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Making it happen: Week 16
The SwingLeft letter-writing continues! Thanks to volunteers Pennie Burns, Linda Chamberlain, and Sarah Bellinson & friends, who completed another 315 voter engagement letters to Texans in need of encouragement to get out and VOTE in November. Woohoo! Gold stars on collars!
Protect the Results
Many of us are anxious about the possibility, even likelihood, of a move by an increasingly desperate Trump to reject the outcome of the November elections and refuse to leave the White House. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has warned Dems in Congress of the same.
Indivisible National is partnering with Stand Up America to create and implement a country-wide response. Learn more about the plan here, and read Indivisible’s press release for Protect the Results here.
“We will stand together to ensure that if Trump loses the 2020 presidential election he will not throw our country into a constitutional crisis. We will demand that every vote be counted, even if it takes days or weeks to get an accurate count from critical states, especially given the expansion of mail-in and absentee voting during the COVID-19 pandemic. We will organize to ensure that the loser concedes, and that Congress, the Electoral College, and state officials honor the accurate, final vote count.” (- Indivisible National)
Biden: Build Back Better (and level the field)
“Biden’s economic plan for the country is, according to his campaign, the “largest mobilization of public investments in procurement, infrastructure, and R&D since World War II.” Called “Build Back Better,” the plan calls for investment in infrastructure and R&D to revitalize high-paying American industries and bring critical American supply chains back home. He calls for a revival of trade unions—gutted after 1981—and higher wages, as well as higher taxes on corporations (although not to the levels they were at before Trump’s tax cuts).
“The document is a strong one politically, undercutting both Trump’s “America First” language and promising concrete policies for voters suffering in the Republican economy. But it is interesting as well for how clearly it marks a return to a vision of a government that stops privileging an elite few, and instead works to level the economic playing field among all Americans.”
- H.C. Richardson, PhD, political historian
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We’re all-in for CHANGE in 2020. Our volunteers have written 10,000 (!!!) SwingLeft letters to register/engage voters in the 12 “Super States." We need an additional $3100 for postage to get these letters in the mail. Please help if you can.
