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17 Aug, 4 tweets, 4 min read
Hi there @jimmy_dore! It’s me again—“relentless Laura!!”~@J_ManPrime21♥️

I have a quick request! First of all, thanks for endorsing @WholeWashington!!

We would love to create a special endorsement graphic, but we need you to please fill out the form I’ll link below!

#RedBerets
If you don’t want to fill out this form, please write as a response, ‘I don’t want to fill out the fucking form, but YES, I endorse @WholeWashington!’

You may please feel free to ask @RepJayapal why she hasn’t endorsed yet! But that part is optional:-)

wholewashington.org/endorse-whole-…
To the amazing and also funny AF @miserablelib, I don’t think we have officially asked you, for your endorsement of @WholeWashington, and that’s SEXIST! (Actually it kinda is).

We really appreciate you, and we would also be honored to have your official endorsement!! (1/2),
Why, you may ask, are we asking you both yet again re: @WholeWashington?

Well, it appears that in decades of ‘organizing’ within the single payer movement, where the strategy has been to divide people into state & national, we don’t happen to have M4A yet!

#FailedStrategy 2/2

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@StoicGiraffee @JENFL23 Great idea! That’s what we all agree on!! How do we do this? Strategies the @RedBeretsM4A have worked towards this goal:

1. Volunteering thousands of hours to try to elect Bernie.
2. Volunteering for & donating to elect progressives.
3. Co-organized national marches.

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gofund.me/6205ce5b #GoFundMe

We just received another donation! You know, Shareef Snuggs @iam4M4A and I were just talking about the need to build our communities through #MutualAid, (and while a travel fund is not the same as medical emergency or desperation), we ARE,(1/2)
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Remember when @AOC ignored marches in 56 cities?
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@joefirestonephd @M4M4ALL @briebriejoy Ahh yes, the thread that started it all!! The one where @GeoDavenport and I ushered (in good faith), some people who despite getting all of their questions answered, we’re still trolling us relentlessly! So we said, hey, it’s okay! We ALL agree we need to pass NIMA, SO, (1/2),
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@keidekay @MaryTheQueenOfC @briebriejoy @marwilliamson It’s fine! I ended up gathering that. I blocked them. I’m already having a horrendous 24 hours within the M4A organizing movement, so I don’t have the energy for this debate.

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@keidekay @MaryTheQueenOfC @briebriejoy @marwilliamson Essentially, I feel used up by the Medicare for All movement. I have personally knit over 350 #RedBerets to help unify the M4A community.

I strongly supported the electoral strategy. I have donated a HUGE sum of money for yarn, & to M4A candidate campaign. (1/?)
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16 Aug
I’m so excited to begin gathering signatures for @WholeWashington #I1362!! Solidarity organizing is how we will achieve national improved Medicare for ALL!

We won’t get there by leaving strong efforts on all fronts out.

.@KennyBallentine understands this!
@ReddIsAri thank you!
When I say begin, I mean pick up the pace!We need 400K and though I have collected quite a few sheets of 20 signatures each, and also gotten them to small businesses to host (and hosted a petition bin, so I’m a pick up & drop off point), I still haven’t done enough!

#TimeToSign
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