Choosing Democracy: Solidarity with Student Actions

Choosing Democracy: Solidarity with Student Actions:   FREE PALESTINE    Sacramento DSA stands in unwavering  solidarity  with the students at Columbia, Cal Poly, USC, UC Berkeley, UCLA, NYU, U...

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The Reality Check: THE HUMAN COST OF A STRAWBERRY WAGE

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Growers Spend Millions to Oppose UFW - Unions

 Ag groups spend millions on ads to discourage California farmworker unionizing. Supporters and members of the United Farm Workers union march in Galt on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022 on their way to Sacramento to ask for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature on AB 2183. HECTOR AMEZCUA hamezcua@sacbee.com 

What to know BY MATHEW MIRANDA AND MELISSA MONTALVO UPDATED APRIL 15, 2024 10:38 AM

Major agriculture organizations have combined forces to spend millions on Spanish-language radio advertisements discouraging farmworkers from voting in union elections. Radio ads promoting anti-union rhetoric on multiple popular radio stations across the state and Spanish-language digital media over the past nine months have attacked a 2023 California “card check law” aimed to make it easier for farmworkers to vote in union elections. In some cases, the ads platform misinformation, according to labor experts. Behind the majority of the radio ads is the California Farmworker Information Center, a registered nonprofit and charity founded in 2023 by executives from the Western Growers Association, California Fresh Fruit Association and California Citrus Mutual — all groups that opposed the “card check” law.

On Immigration

 

ON THE IMMIGRATION “PROBLEM” April 22, 2924, 9 pm Eastern, 6 pm Pacific Presenty by: The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism The Socialist Education Project 4 th Monday Webinar Woody Guthrie wrote his famous song “Deportees” in 1948 decrying that “All they will call you will be ‘deportees.’” And “they chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.” He wrote at a time when the US political economy depended upon temporary immigrant labor. Since the 1940s particularly, the globalization of the economy, increased violence and repression within countries (largely involving United States interference), growing income and wealth inequality and poverty, climate catastrophes and the rise of repressive regimes everywhere, emigration has increased. The United Nations has estimated that “the number of international migrants has been robust over the last two decades, reaching 281 million people living outside their country of origin in 2020, up from 173 million in 2000 and 221 million in 2010. Currently, international migrants represent about 3.6 per cent of the world’s population.” And today, they represent a large and growing percentage of the agricultural and manufacturing work force. Now, “the immigration problem” is the issue dominating campaign and election debate. Both parties conceive of immigration as a problem. Is it? What are its causes? What role have immigrants played in America’s economy? How should the left respond to the vicious attack on immigrants and the draconian proposals made by political candidates to address “the problem.” Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIocO6gpjooHtEaQQpxL9YDVdaS6IOmEjRA

To address this issue the webinar will hear from:

David Bacon writer, photographer, labor organizer. http://dbacon.igc.org/ ""David Bacon is the conscience of American journalism: an extraordinary social documentarist in the rugged humanist tradition of Dorothea Lange, Carey McWilliams,

Anne Lewis Anne comes out of a movement to make media that helps create opportunity for social change. She has made documentary films (always with limited resources) since the 1970¹s and was associate director and assistant camerawoman for HARLAN COUNTY, USA.

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: Happy Birthday Dolores

Choosing Democracy: Happy Birthday Dolores:   Happy Birthday Dolores Dolores Huerta turns 94 today, April 10th! Throughout her remarkable life, she led boycotts alongside Cesar Chavez ...

Dia de La Tierra : Sacramento

 

Republicans’ New Border Target: Migrant Aid Groups

Republicans’ New Border Target: Migrant Aid Groups: Criminalizing the groups providing humanitarian aid at the border won't solve our immigration crisis. But providing them funding might help, writes contributor Miriam Davidson.

College Scholarships Available From LULAC

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For high school students planning to go to college next year. Must be a resident of the Sacramento region. 

