We fight on together!!  To be silent is to be complicit!!

JOIN US!!

Bring signs protesting the Trump regime.  (No sticks attached to signs please)

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Calls to Action Items:

1.   Find Santa Maria on website Indivisible.org for local events to email us.

2.  Make calls to our representatives:        https://5calls.org/

  https://indivisible.org/   ORGANIZE  and VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS!

PROTEST WITH  INDIVISIBLE.  JOIN A GROUP AND LET OUR VOICES AND OUR VOTES

SEND A MESSAGE TO THE TRUMP REGIME THAT THEY WILL NOT SUCCEED IN DESTROYING

our  Democracy and our trusted place  as leader of the free world.

https://indivisible.org/

Project 2025 is the anti-democracy draconian extreme right wing Republican policies for the future based on the  “Mandate for Leadership” created several years ago by the The Heritage Foundation and 100 other conservative groups, which has been highly influential for conservative presidential administrations since the Reagan era.

The 900-page manual, published in 2023, includes detailed policies to apply if there is a Republican victory in November 2024:  https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

The Heritage Foundation HAS ALREADY INFLUENCED THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. IN HIS FOUR YEAR TERM.  Examples of some of the most notable policy recommendations and their adoption or implementation by the former Trump administration include:

• Leaving the Paris Climate Accord: In August 2017, Trump announced the U.S. was ending its funding and membership in the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
• Repealing Net Neutrality: In December 2017, Trump’s Federal Communications Commission chairman proposed ending the 2015 network neutrality rules.
• Reshaping National Monuments: Heritage’s recommendation to prohibit Land Acquisition (Cap and Reduce the Size of the Federal Estate) was adopted by Trump when he issued two executive orders effectively shrinking the size of national monuments in Utah.
• Reinstating the Mexico City Policy: This executive order prevents taxpayer money from funding international groups involved in abortion and ending funding to the United Nations Population fund. On Jan. 23, 2017, in his first pro-life action, Trump signed an executive order today reinstating the Mexico City Policy.
• Increasing Military Spending: Trump’s budget calls for a $54 billion increase in military spending to improve capacity, capability, and readiness of America’s armed forces.
• Reforming Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (TANF): The Trump administration adopted and is in favor of strengthening existing work requirements in order to receive benefits.
• Allowing Development of Natural Resources: The Trump administration opened off-shore drilling and on federal lands. Executive Order 13783 directed Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to commence federal land coal leasing activities.
• Reforming Government Agencies: Trump tasked each of his Cabinet secretaries to prepare detailed plans on how they propose to reduce the scope and size of their respective departments while streamlining services and ensuring each department runs more efficiently and handles tax dollars appropriately.
• Withdrawing from UNESCO: In October 2017, Trump announced he was putting an end to U.S. membership in the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/07/03/project-2025-trump-us-government/

Polling demonstrates that although the American public is largely unfamiliar with Project 2025, the plan is deeply unpopular when people learn about its proposals.

According to an Accountable.US/Upswing poll on Project 2025 conducted in May, only 12 percent of Americans knew a “great deal” or “a lot” about the right-wing set of proposals. After a “straight reading” of what Project 2025 is — describing the plan, without details, as being a “collection of policy proposals that will reshape the executive branch of American government in the next conservative presidency” — favorability for Project 2025 went up.

But support dropped when specifics were discussed, the poll found.

For example, 87 percent opposed cutting Social Security benefits for younger workers, and 86 percent said they opposed eliminating the Head Start program. Seventy-seven percent disapproved of passages that aim to legalize discrimination against LGBTQ people, 68 percent opposed criminalizing abortion medication, and 82 percent were against allowing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to increase abortion surveillance. Seventy-nine percent also opposed the plan to allow presidents to fire employees in the civil service program based on their loyalties to them.

After those policies and more were thoroughly explained, 66 percent of respondents in the poll said they had a negative view of Project 2025, while only 25 percent said they approved.

That poll’s findings appear to have been confirmed by another survey. A Navigator Research poll in June similarly found that 7 in 10 respondents didn’t know enough about Project 2025 to formulate an opinion. When presented with 19 specific policies within the proposal, however, their views drastically changed, with 63 percent saying they opposed Project 2025 and only 24 percent approving.

