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Founded in 1964, Democrats Abroad now has members in 196 countries and 53 country committees around the world, and we vote. If you're looking for the official source of information about the Democratic Party Countries Abroad, please visit our homepage at http://www.democratsabroad.org/join

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A Mother, Separated from Her Children at the Border, Comes Home

This heart wrenching story of a mother separated from her children at the US-Mexican border is well worth reading to see what needs to change.Everything won''t happen right away but we have to make sure it will. https://bit.ly/3f0voes

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Bangladesh zoo names tiger cub after Joe Biden | DW | 07.05.2021

https://bit.ly/3uHwceV Weekend's off to a good start. And Bangladesh, too, at tackling climate change!

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‘Decades ahead of his time’: history catches up with visionary Jimmy Carter

https://bit.ly/3vM9y5c While the world's press, oddly, is having fun with photos from the Bidens'visit to Plains, GA, and pondering over the camer angle and why they didn't wear masks, British newspaper The Guardian has published an excellent story on Jimmy Carter, whom it sees not as just as a one-term president but a visionary ahead of his time. Food for thought.

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State Voting Bills Tracker 2021

A good overview of a bad situaton and a ready reference tool when gearing up to call your senators and representatives or argue with Republican friends. There must be 50 ways (or more) to suppress voting. Let's try to get rid of them all. https://bit.ly/3gUXRoy

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Jill Biden lets cat out of the bag: White House dogs to have new feline friend

https://bit.ly/2SlnSD9 Just for fun Sunday. We're about to get a First Feline at the White House. Major is already being trained to cope with cats. Of course, it won't be the first feline altogether. According to legend, the first belonged to Abe Lincoln, though no photos seem to exist. The cat in the photo here (who wouldn't have guessed it) is the Clintons' Socks.

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Biden’s Speech Offers an Alternative Vision for Democrats to Love, After Four Years of Trumpian Fantasy

https://bit.ly/2QHAWSP What does Joe Biden's "100 Days" tell us about how our new president will govern? Can a moderate promote progressive policies? Are the two philosophies of the Democratic Party closer together than we think? The New Yorker wonders. "Channeling his inner Elizabeth Warren " is indeed an interesting point to ponder.

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Bidens to visit Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter while in Georgia

https://wapo.st/2PvSe4Q Joe and Jill Biden will be heading to Georgia this week, where they will visit former president Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn. Our new president was a young Delaware senator and Carter ally during the the 39th president's term in the White House, from 1977 to 1981. Carter is now the longest-lived American president in history.

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Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan launches Senate bid

https://nbcnews.to/3exv9aj Rep. Tim Ryan has become the first to throw his hat into the ring in the race to succed Republican Sen. Rob Portman, who will not run for re-election. In his announcment video, the 10-term Democratic congressman said: ""The success of America isn’t housed in the halls of Congress. It lies in the calloused hands and the unrelenting grit of America’s workers. Those who dug the deepest sent our nation soaring."

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House passes bill that would grant D.C. statehood

https://bit.ly/2Qs1KX9 Good news for DC, the US and democracy. The House has passed a bill that would make the nation's capital its 51st state and give its more than 700,000 residents -- that's a bigger population than two existing states -- ull representation in Congress. The bill now goes to the Senate, where we will need all our senators on board.

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Garland announces Justice Dept. probe into Minneapolis Police Department

https://wapo.st/3eeM94U AG Merrick Garland's Justice Department will launch a probe into the Minneapolis police department to determine whether the Minneapolis department has engaged in systemic misconduct that constituted “unconstitutional or unlawful policing.” This will go beyond the Trump admnistration's civil rights band-aid and seeek to determine whether the department has engaged in systemic misconduct that constituted “unconstitutional or unlawful policing.”

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Supreme Court rejects case challenging Pennsylvania's mail-in ballot deadline

https://bit.ly/3x7IpLj The Supreme Court has shot down Trump's challenge to Pennsylvania's mail-in ballot deadline, meaning that "the former guy" must surely have struck out, even if he doesn't accept it. This decision underscores again how important the mail-in option is for many voters and why we must keep fighting against states' attempts to curb voting rights.

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Walter Mondale, Ex-Vice President and Champion of Liberal Politics, Dies at 93

https://nyti.ms/32wYNHk One of the longest obituaries you will read, about one of the longest serving Democratic political figures,. Walter Mondale , a liberal Democrat, served as Vice President under President Jimmy Carter from 1976 to 1980. In political circles he is credited with having redefined this office as a partnership. In his unsuccessful run against Ronald Reagan in 1984, Mondale also chose the first woman vice presidential candidate, Geraldine Ferraro - the last for the Democrats until Kamala Harris.

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How the Pandemic Changed Europe

https://bit.ly/3e8KX33 This piece from The New Yorker is not just about Europe and the pandemic. Especially from an American journalistic viewpoint a very knowledgeable in-depth look at the state of politics on both sides of the Atlantic. One comment worth pondering: "The Democratic Party, for whatever its myriad flaws, has now won the popular vote in seven of the last eight elections." Imagine where we'd be without the Electoral College!

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‘Negotiating with your worst enemy’: Biden in risky talks to pay Brazil to save Amazon

https://bit.ly/32ojmW5 c President Biden is pressing ahead on with the ambitious programs we elected him to tackle. Will a billion dollar climate deal with Brazil mean paying off the Trump-clone president and his cronies in the hope of saving the Amazon rainforest? Ahead of the climate summit, the world is watching to see what the US decides.

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Gallup poll shows largest increase in Democratic Party affiliation in a decade

https://bit.ly/3cZJLzU Something all can be proud of, both in the US and abroad. More Americans now identify as Democrats than at any time in the past decade! After Trump's devastating performance, President Biden's swift and vigorous moves to tackle the nation's daunting problems are making an impression. We can also be proud of Democrats Abroad's successful GOTV efforts last year.

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Expat Experiences of African-American Black Women

https://bit.ly/3wim39H Democrats Abroad's Angela Fobbs, Global Black Caucus chair and DPCA voting representative, was on the panel highlighting their experience as African American women living abroad. The discussion, which aired on Zoom last week, was one of the most interesting interactive online presentations we've seen. Of course, DA good deal of exposure.

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EPA dismisses dozens of key science advisers picked under Trump

https://wapo.st/3fwirLe The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is dismissing more than 40 extrernal science advisors named by "the former guy", who were actually lobbylsts for polluting industries. New administrator Michael Regan said he wants to restore the role of science at the agency.