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  • YOU SUCCEED IF YOU UNITE TO ORGANIZE MIDDLE-CLASS VOTERS FOR HIGHER WAGES.

  • WE LOST MIDDLE-CLASS VOTERS TO TRUMP BECAUSE OF INCOME STAGNATION.

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Friend,

I first want to thank you wholeheartedly for your support throughout the years and especially for this last year. You elected seven new progressive Democrats in the House and two in the Senate. You are on the way to take seven Congressional seats in Pennsylvania as a result of our redistricting plans. You are also on the way to take back the legislature in Pennsylvania in two years as a result of our legislative redistricting plan there. Now it is time for you to move ahead and take our country back from the Republican Party and Donald Trump, the conman and false prophet, and his henchmen. Please donate here at today so we can continue our work to attain our shared goals.

 

Trump and the Republicans will lose the next election badly if you join our new campaign and help band people together in the country. Trump is by far the most unpopular president in history and his many proposed policies will further harm most in our country. We must renew the fight for women's rights, for gay right's, for minority right's, equal justice under the law, for the environment, for stopping global warming and all other important liberal issues you support. Let us protest and organize or the Republicans and Donald Trump will destroy our economy and our country. He will nominate a right- wing extremist to the Supreme Court and do away with Roe v. Wade and gay marriage.

 

Trump's first proposal is to get rid of Obamacare. This is an enormous tax cut for the billionaire class that pays taxes so 30 million people who could not afford decent insurance and medical care now have it. Wall Street is happy because now they will be able to invest the extra billions from the billionaire class.

 

The majority of women voted for Donald Trump. Almost two -thirds of middle-class women voted for Donald Trump. Their number one issue was the economy and they were frustrated with economic inequality and 36 years of stagnant or declining wages for middle-`class earners. We must demonstrate to him that we demand our rights and will not sit back when he takes away our hard fought liberties.

 

Our planet and the environment are at risk. His new EPA head does not believe in global warming. He has made his career suing the EPA, claiming it does not have the right to regulate to inhibit global warming. In addition, the nominee for Secretary of the Interior is poised to destroy federal lands, with extraction of coal, oil and other minerals. He feels it is his mission, to give out oil and mining rights to the extraction industry. He owns a consulting company his wife and family run which specializes in advising how to get extraction rights from government lands. In addition, he sits on the board of the very pipeline many of you protested for ignoring minority rights and for destroying the environment.

 

Please join our campaign for a rebirth of the Democratic Party from the ashes of the Trump disaster.

 

 

First, we must reform the vision of the Democratic Party to focus on increased wages for everyone. It is now clear from the polling results that Democrats lost a strong majority in the middle-class comprising 76% of voters. They tied among the wealthy comprising 7% of the country. And last, they did extremely well among the bottom income group comprising 17% of the country.

 

Losing the middle-class is a disgrace. We are the party of the people. The Republicans are the party of the wealthy. However in this election we became just as much a party of the wealthy as the Republicans. The Democratic Party now serves the top 7% as well as Republicans. In addition, Democrats serve the bottom 17% of people offering programs to help them advance. What we fail to do is to uphold economic justice for the 76% who have faced stagnant wages for 36 years. The enormous gains in productivity this segment has produced has resulted in only vast corporate profits which have flowed to a billionaire class. The billionaire class has increased their wealth by over 400% during the same time frame.

 

An economy is made by people; it is not made by God or nature. As such, it can be changed by

people. Economic injustice can be corrected. All other forms of injustice flow from this. People who voted for Donald Trump have put aside the environment, women's rights, gay rights, racial injustice and other social policies until this is solved. We have the worst economic inequality since 1910. The middle-class's top three voting concerns were economic.

 

Many people have concluded that Trump's voters' concerns about immigration was racist. However, if you delve into the data that is not true. First, the reason the middle-class is concerned is because they feel new immigrants are taking their jobs and depressing their wages. If their wages were rapidly increasing they would not have much concern. Also, the African-American vote increased for Trump by 8% and the Hispanic vote by 10%. These increases occurred among middle-income minority voters with the same issues as other middle-income voters. Democrats not only lost white, middle-income voters but many African-American, and Hispanic middle-income voters. Ironically, if Democratic programs to help the poor rise to the middle-class, these voters are likely to become more Republican if they believe the Republican Party will then meet their economic concerns better.

 

The myth is that only blue-collar wages are down. This is not true. Blue-collar workers were the first effected. The incomes of physicians, lawyers and other professionals are also down. Every person who works or worked for a living is feeling the pain of stagnant or declining wages as the billionaire class gets richer. A fast growing economy will not solve the economic problems if our institutions are designed to push all the income increases to the billionaire class.

