National Latino Farmers and Ranchers Trade Association

09/11/2021

Paulina Alexis hopes starring in the new show Reservation Dogs will inspire the next generation of Indigenous actors.

09/11/2021

"THANK YOU WE HAD GREAT MEETINGS IN VEGAS NATIVE NATIONS EVENTS, ON AMERICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. ALSO, C.E.R.T. LA EVENT WITH HOST DAVID LESTER WHO IS ON O...

09/11/2021

Farmer Town Hall We are planning a Farmer Town Hall on Friday, September 24, in Hartford, CT, and we welcome you to join us in person (and hopefully also online—more details to come). We’ll start at 8:30 am with breakfast and a welcome from Bryan Hurlburt, Connecticut Commissioner of Agriculture...

09/11/2021

The Kansas Black Farmers Association 21st Annual Meeting and Workshop is October 14, 2021, Virtual. Our keynote speaker is our own Lorette Picciano. 10 am CST. you can register for free at www.kansasblackfarmers.org

The Kansas Black Farmers Association (KBFA) was founded in 1999 by farmers of Nicodemus, Kansas, for mutual support and cooperative agricultural market development. Nicodemus, located in northwest Kansas, is the only remaining western town established by African Americans during the Reconstruction p...

09/11/2021

Family Research Council Raises Money for Right-Wing School Board Takeover Campaign
By Peter Montgomery | September 9, 2021 10:02 am

Family Research Council's Tony Perkins hosts the "Pray Vote Stand" podcast. (Image from video of April 7, 2021 livestream)

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/family-research-council-raises-money-for-right-wing-school-board-takeover-campaign/

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins is raising money to promote right-wing takeovers of local school boards, which he claims is necessary to “protect the hearts and minds of the next generation from the left-wing agenda.”

In a fundraising letter dated August 2021, Perkins wrote, “As hard as the COVID-19 pandemic has been on everyone, it did bring one unexpected blessing that I urge you to help me capitalize on.” Perkins continued:

You see, when public schools were forced to go virtual, parents got a front-row seat to the radical anti-faith, anti-family, anti-America indoctrination being force fed to their children.

From gender identity ideology to Critical Race Theory (CRT) and the revisionist 1619 Project branding America as systemically racist from its founding until today, parents realized their local public schools were filling their children’s minds with lies, hatred, and division…

…and they were horrified!
Perkins didn’t hold back on the hype. “The danger cannot be overstated,” he wrote. “These ongoing efforts to indoctrinate our youth are an existential threat to our families, our faith, and to the very freedoms that we have long enjoyed.” He complained that “younger generations have slowly moved from embracing Christian values and loving our country to accepting and even supporting godless forms of government like socialism and communism.”

Religious-right groups have often treated the country’s public schools as culture-war battlegrounds, from trying to dictate the content of textbooks to opposing LGBTQ-inclusive policies. This isn’t the first right-wing effort to reshape public education through school board takeovers, and FRC isn’t alone in this current campaign. Right Wing Watch recently reported that right-wing activist groups like the Leadership Institute, Intercessors for America, and the Center for Renewing America are also fanning fears and resentments over teaching about racism and transgender inclusive school policies to drive up right-wing voter turnout and school board takeovers.

“FRC Action is offering urgently needed expertise, training materials, guidance, and personal connections to help conservatives win local political campaigns,” Perkins wrote in his recent fundraising letter. He claimed that more than 1,200 “parents and concerned citizens” took part in the group’s virtual “School Board Boot Camp” in June.

Perkins, ignoring the national right-wing groups heavily involved in the right-wing school board takeover effort, portrayed the campaign as a grassroots uprising:

In many of America’s 13,800 school districts, grassroots efforts are beginning to nominate conservative, pro-family, pro-American candidates to run against left-wing incumbents. Some have launched recall campaigns to unseat school board members before the next election—before they can do any more to influence our impressionable children.

We need to grow these small and sometimes disorganized efforts into an army of activists ready to do battle on behalf of the family and America.

FRC Action, Perkins said, is “focusing our national expertise on key local elections by providing, at no charge, much needed resources to help replace radical school board members with Christian and conservative parents and other qualified candidates.”

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Family Research Council President Tony Perkins is raising money to promote right-wing takeovers of local school boards, which he claims is necessary to “protect the hearts and minds of the next generation from the left-wing …

09/11/2021

WATCH: Katie Porter Sticks It To Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin cuts the IRS enforcement funding out of the reconciliation bill and then bi***es about pay fors? Come on, Joe.

By Frances Langum

https://crooksandliars.com/2021/09/watch-katie-porter-sticks-it-joe-manchin?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=50315

Stephane Ruhle played devil's advocate with Katie Porter. But Katie was ready.

"You think Joe Manchin is not the only one not down with 3.5 trillion, you're wrong. There are more centrist Democrats letting Joe be the human shield, but they're not going to vote for 3.5 trillion," said Ruhle Thursday morning. Ruhle also mentioned the child care portion of the reconciliation bill, so Katie Porter started with that.

Katie noted that if men were primary caretakers of children in our society, "we would have done something about child care 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago when other countries did it. So I am not today all of a sudden convinced we have the will to deal with child care when we put off the issue decade after decade after decade. People tweet, women's pay day, women are falling behind, glass ceiling. Guess what, child care is the solution."

Then Representative Porter turned to the cost of the reconciliation bill, which, remember, is over TEN YEARS. If we make corporations pay their fair share in taxes, we'll increase revenue, period. And Katie Porter didn't hold back on directing her comments specifically to the Senator from West Virginia:

"Right there, Senator Manchin, anyone that's worried about spending, we can generate revenue so it isn't about 3.5 trillion in spending. We will generate revenue to pay for things. I have the will to do it. The question is, does Senator Manchin? Or is he more concerned about corporate donors, including the oil and gas industry, big pharmaceutical industry and others getting away with paying nothing under the current tax system," said Porter.

So Stephanie Ruhle flipped the script and started playing devil's advocate for the other side: "Shouldn't tax enforcement put more money into the IRS to enforce the existing tax laws, wouldn't that be a great part of the budget?"

Again, Porter took no prisoners: "Heck yes, Stephanie! But look who took that out? The very same people who are complaining we can't afford to make investments in regular American families are the same ones trying to shield the tax cheats of the country. So they can't have it both ways."

And she turned back to that "human shield," Joe Manchin:

KATIE PORTER: I would like to see Senator Joe Manchin come out in favor of fully funding the IRS, in favor of having a fair global corporate tax system. Once we raise that revenue, I am willing to talk to him about what we need to do to create a budget bill that meets his goal and definition of being fiscally responsible. I think it is dead on. It's fiscally irresponsible for Senator Manchin to refuse to raise revenue, and at the same time out of the other side of his mouth that he uses to talk to corporate donors complain we can't pay for things that American families desperately need.
They ended the interview with a short conversation about the California recall. Katie Porter is from California.

PORTER: He [Newsom] is not going to be recalled. We have one of the lowest covid rates and one of the fastest-growing economies. I live in California, raising my family here. Things in California are going well. The recall is part of our California process, it is going to be an election. I have already mailed in my ballot voting no, making sure we continue to have governor Newsom's leadership. Millions of Californians joined me. I can't wait for this to be over September 14th so we can move forward as a state.

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Build Back Better, Joe Manchin, Katie Porter, reconciliation bill, Stephanie Ruhle

Joe Manchin cuts the IRS enforcement funding out of the reconciliation bill and then bi***es about pay fors? Come on, Joe.

09/11/2021

The number of Illinois schools dealing with coronavirus outbreaks is growing.