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Comment & Spread the Word to Protect Our Federal Grants
Oppose the OMB. Comments are due this week, by July 13th.
Join Hands Off Our Vote in 2026, Indivisible.org
Hands Off Our Vote is Indivisible’s national program to ensure all eligible voters get to cast their ballot, and that those ballots get counted. We’ll help you be ready to respond to any attacks, and we’ll shine a light on the bad actors threatening our basic constitutional rights.
Videos: 250 by 250, Week 6, Heather Cox Richardson
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Gettysburg Address, Gov. JB Pritzker
The Star-Spangled Banner, Sarah Longwell
John Adams’ Letters to Abigail, Sara Georgini
Mister Rodgers, Gov. Josh Shapiro
Civil War Income Taxes, Narrated by Danny Werfel
Thurgood Marshall, Gov. Wes Moore
A New Declaration of Independence From Tyranny, Andy Borowitz (in a serious vein)
When in the course of human events a tyrant imperils a nation, it is the duty of those who cherish democracy to remove him from power. We the People refuse to tolerate a despot who threatens our country and the world. ….
Song: American Dreams, Jesse Welles
Is There An American Common Good?, Prof. Robert Reich
Truth itself is a common good … Without a shared truth, democratic deliberation is hobbled.
The American common good depends on people trusting that most others in society will also adhere to the common good, rather than lie or otherwise take advantage of them. … Where a sense of common good is lacking, demagogues use the anger and fear accompanying disruptive change to turn people against one another.
Our central obligation as citizens is to preserve, fortify, and protect our democratic form of government — not inundate it with big money and buy off politicians.
Tax Cuts For The Rich Have Weakened Democracy, Roosevelt Institute
“… a progressive tax code should do three things at once. It should provide the revenue our government needs to deliver the building blocks of good lives for people: security in retirement, care and education for our children, and investments in our homes and infrastructure. It should “prevent extreme concentrations of wealth from distorting power and the economy.” And it should foster a sense of “shared national purpose,” reinforcing our ties to each other and to our government.”
The Moral Case For Taxing The Rich, Antonia Scatton
“Hoarding massive amounts of wealth has made it possible for the mega-rich to corrupt our government, to get subsidies, tax breaks, and bailouts, as well as get-out-of-jail-free cards from the laws that apply to everyone else.”
“It takes millions of people to create wealth. We used to make sure that everyone got their fair share. Now investors take it all. We need to use our government to make the system fair again. Taxing hoarded wealth is a great place to start.”
6 Reasons Protecting Nature Is The Smartest Investment We Can Make, The Nature Conservancy
When nature’s value is accounted for in economies, it enables conservation not just because of its ethical value but also because it’s practical and good business sense. Should we protect nature for its own sake? Absolutely! But we should also protect nature because it’s an investment in all of us.
