John,
Last week, Team Cori shared our first post-election priorities survey to help inform an agenda for the final sessions of the 117th Congress and the start of the 118th Congress beginning early next year. A major focus of the next few weeks is going to be setting objectives and organizing priorities, and your feedback is enormously helpful. Here are the results:
#1: Environmental Justice
It’s no surprise that over a third of survey respondents cited environmental justice as their #1 priority. The climate crisis threatens us all and will disproportionately impact our nation’s most vulnerable populations.
Cori introduced the Green New Deal for Cities to fund an expansive array of community-based climate and environmental justice jobs and projects — including wind power procurement, clean water infrastructure, and air quality monitoring — by giving funding directly to city, state, local, Indigenous, and territorial governments.
Working alongside environmental justice organizations, Cori is going to ensure the climate justice movement has a strong voice in Congress. Want to help support our effort? Make a contribution today.
#2: Protecting the Right to Vote
Like so many of us, survey respondents are very concerned about protecting the right to vote. Election deniers, conspiracy theories, voter intimidation, and political violence promoted by violent white supremacists are in the headlines too often.
Our democracy has been under attack by Republican state legislatures across the country, members of Congress, and others holding federal office. Their attempts at voter suppression and disinformation frequently target Black, brown, Indigenous, and other marginalized communities. It’s on us to take action to make sure that every single person has the right to vote and to be able to participate in our democracy.
#3 Economic Justice and Medicare for All
With just a percentage point between them, economic justice and Medicare for All came in at a near tie — likely because they’re tied together.
Regular, everyday people are being left behind by a system that prioritizes the whims of the rich over the basic, human needs of our community. Whether it’s wage theft and stagnation, inflation, skyrocketing health care costs, or the for-profit exploitation of people at the pump — Cori’s taking action. She’s been fighting for at least a $15 minimum wage since well before she stepped foot in the People’s House. Now that she’s in Congress, she’s voted to increase the minimum wage and for the PRO Act to protect workers' rights to unionize.
And Cori’s approach to health care comes from firsthand experience: as both a registered nurse and someone who has lived the consequence of being forced into immoral debt simply for seeking out and receiving needed medical care.
Cori believes that health care is a human right. No one should be denied health care based on age, gender, ability to pay, or health status/pre-existing condition. She is leading us towards joining every other industrialized nation and passing Medicare for All, an accomplishment that would cut costs and increase quality and access of care for everyone.
All of these issues — and more — will need to be addressed by the 118th Congress next year, and each is a key priority for Cori. We’re eager to get to work, John. Will you make a contribution and help us get to work in Congress?
In solidarity,
Morgan Lowe
Political Director, Team Cori
