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Republican Governors slash unemployment benefits for 4 million Americans to sabotage the American Rescue Plan

Republicans slash unemployment benefits. Where will the suffering be worst?

Leave a Comment / Cartoons, Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Mapping and Story Mapping, Mobilizing Supporters and Voters, Uncategorized / By Deepak Puri

Republican cruelty to the poor to please their corporate donors has no limits. Republican Governors play politics and slash unemployment benefits to sabotage the recovery brought about President Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act – even if it devastates the lives of 4 million workers. “Federal unemployment programs that added extra weekly money and extended benefits …

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Lawyers, cartoonists and musicians fight to protect democracy

Lawyers, cartoonists and musicians fight for democracy with their special superpowers

Leave a Comment / Cartoons, Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Legal / By Deepak Puri

From each according to his ability… In the fight to protect American democracy, different groups give as only they can. Here are three wonderful groups to be aware of and support. How can voter suppression and racism be challenged? How do you cut through the noise to speak truth to power? How do you attract …

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Opioid epidemic killed over 500,000 Americans. Who profited from it.

Opioid epidemic: Map the profits, political donations and deaths.

Leave a Comment / Cartoons, Mapping and Story Mapping, Mobilizing Supporters and Voters / By Deepak Puri

The opioid epidemic involves over 500,000 deaths and a $13 billion fortune. How much do you know about Purdue Pharma? The Sackler Family and their political donations to Republicans? And a settlement that would let the family ‘hold onto their freedom and most of their money’? Where did people die from drug overdoses in America? …

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Texas’s new “heartbeat” measure ranks among the most extreme abortion bans in the US, blocking the procedure as early as six weeks into a pregnancy – before many women and girls even know they’re pregnant. The bill, due to come into force in September, doesn’t include exceptions for rape or incest

How to make rapid response videos. Like for Voting ProChoice after the Texas abortion ban.

Leave a Comment / Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Mobilizing Supporters and Voters, Technology, Software, and Apps, Video creation / By Deepak Puri

Texas governor signs extreme six-week abortion ban that bars abortion with no exception for rape or incest. “18-year-old Paxton Smith used her valedictorian address to protest Texas’s near-total abortion ban, inspiring cheers at her Lake Highlands High School in Dallas.” – Guardian Building support for your cause is easier when the issue is in the news and …

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Fight environmental racism destroying forests and causing pollution

Activists use new digital tactics to fight environmental racism

Leave a Comment / Mobilizing Supporters and Voters, Technology, Software, and Apps, Video creation / By Deepak Puri

Forests destroyed to make wood pellets for corporate profits. Black communities devastated by the pollution and flooding it causes. That’s environmental racism. Community activists struggle to be heard against corporate lobbyists and slick marketing consultants pushing the destruction of forests. But, activists cannot make big political donations, hire expensive marketing consultants nor lobbyists. How can …

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Working Americans struggle with poor infrastructure. Invest tax payers' money in infrastructure rather than tax cuts for rich donors and corporations that don't pay any tax.

Public infrastructure or tax cuts? Check these maps for answers.

Leave a Comment / Mapping and Story Mapping, Messaging, Mobilizing Supporters and Voters / By Deepak Puri

Republicans block investments in public infrastructure but give huge tax cuts to their rich donors. Working Americans struggle with poor infrastructure. Invest tax payers’ money in infrastructure rather than tax cuts for rich donors and corporations that don’t pay any tax. Check these maps to see where better infrastructure will help all Americans. Households unable …

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Save time and money. Create your own fundraising, advocacy and campaign videos with just a laptop and the free Lumen5 app.

Make your own fundraising video for free

Leave a Comment / Fundraise, Video creation / By Deepak Puri

Fundraising videos is a chicken-and-egg challenge for grassroots groups. Can they afford to make a fundraising video? How much money will it raise? Will that even cover the cost of creating the video? Fortunately, there is a solution – even for the artistically challenged, non-technical and penniless. Create your own video with just a laptop …

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ALEC and the corporations subverting democracy for profits

Lost your right to vote? Thank ALEC.

Leave a Comment / Campaign Financing, Power mapping, Voter Suppression / By Deepak Puri

ALEC drafts bills without regular democratic review and gets them passed into law by Republican legislatures. ALEC thrives on corporate donations. “Exposing ALEC: How Conservative-Backed State Laws Are All Connected. A shadowy organization uses corporate contributions to sell prepackaged conservative bills — such as Florida’s Stand Your Ground statute — to legislatures across the country.” …

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Republican coverup capitol riots: Cartoon edition

Capitol riot coverup: cartoon edition

Leave a Comment / Cartoons, Video creation / By Deepak Puri

“Trump demanded that Republicans in Congress oppose the creation of a bipartisan Commission to investigate the events of January 6.” – Popular Info 175 Republicans in Congress led by Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) obey and vote against creating the January 6 Commission. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) also announces his opposition and plans to block the commission in the Senate. “Trump …

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The death penalty is the direct descendant of slavery, lynching, and Jim Crow-segregation. Vote to ensure a criminal justice system that is fair for all Americans.

Cruel & unusual punishment: South Carolina’s racist executions

Leave a Comment / Getting Out The Vote (GOTV), Messaging, Mobilizing Supporters and Voters / By Deepak Puri

“New death penalty law makes inmates pick electric chair or firing squad in South Carolina.” – CBS Nineteen of the 37 inmates currently on the state’s death row are Black. “In the midst of a national reckoning around systemic racism, our Governor ensured that South Carolina’s death penalty — a system rooted in racial terror …

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