Let’s face it: Winning the White House and a Democratic Senate majority was a historic victory, but it isn’t enough to deliver on our most urgent progressive priorities. Not when Republicans wield the filibuster as a way to stall us at every turn.
From universal health care to gun violence prevention, Mitch McConnell and the GOP have used the filibuster to block any and everything that will bring real progress to working families and communities of color.
We cannot let the filibuster hold our country back any longer.
This isn’t about partisanship either, or at least it shouldn’t be. The filibuster is a relic of the Jim Crow era and it’s now being used to block the policies that the American people elected us to pass. It’s undemocratic, and it needs to go.
Voting rights. Civil rights protections. Gun violence prevention. Universal health care. Climate change action. A $15 minimum wage. D.C. statehood. And the list goes on…
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–Heather Purcell