[mpen-dayton] FW: "Hillary Clinton to Return to Ohio" & "Trump is surging" & "Sign to STOP FBI Director Comey" and more
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· FW: Hillary Clinton to Return to Ohio to Campaign Just Before Election Day
· FW: NYT -- Today's Headlines: Donald Trump Used Legally Dubious Method to Avoid Paying Taxes
· FW: Trump is surging
· FW: Trump's neo-Nazis plan to suppress minority voting
· FW: FBI is ATTACKING Hillary
· FW: Sign to STOP FBI Director Comey
· FW: Check out PFAW's new ad with MoveOn! (video)
· FW: "Behind 2016's Turmoil, a Crisis of White Identity" by Amanda Taub / NYT Magazine | Race Inquiry
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From: Jason Tengco, National Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Outreach Director, Hillary for America
Subject: FW: Hillary Clinton to Return to Ohio to Campaign Just Before Election Day
Hillary Clinton to Return to Ohio to Campaign Just Before Election Day
On Sunday, November 6, two days prior to Election Day, Hillary Clinton will campaign in Ohio. At a public GOTV event in the Cleveland area, Clinton will lay out her plans to create an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top, and her vision for an America that is stronger together.
With more people voting in this election than any in history, Ohioans can learn more about early voting at HillaryClinton.com/OHVotesEarly or make a plan to vote on Election Day using information at iwillvote.com.
Members of the public interested in attending the Cleveland area event can RSVP here.
Media who want to cover these events should RSVP here.
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For Immediate Release, November 2, 2016. Contact: press@hillaryclinton.com
PAID FOR BY HILLARY FOR AMERICA. Contributions or gifts to Hillary for America are not tax deductible.
From: NYTimes.com
Subject: Top News: Donald Trump Used Legally Dubious Method to Avoid Paying Taxes
Donald Trump Used Legally Dubious Method to Avoid Paying Taxes
By DAVID BARSTOW, MIKE McINTIRE, PATRICIA COHEN, SUSANNE CRAIG and RUSS BUETTNER
Thanks to a maneuver later outlawed by Congress, Mr. Trump potentially escaped paying tens of millions of dollars in federal personal income taxes.
From: Anna, Jayne, Matt, Maria, and the rest of the team, MoveOn.org Political Action
Subject: Trump is surging
A new Washington Post/ABC News poll out today shows Donald Trump tied with Clinton nationally.1 Yesterday, the poll actually showed Trump up by 1 point—a first since May and a "sharp turnaround from a large Clinton lead" just one week ago. The race is now "exceedingly close."2
And this poll isn't alone. Another tracking poll has the race tied today, and expert Nate Silver's forecast also shows Donald Trump's chances surging over the past week.3,4
This latest polling is alarming, to say the least, but MoveOn has been planning for a tight race for seven months—and we're laser-focused on the one thing that will decide the race: voter turnout.
It's crunch time for our massive get-out-the-vote operation. We're knocking on doors across eight battleground states to reach progressive voters who have not yet committed to voting for Hillary Clinton.
You've already contributed $182 to MoveOn Political Action this year—we're very grateful for your generous support that's made a huge amount of our work this year possible. Now, as we enter the final stretch of the election, will you consider making a gift of $67 today—and bringing your 2016 donation total up to $250?
Because you've saved your payment information with MoveOn, your donation will go straight through.
Donate: $67 or Another Amount
Trump won the most primary votes of any Republican presidential candidate in history.5 And now, polls show that his supporters are more enthusiastic and committed to voting than Clinton's.6
That means we're going to have to work harder than the GOP to get our voters to the polls. And that's particularly the case for first-time voters and Democrats who don't vote consistently—precisely the voters that MoveOn is focused on getting to the polls.
MoveOn's nearly 200 organizers are continuing to recruit and train tens of thousands of volunteers to knock on doors, make phone calls, and send texts to more than one million targeted voters in swing states, with neighbors talking to neighbors about the many reasons why it's so important to vote. The research shows that it's this kind of one-on-one contact that boosts voter turnout.7
Our organizers will work day and night, tirelessly, until the last polls close. Would you be able to help us finish election season strong with a $67 contribution? We are so grateful for your support. Whatever you donate today, we will put it to work immediately.
Because you've saved your payment information with MoveOn, your donation will go straight through.
