When approximately 50% of the MA State House receives committee stipends from the Speaker of the House, it's no wonder we only pass policies that he wants. We need substantive reform to the stipend bill, and we need it NOW. Tune in at https://t.co/ofh8vMgjgh
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Today we discuss ballot initiatives, the committee in the legislature that has now "dealt" with ballot initiatives, and the wonderful way they did so with a predetermined outcome. Tune in at https://t.co/haACHGJ2HC.
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"Suffrage happened when states started to allow suffrage and that made the push for national politics. The fight against slavery was literally a state-by-state fight. It is that level, it is the STATES that always lead on these things." https://t.co/Sij1Nf8LFY
“There was a moment during the primaries when it looked like Bernie or Warren was going to win, and I dreamed of a better America.” Hear Jordan Berg Powers, Jonathan Cohn, and Anna Callahan talk about how to make that dream a reality for 7M people in MA. https://t.co/czdkACF6g7
Join us today at 7PM EST to learn the strategies that win campaigns and how to translate these victories into #progressive legislation. https://t.co/foTX1yVAYU
Challenge for Progressives:
1) Winning elections
2) Passing legislation to advance the Peoples’ agenda
Solution:
Learn the strategies that win campaigns and translate these victories into progressive legislation. Click here: https://t.co/S442yLbBqX
When I was a kid, we’d have blackouts all the time in Turkey. When I came to America I was amazed that the power never went out. Oh well, there goes that. People who don’t believe in government have systematically starved us of the infrastructure we need to be a developed nation.
Extra costs associated with the power grid failure in Texas are going to disproportionately hurt Black and Brown communities, says environmental justice scholar @DrBobBullard. "That's the inequity that's piled on top of the inequity." https://t.co/LZo78sHZ6y
"After the last session with you yesterday how folks who
attended felt we needed to change the way we approached
our organizing in order to achieve our goals — no doubt,
a direct result of our discussions with you.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.”
— Organizer, Waltham, MA
“We really appreciated all the lessons you had to offer, and it was clear after the last session with you yesterday how folks who attended felt we needed to change the way we approached our organizing in order to achieve our goals."
— Organizer, Waltham, MA