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Watch the movie and then HELP SWING STATES ELECT HARRIS!

Get on board, folks. Phonebanking and more is happening right up to and including November Fifth. SEED THE VOTE is even paying travel/lodging for folks to go to swing states and canvass. I UPDATED THIS LIST 10/29 BASED ON THOSE GROUPS I KNOW CONTINUE TO BE ACTIVE AND NEED VOLUNTEERS.

If you would like to work with a non-profit or other groups that want to elect Harris and are not funded by the Democratic Party, there are many organizations that are working hard to help swing states get Harris elected. Please help, no matter where in the world you live. I welcome you to copy and share this list with others. Thank you.

PHONEBANKING and DONATIONS are the primary options, with some CANVASSING and TEXTING also possible. PHONEBANKING is done without revealing your phone number. I do not know how that works with Texting.

Experts who study these things have seen that such simple actions as personal phone calls or texts to specifically identified voters can and do make a difference. The organizations below are either the experts or are groups that partner with the experts. Some of these organizations promote who to vote for, while others just encourage infrequent voters to vote, knowing that the people they contact typically vote Democratic. All of these groups can benefit from your time and/or your donations (some of which can be tax-deductible).

PHONEBANKING and CANVASSING: The ENVIRONMENTAL VOTER PROJECT identifies millions of non-voting environmentalists and turns them into consistent voters. I have done canvassing and phonebanks with them. https://www.environmentalvoter.org/

PHONEBANKING and TEXTING: THIRD ACT primarily recruits Seniors as volunteers, but all are welcome. https://thirdact.org/

PHONEBANKING and CANVASSING: Programs with ACTIVATE AMERICA have Volunteers contact voters via Phonebanking, and Canvassing. https://www.activateamerica.vote/

PHONEBANKING and CANVASSING: SWING LEFT is coordinating or has information about both: https://swingleft.org/take-action

PHONEBANKING: The PENNSYLVANIA RELIGIOUS ACTION CENTER are phonebanking to get Pennsylvanians voting. https://rac.org/take-action/rac-your-state/rac-pa

PHONEBANKING and CANVASSING: SEED THE VOTE pays travel/lodging to canvass in Swing States and also teams up with organizations like SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE (SURJ) with phonebanking campaigns of volunteers calling voters in Swing States.

https://seedthevote.org/get-involved/#door-knock

https://seedthevote.org/get-involved/#phone-bank

https://www.mobilize.us/surj/event/653094/?utm_source=website_cc

https://surj.org/

TEXTING and PHONEBANKING: VOTERIDERS is currently mobilizing folks to phonebank and textbank.

https://www.mobilize.us/voteriders/event/673365/

https://www.mobilize.us/voteriders/event/697271/

https://www.voteriders.org/

PHONEBANKING: VOTE SAVE AMERICA is a clearinghouse of opportunities to phonebank with various organizations.

https://www.mobilize.us/west/?is_high_priority=true&utm_source=&source=&refcode=

https://www.mobilize.us/east/?is_high_priority=true&utm_source=&source=&refcode=

TEXTING and PHONEBANKING: KEEP ARIZONA BLUE mobilizes young voters in Arizona to elect Democrats. https://www.keepazblue.org/volunteer

PHONEBANKING: CALLS FOR CLIMATE is phonebanking to elect climate champions.

https://www.callsforclimate.com/make-calls/

https://www.mobilize.us/climatehawksvote/event/668120/

PHONEBANKING: The CENTER FOR COMMON GROUND is a grassroots, primarily volunteer-run campaign that focuses on increasing BIPOC voter turnout. https://www.centerforcommonground.org/reclaim-our-vote

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Good for you Roy! As long as there are people like you there is hope!

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I love all of Mike:s films...I wish he had a permanent cabinet position, a position called " Head of Films for Elimination of Lies"

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THANK YOU, Michael

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In an earlier posting, you referred to Trump as being “Burnt toast”, to which I commented that Trumpolini and Vanceypants were “Burnt Toast and A Rotten Egg.”

The phrase was a memory from my childhood of The Three Stooges. It was a recurring joke:

“Why would you order burnt toast and a rotten egg?”

“Because I got a tape worm, and it’s good enough for him.”

Nyuk nyuk nyuk.

That’s why soooo many people are voting for dat bum.

They’ve given up on American politics, so they want it all to come crashing down. He will do that

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A topic for discussion tonight, perchance? 🤔

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Thank you for your generosity!

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My Dearest, Dearest Michael,😘

Thankyou again for your commitment to " a better world" etc...over the last 30 years, unstoppably you have said out loud what we less outspoken masses think but can not articulate. 🤗 bravo.

You have done it again....thankyou so much for the film...I am on the other side of the planet but managed to see it FREE.

