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A post-election message from our Chairman

Good morning:

First, thank you to everyone who helped with election day events.  I believe we met all of our goals in supporting our candidates.  We did not drop the ball in the nuts and bolts support of the election process.  There was nothing else we could do, we did not hold anything back.  Thank you!
The fact is that America is in uncharted territory, in countless ways.  History whispers to us but we have no idea what will happen next.
We all have our own choices and decisions to make.  These will be different for everyone.  Don’t judge.
I encourage everyone to take down your yard signs and please pull any signs that you see as you go about your day.  I will work with the sign team to pick up our signs.
Right now I am watching as the media is shifting their reporting to align with this new reality, despite their previous reporting, from as recently as yesterday.  This is frustrating and the ground will shift under our feet over the coming days and months.  Taking responsibility will be replaced with finger pointing. We are going to be disappointed, embarrassed, and shocked for a while as we recalibrate our concept of America.
Again thank you for your support.  Be safe, take care of each other. There will be challenging days ahead.
Sincerely,
Jim

Read this, share it: The Republican plan for dictatorship

PROJECT 2025:  What is it?  Here it is:

TRUMP ALLIES’ 920 PAGE PLAN TO GIVE TRUMP MORE POWER OVER YOUR DAILY LIFE, GUT DEMOCRATIC CHECKS AND BALANCES, AND CONSOLIDATE POWER IN THE OVAL OFFICE.

Project 2025 is the plan by Donald Trump’s MAGA Republican allies to give Trump more power over your daily life, gut democratic checks and balances, and consolidate power in the Oval Office if he wins. Trump’s campaign advisors and close allies wrote it – and are doing everything they can to elect him so he can execute their playbook immediately.

Here is a taste of Trump’s Project 2025:

  • Takes Away Reproductive Freedom Nationwide
  • Uses the Presidency for Revenge on Trump’s Political and Personal Enemies
  • Terminates the Constitution
  • Consolidates Power in the Oval Office
  • Guts Democratic Checks and Balances on Presidential Power
  • Gives Handouts to the Ultra Wealthy Paid for by Working Families
  • And Much, Much, Much More

Where did Project 2025 come from? The highest levels of the MAGA Trump elite wrote Project 2025 as a blueprint for Trump to implement if he wins a second term. This same group of advisors and allies got Trump to adopt most of their agenda in 2017, but this time their Project 2025 agenda is even more extreme and dives into almost every aspect of Americans’ daily life. And they’ll be able to accomplish it by firing civil servants and installing loyalists into the federal government to do their bidding. Fortunately, we have access to it in time to warn America and stop their power grab.

Don’t believe us? Check out the 920-page Project 2025 report on their website and read it in their own words.

“Lift Every Voice and Sing”

On Wednesday, June 19, 2024, we observed the Juneteenth Holiday.

Here is a link to the Wikipedia article about Juneteenth.  The short version is that, at the end of the Civil War, word of the end of the war and of emancipation of enslaved people spread slowly through the US.  The last area to learn of the war’s end and emancipation of enslaved people was Texas where, on June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation at the end of the American Civil War.

Lift Every Voice and Sing

In 1902, American poet James Weldon Johnson was trying to compose an appropriate message to observe Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.  However, Johnson decided to write a poem which was themed around the struggles of African Americans following the Reconstruction era (including the passage of Jim Crow laws in the South). “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was first recited by a group of 500 students in 1900. His brother J. Rosamond Johnson would later set the poem to music.

Here is a link to the hymn being sung by the Spelman College Glee Club.  (There may be a 5-second ad at the link.)

Here is the James Weldon Johnson’s poem, which also is the lyrics to the song.

Lift every voice and sing
Till earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us.
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
Let us march on till victory is won.
Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chastening rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who hast by Thy might
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee,
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee;
Shadowed beneath Thy hand,
May we forever stand.
True to our God,
True to our native land.

 

When the hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing” is performed, it is traditional to stand.  Please do stand in unity with all who stand for the right.