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What Happened Today – August 7

🟡 GovBrief Intensity Score 108
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📚⚖️ We learned this a long time ago.

Don’t gamble with retirement savings, don’t lock people up for their heritage, and don’t sell policy for cash. Today’s orders, purges, and donor wins try to make breaking those rules feel normal, but they are not. It takes about 3.5% of us in sustained, peaceful action to force change, so call your representatives, find a local action, and bring a friend.

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Today’s Quote

“I welcome the F.B.I. coming to the state. But they won’t be arresting anyone because there is no federal law that prohibits those Texas House Democrats from being here.”

-Illinois Governor JD Pritzker, speaking to reporters on August 7.

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