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SCOOP: Lilly Ledbetter is endorsing Joe Biden for president, noting “it would be exciting” to see a woman make history as the first female VP. wapo.st/2wOZpeU
Ledbetter, 81, a longtime advocate for equal pay, normally spends #EqualPayDay making speeches in front of big crowds. This year, Ledbetter is grounded for the same reason millions of us are: the #coronavirus. wapo.st/2wOZpeU
Ledbetter's groundbreaking pay discrimination lawsuit paved the way for the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay act of 2009. But Ledbetter says there's more work to be done: “So much work was done and then it just stopped." wapo.st/2wOZpeU
According to the @nwlc, American women working full time still make just 80 cents for every dollar a man makes. And for women of color, it's even less. wapo.st/2wOZpeU
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1/12 Meet @19thNews, the nation’s first newsroom committed to making the news — and our democracy — more representative for America’s women. @eramshaw @amzam @emarvelous @andreamvaldez @joderlega 19thnews.org
2/12 A century ago, the 19th Amendment made voting a right regardless of gender. But this watershed moment excluded millions of women, including women of color, from the ballot box for generations.
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Jill Piggott
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✔️#Biden is not a "moderate" #dem. He's running on a platform to the left of Obama & Hillary. If elected, he'd be the most #progressive president in our lifetimes.

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#Biden has "outlined a suite of policies that, taken on their own terms, would be the most ambitious governing agenda of any modern #Democrat." If he wins, he'll be the "the most #progressive Democratic nominee in history." vox.com/2020/1/29/2107…
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Provisions of FISA are set to expire this month. Some GOP lawmakers and AG Bill Barr want a clean renewal without reforms. But aside from lame bureaucratic fixes offered by Wray, no one has been held legally or publicly accountable for the Page FISAs... amgreatness.com/2020/03/05/wit…
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Biden has to be waking up to a nightmare this morning. He's polling 4th in NH, 3rd or 4th in NV, and slipping in SC.

Now his money is drying up.

And after all this BS that he's accused @realDonaldTrump of being scared of him & only going after him because he's a threat! 🤣
Now if he drops out which I expect in about a month if not less, he's forced the hand to keep going after him once he's out of the race to prove the point it wasn't politically motivated just strictly going after corruption.

Truth is Biden's never been a political threat.
Joe Biden has run for POTUS three times now and has never one even ONE SINGLE PRIMARY. Not ONE

He's a disaster, Barry threw his political career a lifeline in 2008, because he was smart enough to not go after Barry the way the Clinton's did.
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Stephanie 🌹 Voltolin
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Joe Biden is Blue Trump when it comes to women.

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1. Until he decided to run for President, his record on women's rights was repugnant.

He only "evolved" on them after he declared his candidacy last year.

Let's take a closer look at his verifiable public record:
2. Senator Joe Biden voted for the 2003 ban on late-term abortion.

He helped make it law.

This law egregiously bypassed the Constitution and eroding our reproductive independence.

That was only 16 years ago.

He has only changed his public position while running for President.
3. By the way, Congressional Representative Bernie Sanders voted against the same bill...

Sander's public record on women's rights has been consistently pro-woman.

It's why Gloria Steinem called him an honorary woman.
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@samstein VP Joe Biden's ability to negotiate with congressional Republicans helped the Obama administration pass legislation like 👇

#Biden #JoeBiden #TeamJoe
@samstein “Their willingness to say no to everything — the fact that since 2007, they have filibustered about 500 pieces of legislation that would help the middle class just gives you a sense of how opposed they are to any progress-" President Barack Obama, in 2014
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@samstein “History will look back and note that Republicans in Congress treated President Obama with unprecedented disrespect,” Reid said, arguing that soon after Obama was elected, the GOP set out to make him a one-term president and obstruct anything he did.
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