 

For example, the billionaire class pays a lower percent of their income in taxes than the middle-class pays. These are institutional problems created by our laws which were designed by people. With Republicans in control, these laws will get much worse, not better. Recently we saw little happen with gridlock in Congress. Candidates who blatantly lied continually “gaslighted” us. Now we must focus on putting this 76% first, the middle-class and working people of the country. Much of the Democratic leadership had narrowed its focus to the upper 7% of income people in the professional segment, namely those having graduate degrees who make more than $100,000 per year, while blaming the middle for not getting a graduate degree. Obviously, if we have a hundred million brain surgeons, brain surgeons would make minimum wage. Blaming the victims of stagnant or declining wages produced by the billionaire class who are capturing all gains in productivity through an economy designed to increase their income and wealth does not and will not improve the condition of the middle-class.

 

There should and must be middle-income people who do other jobs, work hard and intelligently to produce goods and services who are well trained and educated, many with college degrees. Their wages should be higher. This top heavy economy was created by people and people like you and I can change it. It is presently designed to subsidize billionaires, billionaires like Trump who probably paid no taxes for at least 18 years and perhaps in his lifetime. Nature or God did not create our current economic system. People did and other people can change it. Stagnant wages for the middle-class for 36 years and the greatest economic inequality since 1910 is wrong and unjust. But you and I are here not only to protest it but to act now to change it.

 

Second, you need to help us organize. We are now starting on the ground, going door-to-door leading to nationwide rallies espousing our positive mission and vision for the future, higher growth mainly going to much higher wages built into the economic system. Your funds are being used to organize and support volunteers we have eager to work for the vision. We have seen this work for both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. It works because middle-class and working-class people have been ignored by the Democratic centrists and so most turned to Donald Trump for hope. They need true hope and results not just the false hope peddled by conman Donald Trump.

 

We know digital works because Donald Trump's Tweets and Bernie Sanders' email and digital campaign worked. Bernie Sanders raised about $250 million from over six million donors. If we raised that much we could reform the Democratic Party as I am outlining, from the bottom up, not the top down. With your support, we project we will be friending millions of people online this year with our digital campaign.

 

Finally, we offer a new, extremely innovative high tech app that will meet the online organizing needs of all progressive Democrats. It will be in a fast, efficient and easy to use format for busy people. This will offer a quick and easy way for everyone to find out objective information and connect with like-minded people. It also allows activists to back the organizations and the candidates standing-up for your issues and priorities. Anyone will be able to donate any amount for any political group, person and issue one chooses to support through this new APP.

 

Please contribute here now and we will be able to knock on more doors, set up rallies next month and finish a first prototype of our app in two weeks. Anyone will be able to donate any amount for any political group or for any issue with our new app. We can then also begin our intense digital campaign in the next month and build up our ground organization.

 

 

Thank you very much for helping the reform of the Democratic Party to serve ail of the people and organize everyone to get back to a progressive party we all know and respect. We will keep you up to date on the progress we make.

Sincerely yours,

 

 

Thomas A Cramer, President

 

 

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Trump's election, along with the failure of Democrats to take back control of the Senate, by organizing extremists who blame new immigrants and brown people for their economic problems, has put many people's security at risk. This situation is so dire that we cannot quit in disgust and despair! You want your vision of a progressive America to become reality? We have to continue to organize and educate voters. We are continuing this effort with the development of an innovative new app to educate voters on candidates and progressive issues which you can read about in our newsletter. I need your support to succeed. Please help us to turn back this Trump movement and continue our fight to create a positive progressive populist movement. Please contribute now so we can continue these efforts.

 

This does not just affect immigrants who have come here without so-called legal status, but those who rely on Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, Obamacare, student grants and loans, public schools, women who rely on Planned Parenthood for health care, any woman who will need or want birth control or abortion services, the LGBTQ community, African Americans, Muslims, Hispanics, working middle-class and poor people, and anyone who will need the protection of the Supreme Court. Have I missed anyone? Probably, so many of us are in danger now; these are our family members, friends, neighbors . . . this is ALL of us.

 

Key to our voter education effort is a new innovative solution, a comprehensive political app anyone can use to get almost instantaneous information about any candidate’s stand on any issue. You can also get an instantaneous candidate's rating on about 25 progressive issues and an overall rating on progressive values.

