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News from America’s Political Revolution!

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Announcing The April Lineup for our National Organize to Win
Calls!

On Monday, April 12th, Sen. Jeff Merkley will kick-off our first
call of the month with the latest on For the People Act and the
fight against the filibuster. And on the following Mondays, don’t
miss Nina Turner, Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen and other
powerful progressive rock stars!

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IN THIS ISSUE - OUR PLAN IN ACTION!

Find out how our local groups are organizing to end fossil fuel
subsidies, defend the right of workers to organize unions, stop
the criminalization of homelessness, elect progressives to top
Dem Party posts and MORE!

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Movement Builders - members who give $5 a month or more - help us
bring the REVOLUTION REPORT to your inbox every week. Will you
pitch in and keep our organizing work going STRONG?
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Our special Monday National Organize to Win Call
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focused on Our Revolution’s new campaign to end fossil fuel
subsidies.

The burning of fossil fuels - coal, oil, and gas - is the single
largest contributor to the climate crisis. Yet we give the fossil
fuel industry billions of our tax dollars every year in
subsidies, in a rigged system that favors polluters over
renewable energy sources. President Biden campaigned on ending
fossil fuel subsidies, and his Build Back Better plan is our best
chance to get it passed in Congress.

Our Revolution Board member Jane Kleeb led the discussion about
the urgency of this issue with Bill McKibben, Annie Leonard,
Erich Pica, and Rep. Ro Khanna. Read the highlights below:

Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, discussed extreme weather tied
to climate change and said one of the most important steps we can
take is to end fossil fuel subsidies. “Government subsidies allow
the fossil fuel industry to destroy the planet without paying a
price for it. They are a rogue industry that has gamed our
political system and used our atmosphere as an open sewer to pour
emissions into it that raise the seas, melt the ice, change the
seasons, and set forests on fire.”

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Annie Leonard, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA, said the
fight to end fossil fuel subsidies isn’t new, but we have new
opportunities to win it right now - with Bernie’s End Polluter
Welfare Act, President Biden’s executive order directing federal
agencies to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies and his Build Back
Better infrastructure plan. “It’s our job to organize to make
sure it happens. Subsidies will not disappear on their own. We
can't sit back and count on Biden and Congress to deliver. We
must push them. Now is our moment, and if we organize we can
make it happen.”

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Erich Pica, President of Friends of the Earth, explained how
almost every aspect of fossil fuel production is subsidized by
the federal tax system, dating all the way back to 1916. “We
need a whole U.S. government divestment strategy, and it has to
start with the tax code. We now have a narrow window to do it
through budget reconciliation.” That means pressuring committee
chairs in the House and Senate to include a repeal of fossil fuel
subsidies in President Biden’s Build Back Better plan. “This
isn’t going to be an easy fight. The fossil fuel industry gives
millions to politicians every year to maintain their billions in
subsidies. We’re going to have to push, and we need you to lean
in.”

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Rep. Ro Khanna, Chair of the House Subcommittee on Environment,
announced that on April 22nd - Earth Day - his committee will
hold a hearing on eliminating fossil fuel subsidies and insist
that it be included in Biden’s Build Back Better package. “This
has to be part of how we pay for infrastructure - by putting the
money we give to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies into clean
energy development and infrastructure.” He said it’s past time
that we allow elected officials to say, ‘We’ll get it done, just
not right now,’ because later never comes. “The infrastructure
bill is our best chance. It’s our moment when we have to strike.
President Biden campaigned on it, and we need to make good on our
promise.”

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TELL YOUR MEMBER OF CONGRESS TO SUPPORT ENDING FOSSIL FUEL
SUBSIDIES!
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With the ballot count now underway in the Amazon union election
in Alabama, Our Revolution Board Chair Larry Cohen applauded
President Biden’s willingness to publicly stand in solidarity
with workers. “We haven’t seen this level of elected support for
organizing since Franklin Roosevelt,” he told The New York Times.
Still, despite the pro-union political rhetoric, Larry predicted
that union membership was likely to shrink further without
passage of the Protect the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which
would overhaul our broken labor laws.

The PRO Act just passed the US House, and Our Revolution members
recently rallied at the Capitol to call on the President and
Senate Democrats to fight the filibuster and pass the bill.

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ORGANIZING UPDATE!

In response to mounting pressure from Our Revolution and other
groups calling on President Biden to use executive action to
cancel $50,000 student debt, the President formally asked
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to determine whether he has
the legal authority to do so. Mr. President, it’s a no-brainer.
Even Chuck Schumer agrees with us - “You don’t need Congress. You
just need the flick of a pen.”

TELL BIDEN: STAND WITH AYANNA & BE BOLD!
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Our Revolution Texas’s March Organizing Call
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featured Austin City Councilor Greg Casar who talked about how
progressives are fighting against Prop B - a measure that
criminalizes homelessness in the city. A Repubican front group
initiated Prop B to impose hefty fines and jail time on the
homeless instead of providing housing and social services. “As
rents rise, we need to address the lack of affordable housing -
we need homes, not handcuffs,” Greg said.

