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Indivisible Bainbridge Island Newsletter

Aug. 26, 2022
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Holding Trump Accountable

Dept. of Justice
  • Mar-A-Lago Search
    • Read the redacted FBI affidavit that resulted in Mar-a-Lago search warrant. Details
    • FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search followed months of resistance and delay by Trump. Details
    • Trump had 300 classified documents at Mar-A-Lago, called boxes ‘mine.’ Details
    • Trump’s recent message to AG Garland comes into sharper focus. Details
    • Trump's lawyers admit he violated the Espionage Act in their own court filing. Details
    • Trump's long history of document disdain. Details
    • Trump may release surveillance footage from FBI search at Mar-a-Lago. Details
    • Did Trump leak Mar-a-Lago warrant revealing names of FBI agents as threats against bureau rise? Details
    • Right-wing legal 'expert' told Trump he didn't have to give up classified documents. Details
  • The memo behind Bill Barr's refusal to prosecute Trump
    • DOJ obstruction memo reveals Bill Barr is an even bigger Trump hack than previously thought. Details
    • Watch former federal prosecutor, Glenn Kirschner, discuss Barr's "get-out-of-jail-free" memo. The memo was written by
      • Stephen Engle, author of torture memos during the GWB administration.
      • Ed O'Callaghan, was one of three leaders of Sarah Palin's 'Truth Squad' and became the public face of Palin's legal defense against ethics charges related to her former brother-in-law, in the so-called "Troopergate" case.
    • Watch Kirschner discuss the appellate court's decision to release the "get-out-of-jail-free" memo.
    • Trump seeks dismissal of civil suit filed by Capitol Police officer. Details
The Jan. 6 Committee
  • Trump aides grilled about alleged secret talks to remove him under the 25th Amendment. Details
  • Pompeo says discussions to oust Trump after Jan. 6 attack on Capitol weren’t serious. Details
  • Jan. 6 panel investigators traveled to Copenhagen to view Stone footage. Details
Fulton County, GA
  • Mark Meadows ordered to testify in Fulton County probe of Trump election overturn efforts. Details
  • Watch Kirschner: Lindsey Graham is running out of rope & likely will soon find himself in the GA grand jury hot seat
  • Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) appears to have had a rather suspicious change of heart. Details
  • Watch Kirschner summarize the state of affairs in Fulton County.
Trump News
  • Kevin McCarthy accidentally dropped a sick burn on Trump as Fauci slam backfires. Details
  • Trump's PAC spent $1 million in legal fees last month alone. Details
  • Files copied from voting systems were shared with Trump supporters, election deniers. Details
  • Company that took Truth Social public warns it might have to liquidate as Trump becomes 'less popular.' Details
  • Watch Kirschner discuss Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's gift to Donald Trump by going easy on Trump's criminal CFO, Allen Weisselberg. Weisselberg will testify in the case against the Trump Organization that starts Oct. 24.
  • Federal court filing challenges claim that Trump rescinded controversial special counsel appointment. Details
  • The FBI is investigating the connection between a fake heiress and Mar-a-Lago. Details
Enablers
  • GOP's Scott Perry is suing to block DOJ from reviewing his phone for Jan. 6 evidence. Details
  • Giuliani wants his law license back because 'it’s been a year and a half and I haven’t caused any riot.' Details
  • California lawmakers look to strip tax-exempt status from organizations that participated in Jan. 6. Details
"Tourists"
  • Time-lapse video shows Jan. 6 mob surge 4 minutes after Trump tweeted attack on Pence. Details
  • Feds want 17 years for J6 ‘eye gouger’ who bludgeoned cop with flagpole. Details


Women's Rights


Reproductive rights
  • A Texas judge ruled against the Biden administration’s emergency abortion guidance. Details
  • Abortion access crumbles: four more states - Idaho, Texas, North Dakota and Tennessee -  enacted new restrictions this week. Details
  • At-home medical abortions are common. Policing them will threaten other rights. Details
  • In 1975, 75% percent of Americans believed abortion should be legal; in 2022, it's 85%. Details
  • Women are registering to vote in Pa. in numbers far exceeding men since the Supreme Court abortion decision. Details
  • Nebraska doctor slams Walmart pharmacy for denying patient's miscarriage medication. Details
  • Justice Richard Bernstein says Michigan Supreme Court will have final word on abortion access. Details
  • A West Texas coffee shop owner is giving away Plan B for free as fight over contraception access takes hold. Details
  • Kansas abortion foes will go door to door confronting voters after recount proves they lost. Details
The criminalization of motherhood
  • Failure-to-protect laws are incarcerating women all over the country—for other people’s violence. Details
  • Florida cop blocked a pregnant woman in pain from entering a hospital just feet away. Details
Information on how to help women who are seeking abortions is here.


