Andrea Haverdink · [email protected]

March 30, 2021 at 5:53 PM

Republicans always ask: “But how will you pay for it?”

Together, we’re demanding an investment in people, families and communities―paid for through modest taxes on the wealthy and corporations. John, Tomorrow, Joe Biden will address the nation and provide his vision to Build Back Better―starting with rebuilding our crumbling infrast…

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  Andrea Haverdink · [email protected]

March 27, 2021 at 3:23 PM

RE: SIGN NOW: Tell Congress to pass Bernie Sanders’s new bill to create jobs and invest in working families and communities across the country.

What happens when millionaires and billionaires pass their wealth on to their heirs? John, As millionaires and billionaires pass their wealth along to their heirs―often tax free―we are seeing dynasties form in the U.S. This increases inequality, limits our ability to invest in ou…

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

March 26, 2021 at 6:02 PM

SIGN NOW: Tell Congress to pass Bernie Sanders’s new bill to create jobs and invest in working families and communities across the country.

What happens when millionaires and billionaires pass their wealth on to their heirs? Tell Congress: "Pass the For the 99.5% Act to provide a meaningful constraint on the growing and harmful concentration of wealth inequality in America." Join Us! John, We ha…

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  Andrea Haverdink · [email protected]

March 25, 2021 at 4:43 PM

TODAY: Bernie Sanders introduces a new bill to tax the estates of millionaires and billionaires

Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Jimmy Gomez have introduced the For the 99.5% Act, to strengthen the Estate Tax and raise $430 billion to invest in working families and communities. John, Did you know that the richest 1% of Americans own nearly 32% of the nation’s wealt…

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  Andrea Haverdink · [email protected]

March 24, 2021 at 7:25 PM

RE: New Report: Billionaires wealth gains, one year into pandemic

How we’re impacting Joe Biden’s focus on taxing the rich John, Check out this recent headline: President Biden’s focus on taxing the rich ― one year into a pandemic that has seen billionaire wealth increase by $1.3 trillion, or 45% ― is thanks to your activism and support. N…

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

March 23, 2021 at 4:52 PM

How we’re impacting Joe Biden’s focus on taxing the rich

We have more proposals on the way to make sure the rich are paying their fair share. John, Together, we’re having a major impact on President Biden’s focus on taxing the rich to invest in our country’s future. This week, one-year into the pandemic, Americans for Tax Fairness rel…

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  Andrea Haverdink · [email protected]

March 20, 2021 at 3:59 PM

RE: Joe Manchin wants to raise taxes on the wealthy. Can we get him on board with Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax?

Joe Manchin wants to raise taxes on the wealthy. We agree! John, Joe Manchin has indicated that he’s only willing to pass President Biden’s forthcoming infrastructure and climate investments if they’re 100% paid for.[1] And, as the swing vote in the Senate, he yields massive powe…

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

March 19, 2021 at 4:47 PM

Joe Manchin wants to raise taxes on the wealthy. Can we get him on board with Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax?

We’re growing support for Senator Warren’s recently introduced wealth tax. John, The American Rescue Plan passed the Senate 50-49, with Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) proving to be the decisive vote. Manchin is relishing his newly realized power as a swing vote in the evenly divided…

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  Andrea Haverdink · [email protected]

March 14, 2021 at 6:25 PM

RE: The American Rescue Plan just raised taxes on the rich and corporations. And we’re just getting started!

We just successfully repealed the “Millionaires Giveaway” (partially)! Let me explain. John, We just successfully repealed the “Millionaires Giveaway” (partially)! Let me explain. Included in President Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan is the beginning of the tax reform…

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

March 13, 2021 at 6:38 PM

The American Rescue Plan just raised taxes on the rich and corporations. And we’re just getting started!

Next up is Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax! John, One year ago, Senate Republicans snuck the “Millionaires Giveaway” into the very first COVID relief package. It gave tax breaks averaging $1.6 million to 43,000 millionaires. But, in the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan―signed by…

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

February 25, 2021 at 3:00 PM

The U.S. House is expected to vote on the pandemic package tomorrow! Call your representative and urge them to vote YES on pandemic relief.

At a time when millionaires and billionaires have never had it so good, we need to make sure that critical aid is reaching people, families and communities most in need. John, Tomorrow, the U.S. House is expected to vote on President Biden’s $1.9 trillion comprehensive pandemic r…

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

February 23, 2021 at 6:49 PM

[take action] Tell Congress to pass robust pandemic relief THIS WEEK

We need a pandemic relief package that meets the urgency of the moment. Tell Congress: "Pass a robust COVID relief package immediately to provide people and communities with the URGENT assistance we need." Join Us! John, Last night, President Biden marked a …

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  Mark Rickling · [email protected]

February 21, 2021 at 4:33 PM

RE: Scrap the cap!

