Author: MoveOn Staff
By MoveOn Staff. Friday, January 27 2017
Washington, DC — According to news reports, moments ago, President Donald Trump signed an executive order restricting refugee access to the United States and suspending immigration from several majority-Muslim countries including Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. Ilya Sheyman, executive director of MoveOn.org Political Action, released the following statement: “Trump’s executive order banning refugees […]
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By MoveOn Staff. Tuesday, January 24 2017
Statement of Ilya Sheyman, Executive Director of MoveOn.org Political Action: “From ‘Birtherism’ to ‘Illegal Voters,’ Donald Trump Is The Liar In Chief. In just five days, Trump has already started taking a wrecking ball to the office of the Presidency, our democracy, and our credibility at home and abroad. It is beyond shameful.”
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By MoveOn Staff. Tuesday, January 24 2017
Statement from Anna Galland, executive director of MoveOn.org Civic Action: “Less than four days into Trump’s Presidency, it is clear that the next four years will be about catering to corporate interests and big donors instead of putting American families and communities first. “Overruling the scientists and experts who have previously warned about the dangers […]
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By MoveOn Staff. Monday, January 23 2017
Thank you to the more than 24,800 people who joined in Sunday night, January 22, the day after the historic Women’s Marches, for the Emergency Call with MoveOn.org, Indivisible, and Working Families Party. We moved right into action, learning how to organize locally and effectively to stiffen Democratic spines and weaken pro-Trump Republican resolve, in […]
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By MoveOn Staff. Monday, January 23 2017
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By MoveOn Staff. Monday, January 23 2017
Statement from Anna Galland, executive director of MoveOn.org Civic Action: “Rex Tillerson, as former CEO of Exxon-Mobil, has a long record of making deals with dictators and despots and putting the interests of Big Oil over the values and well-being of the American people. Making matters worse, Tillerson’s cozy relationship with Vladimir Putin and his […]
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By MoveOn Staff. Monday, January 23 2017
As we march and strategize in the days following Trump’s inauguration, and prepare to strategically fight back against Trump’s agenda in coming weeks, we also need to take the long view. Where do we go from here? Informed by what MoveOn members like you have said in surveys, email messages, and at hundreds of community […]
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By MoveOn Staff. Friday, January 20 2017
Joint statement of MoveOn.org Civic Action Executive Director Anna Galland and MoveOn.org Political Action Executive Director Ilya Sheyman: “This is a bleak day in our nation’s history. “A man is being sworn in as president whose campaign centered on dishonesty, division, and demagoguery and was abetted by the interference of a foreign government. He appealed […]
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By MoveOn Staff. Thursday, January 19 2017
On the evening before Trump’s Inauguration, Mayor de Blasio, Minneapolis Mayor Hodges, Reverend Sharpton, Robert De Niro, Sally Field, Mark Ruffalo, Rosie Perez, Alec Baldwin, Marisa Tomei, Julianne Moore, Cynthia Nixon, Natalie Merchant, Michael Moore, and Shailene Woodley will join thousands of New Yorkers and elected officials, community groups and organizations outside of Trump International […]
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By MoveOn Staff. Wednesday, January 18 2017
Statement from Anna Galland, executive director of MoveOn.org Civic Action on Rep. Tom Price’s nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services: “Rep. Tom Price is wholly unqualified to serve as Secretary for Health and Human Services and the Senate should reject his nomination. “Price has a clear, extreme agenda of ending Medicare, gutting Medicaid, […]
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