Campaign Coverage

November 27, 2023

Biden’s Carbon Pipeline Is a Boondoggle for Big Oil That Punishes Iowa Farmers

Featured on Newsweek: For 40 years, I've stood among the leadership of the environmental movement crafting sensible, market-based solutions for reducing our deadly addiction to oil and coal. I believe that the human-induced greenhouse effect is an existential threat to civilization, but I do not insist that other people ascribe to my belief. Even Americans who don't accept carbon-induced climate change should worry that our nation's dependence on coal and oil has other obvious and unignorable costs—including poisoning our fisheries with mercury, sterilizing our lakes and streams, and denuding our forests with acid rain, as well as the mass-scale strip mining that is leveling parts of the Appalachian mountains and the petroleum addiction that keeps us embroiled in endless oil wars. Furthermore, the public finances this destruction with trillions in annual subsidies that allow coal, oil, and gas companies to maintain their competitive edge against what by some measures could be cheaper, cleaner, and more efficient fuels. In 2022, the carbon industry globally collected a staggering $7 trillion in direct and indirect public subsidies. But whether or not you believe in the greenhouse effect, no one can deny that powerful vested interests are now hijacking the climate emergency—as they do with every crisis—to shift wealth upward and impose totalitarian controls. A troubling poster child of this dynamic is one of the flagships of President Biden's climate strategy: giant pipelines that purport to transport waste carbon from Iowa ethanol plants across six states to deep-well injection sites in Illinois and North Dakota. I have long denounced these sorts of "carbon capture storage and sequestration" projects as wasteful corporate welfare boondoggles that do little to reduce atmospheric carbon but serve instead to enrich billionaires and subsidize Big Carbon. Read Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s full op-ed here. If you resonate with this message please subscribe to our newsletter to learn more.

November 26, 2023

Robert F Kennedy, Jr.: The Independent Challenging Biden and Trump

The Herald reports: For the first time in decades, an independent is posing a threat to the Democratic and Republican candidates during a US election campaign. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is gaining momentum - for a reason. Having scored an endorsement from a former top Clinton aide, he is averaging 16.7% in recent polling data from RealClearPolitics- surpassing the threshold to qualify for the presidential debates. A worrying idea for the other widely predicted contenders, Biden and Trump, who will go untested having so far both failed to participate in their parties’ primary debates. A New York Times/ Siena College poll has also suggested Kennedy is winning outright in key states with voters aged under 45. A vital factor in these polling results with the young is likely Kennedy’s background as a prominent environmental lawyer. During this career he spent 33 years with Riverkeeper, an organisation dedicated to reducing river pollution and ensuring clean drinking water. Stemming from this work he was named as one of Time Magazine’s “heroes of the planet”. This passion truly shines through in his campaign which has stated that it will incentivise clean energy, protect wild land from over development, and work with farmers to challenge pollution. Similar to the approach of the governing party here in Scotland, Kennedy’s campaign manifesto has pledged to “forge agreements with other countries” in order to fulfill these environmental policies. Read the full article here. If you resonate with this message please subscribe to our newsletter to learn more.

November 25, 2023

RFK Jr. To Visit Utah As He Eyes Path to 2024 Nomination

The Washington Examiner reports: Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced his plans to visit Utah in the coming week. Kennedy launched his campaign as a Democrat initially but switched to be an independent candidate last month. His team is in the process of collecting signatures from states in order to appear on the 2024 ballot. The next rally that he will attend will be in Salt Lake City on Nov. 30. Utah has 574,075 registered unaffiliated voters, which has steadily increased year over year. Over 100,000 of them are reportedly inactive as they have not voted in at least two consecutive general elections. The number of unaffiliated voters is more than double the number of Democratic voters and over half of the Republican voters. During the 2022 election, the state's Democratic Party opted not to put forth its own candidate against Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) but instead endorsed independent candidate Evan McMullin, who was unsuccessful in unseating Lee. The party's former candidate against Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) in 2018, Jenny Wilson, is now the Salt Lake County mayor, where Kennedy is slated to visit. Read the full article here. If you resonate with this message please subscribe to our newsletter to learn more.

