More wins to celebrate — CA, NY, NJ & PA Edition!

In California, longtime progressive champions & Bend the Arc PAC endorsees @BLeeForCongress and @MarkTakano were re-elected, as were @katieporteroc and @MikeLevin, freshmen who flipped & held historically red seats. (THREAD)
In NY, voters chose to re-elect longtime progressive champions & Bend the Arc PAC endorsees @RepYvetteClarke and @JerryNadler. We know that they will continue to fight to protect immigrant communities, expand access to health care, and prioritize economic relief for families.
In NJ, voters re-elected Bend the Arc PAC endorsee @AndyKimNJ to continue to serve the district he grew up in! Rep. Kim made made history in 2018 as the 1st Korean American Democrat in Congress.
Just outside Philly, we're joining our Southeastern PA minyan celebrating @marygayscanlon's & @wildforcongress's re-election! Our minyan was proud to phonebank for their re-election & we're excited that they will continue to champion issues that matter to our communities.

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26 Oct
Let's be very clear: Donald Trump endangers Jews.

He calls us "disloyal" & embraces white nationalists.

He pushes antisemitic lies that inspired attacks on synagogues in Pittsburgh & Poway.

The vast majority of American Jews vehemently oppose him — and polls prove it. (THREAD)
A new poll shows that Florida Jewish voters support Biden over Trump by a massive margin: 73% to 22%.

That's FIFTY-ONE points.

And the same voters agree that Biden would do better than Trump on confronting white nationalism & antisemitism (75% to 20%).

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A national poll also shows Biden's lead with Jewish voters at an all-time high: 75% are supporting him.

Our Jewish community isn't buying what Trump and the GOP are selling — because we know that they are putting us and our neighbors in danger.

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23 Oct
Madison Cawthorn just got caught launching a racist attack website against a journalist & Cory Booker.

10 of his former classmates signed a letter about his predatory behavior towards women.

He's best known for his trip to Hitler's vacation home.

This is what the GOP embraces.
Cawthorn, a GOP candidate in North Carolina, created an attack website accusing a journalist of leaving a job “to work for non-white males, like Cory Booker, who aims to ruin white males running for office.”

This is blatant racist fear-mongering.

chicagotribune.com/election-2020/…
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15 Sep
BREAKING: The Trump campaign is running Facebook ads portraying Bernie Sanders as the puppet master behind Joe Biden.

There’s a long, dangerous history of Jews being scapegoated as all-powerful puppet masters.

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The "puppet master” characterization has been used to present Jews as shadowy manipulators, secretly orchestrating events on the political or financial main stage.

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This deadly impact hasn’t stopped Trump & his GOP enablers from repeating them in order to divide us & hold on to power.

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14 Sep
Forced sterilization is genocide.

ICE is performing mass hysterectomies on immigrant women. ICE is committing genocide.

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They sent researchers to study how the U.S. subjugated Black people and inform how they dehumanized Jews, Roma, and other communities.

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In 2017, dozens of Jewish leaders signed this letter in support of Linda Sarsour:

“We will not stand by as @lsarsour is falsely maligned, harassed and smeared."

The same is true today. Linda, we have your back and we’re grateful you’ve had ours.

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In 2018, after the Tree of Life shooting, Linda immediately asked “What can I do?”

She rallied her Muslim & progressive communities to keep Jews safe at vigils across the country — and she personally headed to DC to join Bend the Arc for a vigil in front of the White House.
In 2017, when a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis was vandalized, Linda helped launch a massive crowdfunding campaign to support repairs.

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He invoked Soros conspiracy theories & told us to “get bent.”

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