Immigration Reform - Not MAGA Politics

 

As a former immigration attorney and a daughter of immigrants, I promise to keep speaking up for immigrants’ rights. I’ve been horrified at the dangerous anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies from Democrats in Congress and the White House. In both bodies of Congress, we’re seeing members voting for xenophobic, fear mongering bills including spending billions of our taxpayer dollars on war and on far-right U.S. border policies to end asylum protections, speed up mass deportations, and lock up more refugees.  President Biden endorsed that bipartisan Senate border bill, invited Trump to “join” him in working on it, and referenced it in last week’s State of the Union address as a priority. In that State of the Union speech, the president called undocumented immigrants “illegals,” prompting a response from human rights groups to affirm that No human being is illegal. We must decriminalize the deeply human act of migration, affirm the rights of all people, and finally create a real path to citizenship for our immigrant neighbors who’ve lived here for years. As Michigan United explains: “We need citizenship and family reunification, not detention and deportations.” Add your name today to tell Democrats in the White House and Congress: Don’t pander to far-right racists on immigration. Don’t dehumanize our immigrant neighbors. Fulfill your campaign promises to push for a more just and humane immigration process, including creating and expanding pathways to citizenship. ADD YOUR NAME In my community, thousands of U.S. citizens can’t get their spouses access to a legal pathway to citizenship because of layers of bureaucracy that leave people waiting 10 or 20 years for an interview.  I’m reaffirming the promise I made to the residents of my congressional district when they sent me to Congress: I will continue taking meaningful actions to end hateful Trump-era immigration policies, reunite families, welcome migrants and asylum seekers, and reform our outdated and inhumane immigration system.  President Biden and other Democrats also made campaign promises to reduce deportations, reunite families, protect people fleeing danger, and support the millions of undocumented people who are already living and working in our communities.  But since Trump left office, deportations have increased, and many Trump-era immigration policies have continued or expanded. This “prisons first, humanity later” approach fails our immigrant communities. The recent Senate bill, which President Biden endorsed and again referenced in his State of the Union address as a priority, would spend an unprecedented amount of taxpayer dollars to expand notoriously inhumane detention centers—including for-profit prisons that work with ICE.  The bill would also send over a billion of our tax dollars for 24-hour “suspicionless surveillance” technology that could be used to profile and harm all immigrant families in the U.S..  Kids are still in cages, and ICE still runs hundreds of abusive jails across the country as part of the world’s largest immigration detention system. Progressives and activists have talked about the need to defund ICE, not send them more money to violate more people’s rights. Please sign to tell Congress and the White House: We need citizenship and family reunification, not detention and deportations. SIGN NOW Thank you. Together we can build a future with dignity and safety for all people. In solidarity, Rashida Tlaib,  U.S. Congress

Immigration Reform

 Immigration reform 

 

The truth is: Republicans in Congress want a broken immigration system. They want to campaign on the issue. They can’t win elections without it.

And Democrats shouldn’t play Republicans’ cynical game on immigration. 

Right-wing policies like Title 42, Remain in Mexico, and mass deportations do nothing to fix the issue – they only cause chaos in border communities and harm to immigrants and asylum seekers.

We need real reform to invest in our ports of entry, open up more legal pathways for migration, provide a pathway to citizenship for immigrants, and address the root cause of migration—which is often the conditions in Latin America driving families to our border.

That is the kind of real immigration reform I’ll continue to fight for. I won’t abandon our nation’s values to score a cheap political win. I hope you’ll have my back in that fight.

Greg Casar 

U.S. Congress.  Texas

Its Time to Organize

  Dear Dolores Huerta Foundation Community,

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our new Get Out the Vote web page! This civic engagement hub is a one-stop destination for all your voting needs, designed to empower you with essential information and tools for the upcoming elections. Don't forget California's primary election is Tuesday, March 5, 2024!

On our Get Out the Vote page, you can:

- Learn how to register to vote

- Understand your voting rights

- Explore what's on your ballot

- Track your ballot

This page will be continuously updated with relevant voting and civic engagement information, serving as a valuable resource leading up to the elections. While it is designed for California voters, everyone is welcome to explore and benefit from its offerings.

