How Refusing to Vote for Harris Could Bring Mass Immigrant Deportations to America

 

 

 

 

 

How Refusing to Vote for Harris Could Bring Mass Immigrant Deportations to America

Justifiable fury at the loss of innocent lives in Gaza shouldn’t lead to the destruction of millions of innocent lives here at home.

by Harold Meyerson

October 31, 2024

 

On our blog. 

 

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/how-refusing-to-vote-for-harris-could-bring-mass-deportations-to-america

 

With polls showing that Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are running even in nearly every swing state, this election will turn on the decisions of very small subsets of voters. One of those subsets surely isn’t contemplating voting for Trump, but may end up electing him anyway.

I refer to those voters so understandably appalled by Israel’s war on Gaza and the toll it’s taken in innocent lives that they may not vote, or vote for Jill Stein, as a way of protesting the Biden administration’s continued provision of arms for Netanyahu’s war, and Harris’s refusal to cleanly break with that policy.

It’s by no means clear how not voting for Harris will stop Israel’s destruction of Gaza and the attendant slaughter of innocent lives. It is perfectly clear, however, that it will imperil millions of innocent lives right here in the USA should it lead to a Trump victory.

 

I refer to the immigrants among us whose forced deportation is the fundamental plank in Trump’s platform, the one issue he stresses in every one of his otherwise disjointed speeches, the sine qua non of his pledge to make America great again. To accomplish that deportation, he’s made clear he’d order the National Guard to sweep through immigrant-heavy neighborhoods, and might well order the Army to clear out areas like the Bronx, East Los Angeles, and Chicago’s West Side as well.

  

Move On Launches Final Campaign Ad : Believe Him !

As first reported by CNN, yesterday MoveOn launched a seven-figure ad on the economy—the No. 1 issue in this election—with two partner organizations, the Working Families Party and Future Forward.¹

It's our closing argument before Election Day. We are making the final case to American voters that Vice President Kamala Harris is on the side of working people, while Donald Trump absolutely is not.

The ad is airing on streaming services in all seven battleground states and is targeting late-deciding, less political, working-class voters, as well as those voters who have been third-party curious. It can also be seen on YouTube.

It's a very large ad buy, but we had to do it—because this is the final stretch, and we're leaving everything on the field.

But here's the thing: We hadn't budgeted for this ad; we didn't think we'd have to do something like this so late in the game.

But this election is too close—and the stakes are too high—for us to sit this out.

It's critical that we reach on-the-fence voters, and this ad is how we'll do it.

We know that you'll be shocked by the cost of this ad. It's a seven-figure ad buy, but with all of the political spending in this election, that's what the going rate is. We couldn't have done it without crucial allies, and we wouldn't spend the money if we didn't think it had to be done.

Now, we urgently need additional funds for the final stretch to continue our other critical work to reach voters.We want you to watch the ad, but here's a preview:

Against the backdrop of powerful images, our ad says:

"Most of us work hard to care for the people we love and build a better life. But corporations are making record profits, getting richer off our backs, while we work harder. Kamala Harris will make sure we keep more of what we earn–cracking down on price gouging, lowering the cost of housing and prescription drugs, and making the rich pay their fair share in taxes. Vote Kamala Harris. She's with us. Not with them."

And it closes with an image of Trump and his billionaire buddy Elon Musk.

Before launching the ad, we tested it with voters in our target audiences, and it performed extremely well across everydemographic in each swing state.

The results blew us away. They were among the best we'd seen for an ad during this entire election cycle.

That's why we knew we HAD to launch this ad, with the help of crucial partners, at a massive, impactful, difference-making, seven-figure scale.

But we have crucial work we must continue in the final week, including ...

• Phone-banking more than one million voters
• Running microtargeted ad campaigns so that each voter sees the ad most persuasive to them across multiple digital channels
• Working in partnerhip with social media influencers
• Our community vote tripling program that helps voters reach out personally to their family and friends to remind them to cast a ballot. Studies show this program as much as five times more effective than traditional voter outreach; and
• Field organizers on the ground in battleground states who are running canvasses to reach the critical voters who will decide this election.

We can't afford to pull even a little bit away from this crucial work. Not even for this incredibly powerful ad campaign. So we're counting on you to help fill this funding gap for the final stretch.

