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Jimmy Kimmel has been roundly praised for his emotional speech on his show last night, in which he defended the Affordable Care Act after describing how his newborn son required open heart surgery last week to stay alive.

But Joe Walsh, former Illinois Congressman and current right-wing talk show host, wasnt moved, tweeting this response:

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Walshs response drew a lot of ire from Obamacare supporters, but none more so than Patton Oswalt, who brought up a scandal from Walshs past that many of the radio hosts critics are quick to use against him.

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During Walshs term in the House of Representatives from 2011-2013, the Tea Party politician was sued for $117,000 in unpaid child support by his ex-wife. The two settled the lawsuit out of court, agreeing afterwards in a statement that Joe is not and was not a deadbeat dad and does not owe child support.

Still, the lawsuit was used in attack ads against Walsh during his 2012 re-election campaign, which he lost to Democrat Tammy Duckworth. Then, about a month after Walshs term ended, the child support issue surfaced again amidst reports that he sought a reduction in his required child support payments due to his employment being terminated through no voluntary act of his own.

Regardless of what his settlement statement said, the deadbeat dad label has been chasing Walsh for years, and his put down of Kimmels speech prompted another round of such clapbacks.

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Kimmel returned to Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday night after abruptly taking a week off from the show. He explained his absence in a tearful speech recounting how he discovered shortly after the birth of his second child that the newborn required immediate open heart surgery and would require several more surgeries over the next several years of his life.

The late-night host went on to point out that while he and his wife could easily afford the cost of these surgeries, less fortunate families facing the same situation may not have been able to afford the medical procedures necessary to keep their child alive.

We were brought up to believe that we live in the greatest country in the world, Kimmel said. But until a few years ago, millions and millions of us had no access to health insurance at all. You know, before 2014, if you were born with congenital heart disease, like my son was, theres a good chance youd never be able to get health insurance, because you had a pre-existing condition. And if your parents didnt have insurance, he added, You may not even live long enough to get denied because of your pre-existing condition.

If your baby is going to die and it doesnt have to, it shouldnt matter how much money you makeNo parent should ever have to decide if they can afford to save their childs life. It just shouldnt happen. Not here.

Late-night TV is in the midst of a renaissance era, afire with jokes about President Donald Trump during his first 100 days in office. Take Seth Meyers, who discussed Trump's first "100 Dayz and Confused," taking a closer look at his unfulfilled promises. He called Paul Ryan by the wrong name and assailed POTUS' plethora of tweets.

Trevor Noah summarized the first week of Trump's presidency, highlighting his infatuation with Fox News and the creation of his own untrue reality.

Following Trump's first press conference, Colbert waded through a mess his responses. Trump got "Devos-ified" and the late-night host ribbed POTUS' gripes over "very fake news" reporters.

Fallon pulled out his famous Trump impression for a segment on his "YUUUGE" wheel of decisions that explain the president's erratic actions.

Using Kellyanne Conway's favorite phrase, Kimmel delivered his version of alternative facts and Trump's need to see a "C-I-A-chiatrist" (you know, a psychiatrist who deals in anxiety brought on by fears of Central Intelligence Agencies).

Alec Baldwin, Kate McKinnon and Beck Bennett won laughs in this "Saturday Night Live" skit that featured POTUS, Steve Bannon and Angela Merkel.

One of John Oliver's most successful segments highlighted the serious problem of "a president capable of standing in the rain and saying it was a sunny day."

In this Conan O'Brien segment, Trump asks Obama for advice on the press, tweeting toilets and his Valentine's Day plan with Putin.

Trevor Noah covered the annual White House Easter Egg Roll -- highlighting Trump forgetting to place his hand on his heart and Steve Bannon's transformation into the Easter Bunny.

Colbert discussed Trump's frequent trips to Mar-a-Lago -- or as he likes to call it, his "timeshare in crazy-town" -- and his accompanying Twitter freak-outs.

After the "in-ugh-uration" and the international shows of solidarity at the Women's March, Meyers covered reactions to the "most popular president since Obama."