Want to get directly involved?

Join us by phone banking from anywhere, or if you're in Kern County, why not canvass in Tulare or Bakersfield? We will host many more phone banking and canvassing efforts, so please stay tuned to our website and follow us on Instagram.

In Partnership,

-- Your Allies at the Dolores Huerta Foundation

 

The KKK and Immigration Law, and Donald Trump

 

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Are Republicans Setting the Debate Terms ?

Is Biden Letting Republicans Set the Terms of the Immigration Debate?

“We have given into the Republican narrative in such a way that we’re beginning to sound like them”: A roundtable discussion with Rep. Delia Ramirez, Heba Gowayed, Victor Narro and Carlos Rojas Rodriguez

 

NATASCHA ELENA UHLMANN  FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In These Times. 

 

Going into the 2024 election, the GOP’s position on migration is abundantly clear. In June 2023, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stood at a presidential campaign podium emblazoned with the words ​“Stop the Invasion” and likened border crossings to home break-ins. On the campaign trail in December 2023, Donald Trump declared immigrants are ​“poisoning the blood of our country.” Mere weeks ago, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott lamented the state’s inability to shoot asylum seekers crossing the border because ​“the Biden administration would charge us with murder.” These pronouncements mark a mainstreaming of eliminationist rhetoric: Where conservatives once coyly hinted at nativism, they now openly fantasize of murder.

 

https://inthesetimes.com/article/biden-letting-republicans-set-terms-immigration

 

 

What should the border conversation look like?

See. First They Came for the Immigrants.

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/first-they-came-for-the-immigrants

 

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/the-5-biggest-trump-republican-lies-about-illegal-immigration

and more. 

 

 

 

The Border Bill Fails.

The Senators and the Biden Administration may have forgotten about Operation Wetback, but we have not. 

 U.S. immigration policy is a mess. It was made worse by the Trump administration, 2016-2020.   And,  it is unlikely to change in the current political era.

In his campaign this week Trump has promised the largest deportation in U.S. history. 
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/us/politics/trump-2025-immigration-agenda.html?
 
For background, readers should look at Operation Wetback under President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the so-called Mexican Repatriation project of the 1930’s. 
The implementation of Operation Wetback was a result of Attorney General Herbert Brownell's tour of Southern California in August 1953. It was there that he made note of the "shocking and unsettling" issue that was illegal immigration.[2] The short-lived operation used military-style tactics to remove Mexican immigrants—some of them American citizens—from the United States. Though millions of Mexicans had legally entered the country through joint immigration programs in the first half of the 20th century and some were naturalized citizens who were once native, Operation Wetback was designed to send them to Mexico.[3]
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback
 
Operation Wetback was a follow-up to the prior Mexican Repatriation when as many as 2 million were deported, many of them children.  Up to 40% of those deported were U.S. citizens of Mexican descent. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation
 
Currently there is a competition among Republicans to be the toughest on immigration policy by focusing on fentanyl, which commonly begins production in China.

See additional posts on immigration below. 

Senator Alex Padilla on Proposed "compromise" Immigration Bill

 Sen. Padilla Statement on Senate National Security Supplemental Agreement

WASHINGTON, D.C. — 

We have a new post up on our blog. 

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/sen-padilla-statement-on-senate-national-security-supplemental-agreement

Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety, issued the following statement on the Senate’s national security and immigration supplemental agreement:

“After months of a negotiating process that lacked transparency or the involvement of a single border-state Democrat or member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, it is no surprise that this border deal misses the mark. The deal includes a new version of a failed Trump-era immigration policy that will cause more chaos at the border, not less. It is in conflict with our international treaties and obligations to provide people with the opportunity to seek asylum. It fails to address the root causes of migration. And it fails to provide relief for Dreamers, farm workers, and the other undocumented long-term residents of our country who contribute billions to our economy, work in essential jobs, and make America stronger.

