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News from America’s Political Revolution!

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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. We will also be joined by newly
elected progressive champions from Illinois and Missouri, and get
an update on California’s fight for universal health care!

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IN THIS ISSUE - A SUPER TUESDAY FOR PROGRESSIVES!

Meet our 24 endorsed progressive champions in America’s heartland
who we helped elect to city and township councils, school boards,
and other local high-impact offices! And read the latest on the
CPC, cannabis legalization in New York, ending cash bail in
California, and other progressive wins!

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This week, 24 Our Revolution-endorsed candidates won their races
to serve as mayors, city councilors and school board members in
America’s heartland!

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In St. Louis, Our Revolution Missouri members helped elect a
progressive majority on the city council for the first time ever!
Insurgents James Page, Bill Stephens and Tina Pihl defeated
establishment candidates in tight races, and we also helped three
incumbents - Megan Green, Sharon Tyus and Dan Guenther - win
their re-election bids. Our members also elected progressive
education champions to school boards in Kansas City and St.
Louis.

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Our Illinois Revolution also won big with wins in down-ballot
races across the state. In Joliet, Our Revolution members
organized a complete takeover of the township government; In
Evanston, after electing Daniel Biss as Mayor last month, we
helped a slate of progressives win city clerk and aldermanic
seats; and in Urbana, two Our Revolution candidates won their
races for City Council!

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Nina Turner announced that she has raised well over $1 million so
far, giving her the fundraising edge in the race to represent
OH-11 in Congress. Our Revolution Ohio volunteers are an
important reason that Nina’s campaign has caught fire. Since
January, Our Revolution Ohio has signed up over 1,000 volunteers
and made over 70,000 phone calls to voters. Our members are now
training canvassers to hit the doors as part of the Neighbors for
Nina Program. 20 volunteers have completed the first training
session which included: Talking to Voters, Team Building, and
Leadership Building. The next training session is Monday, April
19th and we invite all our Ohio members to RSVP HERE
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a Neighbor for Nina!

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With early voting starting today, Our Revolution-endorsed Karen
Carter Peterson is in a tough race against the establishment to
fill the Congressional seat vacated by top Biden advisor Cedric
Richmond. Richmond endorsed Karen’s closest rival - State Sen.
Troy Carter - who finished first in the runoff. As The American
Prospect
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notes: “Troy Carter would bring another moderate with ties to
the oil and gas industry to Capitol Hill. Karen Carter Peterson
would add to the ranks of the growing Progressive Caucus, now the
largest voting bloc in the House’s Democratic majority, and be
another vocal supporter of the Green New Deal.”

There's just two weeks until Election Day! Sign-up to phonebank
with our community Wednesday night to Turn Out the PROGRESSIVE
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Our Revolution Movement Builders fund our Get Out the Vote
operations for Nina, Karen and over 100 progressives candidates
running this year in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Texas and
other states.

Can we count on you to pitch-in so can ramp-up our campaign
operation to challenge establishment candidates and win more
races across the country?
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On Thursday, Our Revolution Iowa held its 2021 Kickoff Call
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which featured Misty Rebik, the Chief of Staff for Sen. Bernie
Sanders. Misty credited our movement for elevating progressive
voices in the Biden Administration. “Every single thing that
happened in the American Rescue Plan, or that's going to happen
in the American Jobs Plan and the American Families Plan, is
because of progressives. Ending subsidies for fossil fuel
companies is huge and it wouldn't have happened without you.
We're talking to high-level folks in the White House, and they're
listening. We are changing the narrative in this country about
what is possible.”

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Our Revolution-endorsed leaders in the Congressional Progressive
Caucus - including Reps. Pramila Jayapal, Ilhan Omar, Mark Pocan,
Barbara Lee, and Cori Bush — met with Biden’s chief of staff Ron
Klain at the White House recently to discuss progressive
priorities. They pressed for commitments that Biden’s Build Back
Better Plan will address climate change, health care, family
infrastructure, and income and wealth inequality, and that a $15
minimum wage will happen. Politico
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marveled at the Caucus’s influence: “We should pause for a
second to reflect on the power of the CPC right now. A few years
ago, the group was viewed as a bunch of radicals with no clout.
Now they’re flexing and commanding the attention of the White
House.”

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Our Revolution Cleveland is working in coalition with
Clevelanders for City Council Reform to fight for a more open and
responsive city government. In February, we urged Council
President Kevin Kelley to support allowing public comments at
council meetings. Although Kelley has not responded, six council
members are co-sponsoring legislation to authorize public
comments. On Monday at 12p, Our Revolution Cleveland is
participating in a press conference on the steps of City Hall.
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to attend or watch the rally live on Our Revolution Ohio’s
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Our Revolution Tennessee members have been rallying outside the
district office of Democratic US Rep. Jim Cooper to call on him
to co-sponsor the Medicare for All Act of 2021, the THRIVE
Resolution, and DC Statehood, and other progressive priorities.
Not only has Cooper refused to meet, he also didn’t respond to
Our Revolution’s questions in the Tribune
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what, if any, support he’s given to Nashville’s Black community.

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On the heels of Amazon’s aggressive anti-union campaign against
warehouse workers in Alabama, Our Revolution is standing with our
allies in the labor movement to demand accountability. The
Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) is calling
on the federal government to punish Amazon for unfair labor
practices that created “an atmosphere of confusion, coercion
and/or fear of reprisals.” And Larry Cohen, Board Chair of Our
Revolution, is calling for fundamental labor law reforms. As he
told The New York Times
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, the loss “can be an opportunity to look beyond the PRO Act and
why we need labor law with a focus on bargaining by sector.”

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New York has become the 17th state to legalize recreational
marijuana! Our Revolution-endorsed New York City Public Advocate
Jumaane Williams praised the new law, saying it “reflects a
commitment to addressing and undoing harm to communities that
were disproportionately impacted by decades of disparate
policing, and expunging the records of those whose lives were
ruined by a marijuana-related conviction.” Our Revolution
supported similar successful efforts in New Jersey, Arizona, and
Montana, as well as legislation passed by the House. Sen. Chuck
Schumer recently pledged
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to move forward on cannabis reform at the federal level “with
or without” Joe Biden.

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The U.S. is one of only two countries in the world where a person
can be locked up because they can’t afford bail. This policy
disproportionately affects people of color without improving
safety, and can result in arrestees languishing in jail for
months, or even years. Now, the California Supreme Court, in a
unanimous decision, has ruled that the state’s cash bail policy
unfairly burdens low-income Californians and is unconstitutional.
Our Revolution has been leading on this issue by helping to elect
progressive district attorneys who have pledged to end cash bail,
like San Francisco D.A. Chesa Boudin who ended the policy in his
first two weeks in office.

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Last week, US Rep. Kweisi Mfume joined well over one hundred
fellow Democratic co-sponsors of the Medicare for All Act of
2021. Our Revolution Maryland activists targeted the
Baltimore-based Congressman via coordinated email and telephone
campaigns. Hours before a scheduled phone bank to Mfume, he
announced his support for the common sense solution to our
overpriced often inaccessible healthcare system.

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Our Revolution California members organized a phone bank this
week to call California Democratic Party delegates and urge them
to vote for progressive candidates in the upcoming April 21st
party elections. The California Democratic Party is the largest
state party in the country, and has played a leading role in
making the national Democratic Party more progressive.

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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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Our Revolution Maryland is pleased to welcome its eighth local
chapter. Due to the efforts of Our Revolution’s Maryland State
Organizer Carlos Childs, Our Revolution Southern Maryland is now
up and running. Their first meeting is on Earth Day and features
Peace and Environmental Activist Pat Elder.

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