From : "the long battle over voter protections hasn't been entirely in vain: It's fundamentally changed the center of gravity in the Democratic Party...those two holdouts are likely to be the last...who support maintaining the filibuster..."
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. Former comms director for Sen. . Views here are my own. Links/RT ≠ endorsements.
. Former comms director for Sen. . Views here are my own. Links/RT ≠ endorsements.Silver Spring, MDJoined December 2010
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Folks shouldn’t get complacent. McCarthy always knew this wouldn’t fly. They are trying to sanitize the gruesome cuts they’ve got planned to every other critical program Americans rely on as “more reasonable than cuts to Social Security and Medicare.” twitter.com/newswire_us/st
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"Obama and Biden made a vow: Never again."
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🚨Some personal news: I am thrilled to join in the fight for a strong democracy and fair economy for working people! twitter.com/AFLCIO/status/
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“She will be the first to tell you that we both disagree on a lot of things. I love Israel, and I will defend it wholeheartedly. She’s deeply troubled by the Israeli government. But that doesn’t mean that there shouldn’t be a voice on” HFAC -@RepDeanPhillips
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Cannot wait to see use his tax hammer to pound the Republicans' plans to implement a 30% sales tax on hardworking Americans while greasing the skids for wealthy tax cheats. Let's go.
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There’s absolutely no reason for or anyone else to play along w/ the new House majority over the debt limit, incl. making harmful cuts to Medicare & Social Security.
Groundwork's responds to Manchin's comments at Davos ⬇️
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👋 WE'RE HIRING! Groundwork Action is seeking an Executive Director to expand our economic advocacy footprint. We are looking for a seasoned strategist and dynamic leader who can plan and execute high profile advocacy campaigns and deliver results.
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A stark contrast to the budget/approps dysfunction we're seeing on the House side.
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Murray and Collins out with a joint statement as House Republicans seek an impossible $130B spending cut next fiscal year
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Groundwork Action is hiring its first Executive Director! This is an opportunity for a senior leader and strategist to plan and execute high-profile advocacy campaigns to help shape economic policy and the political landscape.
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Sen. to still-unnamed senator who criticized her for telling constituent stories on the Senate floor:
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I pressed Murray to tell me who that senator was, but she wouldn't. She would only say that he’s not in the Senate anymore.
Is he still alive?
“I don’t know, I haven’t kept track.” 
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Republicans are about to win their first vote of this Congress and it’s an adjournment vote because they can’t elect a speaker
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🔥 from . Epic headline ("turning the base up too high blows out your Speaker"), 💪 argument:
- Our governing coalitions don't map onto our parties.
- The real fight is not over McCarthy. It's about government itself. Chaos is the point.
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Congrats to Sen. , who becomes president pro tempore of the Senate today—the first woman to serve in the role. 🇺🇸 🎉
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Patty Murray formally became the first woman in history to hold the position of Senate president pro tempore.
Murray replaces the outgoing Patrick Leahy, who stood behind her as she took the oath.
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"The solution is more parties, not a rejection of them." is right, channeling a political science consensus here.
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Always be reading . Horserace stuff matters but structural electoral rules matter 100x more leedrutman.substack.com/p/why-trump-wi
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The pro-democracy cause must evolve if it is to beat American fascism, abandoning purism and tediousness, embracing joy and power building instead.
has written a brave, brilliant manifesto. It rhymes so much with .
Read it now:
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"We tend to view our system as fixed, as unchangeable... but it's not. We've changed it throughout our history." explained why we need to break out of the two-party system on
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I can't think of a race where the GOP flooded the zone with garbage polls more than WA Sen. The 538 average had Murray up 4.7 pts. She's going to win by close to 15.
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Did you know that of FairVote teamed up with and to form an org focusing on #ProRep, ?
They recently got 200 democracy scholars to sign an open letter supporting it!
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Patty Murray will be the first woman to serve as Senate president pro tempore, placing her third in line for the presidency, Murray's office says
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NEW POLL with + :
This fall, a majority of voters supported Dem priorities to address inflation, including addressing corporate profiteering, investing in manufacturing, increasing taxes on corporations, and expanding the CTC.
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Join us in one hour for a discussion and Q&A about confronting the biggest threats to democracy in America with proportional representation.
Sign up here: protectdem-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist
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Only TWO DAYS until #EconCon Presents - on Wed, Nov 16, we’ll be gathering at the Howard Theatre to discuss how we can continue to advance the progressive economic agenda in 2023 & beyond. There are only a few in-person seats left, so register now!
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Join us at 10am ET tomorrow for a discussion about some of the biggest threats facing our democracy -- and what we can do about them.
RSVP here (and sign-up even if you can't make 10am, so we can send you the recording after!) bit.ly/3toL02W
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Need a break from election results? Tired of the doom loop in American politics?
Join our conversation on Nov 15 with & our panel of democracy scholars @aziz_huq and
Sign up here!
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The Oregonian calls Measure 26-228, Changing Portland government structure ballot measure: Passes.
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Congratulations to and the team for an incredible campaign in a tough cycle!! Sen. never takes an election for granted and outworks everyone – and she had the campaign she needed for WA voters to hear her message and understand the stakes.
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Great new report that pairs nicely with co-founders and 's recent piece "Why Do People Who Don’t Like Politics Hold the Fate of the Country in Their Hands" #ProportionalRepresentation nytimes.com/2022/11/01/opi
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Many of tomorrow's competitive races will come down to undecided voters.
Inevitably, we'll hear about what made them swing one way or another. But read my report with @leedrutman for @PolReformNA and you'll find out why there are no easy answers:
newamerica.org/political-refo
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NEW: What are structural solutions to rising extremism? For , discusses changes to our electoral system that could see us through this crisis—including proportional representation.
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Beaver State ballot: Biden, Bernie, but bellwether battleground? OR rarely raises eyebrows in the November sweepstakes, but now on display is what Oregonians have always known; OR politics can be weird. Like, “Portlandia” weird. My take in today:
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Read this from former comms director for a smart analysis of what’s going on in Oregon heading into Tuesday
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On Nov 8, PDX may become first major US city to adopt proportional representation during modern times.
What can we learn from past reform efforts? has the answers.
#orpol #pdxcharter #rankedchoicevoting
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"Why do those who pay very little attention to our politics...hold the most decisive power?...Because that’s how our voting system is set up. We can come up with a better system."
on multimember districts as the way to revitalize our politics:
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We have safe states/districts where general elections don't matter. And we have contested states/districts where only the dwindling number of undecided voters matter. But shouldn't we have a system where every state/district/vote matters?
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"Because more parties would be viable under such a system, voters disengaged by our two-party system would be far more likely to find a party that represents them and have a reason to be informed." Superb analysis by & on how we de-apathy our elections twitter.com/hill_charlotte
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For more on this, read our NYT op-ed: nytimes.com/2022/11/01/opi. You can follow the movement for proportional representation at .
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