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As an Arizona resident it has been interesting, sad, startling and clear what would happen as Martha McSally sold her soul for this election. She is like a Lindsey Graham Junior. If she should pull out an unlikely win, and Trump lose, it will be interesting to see who purchases her next. Very sad and pathetic person. And the death knell for her is her persistent lying about Mark Kelly, her Democratic Challenger. Mark Kelly, former Naval Officer and Astronaut, and husband of our very beloved former Congresswoman, Gabriel Giffords brings Joe Biden's brand of decency and healing to Arizona. Gabriel Giffords was shot in the head in 2011 at an outdoor constituent meeting. 18 others were shot and 6 people died, including a 9 year old girl. Gabbie resigned as our Congresswoman in 2012 to devote her time to her rehabilitation. The most poignant political ads I have ever seen are of Mark and Gabbie at home. Gabbie speaks to us about Mark's commitment to family and country. As she speaks in a very careful and halting manner, due to her permanent disabilities, I cry every time I watch it. This couple has given almost everything to serve our country and yet the GOP and Martha McSally blast hateful lies about them around the clock. All I need to keep going in this endless election is to think of this brave and faithful couple. Please Vote Blue Across the Board. Don't let any of these people off the hook. They are not Americans. We are Americans.

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Thanks to all of the progressive activists who follow Heather Cox Richardson's wonderful blog, "Letter from An American," and who are inspired by her to maintain and/or increase their activism and their critical thinking skills -- both historical and contemporary. Due, in part to you I think there is a substantial chance that, on Nov. 3, or soon thereafter, we will be able to welcome Joe Biden & Kamala Harris into the White House.

It is critical that we remember, however, that this offering of welcome to a new administration is only the first of many audacious steps we have to take, and very rapidly, to restore the health of our country, and our planet! We have huge responsibilities as "citizen lobbyists!" We need to press the new administration to build strong alliances with AOC's Green New Deal, with Black Lives Matter, with the signatories to the Paris Climate Accords of 2015, with the efforts of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren to close "the swinging door" between Wall Street C-Suite entrepreneurs and the Presidency and Congress, with those who are willing to work to overturn disastrous recent Supreme Court decisions, such as Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2011), and willing to protect recent progressive Supreme Court decisions such as Roe v. Wade (1973) (legalization of a pregnant woman's right to choose abortion), and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) (which ruled in favor of the fundamental right to marry to same-sex couples). In addition, we need to encourage the new administration to pursue foreign policy that prioritizes the healthy survival of Spaceship Earth -- the only spaceship upon which any of us are likely ever to travel!

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Thank you, HCR. It’s said that “forgiveness” is hard. After 4 years of Trump, I don’t forgive Comey. Will I ever “forgive” Trump, Barr, or McConnell ? No. Their band of enablers? No. Their woefully ignorant followers? That’s a hard one, because it includes most of my PA family and 50+ M Americans. The answer is that Joe Biden is a better person than I am. I’m not calling my brothers or other relatives in a swing state to discuss the election, as urged by activists. I remember 2016 and their support of Trump and dislike of Hillary. Every celebration and visit and phone call listening to support for a criminal and grifter and business failure. Many of us were not fooled by a reality TV star. Not even Hollywood Access changed anyone’s mind. So, no...win or lose, I no longer have a family I care to forgive and spend time with. Now, I have a much larger family of friends and people standing in the cold and rain to cast their vote for Trump Removal. Praying for my country in these final days. ❤️🤍💙

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"Trump has begun to muse about losing the election, and said he would like simply to drive away, or fly away, from the burden of the presidency. Yesterday, retired Brigadier General Peter B. Zwack wrote that, with his immense financial debts and pending legal issues, 'Trump appears to be a classic flight risk.'”

I have said it before on this page and I'll say it again;

Let him and his family go!

As a voter/tax-payer/patriot/concerned citizen I would readily sign on to a deal where, if Trump agrees to peacefully, quietly, concede the election and vacate the White House, the US government will provide a military transport aircraft, gratis, to take Trump and his family anywhere in the world they want to go. (Bibi Netanyahu says he loves Trump, they can all go to Israel. The bromance won't last.)

Mid-flight Trump's Twitter account would disappear, evaporate.

We could agree not to persue extradition, but the State of New York and the federal SDNY could still persue criminal indictments that would insure that if any of the Trump family sets foot on US territory in the future they would be immediately arrested.

Just an idea.

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The most disheartening revelation of the past four years has been the collapse of our governmental institutions in the face of Donald Trump and the absolute nihilism of the Republican Party. For sheer treachery, there has been nothing to match it, from the executive branch, to Congress, and to the courts. So-called conservatives have not only ignored their Oath of Office, they have gleefully flouted it. It was hard to imagine that the Republican Party's signature brand of patriotic values and traditions of governance all imploded within the past twenty years. It is so disheartening!

