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Currently, the US has over 1 million confirmed cases of COVID-19.

How can we stop the spread of the virus? Wide-spread, rapid testing. This tactic will allows us to track the virus more easily and flatten the curve. It will also help protect countless Americans from contracting the virus.

Congress should make sure health agencies are building up the capacity of our healthcare system to address COVID-19 by ensuring that every single American can be tested for the disease, and tested quickly.

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Currently, the US has over 1 million confirmed cases of COVID-19.

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It's been months since Trump's last COVID-19 briefing. Cases are once again on the rise, Americans are dying, and we are faced with the potential of reopening schools in just a few weeks.

So where are the experts? Not out in front if Trump has any say about it.

The briefings haven't been brought back to actually educate the public. They just exist to pat Trump's ego and let him rail against the media.

At tonight's briefing, it's expected that no public health experts will be present, including Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Tell Trump to stop silencing the experts and let them brief the public instead.

Americans deserve to hear the facts, learn from experts, and be reassured in this time of crisis.

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It's been months since Trump's last COVID-19 briefing. Cases are once again on the rise, Americans are dying, and we are faced with the potential of reopening schools in just a few weeks.

So where are the experts? Not out in front if Trump has any say about it.

The briefings haven't been brought back to actually educate the public. They just exist to pat Trump's ego and let him rail against the media.

At tonight's briefing, it's expected that no public health experts will be present, including Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Tell Trump to stop silencing the experts and let them brief the public instead.

Americans deserve to hear the facts, learn from experts, and be reassured in this time of crisis.

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We need to expand Medicaid, which would give healthcare coverage to 2 million Americans who are still uninsured.

If another public health crisis were to occur, this would allow more Americans to access primary care doctors through a call or a visit. This would also reduce strain on emergency departments around the country. More importantly, Americans wouldn't have to choose between paying for the health care they need and putting dinner on the table.

We need your help to urge the 14 states - including Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin - that have no yet expanded Medicaid to do so immediately.

Help Americans stay healthy and sign our petition!

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We need to expand Medicaid, which would give healthcare coverage to 2 million Americans who are still uninsured.

We need your help to urge the 14 states - including Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin - that have no yet expanded Medicaid to do so immediately.

Help Americans stay healthy and sign our petition!

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Since 2000, Barack Obama was the only president to remove an inspector general -- and he removed only one. Within just six weeks, Donald Trump has removed five.

Trump has used the concentrated focus on the COVID-19 crisis to (when he thinks no one is watching) retaliate against those who have exposed his administration's wrongdoings or could in the future. Trump knows that if he removes independent watchdogs investigating corruption in the White House, then his malfeasance and incompetence can’t be exposed.

Trump’s efforts to remove non-partisan inspectors general are a blatant cover-up. So, what is he hiding?

Tell Congress to provide oversight to Trump now.

We need to protect our democratic institutions and protect the American people from the corruption that is festering inside the White House.

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Since 2000, Barack Obama was the only president to remove an inspector general -- and he removed only one. Within just six weeks, Donald Trump has removed five.

Trump’s efforts to remove non-partisan inspectors general are a blatant cover-up. So, what is he hiding?

Tell Congress to provide oversight to Trump now.

We need to protect our democratic institutions and protect the American people from the corruption that is festering inside the White House.

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Around the nation, COVID-19 is sharply increasing -- overwhelming hospitals and emergency rooms, as cases have skyrocketed to a staggering 3 million Americans.

The issue of overwhelmed hospitals worsens the growing shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), which has been an issue since the beginning of the pandemic. Healthcare workers are seeing a \"dire shortage of respirator masks, isolation gowns and disposable gloves that protect front-line medical workers from infection.\"

As the wealthiest nation in the world, the United States has no excuse for a shortage of vital protective equipment. No less after four months of combatting this public health crisis.

Here's what is happening now:

Neurologists, cardiologists and cancer specialists cannot open due to a lack of PPE -- leaving those patients without care.
Hospitals and emergency rooms are lacking necessary PPE for days and in some cases weeks.
Texas has a list of children awaiting emergency surgeries, but without PPE, their surgeries can't happen.

COVID-19 is getting worse. The Trump administration must acknowledge it and tackle it head-on. To start, our government needs to build an infrastructure to fulfill and eventually exceed the depleted PPE stockpile. Part of the depletion in the stockpile is because the United States depends on foreign countries to provide healthcare equipment. It is time that we invest in Americans by improving our infrastructure and supply chains to produce our own PPE that can handle the demands of a national pandemic.

Sign our petition to show your support for getting our healthcare workers PPE now and efficiently in the future!

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Around the nation, COVID-19 is sharply increasing -- overwhelming hospitals and emergency rooms, as cases have skyrocketed to a staggering 3 million Americans.

As the wealthiest nation in the world, the United States has no excuse for a shortage of vital protective equipment. No less after four months of combatting this public health crisis.

