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Welcome to The Revolution Report — the weekly e-newsletter of
the political revolution!

SPECIAL REQUEST: This is a critical moment for our movement.
Chairman Sanders needs people power to fight for $15 and other
progressive priorities in Washington DC. Our Revolution doesn’t
take money from corporations and billionaires - we depend on
small donors like you to build our movement.

We just kicked off our 2021 Movement Builder membership drive.
Are you ready to get Bernie's back and organize to win a
progressive America?
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Don’t miss our next National Organize to Win Call on Monday,
February 15 at 8:30pm ET, featuring U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley,
Jackie Traynere, an Our Revolution member running for mayor of
her city, and other progressive champions!

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IN THIS ISSUE! Jim Hightower on the Democratic establishment,
Rep. Ilhan Omar on student debt cancelation, and the latest from
our leaders from California to Maine!

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Bernie asked, “Are you willing to fight for that person you
don’t know as much as you’re willing to fight for yourself?”
That’s why he created Our Revolution - to give the people who
answer “YES!” the chance to build a movement that fights for
dignity and justice for ALL people.

Our new 2021 Movement Builder membership card reminds us that
Our Revolution’s mission is to “Fight for someone you don’t
know.” And when you become a sustaining member of Our Revolution,
you’re doing just that.

JOIN OUR MOVEMENT - FIGHT FOR SOMEONE YOU DON'T KNOW!
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Your monthly donation - of $5, $10 or whatever you are able to
afford - is a downpayment on transformational political change.
Since 2016, we’ve been building national network of local
organizers who support volunteer-run state and local groups
focused on electing progressive champions to represent our
movement from city councils to the Capitol; fighting for
progressive policies to raise the minimum wage to $15, pass
single-payer healthcare, and stop pipelines at every level of
government; and transforming the Democratic party into a party
that represents working people, not corporations.

We have made incredible progress in a short time - and now is
the time we must organize to win concrete victories.

JOIN US! We’ll send you a Movement Builder membership card
featuring original art by renowned illustrator and Our Revolution
Nashville leader Lauren Rolwing.
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Since we kicked off our 2021 Membership Drive on February 1st,
we’ve raised enough money to onboard a NEW organizer! Kristin
Hoffman, a West Point grad and veteran, is hitting the ground
running as Our Revolution Virginia’s first state organizing
coordinator. She’s committed to stopping endless wars and scaling
back the Pentagon budget, as well as organizing our local groups
to flex progressive muscle in June’s statewide elections for
Governor and the state legislature.

Over 100,000 progressives read The Revolution Report every
Saturday. If just 100 readers become sustaining donors, we can
onboard another state organizer. Will you invest in helping us
organize people power state by state?
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READ MORE BELOW -
WE’RE FIGHTING FOR PEOPLE WE DON’T KNOW!

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Our movement is moving the President! Our Revolution and our
allies have been holding Joe Biden accountable, and the pressure
is working. The New York Times
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writes about the wins progressives have achieved in this first
month of the Biden administration, quoting Our Revolution Board
Chair Larry Cohen: “None of the people we were afraid of got into
this cabinet.” In fact, Biden nominated several progressives for
administrative positions - including Deb Haaland, who was our
pick for Interior Secretary.

Our ideas are now Biden’s ideas. The Times
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writes, “There’s plenty of overlap between Mr. Biden’s agenda
and his left flank,” pointing out that he has signed over 40
executive actions on issues including racial justice, climate
change, and immigration, and adopted parts of the Green New Deal.
“The administration hasn’t tried to smuggle in progressive
proposals; it has simply rebranded them as its own.”

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Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar - a champion for student debt
cancellation and College for All - joined our Monday Night
Organize to Win call
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to discuss the impact the student debt crisis is having on
students and their families. “Young adults with student debt are
graduating college with a negative net worth, while their parents
are jeopardizing their retirement to pay off their children’s
loans.” Highlighting the importance of an inside-outside strategy
to winning, she called on Our Revolution members to keep the
pressure on Joe Biden and Congress. “It’s important that
organizers continue to lift their voices and help us push for
progressive policies that help everyone and don’t leave anyone
behind.”

