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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) stand back to back in the House Chamber during a joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"McConnell is already abusing the filibuster to block the constitution of the new majority. Nuking the filibuster is the appropriate response."

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) leads a press conference to introduce new Senators like Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA), and Jon Ossoff (D-GA) on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC Thursday January 21, 2021. (Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Can't believe David Brooks and I finally agree on a thing," said one progressive organizer.



New Yorkers in need receive free produce, dry goods, and meat at a Food Bank for New York City distribution event at the Barclays Center on July 30, 2020 in New York City.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The expected executive action comes as "families are struggling with food insecurity like never before."



Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) speaks to reporters in Statuary Hall on Capital Hill on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We need to provide those struggling and left behind with consistent reliable cash payments during this Covid-19 crisis."



Members of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons protest in Sydney, Australia on January 22, 2021. (Photo: Michelle Haywood/ICAN)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"Today we reach a major milestone on the road to a more peaceful and secure world, free from the ultimate menace of nuclear war."



A medic holds up a vial of the Covishield Covid-19 vaccine at Balrampur Hospital, on January 16, 2021 in Lucknow, India. (Photo: Deepak Gupta/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

by Jon Queally, staff writer
"This is the problem when you have essential medicines in the hands of big business, with almost no transparency as to pricing."



JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon attends a policy forum with President Donald Trump in the State Dining Room at the White House February 3, 2017 in Washington, D.C.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"We're going to be aggressively buying back, and consistently," said Morgan Stanley chief executive James Gorman.



Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) attend a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday, December 10, 2020.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
Republicans who attempted to overturn the 2020 election, said MoveOn, "have no place in the U.S. Senate and most certainly should not be rewarded for their deadly attacks on democracy."



Neal Wolin (right) and Michael Barr (center) with Paul Volcker after former President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Protection Act in a ceremony on July 21, 2010 in Washington, D.C.

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"It's hard to imagine a worse pick than Michael Barr to be the nation's top bank regulator. Barr is deeply invested in the Wall Street and Silicon Valley corporations he would regulate, which should disqualify him."



The For the People Act has been reintroduced in the 117th Congress after failing to pass the Senate in 2019. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
One prominent campaign finance expert called the For the People Act "an incredibly important piece of comprehensive democracy reform."


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Global frontline women leaders advocate for gender and racial justice, Indigenous rights, and bold climate action during a formal UNFCCC COP25 event in Madrid, 2019. (Photo: Katherine Quaid/WECAN International)

by Osprey Orielle Lake, Katherine Quaid
Global people's movements and women leaders have been organizing for decades for climate justice, and community-led solutions.



Jamie Griffith, 6, cuddles his chicken Elsa at his home on Saturday, November 21, 2020, in Piedmont, Calif. (Photo: Yalonda M. James/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

by Josh Balk
As we search for more ways to bring people together, compassion for animals provides us a wonderful opportunity to do some good and forge a greater unity of purpose in our politics.



President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at their Inauguration on January 20, 2021. (Photo via Shutterstock)

by Matthew Rothschild
The new President, in his healing Inaugural Address, promises a fresh start as he commits to protecting our 'fragile democracy.'



Participants holding illuminated letters that read #NUCLEARBAN. Activists from New York-based direct action group Rise and Resist and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) took to the streets to announce the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons on January 22, 2021 by holding illuminated letters that read #NUCLEARBAN in front of iconic New York landscapes. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

by Robert Dodge
The path is before us. We must act now, to protect current and future generations—and all we hold dear.



U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) talks to reporters following the weekly Republican policy luncheon in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 15, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

by Julie Hollar
The narrative the GOP will work for the next two years to build is that Democrats are the ones sowing division by refusing to work together to get things done.



Together, we can make sure that these creatives don’t fuel the world’s destruction, but instead come clean and join us in protecting creation. (Photo: Screenshot)

by Jamie Henn
Our theory of change is simple: if we can get the world’s largest and most powerful PR and Ad agencies to stop working for the fossil fuel industry, we’ll dramatically weaken the industry’s ability to pollute the public debate and block climate action.


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