The New York Times editorial board wrote powerfully on Sunday: "Donald Trump says he will prosecute his enemies, order mass deportations, use soldiers against citizens, abandon allies, play politics with disasters. Believe him."²

They used Trump's own words to outline his dangerous plans in each of these areas, repeating each time, "Believe him."

We believe him and know what he's capable of. And we know that the Trump-packed Supreme Court won't stop Trump. Remember, the Supreme Court ruled this year that Trump can't be prosecuted for crimes he commits as president.³

And we know that the political staff who held Trump in check—to an extent—in his first term have since abandoned him and are sounding the alarms about how dangerous he is. They have been replaced by MAGA die-hards who are endlessly loyal to Trump and will alway put him above us and our country.⁴

And that's why in these final five days before the election, we MUST do everything possible to get every left-leaning voter in the battleground states to the polls. But it's going to take all of us doing everything we can.

 If interested>>>>>>>Please rush a $9 donation now to help MoveOn have the resources for this final sprint to when the polls close on Election Day.

Thanks for all you do.

–Britt, Amanda R., Alyssa, Isbah, and the rest of the team

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American Fascism

by Henry Wallace. Former Vice President of the U.S. 1944.

The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way,” Wallace wrote in his landmark essay “The Danger of American Fascism,” published in The New York Times Magazine on April 9, 1944.

Wallace’s thoughts and words are even more relevant today than they were then. Here are additional excerpts:

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions, or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.…

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.…

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship. What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.…

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. They use every opportunity to impugn democracy. They use isolationism as a slogan to conceal their own selfish imperialism.… They claim to be superpatriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interests.…

Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion.…

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise. In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself….

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

Wallace saw the connection between Hitler’s preachments about racial “purity” and the language of Southern segregationists who spoke of a master race. “Those who fan the fires of racial clashes for the purpose of making political capital here at home are taking the first step toward Nazism,” he warned. And “the second step toward fascism is the destruction of labor unions.”

To avert the rise of American fascism, Wallace argued that America must champion “the democracy of the common man,” embracing “not just the Bill of Rights but also economic democracy, ethnic democracy, educational democracy, and democracy in the treatment of the sexes.”

 

Their Future

The Election is Here

 

Can Hotel Workers Save the Democrats?

Can Hotel Workers Save the Democrats?: In the swing state of Nevada, the Harris campaign needs the Vegas hotel union’s ‘army’ to overcome Donald Trump.

Trump’s Tax Scam: Why Nothing Trickled Down | Robert Reich

Trump as Fascist

 Heather Cox Richardson.

Trump as Fascist.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-13-2024?

 

As previously reported.

Breaking the Public Schools

Breaking the Public Schools: Red states are enacting universal education vouchers, threatening budget calamity and potentially degrading student achievement.

Telling the Truth About FEMA Money

 A quick word on “FEMA money going to immigrants.” If Congress has enacted a budget that requires a money stream for that purpose, that is what the Federal government is required to do. It’s the law, not incidentally enacted with the support of the House Republican majority. Trump might like to pretend that he or Biden can simply redirect the money by fiat, but that would be illegal. It would also violate the most basic feature of the U.S. Constitutional system, which vests “the power of the purse” in the U.S. Congress.

There is no trade-off between money for FEMA hurricane operations, and money for immigrants, or anything else. The gigantic Federal government can easily do both. The real constraint is the generalized political unease about higher taxes to pay for higher spending, something to which Democrats of course routine capitulate. There is also the idiotic debt ceiling. The culprits in all this can be seen in the mirror.

What should the Democrats do? It might be inadequate, but telling the truth would help. Lies disrupt rescue and relief efforts and should be hanging offenses. How powerful is shame? I would hate to stake my life on it, but I don’t see what else we would have.

Max Sawicky 

Can Harris Win Blue-Collar Union Members?

Can Harris Win Blue-Collar Union Members?: Today on TAP: The decimation of the labor movement makes that a very uphill climb.

Defend the American River Parkway from Destruction

 

RIVER TOURS COMMUNITY EVENT @ LARCHMONT PARK This Sunday!