Here's what is happening now:

Neurologists, cardiologists and cancer specialists cannot open due to a lack of PPE -- leaving those patients without care.
Hospitals and emergency rooms are lacking necessary PPE for days and in some cases weeks.
Texas has a list of children awaiting emergency surgeries, but without PPE, their surgeries can't happen.

Sign our petition to show your support for getting our healthcare workers PPE now and efficiently in the future!

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As Americans took to the streets to demand justice for George Floyd and police reform, Democrats stand ready to make major change.

Senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker introduced the Justice in Policing Act, which would implement sweeping reforms in American policing.

The bill would ban chokeholds, including the kind that was used against George Floyd that led to his death. It would also:

require local police department to send data on use of force to the federal government;
establish a grant program that allows state attorneys general to investigate misconduct or excessive use of force;
make it easier for people to recover damages when police violate their civil rights; and
make lynching a federal hate crime.

Republicans have responded by putting together their own bill, which would make hardly any changes. Democrats blocked this bill yesterday. It's time the entire Senate rallied behind the Justice in Policing Act. This is not about politics, this is about improving and saving lives.

We can't pass the Justice in Policing Act without your help. Sign this petition, then click here to Contact your Senators now!

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As Americans took to the streets to demand justice for George Floyd and police reform, Democrats stand ready to make major change.

Senators Kamala Harris and Cory Booker introduced the Justice in Policing Act, which would implement sweeping reforms in American policing.

The bill would ban chokeholds, including the kind that was used against George Floyd that led to his death. It would also:

require local police department to send data on use of force to the federal government;
establish a grant program that allows state attorneys general to investigate misconduct or excessive use of force;
make it easier for people to recover damages when police violate their civil rights; and
make lynching a federal hate crime.

We can't pass the Justice in Policing Act without your help. Sign this petition, then click here to Contact your Senators now!

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While Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos try to force our students back into school in the middle of a pandemic, it's clear that our students weren't in safe conditions to begin with.

According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, 24% of our nation’s school buildings are in fair or poor condition. Students deserve healthy, clean, safe physical environments so they can focus on learning. When millions of American students return to school in-person, it will become more pressing than ever that we make our school meet the demands of 21st century learning. No school should have water systems contaminated with lead. And our schools need improved ventilation systems to curb the spread of COVID-19 and other diseases.

This pandemic has also highlighted the need for sufficient broadband access. How can we expect students to learn remotely if their internet isn't fast enough to host video conferences? And our schools need structures and technology to meet the challenges of the future to best prepare students for a rapidly changing economy.

We should have rebuilt our schools before the pandemic, but it's more important now than ever before!

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While Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos try to force our students back into school in the middle of a pandemic, it's clear that our students weren't in safe conditions to begin with.

We should have rebuilt our schools before the pandemic, but it's more important now than ever before!

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Future Majority is fighting for the people. This makes H.R. 1 - the For The People Act - a top priority. Learn the fast facts now on H.R. 1:

Learn more about H.R. 1 here.

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Future Majority is fighting for the people. This makes H.R. 1 - the For The People Act - a top priority. Learn the fast facts now on H.R. 1:

Learn more about H.R. 1 here.

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Protect and Serve: A Veterans Bill of Rights

Our nation’s veterans serve and protect us in the military -- but too often, we fail to serve and protect them when they return home: Only 30% return to civilian life with a job, nearly two million along with four million of their family members lack basic health coverage, 20 veterans die from suicide every day, and over 40,000 are without a home on any given night. They deserve better.

And a set of simple changes and cost-effective tools will make a dramatic difference, from leveraging veterans’ unique experience and training to propel them toward jobs, to proven programs that help with re-entry to civilian life, to services that make it easier for vets to access high quality healthcare and secure housing.

Protect and Serve: A Veterans Bill of Rights has been introduced in 11 states: Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, North Carolina, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Texas. See the map here.

Read the full Protect and Serve: A Veterans Bill of Rights model policy here.

Tell us, do you support a Veterans Bill of Rights to tackle suicide and other critical issues facing America's Veterans and their families?

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Protect and Serve: A Veterans Bill of Rights

Read the full Protect and Serve: A Veterans Bill of Rights model policy here.

Tell us, do you support a Veterans Bill of Rights to tackle suicide and other critical issues facing America's Veterans and their families?

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Things just got worse for embattled Republican Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, which means things must be getting better for Kentucky taxpayers.

We learned today that a three-judge panel of the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that Bevin must release the names of shareholders/investors in the shady Braidy Industries aluminum mill.

As we told you previously, Gov. Bevin invested $15 million of Kentucky taxpayer money in the Braidy Industries mill, which is owned by Bevin pal Craig Bouchard.

If that weren’t shady enough, Russian aluminum company Rusal, largely owned by Russian oligarch and Putin crony Oleg Deripaska (who’s under sanctions by the U.S. government), is putting $200 million into the Braidy Industries mill and taking a 40% ownership stake in the mill.

You may recall that Oleg Deripaska is the same Russian oligarch who paid $10 million a year to former Trump campaign chairman and convicted felon Paul Manafort.