Of course I have seen it before....paid for...but it is like a book you read when you are 16 years old...at 30-40-50-60-70 and 80 years old it has a whole other significants as you get older....Bravo Michael.

However....there is something that never changes....and my dearest Michael I really don't know if it can be changed this time round..

As you know I am an International Tour Manager ( in tourism ) and have travelled the world. My observations show me that the male species dominates......whether it be in cultural or religious aspects of every day life.

For many years I have travelled and worked in Asia, the Orient, middle east and North Africa. There is no doubt that the vast majority of these women are dominated by the desires of their men folk.

Even in the relgious cults, as in Christianity untill recently , men and women were separated. My visit to the Hebrew " chapel " in Florence a couple of weeks ago brought this home to me.

How on earth is today's America going to win with a woman candidate and a woman's agenda when millions of poor asilem seakers and climatic refugees have already been indoctrinated from an early age in their countries of birth that the male dominates.

I my self was victim to this by marrying a French man of Greek origine who had been educated in France!

Never the less....Michael keep at it. You are my hero.....ARTE...a Dual French /German channel did a whole program on FLINT....I think I heard your name mentioned....We are all behind you Michael and your superb initiatives.

Please keep well and strong for us 😘

Clara from Cosica.

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Michael!

I watched the whole thing and I am crying hard!

You are the BEST! You really get “It”!

We go back a long way and I find you one of the most authentic of persons, in this inauthentic world!

All I can say is Thank you for speaking for me with a larger voice than my lonely one!

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Mr. Moore,

Bill Clinton was in your home state of Michigan today and regurgitated the Israeli talking point that Hamas is using human shields and therefore Israel has every right to kill civilians. Any comment?

The Republicans and Democrats are using your tax dollars to fund, arm, and provide political cover for genocide—the worst crime known to man. To add insult to injury, these heinous war criminals say that they support Israel’s right to defend itself—like slaughtering thousands of innocent children could ever be considered self-defense. If this is not cause enough to withdraw your support for these two corrupt political parties—what the hell would be?

What if I told you that I could prove the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties have been conspiring together to subvert the rule of law? You know, conspiring together to strip away everyone’s constitutional rights--including yours. Would proof of treason be enough of a reason to withdraw your support from these two bought and paid for political parties? Well, I have that proof. I put it in a book. All you have to do is read it. (There is a link for a free digital copy in this post.)

My name is Ted Martin. I have finished writing a book about my first hand encounters with a morbidly corrupt federal judicial system. The book is titled: The Illusion of Justice and contains documented, incontrovertible proof of widespread systemic corruption in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Supreme Court, the Administrative Office of United States Courts, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the U.S. Department of Justice.

The Supreme Court not only ignored two of the most egregious cases of judicial misconduct imaginable (my cases) but also an amicus brief by former Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner in which he blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

Judge Posner’s amicus brief is posted on the Supreme Court’s website at www.supremecourt.gov and can be accessed by typing in the following case number: Martin v. Living Essentials (Case No. 17-8352)

It will be painfully obvious to anyone who reads my book (or Judges Posner’s amicus brief) that the Supreme Court denies certiorari without even bothering to read the petitions submitted by the citizens of the United States. This obscene betrayal of the public trust is a clear-cut violation of every Justice’s judicial oath and a crime under federal law that is commonly referred to as honest services fraud.

In short, my book proves that the leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties have been conspiring together to pack the courts with corrupt corporate judges who will never side with the American people. This was abundantly clear when Senator Chuck Schumer and the other Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee repeatedly refused to use irrefutable evidence of judicial misconduct by Amy Coney Barrett (a Republican nominee) at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing.

This bipartisan band of seditious conspirators also refused to address the underlying corruption in clear violation of their oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

The only difference between the two major political parties is the rhetoric. The special interest groups running this country don’t give a damn which bribe taking stooge you vote for or even if you vote at all. They have already successfully rigged every election by controlling “our” choices.

The leaders of both the Republican and Democratic parties have been caught red-handed conspiring to pack the courts with corrupt judges who will never side with you. If there was ever a reason to be a one issue voter, this is it. Besides, any politician caught lying about their fidelity to the Constitution and laws of the United States is obviously lying about everything—particularly their agenda.

Republicans push the corrupt corporate agenda. Democrats pretend to be opposed. Together, they sell their offices to the highest bidders. They foment war for the military industrial complex, promote racism for the prison industrial complex, refuse to restrict access to assault weapons for the gun manufactures, permit large quantities of toxic cancer causing chemicals to be dumped into our air, land, and water for the chemical manufactures, deny needed medical care to our country’s citizens for the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries, and turn a willful blind eye to the catastrophic effects of global warming for the fossil fuel industries. The list of their greed fueled crimes against humanity goes on and on.

