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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · 17h

Premium Tax Credits make health care affordable for 20M+ people. If they expire, millions won’t be able to go to the doctor.

Join us in urging Congress to make health care tax credits permanent & repeal the health care cuts they passed earlier this year: commcat.io/467vrRn

#CareNotCuts

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RL Miller @rlmiller.bsky.social · 13d

🔥🔥🔥MAGA Mike Johnson is refusing to seat @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social after she won her seat in a landslide last week. Is he afraid she's the 218th vote on the Epstein files? Or just afraid of a powerful progressive Latina? Sign our petition actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Tell Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson - Seat Adelita Grijalva NOW

Climate hawk Adelita Grijalva won a landslide victory in September, beating her nearest challenger by roughly 40 points. So why is House Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson refusing to allow her to take her sea...

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 18d

🔥PLEASE REPOST🔥

🚨If ACA tax credits are NOT extended, premium payments will increase by more than 100% for many of the 24M Americans who buy their own coverage & it's on top of rising food & housing costs among other inflationary pressures that are adding major STRESS.🚨

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How an ACA Premium Spike Will Affect Family Budgets, and Voters

In his latest column, President and CEO Dr. Drew Altman shows how spiking premiums, which may come if the enhanced ACA tax credits are not extended, will hit people in the context of their family budg...

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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · 22d

I'm attending Progressive Maryland's event, “Community Gathering: Rally to Defend Medicaid and Celebrate the 60th Anniversary!” - sign up www.mobilize.us/progressivem...

Community Gathering: Rally to Defend Medicaid and Celebrate the 60th Anniversary! · Progressive Maryland

Tens of thousands of Maryland families, seniors, people with disabilities, and children get their healthcare through the Medicaid program. The new Trump federal budget will bring deep devastating fund...

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Center for Media and Democracy @exposedbycmd.bsky.social · 28d

If DHS can violently attack journalists and citizen observers without any consequences, none of us are safe anywhere in the country.
#protest #LAProtests #PressFreedom #ProtectJournalists

Freedoms Under Attack: DHS Violence Against Journalists, Observers, and Protesters

YouTube video by The Center for Media and Democracy

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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · 28d

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Democratic PR Firm to Run Bot Army for Israel

A new FARA document reveals SKDK's plan to "flood the zone" with social media bots as part of its $600,000 contract with Israel.

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Sharon Parrott @sharonparrott.bsky.social · Sep 12

The Administration has undermined the bipartisan 2025 funding deal by withholding funds, using a partisan rescission bill to cancel funding agreed to on a bipartisan basis, and *remarkably* claiming unilateral authority to hold funds & allow them to expire.

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Sarah Anderson @sarahanderson.bsky.social · Sep 15

In response to a question about how to solve the polarization that is tearing the world apart, Pope Leo raised the problem of the growing gap between CEO and worker pay. Nice to have a new ally on this front!

Full interview: cruxnow.com/vatican/2025...

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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'm attending Peoples Action Institute's event, “Deep Canvass Institute: Foundational Skills of Deep Canvassing” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/peoplesactio...

Deep Canvass Institute: Foundational Skills of Deep Canvassing · Peoples Action Institute

**Please note that this is a two-session training. You must be signed up for both sessions to complete the training. Click "Select All (2 times)" at signup** Just curious about deep canvassing but n...

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People's Action @pplsaction.bsky.social · Jul 24

After 6+ years of organizing, Chicago rideshare drivers forced Uber to the table—winning a path to union rights for 100K+ drivers across Illinois.

Huge shoutout to @PeoplesLobbyUSA + Chicago Gig Alliance for leading the way.

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#WorkerPower #UnionStrong

In Chicago, a Coalition of Unions, Community Organizers, and Drivers Have Forced Uber to Come to the Table

As the tech industry moves increasingly into alignment with the far right, the issue of worker power has never been more important. The Chicago campaign offers some key lessons.

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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · Jul 24

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300,000 Black women have left the labor force in 3 months. It’s not a coincidence.

For decades, the public sector has been a lifeline for Black women shut out of economic opportunity. It’s no surprise that Trump's federal downsizing targeted them first, explains gender economist Kat...

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · Jul 21

JD Vance has always been the long-term plan for right-wing tech billionaires to cement a dictatorship in America.

“Vance has been anointed by Thiel and the rest of the anti-democracy movement as the post-Trump president, tasked with replacing the US establishment with an authoritarian regime.”