In December last year in response to an aggressive lobbying campaign, the corrupt Trump administration set the wheels in motion for Rusal’s move into Kentucky when it lifted sanctions against the business empire of Deripaska, one of Russia’s most powerful oligarchs. Deripaska and Rusal were under sanctions in retaliation for hostile Russian interference in the 2016 election.

And guess who greased these wheels for Deripaska and Rusal? Kentucky Senators Mitch McConnell (R) and Rand Paul (R).

That’s right. The two Kentucky Republicans voted earlier this year to lift U.S. sanctions on Rusal.

By the way, the vote to lift these sanctions was scheduled by McConnell, the same Senate Majority leader who refuses to schedule a vote on a sweeping anti-corruption package, H.R. 1 that passed the House overwhelmingly earlier this year. Guess he doesn’t want an anti-corruption law that might block his own corruption.

The great Russian invasion of America keeps coming. And our own leaders have rolled out the red carpet for continued Russian interference in U.S. elections and nabbing taxpayer dollars for shady deals in the states like Kentucky. McConnell, Paul and Bevin’s embrace of corrupt Trumpism is a virus - and it is spreading. You've been warned.

Do you agree that Bevin must release the names of other investors in Braidy Industries now?

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Things just got worse for embattled Republican Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, which means things must be getting better for Kentucky taxpayers.

We learned today that a three-judge panel of the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that Bevin must release the names of shareholders/investors in the shady Braidy Industries aluminum mill.

As we told you previously, Gov. Bevin invested $15 million of Kentucky taxpayer money in the Braidy Industries mill, which is owned by Bevin pal Craig Bouchard.

You may recall that Oleg Deripaska is the same Russian oligarch who paid $10 million a year to former Trump campaign chairman and convicted felon Paul Manafort.

And guess who greased these wheels for Deripaska and Rusal? Kentucky Senators Mitch McConnell (R) and Rand Paul (R).

That’s right. The two Kentucky Republicans voted earlier this year to lift U.S. sanctions on Rusal.

Do you agree that Bevin must release the names of other investors in Braidy Industries now?

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The corruption in the White House does not stop at Donald Trump himself, but extends to his entire family. Trump has failed to \"drain the swamp\" and has only made it worse. Trump and his family are using the White House and Americans' tax dollars to line their own pockets. Enough is enough.

While the Trump family's corruption knows no bounds, we have identified the top 10 times Trump and his family violated Americans' trust.

From day one, Donald Trump defied Presidential norms and refused to fully divest from his businesses, refused to put his holdings in a blind trust, and has continued to refuse to release any of his tax returns. Even when Congress subpoenaed for his tax returns, Trump and his administration refused to comply.
The Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. – only a few blocks from the taxpayer funded White House – is helping to line the Trump family pockets. American officials, businesses executives, foreign leaders and even Trump’s campaign have all hosted events or stayed at this hotel. That means the Trump family is getting richer off of spending by foreign governments (who do so to curry favor with the president), by American taxpayers, and by the President’s own self-dealing with his campaign. In 2018 alone, the hotel netted him $41 million dollars.
Trump and his family travel extensively — something normal for any president, but atypical for family members. In the Trump family case, two family members are White House officials, despite anti-nepotism laws. All the while, Trump and his family spend time at Trump-owned properties (as much as one out of every three days so far), which means American taxpayers are footing the bill for the Secret Service and the hotel costs, all of which go directly to the Trump Organization. The Secret Service alone has spent $500,000 at Trump properties.
Jared Kushner has used his position as a senior White House official to enrich his family business, Kushner Companies. His family has courted investments from Chinese benefactors despite intelligence warnings that China would hold those investments over the administration’s head to influence policy. Kushner’s company sought investments directly from the Qatar government for the family’s skyscraper in Manhattan that was in deep financial trouble. And before he worked in the White House, Kushner’s company faked paperwork about apartment buildings it owned to make a profit, pushing tenants out of buildings to sell the properties at 50% more than it paid for them.
Ivanka Trump has sent hundreds of emails from a private account shared with Jared Kushner about official government business. Her brand has been promoted to the public by government officials, in offense of the Hatch Act. And despite clear conflicts of interests, the Chinese government has awarded her brand trademarks and patents, often curiously timed with favorable U.S. policy from her father.
Don Jr. and Eric Trump campaign for their father frequently, and often harp on themes of corruption. But the two eldest Trump sons have spent the entire Trump presidency using his office to make business connections at home and abroad, while taxpayers pick up the tab for security on their business travels overseas. But in the face of business deals in India, Indonesia and Scotland, Eric Trump has said, “When my father became president, our family stopped doing international business deals.”
A Trump campaign data firm got a nearly $3 million loan from the small business loan relief program. That’s 14 times greater than the average loan, while hundreds of thousands of businesses didn’t get any money at all.
Trump repeatedly suggested that blue states, many of which have been hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic, give his administration “sanctuary-city adjustments” in exchange for much needed federal financial relief. It’s a cynical ploy for a quid pro quo with millions of lives at stake.
Trump’s business received a $500 million loan from a company owned by the Chinese government for a real estate project in Indonesia. Right after that loan was issued, Trump announced he would lift sanctions on a Chinese telecommunications firm -- a move Republicans Democrats alike strongly disagreed with.
Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives for holding up Congressionally appropriated military aid to an American ally, Ukraine, in exchange for making an announcement on digging up dirt on Trump’s political rival, Joe Biden. He obstructed the Congressional investigation into his actions by silencing anyone in his administration who spoke the truth and refusing to adhere to subpoenas to answer questions about his wrongdoing.
BONUS: The Trump administration used the COVID-19 pandemic to award contracts for much needed equipment like masks and ventilators to friends of the family and Trump’s political allies. A medical mask manufacturer was given a $9.5 million contract from FEMA after one of the company’s top officials went on Steve Bannon’s podcast to make his case. The request to contract with the company came directly from the White House. And Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner deployed private equity and venture capital “volunteers” to coordinate the country’s supply chain for medical equipment. The volunteers were tasked with prioritizing leads for contracts with allies and friends of the Trump family (“VIP’s”), putting cronyism and enriching their pals above the health and safety of the nation.

