Well, Gov. Pete Ricketts and Attorney General/Legal Eaglet Doug Peterson insulted Nebraska voters Wednesday by joining other GOP-led states in a ridiculous Texas lawsuit that asks the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the presidential election results in four key swing states.
Nebraska Reps. Jeff Fortenberry and Adrian Smith shamelessly joined an outrageous friend-of-the-court petition to support Trump’s election coup.
Those GOP “leaders,” it seems, are buying into the absurd theory touted by President Trump that because record numbers of people voted by mail in the Nov. 3 election that their votes should not be counted and that the Republican-controlled legislatures in those states should decide who gets their electoral votes.
Absurd, indeed.
Cue Esquire’s تشارلز بيرس:
Nothing secedes like secession.
Late Wednesday afternoon, in as clear a demonstration as there ever has been of the authoritarian rot at the heart of the Republican Party, 17 other states, all governed primarily by Republicans, filed an amicus brief in support of the ludicrous lawsuit being brought by Ken Paxton, the indicted Republican attorney general of Texas, that seeks to overturn the results of the presidential election by disenfranchising millions of voters in Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, and Pennsylvania.
But they’re willing to sign onto the closest thing we’ve had to secession in 150 years because the Republican Party has created a couple of generations of leaders who simply can’t think of any other way to do politics than to scorch the earth, win or lose. Zero-sum democracy is untenable.
But the Texas case is Big Casino for these folks. They all believe that the Supreme Court will ride to their rescue and disenfranchise millions of people whom they don’t believe should be allowed to vote anyway. The Republican Party is now a seditious, subversive organization, a Fifth Column of organized authoritarian yahoos. Where’s Joe McCarthy when you need him?
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This Monday, Dec. 14, we will gather on the south side of the Capitol building at 1:30 p.m. to support Precious McKesson as she casts the Electoral Vote for the Blue Dot in CD2!
She will become the first woman and the first African American to cast an Electoral College ballot for a Democrat in Nebraska.
Wear a mask, stay physically distanced from anyone not in your household, and bring your #BlueWave energy!
Elector Posters will be available for pickup to anyone who pre-ordered them.
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هنا في Nebraska Democratic Party ، نعلم أنه كان من الصعب على العائلات هذا العام أثناء الوباء ، وفي موسم العطلات هذا ، نود مساعدة مجتمعاتنا بأي طريقة ممكنة.
Thanks to our awesome donors, we are able to provide holiday meals in three cities (Hastings, Omaha, and Lincoln). Not only are we helping families, we are also supporting small businesses that have been impacted by the pandemic.
The deadline to request a meal is Friday, December 18th, at 5 p.m. CT. Please use this form to request a meal. Please note if we hit our number of meals before the 18th, we will close down the link early.
إذا كنت تريد التبرع للوجبات ، الرجاء زيارة هذه الصفحة.
سيتم تقديم الوجبات من قبل Big Mama's Kitchen و Odyssey و The Venue. الوجبات تخدم أسرة مكونة من أربعة أفراد ، مع الحلوى.
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يمكنك المساعدة في تأرجح ميزان مجلس الشيوخ الأمريكي!
اثنان من شاغلي المناصب في الحزب الجمهوري ، السيناتور ديفيد بيرديو وكيلي لوفلر ، يواجهان جولة الإعادة ضد الديمقراطيين: جون أوسوف يواجه بيرديو والقس رافائيل وارنوك يواجه لوفلر. إذا فاز أوسوف ووارنوك ، سينقسم مجلس الشيوخ بالتساوي ، بنسبة 50-50 ، مع إجراء نائب الرئيس كامالا هاريس التصويت الفاصل.
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انضم إلى ما يقرب من 14000 مواطن من نبراسكان يحثون الحاكم بيت ريكيتس على وضع قناع قناع لإنقاذ الأرواح!
Studies by scientists and medical professionals around the world make it very clear:
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Get your Biden, Jomaha and NDP swag at the NDP / قمصان 101 متجر!
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We leave you this week with a rendering by Signe Wilkinson on Trump’s string of defeats in court trying to overturn his loss to Joe Biden.
- بقلم كيفن أوهانلون / مدير الاتصالات في الحزب الوطني الديمقراطي
ملاحظة: إذا كنت ترغب في تلقي أخبار #NebDems عبر البريد الإلكتروني ، فما عليك سوى إعلامنا عن طريق إرسال ملاحظة إلى: info@nebraskademocrats.org
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تواريخ مهمة
14 ديسمبر: Blue Dot Rally: Nebraska Electoral College vote
9 يناير: اجتماع SCC
20 يناير: تنصيب الرئيس المنتخب جو بايدن ونائب الرئيس المنتخب كامالا هاريس
