Progressive Patriot

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[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Billionaires pay the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.

If we ended that absurdity & applied the payroll tax to all income above $250,000, Social Security would be solvent for 75 years & benefits would be expanded by $2,400.

Let’s do it.

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

How Trump Became Mob Boss of the United States

The most corrupt president in American history has been preparing his entire life to co-opt the government for personal gain

https://t.co/bJp5MHHers

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

We have not seen a caravan headed to the U.S. southern border in several years, why now?
Oh yeah, there is an election coming and the GOP needs to scare you into voting because nothing else is working.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

DEFEATING TRUMPISM IS NOT ENOUGH: DEMOCRATS MUST DELIVER FOR WORKING FAMILIES

Donald Trump is the most dangerous president in American history and Democrats must do everything possible to roll back his disastrous policies.

But running against Trump is not enough. The American people are hurting and they want to see a pro-working class agenda that will provide meaningful improvements to their lives. Democrats must have the courage to take on Oligarchy, corporate greed and a corrupt campaign finance system. No more incrementalism, no more same-old, same-old failed establishment policies that simply make the rich even richer.

Democrats must restore faith in democracy and the belief that government can work for working families and not just the billionaire class. Our job is to expand our progressive grassroots movement so that when Democrats regain power they must:

✅ Pass Medicare for All and guarantee health care to every person in our country as a human right.

✅ Increase the minimum wage to $20 an hour and pass legislation making it easier for workers to join unions.

✅ Raise taxes on the billionaire class and large profitable corporations.

✅ Lower housing costs by building 7 million units of low income and affordable housing.

✅ Provide free tuition at public colleges and universities.

✅ Get billionaire funded super PACs out of elections.

✅ Create millions of jobs by moving our energy system away from fossil fuels to energy efficiency and sustainable energy.

✅ Protect the American people from the existential and economic threats of AI.

✅ Cut military spending, end “endless wars,” and stop all U.S. military aid to Israel.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Over and over again, we hear that Medicare for All is just “too expensive.” That is demonstrably false.

Not only would my legislation save lives, it would save money.

This isn't just me talking. Hear it from leading healthcare experts at the Yale School of Public Health.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

For those of you keeping score at home.

Trump promised at least 15 times that he’d give checks to working Americans of between $1,000 and $5,000.

How much have they gotten: $0.00.

But here are the large corporations who did get tariff refund checks after charging you more for their products:

Trump’s Tariff Refund Checks
Walmart: $2.9 billion
Apple: $2.2 billion
Ford: $1.3 billion
Target: $994 million
Nike: $986 million
FedEx: $800 million
Home Depot: $730 million
Amazon: $600 million
GM: $500 million
UPS: $500 million

And they’re not alone.

After his so-called Big Beautiful Bill was enacted, 88 large corporations not only paid $0 in federal income taxes after making $105 billion in profits they got a combined $4.7 billion refund check from the IRS.

Here are just a few of them:

Trump’s IRS Refund Checks
CVS: $254 million
Pizza Hut, Taco Bell & KFC: $182 million
Disney: $130 million
United Airlines: $3 million
Southwest Airlines: $2 million

Yes. Trump l-o-v-e-s handing out huge corporate welfare checks to his wealthy friends.

But if you’re a working class stiff, he’s got nothing but broken promises, lies and contempt for you.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Mr. Coxon is right.

The very people building this technology admit that it could threaten the future of humanity.

That is why I will soon be introducing legislation to ban superintelligence and pause AI development.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The U.S. House will be in session only 4 full days from July 24th to November 8th.

That’s 100 paid days off versus 4 full workings days plus 4 travel (half) days.

Meanwhile TRUMP says YOU have too many holidays.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

The leaders of the AI industry acknowledge that they are building a dangerous technology that they can’t control.

We need an immediate global PAUSE on advanced AI development before it’s too late.

That is why I am introducing legislation to do just that.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Wanna know why 42% of cancer patients in America deplete their life savings within 2 years?

Well, maybe it has something to do with the greed of Big Pharma charging over $400,000 for new cancer drugs.

That’s insane. Getting cancer in America shouldn’t cause you to go bankrupt.

[State Rep. Angie Nixon @AngieNixon]

Rents are too damn high and healthcare costs a fortune thanks to Ashley Moody, but some people care more about labels than my plans to help Floridians lower the cost of living. The only box that matters come November 3rd is the ballot box. Stay focused y'all.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Oh, Canada!

Life expectancy
🇨🇦: 83
🇺🇸: 79

Infant deaths per 1K births
🇨🇦: 3.6
🇺🇸: 5

Senior Poverty Rate
🇨🇦: 12%
🇺🇸: 23%

Yearly deaths from lack of health insurance
🇺🇸: 68,000
🇨🇦: 0

Uninsured/Underinsured
🇺🇸: 85 million
🇨🇦: 0

Health Admin Costs Per Person
🇺🇸: $1,076
🇨🇦: $231

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

BREAKING: Liam Tadeo was just deported by ICE.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Read that carefully. Gave up $474 million, got back just $41 million.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

US corporate profits have hit a record high of over $9 trillion the first half of this year, while workers’ slice of the pie has recently sunk to historic lows.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

We’re all getting screwed—Democrats and Republicans alike.

The billionaires who run this country don’t care about your politics, they only care about their profits. They don’t see Red or Blue—they see Green.

They see us as one opposing team. So we might as well act like one.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@JamesTalarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves.

The Powell memo outlined a strategy. Unite corporate special interests, privilege corporate perspectives in the media, appoint sympathetic judges to the court, and buy politicians in both political parties.

And it worked. Republicans and some Democrats sold the false gospel of trickle-down economics. Trickle-down economics is not a theory, it is theft.

Since the late 1970s, mega donors and corporate special interests have been buying politicians in both political parties. And then those politicians turned around and rigged the economy to benefit their wealthy donors at our expense.

We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Tennessee Republicans did it.

The final vote is in. They just gutted the only Black-majority district to lock in more Republican power.

Black voters shut out, representation erased.

Call it what it is, a white supremacy power grab. And a shameful day for Tennessee, the birth place of the KKK.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: We spent 4 days traveling the entire state of Maine with Graham Platner to find out if he can win.

Along the way we sat him down with Republicans and Independents.

One voter told us: "We're so tired of the establishment, and Maine is a very anti-establishment state."

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Myth: If we tax billionaires they won't create jobs.

Fact: Last year, billionaires got the largest tax break in history. Now, they are literally planning to replace every worker in America with a robot or AI.

Trickle down economics is a scam. Tax billionaires out of existence.