Donate: $67 or Another Amount
MoveOn's voter turnout operation isn't just focused on the presidential race—it's also focused on taking back the Senate. And the outrageous letter that FBI Director James Comey sent to Congress last Friday could help tip the balance of the Senate to the GOP.
The election data gurus at FiveThirtyEight explain that "five races were on a knife's edge even before Comey's letter" and that "even a small shift could have a big effect in a lot of races."8
Democrats need to win five seats to gain control of the Senate, and the two major-party candidates in the five crucial Senate races—in Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania—are within two percentage points of each other.9 But as Clinton's polling has shifted this year, support for the Democratic candidates for Senate has followed.
We need to turn out the voters for the presidential race—and for the tight Senate races—but we still need to raise $220,000 for this final sprint. Will you chip in $67—or whatever you can afford—to help get out the vote, elect Hillary Clinton, and win back the Senate?
Because you've saved your payment information with MoveOn, your donation will go straight through.
Donate: $67 or Another Amount
Sources:
1. "Trump Rated More Honest; Contest Stays a Dead Heat (POLL)," ABC News, November 2, 2016
http://act.moveon.org/go/6533?t=11&akid=172652.1195276.j7dQhn
2. "Clinton, Trump All but Tied as Enthusiasm Dips for Democratic Candidate," ABC News, November 1, 2016
http://act.moveon.org/go/6521?t=13&akid=172652.1195276.j7dQhn
3. "General Election: Trump vs. Clinton," RealClearPolitics, accessed November 2, 2016
http://act.moveon.org/go/4841?t=15&akid=172652.1195276.j7dQhn
4. "Election Update: Yes, Donald Trump Has A Path To Victory," FiveThirtyEight, November 1, 2016
http://act.moveon.org/go/6534?t=17&akid=172652.1195276.j7dQhn
5. "Trump got the most GOP votes ever—both for and against him—and other fun facts," The Washington Post, June 8, 2016
https://act.moveon.org/go/6522?t=19&akid=172652.1195276.j7dQhn
6. "Clinton, Trump All but Tied as Enthusiasm Dips for Democratic Candidate," ABC News, November 1, 2016
http://act.moveon.org/go/6521?t=21&akid=172652.1195276.j7dQhn
7. "Lessons from GOTV experiments," Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies, accessed November 2, 2016
http://act.moveon.org/go/5717?t=23&akid=172652.1195276.j7dQhn
8. "Senate Update: Five Races Were On A Knife's Edge Even Before Comey's Letter," FiveThirtyEight, October 31, 2016
http://act.moveon.org/go/6523?t=25&akid=172652.1195276.j7dQhn
9. Ibid.
Want to support our work? Senator Elizabeth Warren says, "I'm so enthusiastic about MoveOn's smart and targeted plan to hire a network of organizers in key battleground states to mobilize and train volunteers to knock on hundreds of thousands of doors. It's bold and ambitious—and exactly what is needed to help swing Senate races and resoundingly defeat Donald Trump." Will you chip in to help make it all possible?
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From: Ben, PFAW
Subject: Trump's neo-Nazis plan to suppress minority voting
>> 5 Days Until Election Day <<
I had to make sure you saw this shocking news. This is who and what we are up against!
Politico reported yesterday:
White nationalists plot Election Day show of force Neo-Nazi leader Andrew Anglin plans to muster thousands of poll-watchers across all 50 states. His partners at the alt-right website "the Right Stuff" are touting plans to set up hidden cameras at polling places in Philadelphia and hand out liquor and marijuana in the city's "ghetto" on Election Day to induce residents to stay home. The National Socialist Movement, various factions of the Ku Klux Klan and the white nationalist American Freedom Party all are deploying members to watch polls, either "informally" or, they say, through the Trump campaign. |
This is what it's come to: the Koch-funded right-wing slime machine is flooding the airwaves with a final push of dishonest smear attacks against progressive candidates and neo-Nazis are running Trump's ground game!
Election Day is coming up FAST.
Please give what you can now to help us overcome the Right's hate and dirty tricks!>>
This is the most important election of any of our lifetimes. The only way we'll win is together.
From: Bold PAC ALERT
Subject: FBI is ATTACKING Hillary
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The FBI already spent a year investigating Hillary's emails and found that "no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case."
