Statement from the TCDP Chairman

June was a month of enormous importance. We saw rulings by the Supreme Court that for the first time ever ended a constitutional right —the right of a woman to have agency over her own body.

• We saw a radical majority of SCOTUS override gun laws in New York that had been in place for 100 years. So much for “state’s rights” and stare decisis.

• There have been more than 100 mass shootings since Uvalde.

• Gun violence spiked over the Fourth of July weekend, with shootings reported in nearly every U.S. state that killed a total of at least 220 people and wounded close to 570 others, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Here in Brevard, there was a bomb threat at Brevard College.

But even more important was the Supreme Court’s ruling ostensibly about the EPA. That ruling, however, effectively castrates the Federal Government’s ability to govern, ending government as we have known it since the 1930s. Historian Heather Cox Richardson offers a lengthy analysis of recent Supreme Court decisions in this Facebook Live session: https://www.facebook.com/heathercoxrichardson/videos/1129851077608040.

We also saw damning testimony from 26-year-old former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson that directly tied the former president and his chief of staff to the violence on January 6. More testimony has been announced as I write this.

Let there be no doubt, Democrats, we and we alone are fighting to save our democracy. Regardless of your opinion of how elected Democrats are performing, including President Biden, Democrats stand alone in the fight for our democracy. There is no other choice. VOTE DEMOCRAT.