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Chuck Darwin

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C.IMChuck Darwin (@cdarwin@c.im)Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes — the mail-order boxes and grocery store bags — are sold by a single private company, with its name, #Uline, stamped on the bottom. Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products is now 💥fueling election deniers and other far-right candidates across the country. #Dick and #Liz #Uihlein of Illinois are the largest contributors to Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate #Doug #Mastriano, who attended the Jan. 6 rally and was linked to a prominent antisemite, and have given to #Jim #Marchant, the Nevada Secretary of State nominee who says he opposed the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory in 2020. They are major funders to groups spreading #election #falsehoods, including "Restoration of America", which, according to an internal document obtained by ProPublica, aims to “get on God’s side of the issues and stay there” and 👉 “punish leftists.” Flush with profits from their shipping supply company, the Uihleins have emerged as ⭐️the No. 1 federal campaign donors for Republicans ahead of the November elections, and ⭐️the No. 2 donors overall behind liberal financier George Soros. The couple has spent at least $121 million on state and federal politics in the last two years alone, 🔥fighting taxes, unions, abortion rights and marijuana legalization. The German-American clan made their original fortune in the 19th century as owners of the Milwaukee brewery Schlitz. Family members were staples of the Chicago Tribune society pages. In 1917, Dick’s grandfather was identified as a millionaire in a Chicago Tribune humor item about how the wealthy man had fired an unqualified chauffeur. When Dick and Liz Uihlein donated millions in recent years to the pro-Trump super PAC "America First Action", they were following in a family tradition. Edgar J. Uihlein of Chicago was among the handful of largest donors to the original "America First Committee", the aviator Charles Lindbergh’s group that opposed the United States’ entry into World War II. (It’s unclear whether that was Edgar Sr., Dick’s grandfather, or Edgar Jr., his father, who had just graduated from college.) While "America First" drew supporters from across the political spectrum, it was most associated with rightists. Uihlein’s donation was disclosed in 1941. Later that year, Lindbergh gave an openly #antisemitic #speech assailing Jewish influence. When Edgar Uihlein Sr. died in 1956, his estate was valued at $4.8 million — more than $50 million in today’s dollars — and the money was left in a trust for his heirs, newspapers reported at the time. Dick’s father, #Edgar Uihlein Jr., who had started a plastics company after serving in the Navy during World War II, established himself as 💥an important funder of far-right political groups in the 1960s. A document from 1963 identifies Edgar Uihlein Jr. as on the ⚠️National Finance Committee of the #John #Birch #Society. Founded a few years earlier, the group quickly became a significant force to the right of the Republican Party, known for its obsessively anti-communist politics. The Birchers combined hostility to New Deal social programs with lurid conspiracies, famously campaigning against “the horrors of #fluoridation,” a supposed Red plot. The group fiercely opposed civil rights. An entry in one 1963 Birch newsletter railed against the upcoming March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Martin Luther King would give his “I Have a Dream” speech: “the only good Americans who should have anything to do with this Communist-instigated mob in any way, or pay any attention to it in Washington, are the police required to maintain law and order.” Edgar Uihlein Jr. supported politicians who embraced #segregation. In early 1962, he sponsored a speech that brought to Chicago a former U.S. Army general named #Edwin #Walker. Walker toured the country attacking supposed communist conspiracies and civil rights, while celebrating the Southern defeat of Reconstruction, which he labeled “the tyranny within our own white race.” The Anti-Defamation League, which tracked far-right figures in the period, has archives showing Edgar Uihlein Jr.’s involvement with several other groups and campaigns, including a $1,000 contribution to the presidential campaign of segregationist #George #Wallace in 1968. It’s not clear when, if ever, Uihlein’s association with the John Birch Society ended. As late as 1977, the founder of the group wrote a long letter to him asking for money. https://www.propublica.org/article/uline-uihlein-election-denial?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1724992559&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook,threads,twitter
#extreme#right#wing
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Chuck Darwin

If you’ve received a box in the mail recently, you’ve likely touched ULINE.

As North America's largest distributor of shipping, packaging and industrial supplies, ULINE is an omnipresent supplier in today’s shipping-fueled economy.

