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For Immediate Release
January, 12 2021, 11:00pm EDT
Contact:
Ryan Thomas
ryan@standupamerica.com
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Stand Up America Applauds Bipartisan Vote To Impeach Trump, Urges Swift Conviction In Senate
Group drove 28,000 constituent calls to House members demanding impeachment.
WASHINGTON
Following the bipartisan vote in the House of Representatives impeaching Donald Trump for a second time, Stand Up America Founder and President Sean Eldridge released the following statement:
"We applaud the bipartisan group of lawmakers who upheld their oath of office by standing up for our Constitution and our democracy by impeaching Donald Trump for inciting last week's deadly insurrection and failed coup attempt.
"His high crimes are too grave to ignore and the danger he poses too great to allow him to remain in office--or ever hold it again. The Republicans who voted against impeachment put their loyalty to a seditious president over their duty to support and defend our Constitution.
"The Senate must now move as quickly as possible to convict, remove, and disqualify Trump from ever seeking federal office again."
Stand Up America drove 28,000 constituent calls to the House of Representatives since Friday urging them to immediately vote to impeach Trump, including more than 10,000 calls to Republican lawmakers in recent days.
In 2019 and 2020, the group was one of the leading grassroots organizations pressuring Congress to impeach and remove Trump from office, driving more than 375,000 constituent calls to Congress.
Stand Up America is a progressive advocacy organization with over two million community members across the country. Focused on grassroots advocacy to strengthen our democracy and oppose Trump's corrupt agenda, Stand Up America has driven over 600,000 phone calls to Congress and mobilized tens of thousands of protestors across the country.
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Dr. Adam Hamawy, a retired US Army combat surgeon who in 2024 volunteered at a Gaza hospital amid Israel's genocidal assault, handily prevailed Tuesday in the Democratic primary race in New Jersey's 12th Congressional District after running on a message of "healthcare, not bombs."
"I am going to Congress to fight for you—for healthcare, not bombs, to abolish ICE, and to unrig the economy once and for all," said Hamawy, the heavy favorite to win in November in the deep-blue district. "I will never take money from corporate PACs or AIPAC. I will always vote my conscience—I will be beholden to no one."
Justice Democrats and IMEU Policy Project, progressive organizations that backed Hamawy with $200,000 in mail ads, celebrated his victory in the crowded primary, where the surgeon received nearly 10,000 more votes than the second-place candidate.
“Dr. Adam Hamawy’s heroism and commitment to human rights were at the heart of his campaign to end Washington’s bottomless budgets for war abroad and to invest in communities at home," the groups said in a joint statement. "Voters were drawn to Dr. Hamawy’s candidacy because he knows firsthand the reality of Israel’s genocide in Gaza like few do—having worked to save the lives of Palestinian children under bombardment and unimaginable conditions."
"His experience is necessary in Congress now more than ever, as too many of the people meant to represent us continue to look the other way while our tax dollars fund injustices here and abroad," they added. "Dr. Hamawy will not look away from injustice, because he is unbought and committed to building on his lifetime of service to chart a new path in our politics away from cruelty, and toward compassion for all.”
Hamawy's campaign was also backed by prominent progressive lawmakers, including US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who celebrated his win in a social media post late Tuesday.
"Dr. Hamawy will be a strong progressive voice in the House and, as a physician, he understands our healthcare system is broken and we need Medicare for All," Sanders wrote.
Hamawy, who is running to fill the seat of retiring Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, has spoken openly about his experience volunteering at the European Hospital in southern Gaza, from which he was evacuated in May 2024 after Israeli authorities trapped him and his team in the besieged enclave.
"I have never in my career witnessed the level of atrocities and targeting of my medical colleagues as I have in Gaza," said Hamawy, who served in Iraq. US Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) credits Hamawy with saving her life after her helicopter was shot down in Iraq in 2004.
Speaking to supporters late Tuesday, Hamawy said that "for my whole life, I have tried to tackle the crises we face with my hands, treating patients."
"But I am a surgeon. I don’t like putting Band-Aids on bullet wounds," he continued. "It’s time for some preventative care. To get my patients—and all of us—the care they need, we are going to change the very system that’s hurting us."
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Fired by the network where he had worked for nearly four decades on Tuesday night, veteran "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley said in a statement that he had been directed by the new management team at CBS News, led by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, "to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story" and also "told to include assertions that are unverified" in his reporting.
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“The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable,” Pelley said in his statement, released just hours after Nick Bilton, the show's new executive producer appointed by Weiss last month, announced the firing. “The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well."
Bilton said in his statement that Pelley had been “terminated for cause effective immediately," following a contentious staff meeting on Monday in which Pelley accused Weiss, who was not at the meeting, of being "brought in to kill" the program, not save it.
Despite "repeated attempts to have direct conversations with him over the weekend" and earlier on Tuesday, Bilton said, his efforts "to find common ground" with Pelley were not successful. "That was not the path Scott chose," he said.
Pelley's narrative of events was starkly different.
"Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause," Pelley said in a statement sent to several news outlets. "Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos."
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Pelley concluded: “I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.”
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"In addition to being wrong on the merits, the court’s decision inflicts two grave harms on the public," wrote Sotomayor. "It debases the democratic process by upending Alabama’s entire election in the name of permitting Alabama to discriminate against Black Alabamians. It also corrodes the rule of law by rewarding Alabama’s gamesmanship and outright defiance of court orders."
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