Extra! Extra! 9/1 🍋

Hi, all, and happy Monday!

And happy Labor Day, too!

I know this email is supposed to come out on Sundays, but it didn’t this week—sorry! Yesterday Mike and I helped Mj and their friend Zia run a lemonade stand to raise money for Kamala Harris and 5 critical downballot races (we gave to Oath.vote’s rapid response fund). It was fun but also very hot, and very long! The good news is the kids raised $355 for the fund, and had a great time doing so. Afterwards, however, we were all totally wiped out. So I put off writing and publishing this newsletter until today.

Still, there’s a lot of wonderful news! Enjoy it, bask in it, and for goodness sakes share it! Everyone should know about the wins we’re seeing everywhere.

I’m skipping the 🪓s and 🪣s this week, sorry. I’m really tired, it’s been a long week, and ALL OF these wins are, either directly or indirectly, because of you!

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My “Read This” suggestion for this week is that you go and check out the comments on my Friday post. I asked readers to drop their weekend GOTV plans into the comments and your responses were absolutely heartening and inspiring. THANK YOU to everyone who let us know what they were up to—it was so much! You are all amazing!

Celebrate This! 🎉

The Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against RealPage, a property management software provider, alleging it enabled collusion among landlords to inflate rents for millions of Americans. 

The DNC and the Georgia Democratic Party sued the Georgia State Election Board over new rules that could delay election certification this fall. Democrats ask the court to rule that certification is mandatory and officials cannot delay or refuse to certify.

A new SurveyUSA poll in Nebraska finds Sen. Deb Fischer (R) barely ahead of Dan Osborn (I) in the U.S. Senate race, 39% to 38%.

Democratic groups (DLCC, Sister District, States Project, and others) have pledged to spend $160 million supporting state legislative candidates in November. Meanwhile, the RSLC will spend only $38 million this year.

A federal court struck down the Ohio GOP’s effort to kneecap ballot initiatives.

Trump Media’s stock price fell below $20 per share for the first time since the company went public.

A group of major publishers, authors and parents have sued Florida education officials over a law that allows parents and local residents to limit what books are available in school libraries if they depict or describe “sexual conduct.”

The United States District Court for the District of Maryland has tossed a flawed environmental assessment that grossly underestimated harms to endangered and threatened marine species from oil and gas drilling and exploration in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Brazilian Supreme Court suspended X in the country, Sorry, Elon.

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced $790 million in funding for 24 affordable-housing and sustainability projects across the state.

A federal judge ruled that Arkansans can register to vote online with an electronic signature, blocking the state's requirement that registration forms be submitted with a pen-on-paper signature for the 2024 election.

In a victory for voters, a Pennsylvania court ruled that officials must count timely cast mail-in ballots with missing or incorrect dates on the outer envelope. The ruling ensures thousands of ballots won’t be tossed out in the swing state.

Disgraced New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez left the Senate. Finally.

More than 200 Republicans who previously worked for either former President George W. Bush, the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., or Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president in an open letter Monday.

Ohio's mandatory 24-hour waiting period for patients seeking abortions is on hold after a Franklin County judge granted a preliminary injunction.

Election denier Matthew DePerno ended his bid for a seat on the Michigan Supreme Court.

Philadelphia has been awarded $1.3 million in federal funds to support local projects to improve energy efficiency, reduce energy use and lower fossil fuel emissions.

Pilgrim's Pride, one of the largest U.S. poultry processors, agreed to pay $100 million to settle claims it conspired with rivals to underpay chicken farmers.

The U.S. Department of Energy and the EPA awarded $12.6 million to the state of Colorado to help them fund the plugging of older, low-producing oil and gas wells. This, in turn, will reduce methane emissions.

More than 6,000 homes in Dayton, OH will get broadband access as a result of a newly-announced investment of $17 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act funds.

Eight people were found guilty in federal court of conspiring to violate the rights of patients and employees at a Sterling Heights reproductive health care clinic and illegally blockading the facility four years ago.

One day after the National Park Service marked its 108th birthday, the service’s official nonprofit announced a record-breaking $100 million gift, the largest grant in history benefitting national parks.

Team Harris-Walz is launching a back to school advertising campaign that includes a national Snapchat takeover, targeted social ads, and on-campus advertising in campus newspapers and on college websites. They are also doubling their staff dedicated to youth and campus engagement to 150 organizers and fanning that staff out across all the key battleground states.

A statue of civil rights icon John Lewis was unveiled outside of Atlanta, taking the place of a Confederate monument.

Next-generation geothermal energy startup Sage Geosystems announced that it had agreed to supply Meta, the owner of Facebook, with 150 megawatts of geothermal power.

