"Arizona Republicans blocking a repeal of an 1864 abortion ban today is the least shocking thing to happen in politics today. The bans are the point. Donald Trump, Kari Lake, and the rest of the Republican party are leading a nationwide crusade to undermine reproductive rights and personal freedoms. And this is exactly what they envisioned when they celebrated the end of Roe. Make no mistake: Republicans like Donald Trump and Kari Lake did this."
Today, Indivisible Chief Campaigns Officer Sarah Dohl issued the following statement after Donald Trump refused to answer a question on whether he would use the Comstock Act to restrict abortion nationwide from NPR presidential campaign correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben.
The entire country has been waiting too long for Durbin to take action, and subpoenaing Leonard Leo without simultaneously subpoenaing Harlan Crow is a half-baked attempt at doing his job as Judiciary Chair.
Today, Indivisible Action announced the rollout of its tool Neighbor2Neighbor, an innovative, relational doorknocking program to knock 200,000 doors in House, Senate, and Presidential battlegrounds.
As Donald Trump bragged about overturning Roe v. Wade and tearing abortion rights away from millions, Joe Biden expanded student debt relief to millions. It’s emblematic of their different visions for our country, one that takes us backward versus one that looks to the future.
Trump’s message was simply a political messaging attempt at obfuscation and plausible deniability on the campaign trail - in word, it was bullshit. And we know this because the night before this statement, Trump himself told the world he had to issue a statement in order to win the election.
It is a welcome development that President Biden, and his close allies like Senator Chris Coons, are putting conditions or limitations on military assistance to the Israeli government on the table. It is welcome, but insufficient.