Publisher offers book free for five days starting March 1
When the Republicans stole the White House for at least the second time in 16 years in 2016, many more people rose up against this latest injustice than in 2000. They hit the streets in protests and rallies, organized social media opposition campaigns, wrote guides on how to effectively oppose Republicans at town hall meetings, and took similar actions.
Not Our President: The Movement against the Agenda of Tricky Don & Wingman Mike covers their story. The roughly 55,000-word book written by progressive journalist Jack Thor is being offered by Amazon Digital Services at .amazon.com/dp/B06WWJLCWK for just $2.99. It will also be free for five days starting March 1.
The book details what people such as former congressional staffer Ezra Levin and librarian Rebecca McCorkindale are doing to oppose the harmful policies of Donald Trump and Michael Pence, and make a difference to restore confidence and integrity to the U.S. political system. It spins the story forward with recommendations on how readers can aid in this movement, including a list of about 300 resources to obtain more information.
"The development of a grassroots movement to oppose the Trump administration is a very important story," said Jack Thor, 57, a journalist, photographer, and activist for more than three decades. "Many people who were not really involved in politics before have become involved, largely through social media. I know I stepped up my involvement again after the Republicans stole another election.
"This is just too much," continued Thor. "I was mad as hell about how Bush and the Republicans stole the White House in 2000, but for them to do this again is really a travesty. This is not a petty burglary we're talking about. This is the theft of one of the most cherished institutions our country has, done right before all of our own eyes once again. And we just let them get away with it. Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Tom Paine, and others are probably still rolling over in their graves. If you can fix an election like this, you can fix almost anything."
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up with hundreds of footnotes and sources that are linked to Internet pages,
The book goes on to detail what organizations like the ACLU, social media activists, and politicians like U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., are doing to restore confidence in the White House and U.S. electoral system. It includes recommendations for further action from people like Michael Moore, Robert Reich, Angela Davis, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Barbra Streisand, and U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr.
Jack
Thor's past books include
His
essays and columns have appeared in numerous ezines and blogs, including
Conservative talk show host Rush "Fat Bastard" Limbaugh once called him a "liar" on his show, probably in reference to Thor calling Limbaugh "the biggest lying, Dominican Republic-underaged-girl-screwing sack of sh*t that ever got on the air." Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry once said he should suffer and initiated an investigation of him after he wrote about alleged homosexual activity of Trump's energy czar. Thor once debated G. Gordon Liddy about the First Amendment and other issues on the Watergate crook's radio show while driving his car 80 miles an hour through rural Tennessee.
Some stories he has broken include Dick Cheney continuing to live in his Texas home after he claimed to have moved to Wyoming and selling the home to a big Republican donor who already had a mansion in the same neighborhood. He was the last writer to interview Margie Schoedinger, a Texas woman who filed a sexual assault lawsuit against George W. Bush and died via a gunshot wound that was ruled a suicide a few months later.
When conservatives claimed that not even liberal types would defend actor Chevy Chase calling Bush a "dumb f*ck" in public, Thor did just that, showing how Bush and Cheney had used profanity in public repeatedly. His reports on Arnold Schwarznegger -- who he has come to actually admire in an odd way ' and others were so revealing that the Los Angeles Times, CNN, and others called to follow up.
Thor has also strayed into political activism at times. In 2003, he organized a petition drive to oust former hard right-winger Tom DeLay from office and presented copies of the petition signed by several thousand fellow Americans to the offices of leaders of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. Others did likewise, and the efforts helped lead to DeLay's ouster and conviction.
In addition, Thor has had photographs and poetry published. After the latest Republican theft, he shortened his name from "Jackson Thoreau" to "Jack Thor" to make it flashier and more pointed. The name is a pseudonym taken from a combination of a late dog and one of his favorite writers.
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