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Elizabeth Warren is the candidate who checks all three boxes: bold
progressive, effective, and beats Trump. She deserves our support!

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Polls show Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden competing neck and neck for
delegates in key Super Tuesday states like California.

Watch our [ [link removed] ]new video compilation showing the many times Joe Biden called
for cutting Social Security while Elizabeth Warren led the fight to expand
Social Security benefits.

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you support her plan to boost benefits $200 per month for America’s
grandparents.

Below, we share the behind-the-scenes story of how Elizabeth Warren
changed the national debate on Social Security -- moving cuts off the
table and pushing expanding Social Security benefits into the political
mainstream.

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he'll cut Social Security -- and Elizabeth Warren fighting to expand it.

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The Behind The Scenes Story:

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Jones headline 'How Elizabeth Warren headline from The Nation 'How
Made Expanding Social Security Cool' Expanding Social Security Went From
Economic Fantasy to Mainstream
Talking Point in 3 Short Years.'

We begin with excerpts from PCCC's own write up in [ [link removed] ]The Nation!

Just a few years ago, in 2012 and 2013, Republicans were pushing to cut
the program, and plenty of Democrats seemed eager to give them cover.
Centrist think tanks like Third Way [ [link removed] ]opined that Social Security was a
“populist political and economic fantasy.”

The idea of expansion wasn’t even on the table. The most liberal
Democratic position was “protect it.” The most extreme Republican position
was “dismantle it.” The likely outcome seemed somewhere between the two
positions—painful cuts that would hurt millions of seniors and veterans.
We needed a new playbook.

For the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, the grassroots organization
I co-founded with Adam Green, the moment of revelation came from a meeting
Adam and I had with Senator Elizabeth Warren. She had just been elected to
the Senate, and her office at the time was a temporary trailer parked in
the courtyard of a Senate office building...

Towards the end of the meeting, Adam and I brought up the ominous attacks
on Social Security, the gathering storm clouds.

In response, Senator Warren mentioned pieces of legislation [ [link removed] ]proposed
by then-Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa and then-Senator Mark Begich of Alaska.
The legislation would expand Social Security benefits, not cut them. Most
importantly, this was legislation proposed by a senator from a red state
and a senator from the first presidential caucus state, creating the
political room to fundamentally shift the debate.

Suddenly, it was clear. We would go on the offense...

In the summer of 2013, a group of progressive leaders met together in a
small conference room during Netroots Nation, the big annual gathering of
grassroots activists, and agreed to pivot from stopping Social Security
cuts to calling for expanded benefits. With allies from Democracy for
America, Social Security Works, MoveOn.org, the Working Families Party,
the AFL-CIO, and elsewhere, we started a regular drumbeat of petitions,
letters to the editor, and phone calls...

In November 2013, Senator Warren [ [link removed] ]gave a historic floor speech calling
for Social Security expansion, which [ [link removed] ]led to Third Way attacking her on
the op-ed pages of The Wall Street Journal. Congressional Democrats pushed
back. Honorary Third Way chairs Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and
Representatives Joe Crowley (D-NY) and Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) publicly
criticized the attacks; Schwartz eventually resigned from the foundation.

As Huffington Post [ [link removed] ]reported, "The movement for benefits expansion got
a big boost when Sen. Elizabeth Warren took up the cause, delivering a
passionate floor speech in favor of it in Nov. 2013 that went viral."

Describing their [ [link removed] ]corporate-funded attacks on Warren, Third Way
cofounder Jim Kessler [ [link removed] ]admitted to Sirius radio host Ari Rabin-Havt
(now a top Sanders advisor) “that Social Security plan was the final
moment for us." It was "languishing...she started talking about it and
suddenly it became much more talked about and viable.”

In other words, Warren is effective.

Mother Jones finishes the story:

In late March, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the populist Democrat from
Massachusetts, entered the fray—and challenged the prevailing view. In the
wee hours of March 27, Warren introduced an amendment to the Senate budget
resolution calling for protecting the program’s solvency and expanding
Social Security benefits. And every Democrat present but two voted for the
amendment; every Republican opposed it.

Literally overnight, thanks to the Elizabeth Warren, we went from 8
Democratic Senators to [ [link removed] ]42 Democratic Senators on the record in support
of expanding Social Security -- enough to withstand a filibuster if cuts
were proposed. This is the moment that Social Security cuts were taken off
the table, after decades of others trying.

Elizabeth Warren is the candidate who checks all three boxes: bold
progressive, effective, and beats Trump.

[ [link removed] ]Warren has proposed the boldest expand Social Security plan -- $200 a
month more for our seniors. Can you donate $2, $20, or $200 to show her
your support for this plan and her effectiveness at getting progressive
stuff done? Click here.

Thanks for being a bold progressive.

-- Adam Green and Stephanie Taylor, PCCC co-founders


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