hillary rodham clinton

First-time voter, long-time dreamer. I'm with her in the fight to break down every barrier that holds Americans back in their pursuit of happiness and opportunity. Not affiliated with the Hillary for America campaign or any political action committee.

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2024.

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There are reasons to care about this election. For everyone.

If safe and legal access to abortion and reproductive health care matter to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now. If campus sexual assault matters to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now. If affordable, accessible, and universal health care matters to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now. If religious freedom and Islamophobia matter to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now. If climate change and clean energy matter to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now. If affordable college and student debt matter to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now. If rethinking the War on Drugs, prioritizing treatment over incarceration for drug offenders, and legalizing medical marijuana matter to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now. If keeping our national debt in check matters to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now. If clean air and water matter to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now. If freedom of speech and the right to protest matter to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now. If gun violence and common-sense gun reform matter to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now. If dignity and equality for women in the workplace and public life matter to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now. If immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship for eleven million undocumented immigrants matter to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now. If the Supreme Court and the political independence of the judiciary to uphold the Constitution and protect our rights matter to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now. If the Ku Klux Klan gaining an ally in the White House matters to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now. If the failure of Congress to provide funding to combat the Zika virus matters to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now. If rational-minded, science-based policy matters to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now. If the relationship of the United States with Mexico and the dignity, safety, and security of Hispanic and Latino immigrants matter to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now. If nuclear weapons and who has the codes to launch them matter to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now. If Russian aggression, expansionism, and human rights abuses matter to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now. If the United States honoring international law, conventions on war crimes, and its treaties around the world matter to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now. If criminal justice reform and racial inequality in our justice system matter to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now. If the humane treatment of prisoners and detainees and maintaining the ban on torture matter to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now. If employment opportunities and investment in the working and middle class matter to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now. If disability rights and opportunities matter to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now. If equality for LGBT people matters to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now. If raising the minimum wage and the Fight for $15 matter to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now.

If your future and the future of this country matter to you, take two minutes and register to vote right now.

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It takes less than four minutes to read up and register to vote.

...or four years of President Trump because you missed the deadline and lost your chance to vote on November 8.

Today is National Voter Registration Day. If you will be eighteen years old on or before November 8, 2016, you can and you must vote. To do that, you need to register first—and if you don’t do it in time, you’ll be turned away when you get to your polling place in six weeks. So do it now. If you aren’t sure whether or not you’re registered to vote, now is the time to check. This is going to be a close election, and every vote counts. In 2000, the presidency was decided in a state with a margin of just a few hundred votes. It could be even closer this year. Your future and the future of this country are on the ballot this November. There isn’t anyone who can afford to leave this decision up to everyone else.

Click here right now and spend two minutes to register to vote. Reblog this and tell everybody else to do the same.

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HRC is Proud to Stand With Hillary Clinton

HRC proudly endorsed Hillary Clinton for president earlier this year. As a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State and now presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton has been a proven champion for LGBTQ equality.

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Hillary Clinton rips into Nigel Farage

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“Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on the international level went to advise Donald Trump, and three times he asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked—at one point, ‘If we have them, why can’t we use them?’” Scarborough relayed on Morning Joe. “...three times in an hour briefing, ‘Why can’t we use nuclear weapons?’”

Michael Hayden, former director of both the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, explained the timeframe of a nuclear weapon launch. “It’s scenario-dependent, but the system is designed for speed and decisiveness. It’s not designed to debate the decision.”

8/3/2016

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Unqualified: The danger of Trump goes beyond politics

“Two things are absolutely necessary in any leader or any person that aspires, wishes to be a leader. That is, a moral compass and, second, empathy. This candidate is void of both traits that are necessary for the stewardship of this country. He is a black soul. And he is totally unfit for the leadership of this beautiful country.”

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People pay respects to Cpt. Humayun Khan at his Arlington grave. (src)

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It Takes a Village: Katie McGinty, Democrat for Senate

In order to make Hillary Clinton’s vision for an America that works for everyone a reality, we need to elect progressives who get things done at all levels of office. Katie McGinty is one such progressive, and she has an impactful history of leadership in the causes that Democrats have championed. Her election as the junior United States Senator from Pennsylvania will mean more than just gaining a seat—for working people, for those who realize the dire importance of climate action, for advocates of voter rights, for the women and men who want to see Roe v. Wade protected and women’s health decisions respected, for everyone who believes affordable health care is a right for all, for Democrats, it will mean gaining a voice and an ally in the Senate for years to come.

Katie McGinty is the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania. She’s up against Pat Toomey, a Club for Growth Republican who helped shut down the government in 2013 and has spent his political career trying to shut down women’s health clinics. Toomey has backed multiple efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and repeal Medicaid. A favorite of the Koch Brothers, his hands have been all over handouts to the very rich in the form of legislation that would give tax breaks to corporations, cut taxes for the 1%, repeal the estate tax, and deregulate industries to the detriment of consumers and at the peril of our economy. Toomey is, in short, a senator that Pennsylvania—and America—cannot afford. It’s time to move past failed trickle-down economics and elect a leader that will fight for a better deal for every American.