“When I was sworn into this office, I made a promise that I would fight to fix our outdated immigration system and to create a pathway to citizenship for immigrants who have been forced to live in the shadows of our country for far too long. Not a day has gone by that I have not tried to reach out across the aisle to do exactly that. It is critical that we support our allies in their fight to defend democracy and provide humanitarian relief, but not at the expense of dismantling our asylum system while ultimately failing to alleviate the challenges at our border.”

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Also: 

 

Immigrants Make the Economy Stronger and Richer

Paul Krugman

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/opinion/immigration-republicans-economy.html

 

Border Wars

 

Border Wars

If Democrats hang tough, Republican attempts to sabotage the bipartisan immigration bill may yet backfire on the far right.

On Sunday, after extensive negotiation, a bipartisan group of senators with the support of leaders Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell, released the text of a border bill that makes it significantly harder for migrants to enter the United States. The $118.3 billion bill also includes $60.1 billion in aid to Ukraine, $14.1 billion for Israel, and $10 billion in humanitarian assistance to Gaza, the West Bank, and Ukraine, as well as $20.2 billion for border security.  Trump and Republican House members are determined to deny President Biden a victory, no matter what the costs to resolving the refugee crisis, which has been cynically used by Republican governors such as Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron DeSantis of Florida to flood northern cities with migrants. The measure has been pronounced dead on arrival in the Republican-led House and is far from a sure thing in the Senate, which will seek to take up the bill on Wednesday.  The package makes it far more difficult to claim asylum at the border, expands detention facilities, and effectively closes the border whenever more than 5,000 migrants seek entry in the course of a week. It allows the president to lower that threshold to 4,000, and President Biden says he will use it. Migrants seeking entry would be rapidly processed. The system that critics have derided as “catch and release” of releasing migrants into the U.S. with court dates far into the future would be drastically curtailed. The measure is far more restrictive than anything Democrats have contemplated since the original anti-immigrant law of exactly a century ago. But the border crisis is real, and so is the political and fiscal damage in blue states and cities far from the Mexican border. The bill falls short of more extreme Republican demands to close the border entirely. House Republicans have cynically calculated that continuing to let the crisis fester is far more to their advantage than helping to solve it. If former Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi loses the special election on February 13 to fill the Long Island House seat vacated by George Santos, a key reason will be local anxiety over the flood of migrants. The vote in the Senate, which requires 60 votes, is likely to be close. Some on the Democratic left have denounced the bill as anti-Hispanic as well as anti-humanitarian; other progressives reject unconditional aid to Israel. On the Republican right, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) preposterously termed the measure “an open border bill.” Assuming the bill does pass the Senate, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has said he will refuse even to call it up for a vote. Depending on the outcome of the Long Island election, Republicans will have a majority of either three or four. The only hope for a win in the House is that a Democrat-led discharge petition could peel off a few Republican votes. Regardless of the outcome, Biden needs to get tough in one other respect. Abbott is using the border issue not just to flood northern cities with migrants but to re-start the Civil War.

Despite a clear Supreme Court ruling that the federal government controls the border, Abbott has sent the Texas National Guard and state police to enforce his version of immigration policy, and there have been standoffs between armed Texas forces and outnumbered federal Border Patrol agents. In his latest ploy, Abbott was joined Sunday by 13 Republican governors at the border who backed his stance. Biden needs to federalize the National Guard, add federal agents to the border, and treat Abbott’s move as the insurrection that it is. Despite Abbott’s efforts to revive it, the Civil War is over. His side lost. The compromise bill is not pretty. Much better comprehensive immigration reform was nearly enacted a decade ago but was blocked by far-right Republicans. But the idea that a long-term program of aid to Central America could solve a short-term crisis always was a fantasy. Assuming that the bill does pass the Senate but is blocked in the House, a worsening crisis may eventually backfire on the Republicans. Biden can now say that he was willing to fix the border and support an ally from an invasion by Russia, but was cynically blocked by Trump’s minions who wanted an issue in the elections. Running against the do-nothing Congress worked for Harry Truman. But there is a long-term cost to this. The bargain always was that Democrats would trade border security for a path to citizenship for the 11 million or more undocumented immigrants here now. That was the basic framework of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, a bargain between the Democrats and Ronald Reagan. Now Democrats have said they could trade border security for other priorities, like military aid. The millions of undocumented are the collateral damage.

