Thread by @AdyBarkan

I have received more messages of love and solidarity this week than any person deserves in a lifetime. For that I am forever grateful. And our struggle against this immoral tax scam will reach its climax next week.

On Mon & Tue, we will meet on Capitol Hill in a contest for the soul of this nation. The sides are clear: money vs. people, greed vs. love. Across the US, Americans are raising our voices, rejecting this bill's pessimistic vision: a vision of scarcity, inequality, and misery.

Our only chance at victory is to clarify the moral stakes of this bill.

And to do that, we need the best voices of the American people. That means you, and your story, and your hopes, and your dreams.

Will you join us?

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We need our heroes by our sides. @RevDrBarber, you speak with unmatched moral clarity about the injustices perpetrated by this country’s economic structures.

Will you bring the Poor People’s Campaign to the Capitol?

Will you stand with us? Will you stand with me?

Pls RT.

We need our heroes by our sides. Michelle Alexander, @thenewjimcrow opened this nation’s eyes to its gravest ongoing sin.

Judge Scheindlin & I read it together while she ruled on NYC’s stop/frisk cases.

Will you come & walk with us, and lend us your wisdom?

Pls RT.

We need our heroes by our sides.

This year, while Puerto Rico flooded & starved, Congress did nothing. The president attacked. @Lin_Manuel, you have called on us to #RiseUp, and we are not throwing away our shot.

Will you join us in song and protest?

Pls RT.

We need our heroes by our sides.

Puerto Ricans have suffered enough. The bill would devastate the island. @CarmenYulinCruz, you are a champion for your people & for all of us.

You resisted the President’s lies. Will you bring your courage to this moment?

Pls RT.

We need our heroes by our sides.

After further enriching the 1%, they say they will come for Medicare Medicaid & Social Security. It is the plan, not an accident. @NaomiAKlein you opened the playbook of disaster capitalism.

Will you come help us reverse this script?

Pls RT.

We need our heroes by our sides. “Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is as active as your own, whose range of feeling is as vast as your own.” @tanehisicoates, will you join our women & men as we tell our stories?

We need our heroes by our sides.

Amy Goodman, each morning on @democracynow you tell us the truth. The ugly truth, the beautiful truth, the people’s truth.

Will you come to Capitol Hill and help us create a new truth?

Pls RT.

We need our heroes by our sides.

@jimmykimmel, you love Baby Billy as I love Baby Carl. You have spoken out for vulnerable children like him & fathers like me. What if, on Mon or Tue night, Jimmy Kimmel comes live to the American people from the people's Capitol?

Pls RT.

We need you. We need your heroes. Who else should join us in struggle?

Tag your heroes. Urge them to come join us as we fight for the soul of this country that we love.

#HeroesByOurSides