Midterms Are Coming!
  • New York's election results - 4 winners and 2 losers from the New York and Florida primaries. Details
    • Democratic primary
      • Daniel Goldman won in NY-10. Details
      • Rep. Jerry Nadler won in NY-12. Details
      • Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney won in NY-17. Details
    • Special election in NY-19
      • Democrat Pat Ryan won in this GOP-leaning district with a reproductive rights message. Details
    • Republican primary
  • Democrats have outperformed Biden's numbers in each of the four U.S. House special elections since the Dobbs decision in June. Details
  • Maxwell Frost won the Democratic primary in FL-10 and is likely to win in Nov. He'll be the first Gen Z candidate to head to Congress. Details
  • Former Sec. of the Interior and now congressional candidate for Montana's CD-01, Ryan Zinke, found to have lied to investigators — again. Details
  • Arizona GOP candidate for Secretary of State appears to admit to committing voter fraud as a teen. Details
  • How election-denying GOP governors could tilt the 2024 presidential election. Details
  • After Roe’s end, women surged in signing up to vote in some states. Details (NY Times subscription required)
  • Women lead surge in new voter registrations since Roe overturned. Details
  • Rick Scott has blown millions meant for Republican Senate candidates. Details
  • ‘It’s a rip-off’: GOP spending under fire as Senate hopefuls seek rescue. Details
  • The Arizona Republican Party’s anti-democracy experiment. Details (The NY Times may require a subscription)
  • Election officials can’t access federal funding for security as violent threats mount. Details
  • How Gov. DeSantis (R) used the good intentions of Florida voters to set a trap for people who want to vote. Details
  • Maryland GOP governor’s attacks on GOP nominee for governor are ‘devastating.’ Details
  • Trump-backed AZ candidate for the U.S. Senate, Blake Masters, does a slimy flip-flop on abortion after winning primary. Details
 


Do Something
  • Help keep Washington BLUE - Knock on Doors with Us!
    • Indivisible Bainbridge Island, North Kitsap Indivisible and Kitsap County Democrats are door-knocking in Bremerton to keep the Washington state senate blue. Door-knocking is the single best way to improve Democratic voter turnout - by 6%. We are door-knocking for
      • Sen. Emily Randall who won her first term by just 104 votes. She has worked hard on health care during her first term. Republicans are targeting her. Her opponent is current state representative Jesse Young, who showed his stripes by:
        • introducing HB2121, a 15-week abortion ban in the last legislative session.
        • acting like a Kevin at a peaceful, teen-led Black Lives Matter rally in Gig Harbor.
        • encouraging a group of anti-vaxers on Bainbridge Island to use religion as a way to avoid getting Covid vaccines.
      • Adison Richards, a lawyer with the Northwest Justice Project.
      • Matt Macklin, a licensed nursing home administrator and business law attorney who counts broadband, affordable housing and mental health management as his priorities.
    • We knock on doors every Saturday and Tuesday, starting at 10 am to 1 pm. Join us! It's a fun way to get your steps in! We'll train you and send you out with an experienced door-knocker. We also carpool to Bremerton. More info hereSign up here!
  • Keep the U.S. Senate BLUE and expand our majority in order to eliminate the filibuster and codify women's right to reproductive freedom:
    • Mission for Arizona is running text and phone banks reaching out to Arizona voters.
    • Activate America runs phone, Instagram DM and text banks connecting with voters in Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia and Nevada to flip GOP-held U.S. Senate seats and defend Democratic-held U.S. Senate seats. You can also write postcards!
    • Working Families Party (WFP) runs phone and text banks for progressive candidates throughout the country on Thursdays and Saturdays and text banks on Tuesdays.
    • Get Started Texting! with MovementLabs
  • Keep the U.S. House BLUE and expand Democratic majority in the House and do the work the American people want.
  • Find other Washington volunteer opportunities here and here.
  • Support Indivisible's 2022 victory programs. Details
  • Do any or all of the actions at www.indivisiblebainbridgeisland.org.


President Biden and His Administration


In Congress


In the Courts


You Oughta Know

Local/State
  • In Seattle, something better than a tent for the homeless. Details (NY Times subscription required)
  • Oil spill response continues for sunken fishing vessel between San Juan Island and Victoria, B.C. Details
Elsewhere


Postcards on Wednesday - Re-elect Kim Schrier!

We're now meeting in person at the T&C on Winslow Way, Wednesdays, 2 pm to 3:30 pm. With the BA.5 variant now dominant in Washington state, masks are encouragedPlease sign up for this event at mobilize.us. It helps us know how many postcard packets to prepare.

Dr. Kim Schrier
We have 2,000 postcards to write for Dr. Kim Schrier. We're banking these cards for mailing in mid-October urging Democrats (notorious for skipping mid-term elections) to vote and get their ballots in.

Our 2,000 postcards are part of the 40,000 postcards Indivisible WA-8 wants to send to Democratic voters who often skip midterm elections. This is an all-WA-hands on deck effort!
 
You can also stop by Holly's house to pick up postcards for Kim Schrier. Get addresses by emailing Kathy and specify how many addresses you need. Be sure to return the written postcards to Holly's front porch or at Postcards on Wednesday so we can bank them for mailing in mid-October.

How our postcard program works.

If you can't write postcards but want to help with the cost of postcards and stamps so that others can write, please email Kathy or drop off money for stamps at Holly's house. Postcard stamps have gone up to 44 cents each. We could really use the help!

This newsletter was prepared by Holly Brewer and Kathy Wallace of Indivisible Bainbridge Island.
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