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On our Monday Night Organize to Win call
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, Our Revolution New Jersey member Gabriella Ambroise - a
college student who owes nearly $100,000 in student loans -
called on President Biden and Vice President Harris to cancel
student debt. “I struggled so much with paying for college that
there were days when I thought I might have to drop out and give
up on my dreams.” Gabriella pointed out that cancelling student
debt would do more than eliminate the burden of debt for
students. “Most borrowers are Black women, and cancelling student
debt means addressing the racial wealth gap.”

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Student loan debt is at crisis proportions: 45 million Americans
owe $1.7 trillion in student loans, making it the second-largest
category of consumer debt in the U.S. President Biden has paused
student debt payments during the pandemic, but pausing isn’t
enough. That’s why Our Revolution supports the #CancelStudentDebt
resolution introduced by Rep. Omar and other progressive
champions this week calling on Biden to use executive power to
cancel $50,000 in student loan debt for federal student loan
borrowers.

Hey Joe, STUDENT DEBT has got to GO!
Sign here if you agree.
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Lizbeth Caceres works at the McDonald’s inside the Pentagon,
where she makes just $11.50 an hour. She works hard serving food
to top brass while struggling to put food on the table for her
own family. Even though she works for a profitable federal
contractor, she has to use Medicaid for her health care. Lizbeth
has gone on strike to Fight for $15 multiple times since 2013,
and on our Monday Organize to Win call
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, she spoke through an interpreter in Spanish about the hardship
of making ends meet. “My poverty wage isn’t enough to feed my
kids or even pay the rent and utilities. Workers like me who
serve our troops shouldn’t have to struggle to survive.”

Our Revolution successfully pushed members of the House
Education and Labor Committee who were on the fence to include
the $15 minimum wage increase in the COVID relief package. As the
package moves through Congress, we are organizing to make sure
centrist Senate Democrats stand-up for America’s low-wage
workers.

JOIN US IN THE FIGHT FOR $15!
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Sign-up to stand-up for Lisbeth and all working people!
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Three Our Revolution-endorsed Congressmen - Jamie Raskin, Joe
Neguse, and Ted Lieu - are leading the charge to hold Donald
Trump accountable for inciting an insurrection. Raskin, an expert
in constitutional law, is a frequent guest on our calls and will
be joining our Monday Organize to Win Call on March 22 (RSVP here
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closing statement to the Senate, he reminded them of the role of
an elected official: “All of us who aspire and attain a public
office are nothing but the servants of the people … the moment
that we no longer act as servants of the people but as violators
of the people's rights, that is the time to impeach, remove,
convict, disqualify, start all over again.”

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TRUMP'S IMPEACHMENT TRIAL IS UNDERWAY -
SIGN HERE TO CALL ON THE SENATE TO CONVICT TRUMP!
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Our Revolution Executive Director Joseph Geevarghese spoke with
National Journal
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on how we are investing in building robust campaign
infrastructure and organizing to elect Nina Turner in Ohio, Karen
Carter Peterson in Louisiana, and other progressives up and down
the ballot in 2021. “In Ohio, we’ve already recruited 350 Our
Revolution volunteers, and we’re kicking off a Neighbors for Nina
precinct organizing program.” Recruiting and training volunteers
is critical to making sure our endorsed candidates have the best
chance of winning: “Losing races only sends a single message to
the establishment: 'We ain’t got the support for progressive
policies.’”

Become a sustaining donor and help Our Revolution elect
progressive champions like Nina and Karen in special elections
and all year long!
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Our Illinois Revolution announced a key endorsement in the
upcoming Bolingbrook mayoral election during their state Organize
to Win Meeting.
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Jackie Traynere, who is running with a slate of progressives on
the Bolingbrook United ticket, joined the meeting to talk about
her campaign to fight the privatization of public services.
Traynere, an Our Revolution member and member of the Will County
Board, previously ran in 2017 and narrowly lost to a longtime
Trump-supporting mayor who stepped down this past summer.