 

Personally, my family's safety is at risk. Here is what happened to my family after the election. My son lives in Philadelphia to help the redistricting campaign in Pennsylvania. After the election of Trump there were several violent occurrences from Trump supporters against brown people. People of brown color were attacked and threatened. Trump inspired gangs were attacking and beating up people at random. My son is terrified for his daughters and his wife because they are brown Cambodian Americans, sometimes mistaken for Hispanics. He is now getting American passports for his two daughters that are American citizens in case they have to leave the country. My six-year-old, my nine month old granddaughters and my daughter-in-law are at risk. These violent extremists are who Trump has provoked and brought out of the woodwork.

 

I am going to do everything in my power to protect my young grandchildren and my family from these Trump provoked violent gun-toting extremists. Trump has already put my family in danger. It is just going to get worse. The violent acts we have seen after the election are taking place all over the country, and I have even seen reports of these acts near where I live.

 

Donald Trump ran on a campaign slogan to "Make America Great Again", on policies to bring back manufacturing jobs, to deport immigrants who were committing crimes and taking our jobs, to refuse to let in New immigrants. Generally scapegoating immigrants and foreigners. There was a guy who ran on the same slogan before. His was "Make Germany Great Again". His policies were to bring back manufacturing jobs, to get rid of new immigrants that are taking our jobs. To refuse to let in New immigrants, and to force better deals on trading partners taking advantage of them. This leader was Adolf Hitler. We have to stop history from repeating itself. I never thought this could happen in America.

 

I want to thank you for your continued generous support. It got a lot of good strong justice-seeking liberal progressive populist's in office. We took two Senate and five Congressional seats from Republicans. We need to do much more. This is the first time since 1929 that Republicans controlled the Presidency, the House, the Senate and the Supreme Court. After this election, the Great Depression happened. Trump is a con man that got into office by manipulating susceptible people through scapegoating minorities, immigrants and foreigners and outright lying. He will certainly lead us into another Great Depression by corrupting our economy.

 

We have volunteers asking us for help and what to do. We will organize, train them, schedule and get them to meet with new and potential voters. We will rally people to oppose Trump's policies and administration. Your help is urgently needed. Please donate here now.

 

Thank you for your continued support for fighting for a progressive America.

 

Sincerely,

 

 

 

 

Thomas A Cramer

President 

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Dear Friend,

 

The Senate majority is almost secured and the House is up for grabs. You can help us take back both with your support now with your donation. The digital campaign during the last week before the election will decide whether we take the House and the Senate. During that last week 10% of voters in this election will make their final decision. Over 90% of this group get their voting information solely from digital sources; meaning not from TV, radio, and print media. Your help for our digital campaign targeted at voters for our specific candidates will make a big difference. The following paragraphs examine some of my personal reasons why I want a progressive agenda in this country. Please read and let me know your own reasons.

 

I found out recently my six year-old granddaughter is worried about Donald Trump. My son, her father, met a Cambodian teacher whom he married while in Cambodia. My granddaughter, Naomi, was born about a year later and my son legally conveyed American citizenship. Although she is a legal U.S. citizen, she is worried that Donald Trump, if elected, would arrest her mother and send her back to Cambodia. She received a Hillary Clinton T-shirt so she could show her support for Hillary as she wants a “girl president”. She wore that shirt repeatedly for about two weeks until it needed to be washed.

 

 

Real children hear the radical things Donald Trump and the Republicans are saying. The naturalized citizens in many immigrant communities, not just Hispanic communities, are registering in record numbers. They are terrified Trump will deport them, their family members, and friends, even though they are legal residents and U.S. citizens.

 

You and I have the responsibility to stop Trump's ambitions and the Republicans who have supported him. This election is not only about Donald Trump, but the Republicans who have incited people to hate foreigners for supposedly stealing our jobs, our safety and our security. The Republicans have used this tactic for several election cycles, in order to attract racist and xenophobic voters who feel they have been left behind by a progressive society and lost their entitlement to power. What Donald Trump did was to recognize these attitudes and capitalize on it. He only moved it further to the right to get the Republican nomination.

 

We fight back by taking not only the Presidency but the Senate, the House and the Supreme Court. By Democrats retaking the Senate, the President's nominations to the court will be approved. Currently about 100 federal judge positions are vacant because Republicans have refused to move presidential nominations forward. By taking the Presidency and the Senate we control the makeup of the Supreme Court and policy in the country for the next forty-six years as President Richard Nixon did. As Trump is losing so big now, the majority in the US House of Representatives can be won by Democrats. An election of Hillary Clinton by 13% would pull in a lot of marginally behind candidates to win Congressional districts. If we progressive Democrats win all four factions of government then this could be the most progressive government in the history of the United States. The reason being we have very few of those southern racist sexist homophobic elitist democrats that the administrations of FDR, Truman and later Kennedy/Johnson had to contend with in the Democratic party. Hence this could be a progressive Democratic party like we have never seen before.

