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A note on Tuesday’s results

“Always gonna be an uphill battle / Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose”
— The Climb by Miley Cyrus

Tuesday was a tough night, folks. We lost important elections across the country, especially in Virginia, and in the months to come, there will be a lot of people trying to autopsy the results. We can expect hand-wringing from the media about Democratic infighting, Republicans gearing up to flip both the House and Senate, and how it’s all the fault of progressives. But truthfully, Tuesday was always going to be an uphill battle. And these results, upsetting as they are, are a wake up call: we need to make good on our promises, pass the Build Back Better agenda, and stop corporate interests from steamrolling the platform that voters put Democrats in power to pass.

But despite the shadow Virginia’s results cast over the rest of the night, Tuesday also held several bright spots for the progressive movement. We made history that night when we elected Green New Deal champion Michelle Wu — one of our endorsed candidates as part of our Green New Deal slate ([link removed]) with Lead Locally — as the next Mayor of Boston. She’ll make history as the first woman, person of color, and Asian-American to lead the city.

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Meanwhile, progressive Justin Bibb was elected Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, while Abdullah Hammoud was elected Mayor of Dearborn, Michigan. Progressives won ([link removed]) city council and down-ballot races across the country — all on a progressive Green New Deal agenda. And even in races we didn’t win, we made critical inroads into new communities, organizing and changing the narrative around the issues that matter to progressives and the electability of new kinds of candidates.

Let’s be real, Tuesday was a warning. But both our losses and our successes point us to the same lesson: There’s no time left to waste on the issues that will move voters to the ballot box. Now, it’s on Democrats to learn that lesson.
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** Here are some other highlights from DFP over the past week:
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*through gritted teeth* Voters Still Want To Build Back Better

A little over a week ago, President Biden released ([link removed]) a pared-down version of the Build Back Better Agenda. Even after months of negotiations on the original bill, its passage remains up in the air. In new Data for Progress polling with Invest in America, we find ([link removed]) that voters want Congress to cut it out and pass the dang bill.

By a +29-point margin, voters support passing the new framework. This includes 89 percent of Democrats, while Independents support the bill by a +19-point margin.

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Meanwhile, every provision of the bill remains popular with voters. Access to long-term care for seniors and people with disabilities remains the most popular provision, with a whopping +63-point margin of support — while critical investments in childcare and clean energy also retain at least +30-point margins.

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Read the full blog results and analysis from Senior Analyst Ethan Winter and Polling Analyst Anika Dandekar here ([link removed]) .

AOC’s Next Met Gala Dress: Tax the Corporations

Remember when Amazon paid ([link removed]) $0 in taxes for two straight years? And when they finally did start paying taxes, it was revealed ([link removed]) that they were paying a 4.3 percent tax rate, far below the 21 percent rate corporations are usually taxed at. It’s thanks to all the loopholes in our broken tax system — and our new polling finds voters want them closed.

Our latest poll finds ([link removed]) voters across all parties want to see a corporate minimum tax rate enacted so that corporations pay their fair share. This tax rate also happens to be a key pay-for in the Build Back Better agenda — which provides Democrats with a critical opportunity to both pass much-needed social safety net legislation and start to fix our broken tax system.

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Read the full blog results and analysis from Senior Writer Lew Blank and our CTO Jason Katz-Brown here ([link removed]) .

Care Can’t Wait: Voters Want Home and Community-Based Care Passed

During the general election, President Biden had promised to end the backlog of access to home care services covered by Medicaid. With Build Back Better, his opportunity to fulfill that promise has arrived. Previous Build Back Better polling found that investments in long-term care, or home and community-based services (HCBS) was the most popular provision of the Build Back Better agenda — and our latest Data for Progress blog by disability rights activist and DFP Senior Fellow Matthew Cortland highlights the extent to which passage of this provision is a critical disability rights issue.

Our latest poll ([link removed]) of the disability community finds 89 percent of self-identifying disabled voters
— including 96 percent of Independents and 81 percent of Republicans — would rather receive home care than institutionalized care.

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Read the full poll and analysis by Matthew Cortland on the DFP blog here ([link removed]) .
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DFP In The News

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The Daily Beast:Dear Moderates: The Left Isn’t Why McAuliffe Lost Virginia ([link removed])

New York Magazine:Congress Decides to Learn Almost Nothing From the Pandemic ([link removed])

Newsweek:Why Is National Debt a Key Issue for Joe Biden's Social Safety Net Bill? ([link removed])

The Hill: Progressives notch mixed success in mayoral races ([link removed])

The Daily Beast: ‘We’re Screwed’: Dems Worry the Anti-Trump Playbook May Be Useless ([link removed])

The Week: Consistent climate action wasn't on the menu at COP26 ([link removed])

The Guardian:The US Senate is undemocratic. That’s bleak for Democrats’ midterm hopes ([link removed])

Vice:Minneapolis Could Become One of the First US Cities to Replace Its Police ([link removed])

Truthout:Poll Shows O’Rourke Ties Abbott in Hypothetical Race for Texas Gov. Next Year ([link removed])

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