In this "SNL" segment, Baldwin as POTUS makes an appearance on the People's Court and battles with the judges of the ninth circuit.

Kimmel compiled footage from several of Trump's meetings of him "moving stuff around"-- and it's funnier than it sounds.

Samantha Bee's coverage of Trump's "hard power budget" criticizes the massive cuts to education and ignorance about climate change, calling Trump's America "figurative hell... might as well make it literal hell too."

There has been no shortage of material when it comes to POTUS

Late-night TV is in the midst of a renaissance era, afire with jokes about President Donald Trump during his first 100 days in office. Take Seth Meyers, who discussed Trump's first "100 Dayz and Confused," taking a closer look at his unfulfilled promises. He called Paul Ryan by the wrong name and assailed POTUS' plethora of tweets.

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Kathy Ponce is a 46-year-old restaurant manager from Fontana who is active in the local tea party movement.

I would give him an A-minus. Im very happy with many of the things hes done, his stance on immigration, of course, and thats what he ran with during the primaries.

His stance on climate change yes, theres climate change but the regulations that were imposed on our country were killing businesses. And you have to have a balance of regulations and be business-friendly and be able to bring jobs to the country.

Its disappointed me that the judges are using, in my opinion, emotion versus legality (on the travel ban) Its not a Muslim ban. Its an extreme vetting process that we need to put in place in our country. I mean look at whats happening in England, in Germany, in France. And its gonna happen here. Its just a matter of time unless we get extreme vetting in place.

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The only thing I wish he would do is just defund these sanctuary cities. And defund California. Its a sanctuary state now Hes taken a stand. He wants the border wall. Hes met some roadblocks with the travel ban. And I just wish he would step it up and defund these sanctuary cities.

It bothers me because I think Californias just been so, for eight years theyve been able to do whatever they wanted to do without any accountability. And now we have a president thats saying these are federal laws and we need to uphold them. And as a conservative, I agree.

I feel more confident because we have someone to back (conservatives) up. And not only that, but some of the things the state of California is doing right now are stupid. And its only feeding into our ability to say, Whats going on? California is the only rogue state thats gone wild? How do you feel about that? So its easy to kind of bring up what Californias doing to get more of the people on your side.

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I think (coverage of links between President Donald Trump and Russia are) fake news. Do I think that Russia meddled a little bit? Yeah. But they have all along. This isnt the first election they have. And honestly, if Hillary didnt have such crap on her, there would have been nothing to bring out.

I think its going to continue to be exciting. Every morning, you wake up and youre like, OK, do I look in my emails? I think its going to continue to be a lot of pushback from the left. But you know, were going to get the Supreme Court back. And if nothing else in the four years that he accomplishes, we have a conservative on the Supreme Court.

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The Greater Douglas Chamber of Commerce invites the public of all ages to attend a community Tea Party, to be held on Sunday, April 30 at 1:30 p.m. at the Douglas-WIlliams Home, 1001 D Avenue.

Attendees are encouraged to dress in traditional tea party attire; sun hats and dresses, tea gloves, costume jewelry etc

Tea and other cold drinks will be provided, along with tea sandwiches and an assortment of appetizers and desserts.

Entertainment includes a Best Hat Contest, photo booth, music, prizes and etiquette class with Miss Douglas Days.

The Chamber has also invited attendees to bring their homemade appetizers or desserts to be entered in a potluck-style contest.

The cost to enter will be $5 per child, and $6 for adults. All proceeds will benefit the Miss Douglas Days 2017 pageant, and the GDCOCs efforts to promote local commerce.

Special garden seating will be available with a $10 reservation, which can sit up to six people.

This is a perfect chance to get in some bonding time with friends and family, said Nubia Romo, Executive Director, GDCOC. There are going to be plenty of cute photo opportunities, and lots of good company. I hope we see people there of all ages.

The Chamber is currently seeking sponsorships to make the event even stronger, Romo noted.

Sponsors are critical to us because we are a small Chamber, Romo said. Last year we did a lot with very minimal funds, so this year we want to make our events even better.

Current sponsors include Aqualife, AE Memorials, and the Douglas Historical Society.

