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So You Want Help With Your Hurricane? Andra Watkins, on Politicized Disaster Relief E 70
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So You Want Help With Your Hurricane? Andra Watkins, on Politicized Disaster Relief E 70

Author of How Project 2025 Will Ruin Your Life

Hi Friends, this week I chatted with

about Project 2025 and Disaster Recovery.

As we get closer and closer to this election, our lives and politics seem to move faster and faster. First some great news: In early voting, Pennsylvania and Georgia smashed early voting records, and most of these voters are first time voters and registered Dems.

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Also, Former President Jimmy Carter said he wanted to stay alive long enough to vote for Kamala Harris. And he did…we got word that he voted on Georgia’s first day of early voting. And Georgia’s courts are standing strong and upholding democracy…Two recent rulings say that election supervisors MUST certify elections…there are no options to abstain or refuse to certify. ALSO, as you might remember from our conversation with Kim Allen, co-founder of Power the Vote, Georgia Republicans in certain counties wanted to institute a late breaking policy that all ballots need to be hand counted. Well, a judge just stopped that plan as well. Great news for democracy!

In less great news, for democracy, for our climate, for our neighbors and friends, in the wake of two massive hurricanes, Helene and Milton, national Republicans started spreading lies—deliberate disinformation—that FEMA wasn’t helping people in NC with recovery efforts. Local and state politicians announced over and over that FEMA was indeed doing its job and helping with recovery….bringing in the National Guard and active military to help with rescue operations. But as a result of those lies, two very disturbing things happened. First, the federal government and military had to stop rescue and recovery efforts in North Carolina because vigilante militias were turning up and threatening rescue workers with violence.

Also, right wing thugs identified and targeted Jewish officials like the mayor of Asheville with intense anti-semitic threats online and in real life…This Jew hatred got in the way of rescue efforts to provide power, water, roads, and assistance AND it scared a lot of people who need extra security as a result. The far right acccused first the Jews, and then the democrats more broadly, of actually controlling the weather and starting these hurricanes to hurt red states.

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In other news, Donald Trump seems to be falling apart in plain view—stopping questions at a town hall and swaying to his bizarre playlist for 39 minutes while attendees filed out. In response, the NY Times committed still more journalistic malfeasance by sanewashing the moment. Here’s a quote: “And so Mr. Trump, a political candidate known for improvisational departures, made a detour. Rather than try to restart the political program, he seemed to decide in the moment that it would be more enjoyable for all concerned — and, it appeared, for himself — to just listen to music instead.”

talks about this in his post today:

The Dworkin Report
Press Sanewashes Trump’s Deranged Town Hall
Trump’s Monday night town hall was one of the most bizarre political moments I’ve ever witnessed. For 39 agonizing minutes, Donald stood dazed and confused, listening to music in front of his attende…
Read more

While some corporate media started noticing that Trump seems to be losing what’s left of his mind, the Harris campaign decided to prosecute the case of his unfitness for office more directly.

In her Erie, PA rally, Kamala Harris played clips of Trump’s Hitler-like proclamations that enemies from within are more dangerous than Russia and China. By enemies from within, he meant journalists whose stories he didn’t like, public officials like Adam Schiff, and anyone who would vote for democrats. This comes directly from Hitler’s playbook, do not pass go, do not collect $200.

And, of course, Republicans are flooding the polling zone with bad-faith, inaccurate polls showing Trump ahead, as a precursor to their planned efforts to try to steal the election.

It’s all speeding up, and now it’s time to leave it on the field. The best thing we all can do is to be in touch with everyone we know and turning out their vote for Harris-Walz. And, of course, donating to candidates or grassroots GOTV efforts.

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