Last night, seven Democratic Senators and an Independent who caucuses with Democrats voted to invoke cloture, the first step towards ending the Republican government shutdown. In regular times, this show of performative pragmatism might be heralded — that once again, the Democrats show they are the adults in the room. But these are not regular times. America is undergoing an authoritarian overthrow, and business as usual is no match for those who do not believe that the government should do its job. To believe otherwise is dangerously naive.
Republicans have been very clear: they will starve children, the elderly and the disabled in order to fund billionaire tax breaks. They will force workers to go without pay but command their attendance. They will risk millions of families going without healthcare rather than extend a tax credit for another year. This isn’t about politics — this is about power. And until Democrats at the highest levels of government get this, we are in deep trouble.
The real harm Republicans are inflicting upon American families is not up for debate. What we must decide is if we are going to accept decisions that don’t serve us. Republicans control the government, and healthcare is one of the fronts in this fight to save our democracy. Because their fear isn’t the Affordable care Act (ACA), it’s that the program shows how democracy can deliver. So we must fight where our leaders won’t.
We will push to extend the ACA subsidies to save 24 million families from skyrocketing healthcare costs or the terrifying prospect of losing their coverage entirely. And to help the rest of us, who will see our premiums go up as well. The answer is clear: JUST FIX IT. Regardless of what Congress does over the next few days, we have to keep up the pressure. This isn’t going away, but we must show that neither are we. So please visit 10stepscampaign.org/just-fix-it to help us send a message to Washington and every elected official. Do your jobs and save our country!
I wrote a piece for MSNBC about the strong gains we saw in the Deep South in last week’s elections.
MSNBC @msnbc.comOPINION by @staceyabrams.com:
“The Deep South’s story is one of persistence against unaccountable power.”
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View on BlueskyMy second Fine Print column was published this weekend.
I wrote about Georgia’s recent purge of nearly 470,000 registered voters, and how it’s yet another authoritarian power play.
Read our breakdown of Steps 8 and 9 of the autocrat’s playbook
We looked at how Benjamin Netanyahu has overseen the erosion of Democracy in his country, and how it’s coincided with the devastating campaign of violence carried out against the Palestinian people after Israel was attacked on October 7th — a war that experts and allies across the globe, and across the political spectrum have labeled as genocide.
