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Thursday on CNNs OutFront, in discussing White House press secretary Sean Spicer saying there are some paid protestors in the wave of rowdy town hall participants objecting to President Donald Trumps agenda, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said it was another lie from the White House because unlike the Tea Party, this is not being funded by the billionaire class.

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After being shown the clip of Spicer, Sanders said, Look, I hope I do not shock your viewers by telling you the White House occasionally lies, and thats just another lie. Whats going on now is that people all over this country are beginning to rise up. Theyre demanding answers to what happens. Erin, if you throw 20 million people off health insurance, thousands of people are going to die.

If you do away with pre-existing conditions, then people are not going to be able to get health insurance who have cancer or have diabetes, he continued. People want to ask their Republican representatives what happens? Why are you doing this? What are your plans for the future? So I think you are seeing people organizing effectively, but unlike the Tea Party, this is not being funded by the billionaire class.

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Jenny Beth Martin, leader of TeaPartyPatriots.org, has announced thaton Wednesday, March 15, 2017the Tea Party will be back in Washington for a rally at the U.S. Capitol.

In an email to Tea Party movement activists and supporters Martin says its time for the Tea Party to go BACK to Washington, DC. President Trump is working to keep the promises he made on the campaign trail, but hes running into opposition at every turn - from the intolerant leftist Democrats, to the mainstream media, and even some establishment Republicans.

Its time for us to show up again in Washington and remind these politicians that its time to start enacting the agenda that will make America great again, wrote Martin.

Among the goals of the Washington rally will be to demand Congress confirm Judge Neil Gorsuch - repeal Obamacare - secure the border - cut taxesand balance the budget within fiveyears.

Jenny Beth Martins email said:

On March 15th, were partnering withFreedomWorksto host a grassroots lobbying day on Capitol Hill. Office visits are one of the most effective ways to make our voices heard in Washington, D.C. and to hold our elected officials accountable. The committee hearing for Judge Gorsuch is set for March 20, which increases the importance of us being in DC together making our voices heard on March 15.

I want to make sure its clear - we will hold a rally, but the major focus of our action for this day is to act as citizen lobbyists and visit Members offices in person. Wouldnt it be great if we could flood their offices with supporters of the Presidents nominees and agenda? If there is even a small possibility that you can make it to D.C. for this day of action, please do whatever you can to be there. Remember, when we show up, we win!!

If you needanymoreinspiration to show up on March 15th, take a look atthis articleabout how local Democratic parties are swelling with new members and excitement, and check out the resistance website, complete with events they are holding in your area. The LEFT is showing up and its time for us to show up in even greater numbers!

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One month into his tenure as the one of the most disliked US presidents in modern history, Donald Trump has created far more headlines than actual policy. Aside from his incendiary rhetoricpainting the media as an enemy, implying the courts may be culpable for some future attackTrumps legislative feats, so far, are scant.

But its still early in this administration, and the president has plenty of timeat least 47 months, in factto find ways to achieve his most ambitious goals, from an effective (and somehow Constitutional) Muslim ban to eradicating the Affordable Care Act. By the same token, the resistancethat amorphous collective of anti-Trump protesters, writers, and legislatorsshould not be patting itself on the back just yet. As evidenced by the loud and often tumultuous town halls that greeted this weeks Congressional recess, this fight is only beginning.

Just as Trumps cabinet is rethinking its policy strategy, those who would oppose Trumps agenda must spend this spring refining their own approach. Crowdsourced guides like Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda, are part of this effort. The new blueprint provides a series of relatively straightforward building blocks. Importantly, the guide notes the importance of pressuring Congress, as well as the White House. Both the House and the Senate, despite their current fealty to the president, still have the tools to derail Trumps darker visions for America.

Guides like Indivisible understand that grassroots disruption is one of the best ways to build strong movements. After a frustrating Electoral College defeat, American liberals know they may have sheer numbers on their sidebut they dont have the structure. Instead of depending on big money organizations like the Democratic National Committee, the anti-Trump movement needs to follow in the footsteps of the Tea Party, which decimated Democratic legislatures at the state and Congressional level across the country during the Obama years. The Tea Party used highly effective messaging and unrelenting enthusiasm. (As The American Prospects Paul Waldman wrote this week, midterm elections are all about enthusiasmwhich almost always means anger.)

The most striking thing about this strategy is its simplicity. The Tea Party didnt simply bring a hefty turnout to the polls, or employ the kind of sophisticated door-to-door approach that ultimately did not work for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election. It also cranked up an angry roar of protest that drowned out the Democratic response.

