8-12-24 Newsletter

 

"Democrats are united behind Kamala Harris and intend to win in November. Anything else is noise." -- Robert Hubbell, Today's Edition, August 5, 2024 * "So, fellow cock-eyed optimists, here is what I think we must do now. We simply have to pour everything we have into this election. Whatever you were going to do, do more. If we do the work we can make this election everything we want it to be. We can win the Presidency, keep the Senate, flip the House and make important gains in the states. We can beat Trump and MAGA, and truly, truly, begin the process of sending this dangerous political movement into the dustbin of history where it so clearly belongs. For we, my friends, are not going back. Oh no, we are not going back. We are going forward." -- Simon Rosenberg, Hopium Chronicles, August 10, 2024 * Here's the link to the Harris-Walz YouTube channel. Check out Tim Walz, Harris's choice for vice-president, in this brief video mix. Watch Harris and Walz at their kick-off rally in Philadelphia on August 6. EXCITING NEWS Hooray for Arizona Republicans for Harris, as shown in Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse, August 5, 2024. Watch the lifelong Republican mayor of Mesa, AZ vigorously endorse Harris-Walz. Watch the crowd at the Las Vegas Harris-Walz rally here. MORE EXCITING NEWS Tiffiny Mitchell, a former member of the INCO's initial leadership team and former Oregon State Representative, made it through the crowded August 6th primary to be on the November ballot for Washington State Representative. INVESTING IN ORDINARY AMERICANS "At the same time, Americans have seen the Biden-Harris administration actually do the hard work of governing, completing the promises Trump made but didn’t deliver. • Manufacturing has surged under Biden, with factories under construction and about 800,000 manufacturing jobs created. • The Biden-Harris administration more fully funded the IRS to go after tax cheats, passing the mark of recovering more than $1 billion from high-income, high-wealth individuals earlier this month and scoring a $6 billion judgment against Coca-Cola Co. for back taxes just last week. • The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is rebuilding the nation’s roads and bridges, • a record high number of people have enrolled in affordable health coverage plans since January 2021. ".... The Biden-Harris administration made the decision to invest money in ordinary Americans, and it worked: the U.S. came out of the pandemic with a stronger economy than any other nation." -- Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from an American, August 5, 2024 PLEASE HELP INCO BUY STAMPS TO WRITE VOTERS * THANK YOU * to recent donors! INCO postcarders are donating money, supplies, and stamps, too.  Our postcards persuade people to vote - and to vote for Democrats.  Postcard stamps cost 56¢ each, and each postcard reaches a potential voter.   * 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, Wite-Out, and good cheer. Gather with activists across the country via Zoom. Sign up here to join this event!  HOPE AND POLITICAL STRATEGY "...hope is also part of a longer-term political strategy. Hope means refusing to give in to the fatalism and cynicism that autocrats foster with their messages that they are omnipotent and their victories inevitable." -- Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Lucid, August 7, 2024 "Coupled with the menace posed by a rogue, radically right-wing and corrupt Supreme Court, Democrats understand all too well that whatever differences they have must not get in the way of defeating Donald Trump and his MAGA cohorts. Well-founded fear has spawned solidarity, an essential element for people battling an authoritarian threat." -- Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, August 9, 2024 Some of the people postcarding with Beeb (holding the sign). EVEN MORE EXCITING NEWS Saturday's Postcarding in the Park with MoveOn and Beeb Ashcroft in Seaside was a big success, with 210 postcards on their way to key voters in support of VIce-President Harris. MoveOn follows up with outreach calls after people receive their postcards. POSTCARDING AT HOME Channel your wish for election victories into writing to voters from home. Sign up for the postcard campaigns you want.  These groups usually have campaigns available that do not give tight deadlines for writing and mailing postcards: https://www.commit2democracy.com/sign_up https://www.activateamerica.vote/postcards https://secure.everyaction.com/wWYzSycvi0uyLrKtsMnNXw2 https://postcards.markersfordemocracy.org/ www.postcardstovoters.org has a 3-day turnaround for its postcard campaigns.   PROJECT 2025: THE GOP'S ANTI-DEMOCRACY BLUEPRINT Abortion, Women, The Law & The 2024 Elections INCO recommends this fascinating conversation hosted by America at a Crossroads. Watch to learn more about existing and proposed measures to regulate women's bodies. UNSCHOOLING OUR SCHOOLS "Schools have become battlegrounds in the culture wars now more than ever.... Under the banner of “advancing education freedom,” Project 2025 would fundamentally change how American children are educated. It proposes to: Disband the U.S. Department of Education — an agency mandated with ensuring equal educational access for all. Phase out Title 1 funding, which helps children from low-income families. Give money directly to families in the form of vouchers, which would be used for private education. Eliminate Head Start, which provides early childhood education to poor families, especially in rural areas. Scale back the federal school meals program. Abolish the Parent PLUS loan program, which helps low- and middle-income families pay for college. Roll back regulations that protect students from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Prosecute schools that maintain affirmative action policies." -- Dan Rather, "Teach Your Children Well," Steady newsletter, August 7, 2024 LEARN MORE ABOUT PROJECT 2025 • NEW: People for the American Way shows the impact of Project 2025 on veterans, voters, people who use libraries, people with children, Earth, and more. • "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" FUN STUFF INCO INSIGHTS "In a restaurant, choose a table near a waiter." --Jewish folk saying 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  August 12, 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? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.