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THE AUDACIOUS SUPREME COURT GRABS NEW AUTHORITY
After the Supreme Court struck down abortion, it turned its attention to the regulating agencies that issue rules to fight climate change, to ensure drugs are safe and effective, and to protect worker safety. For years, corporations have been losing to the regulators, but the Supreme Court has just taken away that authority, thereby threatening the health and safety of everyone. As Lincoln once said when facing another runaway Supreme Court: “(T)he people will have ceased to be their own rulers.”
THE SUPREME COURT’S CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST CAMPAIGN
Although America is not, nor has it ever been a Christian nation, one of the main goals of the Supreme Court’s MAGA supermajority is to create a theocracy here. This means imposing white evangelical views on all of us, even though the First Amendment explicitly prevents this and the majority of Americans disagree with these rulings. Between now and November, Democrats must fight—through actions, not words—to reverse this unrelenting attack on our religious freedoms by reasserting Congress’s power to restructure the Supreme Court and regulate its jurisdiction.
ON JAN. 6, TRUMP PHYSICALLY ATTACKED HIS SECRET SERVICE DRIVER WHO REFUSED TO TAKE HIM TO THE CAPITAL
Although America is not, nor has it ever been a Christian nation, one of the main goals of the Supreme Court’s MAGA supermajority is to create a theocracy here. This means imposing white evangelical views on all of us, even though the First Amendment explicitly prevents this and the majority of Americans disagree with these rulings. Between now and November, Democrats must fight—through actions, not words—to reverse this unrelenting attack on our religious freedoms by reasserting Congress’s power to restructure the Supreme Court and regulate its jurisdiction.
FRIDAY RECAP: JUly 1, 2022
This week, Indivisible Oregon prioritized three issues:
1.ABORTION AND GUN CONTROL GUTTED BY ILLEGITIMATE SUPREME COURT
2. ON JAN. 6, TRUMP PHYSICALLY ATTACKED HIS SECRET SERVICE DRIVER WHO REFUSED TO TAKE HIM TO THE CAPITAL
3. PASSING REVISED BUILD BACK BETTER ACT
All are extremely important for the future of our democracy. While Trump is no longer in office, the damage he’s caused will remain, unless Congress acts to protect our rights. His appointment of three Supreme Court Justices created an MAGA supermajority that’s imposing on the country its retrogressive policies. The most recent January 6 hearing demonstrates clearly Trump’s intention to use his armed followers to prevent certification of Biden’s win. And the economic problems exacerbated by Trump’s mishandling of COVID continue to hurt our citizens, requiring passage of a revised Build Back Better Act.
These clearly show how elections have consequences—which makes the upcoming midterms extremely important. Electing the right people will enable Congress to undo the policies imposed by the MAGA supermajority, ensure the peaceful transfer of power, and assist those in need.
Passing Revised BuilD Back Better Act
There is still time for Congress to pass a slimmed down version of the Democrats’ Build Back Better (BBB) proposal. But time is running out. In this period of soaring inflation and environmental disasters, Americans need help, and so do the Dems heading into the midterms. We are at a watershed. If Congress does not act quickly the damage, our nation may be irreparable.
abortion and gun control gutted by illegitimate supreme court
The lying, MAGA extremists now in control of the Supreme Court are misreading history and the Constitution, ignoring well-settled legal precedents, and imposing their personal, unpopular views on us all. In back-to-back rulings last week, they held that states can force women to birth unwanted babies but they cannot protect their citizens from deadly weapons. Welcome to the “Trump Court.” We cannot allow the tyranny of the minority to destroy our rights, our safety, and our multiracial democracy. SCOTUS must be structurally rebalanced to limit the power of this illegitimate supermajority—by adding 4 justices, limiting its jurisdiction and making it harder to find federal laws unconstitutional.
abortion and gun control gutted by illegitimate supreme court
The lying, MAGA extremists now in control of the Supreme Court are misreading history and the Constitution, ignoring well-settled legal precedents, and imposing their personal, unpopular views on us all. In back-to-back rulings last week, they held that states can force women to birth unwanted babies but they cannot protect their citizens from deadly weapons. Welcome to the “Trump Court.” We cannot allow the tyranny of the minority to destroy our rights, our safety, and our multiracial democracy. SCOTUS must be structurally rebalanced to limit the power of this illegitimate supermajority—by adding 4 justices, limiting its jurisdiction and making it harder to find federal laws unconstitutional.
FRIDAY RECAP: JUNE 24, 2022
This week, three issues rose to the top of our Indivisible Oregon priority list:
1. TODAY’S GOP PRESENTS A DANGER TO DEMOCRACY
2. TRUMP ATTACKED ELECTION OFFICIALS AFTER REALIZING HE LOST
3. JUNETEENTH: A FEDERAL HOLIDAY FOR ALL AMERICANS
Overshadowing everything, however, was the unfolding saga of how Donald Trump and his MAGA Republican co-conspirators almost succeeded in subverting the peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election—a conspiracy that began before November and continues until today.
