Nancy Pelosi forced House Reps to go on the record with their responses to Donald’s most recent racist tweets with an astonishing, rare vote to condemn the president, which passed mostly along party lines. Unsurprisingly, Republican lawmakers are all cool with institutionalized racism except for four of them, including Texas’s Will Hurd, and a former Texas …
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“I know we are consumed by this here, but it doesn’t consume my constituents when I go back home,” Sen. John Cornyn said. —Politico, July 16, 2019 Really, John Cornyn?
Take Action Demand an impeachment inquiry now. Trump’s election in 2016 was the Molotov cocktail that ignited the Indivisible movement, including Indivisible Austin. Broadly speaking, our primary means of resisting Trump is congressional advocacy. For a lot of us, this strategy provides a coping mechanism: We can actually do something—that is proven to work. We …
Republicans Against the Law A federal judge blocked Don John’s effort to switch legal representation in seeking to circumvent the Constitution by pushing through with adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census in violation of the Supreme Court decision disallowing it—followed by a second federal judge upholding that ruling. At which point, in yet another head-spinning 180, Donald once …
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Trump’s election in 2016 was the Molotov cocktail that ignited the Indivisible movement, including Indivisible Austin. Broadly speaking, our primary means of resisting Trump is congressional advocacy. For a lot of us, this strategy provides a coping mechanism: We can actually do something—that is proven to work. We call our representatives! We track bills! We …
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Take Action Tell your reps that Trump is not above the law: He must accept the Supreme Court’s ruling on the census question When the Supreme Court ruled that the 2020 census must not include a question about citizenship status, most thought the battle was won. It should not surprise anyone that the President feels …
Republicans Against the Law After threatening to unconstitutionally delay the next census indefinitely because of the Supreme Court ruling against Don John adding a citizenship question, the question’s engineer, Wilbur Ross, announced that the government had dropped plans to add the question. The very next day, Donald called the report of his own flip-flop “FAKE …
Take Action Honor E. Jean Carroll and other survivors of sexual violence Writer E. Jean Carroll is the latest to accuse Donald Trump of sexual assault. This allegation would end any other presidency. And it should end this one, but likely won’t. The injustice of a serial sex criminal continuing to occupy in the Oval …
Please indulge me in a word before we launch into all the ways your voices made a difference this week. “Sometimes you get the elevator; sometimes you get the shaft.” I first heard this saying in Austin writer Sarah Bird’s book The Boyfriend School. At the time I found it hilarious, but lately I’ve been finding …
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Join us for six nights of live readings of the Mueller Report. Begins Friday, June 28. Details below. Take Action Tell your reps: Stop playing games with kids’ lives (Much credit to Celeste Pewter) Trump is treating his border crisis like a game: He announced sweeping ICE raids in 10 cities, and then hours later …
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