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Enclosed for your information is a piece by Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer titled “Trump and the Big Lie,” published here in Medium and released in Wertheimer’s Political Report on January 7, 2021. Read the full piece here or below. Trump and the Big Lie Fred Wertheimer | 1/7/2021 | Medium In order to understand […]
Democracy 21 Strongly Urges House Members to Support H.R. 1, Historic Democracy Reform Legislation Reintroduced Yesterday House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, chief sponsor Rep. John Sarbanes, and House Administration Committee Chair Zoe Lofgren reintroduced in the House yesterday H.R. 1, the For the People Act. Democracy 21 applauds Speaker Pelosi, Rep. Sarbanes, and Chair Lofgren for […]
Senate Majority Leader McConnell proposed scam legislation yesterday to soothe outgoing President Trump’s ego, avoid any up or down vote on a $2,000 Covid relief payment, and create a fraudulent Election Assistance Commission “Advisory Group” to study the “integrity and administration” of the November election. This phony legislation makes it appear like McConnell is being […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | December 22, 2020 “We should never lose sight of the fact that Trump’s defeat in 2020 has prevented a catastrophic destruction of our democracy.” As the 116th Congress heads to a close, Congress yesterday passed a $900 billion coronavirus relief bill and a $1.4 trillion appropriations bill, as President Trump […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | December 17, 2020 President Obama began his presidency in 2009 with an inauguration financed by contributions limited to no more than $50,000 per individual. Corporations were prohibited from making contributions. (Obama changed the rules for his second inauguration.) President-elect Joe Biden has chosen another path to begin his presidency in […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | December 10, 2020 “With the end of the destructive Trump presidency in sight and with a new normal presidency coming soon, there is hope for the future.” President Trump is putting lives in danger in his closing days in office as he rants about how he won an election that […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | December 3, 2020 “Trump can use his tens of millions of leadership PAC dollars for anything he wants.” President Trump likes to use superlatives about everything he does, and they are invariably false claims. In the case of his current fundraising, however, he is entitled to a true superlative: Trump […]
“This is a rotten system, but as long as it exists, both parties are going to use it,” said Fred Wertheimer, who runs the watchdog group Democracy 21 and is part of a coalition of more than 170 groups, urging the incoming president to tackle issues ranging from voting rights to greater transparency in campaign […]
Democracy 21 Calls on Democratic Representatives to Again Vote for the For the People Act in the New Congress Democracy 21 sent a letter to Democratic Representatives today urging them to vote again for the For the People Act when it comes up for consideration in the new Congress. Every House Democrat supported H.R. 1 […]
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | November 19, 2020 “On January 20, 2021, Trump will be gone, and with him, his authoritarian attacks on the democracy and republic our Founders gave us. Good riddance.” Donald Trump is continuing his baseless attacks on the presidential election he just lost badly, claiming – without providing a shred of […]
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