Then they suddenly reopened the case -- with no explanation -- just days before the most important election in modern history.
Meanwhile, Trump has been accused of a laundry list of crimes, including corruption, inciting violence, tax fraud, and even sexual assault and rape. And just days ago, computer scientists uncovered a secret server that Trump has been using to communicate with Russia.
And yet the FBI says NOTHING.
Sign if you agree: Hillary Clinton is INNOCENT →
This entire partisan circus reeks of hypocrisy.
We've even learned in the last few days that FBI Director Comey refused to to publicly comment on Trump's potential connections to Russia because it was "too close to the election."
So why the double standard?
We'll tell you why: Because Republicans will do ANYTHING to tear Hillary down.
Sign if you agree: Hillary Clinton is INNOCENT →
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From: Emergency Petition (via PTP), The Progressive Turnout Project
Subject: Sign to STOP FBI Director Comey
EMERGENCY PETITION:
Stop the partisan FBI witch-hunt against Hillary →
FBI Director James Comey's decision to re-investigate Hillary Clinton is
an UNPRECEDENTED attack on our Democracy.
Comey broke long-standing FBI protocol by politically interfering with the outcome of an election. And by refusing to provide ANY meaningful evidence or justification for his actions, he seems perfectly comfortable with flagrantly abusing his power.
We have had enough of this. We're demanding an IMMEDIATE termination of this glorified witch-hunt. Will you join us?
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Over 100 of Comey's own colleagues, former federal prosecutors and Justice Department officials, have condemned his actions.
Politicians across the political spectrum -- from progressives to the conservatives in the Freedom Caucus -- have decried his political interference. In fact, it seems to be the only thing Washington can agree on.
Yet Comey still refuses to shut down his "investigation."
The truth is, Director Comey has a longstanding record of prosecutorial excess and bad judgement.
This is the THIRD time Director Comey has investigated the Clintons. And this will be the THIRD time he concludes she's innocent -- but it might already be too late.
Hillary's name won't be cleared before the votes are cast. Not unless progressives like us come to her defense.
We need to speak up NOW if we want to shut down the witch-hunt before it's too late. Sign your name if you're with us:
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From: Supreme Court on the Ballot (PFAW) by Alex, Online Team
Subject: Check out PFAW's new ad with MoveOn! (video)
Senate Republicans are trying to SABOTAGE our Supreme Court!
With endless obstruction of President Obama's current nominee and, now, suggestions that they will blockade ANY nominee from a Democratic president, Republicans are once again working against the good of the country in order to ram through their own extreme right-wing agenda.
We just released an ad with our friends at MoveOn highlighting the GOP's obstruction and the urgent need to elect both Hillary Clinton AND a Democratic Senate.
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From: Thomas Scott
Subject: Fw: "Behind 2016's Turmoil, a Crisis of White Identity" by Amanda Taub / NYT Magazine | Race Inquiry
FYI: Very timely and interesting article from the NYT Magazine and referenced in "Race Inquiry". Thanks for sharing JB
http://www.raceinquiry.com/behind-2016s-turmoil-a-crisis-of-white-identity-amanda-taub-nyt-magazine/
Behind 2016's Turmoil, a Crisis of White Identity
The Interpreter, By AMANDA TAUB NOV. 1, 2016
Supporters of Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, during a rally last month in Naples, Fla.
CreditEric Thayer for The New York Times
Call it the crisis of whiteness.
White anxiety has fueled this year's political tumult in the West: Britain's surprising vote to exit the European Union, Donald J. Trump's unexpected capture of the Republican presidential nomination in the United States, the rise of right-wing nationalism in Norway, Hungary, Austria and Greece.
Whiteness, in this context, is more than just skin color. You could define it as membership in the "ethno-national majority," but that's a mouthful. What it really means is the privilege of not being defined as "other."
Whiteness means being part of the group whose appearance, traditions, religion and even food are the default norm. It's being a person who, by unspoken rules, was long entitled as part of "us" instead of "them."
But national and racial identity were often conflated for the white majority. That identity felt to many white people like one of the most important pillars holding up their world — and now it seems under threat.
There are, of course, complicated contours to 2016's unusual politics. In Britain, immigrants from South Asia voted heavily to leave the European Union, citing hopes that curtailing European migration might open space for more people from Asia. In the United States, frustration with and alienation from status quo politics have helped drive Mr. Trump's rise.
