The 2024 election is just over a year away.
We have one of the most effective, kind, and decent presidents of our lifetime running against a sociopathic criminal traitorous fascist.
We have one party that is working for the American people, against climate change, and for a more peaceful world.
We have another party that is in complete chaos and is being controlled by sociopathic criminal traitorous fascists.
And, for many super annoying and ridiculous reasons, it is a close race.
We all need to do all we can. This is not the time for sidelines.
This is the right time to get involved.
Now. Right now.
What can you do?
Worried about the assholes in the House? We here at the GNR have set up a fundraising ActBlue account where you can donate and have it evenly distributed between 24 races that will be key to winning the House in 24!
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Now onto the good news
Democrats are Great
Economy adds 336,000 jobs in September, in a stunning gain
The U.S. economy churned out a blockbuster 336,000 jobs in September, smashing economists’ expectations
The economy’s defiance has worked out for now, with a recession nowhere in sight
“Bidenomics is about investing in America and investing in American workers,” Biden said, adding, “We’re creating good jobs in communities all across the country, including in places that have been left behind.”
US will transfer weapons seized from Iran to Ukraine
The US will transfer thousands of seized Iranian weapons and rounds of ammunition to Ukraine, in a move that could help to alleviate some of the critical shortages facing the Ukrainian military as it awaits more money and equipment from the US and its allies, US officials said.
US Central Command has already transferred over one million rounds of seized Iranian ammunition to the Ukrainian armed forces, it announced on Wednesday. The transfer was conducted on Monday, CENTCOM said in a press release.
“The government obtained ownership of these munitions on July 20, 2023, through the Department of Justice’s civil forfeiture claims against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC),” the statement says.
Can We Talk About Joe Biden?
He has used the presidency to direct resources to those who live in the parts of the country where wages are lower, where education levels are lower, where opportunities are skimpier. Biden’s ethos harks back to the ethos of the New Deal Democratic Party, but it also harks forward to something — to a form of center-left politics that is culturally moderate and economically aggressive. Aggressive in investing resources in the left-behind places, aggressive in using industrial policy to revive manufacturing, green tech and other industries, aggressive in using federal largess to bolster the care economy. His administration has put racial justice at the top of the agenda.
Bad News for Bad Guys
The rudderless GOP careens toward 2024
There’s no House speaker, Republicans are tearing each other to shreds over Kevin McCarthy’s ouster and another shutdown deadline is less than six weeks away — with no leader in a strong enough position to guide the party through.
The history-making spectacle that played out on the House floor Tuesday amounted to “stepping on a rake” heading into an election year, as one Republican lawmaker put it.
Asked how voters are viewing the party’s speakership debacle, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) offered a guess: “Are you guys nuts?” she said. “That’s what they are thinking.”
The longer the disarray drags on, the tougher next year’s elections may become. Several battleground-seat incumbents openly acknowledged on Tuesday that Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-Fla.) successful drive to boot McCarthy “weakens our position,” in the words of one of them, Rep. Mike Garcia (R-Calif.).
And Minority Leader Mitch McConnell can’t necessarily fill the void. After facing his first leadership challenge last fall, he is often at odds over strategy with the 10 Republican senators who opposed him; he’s also faced health issues and speculation about both his future and the Senate GOP’s.
For all his flaws, Kevin McCarthy fully earned his reputation for being, as one GOP operative put it, “a money fucking factory for Republicans.”
In the 2022 cycle alone, McCarthy raised over $27 million for his Majority Committee PAC, spending almost all of it on his colleagues—even 14 of the 20 GOP members who fought for days in January to block him from winning the speaker’s gavel.
With McCarthy now relegated to the House Republican rank and file after his historic ouster from the speakership this week, the campaign cash void he leaves behind might be as concerning to Republicans as the literal power vacuum in the House.
Supreme Court weighs sentencing law, denies appeal from Trump lawyer Eastman
the justices disposed of hundreds of petitions that have accumulated since the court’s final opinions last June. That included a request from Eastman to wipe out a lower-court ruling that said he and Trump “more likely than not” committed a crime with their strategy to overturn Trump’s loss to Joe Biden.
Eastman asked the Supreme Court to vacate a lower court’s decision granting a congressional committee examining the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol access to his emails.
Other Good News
Putin’s fleet retreats: Ukraine is winning the Battle of the Black Sea
Russia has reportedly withdrawn most of its Black Sea Fleet from occupied Crimea in recent weeks following a series of successful Ukrainian attacks. The retreat of the Russian fleet is a serious setback for Vladimir Putin’s ongoing invasion and the latest indication that Ukraine is winning the Battle of the Black Sea.
On the Lighter Side
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