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We're sticking with a Thanksgiving holiday week theme. While many of us are busy with travel, family, and food, we hope this edition will remind us to use some of this time to take care of ourselves as we prepare for the next round. This is a pared down, holiday-friendly workout.
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Today is a special day for us here at My Civic Workout. A year ago, on November 21, 2016, still reeling from Donald Trump’s election to the presidency, we sent out our very first edition. We wanted to share our collective knowledge about effective activism and to make a contribution to the then-nascent Trump resistance movement. Even though Trump had won the electoral college, we weren’t ready to concede defeat. What he stood for, and what propelled him to the highest office in the country—white nationalism, xenophobia, sexual violence, and intolerance of difference of any kind—remained ideas that millions of Americans stood against. And we were not about to back down.
With Thanksgiving coming up, we are incredibly grateful. You are one of over 9,000 wonderful, loyal subscribers who receive our emails, and all of us together are a part of something even bigger. We showed up at airports to take a stand against the Muslim ban. We crashed the ACA repeal. We rocked the vote this November. And we will continue to fight.
Remember this MCW edition on proposed tax reform? This and next week, Republican leaders are doing their best to hurry along their tax plan, benefitting the ultra-wealthy (including Trump himself) and potentially raising taxes on 7.9 million taxpayers who make under $100,000 a year. Only one Republican senator has come out against this tax bill, and it’s time to step up pressure on our elected officials to the intensity we had against ACA repeal.
