Americans For Progress

We battle for progress in this broken nation. Fighting for universal healthcare, an end to inequality, climate justice, free college, and much more. BLM

[Americans For Progress @A4Pofficial]

There must be a systematic change in the American economic and social system. These broken systems perpetuate inequality, which facilitates police violence towards black and brown Americans. This inequality and killing must stop now. #BlackLivesMatter #JusticeforGeorgesFloyd

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

What we need is a nation that fundamentally respects the human dignity of every person. That starts with justice for George Floyd.

[Americans For Progress @A4Pofficial]

Funny how people vehemently defend capitalism but own no capital, almost like the system is getting to you. It’s made to benefit the singular, not the collective.

[Americans For Progress @A4Pofficial]

People who ‘support the military’ but refuse to pay for their healthcare are not pro-military, they’re pro-death.

[Americans For Progress @A4Pofficial]

Romney supports holding a vote on next Supreme Court nominee - POLITICO
Moderate Republicans are not your friends. Just because there is a Republican who is not part of the Trump cult does not mean we can consider them an ally. https://t.co/she4yEGr1E

[Americans For Progress @A4Pofficial]

Capitalism allows the exploitation of the environment, and it creates inequalities, allowing our planet to collapse. It’s time to end this broken system.

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

"The richest 1% cause double the CO2 emissions of the poorest half of the worlds population"

The climate crisis isn't something "we" have created.
"We" are not equally responsible for stealing the future.
#FaceTheClimateEmergency
@Oxfam @SEIclimate
https://t.co/JWaw2RCk8C

[Americans For Progress @A4Pofficial]

“The American people deserve a voice.”
-Mitch McConnell, 2016
I see no reason why that doesn’t apply here.

[People for Bernie @People4Bernie]

Block.
Every.
Nominee.

[Americans For Progress @A4Pofficial]

We need an actual economy that works for labor and the working class. Capitalism is failing the working class

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

Labor got one day. Capital got the other 364.

[Americans For Progress @A4Pofficial]

Enough.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

- Lied about COVID, "played it down." Now almost 200,000 Americans dead, 22 million jobless.

- Said climate change a "hoax," withdrew from Paris Agreement. Now fires and floods consuming America.

- Called white supremacists "good people." Now carnage on our streets.

Enough.

[Americans For Progress @A4Pofficial]

I just want to take this time to wish Happy Birthday to @BernieSanders
Thank you Bernie! You were my inspiration to get into leftist ideas, and you helped inspire me and realize that maybe our planet wouldn’t die from the heat death of climate change. Happy Birthday!

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The annual income for frontline workers:

Nursing assistants: $34K
Restaurant cooks: $27K
Home health aides: $24K
Cashiers: $22K

What Jeff Bezos made in one day: $13 billion

If this doesn't convince you our economy is broken, I don't know what will.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Employers steal $15,000,000,000 from their workers every year in the form of wage theft.

That’s nearly as much as all other property theft combined.

It’s time we talk about the real looting in America.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

On this Labor Day let us not forget that over the last 30 years the top 1% have seen a $22 trillion increase in their wealth, while the bottom half of the American people have actually seen a decline in their wealth. We need an economy that works for all, not just the few.

[Americans For Progress @A4Pofficial]

This is true. But pinning the blame for wealth inequality and poverty on Trump misses the point. Yes, Trump has perpetuated and worsened these issues. But the root of these issues is capitalism and a neoliberal economy.

[Americans For Progress @A4Pofficial]

Capitalism, and the wealth inequality it perpetuates, is mutually exclusive with a true democracy. It’s time to fundamentally shift the way our economic system works. It’s time for an economic system that creates true democracy.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

“We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”

—Louis Brandeis

[Americans For Progress @A4Pofficial]

Because capitalism is an economic system that prioritize the wealth of the 1% over the lives of the 99%, and the planet. It’s time for that system to be dismantled.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

How is it that Jeff Bezos can grow his wealth by $13,000,000,000 in a single day but Amazon can’t afford to provide paid sick leave to its warehouse workers?

[Americans For Progress @A4Pofficial]

He won.

[Ed Markey @EdMarkey]

Growing up, my father told me, don’t beg for your rights, you organize, and you take them. So, to the young people fighting in this movement for change, here is my charge: march in the streets, protest, run for school committee or city council or the state legislature. And win.

[Ed Markey @EdMarkey]

Vote for a Green New Deal. Vote for Medicare for All. Vote for social, racial, and environmental justice for all people. https://t.co/DzlR5J8h40

[Ed Markey @EdMarkey]

I’m Ed Markey. I am running for re-election to the United States Senate to fight for the progressive principles that we believe in.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

In the richest country on Earth no one should suddenly lose their health insurance, let alone during a pandemic. It's outrageous that our corporate-run system treats health insurance as an employee benefit, not a right. We must end that disgrace and pass Medicare for All.

[Americans For Progress @A4Pofficial]

Rest in power, King. Thank you for being an idol in the black community for years. #WakandaForever #blackpantherforever

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

We have a president whose contempt for the law is so clear that he holds a political rally at the White House. #PromisesBroken