SHERO on Sunday

Welcome to a lightning-fast comprehensive recap of the week's biggest events for August 5th - 11th, 2024.

Minnesota Governor and 2024 Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate Tim Walz (L) gestures toward US Vice President and 2024 Democratic Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris during a campaign event at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, on August 9, 2024. (Photo by Robyn Beck/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 14 separate mass shooting incidents in the United States this past week, where six people were killed and 65 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, August 4, 2024: Chicago, Illinois

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

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

4. Sunday, August 4, 2024: Oakland, California

5. Sunday, August 4, 2024: Memphis, Tennessee

6. Sunday, August 4, 2024: Vicksburg, Mississippi

7. Monday, August 5, 2024: Kansas City, Missouri

8. Monday, August 5, 2024: Seattle, Washington

9. Tuesday, August 6, 2024: Hedgesville, West Virginia

10. Wednesday, August 7, 2024: Bronx, New York

11. Thursday, August 8, 2024: Birmingham, Alabama

12. Friday, August 9, 2024: Lexington, Kentucky

13. Friday, August 9, 2024: Dallas, Texas

14. Friday, August 9, 2024: Charlotte, North Carolina

• According to recent reporting, Donald Trump has been in a foul mood the past few weeks and has repeatedly called Vice President Harris a "bitch" in private.

  

• A new poll released this week from the New York Times and Siena College, conducted among 1,973 registered voters Aug. 5 through Aug. 9, shows Kamala Harris with 50% support among likely voters in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan, while Trump had only 46% support in each of the states.

• Former President Donald Trump’s campaign attorney Jenna Ellis, who worked closely with Rudy Giuliani, will cooperate with Arizona prosecutors in exchange for charges being dropped against her in a fake electors case.

• Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), confirmed on Monday that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed to report another 2010 trip from Hawaii to New Zealand on the conservative billionaire donor Harlan Crow’s jet.