Alex Lawson, Social Security Works · [email protected]

February 3, 2021 at 8:15 PM

Should we invest Social Security in GameStop?

We demand an end to casino capitalism and a congressional investigation into the GameStop fiasco! Tell Congress: Investigate actions taken by Robinhood and hedge funds to rig the stock market against ordinary Americans, and enact real reform and regulation…

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  Alex Lawson, Social Security Works · [email protected]

February 2, 2021 at 6:06 PM

Fire Louis DeJoy

If Joe Biden swiftly appoints pro-postal Governors, they can end DeJoy’s reign of terror. Tell Joe Biden: Take immediate action to fill the four vacancies on the Postal Board of Governors with diverse and community-based members who will build back better …

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  Michael Phelan, Social Security Works · [email protected]

January 30, 2021 at 1:45 PM

Consequences and accountability

5 people died in the attack. 2 more Capitol Police officers have taken their lives in the three and a half weeks since. There have to be consequences for inciting a mob into an insurrection. Tell the Senate: Some things are bigger than Social Security. Our…

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  Alex Lawson, Social Security Works · [email protected]

January 29, 2021 at 8:24 PM

Abdul El-Sayed: A Citizen’s Guide to Medicare for All

America’s health care system is still broken. And the pandemic has shown: we all have a stake in making sure it works. John, America’s health care system is still broken. And the pandemic has shown: we all have a stake in making sure it works. That’s why Social…

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  Michael Phelan, Social Security Works · [email protected]

January 27, 2021 at 5:40 PM

Re: 3 deadly rules withdrawn

President Biden has a lot on his plate right now. He shouldn’t have to worry about Trump’s SSA Commissioner sabotaging Social Security right under his nose. John, Our pressure is working. Since Joe Biden was sworn in as President one week ago, 3 deadly Trump-era…

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  Alex Lawson, Social Security Works · [email protected]

January 26, 2021 at 5:34 PM

Biden must move swiftly.

President Biden has a lot on his plate right now. He shouldn’t have to worry about Trump’s SSA Commissioner sabotaging Social Security right under his nose. John, Elections have consequences. And the Biden administration is already showing the sharp contrast wit…

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  Alex Lawson, Social Security Works · [email protected]

January 22, 2021 at 6:51 PM

Re: CLEAN HOUSE

Every day that Saul and Black remain at the helm of the Social Security Administration means more time to put regulations and bureaucracy between you and your earned benefits. John, We wanted to be sure you saw this important message: President Biden has begun …

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  Michael Phelan, Social Security Works · [email protected]

January 21, 2021 at 5:52 PM

Here’s some good news:

Every day that Saul and Black remain at the helm of the Social Security Administration means more time to put regulations and bureaucracy between you and your earned benefits. John, Here’s some good news: Yesterday, Social Security Administration Deputy Commiss…

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  Alex Lawson, Social Security Works · [email protected]

January 20, 2021 at 4:26 PM

Literally AND figuratively

SSA Commissioner Saul and his cronies were chosen for their loyalty to Trump, not the American people they purported to serve. They need to go. John, Joe Biden is finally being sworn in as President, ending 4 years of all-out assault on Social Security and Medic…

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  Alex Lawson, Social Security Works · [email protected]

January 13, 2021 at 9:10 PM

There has to be a price for voting to overturn an election.

If an attack on our democracy and our sacred institutions won’t get their attention, there’s one thing that will: money. Demand corporate donors and PACs stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election results. ADD YOUR VOICE …

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  Alex Lawson, Social Security Works · [email protected]

January 11, 2021 at 5:34 PM

UPDATE: Expel Republicans who incited violence on Wednesday.

This isn’t new. Ronald Reagan warned that Medicare would lead to “spend[ing] our sunset years telling our children, and our children’s children, what it once was like in America when men were free.”1 John, Last week’s horrific, insurgent attack on the U.S. Capit…

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  Michael Phelan, Social Security Works · [email protected]

January 9, 2021 at 3:52 PM

There have to be consequences.

