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INSIDER NEWS FROM THE FRONTLINES OF THE POLITICAL REVOLUTION

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HEADLINES: Bernie vs Blank Check for Israel | [ [link removed] ]Economic Justice Town
Hall w/ Barbara Lee, Ro Khanna | Prof. Richard Wolff on Wealth Gap &
Democracy | Preparing for 2024 | & MORE!

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THE PUSH FOR PEACE

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Thanks to your surge of support, Bernie Sanders was successful at blocking
$10 billion of unconditional aid to Israel’s extreme right-wing
government!

The aid vote failed 49-51 on Thursday, and there is no doubt that your
thousands of signatures and donations made a big difference.

However, allies of Netanyahu’s regime, like AIPAC, are going to use their
near-unlimited resources to punish progressives for daring to call for an
end to the civilian bombing in Gaza.

Bernie was the only non-Republican Senator to vote against unconditional
aid and will now be the target of enormous pressure to reverse course.

As Bernie said, we cannot be complicit. Hamas is a terrorist group, but
bombing innocent people only causes more death and danger.

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international law by bombing civilians.

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Tens of thousands tuned in this week to Our Revolution’s [ [link removed] ]Economic
Justice Town Hall with Reps. Barbara Lee and Ro Khanna, Professor Richard
Wolff, and worker activists like Sergio Valderrama from around the
country.

We dug into the issues that cut to the core of our shared economic
struggle, including jobs, wages, housing, labor power, healthcare costs,
student debt, greed-flation, and more.

A rigged economic system is crushing people and creating a wealth gap that
has enabled the ultra-wealthy to hijack democracy in America.

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Rep. Barbara Lee lived the struggle as a single mother and knows the tough
decisions families face when wages are too low, and the rent is too damn
high.

She has spent her life and career waging the fight for economic justice,
and now we have a chance to send her to partner with Bernie Sanders and
speak for our movement in the Senate.

“I know what economic injustice is. I know how people are struggling,”
Barbara said on the [ [link removed] ]Town Hall. “We can’t have people just hanging on
the edge in the wealthiest, most powerful country in the world.”

Barbara and Bernie recently teamed up together on the new OLIGARCH Act to
tax the ultra-wealthy. They’re also pushing for a Wall Street speculation
tax, a bill to close the CEO-worker pay gap, an audit of the Pentagon, and
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“Senator Sanders and I have worked on this daily,” Barbara said. “People
cannot wait. Billionaires are scamming the system, and regular folks are
paying excessive taxes to fuel the Pentagon budget. This is money that
should be invested in healthcare, housing, and lifting people out of
poverty.”

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Rep. Ro Khanna is chairing Barbara Lee’s campaign for the U.S. Senate
because he knows her passion and record and these crucial issues.

“I’ve often said Barbara Lee is the antiwar voice we need, but I could
never have predicted we’d need that voice so urgently in the moment we’re
in,” Ro said on our Town Hall. “If you care about peace, if you care about
a ceasefire in the Middle East, Barbara Lee is the only candidate in this
race to come out for a permanent ceasefire.”

“As is often the case, she is a bit ahead of all of us. She showed the
way, and we’ve got to rally around her. She’s going to win because people
are going to find out California is a progressive, pro-peace state.”

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When 1% of America controls nearly a third of the wealth and the bottom
half can claim less than 3%, we’re in trouble, and so is our democracy, Ro
told us.

“For 50 years, there’s been a war on the working and middle class in this
country, and people feel that,” Ro said. “Wages aren’t keeping up, and
folks can’t afford medical debt, student debt, credit card debt. They say,
‘I can’t afford to live in America.’”

“That is the central challenge that the Democratic Party has to tackle,”
he explained, “to create economic opportunity and wealth generation in
every district in America. There are many parts of this country where
there’s no economic opportunities, no job creation, no sense of the
American Dream. This country cannot stand that divided. “

“It’s why I co-chaired Bernie’s campaign and why I’m chairing Barbara
Lee’s campaign. We need to prioritize the working class. That means
Medicare for All, universal childcare, forgiving student loans, free
public college, a living wage, paid family leave, power for labor unions,
and more. We know what needs to be done in this country, and it also means
taxing the ultra-rich.”

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We were excited to have Economist Professor Richard Wolff also join the
Town Hall on Monday!

“The problem for people is an unequal distribution of wealth, which is
used to corrupt our politics,” [ [link removed] ]Professor Wolff told us. “The rich
understand you can’t have democracy because the mass of people might use
it to change the distribution of wealth, and for that reason, they aim to
stop that process.

“If you want a political democracy, you have no choice but to advocate for
an economic democracy because, without that, you’ll never get the
political democracy either,” he explained.

Wolff said he takes great encouragement from seeing the surge of
unionization and labor strikes — from Starbucks to UAW to graduate
students organizing on campus.