~ ROBERT KUTTNER

Beyond Democratic Party Politics. 

The provisions of the "compromise" are severe. 

The Republicans have a migration bill. It is HR-2. It passed the House in May with only Republican votes. 

 

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2

 

 

It includes endless negative proposals such as building the wall plus  including the following.

 

DIVISION B--IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS

TITLE I--ASYLUM REFORM AND BORDER PROTECTION

This title imposes additional requirements for asylum eligibility. 

(Sec. 101) This section expands provisions that bar certain individuals from applying for asylum.

Currently, an individual may not apply for asylum if that individual may be removed to a third country (i.e., a country that is not the applicant's country of nationality or last habitual residence) if that third country has (1) a full and fair asylum process that the individual could use, and (2) an agreement with the United States allowing for such removals. This section expands this provision by authorizing removal to third countries that do not have an agreement with the United States.

This section also bars an individual from applying for asylum if the individual traveled through at least one third country before arriving in the United States, with certain exceptions (e.g., the individual applied for and was denied asylum in that third country). 

 

The Speaker of the House Johnson  says  today that these are the minimums to achieve progress on resolving the enforcement at the border. 

Duane Campbell

 

 

First They Came for the Immigrants

 

New post on our blog.

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/first-they-came-for-the-immigrants

First They Came For the Immigrants

Max Elbaum, 

 

Today’s hatemongering reflects a deeply rooted problem: a global “crisis of the right to stay home” due largely to Washington’s role in structuring the world’s economics and politics.

It Is Happening Here

Yes, a large number of migrants are trying to reach the US via crossing the US-Mexico border. But this is not at root a “border crisis.” The underlying problem is that tens of millions of people across the globe face a crisis of their right to stay at home. Migration has been a basic part of the human experience throughout history, and the right to migrate should be defended. But what the world faces today is forced migration, where millions who would prefer to stay in their homelands safely cannot do so:

“The movement of people from country to country, displaced by war, insecurity, and neoliberal economic policies, is enormous and growing… Nothing can stop this global movement, short of a radical reordering of the world’s economy and politics.” —David Bacon, Dignity or Exploitation: What Future for Farmworker Families in the United States, The Oakland Institute, 2021

As of 2020, the number of international migrants—people living outside their home country—was 281 million. This is 3.5% of the global population, compared to 2.8% in 2000 and 2.3% in 1980. And US policies are a big part of the reason for this steady increase: “neoliberal strictures, [US] support for oligarchs, and the War on Drugs have impoverished millions and destabilized Latin America.” Additionally, US militarism and failure to deal decisively with climate change are major contributors to forced migration globally.

Immigration policy in whose interests?

 

https://convergencemag.com/articles/first-they-came-for-the-immigrants/

 

Photo by David Bacon

 

  

The Reality Check: A NEW LIFE FOR MEXICO'S OLDEST UNION

The Reality Check: A NEW LIFE FOR MEXICO'S OLDEST UNION: A NEW LIFE FOR MEXICO'S OLDEST UNION Interview with Humberto Montes de Oca by David Bacon NACLA, Center for Mexican Studies UCLA https:/...

MAGA Republicans Already Have Atrocious Migration Bill

  

The Maga Republicans Already Have a migration bill.

 

The discussion in January is about the Senate Bill.  Maga Republicans see the proposals  as too generous.

 

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/the-maga-republicans-already-have-a-migration-bill

 

The Republicans already  have a migration bill. It is HR-2. 

 

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2

 

But, the Republicans already have a bill passed in the House. HR 2. On May 11, 2023 

This is what the House will start from. 

Introduced in House (05/02/2023) This bill addresses issues regarding immigration and border security, including by imposing limits to asylum eligibility. requires DHS to create an electronic employment eligibility confirmation system modeled after the E-Verify system and requires all employers to use the system. Passed on May 11, 2023. 

