SHERO on Sunday

Welcome to a lightning-fast comprehensive recap of the week's biggest events for July 29th - Aug. 4th, 2024.

Freed prisoner Evan Gershkovich greets his mother Ella Milman after arriving back in the United States on August 1, 2024 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. The release, negotiated as part of a 24-person prisoner exchange with Russia that involved at least six countries, is the largest prisoner exchange in post-Soviet history. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/via Getty Images)

Welcome to the Sunday Recap, where you can quickly check in to review the week with a minimal time commitment, and make sure you did not miss anything. There are also several links within each snippet to give you more detail from credible and free sources if you want to dive deeper on any issue.

Although Donald Trump continues to try and distance himself publicly from his own custom-made Project 2025 Agenda, he has continued for months at his rallies to make dog whistle promises that include the main tenants of this conservative manifesto. The basis of Project 2025 policy, which seeks to overhaul the government workforce with Trump loyalists and deliver major wins for the conservative agenda by gutting federal agencies entirely and rolling back Civil Rights protections, is extremely dangerous, so please be sure to send out this article to everyone you know: Trump Can't Disavow Project 2025.

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Gun Violence This Week

There were 18 separate mass shooting incidents in the United States this past week, where 17 people were killed and 74 were injured. Here at SHERO, we document all mass shooting incidents for the week every Sunday, so please take a moment to review them and remember to keep up the fight for sensible gun reform. 

1. Sunday, July 28, 2024: St. Louis, Missouri

2. Sunday, July 28, 2024: Rochester, New York

3. Sunday, July 28, 2024: Los Angeles, California

4. Sunday, July 28, 2024: Auburn, Washington

5. Sunday, July 28, 2024: South Bend, Indiana

6. Sunday, July 28, 2024: Champaign, Illinois

7. Sunday, July 28, 2024: Pensacola, Florida

8. Sunday, July 28, 2024: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

9. Monday, July 29, 2024: Portland, Maine

10. Tuesday, July 30, 2024: Fairborn, Georgia

11. Thursday, August 1, 2024: Aurora, Colorado

12. Friday, August 2, 2024: Eustis, Florida

13. Friday, August 2, 2024: Charlotte, North Carolina

14. Saturday, August 3, 2024: Washington, DC

15. Saturday, August 3, 2024: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

16. Sunday, August 4, 2024: Chicago, Illinois

17. Sunday, August 4, 2024: Tulsa, Oklahoma

18. Sunday, August 4, 2024: Chicago, Illinois

• There are so many opportunities to get involved with the Kamala Harris Campaign for President, and we will be highlighting several of those in the lead up to the election, including this FANTASTIC thread on volunteering for introverts. Every Wednesday night, through the election, you can join the weekly zoom call Women Wednesdays for Harris here, where everyone is welcome, and you can see all events organized by the DNC.

  

• A bombshell report published this week citing unnamed sources, revealed that the Department of Justice began an investigation in 2017 involving Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, who was allegedly seeking to give Trump $10 million to boost his 2016 election campaign. Federal investigators discovered in 2019 that, only five days before Trump was sworn into office, nearly $10 million in cash was withdrawn on behalf of an organization linked to Egyptian intelligence. The entire investigation was closed by Trump’s Attorney General, William Barr.

• In an effort to help elect Trump, Elon Musk is influencing the next election by creating a PAC that collects voter data from people in key swing states through an online "register to vote" form that does not actually directly register people to vote.