Greg also noted that he’s an official member of Our Revolution
because, as an elected official, he understands how important it
is to organize and build power locally.

Will you join Greg and become a $5 a month member so Our
Revolution can fight for change from the bottom-up?
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Newsy
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reports that progressives are already pointing out the
political risks facing establishment Dems ahead of the 2022
election cycle, noting that the president's concessions to
moderates and conservatives in Congress — on student loan
forgiveness, a $15 minimum wage and income limits for stimulus
checks — could haunt Democrats in the midterms.

"If people aren't seeing real relief coming through a Democratic
Congress and a Democratic administration, the risk is real,"
explained Paco Fabián, campaigns and communications director of
Our Revolution. "There's going to be some pain coming because
folks aren't seeing the benefit of voting for Democrats."

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The truth is that the Democratic centrism isn’t the only
electoral threat we face … In his latest commentary, Our
Revolution Board member Jim Hightower breaks down how the GOP
plan to beat progressives in 2022 and beyond: “They’re banking on
a blitz of bureaucratic bills they’re now trying to ram through
nearly every state legislature to intimidate, divert, and
otherwise deny eligible voters their most fundamental democratic
right. Their main targets are people of color, but they’re also
pushing to keep students, senior citizens, union households, and
poor communities from voting.”

READ MORE IN THE "HIGHTOWER LOWDOWN!"
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Our Revolution Pennsylvania’s March Organize to Win Meeting
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featured three Democratic U.S. Senate candidates running in
2022. Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman noted that the
Democratic Party has moved to the left because of the progressive
activists energized by Bernie’s 2016 and 2020 presidential bids,
and he’s running to keep the party moving in the left direction.
State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta insisted that he’s the best candidate
because “we need leaders that understand the issues faced by poor
and working families in their bones.” And Alex Khalil said she’s
running because she’s a mother who understands that our kids need
the popular policies Bernie championed to achieve their full
potential.

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MOMENTUM! In the tight race for Louisiana’s 2nd Congressional
District, Karen Carter Peterson - the Our Revolution backed
candidate - continues to pick-up new support! The latest high
profile endorsements include US Rep. Katie Porter, progressive
activist Gary Chambers, Black Lives Matter PAC, and Roots Action.
If Karen wins against her establishment opponent, she will become
the first Black woman to represent Louisiana in Congress - and
she’ll be another YES vote for Medicare for All, the Fight for
$15, the Green New Deal and other progressive priorities! The
election is April 24th.

KATIE'S HELPING KAREN WIN - WILL YOU? Election Day is in exactly
3 weeks - join our community every Wednesday night to Get Out the
PROGRESSIVE VOTE!
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AMEN, SISTER! Check-out this In These Times
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piece on the work Our Revolution volunteers are doing to help
Nina defeat her establishment opponent!

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Our Revolution California held a forum this week featuring six
candidates running for top posts in the California Democratic
Party. Delaine Eastin, who’s running for state party chair, said
that she’s in the race because she’s “concerned for the party.
People do not know what we stand for. Some are disenchanted
because they don’t see us as championing the issues that we
profess to care about, be it Medicare for All or the environment.
Most Democrats in California want to move the party in a more
progressive direction.”

Agree with Delaine? Our California members can sign-up here
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phonebank to elect candidates like her who will fight to make our
party a truly progressive party!

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Our Revolution Massachusetts held its March Organize to Win
Meeting
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to discuss the challenges of passing progressive legislation in
the Democratic-controlled State House. Speakers from the Sunrise
Movement, Act On Mass, and the Young Democrats described an
archaic system where the Speaker wields nearly unfettered power
either to reward or punish representatives.

Our Revolution-endorsed State Rep. Erika Uyterhoeven spoke about
why she’s challenging the Democratic establishment: “The State
House should be the people’s house. But because leadership
operates behind closed doors, it serves merely as a rubber-stamp
and mouthpiece for corporations.” The representative urged
progressive activists to support the Transparency is Power
campaign and only to support Democratic legislative candidates
who commit to transparency.

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ANYONE IN PHILLY SURPRISED? The Philadelphia Democratic Party
declined to endorse incumbent District Attorney Larry Krasner -
an Our Revolution endorsed criminal justice reformer who we
helped elect in 2017 - in the upcoming May 18th primary. This
suspicious move comes as the police union is organizing its
Republican members to vote for Krasner’s Democratic opponent -
who Krasner correctly labelled a “fake Democrat.”

Enough is enough. Will you chip in and help Our Revolution
take-out "fake Democrats" and take-over the Democratic Party?
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Our Revolution Iowa will be kicking off their organizing efforts
in the state with Misty Rebik, Iowa native and Chief of Staff to
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, Iowa Bernie 2020 Co-chair Stacey
Walker, and other special guests.

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Join Our Illinois Revolution for a talk with US Rep. Robin Kelly
- the new Chair of the Illinois Democratic Party - about her
vision for the future, and talk about our upcoming elections and
endorsements!

RSVP HERE ( [link removed] )

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