This isn’t new. Ronald Reagan warned that Medicare would lead to “spend[ing] our sunset years telling our children, and our children’s children, what it once was like in America when men were free.”1 SIGN IF YOU AGREE John, After spending…

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  Michael Phelan, Social Security Works · [email protected]

January 5, 2021 at 8:20 PM

Expanding Social Security would be a BFD

The Democratic Senate majority is ideologically diverse, but there’s one issue that unites them: Expanding Social Security. John, All eyes are on Georgia today, where two runoff elections could swing the balance of the Senate from Republicans to Democrats, with…

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  Alex Lawson, Social Security Works PAC · [email protected]

January 4, 2021 at 4:50 PM

A short email about Georgia

Sign up to call Georgia voters today! I'll be quick: We’re talking to organizers on the ground in Georgia. The #1 thing they say people can do to help is to call Georgia voters and make sure they turn out! Georgia voters will decide control of the Senate TOMORROW…

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  Michael Phelan, Social Security Works PAC · [email protected]

January 3, 2021 at 6:25 PM

Georgia Georgia Georgia

If Republicans win, Mitch McConnell will control the Senate and spend the next 2 years pushing for cuts to Social Security and Medicare, just like he did under Trump. John, Seniors in Georgia need to know what Tuesday’s Senate runoff election means for Social Sec…

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  Michael Phelan, Social Security Works · [email protected]

January 1, 2021 at 2:31 PM

20 more days of Trump

Trump is ordering every one of his appointees to wreck everything they can on his way out the door. John, Happy New Year. Even with 2020 finally in the garbage, Donald Trump will still be president for 20 more days. And one thing that’s been clear since he lost the …

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  Alex Lawson, Social Security Works · [email protected]

December 31, 2020 at 9:26 PM

Before midnight tonight:

In 2021, we have an opportunity to stop playing defense and go on offense John, In 2020, Social Security Works members were critical in rallying older voters to defeat Donald Trump and elect a president who will join with us to protect and expand Social Security…

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  Alex Lawson, Social Security Works · [email protected]

December 31, 2020 at 2:45 PM

Special elections are coming.

Seniors swung hard toward Democrats in the 2020 elections. John, The Biden-Harris administration is bringing some key members of Congress with them to the White House. That means we’re in for a round of special elections, where Republicans will try to pick up s…

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  Michael Phelan, Social Security Works · [email protected]

December 30, 2020 at 9:30 PM

Social Security Administration mismanagement is a scandal

This money belongs to the American people―and it should be a scandal that Trump’s Social Security Administration (SSA) hasn’t even bothered to attempt to correct it! John, The Washington Post reported this morning:1 The report summarizes new findings from the…

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  Alex Lawson, Social Security Works · [email protected]

December 30, 2020 at 2:09 PM

Fight to expand Social Security by becoming a 2021 member of Social Security Works today

It wasn’t that long ago that even Democrats were calling for cuts to Social Security through the Bowles-Simpson commission during the Obama administration. John, Three weeks from today, Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. And at tha…

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  Michael Phelan, Social Security Works PAC · [email protected]

December 29, 2020 at 1:42 PM

One Week: Can you call Georgia voters?

Together, let’s show the power of our movement for change. John, Thanks to you, older voters swung hard toward Joe Biden in last month’s election. Donald Trump’s negligence during the pandemic and attacks on our earned benefits were simply too much for seniors to…

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  Michael Phelan, Social Security Works · [email protected]

December 28, 2020 at 2:15 PM

2020 is headed to the dumpster of history.

This time last year, we had no idea what 2020 would hold John, We’re ready to throw 2020 in the garbage bin of history, where it belongs. With the end of this particularly dark year upon us, it can be worth remembering all of the wins we had this year: We launched…

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  Alex Lawson, Social Security Works · [email protected]

December 27, 2020 at 10:11 PM

Re: Trump’s Social Security trap:

This is exactly the trap we warned about John, The last time there was a Democrat in the White House, Republicans loved to sneak Social Security and Medicare cuts into any “must-pass” bills―the more important the better. Whether the bills were designed to avert…

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  Alex Lawson, Social Security Works · [email protected]

December 27, 2020 at 3:34 PM

Re: Trump’s Social Security trap

This is exactly the trap we warned about John, The last time there was a Democrat in the White House, Republicans loved to sneak Social Security and Medicare cuts into any “must-pass” bills―the more important the better. Whether the bills were designed to avert…

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  Michael Phelan, Social Security Works · [email protected]

December 26, 2020 at 2:15 PM

Remember when Donald Trump tried to defund Social Security?

