Thread by @ezralevin

Some folks think Indivisible started in response to Trump - but that’s only half true. We really decide to start Indivisible in response to feckless Dem leadership at the outset of an authoritarian surge. Here's why that’s still needed...
thehill.com/homenews/senat…

After shelving BBB this week, Biden and Senate Dems said they were going to pursue voting rights “aggressively” for the rest of the year. And then just about 24 hours later, we learned they were going to go on vacation.

https://twitter.com/JesseRodriguez/status/1471152371250212873?s=20

The only good news from this garbage week is that we're closer to filibuster/democracy reform than we've ever been. In the Senate, there was real progress - three holdouts endorsed filibuster reform: Warner, Hickenlooper, and Hassan. More have done so privately. We're close.

But after early reports that Biden was actually - finally! - joining the fight, we've learned from multiple sources that he's been phoning it in. Even at this late stage, Biden is not really pushing for filibuster/democracy reform privately or publicly.

It's tempting to blame Manchin/Sinema, and they deserve lots of blame. Sinema doesn't like doing the work of being a senator and refused to stay in D.C. to debate the democracy bill. Manchin is moving at a glacial pace. But Manchin/Sinema are not President or Majority Leader.

Biden campaigned on bringing the country together. But he's not even trying to bring Senate Dems together - the White House is just trying to avoid blame. I hope he follows @EJDionne's advice here but he hasn't yet: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

In December 2017, McConnell kept senators in D.C. They got it done. Trump signed his tax scam into law on 12/22.

Senate Dems? Well they're on vacation now, having failed to deliver on both BBB & democracy. There's no way to spin this - it's just an embarrassing failure.

Ok so what to do? We all have a role to play. If you don't like that Dems are failing to deliver, tell them. If you don't like that Biden is on the sidelines as the tide of authoritarianism rises, tell him.

Got Dem senators? Tell them you're angry they went on vacation instead of doing their job. Tell them not to take another recess until they deliver. Here's a script if you need it: indivisible.org/demand-your-se…

Got GOP senators? They're thrilled right now. Here's a script to ask Biden to fight for you, because your senators sure as hell aren't. Couldn't hurt to tell @WHCOS how disappointed you are that he and his boss are barely lifting a finger. indivisible.org/red-state-resi…

This isn't where we wanted to be at year's end, but the fight isn't over. By all means be mad and frustrated, but if you've got the time, try to focus that into productive pressure. Pressure works - maybe not as fast as we'd like - but it works. /end