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Our Revolution Maine’s 2021 Kickoff
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featured local organizer and State Rep. Grayson Lookner and his
colleagues in the Maine House, Seth Berry and Sophie B. Warren.
Seth talked about how we’re fighting corporate monopolies in
Maine by supporting the Maine Power for Maine People initiative,
which would convert the Central Maine Power monopoly into a
consumer-owned utility, calling it “essential for our climate,
economic justice, and ultimately, our future.” The call was
covered by ABC 7 / Fox 22.
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State Sen. Robert Peters joined Our Illinois Revolution’s
Monthly Organizing Meeting
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to update local activists on a massive criminal justice reform
bill approved recently by the state legislature — and is awaiting
the governor’s signature. Sen. Peters sponsored the historic bill
to eliminate cash bail — making Illinois one of the first states
to end wealth-based detention. “So many people have lost jobs,
housing, and so much more, not because they’ve been found to be a
danger to anyone’s safety but because of the size of their bank
account.”

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This week, Our Revolution New Jersey organized to pass the 5th
Medicare for All resolution in the state! Dover is the latest
town to send a strong message to New Jersey’s congressional
delegation - only one supports MFA - that the grassroots and
elected leaders want healthcare for all. "Passing this resolution
calling for universal, single-payer healthcare during a pandemic
is more than a symbolic act, it’s a clear statement that in
Morris County, nobody should be left behind,” said Charlie
Baranski, founder of Our Revolution Morris County.

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Our Revolution Ohio activists joined in solidarity with the IUE
- CWA union members to protest the closing of GE’s Bucyrus plant,
which manufactures LED bulbs exclusively for Walmart. GE plans to
offshore these good American jobs to China, but Our Revolution
Ohio and IUE-CWA are fighting back by organizing Wal-Mart
customers to Buy American. The next round of protests is set for
Saturday, February 20th. Sign the petition
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and join the fight!

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Our Revolution Texas co-hosted a press conference with the Texas
Justice Advocacy Coalition ( [link removed] )
featuring Bernie 2020 co-chair, federal civil rights attorney and
co-founder of Grassroots Law Project Lee Merritt. “The research
has demonstrated that 5 out of 8 people who are incarcerated can
go home today. These include individuals who have become senior
citizens in prison, folks who are very close to their time of
release — many of whom have served over 20 years.”

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Our Revolution is calling on President Biden to fight corporate
monopolies and support a waiver to the WTO TRIPS (Trade-Related
Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) patent rule that limits
access by governments to affordable COVID-19 treatments. TRIPS
benefits Big Pharma by giving medicine monopolies control over
where and how much vaccine is made, creating a barrier to
adequate and affordable supplies. The fastest and most humane way
to end the pandemic is to make COVID-19 vaccines and treatments
available worldwide as quickly and affordably as possible.

SIGN THE PETITION
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Hey y’all! Our Revolution El Paso (Texas) held their February
organizing meeting
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talk about electing progressives in upcoming school board races.
Our members are partnering with the El Paso Alliance for Just
Schools and organizer Diego Carlos joined us to talk about the
challenge ahead - “There’s the undue influence of money in
politics and I’m talking all the way down to the very bottom
level to school boards. We are going to change that.”

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HELP US FIGHT FOR PROGRESSIVE POLICIES ACROSS THE USA - BECOME A
MEMBER OF OUR REVOLUTION!
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Our Revolution Board Member Jim Hightower writes in his popular
newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown,
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that the Democratic party establishment is advising President
Biden to “go slow” and not push big, bold ideas, claiming that it
was his moderate incrementalism that got him elected. Not so,
says Hightower: “The ones who carried Biden into the Oval Office,
despite his 50-year career of political meekness, were the
grassroots organizers and volunteers from unions, people of color
activists, women’s networks, youth groups, and so many other
rebels against the corporate order.”

