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"Three children died from the flu while in federal immigration custody during the past year."

This is a disgrace.

The doctors vowing to march on the San Ysidro detention facility every day until they're allowed to administer free flu shots are heroes.

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“The autopsy report that one of the doctors read here said, ‘He had a fever so they told him to just lay on the ground cause it’s cold.’ Really? Would you like for your child to just lay on the ground in a jail cell when they have a fever?"
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“So what we’re going to do now is we’re going to just set up our clinic here in their driveway, and we’re not going to leave until somebody comes out and talks to us.”
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BREAKING: A Trump advisor told the WI GOP that “Traditionally it’s always been Republicans suppressing votes in places”—& "It’s going to be a much bigger program, a much more aggressive program, a much better-funded program" in 2020.

Give to fight back: wisdems.org/donate
These quotes come from audio of an event at a WI country club where a Trump advisor briefed influential Rs on strategy. Trump is personally on board: "He’s committed to this, he believes in it and he will do whatever it takes to make sure it’s successful.”
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Rs have been blocked from so-called "poll monitoring" since 1982, after a "federal lawsuit claimed the RNC and the state GOP had off-duty police stand at polling places in urban areas wearing armbands that read 'National Ballot Security Task Force,' with guns visible on some."
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Ben Wikler
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Wisconsin Congressman Ron Kind—whose district went for Trump by 4.5% in ‘16—took a courageous and principled vote last night to defend the Constitution and uphold his oath of office. Republicans have him in their crosshairs. Chip in to stand with him now: wisdems.org/ron
Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District will be an epicenter within an epicenter in 2020. Swing state, swing House district, full of swing counties—containing swing State Senate and State Assembly seats. Our job: fight to win across the board.
A total of 23 Wisconsin counties went for Obama twice and then for Trump in 2016. Eleven of them were in Ron Kind’s district. If his district were a state, it would have more Obama-Obama-Trump counties than 44 other states. It’s got that swing.
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A right-wing lawsuit triggered a 200,000-voter purge in Wisconsin yesterday. But we still have same-day registration in this state. So now our job is to organize harder than they can suppress.

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Want to help Dems in Wisconsin get folks re-registered and out to vote? Chip in to fund our organizing here. Wisdems.org/donate
Nobody should be surprised that the Wisconsin voter purges disproportionately affect young people and people of color. Why do you think Scott Walker and the GOP passed the voter-purge law in the first place?

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