FRIDAY RECAP: JUly 29, 2022
What a week! Head-spinning! Even Thursday (our last production day), the revelation of a Joe Manchin-approved budget was a shock. Here’s what we focused on this week. Wait until next week . . .
1. “WE ARE NOT GOING BACK!” Republican politicians tell their voters that they should be scared, and they use that fear to further divide the country. Democratic politicians, on the other hand, are trying to pass legislation that would help all Americans - making it easier to vote, legalizing abortion across the country, passing reasonable gun restrictions, and trying to pull us back from the brink of climate disaster. A majority of Americans want these things, but Republican politicians block them every time.
2. THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND CONTINUING GUN VIOLENCE CANNOT WAIT. Despite Biden’s campaign promises to attack the climate crisis and protect Americans from gun violence, the planet continues warming with catastrophic results. Meanwhile, children and adults are still dying from military assault weapons. And MAGA Republicans in the Senate and on the Supreme Court continue to block his ability to fight for the American people. Biden still has the power, however, to respond to the climate and gun crises with Executive Orders. Our Members of Congress must continue pressing him to immediately do so boldly.
3. UKRAINE ALLIES NEED TO BOOST SUPPLY OF SOPHISTICATED WEAPONS For some weeks now leaders in several Western capitals have floated the idea of a cease-fire as a first step toward ending the war in Ukraine, even as Putin has intensified the scale of the war and rejected serious negotiations unless Ukraine agrees to cede the Donbas region to Russia. President Zelenskyy has unequivocally rejected this “peace for land” formulation. In the face of Russia’s intransigence, NATO nations must double-down on their
military support for Ukraine and provide Kyiv with the sophisticated arms it needs to repel Russian aggression.
Our Members of Congress need to hear from us. So, pick up your phone, click on one or more of the chosen links below, and demand for a government that works for all of us.
July 26: “WE ARE NOT GOING BACK!!” – House Speaker Pelosi
July 27: THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND CONTINUING GUN VIOLENCE CANNOT WAIT
July 28: UKRAINE ALLIES NEED TO BOOST SUPPLY OF SOPHISTICATED WEAPONS