Are you still paying into Social Security? Millionaires aren’t. John, With every paycheck we earn, we pay into our earned benefits with the knowledge that Social Security will be there for us in retirement, or if we become disabled or lose our spouse. But, while you and I pay in…

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

February 20, 2021 at 8:26 PM

Scrap the cap!

While you and I pay into Social Security on all of our earnings, that’s not the case for millionaires and billionaires. John, This week, millionaires stop paying into Social Security. That’s because once you earn $142,800 in a year, you stop contributing to Social Security. But …

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  Mark Rickling · [email protected]

February 18, 2021 at 5:27 PM

RE: Tell Congress: U.S. taxpayers should not pay for Big Pharma’s opioid-abuse settlement

Big Pharma is once again ripping off the American people. John, Big Pharma is once again ripping off the American people. This time, they’re getting us to pay for $4.6 billion out of the $26 billion they have agreed to pay in opioid-abuse settlements with state and local governme…

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

February 17, 2021 at 5:05 PM

[take action] Stop these pharmaceutical corporations from receiving $4.6 billion in tax breaks from U.S. taxpayers

It is past time for Congress to serve the people, not the special interests. Tell Congress: "Stop pharmaceutical corporations who are responsible for the opioid epidemic from sticking U.S. taxpayers with the tab of their settlement. Close these corporate tax loopholes they ar…

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  Mark Rickling · [email protected]

February 13, 2021 at 4:47 PM

RE: TAKE ACTION: We have a once in a lifetime opportunity to drastically reduce poverty and lift up millions of children and families

Republicans seem to always find a way to justify tax breaks for the rich John, Next week is absolutely critical to passing a robust COVID relief bill and ensuring it helps as many millions of people as possible. Already, each separate component of the pandemic relief package has…

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

February 12, 2021 at 5:59 PM

This provision in the COVID relief plan would lift 4 million children out of poverty:

Next week is absolutely critical to passing a robust COVID relief bill and ensuring it reaches as many millions of people as possible. Tell Congress: "Right now, we have a real opportunity to improve the lives of millions of children and cut childhood poverty virtually in hal…

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

February 11, 2021 at 5:50 PM

New polling shows President Biden’s agenda is good policy and good politics:

The next few weeks will be critical to implementing our shared progressive agenda, which is both popular and unifying. John, Joe Biden ran on the most progressive tax reform platform in U.S. presidential history―demanding an economy that works for everyone and a tax system where …

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  Mark Rickling · [email protected]

February 10, 2021 at 5:21 PM

Tell Congress to drastically reduce childhood poverty

This expansion of the Child Tax Credit in the pandemic relief bill would reach millions more Black and Latino children Tell Congress: "The pandemic relief bill gives us an opportunity to lift millions of children out of poverty this year. Expand the Child Tax Credit to make i…

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

February 7, 2021 at 6:37 PM

RE: We already know the winners of Sunday’s Super Bowl

Who’s going to win Sunday’s Super Bowl? The billionaire owners! John, Who’s going to win tonight’s Super Bowl? We already know. It’s the 64 billionaire sports owners who have seen their combined wealth grow by $98.5 billion since the pandemic began. Donate today to help us shar…

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  Andrea Haverdink · [email protected]

February 6, 2021 at 5:01 PM

Who’s going to win Sunday’s Super Bowl? The billionaire owners!

Sixty-four billionaire owners of major league sports franchises have enjoyed a $98.5 billion rise in their collective wealth since the pandemic began. John, We won’t know the winner of this year’s Super Bowl till Sunday, but we already know the big winners in our COVID-ravaged ec…

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  Mark Rickling · [email protected]

February 5, 2021 at 7:24 PM

RE: Guess who just joined the Senate Finance Committee?

What’s Senator Elizabeth Warren’s first order of business? John, Did you hear the news? Senator Elizabeth Warren just joined the Senate Finance Committee where tax laws get written. And her first order of business? Check out this tweet: For over two years, we’ve been fightin…

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

February 4, 2021 at 5:31 PM

Guess who just joined the Senate Finance Committee?

In order to address rising levels of income and wealth inequality and racial inequity, we’re making Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax a top priority in 2021. John, Forty years of Republican tax cuts for the rich and corporations and budget cuts for the rest of us have led to widening…

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

February 3, 2021 at 7:42 PM

TAKE ACTION: Tell Democrats, don’t take the bait!

