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News from the Frontlines of the Political Revolution!

IN THIS ISSUE: The Battle Over Bernie’s Budget | Our Revolution
vs. Corporate Democrats | US Rep. Pramila Jayapal | Jim Hightower
| Upcoming Elections |
& MUCH MORE!

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A SPECIAL NOTE TO OUR READERS:
THE URGENCY OF THIS MOMENT

In the coming weeks, we have a chance to bring about
transformational change, enact major pieces of our policy
priorities into law, and secure a foothold to move our agenda
forward and build a more progressive America.

For years, our movement has been fighting and organizing to
create a political moment like the moment we are in. Our hard
work is coming to fruition and we have the ability to deliver
huge wins through Bernie’s $3.5 Trillion Budget Bill — the
biggest investment in the working class and the environment since
the New Deal.

The Budget Bill is not only good policy, it’s good politics.
It would tangibly improve people’s lives in ways that they’ll
remember in the voting booth. Our ability to elect more
progressives in the midterms, and maintain or expand slim
majorities in Congress, depends on passing the boldest possible
version of this landmark legislation.

But corporate Democrats and the powerful special interests who
back them are doing everything they can to thwart Bernie’s Budget
Bill and cut out the best parts.

This issue of The Revolution Report is dedicated to winning the
Battle over the Budget. Now more than ever, we must fight.

MAKE THE
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Join us for our National Organize to Win Call this
Monday at 8:30p ET/5:30p PT

As we prepare for the fight ahead, we’ll be joined by US Rep.
Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus,
and US Rep. Joe Neguse, who will give us the progressive playbook
for making sure our priorities stay in the $3.5 Trillion budget
bill as Congress finalizes this historic piece of legislation.

We’ll also get the latest from Buffalo Mayoral Candidate India
Walton about her insurgent campaign to fend off an “independent”
bid by GOP backed incumbent Democrat Mayor Byron Brown, who she
beat in the Democratic primary.

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OUR STRATEGY TO WIN
THE BATTLE OVER THE BUDGET

THIS WEEK Our Revolution, Indivisible, Sunrise and other leading
progressive organizations called for a unified action strategy
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- both inside and outside of Congress - in response to Sen. Joe
Manchin’s demand for a “strategic pause”
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on Bernie’s $3.5 Trillion Budget proposal.

As corporate Democrats like Manchin seek to obstruct the bill,
our letter declared that “We must continually call their bluff on
the specific programs they are unwilling to deliver for the
American people, rather than allowing them to get away with vague
concerns about spending.”

Congressional Progressive Caucus Co-Chair Pramila Jayapal summed
it up best in her Tweet clearly aimed at Manchin:

With critical votes scheduled for the end of September, we are
urging progressives to up our game in the face-off against
corporate America. “We are in a powerful, but precarious place -
we passed the budget resolution with all our progressive
priorities still on the table, but still have a race to the
finish line as major corporations invest millions in a major
lobbying blitz.”

Our Revolution is standing firm with our allies to implement key
elements of our strategy, which include:

* Keeping the Congressional Progressive Caucus united;
* Keeping up the pressure on conservative Democrats; and
* Supporting progressives in negotiations over the budget.

Read below for the latest news about how Our Revolution is
taking the fight directly to corporate Democrats ...

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REVOLUTION RECESS: WE’RE PLAYING TO WIN

As corporate lobbyists and big money groups team up with the
so-called “Problem Solvers,” “New Democrat” and “Blue Dogs” in
Congress to sabotage Bernie’s $3.5 Trillion Budget Bill, Our
Revolution groups across the nation are holding “Revolution
Recess” actions at their local offices to make sure they
understand that their constituents want the legislation to make
it to the President’s desk intact.

US vs. THEM: Our Revolution Florida members held a nationally
live-streamed protest ( [link removed] ) outside
the office of US Rep. Stephanie Murphy, who has emerged as one of
the leading opponents of the Budget Bill; Our Revolution New
Jersey kept up the pressure on US Rep. Josh Gottheimer, the
leader of the “Nefarious Nine” corporate Democrats trying to tank
Bernie’s Budget Bill; Our Revolution Texas called out three
corporate Dems aligned with Gottheimer and Murphy - US Reps.
Henry Cuellar, Vicente Gonzalez, and Filemon Vela; Our Revolution
Oregon took on yet another of the “Nine” - US Rep. Kurt Schrader;
Our Revolution Maryland delivered a message
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who wields significant power in the negotiations; and Our
Revolution Massachusetts demanded US Rep. Richie Neal - the chair
of the powerful Ways and Means Committee - keep our progressive
priorities in the final version of the legislation.

Through grassroots mobilization, Our Revolution members are
driving home the message to corporate Democrats who get their
marching orders from Big Pharma, Big Oil, the Big Banks: You will
pay a hefty electoral price by trying to subvert progressive
demands for Medicare expansion, union empowerment, climate action
— and paying for it by negotiating down drug prices from Big
Pharma, ending fossil fuel subsidies, and restoring taxes on the
wealthy & corporations.