This is exactly the trap we warned about John, In the middle of a pandemic that is killing seniors more than anyone else, Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at raiding Social Security’s dedicated funding. It was a trap. Trump couldn’t unilaterally ta…

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  Michael, Alex, Nancy, and Team Social Security Works · [email protected]

December 24, 2020 at 2:15 PM

Our Social Security System

Times of great crisis must also be times of great ambition John, We built our Social Security system at the depths of the Great Depression, as President Roosevelt said upon signing the Social Security Act 85 years ago:1 It is a structure intended to lessen the force…

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  Alex Lawson, Social Security Works · [email protected]

December 23, 2020 at 10:51 PM

SIGN NOW: $2,000 checks in the stimulus bill

Your phone calls, petition signatures, and donations got us to this point. Let’s finish the job. Tell Congress: "We’re nine months into a catastrophic pandemic. Unemployment is through the roof. Families are going hungry. We need a lot more than $600 to su…

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  Michael Phelan, Social Security Works · [email protected]

December 23, 2020 at 1:30 PM

A fair trial for disability hearings

This is one more way that the Trump administration is trying to insert partisanship into programs that exist to serve the whole public. John, The blizzard of new regulations and policy changes that Trump’s appointees at the Social Security Administration are rus…

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  Alex Lawson, Social Security Works PAC · [email protected]

December 22, 2020 at 3:17 PM

Phonebank: Help Georgia voters make a plan to vote between now and Jan. 5th

With two weeks until Election Day, the #1 most important thing organizers on the ground in Georgia are asking us for is to call voters and help them make a plan to vote. John, What’s at stake on January 5th is nothing less than our policy agenda for 2021. Will we…

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  James Roosevelt Jr, Social Security Works PAC · [email protected]

December 21, 2020 at 3:42 PM

Georgia runoffs give voters a chance to protect Social Security

If Mitch McConnell stays in power, he will take every opportunity to demand cuts to Social Security and Medicare. John, When my grandfather, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, contracted polio in the early 1920s, he could have given into despair. Instead, he trave…

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  Michael Phelan, Social Security Works · [email protected]

December 20, 2020 at 3:10 PM

TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to pass a $15 minimum wage in the first 100 days of the Biden-Harris administration

One major boost that would invest in working people and Social Security’s future is a $15 minimum wage. Tell Congress: “Raise the minimum wage to at least $15 an hour in the first 100 days of the Biden-Harris administration.” ADD YOUR VOICE …

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  Michael Phelan, Social Security Works · [email protected]

December 19, 2020 at 4:14 PM

Re: Trump lost. He could still do serious damage to our Social Security system.

They want to make Social Security benefits so hard to get that people give up trying, and begin to resent the Social Security contributions we all make with every paycheck. John, Even in the twilight of the Trump administration, the cruelty continues. They’re ru…

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  Alex Lawson, Social Security Works · [email protected]

December 18, 2020 at 3:20 PM

We must fight against Trump’s cruel Social Security cuts.

They want to make Social Security benefits so hard to get that people give up trying, and begin to resent the Social Security contributions we all make with every paycheck. John, The Trump administration is in the process of finalizing a cruel change to the appe…

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  Team Social Security Works PAC · [email protected]

December 16, 2020 at 9:07 PM

TODAY: Rock ‘n’ Doo Wop Party for Georgia!

We’re getting seniors fired up for the Georgia runoff! John, The Rock ‘n’ Doo Wop party is today! Older Americans swung hard towards Democrats in November. We’re working to keep them there in the critical Georgia runoffs, and build a pro-Social Security majorit…

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  Michael Phelan, Social Security Works · [email protected]

December 16, 2020 at 5:04 PM

Survival checks

People who rely on Social Security have had the highest burden because they have the most risk John, Throughout the pandemic, life has gotten more expensive. Delivery fees, curbside pick-up fees, and the additional steps to keep ourselves safe have come at a cos…

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  Alex Lawson, Social Security Works · [email protected]

December 16, 2020 at 3:00 PM

Tell Joe Biden: Fire everybody!

Trump’s appointees are so corrupt, and so incompetent, that America requires a serious housecleaning Tell President-elect Joe Biden: "Fire every Trump appointee who doesn’t resign on January 20th." ADD YOUR VOICE John, The Social Securit…

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  Michael Phelan, Social Security Works · [email protected]

December 14, 2020 at 8:52 PM

Executive Orders

Our Social Security system is built on a solid foundation, but when our country’s economics get out of whack, it becomes unsteady. Tell President-elect Biden: "Be bold in the first 100 days! Use executive action to strengthen American economic security." …

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  Michael Phelan, Social Security Works · [email protected]

