🧵 We are exactly one year away from the midterm elections.
And we are excited to tell you about our first endorsements for 2022! Our endorsements program focuses on supporting progressive champions so they have the resources required to compete in and win Democratic primaries.
Here's how our endorsements program works: Indivisible groups across the country nominate candidates, who are vetted and asked to complete a questionnaire covering vital issues. Then the nomination is voted on by all Indivisibles in the candidate's district.
Our endorsed candidates received a supermajority of support from their districts. They are progressive trailblazers already in Congress, and they are insurgents working to oust ineffectual incumbents.
And they are the keys to securing more wins for transformative legislation.
.@JCisnerosTX is a Mexican-American human rights and immigration attorney. In 2020, she came within 3,000 votes of toppling anti-choice, anti-labor, anti-environment Rep. Henry Cuellar. She’s back again because South Texas deserves a representative who actually fights for them.
.@KinaCollinsIL is an organizer and coalition builder who was born and raised on the West Side of Chicago. She’s a fighter for working class families who is intimately aware of the issues everyday folks in her district face: poverty, gun violence and inadequate healthcare access.
.@DarrigoMelanie is a proven leader, community organizer, and mother who understands the priorities of the working class families in her district. We know she is ready to fight with everything she has for a country that works for all of us.
.@PramilaJayapal has been laser focused on creating real, transformative change in our country during her three terms in Congress. She has become one of the most effective progressive leaders on Capitol Hill, using her power to lead the @USProgressives to take bold action.
.@MondaireJones is unlike many of the people we’re used to seeing in Congress, and it’s part of what makes him a great legislator. He has fought tooth and nail for major progressive priorities during his first term, so we’re ready to fight for him.
.@OdessaKellyTN was born & raised on the East Side of Nashville & has a long track record of advocating for her community. As the 1st Black woman elected to Congress from Tennessee, she will be ready to take on the big structural issues that limit working families' opportunities.
.@IlhanMN has established herself as a key member of the @USProgressives, fighting to tackle the climate crisis, expand Medicare, invest in affordable housing, fix our broken immigration system, defend democracy, and cancel student debt. She is a courageous progressive ally.
We’re going to throw all our political power behind these endorsed candidates, and bring real progressive change to your neighborhoods, districts, and states. If you're able, can you chip in today to help win and support all our work?: secure.actblue.com/donate/2022-en…
We’re thrilled to announce our starting slate of 2022 endorsements, but we’re just getting started! As local Indivisible groups continue nominating candidates, we will announce additional endorsements on a regular basis through September: indivisible.org/candidates
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Their mobs of lobbyists have been meeting weekly with a group of lawmakers to pressure them to weaken the climate investments in the bipartisan infrastructure package. So now we have the ExxonMobil plan.
Democratic members of Congress who were taking those meetings include Sens. Coons, Hassan, Kelly, Manchin, Sinema and Tester. Disappointing. And not the people-powered policymaking we expect.
"No Democratic member of Congress conceived of this. It was absolutely conceived by the people, which is why we built it For the People. This came directly from what people have been telling us for years they want to see." - @RepSarbanes on the For the People Act
"You did not give up. You keep showing up and saying we can see the summit, don't tell us we can't get to the top of the mountain."
"Every Senate Democrat can feel history bearing down on them." - @RepSarbanes on the momentum behind the For the People Act
"It is up to us to make certain that last week's vote was not the end of our fight for the For the People Act, but rather the beginning of this next stage... Because despite what Mitch McConnell would have us believe, we know that now is not the moment to give up." - @RepMondaire
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.