F'ck Joe Manchin

Friend, as I am writing this, Europe is facing what some have called the ["heat apocalypse"](: the United Kingdom is experiencing all-time record heat, wildfires are burning in France and Spain, northern Italy is suffering one its worst droughts in decades, and over a thousand people have died from excessive heat in Portugal and Spain. As we know all too well, these extreme heat conditions are not isolated to Europe. Just this month, the famed giant sequoias which have been standing for millennia in Yosemite National Park were threatened by wildfire. In Texas, state energy officials warned of power blackouts and brownouts due a strained power grid amid record breaking temperatures. Meanwhile, 35 million Americans were under excessive heat warnings. Unfortunately, this is becoming all too common. As many scientists have predicted, climate change will make extreme heat events like these more and more frequent. However, Senator Joe Manchin must be sitting pretty comfortably on his air conditioned [yacht]( because he just [killed]( Democrats' chance of advancing real climate change solutions this year. Manchin cited concerns over inflation for shooting down the climate and energy investments that were to be part of the budget reconciliation bill. As [Senator Bernie Sanders]( pointed out this weekend, “This is a guy who’s a major recipient of fossil fuel money, a guy who has received campaign contributions from 25 Republican billionaires… In my humble opinion, Manchin represents the very wealthiest people in this country, not working families in West Virginia or America,” Manchin is not on the ballot this November, but we can render this obstructionist obsolete come November. Fortunately, we have the opportunity to increase Democratic numbers in the very next election. There are Republican-held Senate seats in swing states Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina that are both winnable by Democrats and up for election in 2022. [If we can hold on to all of our current seats and win two more, then Manchin will no longer be able to block climate change investments, filibuster reform, and other progressive policies that he alone has been able to block. Can you give $1 to three campaigns in key elections to help flip these Senate seats from red to blue?]( [DONATE]( Thanks for all you do, Amanda McKay, Daily Kos If you wish to donate by mail instead, please send a check to Daily Kos, PO Box 70036, Oakland, CA, 94612. Contributions to Daily Kos are not tax deductible. (Please note that we may be slow to process checks during the coronavirus outbreak.) Sent via [ActionNetwork.org](. To update your email address, change your name or address, or to stop receiving emails from Daily Kos, please [click here](.