Future Majority has launched a new website to outline Trump family corruption. Check it out here.

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While the Trump family's corruption knows no bounds, we have identified the top 10 times Trump and his family violated Americans' trust.

\nFrom day one, Donald Trump defied Presidential norms and refused to fully divest from his businesses, refused to put his holdings in a blind trust, and has continued to refuse to release any of his tax returns. Even when Congress subpoenaed for his tax returns, Trump and his administration refused to comply. \n
\nThe Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. – only a few blocks from the taxpayer funded White House – is helping to line the Trump family pockets. American officials, businesses executives, foreign leaders and even Trump’s campaign have all hosted events or stayed at this hotel. That means the Trump family is getting richer off of spending by foreign governments (who do so to curry favor with the president), by American taxpayers, and by the President’s own self-dealing with his campaign. In 2018 alone, the hotel netted him $41 million dollars.\n
\nTrump and his family travel extensively — something normal for any president, but atypical for family members. In the Trump family case, two family members are White House officials, despite anti-nepotism laws. All the while, Trump and his family spend time at Trump-owned properties (as much as one out of every three days so far), which means American taxpayers are footing the bill for the Secret Service and the hotel costs, all of which go directly to the Trump Organization. The Secret Service alone has spent $500,000 at Trump properties. \n
\nJared Kushner has used his position as a senior White House official to enrich his family business, Kushner Companies. His family has courted investments from Chinese benefactors despite intelligence warnings that China would hold those investments over the administration’s head to influence policy. Kushner’s company sought investments directly from the Qatar government for the family’s skyscraper in Manhattan that was in deep financial trouble. And before he worked in the White House, Kushner’s company faked paperwork about apartment buildings it owned to make a profit, pushing tenants out of buildings to sell the properties at 50% more than it paid for them. \n
\nIvanka Trump has sent hundreds of emails from a private account shared with Jared Kushner about official government business. Her brand has been promoted to the public by government officials, in offense of the Hatch Act. And despite clear conflicts of interests, the Chinese government has awarded her brand trademarks and patents, often curiously timed with favorable U.S. policy from her father. \n
\nDon Jr. and Eric Trump campaign for their father frequently, and often harp on themes of corruption. But the two eldest Trump sons have spent the entire Trump presidency using his office to make business connections at home and abroad, while taxpayers pick up the tab for security on their business travels overseas. But in the face of business deals in India, Indonesia and Scotland, Eric Trump has said, “When my father became president, our family stopped doing international business deals.”\n
\nA Trump campaign data firm got a nearly $3 million loan from the small business loan relief program. That’s 14 times greater than the average loan, while hundreds of thousands of businesses didn’t get any money at all. \n
\nTrump repeatedly suggested that blue states, many of which have been hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic, give his administration “sanctuary-city adjustments” in exchange for much needed federal financial relief. It’s a cynical ploy for a quid pro quo with millions of lives at stake.\n
\nTrump’s business received a $500 million loan from a company owned by the Chinese government for a real estate project in Indonesia. Right after that loan was issued, Trump announced he would lift sanctions on a Chinese telecommunications firm -- a move Republicans Democrats alike strongly disagreed with. \n
\nTrump was impeached by the House of Representatives for holding up Congressionally appropriated military aid to an American ally, Ukraine, in exchange for making an announcement on digging up dirt on Trump’s political rival, Joe Biden. He obstructed the Congressional investigation into his actions by silencing anyone in his administration who spoke the truth and refusing to adhere to subpoenas to answer questions about his wrongdoing.\n
\nBONUS: The Trump administration used the COVID-19 pandemic to award contracts for much needed equipment like masks and ventilators to friends of the family and Trump’s political allies. A medical mask manufacturer was given a $9.5 million contract from FEMA after one of the company’s top officials went on Steve Bannon’s podcast to make his case. The request to contract with the company came directly from the White House. And Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner deployed private equity and venture capital “volunteers” to coordinate the country’s supply chain for medical equipment. The volunteers were tasked with prioritizing leads for contracts with allies and friends of the Trump family (“VIP’s”), putting cronyism and enriching their pals above the health and safety of the nation.\n

Future Majority has launched a new website to outline Trump family corruption. Check it out here.

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Future Majority is dedicated to driving the For the People agenda. That means helping shape ideas that work, well, for the people. And at the top of that list is the idea of Smart Capitalism - a way to make capitalism work for all Americans.

Smart Capitalism - For the People

Here at Future Majority, you will hear us talk a lot about Smart Capitalism vs Inefficient Capitalism. In fact, you can read more about our ideas on this front right here.

Some of the 2020 Democratic presidential contenders are also talking about how capitalism is broken and needs to be fixed. Joe Biden says we need to “remake capitalism”. Beto O’Rourke calls for Conscientious Capitalism, Pete Buttigieg dubs it Democratic Capitalism and Elizabeth Warren refers to it as Accountable Capitalism.

We agree with them. And these are all the same concept, which is pretty simple -- Smart Capitalism invests in 100% of American citizens where Inefficient Capitalism empowers mainly the top 10% of earners leaving 90% of Americans in the lurch and not sharing in the wealth creation.

This gulf has created and it perpetuates income inequality, a shrinking middle class, a corporate environment where CEOs work to enrich themselves and their shareholders at the expense of their workers, and a tax system that favors the ultra wealthy.

The current inefficient capitalist system creates concentrated wealth and concentrated power. It rewards greed and can encourage outright theft (see also the financial crash of 2008 and the role of mortgage brokers...). And it lavishes the rich with tax cuts and allows corporations to - in some cases - pay zero taxes, while keeping in place regressive payroll taxes that burden average Americans. This is not a sustainable system. It is undemocratic, and it is inefficient.

Yet this system of inefficient capitalism is flourishing under Donald Trump and it is dangerously coupled with rampant corruption and an erosion of democracy that could lead the United States in the direction of a kleptocracy. (Wait, is this what Putin had planned all along???)

If Donald Trump has proved anything, it is that we need to move to a system of Smart Capitalism...and fast. He's also proved we need to take serious action to end the outright corruption that now defines Trump's Washington.

End the Corruption in Washington - For the People

When Democrats took control of the House earlier this year, one of the first things they did was to try to end the rampant culture of corruption that has a grip on Washington and keeps the system of inefficient capitalism chugging along.

On March 8, 2019 Democrats unanimously passed H.R. 1, the For the People Act - the most sweeping package of anti-corruption legislation since Watergate.

H.R. 1 would require Super PACs and other so called “dark money” groups to disclose their donors and it would enact new ethics laws and lobbying restrictions. It is aimed at stopping the flow of the unlimited and unrestricted money that dictates both who gets elected and how policy is shaped in Washington. It is this type of unregulated money in politics that rigs the system in favor of the wealthy and is corrosive to our democracy.

What does this have to do with capitalism? Simple - it is corporate lobbyists and corporate dark money spending in elections that buys access to politicians and keeps an inefficient capitalist system in place.

These folks want to keep the current system in place because they can bend the rules to work for themselves. And without anti-corruption measures like H.R. 1, these folks will continue to concentrate wealth and power where they see fit. It is this rigging of the system that blocks the very competition that makes capitalism work and benefit all Americans - not just the top 10%.

Yet Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) flatly refuses to bring H.R. 1 to a vote in the Senate. It’s no wonder...Mitch McConnell relies on corporate and lobbyist cash.

According to Open Secrets, from 1998-2018 McConnell took an absolutely obscene amount of campaign cash from the financial services industry ($12,994,583), lawyers and lobbyists ($4,543,968) and other business interests ($6,249,322).

If we as a country really want to be For the People, the Senate must bring H.R. 1 to a vote and we must move towards a system of Smart Capitalism that works For the People. All of them.

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Future Majority is dedicated to driving the For the People agenda. That means helping shape ideas that work, well, for the people. And at the top of that list is the idea of Smart Capitalism - a way to make capitalism work for all Americans.

Smart Capitalism - For the People

Here at Future Majority, you will hear us talk a lot about Smart Capitalism vs Inefficient Capitalism. In fact, you can read more about our ideas on this front right here.

End the Corruption in Washington - For the People

On March 8, 2019 Democrats unanimously passed H.R. 1, the For the People Act - the most sweeping package of anti-corruption legislation since Watergate.

Yet Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) flatly refuses to bring H.R. 1 to a vote in the Senate. It’s no wonder...Mitch McConnell relies on corporate and lobbyist cash.

If we as a country really want to be For the People, the Senate must bring H.R. 1 to a vote and we must move towards a system of Smart Capitalism that works For the People. All of them.

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Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is no stranger to wielding his power to help him and his allies win elections.