ULINE was founded in 1980 by Elizabeth and Richard Uihlein
—heirs to the Schlitz beer company fortune.

ULINE has grown to offer close to 40,000 products and has more than 7,000 employees
—seems like a true midwestern success story, right?

OK, SO WHY SHOULD I “REFUSE ULINE?”

The Uihleins have used their wealth to 🔥funnel millions of dollars into the most #extreme #right-#wing politicians and movements in the United States.

The Uihleins are ranked by the donation-tracking site OpenSecrets.org as 👉the fifth-largest donors in the United States to outside political spending organizations, having contributed a whopping 💥$62.8 million to conservative groups in the 2020 election cycle.

The founders of ULINE were the largest Trump donors in Wisconsin
— and Mrs. Uihlein took a fundraising role with the Trump campaign.

The Uihleins have funneled at least $27 million into “dark money” groups that funded the Republican law makers who baselessly voted to invalidate the 2020 election.

The ULINE founders gave millions to the groups that stormed the US Capitol and organized the Jan 6 insurrection.

The Ed Uihlein Family Foundation poured millions of dollars in 2020 into a sprawling number of groups connected to efforts to challenge Joe Biden’s victory and reimagine election law, as well as other right-wing extremist organizations, including ones designated as hate groups.

The ULINE founders donated over $4 million dollars to bankroll the anti-abortion groups who pushed to overturn Roe v. Wade

The Uihleins donated over $20 million to get Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis) into power, and in turn he personally ensured a tax break for “pass-through companies” like ULINE
—netting $215 million in deductions in 2018 alone.

ULINE received over $700k in government aid since the start of the pandemic
— while the Uihleins poured over $1.1M to vaccine and election conspiracists in 2020.

The Uihleins assail transgender rights and bankroll partisan newspapers that try to disguise as “local reporting.”

ULINE ignored public health recommendations for COVID while accepting federal funds to supply PPE and industrial cleaning supplies.

The Uihleins funded Roy Moore’s campaign in Alabama
—even donating after he was accused of sexual misconduct with underage girls.

refuseuline.com/

refuseuline.comRefuse UlineUline is a purposely political company aligned with extreme right-wing ideology. Despite their politics, millions of small businesses and artists still use ULINE completely unaware of what their dollars are supporting. This needs to end now. Let's refuse to use uline.
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#House #Conservatives #ban #earmarks for some #nonprofits after #LGBTQ project #controversy.

“In catering to their #extremist #wing, #Republicans aim to eliminate #support for the #LGBTQ+ community,” DeLauro stated.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

sourcenm.com/2024/04/26/u-s-ho

Source New Mexico · U.S. House GOP bars earmarks for certain non-profits, after controversy over LGBTQ projects • Source New MexicoU.S. House lawmakers will no longer be able to request earmarked funding for some nonprofits under a change in eligibility made by the Republican chairman of the Appropriations Committee on Thursday.
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Chuck Darwin

Schumer calls for ‘new election’ in Israel in scathing speech on Netanyahu

Senate Majority Leader #Charles E. #Schumer (D-N.Y.) called for the Israeli government to hold a #new #election in a speech warning that Israel risks becoming an #international “#pariah” under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu and his #right-#wing #cabinet.

Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish official in the United States and a staunch ally of Israel, said he thinks Israelis understand “better than anybody that Israel cannot hope to succeed as a pariah opposed by the rest of the world” and would choose better leaders if elections were held.

“I believe that holding a new election once the war starts to wind down would give Israelis an opportunity to express their vision for the postwar future,” Schumer said Thursday in a speech on the Senate floor, in remarks that did not set an exact timeline for a new election.

Schumer, who opened his speech saying he felt “immense obligation” as a Jewish American to speak, stressed that the outcome of that election would be up to the Israelis — not Americans.

The call, from one of Congress’s strongest supporters of Israel, marks the clearest signal to Israel yet that #frustrations over Netanyahu’s handling of the #war in #Gaza are boiling and could even threaten the future of the close relationship between Israel and the United States.
washingtonpost.com/politics/20

The Washington Post · Schumer to call for ‘new election’ in Israel in scathing speech on NetanyahuBy Liz Goodwin
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