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In case, for some reason, you're nervously waiting around for something, how about chipping in to help progressives running for office? There's a special election for WI state assembly in 12 days. Chip in here: secure.actblue.com/donate/tip4wi?…
Stephen Smith—aka @wvcantwait—is running a powerhouse grassroots campaign for Gov of West Virginia. Chip in to help build the movement for change there: secure.ngpvan.com/Tl_5SeYvME21o6…
Twitter: What other candidates (other than those in a presidential primary) could use a contribution from folks who need to blow off steam as they wait for news events to unfold today?
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My grandfather, John Warlick McDonald, died on Friday at age 97. Here he is with me, as a baby. And here he is with me and my baby son—whom we named after him. He was, is, a hero of mine. 1/
My grandfather was every bit a member of the Greatest Generation. But he couldn't fight in WWII, because when he was a kid, before penicillin, he spent two years in the hospital with an arm infection. 13 surgeries. He was 4F; ineligible. So he joined the foreign service instead.
Put himself through law school, driving a laundry delivery truck on the South Side of Chicago. He said his black customers would assess within seconds whether he, a white guy, was a racist—or was someone who'd treat them fairly & with respect. Prided himself on being the latter.
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🚨 WISCONSIN: GOP legislature votes *tomorrow*—Thu 5/9—to rip Medicaid expansion out of the governor's budget. If they win, 82,000 people won't get coverage. $1.6 billion in public dollars won't return to the state. Individual market premiums won't be reduced. Time to fight. 1/
7 out of 10 Wisconsinites want to expand Medicaid. That's a supermajority. But the gerrymandered Republican legislature wants to keep people off of insurance, keep premiums high, and recklessly rip holes in the state budget to avoid giving Evers a win.
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The wall of Republican opposition to expanding Medicaid already has cracks. GOP Sen. Luther Olsen said "I honestly think we have to take it." But Repub leaders are betting we won't fight for Medicaid now as hard as we did in 2017. Let's prove them wrong.

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The WI GOP plans to shred the People’s Budget as though they hadn’t lost every statewide election last year. Our job: make sure they feel the heat from their constituents. On Medicaid expansion and so much else, let’s make their phones ring off the hook. apnews.com/e6e2c04416a54d…
If you were involved in the fight against ACA repeal, we need you now. And if you weren’t, we need you now, too. Wisconsin voted for Tony Evers because they believe expanding health care. He put it in the budget. The GOP wants to take it away. We can’t let them do it.
The GOP in Wisconsin acts like it cares not at all about constituent pressure. But people power can win, even here. When Walker was governor and the GOP had a lock on the legislature, in 2015, they tried to kill IRIS, a vital long-term care program for people w disabilities. 1/
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