He did it in 2018, when he leveraged his position as Secretary of State to oversee the gubernatorial election he ran in, and turned the other way as counties in Georgia unlawfully rejected absentee ballots of minority voters. In addition, he purged the voter rolls and put voter registration for 53,000 Georgians on hold — 70% of which were for black voters.

And he’s back at it again this year, cancelling an upcoming election for the state Supreme Court, after a Republican Justice is set to retire at the end of the year. Instead of a duly-held election that puts the decision in the hands of voters in the state, Kemp will hand-select Justice Keith Blackwell’s successor, ensuring that the seat remains in Republican control for at least two years.

Anyone might think that this has something to do with the COVID-19 pandemic and voter safety. But Kemp and the Georgia GOP have been planning this since February, using a technicality in the state’s constitution to do away with the election. Rather than play fair, Kemp cheats to win.

When it comes to elections as important as the state’s highest court — or any election for that matter — voters deserve to be heard. It’s time that politicians stop interfering and put elections back where they are intended: with the people.

Share this message with your social network that it is time Brian Kemp plays fair.

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Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is no stranger to wielding his power to help him and his allies win elections.

Share this message with your social network that it is time Brian Kemp plays fair.

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As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the U.S., The Trump Administration has decided now is the time to silence and discredit the country's leading infectious diseases expert -- Dr. Anthony Fauci.

While Dr. Fauci hasn't been allowed to brief Trump since the first week of June, he continues to get his message out to the public in interviews.

In response to Fauci's attempts to educate the public, Trump's advisers are now discrediting Fauci's years of expertise. A White House official released a statement saying that \"several White House officials are concerned about the number of times Dr. Fauci has been wrong on things\" and referred to misleading comments from the beginning of the pandemic. The administration then turned around and rejected any idea that \"opposition research\" was provided to news outlets.

While Trump continues to spread false realities about the deadly virus, he's decided to sideline one of the only trusted government officials in his administration.

According to a NYT/Sienna College poll, 67% of voters stated they trusted Fauci for information on COVID-19, while on 26% trusted Trump.

Now is not the time to undercut one of the most trusted officials to help lead the U.S. out of this crisis. Share this article and tell Donald Trump to protect Americans - not his own ego!

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As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the U.S., The Trump Administration has decided now is the time to silence and discredit the country's leading infectious diseases expert -- Dr. Anthony Fauci.

While Dr. Fauci hasn't been allowed to brief Trump since the first week of June, he continues to get his message out to the public in interviews.

While Trump continues to spread false realities about the deadly virus, he's decided to sideline one of the only trusted government officials in his administration.

According to a NYT/Sienna College poll, 67% of voters stated they trusted Fauci for information on COVID-19, while on 26% trusted Trump.

Now is not the time to undercut one of the most trusted officials to help lead the U.S. out of this crisis. Share this article and tell Donald Trump to protect Americans - not his own ego!

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American Independent Reports: McConnell gets $50,000 from pharma after blocking bill to lower drug prices

In September 2018, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a groundbreaking bill, the Lower Drug Costs Now Act. The bill would allow the government to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies on prescription drug costs for Medicare, restrict price hikes, and limit out-of-pocket costs. The same day, Mitch McConnell said the bill would not pass the Senate.

On Oct. 16, McConnell received a $2,500 check from Takeda Pharmaceuticals' political action committee, according to McConnell's reports to the Federal Election Commission.

The same campaign finance filings show that a few weeks after that, multinational pharmaceutical company Novartis' PAC also sent $2,500 to McConnell. Then, a PAC for another pharma company, Emergent BioSolutions, kicked in $2,500.

By the end of December, McConnell's campaign reported, he had received at least $30,000 more from the corporate political action committees of Bluebird Bio ($2,500), Boehringer Ingelheim ($5,000), Greenwich Biosciences ($2,500), Teva USA ($10,000), and UCB ($2,500).

According to filings from his Bluegrass Committee leadership PAC, Merck & Co. also contributed $5,000 to support McConnell and Sanofi donated $2,500.

That's not it. McConnell also received another $12,600 from pharmaceutical CEOs and lobbyists.

It is clear that Mitch McConnell is funding his campaign on the backs of the American people. We need to tell Mitch to do his job.

To see more content like this, help support Future Majority here.

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American Independent Reports: McConnell gets $50,000 from pharma after blocking bill to lower drug prices

On Oct. 16, McConnell received a $2,500 check from Takeda Pharmaceuticals' political action committee, according to McConnell's reports to the Federal Election Commission.

The same campaign finance filings show that a few weeks after that, multinational pharmaceutical company Novartis' PAC also sent $2,500 to McConnell. Then, a PAC for another pharma company, Emergent BioSolutions, kicked in $2,500.

By the end of December, McConnell's campaign reported, he had received at least $30,000 more from the corporate political action committees of Bluebird Bio ($2,500), Boehringer Ingelheim ($5,000), Greenwich Biosciences ($2,500), Teva USA ($10,000), and UCB ($2,500).

According to filings from his Bluegrass Committee leadership PAC, Merck & Co. also contributed $5,000 to support McConnell and Sanofi donated $2,500.