November 22, 2023

RFK Jr. Stumps in Ojai: ‘It Is Possible To Limit Corporate Influence’

Ojai Valley News reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer running as an unaffiliated independent candidate for president in the 2024 election, spoke on Nov. 19 to a group of 300 supporters as part of a campaign-fundraising event at a private residence in Ojai. One of the hosts, Ojai resident and local business owner Bill Moses, responded by email to the Ojai Valley News about what had motivated him to support the event: “I wanted to hear for myself, live and unedited, RFK Jr. speak. I resonate with RFK Jr.’s concern on the corporate capture of government agencies that are meant to advocate for us. Our nation was threatened by the Jan. 6th Capitol attack and by those who deny election results. Another threat to our nation is how corporate capture is hurting our economy, environment, political system and our people.” Kennedy spoke outdoors under a coast oak tree at the Casa Barranca property. He touched on his polling numbers, the uncertain future of the next generation, housing, inflation, national and consumer debt, regulatory agency capture by corporations, the costs of war and pollution, health, and the environment. He discussed the upward shift of wealth, his legal achievements and personal philosophy of life. He said: “When my uncle was president, the U.S. owned half the wealth in the world. We made everything and everybody wanted it. ...We were the richest nation in history. This is the first generation in history that is going to be worse off than their parents and they know it.” Read the full article here If you resonate with this message please subscribe to our newsletter to learn more.

November 22, 2023

JFK's Assassination Cut Short My Uncle’s Vision but We Must Revive It, Not Forget It

Featured on FoxNews.com: President John F. Kennedy’s assassination 60 years ago on November 22, left an indelible scar on the American psyche that transcended my family’s loss of an uncle, brother, husband, and father. That national trauma robbed us of something else that day. With him died a vision for our country that we may yet bring back to life. True, much of his legacy — such as his championship of civil rights, desegregation, and the space program — remains with us today, but America has abandoned the goal and vision that he prized most highly: the vision of America as a peaceful nation. John F. Kennedy defied pressure from his cabinet, the CIA, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff to go to war in Laos in 1961, Berlin in 1962, to invade Cuba after the Bay of Pigs debacle, and nineteen months later to bomb Russian missile batteries during the Cuban missile crisis. His advisors assured him that the launchpads were not yet operational. They were wrong, and his defiance quite likely saved the world from nuclear Armageddon. Today our nation staggers under a $33 trillion debt burden, much of it the result of military spending. The post-9/11 regime-change wars of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria wasted around $8 trillion and left those countries worse off than we found them. Eight hundred military bases around the world consume trillions more. Imagine what could have been, if we’d devoted those resources toward education, infrastructure, poverty, health, or the environment. We would be, paradoxically, a stronger and more secure nation. It is not too late to step off the war path and onto the peace path that John F. Kennedy envisioned for our nation. Even in its current state of neglect, America is blessed with the world’s largest GDP, abundant natural resources, and an inventive and enterprising population. We can recover the broad prosperity, the thriving middle class, and the sense of optimism and national self-worth of the post-WWII era. All that can be ours if we turn our energies toward peace. Read Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s full op-ed here. If you resonate with this message please subscribe to our newsletter to learn more.

November 21, 2023

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Calls for Biden to Release Last of JFK Assassination Records

Spectrum News reports: To coincide with the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, his nephew, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has launched a petition calling for the Biden administration to release the last of the government’s records related to the historic shooting. “What is so embarrassing that they’re afraid to show the American public 60 years later?” Kennedy Jr., who is running for president as an independent candidate, said in a statement Monday. In 1992, Congress passed the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, which mandated that materials related to John F. Kennedy’s killing be housed in a single collection in the National Archives and Records Administration and that all records be publicly disclosed by 2017. The Biden administration has released more than 17,000 documents. On June 30, the president certified that federal agencies had made available “every single word that is appropriate for release under the standards of the Act.” Biden, however, agreed to continue withholding some information, saying it is “necessary to protect against identifiable harms to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, and the conduct of foreign relations that are of such gravity that they outweigh the public interest in disclosure.” Kennedy Jr. says releasing the full, unredacted records would help restore trust in the government. “In the spirit of transparency, in the spirit of democracy, we, the undersigned, call upon President Biden to obey the 1992 act and release the Kennedy assassination documents to the public,” the petition says. Read the full article here. If you resonate with this message please subscribe to our newsletter to learn more.

November 21, 2023

Are Black Voters Looking for an Alternative in 2024?

The Washington Post's Alexi McCammond joins MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to discuss Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s strength with Black voters, his complex effect on the 2024 presidential race, and President Biden's declining enthusiasm among voters of color. If you resonate with this message please subscribe to our newsletter to learn more.