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Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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We try, though the politics of the country more broadly on this issue create real challenges to getting the votes. Dems from more moderate/conservative areas are very sensitive on this issue.
We may get DREAMers but I don’t know what else they’d support in the current environment. Endless cycle 🔁
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One of the factors that I think is underdiscussed is the precision w/ which GOP drove wedges on this issue.
Years of inaction on path to citizenship created a window for GOP to drum up resentment among the undocumented against recent arrivals/asylees. “We’ve been waiting longer” + siloed info diets
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I need the origin story
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It is! It’s why I moved to E&C. We need single payer members/M4A cosponsors on the committees of jurisdiction
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Pt. 2/2 ⬇️
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On YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?featur...
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Mentality matters. It isn’t about thinking positive thoughts. It’s about not paralyzing ourselves. That’s what cynicism does.
If you don’t believe a better world is possible, then it isn’t. People can’t act - from the most radical organizing to the smallest - if they believe nothing is worthwhile.
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It is! Whoah, what a sharp eye you have! It’s so gorgeous. The variegation is really something else.
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I would actually love to go but we are currently scheduled to have votes in DC that day 🥲
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This is SO beautiful! 🌷
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Oh my goodness these are so little 😭
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Correct! Need a better name for whatever this “offer” is
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There is also a general culture within the party (in part due to your point) that discounts or strongly penalizes attention/digital performance/messaging, so there is a strong disincentive and risk for members to perform well in this capacity if they want to ascend.
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Rep AOC: "republicans, who have voted consistently against the violence against women's act, who have taken the rights of all women to have control over their own body, who as women are bleeding out in parking lots, now want to pretend today that they care about women."