{"id":44127,"date":"2019-12-16T22:42:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T03:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=44127"},"modified":"2019-12-16T22:42:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T03:42:07","slug":"tuesdays-the-day-nobody-is-above-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/tuesdays-the-day-nobody-is-above-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday&#8217;s the Day: Nobody Is Above the Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&#8220;NOW&#8217;S THE TIME. Stop watching the news and getting depressed. Stop asking what you, as just one person, can do. You can do something &#8212; SHOW UP. There are more than 500 impeachment eve events THIS TUESDAY &#8212; find one, bring a friend, and SHOW UP.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ezralevin\/status\/1206237056164409349?s=11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ezra Levin, co-founder of activist network Indivisible<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t hit the streets since the Women&#8217;s March, today is your chance to get some fresh air and meet new friends while saying that NOBODY IS ABOVE THE LAW &#8212; especially the president, because a president who places himself above the law is a dictator. More than 500 Impeach and Remove marches are scheduled all around the country, with most of them starting at 5:30 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impeach.org\/event\/impeach-and-remove-attend\/search\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO LOOK UP YOUR LOCAL ACTION.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t march because you can&#8217;t escape your job or other responsibilities, or you&#8217;re not physically able to? That&#8217;s fine, because I&#8217;ve got other options for you.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SHARE THE MARCH INFO<\/strong>\u00a0by social media and email.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.impeach.org\/event\/impeach-and-remove-attend\/search\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&#8217;s the link<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; all people have to do is enter their zip code to find the closest event.<\/li>\n<li><strong>CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE\u00a0<\/strong>to say you support impeachment and removal. The right-wing constantly floods their elected officials&#8217; office with calls. We progressives need to step it up. Don&#8217;t know your rep? Find them\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.house.gov\/representatives\/find-your-representative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. If you need to find out your representative&#8217;s position on impeachment before calling, click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/impeachmentinquiry.org\/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA0NfvBRCVARIsAO4930niXKqE9YPkYAHQzSbT5JeCNvvnsaExrjaI48pdsZngnZP7DKITvn8aAhx3EALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Call REGARDLESS of their position. If your Democratic rep is already in favor &#8230; great! Call and thank them. If your GOP rep is clearly ready to tear up the Constitution and install a lifetime dictator, call and say that&#8217;s un-American.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;re sure you&#8217;re not going to change this jackass&#8217;s mind. CALL ANYWAY. The number of calls matters.<\/li>\n<li><strong>CAN&#8217;T CALL DURING BUSINESS HOURS?\u00a0<\/strong>I have a plan for that!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/resist.bot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Resistbot\u00a0<\/a>works 24\/7, and enables you write an email to your electeds in less than two minutes. Do it while you&#8217;re on the train, while you&#8217;re walking the dog, while you&#8217;re eating lunch, at 4 a.m., whenever. IT IS ALWAYS THERE!\n<ul>\n<li>By text: Text the word IMPEACH to 50409. Resistbot will tell you where your representative stands and then ask if you want to send a message. Just follow the instructions from there.<\/li>\n<li>You can also use Resistbot via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/resistbot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.messenger.com\/login.php?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.messenger.com%2Ft%2Fresistbot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook Messenger<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/resistbot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telegram<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Note: Resistbot does require an initial set-up that includes entering your address &#8212; that&#8217;s the only way to identify who your elected officials are.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Trump isn&#8217;t invincible. Why do you think so many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/j5yp37\/republican-greg-walden-quits-congressional-retirement-tracker-for-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republican congress members are retiring<\/a>? To spend time with their families? Who really does that? They&#8217;re rats abandoning a sinking ship. Meanwhile,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2019\/12\/judge-orders-purge-of-200-000-voters-in-wisconsin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wisconsin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/dec\/16\/stacey-abrams-georgia-group-files-motion-voter-purge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georgia<\/a> are scrambling to purge as many as half a million people, combined, from voter registration rolls. When you don&#8217;t have the numbers, you cheat. The members of the old (white) boys club are terrified that they&#8217;re losing their power as the U.S. population changes, which is why they&#8217;re trying so hard to subvert the Constitution and cling to their unearned advantages any way they can. All the while, they&#8217;re projecting their fear onto us. Don&#8217;t buy into it.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and if you missed Rep. Eric Salwell&#8217;s summary of Trump&#8217;s impeachable offenses, here you go.<br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wow. This is pretty incredible.<\/p>\n<p>In under 5 short minutes, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepSwalwell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepSwalwell<\/a> lays out the entire &amp; clear case for impeachment in undeniable terms<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ImpeachingHearing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ImpeachingHearing<\/a> <br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eF46Tmwokr\">pic.twitter.com\/eF46Tmwokr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QasimRashid\/status\/1204164336681463808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;NOW&#8217;S THE TIME. Stop watching the news and getting depressed. Stop asking what you, as just one person, can do. You can do something &#8212; SHOW UP. There are more than 500 impeachment eve events THIS TUESDAY &#8212; find one, bring a friend, and SHOW UP.&#8221; &#8211; Ezra Levin, co-founder of activist network Indivisible If&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/tuesdays-the-day-nobody-is-above-the-law\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[669,2092,49,558,557,143],"tags":[2228,2227],"class_list":{"0":"post-44127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-about-wendy","7":"category-activism","8":"category-in-the-news","9":"category-news","10":"category-newspapers","11":"category-politics","12":"tag-impeach-and-remove","13":"tag-nobody-is-above-the-law","14":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44127"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44133,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44127\/revisions\/44133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}