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News from the Frontlines of the Political Revolution!

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Be sure to join our National Organize to Win Call on Monday,
April 19th, featuring Nina Turner with the latest on her
Congressional campaign; MD State Sen. Jill Carter on winning a
massive criminal justice overall in Maryland; NY State Sen.
Gustavo Rivera on New York’s single-payer bill; and Deborah
Peoples on her run for Mayor of Fort Worth TX!

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IN THIS WEEK’S ISSUE: Bernie takes on corporate polluters, Sen.
Jeff Merkley lays out how we defeat the filibuster, California
leads on statewide single payer, Maryland passes historic police
reform, and MORE!

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Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon, lead sponsor of the For the People
Act (S1), was our featured guest on Monday’s National Call
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. He called the voter suppression bills being passed by GOP
state legislatures a “rip off” of our voting rights, and said the
importance of passing S1 can’t be overstated. “This bill is about
saving the republic. Will it be government by and for the people,
or the powerful?”

Sen. Merkely laid out three possibilities for overcoming a
filibuster to move S1 forward: 1) Eliminating it entirely; 2)
Disqualifying it for constitutional issues like the right to
vote; or 3) Returning to a talking filibuster. But no matter
what, he said it’s going to require an inside-outside strategy to
win. “Everything we want to accomplish requires folks who are in
office, working inside, and a huge coalition outside, applying
pressure. You need to tell us: Knock down that obstacle, no
excuses, do your job, get it done, and be at least as gutsy as
the Republicans were when they were fighting for the powerful.”

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Our Revolution joined with the Fix the Senate Coalition to send
a letter
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to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer calling on him to lead
the effort to end the filibuster and pass the For the People Act:

“The filibuster has a long history of being used to block voting
rights, civil rights, and democracy-protecting bills like the For
the People Act … Senate Democrats will soon face a choice:
Protect our democracy and pass the For the People Act, or protect
the filibuster — an outdated and abused ‘Jim Crow relic’ that
deserves to be tossed into the dustbin of history.”

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Each year, the fossil fuel industry gets $15 billion of our tax
dollars in direct subsidies, and tens of billions more in
indirect subsidies, while raking in massive profits and polluting
the planet. Ending these absurd corporate handouts is a critical
step in addressing our climate crisis. On Thursday, Bernie and
Rep. Ilhan Omar introduced the End Polluter Welfare Act of 2021 —
a comprehensive bill that would abolish dozens of tax loopholes,
subsidies, and other special interest giveaways; bar extraction
on federal lands, and more. Our Revolution joined other groups in
sending a letter
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to Congress in support of the legislation.

After introducing the bill, Chairman Sanders held a Senate
Budget Committee hearing on the costs of climate change - Experts
testified that inaction could cost the U.S. over $34 trillion by
the end of the century and cause up to one million avoidable
deaths by 2050.

TELL YOUR MEMBER OF CONGRESS TO SUPPORT THE END POLLUTER WELFARE
ACT!
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FIGHT THE POWER (COMPANY)! This week, Our Revolution Montana
members protested in Bozeman, Missoula and Great Falls to oppose
state legislation that could force Montana’s energy customers to
assume costs and risks associated with utility investments in
coal-fired power. Our Revolution local organizer Andy Boyd told
the local paper that the GOP bill will “turn ratepayers into
private ATM machines” for utility companies by hiking energy
bills by $50 to $100 a month.

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Momentum for single payer is growing! With the support of Our
Revolution members, cities and towns are passing Medicare for All
resolutions, states are introducing single-payer bills, and over
half of the House Democratic caucus has signed onto the Medicare
for All Act.

In California, Our Revolution members are working to pass
AB1400, a statewide single-payer bill known as CalCare. On our
Monday Organize to Win Call
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, State Sen. Mike McGuire, a principal coauthor of the bill,
called CalCare “one of the strongest single-payer healthcare
bills in the country.” He said Xavier Becerra’s appointment as
HHS Secretary was “a huge step in the right direction,” as
Becerra will oversee the waivers states need to enact
single-payer plans. “The insurance industry will fight this tooth
and nail. But when we organize and mobilize, progressive issues
win. The data is on our side, the voters are on our side, and now
it’s time to hold our officials accountable.”

Californians: Tell your Assembly Member to pass CalCare AB 1400!
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VICTORY! Our Revolution Maryland is celebrating the passage of
sweeping criminal justice reform bills that promise to make
policing fairer and more accountable. The measures include
repealing the police officers’ bill of rights (the first state to
do so), establishing new guidelines on use of force, restricting
no-knock warrants, mandating body cameras, and more. The
lawmakers also overturned the governor’s veto on a bill that
abolishes life sentences without parole for juveniles, and passed
a bill without his signature banning police departments from
acquiring surplus military equipment.

