{"id":76827,"date":"2026-08-01T07:55:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T12:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/01\/democrats-climate-hushing-prompts-activists-to-turn-up-the-volume\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T07:55:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T12:55:51","slug":"democrats-climate-hushing-prompts-activists-to-turn-up-the-volume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/01\/democrats-climate-hushing-prompts-activists-to-turn-up-the-volume\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats\u2019 \u2018climate hushing\u2019 prompts activists to turn up the volume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nationwide actions seek to counter view that talking about climate crisis distracts from affordability messaging<\/p>\n<p>This summer, torrential rains have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/16\/texas-flooding-emergency-latest\">washed away<\/a> Texas neighborhoods, dangerous heat has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/25\/scorching-us-heat-wave\">blanketed<\/a> swaths of the country, and smoke from Canadian wildfires has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jul\/20\/canada-air-quality-warnings-us-wildfire-smoke-trump-tariffs\">choked<\/a> communities as far south as Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Research makes clear that global warming is making extreme weather events more frequent and severe. Yet the climate crisis has largely <a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/24062026\/analysis-shows-democrats-embrace-climate-hushing\/\">disappeared<\/a> from the political agenda, with many Democrats who once described it as an existential threat now shying away from talking about it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/01\/democrats-climate-policy-hushing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationwide actions seek to counter view that talking about climate crisis distracts from affordability messaging This summer, torrential rains have washed away Texas neighborhoods, dangerous heat has blanketed swaths of the country, and smoke from Canadian wildfires has choked communities as far south as Florida. Research makes clear that global warming is making extreme weather &#8230; <a title=\"Democrats\u2019 \u2018climate hushing\u2019 prompts activists to turn up the volume\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/01\/democrats-climate-hushing-prompts-activists-to-turn-up-the-volume\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Democrats\u2019 \u2018climate hushing\u2019 prompts activists to turn up the volume\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}