That's not it. McConnell also received another $12,600 from pharmaceutical CEOs and lobbyists.

It is clear that Mitch McConnell is funding his campaign on the backs of the American people. We need to tell Mitch to do his job.

To see more content like this, help support Future Majority here.

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We need H.R. 1 to protect our voting rights.

This Tuesday, Georgia held its statewide primary elections. While voters expected to easily cast their votes for the primaries, they experienced a repeat of voting issues from 2018.

Georgia attempted to implement new voting systems to overcome widespread voter suppression in the 2018 governor's election. An election overseen by then-Secretary of State and now Governor Brian Kemp. But instead, a multitude of voting machines were missing or they malfunctioned. This forced voters to wait in poll lines for hours during a pandemic. Many voters simply gave up and left before voting. Who experienced the majority of issues with the voting machines? Predominately Black neighborhoods in Atlanta.

The voting machines weren't the only issue. Many Georgia residents reported waiting months for absentee ballots to arrive, while some never even made it in time.

The failures of Georgia's voting system are no surprise after 2018. But we need to protect the right to vote so we finally make true on our nation's promise of free and fair elections.

We need to enact H.R.1 to protect voting rights.

H.R.1 aims to protect the right to vote by expanding early voting, allowing same-day registration, and requiring states to set up automatic registration.

We need to expand voting rights. Not suppress them like we saw Georgia. Contact your Representatives now!

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We need H.R. 1 to protect our voting rights.

This Tuesday, Georgia held its statewide primary elections. While voters expected to easily cast their votes for the primaries, they experienced a repeat of voting issues from 2018.

The voting machines weren't the only issue. Many Georgia residents reported waiting months for absentee ballots to arrive, while some never even made it in time.

The failures of Georgia's voting system are no surprise after 2018. But we need to protect the right to vote so we finally make true on our nation's promise of free and fair elections.

We need to enact H.R.1 to protect voting rights.

H.R.1 aims to protect the right to vote by expanding early voting, allowing same-day registration, and requiring states to set up automatic registration.

We need to expand voting rights. Not suppress them like we saw Georgia. Contact your Representatives now!

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CNN: Trump says he is taking hydroxychloroquine though health experts question its effectiveness

In case you missed it, President Trump stated that he is taking Hydroxychloroquine, which was created to combat Malaria -- despite the FDA's disapproval of the drug due to lack of proof and harmful side effects.

\"Speaking at a meeting of restaurant executives, Trump said he began taking the antimalarial drug after consulting the White House doctor, though stopped short of saying his physician had actually recommended the drug.

\"A couple of weeks ago, I started taking it,\" Trump said. He later said he'd been taking it every day for a week and a half.\"

In the light of 90,000 COVID-19 deaths, Trump says patients have \"little to lose\" by taking the drug:

\"Because the drug is prescribed to treat malaria and other conditions, Trump has cast it as safe and suggested coronavirus patients have little to lose by trying it.

But at least one study has shown the drug does not work against Covid-19 and could cause heart problems.\"

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CNN: Trump says he is taking hydroxychloroquine though health experts question its effectiveness

\"A couple of weeks ago, I started taking it,\" Trump said. He later said he'd been taking it every day for a week and a half.\"

In the light of 90,000 COVID-19 deaths, Trump says patients have \"little to lose\" by taking the drug:

\"Because the drug is prescribed to treat malaria and other conditions, Trump has cast it as safe and suggested coronavirus patients have little to lose by trying it.

But at least one study has shown the drug does not work against Covid-19 and could cause heart problems.\"

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It’s hard to describe how events have turned in the past several months in the United States. What once seemed like a far-off threat, the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a major toll in the U.S., and life as we know it has been upended.

The U.S. remains the global leader in COVID-19 cases. The economy has taken a nosedive, much of the country is under various guidelines to enforce social distancing, the return of students to schools has been hampered by outbreaks, tens of millions of Americans have lost their jobs. Tragically, tens of thousands of Americans have lost their lives.

But things perhaps could look different if not for key missteps and weeks of downplaying the risk of the pandemic by the Trump administration. In the memo below, our team is keeping an updated timeline of events that led to this outbreak that continues to plague our country.

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Almost one million people globally have lost their lives to COVID-19. Yet, students have returned to school, workers are heading into the office, and a national testing plan is nowhere to be found.

COVID-19 cases are on the rise again in 31 states and countries around the world are struggling to maintain the virus. In the U.S., 200,000 people have died over the course of the pandemic -- a staggering toll. Thousands more continue to contract the virus each day. The spread has only worsened, as hundreds of universities have re-opened with the hopes of students adhering to social distancing rules. Teachers in countless school districts have been given PPE and cleaning supplies that would last perhaps a week for the entire year.

Every state, school system, and workplace has developed a different plan to maintain the virus in the face of shifting guidance from the federal government. Just this week, the CDC reversed online information about how COVID-19 is spread.

