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14 Dec, 6 tweets, 4 min read
WATCH: #PoorPeoplesCampaign Press Conference in front of Sen. Manchin's office at the Hart Senate Building twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Sen. Joe Manchin’s inaction and lies about scarcity are a form of political violence against 140 million poor and low-wealth people in America and his delay on voting rights is allowing a political coup to sweep through state legislatures, threatening our democracy.
Manchin, who met virtually w/ the #PoorPeoplesCampaign earlier this yr, has offered to talk again w/ the activists, but has been unavailable at every subsequent request. Meanwhile, he’s continued to stall BBB & #votingrights, despite his support for For the People Act in 2019.
West Virginia PPC leaders called his office Tuesday morning and brought copies of a letter to the senator, demanding the same, to the Hart Senate building. Over 10,000 people have signed the letter. (📷@stevepavey)
Joe Manchin lied to John Lewis while he was living, because he signed on to the For The People Act, which Lewis wrote the majority of.
Manchin is hiding behind COVID protocols in his Senate office, refusing to meet with us. But we will keep coming back until he lets us in! #PoorPeoplesCampaign (📷@stevepavey)

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WATCH: #MoralMonday March on Washington & Action w/ the #PoorPeoplesCampaign to #GetItDoneIn2021 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
We are gathered here today to declare our independence from the corporate lobbyists who control the narrative about what is possible here on Capitol Hill.
For too long we have heard promises during campaigns that fade into disappearing dreams at the end of each Congressional session because somebody somewhere says it’s just not possible to get it done.
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The BBB will pay for itself if Manchin would stop pushing tax cuts! As @POTUS said, “17 Nobel Prize winners in economics have said my plan will ‘ease inflationary pressures.’ And my plan does this w/o raising taxes on those making less than $400K or adding to the federal debt.”
Manchin is just a coward and a liar. Why won’t he just say, “I don’t care about the poor and low-wealth people in my state or the nation. I’m owned by my corporate funders, and I follow whatever the Wall Street Journal says”?
If Manchin had integrity, he’d sit w/ the 17 Nobel-winning economists, but he won’t b/c he’s a man of weak character who tries to fashion himself as a savior of the ppl. But like his dad & uncle before him, he’s a WV con artist politician who’ll let poor of his own state suffer.
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5 Dec
I heard a person on TV recently say, “I’m from Mississippi, & we’re last in a lot of things, but at least with the case against abortion our leaders are first in defending life & preserving life, despite all the other negatives.” Really? People are in such delusion. Help us, God.
52% of people in Mississippi are poor or low-income—a total of 1.5 million residents. This includes 59% of children (437,000), 53% of women (816,000), 67% of people of color (843,000), and 40% of White people (668,000).
Of the 19,192 people imprisoned in Mississippi, almost 65% are people of color. Black residents are incarcerated at three times the rate of White residents.
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3 Dec
Someone came on my Twitter recently and tried to challenge what I said about discretionary spending. At @BRepairers and @UniteThePoor we value being truthful, so if you’re going to challenge us, you better come correct.
53 cents of every discretionary dollar goes to the military and the war economy, and here is why it matters and how it hinders our people from addressing poverty and low-wealth:
Discretionary isn’t code. It describes the spending that Congress decides every year through appropriations. And military spending is by far the greatest recipient of that spending. In 2020 discretionary spending was $1.6 trillion & $714 billion of that went to military spending.
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1 Dec
.@CongressmanHice said yesterday that he opens every day with the Bible, and that he’s so thankful that Jesus has taken away his sins.

Well, Rep. Hice, if you believe in the Bible, why are you against health care, living wages, and lifting the poor?
How do you read the change-your-life-daily Bible but block voting rights and helping the poor?

How can you ask God to forgive sin and not do works of repentance?

How can you not repent of the sin of policy injustice?
It’s is so hypocritical to watch this session on “National Bible Week,” as they claim they want to test every piece of legislation with God’s word. They don’t really want that, because they would be found out as sinful hypocrites, according to Matthew 23, Matthew 25, etc.
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30 Nov
As I come here to share with the @Ch_JesusChrist, I come as a fellow faith traveler who takes seriously the Word of God and the deep moral values represented in various faith traditions—commitments to love, truth, justice, and care for one another as a matter of faith. #BYUdevo
Now, I’m no scholar of the Book of Mormon, but I’ve listened closely enough to your tradition to know that, in addition to the Scriptures we share, these values are in your texts too. I read in Mosiah 4: “Are we not all beggars? Do we not all depend upon the same Being, even God”
It is clear to me that we face a crisis of possibility. A crisis of civilization. A crisis of democracy and morality that we must seek redemption from. We must believe we have in God the spiritual power to turn in new directions, towards a more beloved community.
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