Their finest hour?   Our President is a pathological liar.  Look it up.  His statements are tracked by multiple fact checking sites, such as Snopes, FactCheck, and WAPO.  All agree that overall, the President has averaged about 6 or 7 false or misleading claims a day; in June and July, the president averaged 16 a day. That is pathological.  His response to being exposed as a liar multiple times a day is to shout “fake news” about any story he does not like and to attack the source.  He has called the media “the enemy of the American People.” He has said that “our country’s biggest enemy is the Fake News so easily promulgated by fools!” He has described journalists as “the most dishonest human beings on Earth.” On Thursday he called the media “horrible, horrendous people.”“They can make anything bad, because they are the fake, fake disgusting news,” he said.  Why does he do it? Leslie Stahl of CBS said that Trump told her“you know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all, so when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you.”  Let that sink in.  The President is carrying out a campaign of disinformation. By creating an environment for his supporters where nobody believes anything any more, he makes informed opinion impossible and opens the door for the lunatic fringe of conspiracy theorists, like QAnon.  By casting himself as victim, he invites his supporters to see themselves as victims also. If Trump is being attacked, they are too.  And they will attack the attackers.  This is getting dangerous. Jim Accosta Tweeted frightening scenes from a rally in Tampa.  Bret Stephens has described threatening phone calls he has received. The publisher of The NY Times told Trump, reporters are going to get hurt – here in the U.S. Or overseas where Trump has legitimized attacks on the media by authoritarian regimes.  Reach out and hug a journalist today. And while you are at it, call Leonard Lance and tell him to condemn the President’s attacks on our freedoms. His silence is complicity. NJ 7 deserves a Congressman that defends a free press. Your vote matters in November.   #RememberinNovember #NJ07

People in America are at shock of what is happening at the Mexico-United States border. Images, especially of a 2-year-old girl from Honduras crying while a U.S. border agent pats down her mother has been seen by millions throughout the country and our world. Families being separated, children placed in detention or sold to human traffickers being combated by the slogan #KeepFamiliesTogether. But this is just the latest iteration of the crisis at the border. A crisis that has its foundation established centuries ago, and now, it’s apparatus well maintained into the 21st century. Washington D.C. need not look past a mirror to see how that monster had been created.

You've undoubtedly seen it, particularly as online news consumers:  The pre-election spin has started, and that machine is working overtime to wind its way into the fluid workings of the GOTV effort and deposit wrenches where gears meet. There are and will continue to be many attempts to unravel the commonality that binds us together as we work toward November, as a citizenry engaged in protecting our lowercase-d democratic ideals.  There will be attempts to pull activists apart into factions, to raise issues that fracture our unity and would turn our focus away from defense of humanity and the planet toward controversy and internal strife.   Don't allow it!  Actively refuse.  #Resist as vigilantly as you oppose cruel governance! We have held strong, together, all this time - leading marches, calling for action, demonstrating, writing, speaking to media, speaking to neighbors, standing up for ourselves and our people, insisting to the world as each new GOP Administration attack on America rolled out that we know we are only as safe as the least protected among us.  We fought and continue to fight for healthcare, for tax fairness, for our earned benefits, for the environment, for education, for our immigrants, for science, for food security, for decency as policy guidance.  We have work yet to do, but leading into November we should naturally be able to celebrate our two year anniversary as a movement (and in alliance with activist groups that have been fighting injustice for much longer than two years) with a string of election-day victories over the cruel, inhumane policies of the GOP Administration and the unacceptable inaction of the GOP-controlled 115th Congress to stop those policies. So long as we stay together and stay focused on the betterment of our people, our nation and the earth, we have an advantage we must not squander.  We are not alone in wishing for a blue wave, either.  It isn't only our international friends calling for capital-D Democratic victories.  As former GOP strategist Steve Schmidt said, "The party of Trump must be obliterated."  He called the party "corrupt, indecent and immoral."  Conservative columnist George Will wrote a column imploring voters to vote against the GOP, calling Congressional Republicans "the president's poodles" who "have failed to be worthy" of their offices.   Eyes on the prize, friends!  We want a Congress that will take action on behalf of people, the planet and progress.  The only way we get to that goal is by working together, and refusing the attempts to pull us apart.  We must be vigilant gatekeepers to the morale of our own movement.  Reject the wrenches! We have at the time this is written only 121 days remaining to make sure that the best-available candidates win their seats on November 6, 2018, and to be sure that as many moral and decent voters turn out to the polls as possible on that date to secure those victories.  Are you doing everything you can to secure victory on that date?  What more can you find time to do?   Can you canvass and distribute candidate literature door-to-door?  Can you make phone calls?  Studies show that few efforts motivate voter turnout more positively than personal conversations. Can you send postcards to voters?  Can you write post-it notes on vote-by-mail ballots, buy some stamps and envelopes, and mail them out to infrequent voters to request votes by paper ballot this year?  Talk to your local or county-level democratic committee or your favorite activist group about canvassing and phone banking, or for the 'Post It Posse' email [email protected] to get started.  ATNJ has created a user-friendly proprietary database similar to VAN that can help with everything from phone banking to walking lists. The blue wave happens with blue work!  We have the people, the unity, the moral high ground and popular opinion on our side.  Keep those advantages and use them.   Eyes on the goal, blinders on, and let your words from now until November serve to motivate the movement.  121 days left!  Let's do this!  #StrongerTogether    ______________________________      Author: Christine Clarke              Environmental Director- Action Together New Jersey              Chairwoman of the Jefferson Township Democratic Committee              

In the documentary: "Park Avenue: Money Power and Greed" there is a scene where a woman is running a food pantry. There is a long line of people, some young, some with children, many elderly and waiting to get food to eat for the the week. When, in an abrupt fashion, the woman comes out and says: "Sorry! We are all out of food! Please come back next WEEK!" Then she has to repeat herself, to an elderly Latino man and woman. "Sorry Papi. Sorry Mami. Next week." The place where the scene takes place? The Bronx.

Moral Leadership Means Showing Up, And Leonard Lance is Hiding Children as young as nine-months old are being ripped from their parents at the U.S. border. Senior Trump administration officials are blatantly lying about the Republican policy and who is the blame. The U.S. government has reportedly lost track of many children. Lawyers representing the parents and foreign diplomats are trying to desperately find them on American soil.