Corporate lobbyists saw how we fought to move Bernie’s budget
resolution through the House, and they are going all out to
weaken it before it becomes law. Become a recurring donor to Our
Revolution now to help us build a powerful people-powered
movement to pass Bernie’s budget and restore a democracy of the
people!
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Our Revolution isn’t just hitting the streets, we’re also
hitting the airwaves by launching a new ad
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aimed at House Ways and Means Chair Richie Neal.

WORD ON THE STREET is that Neal’s Committee is considering
raising much less revenue than is needed to fund Bernie’s $3.5
Trillion Budget Bill - potentially as little as $1.5 trillion,
which would not even recoup the $1.9 trillion lost from the
Trump-GOP tax cuts that largely went to the rich and
corporations. This is unacceptable - It’s time the rich and
corporations paid their fair share. Polling shows that the public
strongly supports this agenda - as does Our Revolution and more
than 700 other national and state organizations
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. We have to close the Billionaires Loophole, also known as the
stepped-up basis loophole, that allows a lifetime of capital
gains - by Jeff Bezos and his peers - to go forever untaxed; stop
profitable multinational corporations from dodging tens of
billions of dollars a year in taxes by shifting profits to
offshore tax havens; and fund the IRS so that rich tax cheats and
corporations are no longer able to illegally evade hundreds of
billions of dollars in taxes every year.

Our Revolution kicked-off an ad blitz
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calling on Neal to end federal fossil fuel subsidies. Fossil
fuels are responsible for the climate crisis, yet big fossil fuel
companies receive $15 billion every year in direct government
subsidies. The US government has propped up the coal, oil, and
gas industry for decades even though a majority of voters want to
end these taxpayer handouts and invest the money in our
progressive priorities.

WATCH THE AD and rush a donation now to help us keep it in the
air and ramp up pressure on Congressman Neal to take action on
the climate crisis!
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As Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Bernie Sanders included
a measure in the Budget Bill that would empower Medicare to
negotiate drug prices with Big Pharma — generating massive
savings to go toward Medicare Expansion.

On Thursday, the Biden administration revealed its plan
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to lower prescription drug prices through direct government
negotiation with Big Pharma — backing our progressive priority of
doing just that in the Budget Bill.

The consensus is with the progressives on this one, and so is
the White House. It’s the corporate Democrats who are out on
their own, toeing the line for Big Pharma — even if it means
harming the American people as well as the Biden presidency and
the Party’s outlook for the midterms.
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Blue Dogs and New Dems aren’t just trying to cut our priorities
from the Budget Bill, their primary aim is to drastically reduce
the $3.5 Trillion price tag to eliminate funding sources that
hurt their donors’ bottom lines.

Corporate Democrats don’t want funding for the bill coming from
reduced profits to Big Pharma due to drug price negotiation ...
or out of Big Oil’s pockets due to ending fossil fuel subsidies
... or from their own pockets when the wealthy and corporations
are made to pay their fair share in taxes.

Because of our grassroots organizing, Bernie and the
Congressional Progressive Caucus have the support of President
Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in the fight to
expand Medicare to include dental, hearing, and vision. This
would be of immense benefit to seniors like Our Revolution Ohio’s
Diane Morgan - who wrote this recent op-ed in Newsweek
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- as well as a big step toward publicly funding healthcare as a
human right in this country.

Once again, it’s the corporate Democrats standing in the way.
Improving Medicare to be more comprehensive means less coverage
gaps and less need for private supplemental insurance plans. This
is key to strengthening the appeal of extending Medicare for ALL
— which remains our ultimate goal as progressives.

Another big healthcare fight in the budget bill is playing out
over our proposal to lower the Medicare age to 60. This week,
Congressional Progressive Caucus chair Pramila Jayapal and Rep.
Joe Neguse introduced legislation
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just that. Significantly, a majority of House Democrats - both
conservative and progressive - support this measure.

Progressives, of course, remain steadfast in our goal of
lowering the age all the way down to zero through a Medicare for
All single-payer program. But, lowering it by even just five
years as Biden proposed would give coverage to 23 million more
Americans, saving many lives while setting the stage for
additional eligibility age reductions moving forward.

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WORKERS UNDER ATTACK! STAND UP & FIGHT BACK!

Our Revolution Board Chair Larry Cohen joined Sara Steffens of
CWA and Our Revolution Board member Jim Hightower on his YouTube
show ( [link removed] ) on Tuesday
for a “righteous happy hour of rabble rousing” about the Labor
Movement.

As Hightower put it: “American workers are fed up with low
wages, terrible working conditions, minimal benefits and so much
more in their jobs. From tech to warehouses to retail to
journalism, people are getting together, and fighting together,
for workplace justice.”

Larry - a former union leader - brought special attention to the
urgent need to pass the PRO Act and update America’s broken labor
laws so these low-wage workers have a shot to unionize and get
ahead. “Without workers rights, we have no rights. We can’t leave
it up to workers to just do it alone. We need to do our part and
fix the law.” Larry also noted that Our Revolution is working to
make sure key parts of the PRO Act - like increasing penalties on
union busters - makes it into the final Budget Bill.

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IS BIDEN DOING ENOUGH FOR WORKERS?

