8-26-24 Newsletter

 

To volunteer for the Harris-Walz campaign, sign up here. Connect with the Clatsop Democrats here. Indivisible's stickers and other campaign items are available here.  Who's for Harris-Walz? Joyful Warriors, Bookworms, Farmers, Craft Beer Drinkers, Star Wars Fans, Stanley Cup Owners, and others on the website.  CHAMPIONS OF DEMOCRACY "Democracy is not an easy form of government.  It has none of the certainties of the various forms of tyranny.  It demands that the governed as well as the governing make compromises, learn to to listen, and sometimes resist impulses.  The champions of democracy are not the people who cling to power in its name, but those who put that greater consultation, that larger discussion, that continuing project, above themselves." -- Timothy Snyder, Talking about newsletter, August 19, 2024 “Our nation is at an inflection point,” the platform’s preamble reads. “What kind of America will we be? A land of more freedom, or less freedom? More rights or fewer? An economy rigged for the rich and powerful, or where everyone has a fair shot at getting ahead?”  -- 2024 Democratic National Committee Party Platform Andy Davis is running to serve as Oregon State Representative for House District 32 against the Republican incumbent. Find out at www.davis4oregon.com about his candidacy and how you can help elect him as our state legislator.  Watch Harris question VIPs who don't want to be questioned. It's worth watching again even if you saw it at the DNC last Wednesday. HELP INCO BUY STAMPS TO WRITE VOTERS We're writing hundreds of postcards to voters each week. Please contribute what you can -- stamps or cash - so we can afford to mail them.  * THANK YOU * to recent donors!   * 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.   PROJECT 2025: THE GOP'S ANTI-DEMOCRACY BLUEPRINT PROJECT 2025 AT THE DNC * "... comedian Kenan Thompson zoomed live with people around the nation who would be impacted by Trump’s Project 2025, all while holding a massive version of it and citing specific pages and policies that would rip apart LGBTQ+ marriages, increase insulin costs for diabetics, block abortions nationwide with the Comstock Act and throw healthcare providers in jail, eliminate the jobs of non-MAGA loyalists and eliminate the whole Department of Education." -- Jay Kuo, The Status Kuo on Substack, August 22, 2024 * Watch the video here. LEARN MORE ABOUT PROJECT 2025 • NEW: A BBC summary of Project 2025 • NEW: A CBS News summary of Project 2025 • NEW: Scroll down for the ACLU's summary of Project 2025 • Sign up for Joyce Vance's Substack newsletter for in-depth explanations of Project 2025. • The 920-page Project 2025 document is here. Find a topic that interests you in the Project 2025  table of contents.   "When they tell you who they are....believe them. Project 2025 tells us everything they plan to do. Our job is to make sure they never get the chance." -- Julie B, reader's comment, Steady newsletter, August 15, 2024 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. 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: Commit to Democracy: https://www.commit2democracy.com/sign_up Activate America: https://www.activateamerica.vote/postcards Markers for Democracy: https://postcards.markersfordemocracy.org/ Postcards to Voters: www.postcardstovoters.org has a 3-day turnaround for its postcard campaigns.  NEWS: No more Postcards to Swing States; INCO postcarders wrote to several hundred of the 36 million addresses that are all adopted! FUN STUFF "Autocrats want to be feared, not liked, and so they don’t mind being called evil. Yet making fun of them is off limits, as those who have dealt with insult suits in Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Turkey or faced prison in Vladimir Putin's Russia can attest." -- Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Lucid on Substack, August 21, 2024 INCO INSIGHTS "Freedom is not just an absence of evil but the presence of good." -- Timothy Snyder, ON FREEDOM  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 26, 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. 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