7-29-24 Newsletter

 

INCO endorses Kamala Harris for President of the United States. * "We can win this election. I am confident of that. In part because Trump continues to be the ugliest thing we’ve ever seen, and with a new, younger ticket, his ugliness and age will become far clearer to the American people." -- Simon Rosenberg, Hopium Chronicles, July 21, 2024    HELP INCO BUY MORE STAMPS TO GET OUT THE VOTE In only four months of writing to voters, INCO postcarders have written more than 4300 postcards! Now INCO needs your help to reach even more voters in Oregon and across the country to elect a Democratic majority in the US Senate and House.    Please help INCO buy more stamps! INCO postcarders have donated money and stamps, and they'd like your donations, too. Postcard postage stamps cost 56¢ each, so your donation matters.   * INCO WEBSITE: Please donate via INCO's website here * CHECK: Or mail your check payable to INCO to: INCO c/o Eric Halperin PO Box 2864 Gearhart 97138   * VIA USPS: You can also order postcard stamps through the US Postal Service and have them sent to: Laurie Caplan 766 Lexington Avenue Astoria, OR 97103  WRITE TO VOTERS TUESDAYS, 3 - 4:30 pm - WineKraft, east end of Pier 11 Mall, 77 11th Street, Astoria  No purchase necessary.   Invite a friend to come with you! INCO provides postcards, scripts, pens, stamps, and Wite-Out. BONAMICI TELEPHONE TOWN HALL Monday, July 29 at 6 pm "I always appreciate hearing from the people I’m honored to represent."  The event will be livestreamed at https://bonamici.house.gov/live. Deadline for signing up to receive a call was July 28. Thursday, August 1 at 5 pm • Patriot Hall Gym at Clatsop Community College, Astoria EVENTS SUPPORTING HARRIS TONIGHT "A Women for Harris National Organizing Call by the DNC garnered such an overwhelming response it has been moved back several days to Monday, July 29 at 7:00 pm Eastern. Sign up here: National Organizing Call. "And men are finally getting into the act, with a White Dudes for Harris Call set for Monday, July 29 a 8:00 pm Eastern. White Dudes for Harris Call." -- Robert Hubbell, Today's Edition, July 27, 2024  PROJECT 2025: THE GOP'S ANTI-DEMOCRACY BLUEPRINT • "MAGA DICTATORSHIP OR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY" "I am here as a scholar of authoritarianism because I know the stakes of this election: MAGA dictatorship or American democracy. Repression or freedom. I have seen what happens to societies when corrupt leaders and their allies gain power based on division and hate.  "Project 2025 is a recipe for mass chaos, abuses of power, and dysfunction in government. It aligns not only with the agendas of present foreign autocracies, especially the Hungary of Viktor Orban, which was just ranked as the EU’s most corrupt country, but also with the policies of past dictatorships.  "Project 2025 includes measures similar to Mussolini’s “Laws for the Defense of the State” that turned Italy into a police state after a series of assassination attempts on him in the mid=1920s. Among other things, it justified the firing of non-loyal civil servants and the dismissal of judges on grounds of “political incompatibility.” "We don’t have to succumb to the horrors of authoritarianism. We can stop this before it starts, if we are informed of the stakes and best strategies for democracy protection." -- Ruth Ben Ghiat, "Harris Brings Hope," Lucid newsletter, July 23, 2024, speaking at an anti-autocracy in New York the same day. • TRUMP WANTS THIS TO BE THE LAST AMERICAN ELECTION "Donald Trump, speaking to the “Believers Summit Turning Point Action” in Florida [on July 26, 2024] went further than he has before about his plan to hold onto power permanently. It’s far worse than we thought. Trump, departing from reading the remarks on his teleprompter, launched into an extemporaneous shouted diatribe: “Christians, get out and vote! Just this time! You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what? It will be fixed, it will be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you, Christians. You got to get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you don’t have to vote.” Here's the link to the video. "There it is, spelled out in Trump’s own words: a plan to get himself back into the White House and then “have it fixed so good, you don’t have to vote.” "Donald Trump is laying plans for this to be the last American election. He is telling his crowds that he’ll “fix it” so he is, like his friend Vladimir Putin, president for life. -- Lucian Truscott IV, Substack newsletter, July 26, 2024 LEARN MORE ABOUT PROJECT 2025 • "Project 2025’s extreme vision for the West," in High Country News, July 19, 2024 • Sign up for Joyce Vance's Substack newsletter for in-depth explanations of Project 2025. • Watch Heather Cox Richardson explain Project 2025 in this Red Wine & Blue video. • Find a topic that interests you in the Project 2025  table of contents.  • The 920-page Project 2025 document is here.  • The July 22nd New Yorker magazine and online, "Inside the Trump Plan for 2025" Psycho PAC's billboards in Milwaukee during the Republican National Convention.  POLITICS CAN BE SERIOUS  - AND FUN INCO recommends you check out this new anti-Trump organization: The Anti-Psychopath PAC. Founded by long-time Never Trumper Republican George Conway, the Psycho PAC's mission is to remind voters "A convicted felon, a proven rapist, and an anti-democratic nutjob with dictatorial ambitions should be nowhere near the White House."   "Remember: friends don’t let friends vote for a narcissistic sociopath." INCO INSIGHTS “I grew up with the idea that democracy is not something you believe in, or a place you hang your hat, but it’s something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles and falls apart.”    -- Abbie Hoffman Indivisible defends democracy by opposing authoritarianism, bigotry, and corruption. Comments, news, and photos to INCO at incoregon@gmail.com.  Resources and other information at www.incoregon.org and www.indivisible.org. Encourage others to sign up for the INCO newsletter here. Look for the INCO column in Hipfish Monthly. We're on Facebook, too. INCO Weekly Newsletter  July 29, 2024 Website Email Facebook Copyright © 2024 INDIVISIBLE North Coast Oregon, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website or signed up at a community group meeting. Our mailing address is: *|766 Lexington Avenue, Astoria, OR 97103:HTML|* Want to change how you receive these emails? 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