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On Donald Trump’s first day in office, NRDC Action Fund supporters joined millions of people at the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., and at sister marches in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and cities and towns across the country and around the world to fight for women’s rights and a safe and healthy environment for us all. Since then, President Trump, his EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, and their allies in Congress have moved to dismantle an ever-growing number of our fundamental environmental protections — putting women and children, who bear the brunt of the effects of climate change and pollution, at greater risk.

It’s more important than ever that we bring our power to the polls by supporting environmental champions who can help stop the Trump administration’s assault on our environment and take back our government from corporate polluters and climate deniers.
On January 20, join the NRDC Action Fund to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Women’s March by marching together once again — and showing Trump and his climate-denying allies that we won’t back down in this fight for a safe and healthy environment for ourselves and our children.

Join us on the ground in:
Click here to find a Women’s March event near you and learn more about how to get involved, no matter where you live.

It’s up to women and their allies to stand up for clean air and water, climate justice, and the future of our planet — and we hope you’ll hit the streets with us on January 20.

Sincerely,

https://act.nrdc.org/o.gif?akid=338.3641333.iNvTeT The NRDC Action Fund Team



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To help follow "The Trump Show," the N.Y. Times' David Brooks offers a useful "two White Houses" construct in today's column:
  • "There’s the Potemkin White House, which we tend to focus on: Trump berserk in front of the TV ... Then there is the Invisible White House that you never hear about, which is getting more effective at managing around the distracted boss."
  • "Imagine if Trump didn’t tweet. The craziness of the past weeks would be out of the way, and we’d see a White House that is briskly pursuing its goals: the shift in our Pakistan policy, the shift in our offshore drilling policy, the fruition of our ISIS policy, the nomination for judgeships and the formation of policies on infrastructure, DACA, North Korea and trade."
  • "[T]he anti-Trump movement, of which I’m a proud member, seems to be getting dumber."
  • "More anti-Trumpers seem to be telling themselves a 'Madness of King George' narrative."

Be smart: It's looking like Year 1 of the Trump presidency could turn out to be the fantasy phase, and that Mueller, staff departures and North Korea could make Year 2 the reality phase.   [Axios AM, January 8, 2018]



WOMEN’S RIGHTS = HUMAN RIGHTS 






One year ago, many of us marched in the streets, united by sadness, anger and resolve. We knew then -- and we still know now -- that the fight for civil liberties and civil rights can’t be stamped out by one election or one man. The threat that Donald Trump posed to immigrants, women, communities of color and the most vulnerable has been realized and is hurting so many families.  But we should never underestimate our collective power to defend and expand our basic Constitutional rights and freedoms. That’s why we’re asking YOU to bring people together next weekend to build a roadmap for resisting in 2018, and then take to the streets at your local Women’s March. It’s called Gather. March. Act. — and it starts with YOU.
On the anniversary of the largest grassroots mobilization in U.S. history, we’ll gather together to strategize for 2018, march together in solidarity, and commit to collective action.  For over a year, we’ve stood on the front lines of this resistance movement and helped to demonstrate what ACLU People Power is capable of time and time again as one of our strongest volunteers. Now we’re asking you to step up and host a gathering of friends, family and neighbors to plan your resistance for 2018.  The success of 2018 will rest on our ability to activate, mobilize and organize our local communities. And with your leadership and energy, we know we’ll be able to spread our message far and wide, and create real change.
See you out there.
- ACLU People Power








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WY-Gov: Attorney Harriet Hageman says she will join the Republican primary for governor, with a formal announcement to take place on Jan. 16. Hageman has some major connections within state GOP circles. She was Wyoming's outside counsel in the early 2000s in a lawsuit over a U.S. Forest Service rule that "barred road construction or reconstruction on millions of acres of Forest Service land," something that angered environmentalists so much that they tarred her as the "Wicked Witch of the West." She later served as an advisor to now-Rep. Liz Cheney in her failed 2014 Senate campaign and successful 2016 House race, and was also a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 2016.

Hageman appears to be making her first campaign for office, and it remains to be seen if she has what it takes. She joins a field that so far only includes little-known businessman Bill Dahlin, but Secretary of State Ed Murray, state Treasurer Mark Gordon, and state House Speaker Steve Harshman have all previously said they're considering it. [Daily Kos Morning Digest, January 9, 2018]


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MURRAY FURIOUS WITH GREENS AS FERC GRID RESILIENCE DECISION LOOMS: FERC Chairman Kevin McIntyre and his band of merry commissioners have until Jan. 10 to decide whether and how to pay nuclear and coal generators for providing vaguely defined resiliency services to the grid, and if he's going to go down, coal magnate Bob Murray wants to go down fighting. Murray's target in his Boxing Day filing is a Dec. 20 submission by the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Earthjustice highlighting photos uncovered by In These Times showing Energy Secretary Rick Perry meeting with Murray in March. The green groups assert the photos show that Murray essentially wrote the grid resiliency rule, an argument Murray calls "replete with absolute lies." Murray accuses the groups of contradicting their own earlier filing, and saying, "Murray Energy has never proffered a proposed Grid Resiliency Rule to Secretary Perry or DOE." [POLITICO's Morning Energy, January 2, 2018]




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