We Should. But We Can’t

A once-in-a-century pandemic cannot be the only thing that slows mass shootings in this country. It’s time for leaders everywhere to listen to the American people when they say enough is enough. pic.twitter.com/7MEJ87Is3E

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 23, 2021

Refusing To Settle

In the year since their friends were killed, the students of Parkland refused to settle for the way things are and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 14, 2019

Today would have been Jordan’s 24th birthday. I am honoring my son’s life by working for common sense solutions to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Rep. Lucy McBath (@RepLucyMcBath) February 16, 2019

The President’s Day

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President Barack Obama makes a statement about a shooting that killed three police officers and wounded three more in the Louisiana capital of Baton Rouge on Sunday

The President’s Thinking Hours

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Michael D. Shear: Obama After Dark: The Precious Hours Alone

“Are you up?” The emails arrive late, often after 1 a.m., tapped out on a secure BlackBerry from an email address known only to a few. The weary recipients know that once again, the boss has not yet gone to bed. The late-night interruptions from President Obama might be sharply worded questions about memos he has read. Sometimes they are taunts because the recipient’s sports team just lost. Last month it was a 12:30 a.m. email to Benjamin J. Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser, and Denis R. McDonough, the White House chief of staff, telling them he had finished reworking a speechwriter’s draft of presidential remarks for later that morning. Mr. Obama had spent three hours scrawling in longhand on a yellow legal pad an angry condemnation of Donald J. Trump’s response to the attack in Orlando, Fla., and told his aides they could pick up his rewrite at the White House usher’s office when they came in for work. Mr. Obama calls himself a “night guy,” and as president, he has come to consider the long, solitary hours after dark as essential as his time in the Oval Office.

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He works on speeches. He reads the stack of briefing papers delivered at 8 p.m. by the National Security Council staff secretary. He reads 10 letters from Americans chosen each day by his staff. “He is thoroughly predictable in having gone through every piece of paper that he gets,” said Tom Donilon, Mr. Obama’s national security adviser from 2010 to 2013. “You’ll come in in the morning, it will be there: questions, notes, decisions.”  One night last June, Cody Keenan, the president’s chief speechwriter, had just returned home from work at 9 p.m. and ordered pizza when he heard from the president: “Can you come back tonight?” Mr. Keenan met the president in the usher’s office on the first floor of the residence, where the two worked until nearly 11 p.m. on the president’s eulogy for nine African-Americans fatally shot during Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. Three months earlier, Mr. Keenan had had to return to the White House when the president summoned him — at midnight — to go over changes to a speech Mr. Obama was to deliver in Selma, Ala., on the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” when protesters were brutally beaten by the police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. “There’s something about the night,” Mr. Keenan said, reflecting on his boss’s use of the time. “It’s smaller. It lets you think.”

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Defeating The NRA And Saving Lives Means Showing Up Everyday

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W/ GOP on recess, we (the constituents!) can go to district offices & ask why members thought gun debate wasn't pressing enough to stay inDC

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  (@igorvolsky) June 23, 2016

Lots of people tweeting me to ask what they can do to help #NoBillNoBreak besides just calling offices. Try this! twitter.com/igorvolsky/sta…

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  (@igorvolsky) June 23, 2016

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@igorvolsky People can follow @MomsDemand & join (it's free) here: act.everytown.org/signup/Join-Mo… We also do work at state houses, so important!

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Becky (@Rebecca_221B) June 23, 2016

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Early Bird Chat

This is what @repjohnlewis endured to vote. He's not afraid of GOP turning off cameras or lights #NoBillNoBreak https://t.co/C4EpAqJQHe

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Ari Berman (@AriBerman) June 23, 2016

John Lewis staging a sit-in Nashville in the 1960s v John Lewis staging a sit-in in Washington in 2016 https://t.co/w2EoTG7fWj

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georgia (@normanisreyes) June 22, 2016

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All Times Eastern

11:45AM: President Obama meets with Treasury Secretary Jack Lew

2:55PM: President Obama departs the White House

8:30PM: President Obama arrives in San Jose, California

9:05PM: President Obama arrives  in San Francisco, California where he will remain overnight

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Retweet this picture to tell @SpeakerRyan that @repjohnlewis doesn't need a lecture about sit-ins! #NoBillNoBreak https://t.co/Tj4SR39zjG

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Guy Cecil (@guycecil) June 22, 2016

Publicity stunt for standing against gun violence? Here's American hero @repjohnlewis. #NoBillNoBreak https://t.co/nB4YxXgkCn

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David Simas (@Simas44) June 23, 2016

#NoBillNoBreak: Good Trouble

Dem members chanting, holding signs with names of individual victims of gun violence https://t.co/LX0qK1MNoG

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Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 23, 2016

A version of "We Shall Overcome" is sung on the House floor CNN.it/go cnn.it/28NtGL5

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  (@CNN) June 23, 2016

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From a Republican colleague of mine as he walked off the floor: "We're going to have a drink and a cigar. Enjoy your protest." Really.