“We are on the right side of history,” said State Sen. Jill
Carter, who was endorsed by Our Revolution and spent a decade
pushing for police accountability and transparency laws.

Sen. Carter will discuss this landmark legislative package on
our Monday Organize to Win Call - RSVP NOW!
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Our Revolution Hillsborough, NJ held a Rally Against Racism to
bring awareness to the injustices committed against Asian
Americans and other minority groups. Our Revolution’s Didier
Jimenez said the group has done several events focused on
criminal justice reform and social justice, drawing out members
of the community in support. “Folks are coming out and want to
work with us to fight against racism and hate crimes. The fight
for justice does not end.”

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HAPPY 4.20 NEXT WEEK! Our Revolution Texas member LaTonya
Whittington testified in front of the Texas House Committee on
Criminal Jurisprudence about the importance of decriminalizing
majrijuana. “I’m a patient who needs cannabis for quality of
life.” She continued that the doctors want her to take 21
different medications, many of which cause significant damage to
her liver, but with cannabis she can cut down those medications
dramatically. “We need our medicine. Big Pharma needs to get out
of this.”

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Our Revolution endorsed Deborah Peoples - who Bernie called a
“true progressive” - to be the next Mayor of Fort Worth. Peoples
will be running a hard race against the Republican machine in the
13th largest city in the US, which is a crucial site in the
battle to turn Texas blue. Our Revolution Texas members are
hitting the doors for Peoples, as well as for Diana Saleh for
Arlington City Council, Mina Davis for the Hutto Independent
School Board, and for dozens of other progressives running in
Houston, San Antonio, and El Paso ahead of the May 1st election.

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Our Revolution members are ramping-up our phone banking to elect
Karen Carter Peterson to Congress from Louisiana. We’re in the
home stretch - her special election is next Saturday - and we
have a real shot to send another vote for Medicare for All and a
Green New Deal to Capitol Hill!

There's just one week until Election Day. Sign up to phonebank
with our community Wednesday night!
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Nina Turner’s primary election to represent Ohio in Congress
will be on August 3rd, and Our Revolution Ohio is pulling out all
the stops to make sure she wins by contacting tens of thousands
of local voters through phone banking and door-knocking.

Become a MOVEMENT BUILDER and help us ELECT PROGRESSIVE
CHAMPIONS like Nina, Karen Carter Peterson and others in 2021!
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Congresswoman Robin Kelly, the newly elected chair of the
Democratic Party of Illinois, joined our Illinois Organize to Win
Call
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this week to discuss her vision for the state party. “Expect to
see more activity, more transparency, and more diversity. We need
to do a better job getting people registered, engaged, and
excited about voting. We’ll be recruiting and building the bench
— we want to work from a grassroots level and support not just
state reps but candidates all the way down the ballot. And we
want to hold up all groups and be inclusive.”

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Our Revolution Middlesex County, NJ chair John Hsu published an
op-ed
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this week highlighting the urgent need to eliminate the “county
line” - the state’s anti-democratic primary ballot structure.
This practice, which exists only in New Jersey, heavily favors
establishment candidates and undermines fair elections and the
will of the voters. John writes, “It is time for New Jersey to
reform our primary ballots to look like those in every other
state so that the voters, not county party chairs, can decide who
should be elected. Isn’t that what democracy is all about?”

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TRANSFORM THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY!
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Join our National Organize to Win Call on Monday, April 19th,
featuring Nina Turner with the latest on her Congressional
campaign; MD State Sen. Jill Carter on winning a massive criminal
justice overall in Maryland; NY State Sen. Gustavo Rivera on New
York’s single-payer bill; and Deborah Peoples on her run for
Mayor of Fort Worth TX!

RSVP NOW ( [link removed] )

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Our Revolution Texas’ Earth Day Call will feature State Rep.
Erin Zwiener, chair of the Texas House Environmental Caucus as
well as Fort Worth Mayoral candidate Deborah Peoples, and Hutto
school board candidate Mina Davis!

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Our Revolution Virginia’s State Organizing Call next Saturday
will feature three progressives running in the June 8th
Democratic primary. We’ll also hear from Michelle Woolley from
the Coalition to Repeal Right to Work about why we need Congress
to pass the PRO Act and our upcoming May Day Action in
Alexandria, VA.

RSVP HERE ( [link removed] )

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Join Our Revolution California for a special call on Saturday,
April 24th! We will be hearing from members of the Troublemaker’s
Slate who are running to lead the California Democratic Party
Progressive Caucus!

SIGN-UP HERE
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