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As I am a stakeholder in USAA, I just wrote to tell them we are watching and deeply disappointed in support of reckless radicals who are putting women into harm’s way, criminalizing a Constitutionally-protected medical procedure, and endorsing vigilantism. If you own stock -- or are a customer of -- any of these companies, it can't hurt to let them know you oppose their political positions.

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It hurts them even more to bring my business elsewhere. There's so many alternatives to every product or service each of those companies offer, it's not that hard to spend money with companies that have better values

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It is incomprehensible to me why Biden is dragging his feet on adding SCOTUS judges other than his self-anointed title of the king of bipartisanship. Surly even he realizes by now Republicans want less than zero to do with that and instead are hell bent on obstruction, corruption & singularly focused on single party rule & power. In the meantime Women are being referred to as “host bodies” and people of color are being stripped of their voting rights. All the while Biden keeps reaching his hand out to people who want nothing more than to rip it off his body and hit him with it. 😠

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Host bodies, ouch. Hadn’t heard that.

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Yep. That’s all we women are according to the GQP

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Gosh even Marjorie Taylor Greene? Haha what is she hosting? (A rhetorical question)

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I can't possibly be the only person to have noticed that the new Texas abortion law, as is usual with most such laws, will have a disproportionate effect on those with little or no income AND that those with little or no income are often from ethnic groups some of those Texas Republicans are worried will "replace" them.

There's a delicious irony in waiting for the white birthrate to continue to fall and for that fall to accelerate relative to the BIPOC birthrate...

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If this doesn’t spark the Democratic administration (that controls the White House and both houses of Congress) to enact Roe v Wade into constitutional law or to expand the Supreme Court to the law prescribed 13 in the next year and a half this country will not survive with a democracy intact!

And why are we allowing these conglomerates to just buy up their competition — whatever happened to the anti-trust laws we are supposed to be such champions of in this country?

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Judd, you are right on top of the LYING CHEATING anti-progress, anti-democratic corporations of the USA. Thank you!

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Your work is great.

But shaming doesn't seem to be making much headway. I fear that many businesses feel like they they can take the flack.

Do you have any strategic ideas for making change happen?

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I'm boycotting Texas-based businesses.

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Thank you, once again, Judd for exposing the injustices in our government, both state and Federal. We are cancelling our extensive insurance coverage with Farmer's because of this and because (according to your previous posts) they continue to support the insurrectionists. I hope that your columns make people realize that our spending is our leverage for change.

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Welcome back, and wow. You don’t miss a beat. (That’s a MUSICAL term and not a reference to a fetal heartbeat. which BTW does not signal viability in any way shape or form, and fairly routinely is followed by miscarriage, aka spontaneous abortion.)

Let’s get real people - Earth is already way overpopulated and if anything we should be PAYING women to abort. Not that I’m opinionated or anything.

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Ps thank you especially for including donors to The Federalist Society. They are loathsome and far too powerful for the common good.

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Nice logo! 👏

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In search of an ethical cell phone service. If AT&T and T-Mobile are bankrolling this agenda, is there an alternative? Tough to switch when between them they own all tower infrastructure.

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My "Libertarian" son who is a Intellectual Properties lawyer, asks how much did they donate to politicians on the other side, the pro Roe vs Wade guys.

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Hi, I posted a link to this article plus the graphic of the corporate donors to the Texas legislators who sponsored SB 8. I got this comment that I am passing along to you in case you want to look into it: " ...there’s a difference between employee contributions and corporate contributions. Go to Open Secrets to find out how much of which. I looked at USAA and found the corporation didn’t give but employees did."

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I know that from my work in volunteer health organizations.

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AT&T donations 2020

Recipient Total From Individualsimore info From Organizationimore infoTypeimore info

Biden, Joe $1,344,478 $1,344,478 $0 Candidate (D-PRES)

One Vote at a Time $1,338,710 $1,338,710 $0 Outside Group

DNC Services Corp $511,750 $511,750 $0 Political Party

Trump, Donald $392,743 $392,743 $0 Candidate (R-PRES)

Sanders, Bernie $317,053 $317,053 $0 Candidate (I-VTS1)

Democratic Congressional Campaign Cmte $260,731 $230,731 $30,000 Political Party

Ossoff, Jon $223,416 $223,416 $0 Candidate (D-GAS1)

Republican National Cmte $213,427 $168,377 $45,050 Political Party

National Republican Senatorial Cmte $209,751 $89,151 $120,600 Political Party

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte $204,981 $174,961 $30,020 Political Party

Liberal/Democrat Conservative/Republican No View

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Sorry, but I can't make heads or tails of this. It looks like there's something significant here, but I just can't parse it.

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Do you have a link you can share. This formatting is hard to decipher. Thanks!

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As a wealthy White feminist and activist, I resent this comment. At least I would if I had time for resentment.

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Thank you; excellent reply.

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