Abortion
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, 65,000 women in 14 states that sharply curtailed access to abortion care have experienced THIS.
What is: a rape-related pregnancy
Since the Supreme Court overturned abortion rights, these GOP-led states imposed bans with NO exceptions for rape or incest. 11 others have also restricted abortion care. GOP control of the White House and Congress will ensure a national abortion ban. VOTE BLUE ALL THE WAY THROUGH.
Sources: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2023/nov/10/state-abortion-laws-us; https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/nearly-65000-pregnancies-from-rape-estimated-in-states-with-abortion-bans/
In endorsing Biden, the head of this organization said: "From bringing manufacturing jobs home to America to protecting our pensions and making historic investments in infrastructure, clean energy, and education, we've never seen a president work so tirelessly to rebuild our economy from the bottom up and middle out."
Who is: Liz Shuler, head of the AFL-CIO. Biden is the first president to ever join in a picket line, and is fighting unfair labor practices like non-compete clauses. In contrast, Trump:
* stripped away protections for workers at the Dept. of Veterans Affairs
*derailed Dept. of Labor overtime pay rules
* opposed increases in the minimum wage
* overturned bans on contracts that force consumers to give up their right to sue
Sources: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4053187-afl-cio-backs-biden-in-early-2024-endorsement; https://aflcio.org/press/releases/donald-trumps-catastrophic-and-devastating-anti-labor-track-record
In 2023, this candidate for president claimed that Covid-19 was genetically engineered to protect Jews and Chinese people.
Who is: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy's claim was roundly dismissed by scientists, and was seen as feeding into anti-Semitic tropes and anti-Asian bias. Like Trump, he issues pernicious speculations that can cause real harm.
Just a year into office, this President made an unprecedented $5.8 billion investment in Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Who is: Joe Biden
In 2021 he also established Juneteenth as a federal holiday, and cosponsored the 2001 bill creating the African American Museum.
whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/12/17/fact-sheet-the-biden-%E2%81%A0harris-administrations-historic-investments-and-support-for-historically-black-colleges-and-universities/; whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/12/17/fact-sheet-the-biden-%E2%81%A0harris-administrations-historic-investments-and-support-for-historically-black-colleges-and-universities/
This person:
* violated the Fair Housing Act after refusing to rent his properties to African Americans, and settled out of court (1975).
• violated antitrust laws and settled $750,000 out of court (1988).
• violating the Bank Secrecy Act and settled $10 million (2015), and paid
• $25 million for defrauding students.
Trump--all BEFORE he became president.
His 34 felonies for falsifying business records to influence the 2016 election and conviction for sexual abuse and defamation of E.Jean Carroll are part of a long history of criminality.
In Congress, the GOP's Life at Conception Act (2022) would have severely curtailed IVF and THIS, used by 99% of American women from all faith backgrounds.
What is BIRTH CONTROL
Like many GOP “personhood” bills at the state level, this Act would give rights to fertilized eggs at the moment of conception, threatening IVF treatments and many common forms of birth control.
Sources: www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/contraceptive-use-united-states; https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/us/politics/republicans-birth-control-ivf.html.
Inflation is undoubtedly painful for all American families. But by letting the Federal Reserve set the interest rates without political interference, inflation has slowed from a high of 9% to 3%, and the US did not experience the recession that most predicted.
Which of the following statements is also true?
a) The economy is 7% larger than it was in 2020
b) US workers experienced 2.8% gains in real wages after inflation.
c) the US has high unemployment.
What is A (larger economy) and B (real wage gains)? Both are true.
C (high unemployment) is false; under Biden the US is experiencing its lowest unemployment rate in 50 years--for all Americans, regardless of race.
Sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/01/28/global-economy-gdp-inflation/; https://apnews.com/article/inflation-prices-interest-rates-economy-federal-reserve-53d93610b5ccaacd097853593f29bc26
She is the first Black woman ever appointed to the US Supreme Court.
Who is: Ketanji Brown Jackson
She was nominated by President Biden and confirmed in 2022. In fact, 66% of Biden's judicial appointees are racial or ethnic minorities--the most of any president ever. Of Trump's appointments, only 14% were minorities.
Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/02/22/biden-poised-triple-number-black-women-federal-appeals-courts/6880129001/?gnt-cfr=1; https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/cotton-ketanji-brown-jackson-republicans-rcna23007
In Texas, doctors providing abortions that state Republicans deem "medically unnecessary" can incur which of the following
a) $100,000 fine
b) loss of their medical license
c) life in prison
All three. With the TX "heartbeat" bill, doctors fear treating miscarriages or other dangerous pregnancy-related conditions, leaving women like Kristen Anaya and Christina Nunez near death.
Texas is not alone. Congressional Republicans tried to pass a similar bill called the Life at Conception Act. VOTE BLUE, for your mother, your daughters, your sisters, and you.
Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/11/15/1213188342/20-women-sue-texas-over-abortion-laws; https://abcnews.go.com/Health/court-ruled-texas-doctors-perform-emergency-abortions-means/story?id=106069124
In 2017, Trump and the GOP permanently reduced top corporate tax rates by 14%, and allowed many Fortune 500 companies to pay NO taxes. It added over $1 trillion to this.
What is the national debt?
The GOP complains about the national debt and blames Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, and tax credits for poor families that help everyday Americans lead a decent life.
Source: The Trump Tax Reform Plan, by David Floyd, updated Jan 23,2023, https://www.investopedia.com/taxes/trumps-tax-reform-plan-explained/#toc-national-debt
Book bans have surged in Republican-led states like Texas, Florida and South Carolina. These subjects topped the banned list.
What is: people of color, race and racism, and LGBTQ+ characters or themes.
This includes prize-winning books like The Color Purple, Between the World and Me, Caste, Lawn Boy, and Kite Runner.
Source: https://pen.org/report/banned-in-the-usa-state-laws-supercharge-book-suppression-in-schools/
In 2024, Democrats in the Michigan legislature passed the MI Family Protection Act to safeguard families’ rights to THESE kinds of treatments.
What is In vitro Fertilization (IVF) and Surrogacy
Every GOP member of the Michigan legislature voted against this bill. Vote Blue so you can make your own decisions too.
In 2021, President Biden and the Democratic majority required all corporations earning over $1 billion a year to at minimum pay this to the IRS.
What is: an alternative minimum tax of 15%
Biden makes wealthy companies pay a fairer share in America.
As billionaire Warren Buffet rightly noted, if the top 800 companies in the US paid all their taxes, "no other person in the US would have had to pay a dime of federal taxes, income taxes, Social Security taxes, estate taxes.."
Sources: Source: Tax News Update, Aug 16 2022 https://taxnews.ey.com/news/2022-1237-inflation-reduction-act-includes-15-percent-corporate-minimum-tax-on-book-income; https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/warren-buffett-billionaires-taxes/
This state adopted a new history curriculum stating that slavery helped black people develop useful skills.
What is: Florida, under the leadership of Republican DeSantis.
Moreover, Florida, Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi and other states have introduced bills to prevent teaching about segregation, lynching, racism and more under the guise that it provokes anxiety, discomfort, or guilt for White children.
In 2022, with a newly empowered majority, conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed 50 years of precedent by denying women the right to abortion care. This president, who appointed several of those members, bragged about overturning Roe v. Wade.
Who is Donald J. Trump
When they were directly asked about Roe during their confirmation hearings, the 3 Trump justices indicated they would follow established precedent. They did not.
By expanding this, Biden and the Democratic majority in Congress reduced children living in poverty by 50%.
What is the Child Tax Credit?
Child poverty fell from 9.7% to 5.2% from 2020 to 2021 with a boost in tax deductions for families with children. Although most Democrats wanted to make the credit permanent, they were short 1 vote and lacked ANY Republican support. BIG DEMOCRATIC MAJORITIES MATTER.
Source: ARP.https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/biden-state-of-the-union-2023/h_f3a389356f524ac0a87dc9d64fa1b97d;
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/biden-state-of-the-union-2023/h_f3a389356f524ac0a87dc9d64fa1b97d
This president issued an executive order for a "complete and total ban on Muslims" entering the United States.
Who is: Donald Trump.
Biden reversed the order, but Trump promises not only to restore but expand this racist ban.
Remember when Trump called for the execution of the Central Park 5—Black kids who had been forced into wrongful confessions for raping a white woman and later exonerated? When Trump violated the Fair Housing Act by barring Black applicants from his rental properties?
Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-bring-back-travel-ban-muslim-countries/; https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/jul/25/did-donald-trump-ever-apologize-central/; https://www.newsweek.com/fair-housing-acts-50th-anniversary-look-back-investigation-trump-familys-879437