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May 14, 2021

Democrats Volunteer Kickoff Event w/ Chairman Jaime Harrison Saturday, May 15

Democrats Volunteer Kickoff Event w/ Chairman Jaime Harrison

https://events.democrats.org/event/389064/

About this event

Join the Democrats, and DNC Chair Jaime Harrison, for a volunteer kickoff event on Saturday, May 15. Hear directly from our leadership team about our upcoming investments, including a program and priority discussion guided by questions submitted by you and other supporters, and how you can support electing Democrats up and down the ballot.

You won't want to miss it! Sign up today.

This event will be virtual and hosted on Zoom.

Time
Saturday, May 15
1 – 2pm EDT



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May 14, 2021

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May 12, 2021

Liz Cheney carries the mantle of Margaret Chase Smith. NOT Susan Collins

Apparently Susan Collins like to fancy herself as a modern-day Margaret Chase Smith. Seriously. She does.

WRONG. WRONG WRONG SUSAN! Susan Collins is just another partisan mealy-mouthed worm subservient to the every whim and order of malicious sleaze bag Mitch McConnell. She's no moral beacon. She's no hero.


The person who does carry the mantle of Margaret Chase Smith is Liz Cheney.


Let's rub Susan's face in it. Very publicly.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Chase_Smith


Margaret Madeline Chase Smith (December 14, 1897 – May 29, 1995)[1] was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, she served as a U.S Representative (1940–1949) and a U.S. Senator (1949–1973) from Maine.[2] She was the first woman to serve in both houses of the United States Congress, and the first woman to represent Maine in either.[3] A moderate Republican, she was among the first to criticize the tactics of Joseph McCarthy in her 1950 speech, "Declaration of Conscience".[4]

...

On June 1, 1950, Smith delivered a fifteen-minute speech on the Senate floor, known as the "Declaration of Conscience," in which she refused to name McCarthy directly but denounced "the reckless abandon in which unproved charges have been hurled from this side of the aisle."[25] She said McCarthyism had "debased" the Senate to "the level of a forum of hate and character assassination."[4] She defended every American's "right to criticize ... right to hold unpopular beliefs ... right to protest; the right of independent thought."[26] While acknowledging her desire for Republicans' political success, she said, "I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the four horsemen of calumny—fear, ignorance, bigotry, and smear."[14] Six other moderate Republican Senators signed onto her Declaration: Wayne Morse of Oregon, George Aiken of Vermont, Edward Thye of Minnesota, Irving Ives of New York, Charles Tobey of New Hampshire, and Robert C. Hendrickson of New Jersey.[25]

In response to her speech, McCarthy referred to Smith and the six other Senators as "Snow White and the Six Dwarfs."[14] He removed her as a member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, giving her seat to Senator Richard Nixon of California.[24] He also helped finance an unsuccessful primary challenger during Smith's re-election campaign in 1954.[13] Smith later observed, "If I am to be remembered in history, it will not be because of legislative accomplishments, but for an act I took as a legislator in the U.S. Senate when on June 1, 1950, I spoke ... in condemnation of McCarthyism, when the junior Senator from Wisconsin had the Senate paralyzed with fear that he would purge any Senator who disagreed with him."[22] She voted for McCarthy's censure in 1954.[10]

May 8, 2021

Please support Joe Jaworski for Texas AG

current AG Ken Paxton is absolute MAGA filth.


https://twitter.com/JaworskiForTX/status/1391059069079887876

give him a follow on social media

May 7, 2021

Ron DeSantis greased the wheels of the Florida economy with 40,000 dead bodies.

let's start reminding people of this when they tout Florida's "booming" economy

May 6, 2021

Marc Elias asks that we support$ the League of Women Voters Florida as front-line fighters

against Ron DeSantis and his obscene voter suppression law.

https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1390305550827761666

if you can't give money right now, you can sign up for their email list and maybe you can give later

and give them a follow on social media


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