For more information on ways to get involved, call (480) 268-6436.

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Lisa Gehrke, left, and Lisa E. Hansen, middle, at a Resist Trump protest in Oshkosh, Wis. Hansen says Donald Trump's election first depressed and then mobilized her. (Lisa Mascaro/Los Angeles Times/TNS)(Photo: Lisa Mascaro, TNS)

OSHKOSH, Wis. Lisa Gehrke knew to hold her tongue during a business trip to Chicago the night Donald Trump was elected, enduring a long evening of schmoozing with the other sales reps and executives.

Back in her hotel room the next morning, she drew a hot bath and sobbed.

Then her sadness turned to an anger that startled even her. The 55-year-old mom, never particularly active in politics, went outside, looked up at the nearby Trump Tower office building and flipped the icon of the new president the double bird.

From that point, there was no turning back. Within days she had organized a Trump resistance group, donned a pink pussyhat and drove 14 hours with a carload of like-minded crusaders to the Womens March in Washington.

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Were all terrified at whats going on that our country is going to be somehow ruined, said Gehrke, who kick-started early retirement to focus almost full time on civic activism. Im dedicating my life to trying to stop that spinning out of control. Im just a little ant, you know, but right now, thats what I can do.

President Trumps election has mobilized thousands of first-time activists in a do-it-yourself movement like nothing seen on the political left in years. With bountiful energy and some impressive early successes, the grass-roots movement has stunned even Democratic Party officials, drawing comparisons to the tea party movement that transformed the GOP with its unyielding opposition after President Barack Obamas election.

Women like Gehrke and much of the movement is being fueled by women are organizing nationwide via Facebook, email and often tearful support meetings around kitchen tables.

The Indivisible Project, launched after Trumps election, has already sprouted nearly 6,000 chapters nationwide, at least two in each of the 435 congressional districts.

More established activist groups like MoveOn.org which holds weekly Resist Trump Tuesdays protests are enjoying a surge in membership, particularly in blue states, but most surprisingly in some deep-red pockets, where liberals had largely kept quieter. One Colorado activist said that in past years, event turnout rarely matched the number of advance sign-ups; now it routinely surpasses it.

Lisa Gehrke at a Resist Trump protest in Oshkosh, Wis. (Lisa Mascaro/Los Angeles Times/TNS)(Photo: Lisa Mascaro, TNS)

These newly minted activists along with other long-standing protest groups on the left flooded the U.S. Capitol switchboard during Senate confirmation hearings for Trumps Cabinet, pushed Democrats to filibuster Neil M. Gorsuchs Supreme Court nomination and helped tank the presidents plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act often by noisily protesting at lawmakers town hall meetings.

With old-school organizing and modern-day social media they have formed instant communities that can mobilize hundreds even thousands as a group of stay-at-home moms in Kenosha, Wis., did recently to protest Trumps visit there.

We always told our kids theres a lot of really smart people in our country, and we all want to make it better, said Julia Kozel, one of the women who organized the Kenosha rally. But I dont feel like I could say that anymore.

Like the tea party activists before them, many of the resisters as they call themselves are newcomers to the political process. And much in the same way tea party activists grieved for the country they no longer recognized under Obama, these women recount being devastated that fellow Americans elected Trump and say they are fighting to restore their own vision of the country.

Publicly, Democratic officials embrace the newfound energy on the left. Party strategists even marvel at the large turnouts that they had been unable to achieve in recent years.

But privately, many Democrats also worry the movement is whipping up a deep-rooted emotional and ideological fervor, much like the tea party did in blocking Obamas agenda. Unpredictable and with no clear leadership, the liberal uprising could prove difficult to contain and may turn its anger currently focused on Trump toward the Democratic Party itself, just as the tea party fractured the GOP.

Wounds from the 2016 primary battle between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont still run deep among Democrats, and the protest movement could split the party further between moderates and progressives.

