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News from around the political revolution!

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URGENT REQUEST: Right now, Our Revolution is going up against
centrist Dems to make sure we pass legislation to raise the wage
to $15 an hour. Will you help us grow our movement so we have the
resources we need to win this crucial fight?

We've kicked-off our 2021 Movement Builder membership drive ...
join us and let's organize to win the Fight for $15!
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Don’t miss this week’s National Organize to Win Call! Join
Amazon workers fighting against union-busting, US Sen. Ed Markey,
Florida State Rep. Anna Eskamani, and other progressive champions
this Monday, February 22 at 8:30pm ET!

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With Democrats in control of the White House and Congress, we’re
launching our 2021 Movement Builder Membership Drive to win bold
action on progressive priorities.

As a member of Our Revolution, you’ll be helping us have
Bernie’s back as he fights for our agenda in the Senate, and hold
Democrats accountable for delivering on promises to working
families, like raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

Our Revolution doesn’t take money from corporations or
billionaires. We run on people power and rely on small donors to
fund our work of fighting for progressive policies that leave no
one behind.

Your recurring donation of $5 or more a month will help us
support Bernie and other progressives as they stand up for
working families!
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HERE’S 5 REASONS TO BECOME A “MOVEMENT BUILDER”

#1. 2021 isn’t an “off-year” for the political revolution.

While Trump might be gone, Trumpism isn’t. Your monthly gift
will help us campaign - right now - to elect progressive
champions who are true populists from city councils to Congress
and build a firewall against the radical right.

#2. We’re the ONLY group fighting to make the Democratic Party a
truly progressive party.

Sustaining members support our on-going work to elect Our
Revolution activists to party leadership from coast to coast and
counter the influence of corporate interests.

#3. We’re on the frontlines of expanding what’s politically
possible in America.

In 2016, the establishment called our ideas “radical.” Today,
because of our grassroots donors, the Fight for $15, Medicare for
All, and the Green New Deal are all closer than ever to reality.

#4. We are fighting for change from the bottom-up.

Unlike groups that fundraise to support their DC operations, we
are investing in building groups in every state and putting
organizers on the ground to lead local fights to ban fracking,
eliminate cash bail and more!

#5. Your REASON here.

Why is our political revolution important to you, your family
and your community?

5 for $5 - Your recurring donation is an INVESTMENT in a
progressive future. Become a 2021 Movement Builder today!
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Your monthly donation funds organizers like Corrine Daly, who
helps lead Our Revolution Florida. Corrine is a civil rights
activist and founder of a non-profit that fed thousands of
families after Superstorm Sandy. As an Our Revolution local
organizer, Corrine is helping elect progressives to key party
positions within the Florida Democratic Party and mobilizing to
defeat GOP bills in the state house. “Because of Our Revolution’s
support, we are able to give Florida progressives the tools and
training they need to transform the Democratic Party from the
inside and fight against right-wing policies pushed by Trump’s
lackey’s like Gov. Ron DeSantis.”

If 100 readers become sustaining donors TODAY, we can onboard
another state organizer like Corrine. Will you invest in helping
us organize people power state by state?
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Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley was the featured guest on our
Monday National Organize to Win Call
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. She credited our movement with winning the White House for Joe
Biden and said he must now be held accountable to deliver. “The
reason democracy is still breathing is because of this movement.
The most marginalized met the moment and made it possible for Joe
Biden to be elected. Now it’s incumbent upon him and Congress to
advance bold progressive policies to meet the needs of the
movement that made this victory possible.”

One of those needs is eliminating the burden of college debt,
and Rep. Pressley is calling on President Biden to use his
executive authority to make it happen. “Cancelling student debt
is an economic justice issue, a racial justice issue — and it can
be done with the stroke of a pen. This is not the time to play
small. This is the time to lead.”

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President Biden has paused student debt payments during the
pandemic, but pausing isn’t enough. That’s why Our Revolution
supports the #CancelStudentDebt resolutions co-introduced by
Reps. Pressley, Illan Omar and others that calls on Biden to use
executive power to cancel $50,000 in student loan debt for
federal student loan borrowers. This week the President caused a
stir by saying “I will not make that happen.
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” The backlash has been swift. Yesterday, 17 state Attorneys
General - including Minnesota AG and Our Revolution board member
Keith Ellison - sent a letter to Congress
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in support of the Congressional resolutions. Now is the time
for us to increase the pressure!

Hey Joe, STUDENT DEBT has got to GO!
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Sign here if you agree!
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Our Revolution Board member Jim Hightower makes the case in his
weekly column that despite Biden's history as a
middle-of-the-roader, we have a moment to make historic progress
— ONLY if we organize, expand our grassroots movement and keep up
the pressure!

