Quick update round up
A lot happened this week.
Trump was formally arrested, (moment of thanks for Stormy Daniels). Trump is already back in Florida as we await the rest of his trial, and I don’t think I can summarize it better than Rachel Maddow so here it is:
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The topic that went to the top of the headlines as events unfolded this week, is the “Tennessee Three”.
On March 30th Justin Jones, Justin Pearson, and Gloria Johnson, showed solidarity with a protest by mostly students, organizing (the only political power they have as many are too young to vote) to demand action on the gun violence after the Covenant School shooting in Nashville. Videos of the peaceful protest quickly went viral on the internet. There was no property damage, the students were all screened by the Tennessee highway patrol, and no one was hurt.
Yet the events were quickly spun as violent and likened to January 6th by right-wing pundits and media outlets. A video went viral on tiktok of a local station playing actual January 6th footage while covering the events at the Tennessee Capitol.
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The Republican super majority-controlled house voted to expel the three members on 4/6/2023.
After hours of demonstrations by multiple generations of people demanding House leadership not expel these members, powerful speeches, and many on TikTok from out of state called in solidarity with the Tennessee Three, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson were expelled from the House of reps, Gloria Johnson was not.
The internet does not skip a beat, the moment the news was announced people mobilized to rally support to re-elect both Justin Jones and Justin Pearson back to their positions in the special election. Here is my video covering what I’ve found:
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In other news:
You may have heard the judge rejected the injunction on the Willow project, the lawsuits are still moving forward. The action I shared with you in the last newsletter is gaining momentum!
The last update I got was over 57,000 emails have been sent, 5,700 calls, and over 32 additional reps signed on! This is fantastic! If you are just now hearing about this call to action it’s not too late to help!
https://act.newmode.net/action/writeforwillow
As always… reminder to check the links!
I am always updating the links and actions and folks are telling me they haven’t been getting my videos pushed to them on tiktok as much recently. This is something we deal with a lot 🥲which is why I am calling on everyone to find me on youtube where we have a magical notification button that tells you the moment I post!
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