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FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | May 21, 2020 “The protections needed for our system of representative government are clear. We must ensure that safe and secure elections take place in every state in the union.” President Trump’s latest attacks on voting by mail reveal in stark terms his plans for the November presidential election. Trump’s […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | May 14, 2020 “These funds are needed now to allow states to begin all the operational steps that are necessary to be ready for the election.” The House is currently scheduled to vote tomorrow on the next stimulus relief package, the HEROES Act, which provides more than $3 trillion to […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | May 7, 2020 “It is essential to win this fight now, as time is running out for the states to be able to use the funding effectively in advance of the November election.” The fight over providing money for the states to run their November elections is now underway in […]
Attorney General Barr Ignores Long-Established DOJ Rules in Obsessive Pursuit of DOJ Investigators of Russian Interference in 2016 Election Enclosed for your information is an article by Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer entitled “Barr Ignores Settled DOJ Policies in Run Up to 2020 Elections,” which was published here in Just Security on May 7, […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | April 23, 2020 “The battle to ensure that every eligible voter gets to vote is at the heart of the fundamental role played by the right to vote in our constitutional system of representative government.” The battle lines are now drawn on the critical issue of whether Congress will provide […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | April 16, 2020 President Trump has been a dangerous threat to our democratic values, our constitutional system of government, and now, with his incompetent and narcissistic pandemic performance, to the very lives of untold numbers of Americans. That’s why the November presidential election is considered by many to be […]
President Trump, in a Surprise Move, Apparently Embraces Public Financing of Elections – But Only for Himself Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer In a surprise move, and in the face of Senate Majority Leader McConnell’s longstanding opposition, President Trump now appears to have embraced public financing of elections – but only for his […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | April 9, 2020 “No voter in America should have to risk their life in order to cast their vote. “ The despicable actions taken by Republican Wisconsin officeholders forced Wisconsin voters this week to make a terrible choice: either risk your life to vote in person or forfeit your sacred […]
President Trump Opposes Voting Absentee by Mail in 2020 Elections, Yet Voted by Mail in New York (2018) and Has Applied to Vote by Mail in Florida (2020) Melania Trump, Ivanka Trump Voted Absentee (Unsuccessfully) in NY (2017), Jared Kushner Registered to Vote in NY and NJ Simultaneously (2017) Statement of Democracy 21 President Fred […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | April 2, 2020 “He or she who does the draft rules the world.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is moving quickly to prepare the next relief package for the country. The importance of the Speaker’s quick action can be seen by the fact that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who accurately […]
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