There has also always been a certain fluidity to this concept of whiteness. Irish and Italian immigrants to the United States, and Jews in Britain, were once seen as separate from the white national majority, and are now generally considered part of it, benefiting from racial privilege. At the same time, Jews' white skin did not protect them from being cast as outsiders by some of Mr. Trump's supporters who have circulated anti-Semitic memes on social media.
Still, experts see a crisis of white identity underlying much of the West's current turmoil.
"It's fundamentally about 'who are we?'" said Eric Kaufmann, a professor of politics at Birkbeck College, University of London. "What does it mean to be part of this nation? Is it not 'our' nation anymore, 'our' meaning the ethnic majority?
"These kinds of questions are really front and center, even though they're not necessarily verbalized."
The questions can seem like a sudden reversal after decades of rising multiculturalism, through the civil rights movement in the United States and the European Union's opening up of borders.
In fact, academic research suggests that other economic and social transformations unfolding at the same time have led many people to anchor themselves more fully in their whiteness — even as whiteness itself has lost currency.
"When I look at the data, I keep coming back to this issue that it's really about identity politics," said Elisabeth Ivarsflaten, a professor at Norway's University of Bergen who studies Europe's far-right parties. "This is the most powerful predictor of support for the populists."
A "Leave" rally in London in June, before Britain's referendum on European Union membership.
CreditAdam Ferguson for The New York Times
Gains and losses in a changing world
Identity, as academics define it, falls into two broad categories: "achieved" identity derived from personal effort, and "ascribed" identity based on innate characteristics.
Everyone has both, but people tend to be most attached to their "best" identity — the one that offers the most social status or privileges. Successful professionals, for example, often define their identities primarily through their careers.
For generations, working-class whites were doubly blessed: They enjoyed privileged status based on race, as well as the fruits of broad economic growth.
White people's officially privileged status waned over the latter half of the 20th century with the demise of discriminatory practices in, say, university admissions. But rising wages, an expanding social safety net and new educational opportunities helped offset that. Most white adults were wealthier and more successful than their parents, and confident that their children would do better still.
That feeling of success may have provided a sort of identity in itself.
But as Western manufacturing and industry have declined, taking many working-class towns with them, parents and grandparents have found that the opportunities they once had are unavailable to the next generation.
That creates an identity vacuum to be filled.
"For someone who is lower income or lower class," Professor Kaufmann explained, "you're going to get more self-esteem out of a communal identity such as ethnicity or the nation than you would out of any sort of achieved identity."
Focusing on lost identities rather than lost livelihoods helps answer one of the most puzzling questions about the link between economic stress and the rise of nationalist politics: why it is flowing from the middle and working classes, and not the very poor.
While globalization and free trade have widened economic inequality and deeply wounded many working-class communities, data suggests that this year's political turmoil is not merely a backlash to that real pain.
In Britain's referendum on membership in the European Union, low education was a much stronger predictor of people voting "leave" than low income, according to an analysis by Zsolt Darvas, a senior fellow at the Bruegel research group.
A recent Gallup study found that Mr. Trump's supporters tend to earn above-average incomes for their communities, but also tend to live in majority-white areas where children are likely to be worse off than their parents.
Arlie Russell Hochschild, the author of "Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right," describes a feeling of lost opportunity as the "deep story" of the rural Louisiana communities she spent four years studying.
Supporters took photos with their phones as Mr. Trump arrived for a rally last month in Sanford, Fla.
CreditEric Thayer for The New York Times
Her subjects felt like they were waiting in a long line to reach the top of a hill where the American dream was waiting for them. But the line's uphill progress had slowed, even stopped. And immigrants, black people and other "outsiders" seemed to be cutting the line.
For many Western whites, opportunities for achieved identity — the top of the hill — seem unattainable. So their ascribed identity — their whiteness — feels more important than ever.
Whiteness is becoming less valuable
Michael Ignatieff, a historian and former Liberal Party leader in Canada, said that in much of the West, "what defined the political community" for many years "was the unstated premise that it was white."
The formal rejection of racial discrimination in those societies has, by extension, constructed a new, broader national identity. The United States has a black president; London has a Muslim mayor of Pakistani descent.