This week, Our Revolution executive director Joseph Geevarghese
told The Hill
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that President Biden should do more to champion the PRO Act in
Congress or otherwise go it alone and issue executive orders to
increase union membership.

“He’s talking pro-union and he’s delivering a pro-union message
much more consistently then he did in the past. The fundamental
question is this: Is he just talking the talk or is he walking
the walk? The one metric that is the most important is union
density: Is the union movement growing in members or not under
Biden?”

Unfortunately, the answer is NO. Union membership in the private
sector now hovers around 6% - the lowest level since the Great
Depression.

Joseph called on the President to “do whatever it takes -
whatever arm twisting is necessary - to get the PRO Act passed,”
noting that Biden has yet to take “bold leadership on this
critical legislation.”

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GROWING PROGRESSIVE POWER IN SOMERVILLE!

Our Revolution Somerville, MA is organizing to elect three
candidates in this Tuesday’s primary election. Will Mbah, who we
helped to elect to serve Somerville’s first black City Council
member, is now our pick for Mayor. On the Council, Will led the
fight to increase teacher assistant’s pay by 20% and pushed for
more affordable housing and a Green New Deal for Somerville that
would make municipal buildings and new construction net zero and
divest city funds from fossil fuels. Our slate also includes two
other devoted progressive fighters — Tessa Bridge and Becca
Miller, who are running for City Council.

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BETTING ON PROGRESSIVE BUCKEYES

The future of cities across northern Ohio are up for grabs in
Tuesday’s election, starting with the race for the next Mayor of
Cleveland. Our Revolution Ohio is backing Justin Bibb in his run
for Mayor of Cleveland. Bibb has pledged to re-imagine policing
in Cleveland and he was the first mayoral candidate to endorse
the Citizens For A Safer Cleveland Ballot Initiative, which is a
priority for our members.

Our Revolution Ohio is also organizing to elect a slate of
progressives including Kahlil Seren, who is running to be the
first-ever elected Mayor of Cleveland Heights, and others running
for Mayor and Council in Garfield Heights, Cleveland, Lakewood
and Toledo. You can watch our recent town hall with these
candidates HERE.
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PROGRESSIVES FIGHT FOR PARTY REFORMS
IN MASSACHUSETTS!

Part of our mission at Our Revolution is to transform the
Democratic party into a more inclusive and progressive party. To
that end, Our Revolution Massachusetts members are proposing two
amendments to the 2021 Massachusetts Democratic Party Platform.

The first includes changes to the climate and environmental
justice part of the platform, calling for a reduction of fossil
fuel consumption and gets specific on ending taxpayer support of
the fossil fuel industry - including ending tax breaks, financial
assistance, royalty relief and other loopholes that benefit the
fossil fuel industry.

The second amendment is proposed to the Health and Human
Services section of the platform, which already calls for high
quality, accessible healthcare for all through a single payer
government sponsored program, but also calls for expanding
current Medicare coverage now by lowering the eligibility age and
including dental, hearing and vision benefits, and lowering the
price of prescription drugs by allowing Medicare to negotiate
drug prices for all Americans.

If these amendments sound familiar, it’s because it’s the same
issues we are fighting for in Bernie’s Budget Bill, and reflect
the inside/outside approach we are taking not only within
Congress, but also within the Democratic party.

Thanks to the work of Our Revolution activists in Massachusetts,
each Amendment received enough signatures of support and will be
debated and voted on by the Massachusetts Democratic Convention
delegates, who will be voting on the amendments via electronic or
telephonic ballot between September 14th and 5 PM EDT on
September 20th. The virtual convention starts on Sept. 25th.

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CONTINUE TO BUILD A NETWORK OF ACTIVISTS TO MAKE OUR PARTY
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GET INVOLVED IN “REVOLUTION RECESS” AND HELP US WIN THE BATTLE
OVER THE BUDGET!

Our Revolution Massachusetts is mobilizing to get US Rep. Richie
Neal to stand up to the fossil fuel dinosaurs and climate
criminals. Join us on Monday at Richie’s office!

SIGN UP HERE!
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Our Revolution New Jersey is also rallying on Monday to demand
Rep. Bill Pascrell uses his power as a Ways and Means Committee
member to end subsidies to the fossil fuel industry.

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Join Our Revolution Texas as we hold an action at the Laredo
office of Rep. Henry Cuellar - one of the “Nefarious Nine” who
tried to undercut Bernie’s Budget Bill in the House - to show him
that his constituents are demanding Medicare expansion,
protections for workers, and an end to fossil fuel subsidies!

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9/11: MEMORY ETERNAL

As we close this edition of The Revolution Report, we remember
that 20 years ago today our nation faced a terrible attack. As
the towers fell in New York City, many of us began to question
our foreign policy, and even more of us got involved to stop the
military industrial complex from launching a new war. Last month,
the longest conflict in our history came to an end, with not much
to show for it.

As we mark this somber anniversary and remember all those we
lost since 9/11 - including all the innocents - Our Revolution is
recommitting to reducing taxpayer funding for the military
industrial complex and its undue influence on our lawmakers and
our national security policy.

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