Dear nancy, Good Afternoon!
Thank you to everyone who donated to the raffle ! Watch your email for prize notices !
Lots in this week's newsletter about early voting and volunteer opportunities, please get involved.
Mark on your calendar next Monday when the Washington NFL football team will be here for Monday night football. What could be more fun than joining local activist, American Indians and others in agitating for a name change? More info below.
Thanks,
Nancy Cunningham
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Early Voting has begun ! Vote and help get folks to the polls !!! | 
There were folks camping out last night all over the state so they could be first in their area to vote ! How incredibly fun is this ?
Find your early voting place in Texas: here
Voter ID info here
Read up or requirements and print of a list and pass them out- offer to drive them!
Volunteering is very fluid right now with lots going on : To sign up to volunteers to drive folks to polls, poll greeters, phone bank etc contact your County Democratic Party headquarters.
All county contact , links and phone number here :
http://www.txdemocrats.org/party/counties
Progress Texas has very nice printable voter guides here
Drive for Democracy ( sign up to offer rides to polls) here
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Texas Voter ID Law Will Be In Effect This Election, Supreme Court Decides | 
WASHINGTON - More than two hours before sunrise on Saturday morning, with no reasoning given to explain its decision, the Supreme Court declined to stop Texas' strict voter ID law from being used in the upcoming election. Texas' law allows seven forms of acceptable identification for voters - the list includes concealed handgun licenses, but excludes college student IDs, which are accepted in other states with similar voting restrictions, the Associated Press reported. Read on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Pens Scathing Dissent On Texas Voter ID Law : must read |
Change the Mascot action : Monday night football | 
Monday, October 27 at 3:00pm -830 pm CDT AT&T Stadium One AT&T Way, Arlington, Texas 76011 On Oct 27, 2014 at AT&T STADIUM, the WASHINGTON REDS#!NS WILL COME TO PLAY THE DALLAS COWBOYS!! A PROTEST/RALLY will be held at the corner of AT&T WAY and RANDOL MILLS. This WILL BE ACROSS from the stadium beside Richard Green Linear Park COME JOIN TO HELP THE FIGHT AGAINST RACISM and to SHOW WE ARE STILL HERE!! Bring poster boards showing your support TO CHANGE THE MASCOT!! This game is a MONDAY NIGHT football game that starts at 8:30pm so plenty of time to get there after work!! |
North Texas Progressive Calendar | 
Monday, October 20: Irving Democratic Women Get-Out-the-Vote Kick-off -- (5 pm -- 8 pm, Email lhobbs1015 AT hotmail.com for directions) North Texas Asian Democrats -- (7:30 PM, Jeng Chi Restaurant, 400 N. Greenville Ave. Suite 11, Richardson 75081) Tuesday, October 21: Election Day Training: Poll Watchers 101 -- Please RSVP by emailing to callred AT battlegroundtexas.com. (11 AM - 1 PM, at Waters Kraus, 3219 Mckinney Ave., Conference Room A [first floor], Dallas Phone Bank with Leticia Van de Putte -- See article above. (6 - 9 PM, CWA Local 6215 Union Hall, 1408 N. Washington Avenue, Dallas) Stonewall Democrats -- Speakers: John Warren - Dallas County Clerk, and Paul Castillo - Attorney, Lambda Legal on Marriage status following SCOTUS actions. (6:30 pm, Ojeda's Restaurant, 4617 Maple Ave., Dallas) Leticia Van de Putte Denton Early Vote Truck Rally in Denton for an Early Voting Rally on the southeast corner of the historic Denton Courthouse Square, Hickory at Elm.The rally begins at 12:30 with local Democratic candidates joining Leticia on stage. Richardson Democrats 6:30 PM Venezia Italian Cafe 908 Audelia Rd, #500 Richardson, TX 75081 Collin County Young Democrats (CCYD) 6:30 PM Mexigo 6205 Coit Road Ste 396 Plano, TX 75024 Wednesday, October 22: Movie night with Jobs with Justice and the DFW Young Workers. 