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23 Dec, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Sen. Manchin, Republicans, & so-called moderates keep saying, “There is no room in our democracy for the uplift of poor & low-wealth people,” but the Christmas story shows us that God can work through poor people to bring good tidings of great joy for everyone,
even when those who think they’re in control and say that there’s no room.

During this Christmas season, too many people are being denied access to the basic building blocks for abundant life—living wages, voting rights, health care, a pathway to citizenship,
and protection from ecological devastation. The continued erosion of the #BuildBackBetter agenda and the dismantling of voting rights protections across the country this year have revealed a dangerous and immoral political philosophy that assumes there is no room in the democracy
for the poor and low-wage worker, the immigrant, the sick, and all those in need. But this is a lie. The Christmas story highlights our need to welcome a new spirit of possibility and good news for all people into American politics.
Join us online for a #ChristmasEve Press Rally tomorrow Friday 12/24 at 12pm ET. Media and press can register online now, and a link will be sent to you.

breachrepairers.org/press-releases…
.@WestVirginiaPPC & @UniteThePoor are launching full-page ads in West Virginia newspapers, intensifying our challenge to Manchin. Full-page newspaper ad from...

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24 Dec
WATCH: #PoorPeoplesCampaign We Refuse to Accept That There is No Room in the Democracy twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Here’s a statement from Linnell Fall @Maryland_PPC, who couldn’t be with us online today:
Pam Garrison @WestVirginiaPPC: “Senator Manchin, shame on you for looking down your nose at us! ... We didn’t create this poverty. This is the result of you and the Congress’ failure for decades.” #PoorPeoplesCampaign
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24 Dec
Joining the National #ChristmasEve Press Rally today is @RepJayapal; @RepBarbaraLee; @MaryKayHenry from @SEIU; Jean Evansmore, Pam Garrison, Kris Olsen, Stewart Acuff, & Alex Galo @WestVirginiaPPC; Linnell Fall, @Maryland_PPC; @denita944 @texas_ppc; Bruce Grau @WisconsinPPC; Image
Father Lark Justin Muncy & Rev. Paul Dunn @WestVirginiaPPC; @RevNancyPetty; Rev. Jimmie Hawkins @PCUSAWashington; Jonathan @wilsonhartgrove @RedLetterXians; Rev. Dr. Beth Johnson @CaliforniaPPC;
Rev. William Lamar, @MetropolitanAME Washington, D.C.; @fhunscripted @friendshipwest Baptist Church in Dallas, TX; and Rev. Dr. @alvjc, Co-Chair/Executive Director Mass Poor People's and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly & Moral March on Washington.
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22 Dec
“South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, had spent weeks trying to turn Manchin against the bill and said ‘I very much appreciate’ Manchin’s opposition.”

pbs.org/newshour/polit…
In South Carolina:

• 448,200 people are uninsured.

• 36.1% of census tracts are at-risk for being unable to afford water.

• 16,861 tons of NOx are annually emitted in South Carolina, a major cause of respiratory problems.
• About 4,000 people are homeless. Working at the state minimum wage, it takes 87 hours of work per week to afford a 2-bedroom apartment.

• Over 1 million workers make under $15/hr—52% of South Carolina’s workforce.
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18 Dec
I’m just watching the clip of @VP Harris on @CThaGod’s show. I’m glad he asked the question, and glad she answered the way she did. Brother Charlamagne, keep raising the hard questions.
Dems need to be very clear who the President is! The President should go to West Virginia and Arizona and then to the well of the Congress, and be very clear that the fight for voting rights, Build Back Better, living wages, etc. is all connected.
And Madame @VP, that fire and firmness you showed toward Charlamagne is the very fire and firmness you should show towards Manchin and Sinema. How dare they keep you from casting the final votes on BBB and voting rights, key steps to saving this democracy!
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18 Dec
Congress is choosing to spend more on guarding the world’s oil supply (at least $81 billion a year) than on the Build Back Better proposal for fighting climate change ($55 billion a year).
Congress is spending more on a single military contractor, Lockheed Martin ($75 billion last year), than on the Build Back Better proposal for preschool and child care ($40 billion a year).
Congress has authorized spending an extra $25 billion next year on weapons the Pentagon didn’t even ask for, rather than the $20 billion a year Build Back Better proposal for poverty-busting tax credits for families and workers.
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17 Dec
Respectfully to @POTUS, @TheBlackCaucus, and others: voting rights is not the most important fight. When we say that we separate issues, that should never be. If you have voting rights but don’t have an agenda that takes us forward, it’s not enough.
If you have voting rights, but lose the planet? If you have voting rights, but poverty is destroying the lives of millions, you still have an impoverished democracy. If you look at voting rights only through the lens of race, it becomes a Black issue rather than a democracy one.
We have three fights we must see as non-negotiable and inseparable if we are going to address the issue of racism, poverty, militarism, etc.:

1) The infrastructure of our democracy, voting rights, redistricting, etc.
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