 

I wanted to relate to you why I got into this 20 year journey as an activist in progressive politics. It started because of my father and what happened to my family in the sixties. Before 1959 my father worked six days a week ten hours a day as a union janitor while also working part-time doing home repairs and maintenance. I rarely saw him. My family was scrapping by without a house or a car and my father received little respect and dignity from neighbors and peers. When John F Kennedy was elected and Johnson later took over, our lives radically changed. My father's union became strong. My father got a big raise, a forty hour work week, and a long paid vacation. We got a house, and a car, I got to go to college, and my father received respect and dignity for the hard work he did. We joined the middle class and we saw a bright future ahead. I want the same thing for everyone and every family that works hard.

 

Right now we have the worst economic inequality since 1910. The middle class is disintegrating. The average family has seen little increase in real wages since the 1980s. Ronald Reagan gave a huge tax cut to the wealthy to stimulate the economy. It never happened for the middle class. What happened was he cut just programs for poor and middle class people which resulted in a permanent homeless class and stagnation in family incomes. Economic inequality has increased ever since then, while the number of billionaires has skyrocketed. Billionaires no longer pay their fair share while the tax burden on the middle class has increased.

 

This has created several injustices and anger in our society. First of all a rising resentment of government. A declining confidence in all our institutions. A rise in racism. A rise in resentment against racial, ethnic and immigrant communities. A rise in class distinctions such as seen in Donald Trump's campaign. He thinks because he is a billionaire he can get away with murder and still have millions of supporters. In addition, we now have a distinct celebrity class which only interacts with each other.

 

Our mission is to take back Congress with real Democrats. We have a good opportunity now because Trump has openly demonstrated his greedy selfish character while embracing racism, sexism, xenophobia and economic elitism. Hillary Clinton is going to win by at least 13% and we have the opportunity to take back the Senate and the House with true progressive Democrats and create a Supreme Court which can uphold progressive policies for the next forty years.

 

This is a rare opportunity. The last week before the election is critical. About 10% of voters will make their final decision then. In the last presidential election in 2012, the Libertarian Gary Johnson and the Green Party candidate had 14% of the vote the day after Labor Day. By October 17th their ratings had dropped to 10%. After the votes were counted, together they received 1% of the vote. The pattern for this year's election is the same.

 

Ten percent of the voters will decide the last week before the elections and determine whether we get back the Senate and the House. The presidency is in little doubt now. You can still determine the outcome of Congress with your generous support now, online here. Our last aggressive digital campaign will determine whether we get back the Senate, the House and determine the Supreme Court and public policy for the next forty years. You can make this change possible. I thank you for any support you can offer.

 

Sincerely,

 

 

 

 

Thomas A Cramer

President

 

 

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Is public education in danger?  What kind of damage has the education system sustained under the hand of Betsy Devos?  What ABOUT charter schools?  Let’s take a look…

 

Public schools are exactly that, funded by and for the public using funds allotted by the state.  Public schools accept anyone.  They don’t discriminate.  They don’t charge a student to attend.  They are standardized and most all are unionized or have associations.  24% of charter schools close due to mismanagement. Charter schools are often run by for profit organizations, are not unionized, and do not adhere to the standards set by the state but by that particular charter.  Also the teachers in a charter school do not have to be certified as they do in public schools so you have to put your trust in whom the charter members choose to hire to teach your children.  In addition, charter schools favor more affluent families who can afford to transport their children to successful charters.  

 

Devos comes from a homeschooled background.  She doesn’t have much if any experience with the public school system and so therefore has no business deciding what is best for public schools.  Everything she says and does somehow comes back to non traditional schooling methods.  There is only so much money allotted and if students are to get ahead the voucher system is NOT the way to do this.  Funding for vouchers takes money away from public schools and places it in charter/private schools where parents must make up the difference.  This erodes the quality of public schools.

 

Devos does not care for our students.  She is looking to take money away from public schools as she is the charter/private/homeschool champion.  She is stripping away students civil rights protections.   DeVos rescinded 72 guidance documents that protect students with disabilities not to mention the rights of LGBTQ students and persons of color.

 

Education is important in sustaining America and keeping our nation strong and viable.  Devaluing education and turning it into a political pawn is a disservice to all Americans.  We need to improve our education system by providing more funding, creating standardization that makes sense, and providing equal educational opportunities for all.


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