9-5-2022 Newsletter

 

"MEANINGFUL THINGS WE CAN ACTUALLY DO" "I often wish I could just do something. But what can I do about Climate, Gun Control, Trump, etc? Jessica Craven has charted out meaningful things we can actually do. She is very inspirational too. I highly recommend her newsletter. Watch one of her videos and you will not sleep. She is amazing, and shows how we can actually make a difference. Like encouraging high school seniors to register." -- Joseph Ball, Substack newsletter comment, September 2, 2022

BUTTON, BUTTON! MIDTERMS, MIDTERMS! Show your support for reproductive healthcare with your free ROEVEMBER button made by INCO's Bebe Michel. Republican candidates are scrubbing their websites and campaigns of anti-choice rhetoric, but their agenda remains as it was: government should control women's bodies.  If you'd like a free ROEVEMBER button, contact Laurie at incoregon@gmail.com.

INCO RESUMES ZOOM EVENTS Join with us to save and strengthen our democracy INCO South County Community Group meeting. Thursday, September 8, 6:30-7:30, via Zoom. Contact Kathleenannmacdonald@yahoo.com to get the Zoom link.  Every Friday - INCO Write to Voters (WTV), via Zoom, 3-4 pm. Informal chat while we write letters and postcards to voters. If you are new to WTV, please contact incoregon@gmail.comto get the Zoom link.

ON NOVEMBER'S BALLOT Check out all the candidates and ballot measures that will be on our November ballots.

"THE STAKES ARE HIGH" "We have reached a watershed in American politics. The president of the United States has told us directly that our system of government is under attack. What happens next is, in every way, up to us." -- Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, September 2, 2022 "The stakes are high. Going into the midterms this fall, the G.O.P. need only gain six seats in the House and one seat in the Senate to retake control of those chambers, thwarting any hope of advancing federal abortion protections or any number of other liberal priorities. -- Tom Bonier, C.E.O. of TargetSmart, a data and polling firm; in the New York Times, "Women Are So Fired Up to Vote, I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It," September 3, 2022 "It is Republicans in races across the country who have made election lies the central rationale for their campaigns. That means our democracy is literally on the ballot. Its future, our future, as a nation of laws where the government is accountable to the will of the majority, will be decided by politics." -- Dan Rather, journalist, Substack, September 3, 2022    Here's the text of President Biden's speech on Thursday night. You can watch it here.

"IT IS A THREE-ALARM FIRE" --Former FBI assistant director Frank Figliuzzi Click here to see an illustrated list of items FBI has found and their location at Mar-A-Lago. "Where did the documents there were in those folder go? Were any of them destroyed, given away, copied, hidden, sold or shared? We don’t know, and that is a national security disaster  . . . ." -- Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, "The Mar-a-Lago espionage scandal is a three-alarm national security crisis. We should act like it," September 4, 2022

AMERICAN FASCISM: "IT'S NOT A NORMAL PARTY" "The GOP itself might not meet the full definition of a “fascist” party—not yet, anyway—but it’s not a normal party, and its base is not an ordinary political movement. It is, instead, a melding of the remnants of a once-great party with an authoritarian, violent, seditionist personality cult bent on capturing and exercising power solely to benefit its own members and punish its imagined enemies among other Americans.  "....Glaring drivers jacked up on Fox News and talk radio flying “Fuck Joe Biden” flags on their cars aren’t fascists; they’re the raw material of fascism, the battering rams that actual fascists—cleverer and nimbler than the hapless overgrown adolescents who will end up in front of a judge—will use to knock down our institutions by goading them into violence." -- Tom Nichols, The Atlantic newsletter, 8-30-22 "Just a year after the January 6 riot at the Capitol, 717 companies and industry groups had given more than $18 million to 143 of the 147 Republicans in Congress who voted to overturn the 2020 election." -  US Representative Adam Schiff, CA   "The historian Timothy Snyder has coined the term “schizofascism” to describe this sort of rhetoric: people acting like fascists while calling their enemies fascists, as the Russian propaganda machine continues to do with Ukraine.” — Masha Gessen, newyorker.com

WRITE TO SAVE DEMOCRACY Get out the vote for pro-democracy candidates.  For free postcards, stamps, or information, contact incoregon@gmail.com. WRITE TO VOTERS • Postcards To Voters:  Handwritten postcards sent to Democrats to get out the vote. PTV provides scripts. Sign up at the website or at join@TonyTheDemocrat.org.  • Vote Forward:  You print prepared letters to voters and add a few sentences. All letters get mailed in October. • Postcards To Swing States:  Progressive Turnout Project provides the postcards, scripts and addresses to rally Democrats to vote. WRITE AN LTE Write a Letter to the Editor (LTE) - Write a few sentences or more, up to 250 words. Send to editor@dailyastorian.com, along with your name, address, and phone. WRITE TO YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS How will your Members of Congress know what you want if you don't tell them? Send a postcard, write an email through their websites. Even better - call and speak to a Congressional staffer, or leave a message. Here's contact information for Senators Wyden and Merkley, Congresswoman Bonamici, and for other elected officials..

HAPPENINGS  INCO South County Community Group meeting -Thursday, September 8, 6:30-7:30, via Zoom. Contact Kathleenannmacdonald@yahoo.com to get the Zoom link.  INCO-Warrenton Community Group meeting. Next meeting date TBA. Contact Carmen at 503-440-2312 for details. INCO Astoria/North County Community Group meeting. Next meeting date TBA. Every Friday - INCO Write to Voters (WTV), via Zoom, 3-4 pm. Informal chat while we write letters and postcards to voters. If you are new to this event, contact incoregon@gmail.comto get the Zoom link.

INSIGHTS 'Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.' " --- Gene Sharp