In the midst of dual health and economic crises, this is not a time for Congress to pass a pandemic relief bill that shortchanges children, families and communities. Tell Congressional Democrats: "Don’t take the bait on the GOP pandemic package. Pass a pandemic relief bill th…

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

January 30, 2021 at 5:46 PM

RE: New York Times Report: Jeffrey Epstein made millions helping rich people pay billions less in taxes

The ultra-rich think the normal rules don’t apply to them. John, Jeffrey Epstein, the notorious child sex trafficker, made his millions by helping the richest 0.1% dodge taxes. His specialty, according to a new New York Times report, was using grantor retained annuity trusts―or G…

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  Andrea Haverdink · [email protected]

January 29, 2021 at 7:08 PM

New York Times Report: Jeffrey Epstein made millions helping rich people pay billions less in taxes

It’s up to us to remind members of Congress what they were sent to Washington to do. John, This month, the billionaire casino mogul and Republican mega donor, Sheldon Adelson passed away. And his $35 billion fortune will likely be passed along to his heirs virtually tax free.[1] …

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  Mark Rickling · [email protected]

January 27, 2021 at 4:37 PM

RE: CNN: “[Republicans] have expressed doubts or opposition to passing another major relief bill”

With more than 420,000 deaths already from COVID-19, and millions out of work or working for reduced pay, the American people need an immediate lifeline. John, Last March, when the pandemic was just taking hold, Senate Republicans snuck a huge tax break into the initial round of C…

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

January 26, 2021 at 9:38 PM

More than half of Joe Biden’s pandemic relief package could be paid for by the obscene wealth gains of 660 billionaires.

With more than 420,000 deaths already from COVID-19, and millions out of work or working for reduced pay, the American people need an immediate lifeline. Tell Congress: “Now is not the time for political games. Pass a pandemic relief bill, at least to the scale of President …

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  Mark Rickling · [email protected]

January 25, 2021 at 5:56 PM

RE: SIGN NOW: Tell Congress to empower working people to access our democracy

Tell Congress: Clean up corruption and empower working people in our democracy John, Fighting for our agenda and our values is dependent on a strong democracy. But for years our democracy has been under attack. If we are to make progress on racial and economic justice, a tax sys…

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

January 23, 2021 at 6:35 PM

SIGN NOW: Tell Congress to empower working people to access our democracy

Become a grassroots co-signer of HR 1 and S1 to fight for a stronger democracy and to hold the powerful to account. Tell Congress: "Pass HR 1 and S1 ― the For the People Act ― to clean up and reform our political system so we have a government that works for all of us, not sp…

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

January 21, 2021 at 8:11 PM

7,000 high priced corporate lobbyists

The 2020 election was not only a referendum on Trump, but also on his disastrous policies. John, The last four years have been virtually unbearable with constant attacks on the American people, our democracy and our government institutions. But now we have a new administration, e…

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

January 20, 2021 at 3:01 PM

Watch the swearing in of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris live, today at noon ET

John, Today is a moment to celebrate all that we’ve accomplished together. We have fought for tax fairness, racial justice, corporate and political accountability, and an economy that works for everyone. Today’s inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harr…

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  Andrea Haverdink · [email protected]

January 16, 2021 at 4:53 PM

Their greed knows no bounds.

Between 2016 and 2020, 134 billionaires donated nearly $236 million to Donald Trump and his super PACs. John, Since the 1/6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, we’ve seen a potential shift in the Republican Party with 10 House Republicans voting to impeach Donald Trump. But we’ve also s…

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

January 14, 2021 at 7:23 PM

This is who Donald Trump has always been.

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” – Maya Angelou John, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” – Maya Angelou We knew who Donald Trump was even before he descended his golden escalator to announce his first run for pr…

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

December 31, 2020 at 6:51 PM

RE: 2020 was only the start. In 2021 we’re fighting to unrig our economy and our tax system

Let’s start 2021 by making the rich and corporations pay their fair share in taxes John, I am incredibly grateful for you and the hard work you did in 2020. This has been the most challenging year in most of our lifetimes, from the pandemic and the resulting economic recession, …

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  Mark Rickling · [email protected]

December 30, 2020 at 2:47 PM

2020 was only the start. In 2021 we’re fighting to unrig our economy and our tax system

Did you know that the 2017 Trump-GOP tax scam worsened the racial income and wealth gaps? John, The first 100 days of the Biden-Harris administration will set the tone for their entire presidency. Joe Biden ran on a powerful tax fairness plan that would raise trillions of dollar…

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

December 29, 2020 at 4:48 PM

RE: New infographic: The fair share tax system and investments that Joe Biden ran and won on

New infographic: The fair share tax system and investments that Joe Biden ran and won on John, Did you see Andrea’s email below and our new infographic which lays out Joe Biden’s tax fairness mandate and the critical investments needed in 2021 and beyond? Throughout the campaign…

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  Andrea Haverdink · [email protected]

December 28, 2020 at 2:01 PM

New infographic: The fair share tax system and investments that Joe Biden ran and won on

It’s up to us to grow public support for these critical policies and demand Congress act. John, Even before the pandemic struck, working families were struggling, with many living paycheck to paycheck. It’s time to rebalance our economy and our tax system so it works for everyone…

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  Andrea Haverdink · [email protected]

December 22, 2020 at 2:03 PM

VIDEO: Six reasons it’s time to repeal Trump and the GOP’s tax breaks for the rich and corporations.

