Indivisible NE Florida RESISTBOT TO SENATORS: I am calling to demand you vote no to confirming Brett Kavanaugh. His open support for overturning SCOTUS decisions that could adversely affect the Special Counsel make his appointment unacceptable.
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PROTECT U.S. FROM RUSSIAN INFLUENCE VIA TRUMP

FEDERAL DAILY ACTION: Friday, July 20, 2018
Submitted by Margaret Petty

DEMAND CONGRESS COUNTER TRUMP’S SIDING WITH RUSSIA
At a press conference following a closed door meeting with Russian authoritarian President Vladimir Putin on July 16 in Helsinki, Trump rejected the findings of his own U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia was responsible for the attacks on the 2016 election and instead readily accepted Putin’s denial. His obsequious deference to Putin over American law…

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CNN.COM
After days of statements, Senate takes steps against Russia

On the fourth chaotic day of fallout from President Donald Trump’s hugely consequential remarks regarding the US relationship to Russia, Congress did something rare: it took unified action.
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ENSURE LEGAL REPRESENTATION FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN

FEDERAL DAILY ACTION: Thursday, July 19, 2018
Submitted by Margaret Petty

ENSURE LEGAL REPRESENTATION FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN
The more than 2,000 children who were forcefully separated from their parents at the border are now going through the process of immigration hearings. Because seeking asylum is not a crime, the standard requirement for court-appointed attorneys is not in place for these children. The result is that children as young as 3 years old are left to rep…

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NEWSWEEK.COM
The short film “Unaccompanied: Alone in America” re-enacts real immigration court hearings using transcripts

“Do you know what a lawyer is? No? Do you have a lawyer? No? The respondent is present in court, but without an attorney.”
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CONFRONT TRUMP’S SIDING WITH RUSSIA

FEDERAL DAILY ACTION: Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Submitted by Margaret Petty

DEMAND CONGRESS COUNTER TRUMP’S SIDING WITH RUSSIA
At a press conference following a closed door meeting with Russian authoritarian President Vladimir Putin on July 16 in Helsinki, Trump rejected the findings of his own U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia was responsible for the attacks on the 2016 election and instead readily accepted Putin’s denial. His obsequious deference to Putin over American …

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NYTIMES.COM
Confronted With Evidence of Russian Hacking, Trump Reverts to Conspiracy

A smoke-and-mirrors effort by Mr. Trump after being briefed extensively on the specific roles by Russian military commanders to tamper with the 2016 presidential election.
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TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS FOR IMMIGRANT FAMILIES

FEDERAL DAILY ACTION: Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Submitted by Margaret Petty

PROTECT IMMIGRANT FAMILIES WITH TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS
Trump’s zero tolerance border policy, which has led to unconscionable family separations, is not the only policy threatening to tear immigrant families apart. The termination of temporary protected status (TPS) for 406,000 immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, and Honduras is also a dire threat to immigrant families. TPS allows immigrants from coun…

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WASHINGTONPOST.COM
Opinion | Trump is set to separate more than 200,000 U.S.-born children from their parents

The immediate answer is for the president to reverse the DHS’s decision to terminate the temporary protected status for as many as 400,000 Hondurans, Salvadorans and Haitians.
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URGENT ACTION IF TRUMP FIRES ROSENSTEIN

URGENT ADDITIONAL DAILY ACTION—MON.-FRI., JULY 16-20, 2018
Submitted by Margaret Petty

TELL YOUR MoCS: TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION IF TRUMP FIRES ROSENSTEIN
(Please try to make the following call each day this week.)

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INDIVISIBLE.ORG

If Trump Fires Rosenstein, Here’s What You Can Do Next. – Indivisible

This is an unacceptable red line, and Trump will have crossed it. Learn more about what you can do to force Congress to act.
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BLOCK KAVANAUGH APPOINTMENT TO SCOTUS

FEDERAL DAILY ACTION: Monday, July 16, 2018
Submitted by: Margaret Petty

BLOCK BRETT KAVANAUGH FOR THE US SUPREME COURT
On July 9, Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh spent 12 years on the D.C. Circuit appeals court, where he repeatedly issued extremist opinions. While the Supreme Court is intended to be apolitical, Kavanaugh also has a history of partisanship, even participating in the drafting of the Kenneth Starr report that laid the groundwork …

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Analysis | Lawmakers look to Kavanaugh’s past confirmation fight for lessons in new Supreme Court battle

President Trump’s nominee to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy was the subject of one of the Senate’s most contentious confirmation battles a dozen years ago.
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BLOCK TRUMP NOMINEE UNTIL INVESTIGATION IS COMPLETE

FEDERAL DAILY ACTION – Friday, July 13, 2018
STOP KAVANAUGH APPOINTMENT
Submitted by Jean Sealey & Cari Boyce
Contact Senator Rubio (202 224-3041 or 904 354-4300) and Senator Nelson (202 224-5274 or 904 346-4500) and your House Representatives to tell them the American people will not accept the appointment of a judge to the Supreme Court upon the recommendation of a president who is himself under criminal investigation. Allowing Donald Trump to nominate anyone for the upcomi…

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THEHILL.COM
Dems in terrible bind on Kavanaugh nomination

Senate Democrats are in a terrible bind as they search for a strategy to block Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who is expected to determine the ideological balance of the court for decades.
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