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Things are moving kind of fast around here these days, and we certainly don’t expect you to keep up with all of it, John.
So we decided to pull together a more detailed update on just a few of the things that have been happening at the Working Families Party — from everything that went down in Congress last week to a new congressional candidate endorsement and actions we’ve taken to hold Senator Kyrsten Sinema accountable.
Let’s get started, shall we?
CONGRESS
Late last month, we stood with working people in Washington, D.C. to send a message to Democrats at the Capitol, on highway overpasses, and at the annual Congressional baseball game saying: Our lives are not a game. Hold the line on reconciliation!
And WFP champions in Congress successfully held the line against corporate Democrats who were pushing to pass a smaller infrastructure bill without the Build Back Better Act. But this fight is far from over. Big Pharma is spending another $1.5 million on ads, and the calls for “compromise” (i.e., forcing progressives to cut away some critical movement demands like climate action or child care) will definitely get louder. If you haven’t already, will you sign our card to WFP champions in Congress, thanking them for their leadership and urging them to keep up the fight to pass the full Build Back Better Act that our communities deserve?
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WFP CANDIDATE SPOTLIGHT: Jessica Cisneros
ICYMI: TX WFP is endorsing Jessica Cisneros, who is running in Texas’ 28th Congressional District!
Defeating Congressman Henry Cuellar won’t be easy. Jessica was outspent by about $700,000 last year, and Cuellar hasn’t stopped taking big checks from oil and gas, private prisons, and Republican donors. Split a contribution between Jessica’s campaign and WFP to help build the organizing power needed to defeat Cuellar in 2022.
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WFP STATE SPOTLIGHT: ARIZONA
We continue to bring the 🔥 to Sen. Kyrsten Sinema at home. The AZ WFP organized a press event featuring state legislators, organizers, and United Farmworkers Union co-founder Dolores Huerta, calling on the senior senator to support the president’s Build Back Better agenda.
We ran ads to pressure Sen. Sinema at home that got coverage in The New York Times. And last weekend, AZ WFP showed up to greet Sen. Sinema outside her fundraiser at a high-end resort:
And finally, check out this interview with WFP Director of Federal Affairs Natalia Salgado in the Advocate about how Sinema has betrayed her constituents.
Thanks for making it all the way through, John. We’re still figuring out how to better compile updates on everything we’re up to across the country, so if you have thoughts on the kind of content you’d like to see in the future, reply directly to this email and let us know!
We know that was a lot, but what we put in this email you just read represents only a small fraction of the work we’re doing every day to fight for working families. While we still have you, can you contribute $3 to WFP today to help fuel our organizing across the country?
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All of us at the Working Families Party
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