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Category: From the Desk of Al Franken

Trump is so sick

Donald Trump’s not making a big secret about his motives — he says it’s about revenge. He promised a “bloodbath” if he doesn’t win.

My Opening Argument

Yesterday the prosecution and defense gave their opening arguments in what appears to be the only case against Trump that will go to trial before the election.

GUILTY!

Stormy Daniels received a check from Michael Cohen for $130,000. To shut up. Cohen also paid $50,000 to Trump’s doorman who had (bogus) information on a supposed love child Trump fathered.

Why I’m asking for $32:

As you no doubt know, Arizona’s Supreme Court resurrected an abortion ban from 1864 (before it was a state!) that bans all abortions with an exception for the life of the mother. (Generous of them.)

“Shithole Countries”

This weekend Trump threw a fundraiser at the mansion of a hedge-fund billionaire that supposedly raised $50 million. But who knows?

My grandparents’ immigration story

Donald Trump and Republican politicians portray immigrants as murderers and rapists and drug dealers. Republican voters get a steady diet of the supposed carnage caused by immigrants fed to them by Fox News. It’s the only side of immigration they hear.

I can be short-winded.

My often overly critical team tells me my email messages can be a little long-winded. They also tell me short emails can get more contributions.

FWD: HOLY CRAP!!!

Remember this email (see below) that I sent earlier this year saying Trump is not toast?

The Luckiest Kid in the World

I was born in 1951 and grew up in a two-bedroom, one-bath rambler in St. Louis Park, a suburb of Minneapolis. My Dad never graduated high school and worked as a printing salesman. My mom was a real estate agent.

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Somehow, it’s been 20 years since I started Midwest Values PAC to help Democrats win elections — from progressive organizations to state legislatures to Congress to the White House — who share the values I grew up with in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.

Since 2006, Midwest Values PAC has invested more than $4 million in 341 candidates and organizations — and counting. 

Of course, none of this happens without you (or supporters like you) who care enough to pitch in.

As we mark our 20th anniversary, the work is more urgent than ever. This year, we have a big job: flip the House, take the Senate, and win up and down the ballot at the state and local level.

To mark our 20th year, we’ve set an ambitious goal: 26,000 contributions by Election Day 2026.

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Thanks for being part of this fight, and for sticking with us for 20 years (or for just joining — welcome!).

Al

P.S. Over the years, okay, decades, we’ve helped Democrats win tough races all across the country by investing early, intelligently, and strategically. That’s how you flip seats. That’s how you protect democracy. And that’s how you stop the worst impulses of a president who never should have been president in the first place.

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