Harris highlighted Walz’s background and record as governor of Minnesota, including signing legislation to provide paid family and medical leave for families in the state, protecting the right to abortion after the reversal of Roe v. Wade and enactment of legislation requiring universal background checks for gun purchases.

“As a governor, a coach, a teacher, and a veteran, he’s delivered for working families like his.”

“It was my students who encouraged me to run for office,” he said. “They saw in me what I was hoping to instill in them: a commitment of common good, a belief that one person can make a difference.”

https://kamalaharris.com/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/vice-president-harris/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kamala-Harris

Your vote counts.  November 5, 2024 is the most important election in our country’s history.  The choice is clear.  Either vote for democracy and the continuation of our Democratic Republic based on the Constitution, or vote for autocracy with one ruler with all the power and authority over We the People.

The history of Independence Day.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Independence-Day-United-States-holiday

Celebrate Juneteenth!  11 am-5 pm, Saturday, June 15, 2024.  Fun for the whole family!  Call 805-588-8998 for more information.

https://santamariatimes.com/news/local/juneteenth-celebration-set-for-june-15-in-old-town-lompoc/article_e4de2b2e-f4a0-5165-9fbd-274ce07db091.html

Please attend one of the ceremonies on the Central Coast.

https://www.welcomehomemilitaryheroes.org/memorial-day-2024/

Register online or at the Elections Office.  Hours are 8:00am – 12:00pm and 1:00pm – 5:00pm, excluding holidays. 511 E. Lakeside Pkwy, Suite 134, Santa Maria, CA 93455-1310)  1-800-722-868       Link to Map

Once you are registered or have updated any status or address changes, scroll down for more voting information.

Register to vote online or check voting status:  https://registertovote.ca.gov/

(Allow at least 48 hours for online registration for the verification process to be completed.)

Requirements to Register to Vote in California:

• A citizen of the United States,
• A resident of California,
• At least 18 years of age at the time of the next election,
• Not currently serving a state or federal prison term for the conviction of a felony (for additional information on the rights of people who have been incarcerated please visit the Secretary of State’s Voting Rights: Persons with a Criminal History page), and;
• Not currently found mentally incompetent to vote by a court (for more information, please visit the Secretary of State’s Voting Rights: Persons Subject to Conservatorship page).

Once your registration form is received and processed, the county will send you a Voter Notification Card within 2 to 3 weeks indicating that you are now registered to vote.

If you are under 18, you may pre-register to vote if you meet the following qualifications:

• Be 16 or 17 years old, and;
• Meet all of the other eligibility requirements to vote listed above.

You will automatically be registered to vote on your 18th birthday.

CLICK HERE: Registration and Voting information for Youth.

You must re-register to vote if you:

• change your name
• change your address
• wish to change your political party preference
• change your signature

If you do not have a California Driver’s License or California State Identification card, you can still use the online voter registration form to apply to register to vote. However, you will need to take additional steps to complete your voter registration.

f you are unable to retrieve your registration information, please call (800) SBC-VOTE (800-722-8683).

More details at the Santa Barbara County Elections website:

  https://www.countyofsb.org/1139/Register-to-Vote

Want to know what voting District you are in?  CLICK HERE to look up Districts and Representatives by address

ONCE YOU ARE REGISTERED AND HAVE YOUR BALLOT..GET READY TO VOTE!!

This is a Presidential election year.

Joseph Biden is the Endorsed Incumbent Democratic President.

The CA Democratic Party has endorsed Proposition 1

and these Democratic candidates:

U.S. Congress, Dist. 24, Salud Carbajal, Incumbent

State Senate, Dist 21,  Monique Limon, Incumbent

State Assembly, Dist 37, Gregg Hart, Incumbent

There are two U.S. Senate  terms for Dianne Feinstein’s Senate seat;

one for the remainder of her term and one full term.  Vote Democrat please.

CONVENIENT!!  Mail completed ballots…no stamp required… or there are several secure ballot  “drop boxes” available 24 hours a day until 8:00 p.m. on election day.   https://www.countyofsb.org/3265/Current-Ballot-Drop-Box-Locations-by-Are