Between 2013 and 2021, New York raised its minimum wage by 72% in inflation-adjusted terms, an unprecedentedly large increase. Many economists predicted that this yield massive job losses. A new study indicates it actually spurred job *growth*
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Progressive movement builder. Formerly: comms at , co-founder , #YesMeansYes organizer, subject in #TheHuntingGround film. She/her.
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BREAKING: Sara will be the Dem nominee County Executive in Allegheny County.
A Green New Deal is on the way the cradle of steel!!
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Today, Brandon Johnson will be sworn in as Mayor of Chicago, making it the biggest Green New Deal-led city ever!
is next!
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Our ancestors joined together for freedom time and again.
Now it’s our turn.
Be the first to join the movement ✨
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We’re ready to #GetFree. Join us: getfreetogether.org
Coming May 2023.
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Bare lige en friendly reminder, nu hvor politikernes "klimakrisen kræver handling"-kommentarer starter: Et tweet løser ikke klimakrisen - det gør POLITISK handling. Rapporten slår fast, at klimaløsningerne allerede eksisterer. Det er viljen fra selvsamme politikere, som mangler
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A reminder: America has no higher minimum wage, no extended child tax credits, and no voting rights protections because of Kyrsten Sinema.
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The state government in Massachusetts had a $3 billion surplus this year. That’s more than it costs to build a new MBTA line. Or a dozen new high schools. Or a seawall for a community going underwater. Instead, they refunded it to the taxpayers and I got $40
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two insane historical facts about John Fetterman's win:
✅ the last time Dems won a race for this Senate seat was in 1962
✅ John's ~5 point win is the highest margin a Dem has EVER gotten for this seat since they started doing popular vote elections in the early 1900s
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A key takeaway from this race that must be a lesson going forward:
Never overestimate how damaging Democratic Elites are to actual races.
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It’s Day 4 of the likely largest higher ed strike in US history as UC grad student workers continue to strike for better wages and working conditions. Cal student workers bringing a lot of energy to downtown Berkeley this afternoon after a bike strike just wrapped up
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Without Twitter, Ahmaud Arbery’s killers would’ve never been arrested. George Floyd’s death, even with the video, likely wouldn’t have sparked national outrage.
Without twitter, we’re at the mercy of news outlets for reporting & you see how they publish police reports as fact.
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Remember what Elon Musk has done to twitter the next time a billionaire suggests they know what to do with public education!
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Leaked audio of a strategy session between Tennessee lawmakers and Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America reveals the anti-abortion group telling politicians to wait a year or two before going after IVF and contraception
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Extraordinary lack of basic fact checking. Iran has not sentenced 15,000 protesters to death, as a number of celebrities and political leaders are saying. Here are the facts as we know them: #IranProtests
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There is an interesting pattern of latino heavy dem congressional races over performing expectations in states where ran long term bilingual latino outreach for a long period of time in those same Senate races. Compared to states/races that didn’t have this spending
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We shouldn’t be acting like the next Parkland Sandy Hook or Uvalde to pass a comprehensive gun law at the national level. If we federalized Massachusetts gun laws that have been proven effective and constitutional- we could cut gun deaths by 50%
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If you are a Democrat anywhere in America who is frustrated that we’ll lose the House by so few seats:
NY House losses were the reason & the man who theoretically could have averted this is named Jay Jacobs.
And now we’re going to have him replaced, for proper accountability.
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Truly remarkable: election denier Republicans lost Secretary of State races in every major battleground state
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NY's original gerrymander would have elected just 4 Rs
Now, there will be 11
That 7-seat difference is more than the GOP's House majority
No joke- Andrew Cuomo and the GOP judges he appointed cost Dems their House majority
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Last night, Toledo City Council approved $800,000 to purchase the medical debt of Toledoans, creating roughly $160-240 million in debt relief.
This is what it looks like when your government works for you. Toledo is leading the way!
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An incredible look at the PA-Sen race based on daily tracking of Fetterman & Oz favorable ratings by that we can now release.
That "disastrous" debate? In reality, it helped Fetterman and stalled out Oz's improving favorable ratings.
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I need everyone to read this.
The hot takes were wrong.
The disconnect between the elites and regular people could not be more stark.
We put our faith in the people of Pennsylvania. And they got it.
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An incredible look at the PA-Sen race based on daily tracking of Fetterman & Oz favorable ratings by @Civiqs that we can now release.
That "disastrous" debate? In reality, it helped Fetterman and stalled out Oz's improving favorable ratings. @kerryeleveld
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As of this moment, I am personally spearheading a campaign to replace Jay Jacobs.
New York Democrats deserve so much better, and I’ve had enough.
Please DM me if you would like to help!
(And yes, this means defeating once again.)
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As you see discourse on how to recreate Fetterman, recall that the establishment deemed him too leftie and desperately wanted Lamb. So, as a step one, how about we put an axe through “electability” and recall that the middle of the road is where you get run over.
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The big driver of inflation right now is high rent.
Rent rose 7.5% from Oct '21 to Oct '22 -- the largest increase since 1982.
The other popular rent gauge, the "Owners’ equivalent rent," rose 6.9% -- the largest increase ever
This really hurts. About 25% of Americans rent
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. to all the Democratic strategists, pundits, and politicians who balked at student debt relief and a bold agenda: "They need to apologize. They need to apologize and get out of the way because student debt relief drove young voters."
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NEW w/ : Since 2018, Democrats have been losing South Brooklyn.
After Tue’s losses, local electeds say the county + state party ignored their requests for campaign stops, literature + $: “We were literally left to die on a vine here.”
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After last night's NV mail ballot trend, excellent chance now that Dems will have 50 Senate seats/control in hand heading into the GA runoff.
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In the end, young voters turned out in big numbers this cycle. They were motivated by issues. They mobilized behind candidates who championed progressive policies. They helped swing key races.
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As our poll collabs w/ showed, young voters care a lot abt student debt forgiveness, abortion access, gun violence + climate change. In our Oct survey, 40% of voters said student debt forgiveness made them more supportive of Biden and the Dems
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What if the point of political journalism is not to predict outcomes but to clearly lay out what’s at stake in our political choices?
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If polls keep being wrong or misleading, maybe journalists should stop lavishing 90% of their political coverage on polls and instead do something like, I don't know, talk about the candidates' policy preferences and what effects they would be likely to have if implemented.
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Oz saying “local political leaders” should be involved in abortion decisions was a massive blunder that every woman on the Fetterman team identified immediately.
We made an ad that night on it.
It was *the* defining moment of the debate that was overlooked by many in the media.
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Can't stop thinking about how sexist it was to assume that abortion was a niche issue where Democrats overreached. Sexist because pundits treat women as a special interest group, not the majority of the voters & for thinking women don't care about rights if gas prices are high.
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Sean Patrick Maloney evicted Mondaire Jones from his district, lost, and could well have cost his party 2 House seats. Maybe not have a guy with terrible political judgment and no team spirit the DCCC Chair?
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. is proof you can unapologetically shit post your way into a better job while maintaining the values and integrity that got you where you are in the first place.
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If you're happy with the election results, remember that it takes thousands upon thousands of hours of time of candidates, campaigners & grassroots organizers to get it done—and even more hours of volunteer time of everyday folks!
Support grassroots campaigns & organizations!
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It turns out voters actually liked the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan and Inflation Reduction Act that you opposed and rewarded Democrats with a historic achievement in the midterms.
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This should confound doomsayers in both parties. Given all the concerns voters had, it is hard not to see the election as a repudiation of MAGA extremism. THE CENTER HELD.
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