Tell Your Senators to VOTE NO on the Budget Bill NOW

And a rundown of upcoming events

According to

Jess Craven

, Senate Republicans are determined to vote on the MAGA Murder Budget as early as tomorrow (Wednesday.)

Please call your senators and tell them to VOTE NO.

Tell every American you know to call their senators and tell them to VOTE NO.

Here’s a link to 5calls.org. Jess has a script in her video.

And here’s the non-partisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ take on this bill: GO HERE.

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Tomorrow, I’ll be

Lincoln Square Media

at 9am eastern.

Lisa Senecal

and I will have our weekly Substack LIVE discussion about Project 2025, Christian Nationalism, and how both relate to current events.

JOIN US!

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Friday, 27 June 2025, NOON eastern. Substack LIVE with progressive communications expert

Anat Shenker-Osorio

.

Want to learn how terms like “MAGA Murder Budget” come into play? Shenker-Osorio is the master of these hard-hitting talking points. We’ll discuss why everyone who opposes Republican fascism should use more of them.

This conversation is an added benefit for Paid Subscribers.

Anat Shenker-Osorio

PRINCIPAL & FOUNDER

Host of the Words to Win By podcast and Principal of ASO Communications, Anat Shenker-Osorio examines why certain messages falter where others deliver. She has led research for new messaging on issues ranging from freedom to join together in union to clean energy and from immigrant rights to reforming criminal justice. Anat’s original approach through priming experiments, task-based testing and online dial surveys has led to progressive electoral and policy victories across the globe. Anat delivers her findings packed in snark at venues such as the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Centre for Australian Progress, Irish Migrant Centre, Open Society Foundations, Ford Foundation and LUSH International. Her writing and research is profiled in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Boston Globe, Salon, The Guardian and Grist among others. She is the author of Don’t Buy It: The Trouble with Talking Nonsense About the Economy.

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Monday, 30 June 2025, NOON eastern. Democracy Reading Group Substack LIVE discussion with Amanda Tyler.

Tyler is executive director of BJC (Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty) and author of our June democracy read How to End Christian Nationalism.

Every day, Tyler and her team work to help more Christians understand why speaking out against Christian Nationalism is so important. She is the lead organizer of the Christians Against Christian Nationalism campaign.

Get your copy of the book HERE, and please join us for this important discussion for Paid Subscribers. (Tyler’s honorarium will support the work of the BJC.)

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As usual, these LIVE events will be recorded for those who couldn’t make it at the scheduled time.

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