Never Give Up, Never Surrender

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toastykitten

As pediatric cancers are very rare, there is often very little research and funding available, leaving many families stranded for support and care. [...] There are a few things that this community is asking support for:

1. Renewal of the Gabriella Miller 2.0 Kids First Research Act - this is the year it sunsets. This act supports funding and data gathering for kids with pediatric cancers and rare diseases.
2. Co-sponsor/support the Give Kids a Chance Act, HR3433, which provides for combinations of new cancer drugs for kids with cancer. This one does not cost taxpayers any money.

Both of these have been supported by both Republicans and Democrats, but there is a lack of awareness, as it's not an easy topic to broach for many people. My House Rep Swalwell, has pledged his commitment. So if you are so inclined, please send a message to your legislators!

These primaries are used by political parties to determine candidates who will run for all partisan offices in their states on the general election ballot on Nov. 6, 2018. These include legislative seats in 46 states along with U.S. senators and representatives, governors and statewide officials.

watersword

Rep. Ted Lieu (D - CA) has introduced a bill to ban conversion therapy (aka abusing queer people to make them not-queer) nationwide: HR.2119 - Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act of 2017. There's a companion bill in the Senate, S.928 - Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act of 2017. People can contact their reps or senators to thank them for co-sponsoring (the list of cosponsors is available at those links), or urge them to vote for the bills if and when they get out of committee.

Ok, I think all you have to do is go online, and get a sense of why this is not great news. Yes, we all think Comey's a wanker who definitely helped influence the election negatively.

With that being said, we're not all outraged right now FOR Comey. I keep seeing people on the left and the right make this mistake. We're outraged over:

1) Why Comey was fired,
2) What it means that POTUS abused his powers like this.
3) Trump flat-out lied in his letter, and is trying to fool the masses.

You: Hi, [my name is] and I’m calling from [zip code].

You: I’m asking [MoC/Senator] to push for a special prosecutor and an independent commission to investigate the Trump Administration.

You: The firing of Director Comey was a clearly a partisan act, based on false reasons. This reinforces the idea that we are in need of non-partisan investigations, urgently.

You: Please support this effort, and do what you can using the Ethics in Government Act. Please do what you can. Thanks. [hang up]

call for an impartial investigation into Russian interference in the US election and ties to Donald Trump, his administration and his associates.