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Make sure you're registered to vote in the January 5 runoff elections! The deadline is Monday, December 7!

Both of your U.S. Senate seats are up for election. It will decide your full representation in the U.S. Senate and will decide whether or not Republicans maintain their Senate majority and continual obstruction.

Please register if you haven't, check your registration if you have, and ask 3 friends to do the same. #RegisterToVote https://www.mvp.sos.ga.gov/MVP/mvp.do

1. Too many people don't get the connection between SOCIAL Security, Medicare, highways, dams, airports, roads, fire departments (things that they like) and the social democracy that it takes to run those programs.

2. The republican party has turned into a cult. Hysteria is the theme and socialism is one of the dog whistle buzzwords.

Why Republicans are resorting to anti-socialism hysteria - conservatives will say anything to justify backing a racist, loony president:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/03/why-republicans-are-resorting-anti-socialism-hysteria/

Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon on what kind of #COVID19 stimulus each party wants:

Democrats (House): restaurant relief for small businesses like your corner bistro or neighborhood pizza place

Republicans (Senate): tax breaks for two-martini lunches

Republicans encourage client lunches in a pandemic?! In my city, you can only dine outdoors right now and only with your own household. Bring the relief to keep our restaurants afloat until people are vaccinated!

The vast majority of EMT and first responders come from local governments.

They are unsung heroes of this pandemic battle. They are the front line and they risk themselves and their families to serve all of us. These are workers that Mitch McConnell and other Republicans don't want to include in the next relief bill.

Call your Senators and tell them to include state and local governments in the next plan.

Pandemic is pushing America’s 911 system to ‘breaking point,’ -
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/12/03/911-ambulance-services-breaking-point/

It's been said before but I'm going to say it again.

Jobs like the one the man on this article lost would be much more available and his industry futher along in the state of recovery if-

1. We'd have had a President who cared about addressing a pandemic.

2. Republicans wouldn't have sat on a 2nd relief package for so long.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/12/04/jobs-near-me-chronic-unemployment-stigma-even-during-pandemic/3804962001/