7:30 pmJoin us at the Angelika Dallas (5321 E Mockingbird Ln #230, Dallas) to watch the movie "Pride." This is a film inspired by a true story of two very different communities. In the summer of 1984, the National Union of Mineworkers strike prompts a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers. Rebuffed by the Union and with the strike dragging on, the group sets off to a tiny mining village in Wales to make their donation in person. Thursday, October 23: Grassroots Democratic Coalition 7:30 PM Black Eyed Pea Restaurant 7979 Belt LIne Rd at Coit Rd - Next to Shell Service Station Dallas, TX 75287 Price: $2.00 per person Saturday, October 25: Tarrant County Wild Women Luncheon on October 25th, 2014 from 11:30AM to 1:30PM at the Texas Star Conference Center, 1400 Texas Star Pkwy, Euless, Texas 76040. We are honored to have the Mayor of Houston, Hon. Annise Parker, as our feature speaker for this month's luncheon. HERE |
Election Workers Needed- Denton - for election clerks | 
Election Workers Needed We have a few spots left on Tuesday, November 4 in: Denton - for election clerks, Providence Village - alternate judge,Carrollton - alternate judge. These are paid positions. You must be a registered voter in Denton County and be available to work on election day Tuesday, Nov. 4 from approximately 6 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. with a lunch break. Training (also paid) is required. If you are interested, please call Mary at 940-566-1165 and/or fill out the election worker application by clicking on this link: HERE Dallas County elections here |
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| This Age of Derp
by Paul Krugman
New York Times blog | I gather that some readers were puzzled by my use of the term "derp" with regard to peddlers of inflation paranoia, even though I've used it quite a lot. So maybe it's time to revisit the concept; among other things, once you understand the problem of derpitude, you understand why I write the way I do (and why the Asnesses of this world whine so much.) read on | 
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National Day of Resistance Against Police Brutality and Mass Incarceration on October 22, 2014. |  Mothers Against Police Brutality, DCOC, ACLU, BORD (Bill of Rights Defense), CodePink , Indigenous Liberation Party and other coalition partners will join the National Day of Resistance Against Police Brutality and Mass Incarceration on October 22, 2014.
In 2013, police officers murdered 1,414 people (not all shooting deaths were recorded.) Every 28 hours, a Black man is killed by a law enforcement agent. In the month of August, Dallas had 6 people in 17 days shot by the Dallas Police. In Los Angeles, a police officer kills a citizen at least once a week. As of 9/20/2014, we know that 1,541 people have been killed by the police in this country. Police brutality isn't a Black or Brown issue; it's a Human Rights issue Come Rally and March with us on October 22nd, make a stand against police brutality. In the words of our founder, Collette Flanagan, "It is time to show the world what police brutality really looks like, it is time to show the world what images Mothers are left to see when they identify the bodies of their children killed by policemen that were trained to take lives and certainly feel they have the authority to do so at their discretion. It is time for the world to see this dirty secret." Main Street Garden at 7:00p.m., and march to proceed to Victory Plaza at 7:30p.m. more info here
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CAIR-DFW to Host Academic Forum on ISIS October 23 at SMU | CAIR-DFW will host an academic forum entitled "What ISIS Means : Religious Extremism and the Politics of Fear" Thursday October 23, 2014 from 6:30pm-9:00pm at the SMU HHughes/Trigg Theater on the SMU Campus. The confirmed speakers are: Sheikh Abdul Nasir Jangda-Qalam Institute; Dr. Robert Hunt -Director of Global Religious Studies at SMU; Professor Sahar Aziz- Texas A&M Law School; Alia Salem- Executive Director for CAIR-DFW This forum will be a chance for academic, political and religious scholars to discuss the issue of ISIS from their lens of focus in order to delve deeper into the topic beyond media reports. The confirmed speakers and moderator will be delivering prepared presentations on their assigned topics and then a substantial Q&A session will be held following the talks. The event is free and open to the public. more info here
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