John,
The holiday season is a time for reflection, a time to ask ourselves who among us has been nice this year — and who is getting coal?
The Working Families Party has been making a list (and checking it twice) of some of 2024’s top coal-earners, and we’re excited to share it with you today.
But before we do: can you make an end-of-year donation to WFP so we can continue to stand up to our nation’s most misbehaved in 2025? Every contribution — no matter the amount — helps make sure we have the resources to fight back next year.
Presenting: The WFP 2024 Naughty List
(in no particular order)
.png "The 2024 WFP Naughty List. Image of a present box full of coal. Some coal is labeled \"Trump and Vance,\" \"Far-right SCOTUS,\" \"Elon Musk,\" \"Super PACs,\" and \"Price Gougers.\"")
Donald Trump and JD Vance. These men are deserving of a truly terrible holiday season, full of coal. They’ve spent their year lying to the American public about immigrants, about trans kids, about people who require abortion care, about their extremist Project 2025 plan to remake the federal government to their liking. They’ve spread fear and hatred everywhere they’ve gone, and it doesn’t get much less nice than that.
Elon Musk. After buying Twitter, Musk set his sights higher: the United States of America. He poured a disgusting amount of money into electing Trump and other MAGA Republicans ($277 million, making him the largest political donor of 2024). Now, he’s reaping the benefits of his investment by trying to take our benefits away. Musk is setting his sights on cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid for hardworking Americans who have been paying into these programs for years, and who knows what essential services he’ll try to cut next. Coal.
The far-right majority on the Supreme Court — particularly its two most corrupt members, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. These justices have made catastrophic decisions this year, from saying that a president cannot be held criminally accountable for their actions in office to taking away the federal government’s ability to determine standards for clean water, clean air, and more. Throughout 2024, this extremist Supreme Court majority proved that the only people they care about are the ultra-wealthy folks buying them off, and the convicted felon Donald Trump who stole some of their seats for them. That’s six servings of coal, coming right up.
Price-gouging billionaires who line their own pockets at the expense of the rest of us. Essentials like groceries, housing, healthcare, education, and more have gotten harder and harder for us and our loved ones to afford. The reason for that is corporate greed. Billionaire CEOs and other executives are taking massive holiday bonuses this year while refusing to pay their employees their fair share and jacking up prices for their customers. They’ve chosen to hurt families in order to buy themselves yet another vacation home. We’d give them coal, but we’ve all already given them enough.
Super PACs and special interest groups buying our elections — especially the Republican megadonors funding AIPAC, who targeted WFP champions like Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush for standing up for working people and speaking out against the Israeli government’s war crimes in Gaza. The wealthiest in our country continue to have an outsized influence on our elections, drowning out the voices of the actual voters who our elected officials are supposed to represent. Coal all the way around.
Everyone on this list put their own greed for money or power over the wellbeing of our communities. We aren't about to sit back and let them keep hurting the people we care about in 2025. Pitch in with an end-of-year donation to help the Working Families Party stand up to them and build power for the multiracial working class instead.
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In solidarity,
Working Families Party
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