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Seems like we are holding our collective breath’s last few days, actually less than 100 hours now! Hang on, everyone!

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Heather, thanks for today's summation. This Administration just keeps going farther down the rabbit hole. Trump, Barr and others with their preemptive strikes to scully the election results are both tiring and fully expected. The US is both a laughing stock and a well placed example of how not to run a Nation into the ground in 4 short years. My consolation from my friends abroad is that other counties place blame on Trump and his enablers and not the citizens of this displaced, dysfunctional country. The tide will change at some point, nothing lasts forever. You know, "How not to run a Nation into the ground in 4 short years" sounds like a great name for a book, or even a musical. Someone call Nathan Lane! 🤔

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Is it not fitting and pleasantly ironic that the trump campaign is out of money?

It’s emblematic of trump; cash escapes his grip like water flows to the sea.

Teenagers do a better job of managing their allowances and incomes from part-time jobs.

Here’s hoping that the NY Times about Erdogan. trump and barr will sway any undecided voters to fall in with Biden/Harris.

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I was appalled when I read Sunday's Spokesman Review unsigned endorsement of 45. Unfortunately, what we didn't know was that it was the endorsement of the owner of the paper because an editorial staff no longer exists. The editor wrote a great follow up explaining that & telling us of the changes being made going forward. The paper will no longer do endorsements, editorials will be assigned & a couple of columnists will be moving to the OP-ed section of the paper. And there were pleas to not drop subscriptions.

What was really ironic is tthepiece also included an endorsement for our democratic governor.

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Thank you, Heather, for providing these daily letters. I've been working the polls for early voting in my county, and yesterday droves of voters turned out in torrential rain to cast their ballots. First-time voters, seniors, college students traveling home just to vote - they're all showing up. I have hope that they and we will overwhelm all the fake hard-drive/laptop stories this time

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Read Putin’s People by Catherine Belton. She exposed how the Russian oligarchs, and then, the former KGB massively looted the former USSR and “invested” in ‘Londongrad’ New York and Florida. Billions of Dark Money dollars have been laundered throughout the world used to corrupt and destabilize. Trump is arguably “owned” by Putin and his people. (And the laundromat banks like Deutsche). Belton’s chapter 15 is a chilling expose of how trump is probably in debt to the Russians.

My bet is that he flees to Russia before his term ends where he will then be the greatest traitor ever spilling secrets to his manipulating hosts.

And let us never forget Comey’s self righteous perfidy which was the death blow to Clinton. I often wonder why he did that. I suspect he hated her in some deep biased way be it gender jealousy or pique. Sadly we bear the tragic consequences of this.

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Really appreciated the concluding remarks to Tuesday's politics chat. Holding the framework of context together is reassuring to so many of us. Thank you kindly!

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I would like to see a Hague Commission Hearing/Trial for all of the trump administration of wrong doing, malfeasance, corruption, violations of laws, etc. etc. And, I wish to see each one go before this court including each family member and especially Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon and on and on. Televise it. Let the whole world see we want to shore up the democracy after this malignant scourge.

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By trying to stop justice being meeted out to the President Erdogan's favorite, family-owned, money-laundering, Turkish Bank, the Halkbank, Trump/Barr are of course, true to form, helping another budding, criminal, autocrat "co-conspirator" hide his illegal and nefarious money-making transactions from the light of the People's justice and world opinion.

Not only is he thereby aiding and abetting the US's declared enemy, Iran, ............

but he is also strongly encouraging the slaughter of Armenians in Nagorno-karabakh by the Turkish-supplied and supported, Azerbaijanian invading force, .........

he is encouraging the killing of Kurds fighting the the butcher Al Asad and Al Quaeda in Syria by the invading Turkish army, ..........

he is encouraging and arming civil war in Lybia with troops assisting and arming forces opposed to the UN backed government.......

and he is encouraging the slaughter of French citizens going about the business, teaching or praying to their God in France..... because the French choose to exercise their freedom of speech and their right to make fun of whatever comes to mind without inciting violence or hatred for one reason or another.

These despicable men, Trump and Erdogan, should be tried in the ICC for crimes against humanity and not just against the American people. Prosecutor Berman could lead the charge....he tried and paid for his effort.

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I truly hope that these cowards clinging to Trump, hoping that he will save them, fail miserably to be elected.

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Morning, All! With the ever present Dr. R's admonition that we, the people, get to decide our future, I remain hopeful for a Blue Wave, and with it a resolve to get to work ASAP before the dust has a chance to settle. Focus. Focus. Focus.

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