JD Vance is the handpicked leader of the antidemocracy movement in America | Robert Reich

Rightwing tech lords are betting that Vance will be the Republican presidential pick in 2028. They’re probably right

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · May 21

Dems make believe message that "works," defined again as approval/disapproval, in captive setting translates to real world, where Job #1 is get people to stop scrolling long enough to hear you at all. Reps test for what garners attention and makes salient what they need folks to believe.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · May 21

Dems use message testing to *take*temp - to figure out where people (in captive setting, consciously aware responses are sought) "are." Reps use it as a flame thrower - to understand how to *change* the temp, by looking NOT at overall "approval" response but rather at what their base would repeat.

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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · Jun 20

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Texans Rally Against the Big Beautiful Bill: Sen. Cornyn, Vote No!

Protesters organized by Vocal Texas rallied outside the Austin office of Sen. John Cornyn to urge him to vote no on the Big Beautiful Bill.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Jun 9

“Currently, there is no plan for where everyone is sleeping tonight,” the source said, adding that there was an urgent need to find more portable bathrooms and dumpsters for garbage.

From the SF Chronicle: Photos obtained by the Chronicle show California National Guard troops deployed by the Trump administration to Los Angeles packed together in what appear to federal building basements or loading docks. The source who provided the photo said they redacted the name of one soldier that appeared in this photo.
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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · May 29

Check out People's Action Institute's free online “FUNDAMENTALS OF ORGANIZING Training” - sign up here! #HANDSOFF www.mobilize.us/peoplesactio...

FUNDAMENTALS OF ORGANIZING · People's Action

People’s Action Institute has launched an ‘Organizing Revival’ to engage hundreds of thousands of people in our movement. A deep investment in the Fundamentals of Organizing is the cornerstone of the...

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People's Action @pplsaction.bsky.social · May 18

Health care keeps our communities going. Don’t take away what helps us feel human to give tax breaks to billionaires.

Tell your Member of Congress to #StopTheCuts: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

#PeopleOverProfit

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People's Action @pplsaction.bsky.social · May 13

The bullies and the billionaires are pushing a budget that will let people get sick, go hungry, and die...just so the ultra-rich can get more money.

Tell your representatives to put #peopleoverprofit and #stopthecuts: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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People's Action @pplsaction.bsky.social · May 20

They want to cut Medicaid.
They want to defund HUD.
They want to slash food aid and climate action.

So billionaires get massive tax cuts? That ain't right!

We’re bringing the fight to their front door.

#PeopleOverProfits #StopTheCuts

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People's Action @pplsaction.bsky.social · May 20

Tenants, unhoused communities & allies are rising up to say:
NO cuts to HUD.
NO giveaways to billionaires.
YES to housing as a human right.

📸 Bora Chung | Survival Media Agency
#ProtectHousing #StopTheCuts #PeopleOverProfits

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People's Action @pplsaction.bsky.social · May 24

"Amid the deluge of Trump administration chaos, fighting back is imperative...we’re gonna get the crooks, the politicians, the corporations, all of them" —
@ariassulma.bsky.social

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

HUD and ICE Collude to Target Mixed-Status Families

In a move that will have major impact in New York, California, and Texas, the two agencies recently agreed to work together in ways that threaten thousands of Americans.

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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · May 27

UnitedHealth Sued by Investors for Approving TOO Much Care in privatized Medicare plans after Biden rule requiered them too. #CareOverCost #MedicareforAll youtube.com/shorts/UKgos...

UnitedHealth Was Sued for Approving TOO MUCH Medical Care

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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · May 13

The House Energy & Commerce is holding a hearing and voting on 900 billion in cuts right now. Take action: win.newmode.net/peoplesactio...
#NoCutstoMedicaid #HealthCareIsAHumanRight

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"If Medicaid is cut, I and so many other people will be left behind. It might not affect you now, but one day it'll either affect you or it'll affect someone that you love. People's lives are on the l...

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Megan Essaheb @messaheb.bsky.social · May 2

I'm attending Peoples Action Institute's event, “24 Hour Medicaid Vigil at the U.S. Capitol” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/peoplesactio...

24 Hour Medicaid Vigil at the U.S. Capitol · Peoples Action Institute

Congress is pushing forward a plan to cut nearly a trillion dollars from Medicaid. We know that Medicaid isn’t a line item in a budget, but a lifeline for millions of families across the US. People'...

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