We may have lost the Supreme Court for a generation but it’s up to our generation to start to fix our racist electoral systems and our increasingly partisan judicial systems.
We must elect and be the people that support these reforms so everyone has an = voice in our government
The American people are losing their faith in an electoral system that fails to represent us equally because many of us live in a high population state.
We must build a truly democratic system of government that creates universal suffrage and equal representation for all of us.
The only way we can do this will be through decades of consistently high voting, protesting, organizing, running for office and more to be the change we need.
We must not lose faith because one, two or more elections will not solve this- it will take many but change will come.
Similarly, one person will not solve this, it will have to be all of us acting in good faith over multiple decades to create a truly representative democratic system of government which means losing sometimes too.
Change takes time in democratic systems but persistence wins.
I truly believe our generation can create the change we need and to create a compassionate, just and democratic country free from violence and hate but it will take decades of building a progressive movement from city government, to the states and up.
If you don’t think change is possible look as how much more progressive and representive the party has become in just the past 4 years. We have a lot further to go but imagine where we could be in 5 , 10 or 20 years if we continue.
Universal Healthcare
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One of the best ways to help make that happen though is simply by registering to vote and voting in every election and protesting, organizing running for office and more.
I'm not running for the new DNC Vice Chair election:🧵
I started Leaders We Deserve for a simple purpose: to be the Emily's List for progressive young Democrats.
We’ve sought to find the best of the best of our generation and do everything we can to help them run the best campaigns possible and get the financial support they need to win.
They’re trying to change the rules because I'm not currently breaking them. As we’re seeing law firms, tech companies, and so many others bowing to Trump, we all must use whatever position of power we have to fight back. And that’s exactly what I'm doing.
This moment requires us to have the strongest opposition party possible to stop Trump from destroying people’s retirement savings, disappearing people, plunging our economy into oblivion—and to provide a real alternative to the Republican Party for voters that we simply do not have right now.
That will not change if we keep the status quo. We have no other option but to do the hard work of holding ourselves and our own party accountable.
THREAD: There are a lot of questions about what we are doing and why we are challenging some incumbents at leaders we deserve- (No we are not just focused on primaries we also want to support young people running in red to blue seats to help win the majority)
Too many elected leaders in the Democratic Party are either unwilling or unable to meet the moment and are asleep at the wheel while Trump is demolishing the economy, challenging the foundations of our democracy, and creating new existential crises for our country by the day.
I’ve just been elected as a Vice Chair of the DNC. I’m deeply grateful to the members for their trust and belief in me and I don’t take it lightly. Now it’s time to get to work. 🧵
We need to build a Democratic Party that is authentic, relatable, earns people's trust, and wins again––and that stops apologizing for being who we are.
We have to stop being cowards—it’s time to be bold, aggressive, and to fight—just like we did after Parkland.
I’ve learned a lot helping my family get my dad into hospice but one of the biggest realizations I’ve had is that our country is facing a geriatric financial time bomb. It is absolutely insane how much elder care costs. For my family if we were to have someone 24/7 it’s $450k a year
Oh AND to have him in a home with full time care it’s 13k monthly (AFTER negotiating it down from 20k a month) only to show up there and have them tell my family it’s going to be a 20k down payment plus a 5k deposit on our credit card. This is insane
The scary thing to me too is that we’re going through all this even as my dad has healthcare through the VA and from his former job in the FBI. And life insurance. Few people have the amount of support that we have. And as more people need to be put into homes because boomers have such a big population it’s only going to reduce the supply of elder care even more further increasing prices.
We should not be charging people to use public transit when we rarely charge people to use roads that are way more expensive for tax payers to maintain and are significantly more environmentally damaging than transit. The state and federal government should do all they can to add incentives to use public transit and remove disincentives to using it. We also need to incentivize the building of way more high density housing around public transit centers. While I’m at it we need to reform parking minimums that have destroyed American cities.
We also need to take a serious look at our flawed transit model that mainly focuses on brining people to and from urban centers. People have lives outside of work. We should have metro systems that form beltways around our cities to connect communities more directly on opposite sides of a metro area.
Let me be clear- I am not saying that people should be charged to use roads. I’m saying that if we aren’t charging people to use roads then we also shouldn’t be charging people for using methods of transportation that are objectively better for the environment and tax payers.