NEW: We reviewed the 7 most far-reaching Republican voter suppression laws enacted this year.
Passing the #ForThePeopleAct would invalidate roughly 2/3 of their attacks on voting access.
The only way to save democracy is for Democrats to act. This is what's at stake:
Georgia’s infamous SB 202 remakes almost every element of the state’s election laws to make it harder for people of color to vote.
The For The People Act would end its onerous voter ID requirements, restore ballot drop boxes, and block partisan poll watchers, among other fixes.
In Florida, the #ForThePeopleAct would overturn much of Gov. Ron DeSantis and the GOP's assault on voters.
It would prevent the destruction of the state's mail-in voting list, stop extreme voter ID requirements, and end the criminalization of ballot delivery.
Iowa was the first state to pass an extreme voter suppression law this year.
The For The People Act would overturn Iowa’s new limitations on drop boxes, ban on ballot delivery, and harsh limits on sending absentee ballots.
Arizona — home of the conspiracy theorist-run “audit” — has also passed a number of voter suppression laws.
Republicans voted to end the state’s ultra-popular permanent vote-by-mail list and to make it harder to correct a ballot.
Both these laws would be overturned.
It got even more difficult to vote in Arkansas this year due to stringent new voter ID requirements, absentee ballot limitations, and a signature matching program.
In Montana, after a clean Republican sweep, the GOP legislature decided to further restrict ballot access.
The state ended same-day voter registration and now requires *two* forms of ID to vote in many cases. Both would be blocked by S 1.
In Kansas, a Republican supermajority overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto to enact a slew of new voter limitations and make a major legislative power grab.
The For The People Act would stop this election rigging in its tracks.
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BREAKING: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will be the Democratic VP candidate, alongside Kamala Harris.
Walz forged a reputation as a Governor who makes good policy happen.
Last year he signed a law guaranteeing free breakfast and lunch for all Minnesota students. And that's not all 🧵
Last year, Walz signed a law enacting paid family and medical leave, giving workers up to 20 weeks off.
“Paid family and medical leave seemed like a pipe dream for 10 years,” he said. “It seemed like—why can other people have this and we can’t?” apnews.com/article/minnes…
Last year, Walz also approved the nation's broadest right-to-repair law, allowing independent shops and owners of phones, laptops, and other electronic devices to more easily repair products without relying on corporations like Apple and Google. minnesotareformer.com/2023/05/30/min…
A business reporter for Financial Times revealed how Wall Street is thinking about Kamala Harris’s candidacy.
It’s an illuminating look into how Big Business is trying to pull the strings behind the scenes and what Harris must do to show she is not influenced by corporate power.
FT reporter @JFK_America said that Wall Street titans view Harris as a “clean slate” — and a potential departure from some of the stronger antitrust and pro-labor policies (and staffing decisions) of President Biden, especially on tech and crypto.
@JFK_America Fontanella-Khan reports that big business interests and private equity managers are particularly interested in preserving the carried interest loophole in the upcoming tax debate.
(Biden almost got a carried income tax passed, until Kyrsten Sinema blocked it at the last minute)
BREAKING: Apple Store workers in Maryland have made history, securing the first-ever tentative union contract at the world's most valuable company. Under the agreement, the workers will win 10% raises, scheduling improvements, limits on contracted workers, and more.
These workers launched their organizing drive well over two years ago with @MachinistsUnion and were met with relentless union-busting by Apple, which publicly claims to maintain the "highest standards of labor conduct."
@MachinistsUnion After they made history and won the company's first union, the NLRB charged that Apple illegally withheld benefits from these Maryland workers to discourage Apple Store workers from organizing. theverge.com/2023/11/22/239…
NEW: Uber Eats, Grubhub, and Seamless want you to blame higher prices on minimum wage laws.
It’s a lie.
The truth is they gobbled up the entire food delivery industry, and now they’re charging you higher prices because you have no other choice.
We found receipts for an identical delivery order made at a Chinese restaurant in 2019 and 2024.
In 2019, the order cost $19.47 — or $26 adjusted for inflation.
Today that order costs $36.
It’s part of what @doctorow calls “enshittification” — when corporations take over things that are working perfectly fine, turn them into profit machines, and degrade the quality for the rest of us.
Donald Trump and JD Vance just raised $2 million at a fundraiser hosted by coal executive Joe Craft and fracking billionaire Harold Hamm.
It was the single largest political fundraiser in Oklahoma history.
This is Trump's strategy, fundraisers by and for the super rich. 🧵
2) Joe Craft is the CEO of Alliance Resource Partners, a coal executive who has overseen hundreds of labor violations at his company and has an intimate relationship with Trump, with his wife being appointed U.N. Ambassador during Trump’s presidency. eenews.net/articles/coal-…
3) Tomorrow, a Trump fundraiser in Nashville will take place next to the Bitcoin Conference. If you donate $844,600 to the Trump 47 Committee, you get to sit at a table with Trump. If you pay $60,000, you get a photo.
Multiple large unions have now endorsed Kamala Harris, while also expressing concern that her campaign is eying Senator Mark Kelly for VP.
His refusal to support the PRO act, a core goal of the labor movement that would make union organizing easier, is raising alarm.
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2) As John Samuelsen, president of the Transport Workers Union and an ally of President Joe Biden, told ABC News, “Why would the Democrats even consider a senator for the vice presidency if the senator doesn't support the PRO Act?” abcnews.go.com/Politics/labor…
3) Richard Bensinger, the former organizing director at the AFL-CIO, the largest labor organization in the U.S., recently posted the following: