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Jul 4, 2022·edited Jul 5, 2022

If the "FREEDOM TO VOTE ACT " (H R-1) is not already in place early enough before the MIDTERM ELECTIONS this November, then Republicans will win TOTAL CONTROL OF CONGRESS.

IF THAT HAPPENS, Republicans will REVERSE everything that President Biden has accomplished including the "BUILD BACK BETTER ACT" (Should it become law before then)

And Republicans will STOP the investigation into the Jan 6, insurrection claiming that the attack on the capital was completely legal.

Then Trump or someone just like him will be back in the white house in 2024.

I DEMAND that all Americans with websites and media platforms who believe in DEMOCRACY and the RULE OF LAW must immediately urge Americans to PEACEFULLY take to the streets in protest to protect our voting rights and to REVERSE Republican anti voting laws before it is too late to do anything about it.

And because our voting rights are being stolen by Republicans who are viciously passing anti voting laws---many more Americans are going to lose the right to vote.

Without our right to vote we will lose many of our precious rights and freedoms.

Trump-Republicans are attacking our Democratic norms. They want to control who gets to vote, who counts the votes, and who declares the winners.

As an American who loves the precious freedoms of the United States, I cannot sit back and watch our FREEDOM TO VOTE disappear without doing everything I can to help stop this from happening.

Because of the URGENCY of this situation, and with all due respect, I must demand that you ADD to your website's agenda to: PLEASE URGE YOUR READERS TO PEACEFULLY TAKE TO THE STREETS TO PROTECT OUR VOTING RIGHTS IMMEDIATELY.

And because Republicans have passed Anti Voting laws into their favor, including the right to DECERTIFY AND OVERTURN AN ELECTION, they will illegally win in all future elections.

SO FAR Republicans have passed over 400 new anti-voting laws in 49 states using false allegations of voter fraud. Making it much harder for people to vote..

THEY are using the FILIBUSTER to continue to block our CIVIL LIBERTIES. Including VOTING RIGHTS, HEALTHCARE, PLANNED PARENTHOOD, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS, ANIMAL RIGHTS, GUN SAFETY, LGBT RIGHTS, SOCIAL SECURITY PROTECTION, TAXING THE RICH, ETC. ETC. ETC.

CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS have said that they will OVERTURN any election that does not go their way.

WHAT KIND OF DEMOCRACY IS THAT???

Without the FREEDOM TO VOTE ACT, all parties (except The Republican party) will no longer be able to win elections.

The "Freedom To Vote act" will REVERSE all Republicans ANTI VOTING laws and PROTECT our right to vote.

And if the filibuster still stands in the way, then it must be abolished.

Please push for peaceful mass protests to protect and restore our voting rights before Trumps Republicans succeed in an AUTHORITARIANISM TAKEOVER of the United States.

THEY HAVE ALREADY JUST ENDED

ROE V. WADE

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I nominate Robert Reich for President! [1]He has Bernie Sanders' progressive ideas and policies, but [2] unlike Bernie, is not grumpy and scolding and humorless,[3] He is very friendly, easy to like, easy to trust, and knows how to talk to White "blue-collar" voters. [4] He has much more knowledge and understanding of government and politics than almost all politicians. [5] He speaks the truth to power.

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I agree! Tired of the inaction of dems. Seem like the majority have no guts! Democrats seem to have no passion! Defeating themselves.

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I would also be very interested in hearing why you aren't addressing the student loan crisis. It seems like a no-brainer for Biden to cancel student loan debt for folks who have held this for 20+ years and to reform it for younger folks. A bill was recently introduced in the Senate to refinance all student loan debt at zero percent interest. This is great for the young ones (including my daughters who both are paying off debt for master's degrees in social work and physicians assistant), but not so helpful for their parents who have accumulated obscene amounts of debt because of the daily interest accruing on student loans. We have a spousal consolidation loan from the late 1990s that has quadrupled from $50k to almost $200k in spite of regular payments. Our meager retirement will be plagued by student loan debt that we can't possibly repay during the rest of our lifetimes. Please comment on this and the possible benefit canceling this debt will have for the Democrats in the upcoming midterms.

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Robert, I agree fully with what you wrote. We do not need the self-fulfilling prophesies of stating we’ll lose when the other party supports the deadly seditionist attackers. If they sound worried about that, just move aside & we’ll put in progressives. The hearings are powerful. Rely on it, reference it!

I’m constantly adding the name republican to reasons for slaughters, climate damage etc.

The Dems in power must give their base (us) fist pounding fights and wins NOW!

And the hearing with Cassidy Hutchinson should have been on in Prime Time! WTF?