ART River Tours Community Event

Join us at this FREE event to share your love for the Parkway, have some fun, and grab some hot dogs! Sunday, October 13th @ 11:30-4 River Tour 1 - Leaving at 12 River Tour 2 - Leaving at 1:30 Larchmont Community Park 2449 Stansberry Way, Sacramento Spend an afternoon strolling the beautiful American River Parkway at Larchmont Community Park. Take a river walking tour with American River Trees (ART) members and learn about the Corps project in the project area - see what we have to lose! Meet the oldest residents of Sacramento and try to guess their age! Guided river walking tours - learn about the project hands-on! Free hotdogs and drinks! Raffles - win Save-the-Parkway merch! Kids activities and playground Project info and updates Give an oak a hug! TO HELP US PLAN, PLEASE CLICK BELOW TO ANSWER 3 SIMPLE QUESTIONS

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In case you missed it! ART Community Zoom Call

Thanks to those who attended ART’s Community Zoom Call!  Couldn’t make it? No problem!  Here’s the recording:

IN THE NEWS

One of ART’s local civil engineers, Bill Brittain, is featured in October’s Inside Sacramento newspaper defending the Parkway trees!  Click below to check it out:

Ways to Participate in these Vital Elections

Ways to participate in elections.

 

Volunteer to be a poll worker

Volunteer to be a poll watcher

Boost voter turn out.   Send cards, text messages, phone bank.   

Defend the right to vote.  Oppose voter interference.  Voter suppression. 

Educate your friends and neighbors, and union members, church members, civil rights organizations, etc.

 

The California Poor People’s Campaign has produced a voter education page. 

The California Poor People's Campaign has prepared the following, 

We’ve put together a voting education page to support you as you make preparations to vote. The page offers a variety of resources to prepare for this year’s elections, including:

• A Voting Record: This voting record graphic will help you see where major candidates and parties stand on the big issues of the day, from raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour to lowering prescription drug prices. It offers detailed information about how they’ve voted on these issues in the past.

• Voter Protection Resources: These resources include voter protection hotlines and websites for help if you face any issues voting in this year’s elections. Trained experts will ensure you are able to cast a ballot.

• Everything You Need to Vote: This graphic includes clickable links to essential resources, such as important deadlines for voting in your state, registration checks, absentee ballot requests, ballot previews ahead of time, finding local polling place locators, election reminders, and registration to vote. 

We encourage you to share this page with your friends, family, and social networks. These resources will help guarantee that we can mobilize many poor and low-income infrequent voters during this year’s elections. 

Local campaigns where you can get involved.

Kamala Harris for President

Jessica Morse for Congress

Activate America

Emily's List

events.dems.org

Indivisible

Mobilize

Sister District

Swing Left

Women Rising

 

How Many Undocumented Are There in the U.S.A.?- J.D. Vance

J.D. Vance. Claim.  BBC.  Tues. Oct. 1, 2024

 

Are there up to 25 million illegal aliens in the US?

CLAIM: Vance: “We’ve got 20-25 million illegal aliens who are here in the country.”

VERDICT: These numbers are much higher than estimates for the number of illegal immigrants in the US. 

Vance made this claim while criticising the border policies of President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. 

It is impossible to know exactly how many illegal immigrants have come to the US, as many will have evaded law enforcement agencies, but several estimates put the number at around half what Vance claims.

• Migrants with criminal records - what new US data shows

A report published by the Office of Homeland Security earlier this year estimated the number of illegal immigrants living in the US, as of January 2022, at 11 million.

Pew Research Center and the Migration Policy Institute came up with similar estimates for 2022 and 2021. 

And the Center for Immigration Studies estimated there were approximately 12 million illegal immigrants in May 2023.

   

 

Save the Date 

North Star Webinar. ( Actually a meeting)

 

 

The Border, Immigration, Dog Whistle Politics and Political Reality.

Videos, updates from the border, and strategy.

Plus, Break out rooms to promote open discussion. 

 

Sunday, October 20, 2024.    2 PM Pacific.  5 PM Eastern. 

Presented by North Star Caucus.

 

Registration to follow. 

Who Are the ‘Undecided’?

Who Are the ‘Undecided’?: It may not be about issues, but whether voters surrender to Trump’s invitation to return to the womb.