13 Days Until Election Day
WEDNESDAY
Broadway for Biden: In Our America: A Concert for the Soul of the Nation, 8:00 PM ET
https://inouramerica.broadwayforbiden.com/event
Pennsylvania Women for Biden Weekly Phone Bank, 6:00-8:00 PM ET
Join the 100,000+ members of the Pennsylvania Women for Biden-Harris and the Official Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for Pennsylvania Facebook groups to make calls to voters across the state.
https://www.mobilize.us/backtobluepa/event/315797
Women for Biden: Millennials & Gen Z Weekly Phone Bank w/Danai Gurira, 8:00 PM ET
Join young women from across the country for a virtual phone bank to help elect Joe Biden. We need all hands on deck to mobilize and register voters in key states ahead of November.
No experience required: training will be provided at the start of every call.
Please RSVP to join us and get login information. Can’t wait to see you there!
https://www.mobilize.us/joebiden/event/331578
IN THE NEWS
Called out for ‘voter intimidation,’ Florida officer faces discipline for wearing ‘Trump 2020’ mask at polling place
A uniformed police officer who was photographed wearing a “Trump 2020” mask at a Florida early voting site could face suspension.The officer, photographed while in line to vote, violated department and polling place policy by promoting a political candidate, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez said at a Tuesday press conference.
13 days. Make a voting plan. IWillVote.com
Voters in Two States Report Threatening ‘Vote for Trump’ Emails
Voters in Florida and Alaska reported receiving menacing and deceptive emails on Tuesday that used false claims about public voting information to threaten voters: “Vote for Trump on Election Day or we will come after you.”
The Trump campaign is going to new lows to intimidate and suppress the vote. If your vote didn’t matter they wouldn’t do this. Make a plan to vote. Tell three friends and #VOTE. IWillVote.com
LINK: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/us/politics/florida-alaska-trump-emails.html
After keeping low profile on campaign trail, Obama makes debut for Biden
Obama will urge supporters to vote early for Biden and other Democratic candidates in the general election at an outdoor drive-in rally in Pennsylvania’s biggest city, Philadelphia, an aide to the former president said.
LINK: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-idUSKBN2760I6
Hundreds of parents who were separated from their kids at the U.S.-Mexico border remain “unreachable”
These parents, designated as “unreachable” in a court filing, are part of more than 1,000 migrant families who were separated by U.S. border officials before the Trump administration fully implemented its “zero tolerance” crackdown in the spring of 2018.
The administration’s cruel policy toward immigrants and refugees has far reaching consequences. We need a leader who is compassionate and moreover, understands that immigrants are the American dream.
While doing business between 2013 and 2015 Trump paid $188,561 in taxes to China. He paid $750 in taxes to the US in 2016 and 2017.
Trump paid more in taxes to China through his business ventures between 2013 and 2015 than he did in the US in the years 2016 and 2017, according to tax records obtained by The New York Times.
LINK: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-has-bank-account-china-paid-taxes-there-nyt-2020-10
Barrett was trustee at private school with anti-gay policies
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett served for nearly three years on the board of private Christian schools that effectively barred admission to children of same-sex parents and made it plain that gay and lesbian teachers weren’t welcome in the classroom.
A ‘blue sweep’ could boost US recovery and lift GDP across the euro-area, Goldman Sachs says
A sweeping Democratic win could entail significant increases in financial stimulus, boosting US output by two to three percentage points, Goldman Sachs economists said.
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