Resisters gather for a weekly protest outside GOP Sen. Ron Johnson's office in Oshkosh, Wis. (Lisa Mascaro/Los Angeles Times/TNS)(Photo: Lisa Mascaro, TNS)

Even Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., a favorite among progressives, found herself under fire after voting to confirm Housing Secretary Ben Carson. Some progressives threatened to challenge the Massachusetts liberal in the next primary.

California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein felt pressured enough to hold her first town hall in years early this month. There she was heckled as a sellout from an occasionally rowdy crowd of liberals.

When airport protests erupted over Trumps first travel ban, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., raced to Dulles International Airport to demonstrate his solidarity.

No party is safe, said Jeanne Peters, a jewelry designer in West Virginia, whose Indivisible chapter has started calling its House member and both its Republican and Democratic senator every weekday with a coordinated message, such as demanding a congressional vote on Syrian airstrikes or opposing the GOP health care plan.

If the threat from the left wasnt evident enough, a new political action committee, #WeWillRreplaceYou, is raising money to back primary campaigns against Democrats they view as insufficiently progressive much the way outside conservative groups targeted RINOs, politicians they considered Republicans in Name Only.

Voters who are fed up with the Democratic Party at every level want to see their Democratic representatives stand up and fight Trump, said Claire Sandberg, a former Sanders organizer who is a co-founder of the PAC.

Another group run by former Sanders allies, Brand New Congress, is recruiting challengers for every single House district Democrats and Republicans alike in 2018.

Rep. Ted Lieu, a progressive from Torrance, Calif., known even in Oshkosh for his pointed tweets about the president, acknowledged the risk for Democrats as passions run like nothing he has ever seen.

People call my office all the time, and they want President Trump impeached two months ago, he said. We just have to tamp down expectations.

The groups make it no secret that they are using the tea party playbook to fight Trump.

The tea party had a method of organizing that works, said Hillary Shields, 32, a paralegal whose Indivisible group drew nearly 150 to a Saturday spring training for activists in Kansas City, Mo. Why reinvent the wheel?

Ezra Levin, a former Capitol Hill staffer who is president of the Indivisible Project, helped fuel the movement by posting online a how-to organizing guide that borrows heavily from the tea party. The goal of this tactic isnt just to target Republicans. Its to stiffen the spines of Democrats, he said.

But while the resistance groups share many similarities with the tea party, it remains to be seen how far they are willing to go to block Trumps agenda. Would they be willing to shut down the government, as the tea party did over Obamacare, for their own priorities say, to save Planned Parenthood or stop Trumps travel ban?

The moms sitting around the dining room table at Kozels house the day after the Kenosha protest shake their heads no, saying they wouldnt want to disrupt government operations or break laws with civil disobedience.

Our endgame is getting people elected, said Kozel, as three of her school-age kids munched doughnuts and played nearby.

But others know playing nicely may only go so far. I think the Democratic Party needs to be more progressive, and thats what Im trying to do, Gehrke said.

She recently joined others writing postcards to lawmakers at the Oshkosh home of Lisa E. Hansen, 51, a former graphic artist who had never been politically active much beyond casting her vote.

And then the election happened, Hansen said. She said she sunk into a depression, spending her days scouring the news to make sense of it all. Only when protesters turned out for the Womens March did she think to herself: I can do that.

Now every Tuesday, Hansen, who is partly disabled by Lyme disease, puts her walker in the trunk of her familys car and heads to downtown Oshkosh to Republican Sen. Ron Johnsons office, where a few dozen resisters have been protesting every week since the inauguration.

She dials up the senators office on Mondays to say that her group is coming and would like a meeting. The senator has not agreed to meet with them. But his staff comes out to hear their concerns, and sometimes Hansen brings them snacks.

On a recent Tuesday, more than two dozen protesters quietly formed a neat line outside the office with homemade signs reading, Not paying for Trumps wall! and Dont let Wisconsin values be Trumpd.

The Tuesday protests were supposed to last only for the first 100 days of the new administration. But as that date approaches, no one wants to quit, so they agreed to extend it for another 100 days.

Its given me a sense of purpose, Hansen said. Maybe we should send Donald Trump a thank-you note. He brought all of us together.

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