Read Jim's commentary in The Hightower Lowdown!
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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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A growing number of conservatives are joining progressives in
the understanding that the partisan filibuster results in the
gridlock that destroys our democracy.

This week, David Frum - a conservative commentator and former
speechwriter for President George W. Bush - called for the
elimination of the filibuster in The Atlantic
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. This follows a New York Times
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column by David Brooks calling for the filibuster to be
eliminated if Republicans block Biden’s agenda.

Our Revolution is working with the Fix the Senate coalition to
end the filibuster and stop a militant minority of
Trump-supporting senators to obstruct policies that are popular
with the vast majority of voters.

SIGN IF YOU AGREE - TIME'S UP FOR THE FILIBUSTER!
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“There is no next time. If this isn’t done in budget
reconciliation it’s not going to get done at all” - that’s what
Our Revolution Board Chair Larry Cohen told the Daily Beast
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on our fight to keep the $15 minimum wage in the COVID relief
package.

Our Revolution has been working with leaders in the
Congressional Progressive Caucus like Rep. Pramila Jayapal and
Rep. Andy Levin to ensure the $15 wage stays in the House version
of the bill. Larry noted the critical role of the CPC in the
Fight for $15 - “The real difference here is the Progressive
Caucus is actually acting like a real caucus. This is the first
time ever.”

But even though we got $15 included in the COVID bill now,
Politico
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is reporting that President Biden privately told a bi-partisan
group governors and mayors that it “Doesn’t look like we can do
it.”

Tell Biden that's BS - Don't Backtrack on the Fight for $15
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Our Revolution member Jackie Traynere, candidate for mayor of
Bolingbrook, Illinois, joined our Monday Organize to Win call
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where she received our national endorsement. A former union
organizer and 2016 Bernie delegate, Jackie serves as a Will
County board member and chair of the DuPage Township Democrats.
She’s running on a platform of affordable housing, lower utility
costs, and fighting privatization of public services. “They sold
our public water utility to a private, for-profit company. We
used to pay $300 a year — we now pay $1,600 a year for water in
our community.” Her election is on April 6th.

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Nina Turner - Our Revolution’s endorsed candidate for Congress -
stirred up the crowd at Our Revolution South Carolina’s February
Meeting
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devoted to Black History Month. A former professor of
African-American history, Sen. Turner said that what was done to
Black people lingers to this day, and the fight for equality must
continue. “Pushing for justice is messy. Making a demand is not
pretty. But for the courage of people making a demand, Black
people would not be where we are today, even though we have many
miles to go. Every great stride, every right that we’ve gained in
this country has come by people pushing against the status quo
and making a demand.”

Read The Huffington Post
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to get the latest on how Nina’s taking on the establishment in
her race for Congress!

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Our Revolution is excited to endorse two progressive champions
running for re-election in St. Louis this year - Ward 15
Alderwoman Megan Ellyia Green and School Board member Natalie
Vowell. Both were 2016 Bernie delegates who were inspired by our
movement to run for office.
Green has fought for a higher minimum wage, civilian oversight
of the police department, protections for survivors of domestic
violence, and responsible development with community benefits.
Vowell is an advocate for more equitable school funding for the
city’s poorest residents. Members of Our Revolution St. Louis
have already started their Get Out the Vote campaign to help both
of our progressive champions win big!

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Our Revolution Maine helped Chloe Maxmin run as a bold climate
champion and oust a Republican state senate incumbent in a rural,
working-class community. Read about how Chloe organized to win
her district in The Nation
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Yesterday, the Congressional Progressive Caucus joined Our
Revolution and Stacey Abrams in endorsing Louisiana State Sen.
Karen Carter Peterson in her race to represent Louisiana’s 2nd
district in Congress. This week, Sen. Peterson introduced
legislation to raise the wage to $15. The state’s low-wage
workers haven’t seen an increase from $7.25 in over a decade.

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DC statehood was the focus of Our Revolution DC’s Monthly
Organize to Win Meeting
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. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton joined the call to urge
our members to keep up the pressure and demand democracy. “We’re
looking much bolder this year and are making great progress with
the House passing the statehood bill in June.” She addressed the
possibility of a filibuster when the bill reaches the Senate.
“Democrats have been reorganizing the Senate rules, and that
gives me hope that the filibuster is on its last legs, which will
help bills pass including statehood for DC.”