December 13, 2020 at 4:55 PM

Re: Clean House on Day One

Social Security beneficiaries and SSA employees agree: Donald Trump’s political appointees are undermining our Social Security system, and Biden must remove them immediately. John, Donald Trump has stuffed what are normally apolitical federal agencies with highl…

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  Alex Lawson, Social Security Works · [email protected]

December 12, 2020 at 2:00 PM

Social Security Beneficiaries and SSA Employees Agree

Social Security beneficiaries and SSA employees agree: Donald Trump’s political appointees are undermining our Social Security system, and Biden must remove them immediately. John, This week, two unions representing Social Security Administration (SSA) employees…

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  Michael Phelan, Social Security Works · [email protected]

December 11, 2020 at 7:08 PM

Re: Lighting another fire on his way out the door

Headline: Social Security Administration is preparing to bar 500,000 Americans from getting benefits John, We can fix most of the damage Donald Trump has done to our Social Security system―especially the new regulations that he’s putting in place on his way out …

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  Alex Lawson, Social Security Works · [email protected]

December 10, 2020 at 9:42 PM

I, for one, am tired of Donald Trump’s Social Security Administration

These midnight regulations are just another mess that the Trump administration is leaving for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to clean up. John, I, for one, am tired of Donald Trump’s Social Security Administration’s attempts to gut our Social Security system befor…

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  Michael Phelan, Social Security Works PAC · [email protected]

December 9, 2020 at 5:48 PM

Raphael & Jon

Mitch McConnell has promised to push for austerity and cuts to Social Security and Medicare John, Don’t let the pundits writing premature obituaries for the Biden-Harris administration fool you: Mitch McConnell can’t veto Joe & Kamala’s cabinet picks. But he …

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  Rep. Rashida Tlaib via Social Security Works · [email protected]

December 6, 2020 at 2:38 PM

Your help urgently needed: Bipartisan COVID relief must include stimulus checks!

Our communities cannot wait for immediate, direct relief. John, COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are surging across the country, along with poverty and homelessness rates. But with aid programs for renters and jobless Americans expiring at the end …

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  Alex Lawson, Social Security Works PAC · [email protected]

December 5, 2020 at 2:15 PM

Let’s keep Georgia blue!

With one month until Election Day, we need to Get Out the Vote John, New polling out of Georgia puts Democrats ahead in two crucial U.S. Senate runoff elections. But let’s not get cocky. Last month Democrats lost Senate races in Maine and North Carolina after l…

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  Michael Phelan, Social Security Works · [email protected]

December 4, 2020 at 7:55 PM

2021

Social Security Works’ member-supported PAC accomplished some incredible things: John, 2020 is almost over. Thank goodness. Together, we turned back a tide of fascism, saved Social Security and Medicare from Donald Trump, and elected Joe Biden president with a mandat…

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  Alex Lawson, Social Security Works · [email protected]

December 3, 2020 at 4:31 PM

Re: Fire these people.

This is exactly the kind of senseless bureaucracy that Republicans criticize the government for. John, As Donald Trump smashes our democracy and institutions on his way out the door, it’s critical that we keep the country’s eye on the damage he has done to our …

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  Michael Phelan, Social Security Works · [email protected]

December 2, 2020 at 8:34 PM

Fire these people.

This is exactly the kind of senseless bureaucracy that Republicans criticize the government for. Tell the incoming Biden-Harris administration: “On the first day of your administration, rescind the Trump administration’s rule change that will kick hundred…

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  Alex Lawson, Social Security Works · [email protected]

November 28, 2020 at 1:45 PM

The vaccine must be free.

We need global solidarity to crush the coronavirus. Bottom line thinking and Big Pharma profits will let the coronavirus continue to crush us. Tell Congress: "Make coronavirus vaccines free for all Americans because we can't put a price on immunity." …

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  Nancy Altman, Social Security Works Social Security Works · [email protected]

November 26, 2020 at 4:52 PM

Here’s At Least One Thing to Give Thanks For in 2020

Our Social Security system is government at its best. John, This year’s Thanksgiving is far from normal. COVID is raging across the country, millions are out of work, and many of us are seeing our loved ones on a screen instead of across the table. Yet we can …

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  Alex Lawson, Social Security Works · [email protected]

November 25, 2020 at 1:56 PM

The deficit hawks are already circling the Biden administration

The last thing the Biden administration should consider is empowering the voices who have sought to undermine the vital economic security programs that Americans are counting on during these difficult times. Tell the Biden-Harris Transition Team: "Bruce Re…

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