But that broadening can, to some, feel like a painful loss, articulated in the demand voiced over and over at Trump rallies, pro-Brexit events and gatherings for populist parties throughout Europe: "I want my country back."
The mantra is not all about bigotry. Rather, being part of a culture designed around people's own community and customs is a constant background hum of reassurance, of belonging.
The loss of that comforting hum has accelerated a phenomenon that Robin DiAngelo, a lecturer and author, calls "white fragility" — the stress white people feel when they confront the knowledge that they are neither special nor the default; that whiteness is just a race like any other.
Fragility leads to feelings of insecurity, defensiveness, even threat. And it can trigger a backlash against those who are perceived as outsiders.
Even some conservative analysts who support a multiethnic "melting pot" national identity, such as the editor of National Review, Reihan Salam, worry that unassimilated immigrants could threaten core national values and cultural cohesion.
The effect of rapid change
Social scientists, after crunching data from both sides of the Atlantic, have discovered something surprising: It's not the amount of racial or ethnic diversity in a community that predicts white resentment and support of anti-immigrant policies, but the pace of change.
Denmark, for instance, is 88 percent white Danish today — hardly a majority in jeopardy. But a generation ago, in 1980, it was 97 percent white. The anti-immigrant Danish People's Party is now the second-largest party in the Danish Parliament. In Germany, where the foreign-born population shot up by approximately 75 percent between 2011 and 2015, the anti-immigrant, populist Alternative for Germany party is now drawing record support.
A rally for Mr. Trump in Tampa, Fla. Experts see a crisis of white identity underlying much of the West's current turmoil.
CreditEric Thayer for The New York Times
Britain saw a 66 percent increase in its foreign-born population between 2004 and 2014. Voters who chose "leave" in the recent referendum overwhelmingly cited immigration as their main concern.
Professor Kaufmann and a colleague, Gareth Harris, found that white Britons who lived in areas that are rapidly diversifying became more likely to vote for the right-wing British National Party. Daniel Hopkins, a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, found a similar pattern of ethnic change leading to anti-immigrant politics in the United States.
Immigrant populations in Arkansas, North Carolina and Tennessee have more than tripled since 1990, noted Lee Drutman, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, in an analysis for Vox. Anxiety over those changes may explain why the Republican Party became so much more focused on limiting immigration over that period — and why white voters in those states overwhelmingly support Mr. Trump.
The whiteness taboo
For decades, the language of white identity has only existed in the context of white supremacy. When that became taboo, it left white identity politics without a vocabulary.
If you are a working-class white person and you fear that the new, cosmopolitan world will destroy or diminish an identity you cherish, you have no culturally acceptable way to articulate what you perceive as a crisis.
Some of these people have instead reached for issues that feel close to their concerns: trade, crime, the war on drugs, controlling the borders, fear of Islamist terrorism. All are significant in their own right, and create very real fears for many people, but they have also become a means to have a public conversation about what society's changes mean for white majorities.
Professor Ivarsflaten cited the U.K. Independence Party, whose official platform focused on Brexit but whose pitch to voters emphasized immigrants' effects on the economy and culture, as an example of an effective hybrid populist pitch.
The approach has in some cases moved from the political fringes into the mainstream. Some leaders from Britain's center-right, governing Conservative Party, for example, helped push a British exit, and since the referendum the new Conservative prime minister, Theresa May, has signaled sympathy with white identity politics.
Mrs. May's government proposed a rule that would publicly shame employers who hired foreign workers. And her first major speech was full of barbs directed against multiculturalism, including a jab against people who claimed to be "citizens of the world," whom she called "citizens of nowhere."
But the struggle for white identity is not just a political problem; it is about the "deep story" of feeling stuck while others move forward.
There will not likely be a return to the whiteness of social dominance and exclusive national identity. Immigration cannot be halted without damaging Western nations' economies; immigrants who have already arrived cannot be expelled en masse without causing social and moral damage. And the other groups who seem to be "cutting in line" are in fact getting a chance at progress that was long denied them.
Western whites have a place within their nations' new, broader national identities. But unless they accept it, the crisis of whiteness seems likely to continue.
A version of this article appears in print on November 2, 2016, on page A6 of the New York edition with the headline: Behind the Gathering Turmoil, a Crisis of White Identity.
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