Our government needs to step up and implement a plan to help Americans. We need:

A national testing plan to trace COVID-19 and stop the spread
To pass the HEROES Act to provide economic relief to millions of struggling Americans.

Will you call your Senators and help make get the HEROES Act passed? We can't do it without you.

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Almost one million people globally have lost their lives to COVID-19. Yet, students have returned to school, workers are heading into the office, and a national testing plan is nowhere to be found.

Our government needs to step up and implement a plan to help Americans. We need:

A national testing plan to trace COVID-19 and stop the spread
To pass the HEROES Act to provide economic relief to millions of struggling Americans.

Will you call your Senators and help make get the HEROES Act passed? We can't do it without you.

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Russian aluminum company Rusal, partly owned by Russian oligarch and Putin crony Oleg Deripaska (who’s currently under sanctions by the U.S. government), is putting $200 million into a Kentucky aluminum mill plant to be built by Braidy Industries, a company that’s owned by Craig Bouchard, a buddy of Gov. Matt Bevin (R-KY). Rusal will own 40 percent of the aluminum plant.

Rusal is the same Russian company Mitch McConnell voted earlier this year to lift U.S. sanctions on. And Deripaska is the same Russian oligarch still under U.S. sanctions and the same Russian oligarch who had significant business ties to former Trump campaign chairman and convicted felon Paul Manafort.

The great Republican sellout to Russia is still ongoing folks. Their corrupt embrace of Trumpism is a virus, and it is now spreading to the states with the help of Republican Mitch McConnell.

Kentucky taxpayers have already subsidized Braidy Industries aluminum plant thanks to $15 million they received from Governor Bevin in a desperate attempt to look like a job creator in an election year. Now, Mitch McConnell has greased the wheels by lifting sanctions on the Russian company that today announced a $200 million infusion into Braidy.

Coincidence?

No.

Corruption.

When asked about the cloud hanging over the investment, Braidy CEO Craig Bouchard offered some Trumpian nonsense to defend his deal with the devil:

“If you remember Hannah Montanna, everybody loved her at the time. Then she became a teenager -- Miley Cyrus -- and the media got on her a little bit, and now she is a beautiful married woman. I expect that Rusal comes out of this as the superstar company in our industry.”

What?!

When Trump announced earlier this year he was lifting sanctions on Deripaska, there was a bipartisan effort in the Senate to stop it. Republicans and Democrats joined together to say an attack on this nation must be punished.

Mitch McConnell did not join that effort. Now we know why.

McConnell is forcing the American people into a deal with the same country that attacked our democracy less than three years ago, and he apparently doesn’t care if he puts the people of his own state in bed with the oligarchs who think they can interfere in our elections and get away with it.

What does Matt Bevin have to say about Rusal?

“This is a seed that has been in the ground. The germination so often seems invisible to people, but good things have been happening,” Bevin said. “We are going to see in the days immediately ahead as the first little shoots start to come up out of the soil, and it’s exciting to see this and it’s a blessing for me to be a small little part of this.”

Yes, Gov. Bevin, this is a seed, but it has been planted by the very people who want to destroy our democracy. That you and Mitch would help them, speaks volumes about the state of the Republican Party today.

Whether it’s winning elections or bailing them out of bad deals, it seems there’s nothing Republicans won’t ask the Russians to help them do.

Trump’s corruption is a virus, and we can see that it is clearly spreading from Washington to the states. Today it’s Kentucky. Who knows which state it will be tomorrow?

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Russian aluminum company Rusal, partly owned by Russian oligarch and Putin crony Oleg Deripaska (who’s currently under sanctions by the U.S. government), is putting $200 million into a Kentucky aluminum mill plant to be built by Braidy Industries, a company that’s owned by Craig Bouchard, a buddy of Gov. Matt Bevin (R-KY). Rusal will own 40 percent of the aluminum plant.

The great Republican sellout to Russia is still ongoing folks. Their corrupt embrace of Trumpism is a virus, and it is now spreading to the states with the help of Republican Mitch McConnell.

Coincidence?

No.

Corruption.

When asked about the cloud hanging over the investment, Braidy CEO Craig Bouchard offered some Trumpian nonsense to defend his deal with the devil:

“If you remember Hannah Montanna, everybody loved her at the time. Then she became a teenager -- Miley Cyrus -- and the media got on her a little bit, and now she is a beautiful married woman. I expect that Rusal comes out of this as the superstar company in our industry.”

What?!

Mitch McConnell did not join that effort. Now we know why.

What does Matt Bevin have to say about Rusal?

“This is a seed that has been in the ground. The germination so often seems invisible to people, but good things have been happening,” Bevin said. “We are going to see in the days immediately ahead as the first little shoots start to come up out of the soil, and it’s exciting to see this and it’s a blessing for me to be a small little part of this.”

Whether it’s winning elections or bailing them out of bad deals, it seems there’s nothing Republicans won’t ask the Russians to help them do.

Trump’s corruption is a virus, and we can see that it is clearly spreading from Washington to the states. Today it’s Kentucky. Who knows which state it will be tomorrow?

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