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Rep. Ted Deutch (@RepTedDeutch) June 23, 2016

The optics of this are amazing. The GOP is literally doing the will of the big banks while Dems are begging for action on guns.

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Jason Karsh (@jkarsh) June 23, 2016

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Wow-- HUGE crowd outside the House chamber shouting "do your job!" Had no idea they were here. https://t.co/vi721RotYu

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Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) June 23, 2016

GOPers leaving the House are greeted by protesters booing at them. "Your approval rating is 9%!" "Asshole!" Bad pic: https://t.co/QQhyuZWzU0

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Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) June 23, 2016

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Scene outside the House door of the Capitol #NoBillNoBreak https://t.co/rqRzUtZvaX

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Luke Russert (@LukeRussert) June 23, 2016

I'm in tears, I've thought long & hard about gun control. Let me just say the #NoBillNoBreak sit in, is amazing! https://t.co/ehOEL1oCuJ

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Jerome Trammel (@MrJeromeTrammel) June 23, 2016

Gun Safety Laws: Let Your Voices Be Heard

Gun violence requires more than moments of silence. It requires action. In failing that test, the Senate failed the American people.

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President Obama (@POTUS) June 21, 2016

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1week after terrorist kills 49, 53 senators vote against barring suspected terrorists from buying guns These senators got millions from@NRA

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  (@igorvolsky) June 20, 2016

Democrats @SenatorHeitkamp and @SenatorTester vote against expanding background checks.

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  (@igorvolsky) June 20, 2016

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.@joniernst one of the top recipients of @NRA $$ just voted against expanding background checks: https://t.co/VNrWPzuLnu

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  (@igorvolsky) June 20, 2016

.@SenJohnMcCain -- the top recipient of @NRA $$ ($7.7 MILLION) -- just voted against expanding background checks https://t.co/t8Idpj7qDX

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  (@igorvolsky) June 20, 2016

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.@GrahamBlog just voted against expanding background checks to all gun sales: https://t.co/ncyOBZFhnv

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  (@igorvolsky) June 20, 2016

.@SenThomTillis who received MILLIONS from @NRA just voted against expanding background checks https://t.co/eJVahNTPKq

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  (@igorvolsky) June 20, 2016

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.@sendavidperdue, one of top recipients of @NRA $ in 2014, so he obviously voted AGAINST expanding background checks https://t.co/isv5zmMYaC

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  (@igorvolsky) June 20, 2016

.@marcorubio felt so compelled to re-enter public service after #orlandoshooting, he just voted AGAINST expanding background checks

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  (@igorvolsky) June 20, 2016

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.@SenTomCotton was another big recipient of @NRA $ in 2014. Just voted against expanding background checks https://t.co/F6aX9OjuES

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  (@igorvolsky) June 20, 2016

.@SenRonJohnson - who described gun votes as "nonsense debates" - just voted down expanding background checks: https://t.co/dQruIlJULe

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  (@igorvolsky) June 20, 2016

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.@SenJohnThune just voted down expanding background checks https://t.co/xoB60PMqNU

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  (@igorvolsky) June 20, 2016

.@SenatorBurr just voted against barring suspected terrorists from buying guns: https://t.co/ikfnq87snK

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  (@igorvolsky) June 20, 2016

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.@JohnCornyn voted against allowing AG to stop transfer of gun to suspected terrorist https://t.co/S14eKvFUoo

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  (@igorvolsky) June 20, 2016

.@RoyBlunt votes against allowing Attorney General to stop transfer of gun to suspected terrorist https://t.co/H46NPoqecK

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  (@igorvolsky) June 20, 2016

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.@SenJohnMcCain top recipient of @NRA $ votes against allowing AG to stop transfer of gun to suspected terrorist https://t.co/ri3PsapTKz

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  (@igorvolsky) June 20, 2016

Call 1-844-USA-0234, enter your zipcode, & be connected to your 3 reps. Support universal background checks + hate crime prevention act.

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deray mckesson (@deray) June 20, 2016

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Senators who voted for/against expanding background checks to all gun sales. Amendment failed 44-56 https://t.co/NgmA78AS7L

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  (@igorvolsky) June 20, 2016

Every senator who voted AGAINST background checks & how much they got form @NRA (Heitkamp not pictured, got $0) https://t.co/ahT7RWwiQC

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  (@igorvolsky) June 20, 2016

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The fight continues

I am disappointed in results of the votes tonight. But I know we will not stop fighting to end gun violence. https://t.co/IhFtz3Wx9W

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Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) June 20, 2016

Early Bird Chat: Standing With Orlando

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All Times Eastern

10:00AM: President Obama receives the Presidential Daily Briefing

1:00PM: Press Secretary Josh Earnest holds the White House Daily Briefing

3:15PM: President Obama visits with wounded warriors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland

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