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If you want some help writing to Senators or the President, feel free to cut, paste, or modify this:

Please, for the love of your country,, and the Constitution, request President Biden order a full FBI background nvestigation of all appointees for the incoming administration. Conduct hearings. Please make a stand for your constituents and your fellow Americans in demanding that every move against us be challenged and defeated.This is a list to start action on now:

1. Vote down the legislation permitting a president to shut down any nonprofit she/he allege to be terrorist or un-American. Our democracy needs these organizations.

2. Demand full FBI background checks on those who wish to disrupt democracy and our Constitutional rights.

3. Request President Biden give blanket preemptory pardons to all journalists, community leaders/officials, and known opponents to autocratic rule. Protect those who have tried to protect us. Blanket pardon all who have rallied, voted, signed a petition or voiced opposition to dictators, would-be dictators, or those who have not been elected to govern.

4. Preemptory pardons forNative Americans, minorities, nonresidents,

immigrants, and all who live in this at-risk nation

5. Pass the No Kings Act.

6. Please allow no adjournments while the Democrats hold this majority. Protect our Constitution--No more recesses in this Senate. No breaks, no holidays, no sick-outs.

7. Serve this democratic experiment and protect it. Your country needs you now. Our children and grandchildren need you.

Please do everything you can to safeguard this democratic republic.

Thank you.

Respectfullly,

No attribution necessary. Have at it:

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What always amazes me is that se few actual new regulation & laws get passed to control the VERY OBVIOUS lawbreaking going on, even when they have control of the levers of Government. We are stymied on every front because of this lack of action - it makes me want to yell "what the hell are you all DOING while in office?" !!!

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The best way to get the most attention of your representatives is a phone call.

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I do both! By any and all means , contact them and keep contacting them.

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Im in Utah

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Too bad.

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Hey Molly, it’s personal question, do you walk your dog in Taylorsville?

I think I saw you or someone that looks like you this morning walking small dog in our neighborhood there

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Oh, and my dog is big!

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No, I don't know where that is. I am in Virginia.

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I remember that whole fiasco. If only it could be that easy to sue and imprison the tyre fyre smoldering at the doors of the White House. Thank you for all that you do, I look forward to your unvarnished truth every day

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A much larger and more sinister case than the Frye Festival. Peoples lives are at stake . . . Medicare and Social Security.

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I'm well aware. Congress and POTUS have apparently been pulling some shenanigans with SSA, SSDI, Medicare, and Medicaid. Knowing the malevolent actions of Project 2025 is going to require a Devine intervention.

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Hope. NONE of the orange baby man's clown show would be happening if he was disqualified day one after forensic psychiatrist Dr Bandy X Lee's report of the five dangerous mental pathologies of Donald Trump.

"World Mental Health Coalition"

https://youtube.com/@dangerouscasenow2523?si=OzNy4LkMVxd8JzHZ

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I knew tfg was dangerous after reading about him back before Obama. I read all the books and posted at every occasion about what Dr Lee was trying to get out to the public

The APA American Psychiatric Association claiming the Goldwater Rule at the time shut everything down. DUTY TO WARN. Failed because concerns about funding.

Wonder how mental health care will suffer now that the patients are now in charge of the asylum so to speak?

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Dr. Bandy Lee was fired from her position at Yale after the APA shut down DUTY TO WARN.

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Thank you! I've been sharing some of Dr. Lee's information; and, now, I can share the link to the videos.

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I saw the Netflix version as we don't get Hulu in Ireland. I have to check it out again if it's still available to see you, Ben! I remember me and my husband looking at each other in utter amazement - whole new level of WTF right there!!

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Can only hope you & all involved with this outlet get involved again. So much corruption coming in in Jan 20,2025 it’s overwhelming. We see it & hear it.

This is not our America any longer & the corruption must be stopped & held accountable.

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Annie - our new word: kakistocracy, which means government by the worst people.

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I was just sharing with my mom your work as a lawyer for “we the people” and she was like “that’s cool”. Ben you and your brothers have been ordained to do the work you do so please continue to keep going because it is bearing good fruit 💙

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That was interesting to find out. Who knew then where that case would lead you, but glad you are here now. The election results are still a shock to so many of us, but I hope we have it in us to do what it takes to keep our democracy so our descendants can read about it in the history books. I have been reading Heather Cox Richardson’s newsletters about the history of democracy being challenged over many years, so hopefully Americans will be able to save it again.

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Some of the most interesting books I am reading right now are history told from a personal perspective. Currently, ‘Thinking the Twentieth Century,’ Tony Judt and Timothy Snyder. I was always curious about the Frye Festival. Reading that you were involved in finding justice for those participants who were duped is great comfort. Thank you

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Dr. Tim Snyder (Yale professor) and Tony Judt are remarkable historians and activists, both brilliant. Let me just say that reading them or watching Dr. Tim's video lectures from Yale definitely expands our minds and our awareness.

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Living and learning. It was a conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates and Dr Snyder about Tony Judt, Ill Fares the Land’, which I recently listened to which lead me to this book and many others. They open our minds!

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I agree.

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Wow Ben! No idea that was you!

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I love these little bombshells you drop! Had no idea you were involved in fighting that festival frat-boy scheme. Really good work. :)

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We can only hope Trump does not last the term of office. Trump has no mandate, but he does have an agenda. Since he turns everything to sh@t that he touches, he will do the same to the government and our associations around the world. He is too stupid to do anything else.

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You would think that millions of people fervently wishing he'd just keel over would tempt the Norns. So far, not.

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Interesting story, and thank you, but it's distressing to read that the organizer of the festival is out of prison and planning a Fyre Festival II in 2025. There's also a Rolling Stone article from July about how Billy McFarland was involved in acquiring endorsements for Trump from hip hop artists. So I'm assuming he's expecting a pardon, if not a position in the incoming administration. It's just sad to think about how many more people will be exploited financially because of this one guy and his connection to the most powerful person in the world. It's sickening.

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You're quite the guy, Ben. So glad you're on our side - the side of helping people seeking justice, freedom, truth - and I thank you wholeheartedly for all you've done thus far.

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We’ve got your back! The whole Meidas Mighty Community is with you and all the Meidastouch contributors.

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Thank you for always fighting for what is right and just.

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