McGinty has a plan, but more than that, her career in public service is one that shows she will deliver. She obtained a degree in chemistry at Saint Joseph’s University in her native Philadelphia—the first in her middle-class family of ten kids to attend a four-year college—and went on to Columbia Law School to earn her J.D. From there, she clerked for a federal judge and proceeded to earn a fellowship under Sen. Al Gore. She became his top environmental adviser and joined policymakers to update the Clean Air Act and take action on climate change. So effective was she in this role that President Clinton appointed her his top environmental aide and soon after chairwoman of the Council on Environmental Quality. McGinty later traveled to India as an energy research fellow, exploring international cooperation on clean energy and climate action.

Years later, McGinty came home to Pennsylvania and accepted then-Gov. Rendell’s appointment as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. She used her position to the fullest and built up a record of bipartisan cooperation on renewable energy and job creation. She ended her tenure with Gov. Rendell signing into law a $650 million grant for investment in clean energy and solar panels in homes and businesses. She went on to jobs in the private sector where she worked to prove that green energy was as good an investment in our current economy as it is in the environmental health of our future. After her unsuccessful candidacy for Governor of Pennsylvania, McGinty was appointed by her one-time opponent and the winner of the gubernatorial race Gov. Tom Wolf as his chief of staff. McGinty became a major actor in the expansion of Medicaid in Pennsylvania.

Now, she’s running for Senate—and Hillary Clinton is counting on her to win.

Katie McGinty’s priorities are good for Pennsylvania and good for the rest of America. She wants affordable health care for all. She wants to expand job training and apprenticeships so that jobs with decent pay and dignity exist at every level. She wants to raise the minimum wage so that no one working full time lives in poverty. She wants equal pay for equal work to be the law. She wants to invest in infrastructure and clean energy to create jobs and a future free of climate devastation. She wants to protect and expand Social Security and Medicare. She wants fair trade so that our workers are not harmed by cheap labor and loose regulations in other countries. She wants affordable higher education. She’s a progressive—so let’s help her get things done.

Recent polling suggests that McGinty is in the lead, but the average is still a dead heat. Whether you live in Pennsylvania or not, you could donate to her campaign and help her take on the billionaire-fueled machine of Pat Toomey. Sign up to volunteer if you can. This is one of the most important races this year, and it’s one of only a few chances to turn the Senate blue.

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Ghazala Khan: Trump criticized my silence. He knows nothing about true sacrifice.

Trump said he would like to hear from me. Here’s what I have to say.

Donald Trump has asked why I did not speak at the Democratic convention. He said he would like to hear from me. Here is my answer to Donald Trump: Because without saying a thing, all the world, all America, felt my pain. I am a Gold Star mother. Whoever saw me felt me in their heart.

Donald Trump said I had nothing to say. I do.

Ghazala Khan is the mother of U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan, a Muslim American servicemember who was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart. Capt. Khan made the ultimate sacrifice in order to save his fellow soldiers from a suicide car bomb in Iraq. Khan’s parents both appeared at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, where his father delivered an incredibly powerful rebuke of Donald Trump for his hateful and unconstitutional rhetoric against Muslim Americans. Trump has called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” and would not rule out forcing Muslim Americans to register in a database and indicate their religion on some form of ID. Repeatedly asked how such a plan would differ from the Nazi registry for Jews, Trump only said, “You tell me.”

Donald Trump responded that Khan’s father had “no right” to criticize him—reminding us that neither freedom of religion nor freedom of speech have a place in his vision for the United States. He mocked Khan’s mother and cravenly implied that she was forbidden from speaking at the convention. Trump’s response was roundly condemned—even Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham broke party line and said “‘unacceptable’ doesn’t even begin to describe” attacking a Gold Star family. It’s yet another reminder that this election is about so much more than politics. It’s about something Donald Trump has never known and will never comprehend: love of country and the principles on which this nation was founded. And it’s incumbent upon every American who believes in liberty and justice for all to work to defeat him.

This piece is well worth the read and, Khizr Khan’s speech at the Democratic National Convention is well worth the watch for anyone who missed it.

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Area man running for president not sure if he’s ever met Vladimir Putin

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The man who ghost wrote Donald Trump’s book is terrified of what would happen if Trump is elected, and he’s making sure the media understands just how high the stakes are.

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Our front page: Hillary Clinton accepts a historic Democratic presidential nomination.

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The Muslim father of a slain soldier just challenged Trump, “Have you even read the United States Constitution?”

In one of the most thrilling moments of the convention so far, he offered to lend the Presidential candidate his own copy, challenging him to look for a few crucial clauses he seems to have missed. And watch how Chelsea spoke of her hopes for her mother’s Presidency.

Gifs: ABC15 Arizona

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The next president—and her husband.

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A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man you can trust with nuclear weapons.

Hillary Clinton on Donald Trump (via crookedhillary)

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Though “we may not live to see the glory,” as the song from the musical Hamilton goes, “let us gladly join the fight." Let our legacy be about "planting seeds in a garden you never get to see." That’s why we’re here… not just in this hall, but on this Earth. The Founders showed us that. And so have many others since. They were drawn together by love of country, and the selfless passion to build something better for all who follow. That is the story of America. And we begin a new chapter tonight.

Hillary Clinton (via crookedhillary)