Voting your current elected representatives out of office should be a no brainer. But, to make sure that they are not replaced with another batch of equally corrupt corporate stooges, we’re also going to have to take back both the Republican and Democratic parties and get the money out of politics.

While this may appear to be a daunting task, all we really need is a sound plan. After giving this matter some careful consideration, I have the following proposal: We agree to put aside all of our ideological differences and unite as Americans in support of the Constitution of the United States.

If you read my book, it really won’t be that difficult. You will know who the real enemy is and it certainly isn’t your fellow citizens. We just need to become one issue voters. Ignore their contrived wedge issues, bullshit talking points, and cringe worthy campaign ads. If they are not fighting tooth and nail to get the money out of politics—don’t legitimize them with your vote.

Seriously, if in doubt—throw them out. Besides, any government official who is not forcefully calling for the resignations of the corrupt leaders of their own political party is, by definition, violating their oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

Whether Republican or Democrat, a treasonous corporate criminal is a treasonous corporate criminal, they serve the same master and nothing is going to change until we get the money out of politics.

*You get the money out of politics by publicly funding elections, banning all campaign contributions, and, in exchange for their broadcasting/operating licenses, requiring news organizations to give every candidate for public office an equal amount of free advertising space.

In the future, I may write a book titled: The Illusion of Journalism. But for now, I’m just going to say that the media is not going to help anyone blow the whistle on their partners in crime. In the past four years, I couldn’t find a single news organization that hadn’t sold us out.

All an honest journalist would have to do is read Judge Posner’s amicus brief to know that the courts are irretrievably corrupt. Reading my book will conclusively show that the courts are corrupt by design.

If you want a government that actually acts in your best interests, I urge you and everyone you know to read my book as soon as possible. You can get a digital copy of my book free of charge at the link below: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_vaMH1riLodzOfQn0kI7ow0RDrPM0NqE/view?usp=sharing

P.S. I blame the Federalist Society for the corruption in the federal judicial system. The six so-called conservative justices on the Supreme Court, Mitch McConnell, and all the Republican Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee are members of the Federalist Society. Donald Trump picked “his” judicial nominees from lists provided by the Federalist Society.

I didn’t know that the Democrats were in on it until I tried to give them proof of judicial misconduct by Amy Coney Barrett at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing. If you would like to read about their reprehensible conduct, you can skip ahead to the Postscript on page 221 of my book. But, for goodness sake, read the rest of the book. The courts are more corrupt than you can possibly imagine!

The judges in both of my cases incorporated the defendant’s fraudulent defenses into their opinions even after I pointed out the fraud in every brief that I filed. These “judges” are clearly taking dictation from corporate defense counsel without even reading the plaintiff’s briefs. These black robed grifters obviously fixed both of my cases. But, by far, the worst part of the whole ordeal was knowing that they were systematically violating everyone’s constitutional rights—they just got caught violating mine.

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Words of wisdom now? All a friend of mine could write was, "the horror!" We must fight this.

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Thanks Michael! We love you!!

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This film is so disturbingly brilliant, so urgent, so important. I can hardly wrap my head around all the thoughts and feelings that are swirling around at the moment. Thank you.

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Thank you for this. Very upsetting and enlightening to watch.

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Thank you so much for streaming the movie. I saw it when it first appeared. Seen again, it couldn't be more to the point and it pulls a mighty punch. Thank you again. It's a brilliant summing up of the issues of our time. I particularly liked the point from the Yale history professor that we weren't a democracy until everybody had the vote. And now, with the supreme court approving the dumping of thousands of votes in WVA we're back at the beginning again, living in a minus democracy state.

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I tried to rewatch it but I couldn't it is just too painful to go back there. I just remember when Trump was in office waking up everyday afraid to turn on the news to seewhat craziness would await. He leaves nothing but destruction wherever he goes.

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thanks Mike,,,, can I add something that might get a vote and its aint deport trump

VoteVets

“Let's put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels shooting at her. Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.”

-Donald Trump on Liz Cheney

Frankly, Kevin, we’re sick of this.

Captain Bone Spurs dodged the draft. Sent someone else’s son to fight in his place.

He spent his entire term as president warmongering, driving us to the brink of conflict, undermining our national security, making every American less safe — all while attacking the dignity and honor of the Military, of the wounded, of the fallen.

He’s called us “the enemy from within.” He’s called us vermin. He’s promised to send the Military after us if he gets back in power.

He has threatened Liz Cheney with a Military tribunal for the crime of standing up to Donald Trump and rejecting her party as it fell in line behind his fascist aims.

Now, he thinks he’s brave. He thinks he’s tough, calling for Liz Cheney to face a firing squad.

Let’s see how tough he is when he’s locked out of the White House for good, and finally has to face the consequences for his actions.

and my own

Harris , better, not bitter.

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Michael, I would love for you to read my blogs on this forum. Just this once. I won't ask again, but I would love to know your reaction.

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