Read more and listen to the podcast HERE.
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Our Revolution is building a more progressive party at all
levels - and in California, we partnered with the Progressive
Delegates Network ( [link removed] ) in endorsing
candidates (including over 100 Our Revolution members) for
assembly district delegates in the California Democratic Party’s
ADEM statewide elections. The results are still being tallied,
but PDN reports that many of our endorsed candidates across the
state have won, and many districts have flipped. For example, Our
Revolution East Bay announced that all 14 of their endorsed
candidates won in their Assembly District!

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Our Revolution Colorado leaders are getting elected to
Democratic Party positions all across the state! In red El Paso
County, Our Revolution Colorado state coordinator Anthony Maro
was elected as district chair, and Our Revolution Colorado
Springs treasurer John Durivage was elected as secretary.
Colorado Springs has not elected a Democrat to the County
Commission since 1972, something that John and Anthony are
organizing to change. Anthony will also serve on the Colorado
Democratic Party’s state central and executive committees.

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Mico Lucide of Our Revolution Atlantic County, NJ is one of the
Plaintiffs on a landmark case challenging the undemocratic ballot
design used in New Jersey elections. This design allows
preferential ballot placement for establishment-picked
candidates, pushing challengers & non-establishment candidates
out of the view of voters. "The core of everything we do as
progressives is transparent & accessible democracy. We don't get
that in New Jersey - we get corporate-backed,
establishment-ordained hacks because of this absurd incomplete
spreadsheet of a ballot. With this lawsuit, we will join the rest
of the country and achieve a fairer ballot!"

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Our Revolution is calling on President Biden to make sure
progressives are represented in key DNC leadership positions,
such as at-large seats and committee, caucus, and council chairs.

Sign here to tell Joe Biden to make sure the progressive wing of
the Democratic Party is represented on the DNC! You can see the
list of champions we support and nominate a champion you know!
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Our Revolution is the only group working to transform the
Democratic Party from the inside out. Will you support our work
to unrig the rules so progressive candidates have a fair shot?
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Hello Somebody! We have an incredible opportunity to send our
very own Nina Turner to Congress this year!

SIGN UP HERE TO PHONEBANK!
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Our Revolution has joined Stacey Abrams in endorsing Louisiana
State Sen. Karen Carter Peterson in her race to represent
Louisiana’s 2nd district in Congress. Karen’s election is on
March 20 — SIGN UP to VOLUNTEER!
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This Tuesday, Our Revolution Florida is holding its 2021 kickoff
with State Rep. Anna Eskamani,, City Commissioners Jack Porter of
Tallahassee and Chad Albritton of Casselberry, and Richie Floyd,
candidate for St. Petersburg City Council, to discuss our plan to
stop Gov. DeSantis’s racially motivated anti-protest bill.

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This Wednesday, Our Revolution DC will discuss the fight for DC
statehood with Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and key
activists leading the fight to demand democracy.

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Also on Wednesday! Our Revolution Oregon’s state meeting will
focus on passing key criminal justice reform bills pending at the
state house, as well as the implementation of Measure 110 - a
successful Our Revolution-backed ballot measure that
decriminalizes drug offenses.

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On Thursday, Our Revolution Texas will discuss reparations, the
Vanessa Guillén Act and more! Speakers include US Rep. Sheila
Jackson Lee, LULAC National President Domingo Garcia, David
Johnson with the Coalition to End Slavery and Changa Masomakali,
Chair of the Dallas Community Police Oversight Commission.

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Our Revolution New Jersey is honoring Black History Month by
organizing to end systemic racism. With opening remarks from Lt.
Gov. Sheila Y. Oliver, the call will focus on racial disparities
in our current healthcare system, drug policy and criminal
justice system. Speakers include former Bernie 2020 national
surrogate and family medicine expert Dr. Victoria Dooley, Rev.
Dr. Leslie Harrison, Board Secretary of the NJ Harm Reduction
Coalition and Zayid Muhammad from Newark Communities for
Accountable Policing.

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