The American Renewable Energy Act introduced by @PeterWelch@RepYvetteClarke@RepBarragan@repcleaver & @RepSchakowsky establishes an ambitious renewable energy standard to drastically reduce emissions, decrease pollution, and promote community resiliency and energy democracy. 🧵
Let's take a closer look! The American Renewable Energy Act:
🌬️☀️ Prioritizes wind, solar, geothermal and other truly renewable energy sources!
⚡️ Requires 70% renewable electricity by 2030
🚫 Requires utilities to address existing pollution disparities in impacted communities
📈 Requires an increasing share of electricity generation through distributed renewable energy generation, such as rooftop solar
💰 Requires at least 50% of noncompliance payments be invested in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and storage projects in impacted communities
🥇 Prioritizes distributed, community, and public ownership over renewable energy projects
‼️ Call your representative to help support this bill and our other climate priorities for recovery: indivisible.org/demand-your-re…
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156 years ago today, slaves in Galveston, Texas heard this order, telling them they had been freed from bondage.
The infuriating irony of Junteenth is that, like the rest of Black liberation in this country, it should have come much sooner.
President Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation into law more than two and a half years before General Order Number 3 was released. Robert E. Lee had surrendered a month before. Lincoln -- the “executive” in the first line -- was already dead.
Two days ago, @POTUS signed a bill into law making Juneteenth a National Holiday. Black activists have been working for this for years: cnn.com/2021/06/16/us/…
Just nine days ago, Joe Manchin wrote an op-ed that said he’d “vote against” S.1, the For the People Act. A lot of talking heads wrote the bill’s obituary. But ORGANIZING WORKS. Activists in WV kept going, and now Manchin is back at the negotiating table. washingtonpost.com/politics/manch…
That’s an encouraging sign, but the devil’s in the details. We need to make sure that the For the People Act doesn’t get watered down. That means keeping in incredibly important, and incredibly popular, provisions like public financing and same-day voter registration.
Manchin’s proposal doesn’t mention those things, but we need a big bill to address big problems. And the For the People Act in its current form is really popular! We don’t need to take stuff out, especially not to try to win over Republicans. 👇
Expanding Medicare to include vision, dental, and hearing benefits -- as well as lowering the age of eligibility -- are wildly popular proposals among Democratic, Republican, and independent voters. 🧵
Senate and House Progressives have been working tirelessly to build up support from their Democratic colleagues by underscoring the immense need among aging adults in the U.S.: aarp.org/health/medicar…
House members successfully demonstrated an overwhelming majority support from the caucus in a letter to the Biden admin and Congressional leadership by garnering over 155 signatures: thehill.com/policy/healthc…
The House just passed @RepBarbaraLee's bill to repeal the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) in Iraq, nearly two decades after it was put in place. This is a crucial step to #StopEndlessWar. motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2021…
This repeal is long past due. Presidents do not have the constitutional authority to unilaterally wage war, and we've seen the consequences of this unchecked military action - at steep financial, human, and moral cost.
Advocates and progressive champions in Congress have made repeated efforts to repeal the 2002 AUMF, but were stymied under both Republican and Democratic administrations. That work slowly built more support and now there is broad bipartisan consensus that we must #StopEndlessWar.
Today, we’re launching Deadline for Democracy, a movement-wide, all-hands-on-deck campaign to get the For the People Act passed in July. The next six weeks will make or break this bill. Our Senate allies are asking for a massive show of grassroots force: deadlinefordemocracy.org
So here's what we're planning: a nationwide campaign called Deadline for Democracy during the July 4th Recess, which starts on June 28th (two weeks from today).
June and July are absolutely crucial for getting the For the People Act through the Senate.
Elections experts advise us that if the For the People Act is going to take effect in time to impact the midterms, it needs to pass by this fall. We also know that when the House leaves for the long summer recess at the end of July, they won’t fully return until September 20th.
Alright, let's talk about the op-ed. And let's talk about what's next. /THREAD
We've heard from SO MANY Indivisibles today with messages ranging from anger and despair to a renewed commitment to fight like hell for voting rights and the #ForThePeopleAct. We heard you. Now, we need you to hear us — because this fight is FAR from over.
First, @Sen_JoeManchin's op-ed is riddled with historical falsehoods and bizarre, antiquated political analysis. We don't need to get into that, but @RepMondaire did a perfect thread on it ICYMI.