As these hearings demonstrate, elections have consequences—which makes the upcoming midterms very important. Electing the right people will affect the peaceful transfer of power,..
FRIDAY RECAP: JUNE 17, 2022
This week Indivisible Oregon focused on three ongoing issues:
• The need for rational gun control
• Our duty to combat insurrectionists at home and to continue helping Ukraine protect its fledgling democracy
• The Supreme Court’s continued assault on our rights and institutions.
Overshadowing everything, however, was the unfolding saga of how Donald Trump and his MAGA Republican co-conspirators almost succeeded in subverting the peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election—a conspiracy that began before November and continues until today.
As these hearings clearly demonstrate, elections have consequences—which makes the upcoming midterms very important. Electing the right people will affect the peaceful transfer of power, whether Congress passes meaningful gun reform or is able to blunt the efforts of the Supreme Court’s ultraconservative supermajority to take us back to the 1950s.
FRIDAY RECAP: JUNE 10, 2022
If you do nothing else over the next several days, you must find a way to watch the first public hearing of the January 6 Committee which was held Thursday evening. For two riveting hours, the Committee presented an overview of the substance of this and future hearings and provided video, recorded and live testimony. Even though you may have watched the events unfold last January and followed news reports about the Committee’s activities, the hearing refocused us on the horrendous attack on our Capitol and those whose jobs it was it defend it and the Congresspeople inside who were trying to do their jobs. It also presented new compelling evidence of the coordination between President Trump and his supporters.
Other than urging our representatives to publicize the January 6 Committee hearings, this week Indivisible Oregon again focused on the continuing carnage being caused by guns that should be outlawed in the hands of people who shouldn’t have them and the ongoing war in Ukraine—all of which require additional calls to our representatives.
PUBLIC HEARINGS ON TRUMP’S ATTEMPTED COUP START TODAY AT 5PM
On January 6, 2021, a mob, brought to Washington by MAGA Republicans, stormed the Capitol at Trump’s behest, and attempted to stop the certification of Biden’s election. Backed up by over 140,000 documents and 1,000 witnesses, the Committee will demonstrate how Trump and MAGA Republicans engaged in a systematic, orchestrated, criminal conspiracy to subvert our democracy that began well before election night and continues until today. Understanding its breadth and depth and their subsequent misinformation campaign will help make Americans intelligent voters in 2022 and beyond.
Appeasement in Ukraine is not an Option
For some weeks now leaders in several Western capitals have floated the idea of a cease-fire as a first step toward ending the war in Ukraine, even as Putin has intensified the scale of the war and rejected serious negotiations unless Ukraine agrees to cede the Donbas region to Russia. President Zelenskyy has unequivocally rejected this “peace for land” formulation. In the face of Russia’s intransigence, NATO nations must double-down on their military and economic support for Ukraine
ISSUES BEHIND THE GUN ARGUMENTS
Even before Buffalo and Uvalde, 240 mass shootings were recorded in America so far this year. But those two broke our hearts. So gun reform is back on the agenda, although it’s facing a united and nearly undefeatable Republican opposition. The next few weeks will see news about the NRA’s grip on our democracy. And it may, finally, cast a light on the teen mental health crisis.
FRIDAY RECAP: June 3, 2022
Guns. And children. Indivisible Oregon was consumed with the slaughter of innocents. Everyday we drilled deeper into the politics and it doesn’t look good for reasonable gun controls even though the public, including gun owners and Republicans support it. We then explored the weapon Republicans use to block legislation. And finally we reported that, like the shredding of abortion rights, America has been kidnapped by an unstoppable minority who, after decades, are holding nearly all the levers of power.
THE THREAT TO RATIONAL GUN CONTROL
The debate over whether more guns increase safety has been lost. The number of guns in the US has soared to 400 million, tracked by a parallel rise in gun deaths. While Democrats are proposing solutions, MAGA Republicans have been building a wide and potentially violent base by using lies designed to keep the culture wars aflame.
Why call your Members of Congress
Members of Congress have told us repeatedly that our calls matter. When they meet with their colleagues in Congress, they say "I'm getting swamped with calls about this illegal power grab. We need to take action."
If you're represented by Democrats: They are our best defense in Washington DC. They can throw sand in the gears of the Trump regime by using tools such as parliamentary procedures. And they have the power to call attention to particular issues via press, social media, special events. In short: our elected officials have power, and we must push them to wield it.
If you're represented by Republicans: Our calls let them know just how unpopular their actions are. We make them nervous, even if they don't show it. We make it hard for them to take actions that hurt Americans.
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