On the campaign trail, President-elect Biden promised over and over to repeal the Trump-GOP tax scam for corporations and the rich. John, At the time of its passage three years ago today, the Trump-GOP tax law was the second most unpopular bill in the last 30 years. And since the…

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

December 20, 2020 at 3:52 PM

RE: How did President-elect Joe Biden withstand hundreds of millions of dollars of attacks, and prevail with a tax fairness mandate?

In 2020, you played a major role in fighting back against the right-wing media machine. John, Your activism and support were critical to securing a tax fairness mandate in 2020. Now, as we look ahead to 2021, we have the opportunity to put that mandate into action through a tax f…

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  Mark Rickling · [email protected]

December 19, 2020 at 2:02 PM

In 2020, you played a major role in fighting back against the right-wing media machine.

“Clemente says he’s working with members of Congress and transition officials to turn Biden’s campaign plan into legislation.” John, How did President-elect Joe Biden withstand hundreds of millions of dollars of attacks, and prevail with a tax fairness mandate? In 2020, the work…

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

December 16, 2020 at 6:50 PM

Let’s turn Joe Biden’s tax fairness mandate into a governing agenda

Joe Biden withstood tens of millions of dollars in ads against his tax plan this election -- and won big! John, Today, Americans for Tax Fairness unveiled a new website highlighting President-elect Joe Biden’s tax-fairness mandate. All of us should be really proud of what we a…

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

December 14, 2020 at 9:20 PM

New Polling: Americans reject the Wall Street misinformation campaign

Congress is too-often prone to amnesia about what they ran on and who helped deliver that win. But one thing they never stop checking is the polling. John, Throughout 2020, the right-wing misinformation machine attempted to scare voters away from progressive tax policies that tax…

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  Mark Rickling · [email protected]

December 12, 2020 at 7:31 PM

RE: TELL CONGRESS: Reject costly tax breaks for the rich. Deliver aid to those who need it most.

Congress must reject costly tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations in this next COVID relief package John, Vital public services and jobs in healthcare, education, housing and more will be slashed in the coming months if Congress fails to act on a comprehensive COVID relief …

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

December 11, 2020 at 8:39 PM

TELL CONGRESS: Reject costly tax breaks for the rich. Deliver aid to those who need it most.

In the midst of a national health and economic emergency, Congress must focus on getting relief to those who need it most. John, Millions of Americans face a dark and dangerous winter as key provisions of the COVID-19 CARES Act―including extended unemployment benefits, sick leave…

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  Andrea Haverdink · [email protected]

December 10, 2020 at 6:03 PM

RE: BREAKING: America’s 651 billionaires are now worth a combined $4 trillion

NEW REPORT: America’s billionaires have reached a disgraceful milestone John, Did you see Frank’s email below? This week, according to a new Americans for Tax Fairness report, America’s 651 billionaires have seen their total wealth grow by $1 trillion since March 18th―when busine…

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

December 9, 2020 at 7:25 PM

BREAKING: America’s 651 billionaires are now worth a combined $4 trillion

Elon Musk has seen his wealth skyrocket by 482% since March. John, Sadly, the Gilded Age is here again. This week, America’s 651 billionaires reached a disgraceful milestone. Since the pandemic began in March, their wealth jumped by $1 trillion, or more than one-third. They are …

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  Frank Clemente · [email protected]

December 5, 2020 at 4:35 PM

RE: Tell your U.S. Senators: Reject McConnell’s anemic COVID package; advance bipartisan relief modeled on Heroes Act

[take action] Tell your Senators to fight for an improved bipartisan COVID relief package; reject McConnell’s anemic plan John, Since the first bipartisan COVID relief package passed in March, House Democrats have twice passed additional major COVID relief bills for struggling fa…

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  Mark Rickling · [email protected]

December 4, 2020 at 6:05 PM

[take action] Tell your Senators to fight for an improved bipartisan COVID relief package; reject McConnell’s anemic plan

The good news is that a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators appears to have the framework of a plan that will begin to address some of these urgent needs. But it needs to be stronger. Tell your U.S. Senators: "Pass urgent bipartisan COVID relief for workers, families, and state…

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