I know you’re extremely busy Robert, but could we send you to the oval office to direct Biden and staff?

There was a mass murder in a suburb in IL today! Republican-blood-on-their-hands traitors did not help ban these murder weapons. Start repeating this ad nauseam everyone!

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Wish I knew what to tell Susan Collins re what will happen to her silly old ass if she doesn't vote to carve out on filibuster.

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Someone pointed out that Democrats form "circular firing squads", and I think that's true. Democrats are always at each others' throats over who is too progressive, or not progressive enough. One thing the Republicans have been really good at is putting aside differences and massing together in solid blocks. Democrats NEED to do that, and Democrats NEED to promote people who are actually "electable". That said, the basic issue of the economy is key, and, as my spouse says, "getting what they can"...and that means learning how to compromise with each other and then in Congress.

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Right you are, Robert! Now will you please stop saying you and I and other 70+ people are on “our last legs”? Hello? What did you just DO?

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"America is in Denial," said Mitt Romney. I would add that Democrats in Washington are in denial that Republicans have a plan to end democracy. Otherwise, they would mobilize against it in any way they can while they have the power to do so.

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Jul 4, 2022·edited Jul 5, 2022

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-supreme-court-fires-broadside-against-the-constitution/ar-AAZbPI2?infiniteIframe=1

Dr Reich, I completely agree with your impatience. Be advised, though. Even if the Democrats can manage forcing through Abortion Rights and other key legislation, that leaves unaddressed the associated civil rights SCOTUS just did the fandango on, and they've just begun "a'whistlin Dixie" - the tune to which they dance. Besides, it'll be the same SCOTUS that will turn around and strike down any Democratic legislation that attempts to extend Federal authority, citing that it violates states' rights under the 10th Amendment, while completely >ignoring< the Supremacy Clause in the body of the document - just as they did in 1850. The 10th Amendment is the bugger-all that the Union Republicans should have fixed between 1860 - '64, that the Confederacy planted the flag of their cause on, and continues to do so to this very day. I'm afraid ol' Tweety's lap-dog voters have no idea what they've brought onto themselves and their children for at least a generation - not to mention everyone else! Although I respect if not totally agree with everything you say, I think this time the stage was set back at the end of Obama's administration. Anything else in this political environment is bound to be "a day late & $1 short." Even if all Republicans were to be voted out of office in '22 & '24, their shadow will >still< loom large over this nation long after they're gone and forgotten.

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To say nothing of weapons ban!

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Thank you for excellent paths forward, and your powerful voice.

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A journalist for Le Monde, a French news source, said in The Week: "The extremist Catholic majority on the court is the product of 'the tyranny of a minority permitted by an electoral system outrageously favorable to the most conservative states.' Donald Trump was defeated in the popular vote, yet became president anyway. He then nominated three ultraconservative justices who were confirmed by a Senate whose makeup is permanently skewed to favor rural voters at the expense of the Democratic majority." This is how Europe sees us. Weak. Because the country is weak. We need a strong Democratic party and strong president to take charge and serve the will of the majority while it can. As you said, Dr. Reich, "Democrats still have the power to effectively overrule the Supreme Court on reproductive rights and the environment. They must now pass a national abortion rights act which will preempt state laws banning abortions, and a Clean Power Plan that will eliminate the Supreme Court’s argument that Congress never authorized the Environmental Protection Agency to do this." In addition, Democrats need to set term limits on the Supreme Court, expand the court, revise the outdated electoral college, and protect the right to vote, while we the people work to vote the spineless Republican lackeys in Washington out of office. The ultraconservative members of the Supreme Court think they can force the country to accept their notions that women have no right to make choices for themselves and that pollution that has been building over the past 150 years isn't anything to worry about. And they're not finished. Ultimately, their goal is to create a white fundamentalist christian nation intolerant of anyone that doesn't fit their mold. Citizens who care need to rise up and say, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore."

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Chuck Schumer thinks that his job as Senate Majority Leader only involves standing at a podium, reading in a monotone drone, over the top of his glasses, from a pile of papers, to a room full of empty chairs, while wringing his hands to show his angst. He hasn't got the backbone of a Nancy Pelosi, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Katie Porter in the House.

Time for Chuck to pass the torch. Hand off to Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren.

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I agree, I am angery that so many will state that the Democrats are loosing the the midterm. It is self fulling proficiency, we can win if we just get out & work to get people to vote Blue. If they understood that if the Republicans win the Majotity we loose Democercy & law freedoms. I live on Social Security & the Republicans want to take that & Medicare from us. I’d be in the streets if that happened.

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Is it a full moon?

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