Guardian - More than 700 national security leaders and former military officials publicly endorsed Kamala Harris for president in a letter released on Sunday, calling her a candidate who “defends America’s democratic ideals”.They also said her Republican rival, Donald Trump, was “unfit” for the job.
The letter, signed by retired US navy R Adm Michael Smith and hundreds of others, criticized the former president’s remarks about “terminating” the US constitution over his lie that the 2020 election was stolen and his suggestion of becoming a “dictator” if re-elected. The group also condemned Trump’s lack of remorse for the January 6 Capitol attack.
USA Today - On Tuesday's National Voter Registration Day more than 150,000 people registered through Vote.org, the most the organization has ever seen on that day. The organization registered 279,400 voters in all of last year. Last week, 337,826 people visited a link posted on Instagram by pop star Taylor Swift that directed them to their state's voter registration site...
A huge percentage of the newly registered voters are young people, many voting for the first time. According to Vote.org, voters under 35 made up 81% of Tuesday's registrations, with the biggest spike among 18-year-olds. On this year's National Voter Registration Day, 11% of those registered were 18, which is 53% higher than on the same day four years ago.
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WE hope that people who seek a greater union and democracy prevail over those who wish to turn us into an authoritarian, patriarchal capitalist wet dream . That it is still an iffy proposition tells us how much is wrong here right now and how the traditional prescriptions just make it worse. Low taxes for the rich and dismantling the Clean Air act and efforts to bring envirionmental justice to our communities do not create a greater prosperity. And yet that is what we are bombarded with every day. I sure hope all those new voters vote, and the polls will miss them asd the polls ignore people who never voted before.
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