Despite its seeming spontaneity, the Tea Party was well-prepared. Trump opponents will need to similarly research how their Congressional and local officials have voted. There are plenty of websites that track votes, including VoteSmart.org. Websites like OpenSecrets.org can help track funding (although its prudent to crosscheck findings against the investigative reporting of media outlets). Setting up a Google Alert for specific politicians is also a good way to keep informed in real time.

On the ground, local advocacy groups will need to seek out similar communities already in existence; no matter the county or constituency, many Americans are concerned by Trumps policy proposals. Indeed, this is where Trump opponents may actually find themselves better positioned than the Tea Party. While Obama opponents were formidable, a plurality of American voters preferred Hillary Clinton on Nov. 6. That represents a much broader coalition.

At town halls, advocates would be wise to spread out and stay organized. Its smart to stagger questioning and, as Indivisible recommends, keep a firm hold on the mic. No staffer in their right mind wants to look like theyre physically intimidating a constituent, soif theyre trying to wrest the microphone away from youthey will back off.

Meanwhile, photo-ops are a protesters best friend. Local school events, local business openings are all opportunities to ask officials questions they may have managed to previously ignore. Indeed, the outpouring of dissent has already pushed some elected officials to sneak out of meetings incognito. Businesses care about public perception, too. A Twitter group called Sleeping Giants has successfully convinced hundreds of companies that support the alt-right website Breitbart to stop advertising with them.

In our hyper-wired world, a cellphone recording has become a key tool of protest movements and citizen journalists alike. Getting something on the record, no matter how enthusiastic or milquetoast, is a victory for advocates of all political persuasions. Its almost impossible to know whats going to gain traction on social media. And Congressional officials know this, too.

At the same time, however, Trump opponents in particular need to encourage open dialogue and reward those officials willing to embrace it. This is especially true whenas we saw from South Carolina Rep. Mark Sanford, who hosted a four-hour discussion with anti-Trump constituents over the weekendsuch a move comes from unexpected quarters.

Obviously, violence runs counter to any protests aims. Not only does violence risk damaging the material interests of innocent bystanders, but, as Erica Chenoweth recently wrote, states have easily exploited the appearance of violent flanks to re-assert their legitimacy and suppress larger nonviolent dissent.

Most importantly, Trump protesters will need to persevere. Trump and members of his administration are already claiming that protesters, in an echo of the Tea Partys initial upswell, are little more than paid shills. Thats good news for protesters, at least; it means Trumps team is rattled.

Resistance movements may be built on hope, but the successful ones are also built on a pushback that authorities cant ignore. Ultimately, this means that resistance to Trump will only succeed if it manages to combine tactics with temerity. This is month one of a long slog. It will only succeed if constituents get out the vote for special elections, if they can cohere at every event and every town halland if they can engage and recruit non-traditional allies along the way. After all, as one of the most popular signs at the January Womens March in Washington read, Lots of straight white guys hate Trump too.

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... the ... to read stories of the week has been the way people have been turning out to meetings out in the country ... that lawmakers members of the House and members of the Senate are heading ... back to their home states in the home district ... to protest Donald Trump to protest Trump policies ... to basically go in the attack to some extent against Republican lawmakers at their town hall meetings back home ... give this movement has been dismissed by the White House among some Republicans as ... especially something as manufactured a people who are turnout by organizers on the left who are generating these crowds ... and are certainly some truth to that there is deftly some organizational owns ... behind these people who are turning up at town halls ... but they're also two other factors at work in a probably ... would give Republicans pauses to think about this ... the first is is true that there's some organizational effort to turn out people at these town hall meetings but people tend not to show up just because some is ask them unless they feel some passion in such an extent people are showing up ... to demonstrate passion about unhappiness with the Donald Trump immigration ban for example ... or with the way Republicans are trying to repeal Obamacare you have to see that a summit in genuine not manufactured ... the second thing is that well this movement has been compared to some extent with the tea party movement that came sprung up on the right in twenty ten it has been a factor ever since ... there's one is significant difference only so far the tea party movement a lot of energy was actually directed at Republicans people in the tea party movement on the right side of the political spectrum or angry Republicans ... for not being sufficiently conservative or for not challenging President Obama sufficiently ... so far this movement this town hall angers been directed not at Democrats but Republicans people on the left not going after people in their own party the people of the opposite party and basically try to lay down some markers in that differ ways of the tea party itself while I think Republicans will probably dismiss some of this as manufactured and to some extent fake ... and not representing a majority of opinion in their own districts to show the elements of these town hall protests that think Republicans ... are going to have to take seriously ...

