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Wealth tax and green new deal are wildly popular in Michigan and elsewhere. Feel free to be a political cynic, but your cynicism should lead you to embrace these policies, if nothing else than for the votes they'll win you.
Receipts on GND popularity: vox.com/policy-and-pol…
Receipts on wealth tax popularity: vox.com/2019/2/4/18210…
And for more on Medicare for All and other polls/message testing - check out @DataProgress which does deep dives into all this stuff. It's not a choice between defining a bold policy vision and winning elections - it's the same choice.
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This is more or less the core argument of our book. We need to elect a pro-democracy president and congress, otherwise we'll lose the republic for good.
The GOP elites aren't dummies. They know the country is getting more diverse and more unequal, and they know that electorate doesn't like their agenda. They could moderate, but instead they seek to systematically make democracy less representative.
We lead the book with this doozy of a quote:

"I don’t want everybody to vote . . . As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down. "

It's from Paul Weyrich, an architect of the modern GOP. His analysis is correct.
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FINALLY! Today the Indivisible book is OUT. It's our guide to building power to impeach, win in 2020, and save democracy after. We draw lessons from the Indivisible movement - from pressuring congress to building coalitions to building waves. Some more reflections in this thread:
You can get an e-book or audio book (or hard cover) from Amazon: amazon.com/gp/product/198…
Or pick up a copy from @indiebound or your local book store: indiebound.org/book/978198212…
We tell three big stories from the movement:
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On Tuesday, there are 3 books coming out that you gotta pick up:
1) Professor @Fisher_DanaR's book "American Resistance," with original research on how the Trump resistance movement has spread and evolved - and what its future could be. indiebound.org/book/978023118…
2) Activist/MoveOn spokesperson @K_JeanPierre's "Moving On" memoir of her life and activism. You probably know Karine from her on-point MSNBC commentary or her heroic work at MoveOn's presidential forum earlier this year which made headlines. indiebound.org/book/978133591…
3) @Leahgreenb's and my book, "We Are Indivisible." It's half manifesto on saving democracy, and half practical guidebook on how to build power to get it done, drawing on three years of lessons from the Indivisible movement. indiebound.org/book/978198212…
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