Al Franken's Blog, page 2

It was a bleak SCOTUS term.

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First, thank you for participating (or not) in our very scientific experiment in fundraising psychology.

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Remember this email (see below) that I sent on 4th of July last year about celebrating democracy while we still have it? Disclaimer: While this might look like I’m forwarding the email from July 4, I’m not actually forwarding the email from July 4. This is just a clever way of re-upping an old email […]

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Remember this email (see below) that I sent on 4th of July last year about celebrating democracy while we still have it? Disclaimer: While this might look like I’m forwarding the email from July 4, I’m not actually forwarding the email from July 4. This is just a clever way of re-upping an old email […]

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The House just passed — and tomorrow Trump will sign — his big monstrosity of a bill, which will increase our national debt another 3-4 trillion dollars, strip health care away from 17 million Americans, and take SNAP food assistance from millions more.

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The mid-year deadline is tomorrow. It’s a big deal because there is only one of these a year.

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It was clear that Trump wanted to bomb Iran. And so he did. On Saturday, seven B-2 bombers flew over 7,000 miles to do just that.

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Three years ago tomorrow, Samuel Alito and five Republican Supreme Court justices overturned Roe v. Wade. 

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I just realized that including “Former (?) Supporter” might encourage some folks receiving these emails to not give.

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I’m sure many of you are, like me, still shaken from the harrowing events of this past weekend.

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