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Grassroots Groups Announce 500K Call Push to Protect Health Care in Shutdown Showdown

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Indivisible, MoveOn, and Working Families Power Combine Efforts to Ensure Dems Keep Holding the Line WASHINGTON – As health care premiums prepare to go up and the Trump-Republican shutdown continues, grassroots groups are coming together to push half a million calls to Congress to protect health care access.  Throughout this week, Indivisible, MoveOn Civic Action, and Working Families Power (WFP) are activating their members to place calls to Congress to demand they preserve ACA subsidies and reinstate life-saving Medicaid funding that Republicans gutted to make way for tax cuts for…

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Just Don’t Call Her Unqualified

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Donald Trump has been widely ridiculed for staffing his administration with unqualified partisan hacks recruited from Fox News. This is not quite fair. Yesterday, Trump named Jeanine Pirro as the new interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. Pirro is a partisan hack recruited from Fox News, but she’s a qualified one. Millions of Americans know Pirro as a prolific conservative-television pundit, most recently as a member of Fox News’s afternoon talk show, The Five. Even compared with other right-wing TV personalities, Pirro’s record of unwavering Trump support, including at his…

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MoveOn: Latest Trump Call for Political Violence Against Opponents Cannot Be Normalized

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – In response to Donald Trump’s issuing a violent threat concerning Liz Cheney, stating, “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels shooting at her. Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face,” MoveOn Political Action Executive Director Rahna Epting released the following statement:  “Threatening violence against any human and seeking revenge on your political opponents are qualities of a vengeful dictator, not the president of the United States. Donald Trump’s horrific and anti-democratic threat against…

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