 

 

It includes endless negative proposals such as building the wall plus  including the following.

 

DIVISION B--IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS

TITLE I--ASYLUM REFORM AND BORDER PROTECTION

This title imposes additional requirements for asylum eligibility. 

(Sec. 101) This section expands provisions that bar certain individuals from applying for asylum.

Currently, an individual may not apply for asylum if that individual may be removed to a third country (i.e., a country that is not the applicant's country of nationality or last habitual residence) if that third country has (1) a full and fair asylum process that the individual could use, and (2) an agreement with the United States allowing for such removals. This section expands this provision by authorizing removal to third countries that do not have an agreement with the United States.

This section also bars an individual from applying for asylum if the individual traveled through at least one third country before arriving in the United States, with certain exceptions (e.g., the individual applied for and was denied asylum in that third country). 

 

The Speaker of the House Johnson  says  today that these are the minimums to achieve progress on resolving the enforcement at the border. 

 

Border policy

 

Congressman Casar on the border crisis.

 

http://antiracismdsa.blogspot.com/2024/01/policy-on-migrant-crisis.html

 

Lets not be Stupid.

 

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/let-us-not-be-stupid-about-immigration

 

 

 

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/let-us-not-be-stupid-about-immigration

2023 

 

 

2018. Steps toward a labor informed policy on immigration.

 

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/steps-toward-a-labor-informed-position-on-immigration

2018..

 

The U.S. needs to develop new policies about immigration. The Congress has failed to come to a compromise for over 30 years.  In response to the current economic crises in Latin America, Africa, and Asia and the world wide environmental crisis, the migration crises continues to grow.

 

It is not sufficient to develop and repeat slogans. 

 

Here is the resolution written by members of the IMWG, and adopted by the convention. It provides a good start for consideration of the many interactive  issues.

 

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/us-faces-migration-crisis

 

What can we do?  Recommendations from Robert Reich

All good reasons to be outraged. 

But do me a favor right this moment. Take a deep breath and consider what you’re doing with your outrage.

Outrage on its own is exhausting (take this from someone who’s spent the better part of the last 77 years feeling outraged about one thing or another). 

It can also lead to two disempowering states: despair and cynicism. 

I know many who are in despair about the possibility of another Trump presidency. Their despair follows them around during the day and wakes them at night. It is robbing them of most joy in their lives. 

I know others who have sunk into deep cynicism. The system is rotten to the core, they tell themselves. Why even worry about Trump? Nothing can be done in any event. They’ve stopped listening to or reading the news. Why bother?

Maybe you fall into one of these camps. I don’t mean to criticize you. I understand completely. Hell, I’ve been there myself.

But despair and cynicism can be self-fulfilling prophesies. They can stop you from taking political action. As such, they make it more likely that Trump will become president — and that neofascism will prevail. 

Outrage can be a positive force if it fuels activism — if it gets people off their butts to do any number of things that individually don’t seem like much but taken together can have a big impact.

What sort of things? Forgive me if I’ve suggested this before, but for example: 

1. Becoming even more politically active. For some of us, this will mean taking more time out of our normal lives — up to and including getting out the vote in critical swing states. For others, it will mean phone banking, making political contributions, writing letters to editors, and calling friends and relations in key states.

2. Starting now to organize. Even if you cannot take much time out of your normal life for direct politics, you will need to organize, mobilize, and energize your friends, colleagues, and neighbors. A number of effective groups can help you (I’ve added their names and web addresses at the end). 

3. Countering lies with truth. When you hear someone repeating a Trump Republican lie, correct it. This will require that you prepare yourself with facts, logic, analysis, and sources.

4. Not tolerating bigotry and hate. When you come across it, call it out. Stand up to it. Denounce it. Demand that others denounce it, too.

5. Not resorting to name-calling, bullying, intimidation, violence, or any of the other tactics that Trump followers may be using. We cannot save democracy through anti-democratic means

posted by Duane Campbell