Tara Pohlmeyer

Texas gal 🌵 | Comms Director for “Big Labor” in Texas (@TexasAFLCIO) 👩🏻‍💻 | Formerly Team @gregcasar | views are mine

[yaz @yaznotyasss]

union steward

[Tara Pohlmeyer @tarapohlmeyer]

A must-listen for comms folks!
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[Tara Pohlmeyer @tarapohlmeyer]

Backed by the Texas AFL-CIO, Union-First Candidate Wins Chart a New Path for Texas Politics
https://t.co/TtC20R50vo

[Liz Shuler @LizShuler]

Union members running for office are charting a new future. After yesterday’s primaries, union-first candidates backed by the @TexasAFLCIO and @NCStateAFLCIO notched key wins. When rank-and-file workers run, working people’s voices show up on day one.

[Alejandro Serrano @serrano_alej]

huge night for monitoring the situation

[Farnoush Amiri @FarnoushAmiri]

First reports of casualties in Israel-US strikes and its schools girls:

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — 5 students killed at a girls’ school in southern Iran in Israel-US strike, Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency says.

[Texas AFL-CIO @TexasAFLCIO]

HUGE NEWS: Texas union membership is the highest it's been in 25 YEARS!

Our labor movement is steadily growing — all despite Greg Abbott’s anti-worker attacks, broken labor laws, and corporate union busting. Keep building worker power!

[Texas AFL-CIO @TexasAFLCIO]

“Instead of waiting for a savior, the working class is just going to save itself.” (via @HoustonChron)

Ft. @TaylorRehmetTX, @VelezforTexas, @JoseLoya_TX, @rableforwesttx #txlege

Read more: https://t.co/5aP97wiWfu

[IAM Union @IAM_Union]

TFW when our very own @TaylorRehmetTX is the first rank-and-file union member to ever serve in the Texas State Senate. 🤗

[Tara Pohlmeyer @tarapohlmeyer]

Celebrating a historic day for @TaylorRehmetTX, the Texas labor movement, and all Texas workers! #txlege

[Texas Observer @TexasObserver]

New from @josephineklee: “The working people of Texas are looking for somebody that is actually going through what they are, who can understand what their kitchen table issues are and make sure they have somebody that fights on their behalf.” https://t.co/e7CaUCtu0b

[Texas AFL-CIO @TexasAFLCIO]

“Nobody’s coming to save the working class and the regular American, so we might as well step up & save ourselves.” (via @josephineklee / @TexasObserver)

Ft. @TaylorRehmetTX, @VelezforTexas, @JoseLoya_TX, @rableforwesttx, @MontserratforTX, & more! #txlege
https://t.co/ecOGlynKHs

[Texas AFL-CIO @TexasAFLCIO]

Texas union journalists with ProPublica, The Texas Tribune, and the Austin American-Statesman are picketing for fair contracts!

We call on Hearst and all management to:
Keep our news local!
Keep our news human!
Keep our news union!

Join the fight: https://t.co/Dbaqchx6MF

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Bad Bunny closed out his #SuperBowl performance with a billboard behind him saying:

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”

[Fort Worth Star-Telegram @startelegram]

Texas Senate upset shows growing power of working-class candidates, unions say https://t.co/gyZaqkNy3g

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?

Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…

Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.

Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake.

[Robert Downen @RobertDownen_]

“If (Taylor Rehmet) were to lose by six points, that’d be worth talking about,” one political expert told me ahead of the race. “And if Rehmet were to win? You’d say, ‘Holy shit.’”

(Rehmet won by 14 points). #TarrantCounty

[Paul Blest @pblest]

Union leader absolutely blowing away a Trump-endorsed candidate in a deep red seat *in Texas* and this is the platform

[Texas AFL-CIO @TexasAFLCIO]

UNION PROUD: @TaylorRehmetTX is the first rank-and-file union member to ever be elected to the Texas Senate.

#WorkersOverBillionaires #SD9 #txlege

[Daily Union Elections @UnionElections]

Massive congratulations to @TaylorRehmetTX, President of @IAM_Union Local 776B on his huge win to flip the Trump +17 TX SD-9 by nearly 15 points in a 30 point over performance!