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Category: Widgets: Letters of protest

Senior analyst quits Defense Intelligence Agency, citing U.S. “slide into authoritarianism”

August 14, 2020 Gloria Shur Bilchik Democracy, Foreign Policy, Protest/Resistamce, Resignations, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

It was another of the many “last straws” in the Trump era. Kyle Murphy, a senior analyst in the US Defense Intelligence Agency, went

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750 historians say Trump should be impeached

December 17, 2019 Renee Shur 2020 Election, Activism, Candidates, Constitution, History, Protest/Resistamce, Trump, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

With the release of a public letter explaining their reasons for supporting the impeachment of Donald J. Trump, more than 750 American historians are

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Navy

Secretary of Navy resigns after Trump undermines military justice

November 25, 2019 Gloria Shur Bilchik Military, Trump, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

Whether he was pushed out or resigned, Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer did not leave quietly. When Trump meddled in the disposition

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whistleblower

90 top US national security pros say whistle-blower did the right thing

October 7, 2019 Gloria Shur Bilchik Ethics, Good government, Protest/Resistamce, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

While the Trump administration blusters and tries to discredit the brave staffer who blew the whistle on Trump’s politically motivated extortion of the president

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senators

Former U.S. Senators urge colleagues to defend democracy in a “dangerous era”

February 6, 2019 Renee Shur Activism, Democracy, Protest/Resistamce, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

A stunning and unprecedented moment occurred on December 10, 2018, when forty-four former senators – among them, thirty-two Democrats, ten Republicans, and two Independents

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tariffs

Protest letters: Economists try to educate Trump on perils of tariffs

February 6, 2019 Renee Shur Activism, Economy, History, Protest/Resistance, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

In May 2018, more than eleven hundred American economics teachers and  economists, among them eleven Nobel Prize winners, banded together to sign an open

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op-ed

Top Trump official publishes devastating op-ed in New York Times [anonymously]

September 5, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik Activism, Government, Letter to the Editor, Media, Politics, Protest/Resistance, Transcripts, Trump, Widget: Transcripts, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

The New York Times took the rare step, today, of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay. The author, an unnamed, senior White House official, delivers

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student loan

Student Loan Watchdog Quits Trump Administration with scorching resignation letter

August 28, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik Consumer issues, Ethics, Good government, Resignations, Transcripts, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

Mick Mulvaney, Donald Trump’s appointee to head up [translation:destroy] the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau comes in for devastating criticism in a letter of resignation

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Steve Schmidt

Republican strategist Steve Schmidt renounces GOP membership

June 20, 2018 Renee Shur People, Politics, Protest/Resistance, Republicans, Resignations, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

Republican strategist and party loyalist Steve Schmidt’s painful statement today on why he has decided to leave the Republican party is well worth reading

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Fox

Why he quit: Fox News analyst denounces propaganda channel

March 21, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik Media, Resignations, Transcripts, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

Calling Fox News “a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration,” Lt. Colonel Ralph Peters [US Army, retired]  quit his job

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