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Our Revolution Texas hosted an Emergency Online Town Hall
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this week about how deregulation of the energy industry led to
the catastrophic conditions that left millions in the Lone Star
State without electricity, water and the other basic necessities
of life. US Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee called in from Houston - as
she was helping families in need - and demanded accountability
for the “ineptitude” that caused the crisis. Dozens of people
shared their hardships and their worries, including this Texas
teacher: “Every day without power I thought about how my kiddos
were doing. Some had literally just received coats in our coat
drive a week ago. If all they had was a new jacket to weather
this epic failure, I can’t imagine how greatly they and their
family suffered. I hope like hell I see them in class next week.”

During the town hall, our members called for a populist revolt
against GOP leaders and their failed policies and kicked-off our
Power to the People
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campaign to demand Sen. Ted Cruz (above, on his way to Cancun
during the crisis) and Gov. Greg Abbott (who appoints the
“regulators”) to resign in shame, as well as jump-start our
campaign to win a Texas Green New Deal.

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In response to power outages caused by extreme weather in
Nebraska, fossil fuel financiers and their bought politicians are
claiming “radical environmentalists” will make the situation
worse by passing a Green New Deal. Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts
parroted that claim recently when asked to comment on the crisis
in Texas. But Nebraska Democratic Party Chair and Our Revolution
Board Member Jane Kleeb called him out. "He's trying to say
because we have wind, that's why we're having blackouts, which is
a flat-out lie." She said the real culprits are leaders who are
not modernizing the power grid. "Extreme weather that we're
seeing now, extreme weather that we've seen in the past is the
impact of climate change. This is not just some unpredictable
weather pattern."

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During Our Revolution Florida’s Organize to Win Call
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, State Rep. Anna Eskamani talked about how the GOP is trying to
undermine the $15 minimum wage ballot measure that resoundingly
passed in November. The Republican plan: Create carve-outs to
reduce the minimum wage for prisoners, workers with felony
convictions, and for employees under age 21. Rep. Eskamani is
also fighting the GOP’s so-called “Combating Public Disorder”
bill which restricts people's right to protest. Corrine Daly is
helping lead Our Revolution Florida’s campaign to defeat both
measures in Tallahassee.

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Our Revolution Florida’s State Organizing Meeting
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featured Nadia Ahmad, an Our Revolution member who was just
elected to the Democratic National Committee! Nadia said she’s
proposing structural reforms to promote a more open and fair
presidential nomination process and to increase financial
transparency. Nadia recently signed-on to a letter demanding the
resignation of Florida Democratic Party officials who mismanaged
the party’s financial affairs that put the organization $800,000
in debt.

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Our Revolution Michigan - led by Michelle Deatrick -
successfully helped to organize a slate of diverse and
progressive candidates to lead the Michigan Democratic Party’s
Justice Caucus - the first progressive caucus within the state
party. The caucus plans to sponsor progressive initiatives as
well as create space for progressive candidates and viewpoints to
be heard.

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Our Revolution Kern County, California organizers Neel Sannappa
and Yvette Flores spoke on our Monday Organize to Win Call
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about how their group is building a more progressive party in
California’s Central Valley. Neel, who successfully ran for
Assembly District 34 delegate in the California Democratic
Party’s 2021 ADEM elections, said, “We’ve been able to accomplish
so many things through party-building and taking progressive
positions within the party.” Yvette explained that assembly
delegate elections give progressives a chance to have a voice
within the party. “Winning these positions means we can advocate
for progressives and have a say on who the party leadership is.
We can vote on who chairs the California Democratic Party, which
has so much influence over what we can accomplish nationally.”

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Our Revolution is calling on President Biden to make sure
progressives - not just corporate lobbyists - 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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Become a card carrying member of the revolution and help us
transform the Democratic Party from the inside out!
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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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Nina isn’t the only progressive we can send to Congress this
year. We can also elect Karen Carter Peterson to fill the seat
being vacated by Cedric Richmond, now a senior Biden advisor.
Karen’s election is on March 20 - SIGN UP to VOLUNTEER!
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Our Revolution Colorado will feature Joe Salazar and other
Colorado activists for a discussion on ranked-choice voting,
clean water, and transforming the state Democratic party.

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Our Revolution Ohio will be joined by State Rep. Jeffrey
Crossman, media personality David Griscom, and others to discuss
ranked-choice voting and other local fights in the Buckeye State.

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Join Our Revolution Maryland, Nina Turner and newly elected Rep.
Cori Bush as they host a special fundraiser for Nina’s
congressional race!

DON'T MISS IT!
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Our Revolution / New York Progressive Action Network (NYPAN) is
hosting a forum for New York City mayoral candidates - join us as
the candidates answer questions from progressives in the Big
Apple!

ASK THE NEXT MAYOR A QUESTION - RSVP HERE!
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