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Republicans who benefited from rowdy town halls six years ago and harnessed a wave of discontent with Democrats to win seats in Congress are learning a hard lesson this week as they return home: The left is happy to return the favor.

Across the U.S., Democrats and their allies are spending this short congressional recess protesting elected Republican politicians who are avoiding the events that often turn into shouting matches.

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Just like the tea party sympathizers who vented against Democrats and President Barack Obama, the new left and left-leaning protesters are taking out their ire on Republicans and their links to President Donald Trump.

In Denver this week, the activists targeted Republican Sen. Cory Gardner denouncing him as inaccessible and beaming a picture of him fashioned into a Missing poster to a wall of the Denver Art Museum while protesting Trumps plans to boost energy production on public lands.

Gardner is supposed to represent us, but where is he? said Emma Spett, a 22-year-old environmental activist from Denver who says shes terrified of environmental policy changes backed by Trump.

Gardner defeated a Democrat in 2010, and used impromptu town hall meetings heavily attended by tea party members in his campaign to rail against Obamas Affordable Health Care Act and incumbent congressional representatives he labeled as out of touch with voters.

Now an incumbent who doesnt face re-election until 2020, Gardner has no town halls scheduled and was met Wednesday at an agricultural forum in Denver by protesters yelling We want a town hall!

He dodged questions from reporters about why he did not plan any, saying that he supports people who are expressing differing points of views but leaves it to his staff to meet with protesters.

Experts say that avoiding town halls is a tactic that constituents detest but a way for incumbents to dodge being berated in widely publicized local events.

If youre there at a town hall meeting and theres hundreds of people there yelling at you, its going to be a media event, said Seth Masket, a political scientist at the University of Denver. Theyre calculating that the bad press theyre going to get from not having a town hall is not going to be as bad as that.

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In Montana this week, Republican Sen. Steve Daines got waylaid with boos and jeers from hundreds of protesters just for rescheduling an appearance before state lawmakers Helena from Tuesday to Wednesday.

What a coward! said Katherine Haque-Hausrath, a protest organizer who demanded he meet with constituents. If he doesnt listen to us now, he can listen to us in 2020 in the election.

Asked why he rescheduled, Daines said he decided to hold multiple events Wednesday and nothing on Tuesday.

He also reminded reporters about the result of last Novembers election: While every voice must be heard in Montana, the reality is the people of Montana rejected Hillary Clinton and voted for Donald Trump.

Suburban Chicago Republican Rep. Peter Roskam decided to interact Monday with voters in a conference call with 18,000 callers, saying town halls are not productive.

People come in, and they get angry and they hold placards and they shout at one another and they feel bad and they escalate and they end up being a disaster, Roskam told The Chicago Tribune (http://trib.in/2kTkCvH ).

And Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert announced he decided to hold telephone town halls only because groups from what he called violent strains of the leftist ideologyare preying on public town halls to wreak havoc and threaten public safety.

In Arizona this week, Democrats organized what they billed as a search party to look for Republican Sen. Jeff Flake, taking their protest to the front yard of his house in suburban Phoenix. He was meeting with patients at Phoenix Childrens Hospital at the time and had no town hall meetings scheduled this week.

Back in Colorado, a Republican elected during the tea-party wave of 2010 traveled to Germany this week to attend the Munich Security Conference instead of returning home to his sprawling district about the size of Arkansas that includes the ski resort towns of Aspen and Telluride plus conservative ranching and mining towns. Some constituents of Rep. Scott Tipton were outraged.

He has every right to be in Congress and he has every right to support President Trump. But if hes going to do that, he needs to tell us why and listen to our concerns, said Dylan Thomas, a Democrat from the small town of Eagle.

But the Republicans accused of going into hiding are getting some sympathy from Democrats they defeated, including former Colorado Rep. Betsy Markey.

Back in 2010, she held town hall meetings focusing on health care only to be greeted by a deluge of conservative protesters who showed up waving yellow Dont Tread on Me flags.

They were pretty rowdy, Markey recalled with a chuckle.

Republicans who played their campaigns to take advantage of the tea party movements populist appeal now need to learn to take what was dished out to the Democrats, she said.

Thats why you were elected, to represent the people. You come back on weekends, you come back on breaks, and you talk to people even if they dont like what youre doing, Markey said.

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