A Pennsylvania court rejected a GOP lawsuit that tried to limit sites where voters can return their absentee ballots in the swing state, including drop boxes. 

A new analysis finds striking surges in voter registration among Democratic-leaning voter groups during the week of July 21st, after President Biden left the race and endorsed Kamala Harris.

Oklahoma Democrats flipped the Tulsa mayor’s office, as two Democrats narrowly boxed out a Republican and headed for a runoff election.

A group of federal lawmakers from Georgia announced millions of dollars in funding to the state to help expand its network of EV charging infrastructure.

The Michigan Supreme Court ruled in favor of Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) and reinstated rules Benson set in 2022 that regulate the behavior of partisan election challengers in polling places.

The number of clean energy jobs in the U.S. has risen 4.2% since 2022, more than double the pace of jobs in other energy sectors, largely because of the White House’s climate change policies. 

United Airlines flight attendants voted by a staggering margin of 99.99% to authorize a strike, with over 90% of the unit’s 28,000 members participating.¹

Trump's advantage over Kamala Harris on the economy and crime is eroding among U.S. voters, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.

The U.S. Department of Energy announced a multimillion-dollar investment to help provide hundreds of homes on the Navajo Nation with solar panels.

Seven advocacy organizations that have been working to engage Latino voters ahead of the presidential election are coming together under a new coalition to launch a bilingual campaign condemning Project 2025 and its stances on specific issues that are important to Latino voters.

The Bureau of Land Management announced a roadmap to support expanded solar energy production by making renewable energy siting and permitting on America’s public lands more efficient.

Michael Sparks, who was the first defendant to breach the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to 53 months in prison.

Team Harris-Walz is launching a new paid media campaign in battleground states focused on the dangers of Trump’s Project 2025. 

Once again renewables keept the Texas grid going through a terrible heatwave.

The Third Circuit issued a game changing opinion rolling back Section 230, and ending the liability shield that large tech firms use to commit bad actions without consequence.

X (formerly Twitter) made changes to its chatbot to promote truthful information about elections.

Dozens of South Korean children sued their government over poor climate change policies — arguing that their rights to live in a clean environment were violated — and won! 

Democrats are doing a hyperlocal campaign program in Pennsylvania, dividing the state into nearly 400 segments to target messaging. Fantastic and very encouraging!

The U.S. economy grew last quarter at a healthy 3% annual pace, fueled by strong consumer spending and business investment, the government said in an upgrade of its initial assessment.

​Whale populations are doing so well, researchers say the agency protecting them “has done its job” and can be closed. With virtually all whale populations on the rise, researchers insist it’s time to disband and consolidate the International Whaling Commission.

Solar and battery storage made up 80% of the country’s new electricity capacity from January to June.

A new Fox News poll in Arizona shows Ruben Gallego (D) way ahead of Kari Lake (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 56% to 41%.

Democratic state Sen. Nellie Pou is poised to become the first Latina to represent New Jersey in Congress following Thursday's nominating convention, at which local party officials picked her to replace the late Rep. Bill Pascrell on the November ballot.

Early trials are finding that a new vaccine could reduce methane production in cattle by around 13 percent.

VP Harris’s campaign has launched a “Fighting for Reproductive Freedom” bus tour in Palm Beach, Fla., with its surrogates promoting access to reproductive rights. The tour will make at least 50 stops in red, blue and battleground states in the next couple of months.

A staggering 428 gigawatts of solar capacity was installed last year — more than in the previous two years combined.

The Harris campaign opened its 50th campaign office in Pennsylvania this week.

80% of new U.S. electricity capacity this year came from solar and battery storage. And by the end of the year, 96% of new electricity capacity is on track to be emission-free, thanks to contributions from solar, wind, battery, and nuclear power.

Statewide, Project 26 PA registered nearly 5,000 students in Pennsylvania this week alone. Swing Blue Alliance played a huge role in those numbers, and if you’re anywhere near MA you should join them!

Trump got indicted again.

A Pennsylvania judge has determined that three 2020 election deniers must pay nearly $1 million in fees as the result of a years-long legal dispute with state officials over voting equipment used during the last presidential race.

The Harris-Walz campaign, according to their recent press release, is building the largest voter protection program in American presidential history. They have more than 100 voter protection staff across a dozen states, with thousands of volunteers nationally.

The California legislature passed a bill affirming local governments’ authority to protect their communities by limiting or banning oil and gas operations, methods and locations. Lots of us made calls on this bill so it’s a real victory for activists!

The Apprentice, a hot-button and deeply unflattering film about the young Donald Trump, has been acquired and slated for a pre-election U.S. release on Oct. 11.

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The OFFICIAL VERSION is out! 😂😂 (Warning: some cursing)

1. This and the item above from Crooked Media’s What a Day