Five Things to Amplify From the States This Week June 2, 2022

Here are five stories from states across the country that we would appreciate your help in amplifying this week, from the backlash House GOP members are facing back home over their vote against emergency funding to address the baby formula shortage to Republicans’ ultra-MAGA agenda that includes plans that could phase out Medicare and Social Security:

1. Salisbury Post: Democrats call out Ted Budd on formula shortage vote
 
Key Point: “Members of the North Carolina Democratic Party (NCDP) held a press conference outside the office of Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) Wednesday morning, chastising him for his vote, along with 191 other Republicans, against a proposal to give $28 million in aid to the Food and Drug Administration to address an extreme shortage of baby formula. In fact, the entire North Carolina Republican U.S. House delegation voted against the Infant Formula Supplemental Appropriations Act…”
 

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2.  Washington Post: At NRA gathering in Texas, Winsome Sears says guns aren’t the problem

Key Point: “Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R) offered a full-throated defense of gun rights Friday at a National Rifle Association meeting in Texas, acknowledging the horror of this week’s shooting at a Uvalde elementary school but blaming it on a range of social factors from lack of prayer in schools to ‘emasculated’ men and pandemic safety protocols.”
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3. Fox 8 News: Lt. Gov. Robinson delivers impassioned speech at NRA summit as nation reels from Uvalde

Key Point: “[North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson] vowed, as he has in the past, to continue fighting against gun control, saying that its proponents want to ‘disarm’ Americans, accusing federal lawmakers supporting gun control of wanting to leave ‘patriotic citizens of this nation unarmed and defenseless…We are not going to go off into that good night, without standing up for our rights.’”
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4. Milwaukee Courier Online: The Republican Party’s Anti-Senior Agenda

Key Point: “The older population is, right now, facing a clear and present threat: namely, the Republican Party’s anti-elder agenda. Right now, even as we speak, the Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee has proposed a plan that, if successful, would sunset all federal programs in five years — which would include Social Security and Medicare…t’s no surprise, however, when we consider that the Republican Party has long waged war against Social Security and Medicare.”
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5. Kansas City Star: 1 in 5 state GOP lawmakers in far-right Facebook groups, study says

Key Point: “The numbers are staggering,’ said Devin Burghart, executive director of IREHR, which has monitored extremist groups for decades. ‘The findings show how deeply the far-right has penetrated state politics.’ […] The Facebook groups deal with issues including COVID-19 denial, immigration and critical race theory. Some promote the ‘Stop the Steal’ movement, whose aim was to overturn the 2020 presidential election. And other groups, Burghart said, are influenced by ideas associated with the far-right paramilitary, sovereign citizens and the Posse Comitatus, a violent, racist and anti-Semitic movement.”
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