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“Love / Vote” T-shirts

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Tshirt that has the word "Love" in pink capital letters on top of the word "Vote" in upside down blue capital letters (creating a mirror image effect).If you like T-shirts, wear the handsome “Love Vote” t-shirt to the polls; buying one benefits the Cville Dems! Contact Co-Chair Nancy Damon at nancycdamon@gmail.com to get one.

Sizes and supplies are limited:

  • Women — 1 small, 4 medium, and large
  • Men — 5 small, medium, and large.

Trump VP Pick, JD Vance, is a Threat to the US

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From Axios: Trump with pinkk kitty cat ear bandage says "Democrats need to stop their hateful rhetoric". JD Vance is standing next to him yelling "Trump is America’s Hitler!"Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) called [Sen. JD Vance’s] selection as Trump’s VP on the ticket “alarming” and a “direct threat to American values and rights,” citing Vance’s anti-abortion positions.

[Vance] won election to the Senate in 2022, and has distinguished himself as a staunch opponent of funding for Ukraine and a rare GOP advocate for organized labor, as well as one of Trump’s most loyal allies.

The Biden campaign was quick to go after Vance for saying the 2020 election “had a lot of problems” and that, had he been vice president in 2021, he would have told states to send multiple elector slates.

Trump and Republicans Continue Embrace of Fascism and Autocracy

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Two concentration camp guards, dressed in gray uniforms reminiscent of World War II German soldiers, are at Trump Camp #74695 guarding hundreds of people imprisoned behind a barbed wire fence. One guard says to the other "This camp's for all the vermin who compared The Boss to Hitler"

  • “Former president Donald Trump has crossed a red line into championing what we’d recognize as full-flung fascism if it came from the mouth of a foreign leader. It demonstrates just how inured we’ve become to Trump’s despicable despotic rhetoric that he’s not ostracized or treated like a renegade to the US Constitution and American democracy. Instead, he remains the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination.” Boston Globe, 11/14/23
  • “It’s now clearer than ever that Trump, if elected, will use the federal government to go after his political rivals and critics, even deploying the military toward that end. His allies are hatching plans to invoke the Insurrection Act on day one. The US then “would resemble a banana republic”, a University of Virginia law professor [Ed– Saikrishna Prakash] told the Washington Post when it revealed these schemes. Almost as troubling, two New York Times stories outlined Trump’s autocratic plans to put loyal lawyers in key posts and limit the independence of federal agencies. The press generally is not doing an adequate job of communicating those realities.” The Guardian, 11/09/23
  • “In Ohio, after voters on Tuesday approved an amendment to the state constitution protecting abortion rights, Republicans are calling the amendment “ambiguous” and trying to remove it from the jurisdiction of the courts. They want to make the legislature—which they dominate thanks to gerrymandering—the only body that can decide what the measure means. They are openly trying to override the decision of the voters. In Washington, Republicans have empowered Christian extremist Mike Johnson (R-LA) to lead the House of Representatives as speaker, and today we learned that outside his office he displays a flag associated with the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) network that wants to place the United States government under the control of right-wing Christians.” Prof. Heather Cox Richardson, 11/10/2023