“There is a movement already underway of people saying they don’t need to
live in a world as unequal as this one,” Professor Wolff said. “We can do
better than this, and it’s our job just as the working people who
struggled before us — to stop slavery, to stop feudalism. Now, it’s our
turn to make a better world.”

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Sergio Valderrama is doing just that and making a difference as a worker
activist with Fight for $15 and a Union.

He joined our Town Hall Monday night from his car between DoorDash
deliveries. A McDonald’s worker for 10 years, Sergio has always had to
work two or three jobs to support his wife and children.

Last year, Our Revolution joined Sergio in the fight to win AB257, which
set a $20 minimum wage for fast food workers and gave them a seat at the
negotiating table in California — a form of sectoral bargaining we want to
export around the country.

“Winning this bill was important. It helped a lot with expenses and rent,
but the cost of living keeps going up, and we must keep fighting,” he
said. “And I don’t have insurance, so I can’t actually afford to go see
the doctor.”

Sergio speaks for so many of us, and we’re proud to be with him in this
working-class movement to demand real change and elect progressive leaders
who fight alongside us.

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On Tuesday, federal call center workers are traveling to DC to demand
action from the Biden administration to turn their “low-wage, dead-end
jobs” into good jobs that support their families and communities — just
like the president promised.

Our Revolution proudly stands with call center workers like Tonya Jackson,
who told us on our live show that she and her coworkers help folks
navigate healthcare but can’t afford to use their own plans. She works a
second job as a home health aide.

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This year, Our Revolution elected 77 new progressive allies to offices up
and down the ballot, thanks to our grassroots supporters and activists!

Our Revolution Board Member Megan Green now leads a progressive majority
in St. Louis, where they passed a universal income program, raised wages,
and took on corporate developers. They’re now working on tenants’ rights
and giving city residents a direct say over spending decisions. [ [link removed] ]Read
more here about Megan Green and the power of progressives in St. Louis.

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Together, we also helped elect Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, a former
teacher and labor organizer, who has already delivered on his promise to
raise the wage — and not leave tipped workers behind.

And Our Revolution ally Sara Innamorato now joins a progressive trifecta
in Pittsburgh, winning the powerful Allegheny County Executive seat with
the power to help protect abortion care, push for county-wide housing, and
address human rights violations in the county jail.

That’s not all — all of our candidates swept the NYC Council, and we now
have a progressive majority in Minneapolis. We even had a progressive
takeover of the city council in Hilliard, Ohio, and we’re one seat away
from getting control of the council in Duluth, Minnesota!

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Every seat matters. That’s why Our Revolution is gearing up NOW for 2024
to expand our organizational capacity and our voter turnout operation for
the crucial battles to come.

Not only must we defeat Donald Trump and the far right, but we have got to
take back the House, defeat enemies of progress like Kyrsten Sinema in the
Senate, and elect amazing progressives like Barbara Lee to turn this ship
around.

[ [link removed] ]If you can, please kick in a few bucks to help us staff up for the big
elections ahead in 2024 — there’s no time to waste!

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AIPAC lobbyists are getting ready to spend over $100 MILLION to try to
replace pro-peace members of Congress like Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar,
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush, Summer Lee, Jamaal Bowman, and Ayanna
Pressley — at a time when 66% of Americans want our government to work
toward a ceasefire.

[ [link removed] ]SIGN NOW to protect our progressive caucus from cynical dark money and
rightwing attacks. The working class can't afford to lose the power of
these seats.

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In September of 2001, Barbara Lee cast the lone “No” vote in Congress
against a blank check for war in Afghanistan. She endured death threats,
hate mail, and media slander for years. But history vindicated her.

Today, Barbara Lee is the only candidate for U.S. Senate in California
calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Check out this [ [link removed] ]LA Times article on
why Barbara is the Peace Candidate in this race compared to her opponents,
Katie Porter and Adam Schiff.

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Last week, Our Revolution leaders joined Barbara Lee at the CA Democratic
Convention, where we helped organize delegates to endorse her for Senate!
She got the most votes at 42% — beating out opponents Adam Schiff and
Katie Porter!

This is HUGE. And, with the powerful endorsements of national progressive
leaders like Reps. Pramila Jayapal, Cori Bush, Ayanna Pressley, and many
others, Barbara is the clear progressive choice for the U.S. Senate seat
in California.

“Our momentum is picking up speed. The people want a tried and tested
progressive with the record to prove it. I’m ready to deliver,” Barbara
said.

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You can help elect Barbara Lee from anywhere in the country by making
calls as part of Our Revolution’s Phone Bank Team. It’s a lot of fun, but
this is serious business because we know what it would mean to get a
powerhouse like Barbara in the U.S. Senate!

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