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Campaigns

  • Extend the student debt payment pause!
    More than a quarter of student loan borrowers will be spending over a third of their income on loan payments when the pause ends. These impacts will disproportionately harm Americans of color, who on average borrow more for college expenses than their white counterparts while holding significantly less wealth. The economy has not recovered to the point where Americans are ready to pay their loans.
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  • It's time to break free of fossil fuels!
    Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shaken the global oil market, landing us at a crossroads. The US must seize this opportunity to finally break free of our fossil fuel dependence. But the fossil fuel lobby, led by Joe Manchin, is trying to leverage high gas prices to double down on domestic drilling. Congress must stand up to Joe Manchin, and finally enact sweeping climate policy!
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  • Save Medicare!
    During the Trump administration, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner announced his plan to partially privatize Medicare coverage. Kushner tapped his former roommate Adam Boehler to pilot the program in January 2019.[1] Under the traditional Medicare program, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services directly reimburses providers for patients’ medical care. But under Kushner’s so-called “direct contracting model,” the government pays Wall Street-backed startups and private insurance companies, who in turn reimburse providers. By paying corporate middlemen to administer our public option for older Americans and people with disabilities, Kushner’s “direct contracting” model props up the corporate health care industry. President Biden can — and must — stop this attack on Medicare now. Stop enriching private corporations at the expense of our health care!
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  • Shame on Supreme Court!
    When the 1 percent of the 1 percent have more of a voice than millions of Americans, we're no longer operating in a democracy.
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  • Investigate Sen. Ron Johnson for January 6th!
    During the Jan. 6th hearings, we learned that a US senator may have set out a roadmap to overturn the election — and so far, he’s getting away with it. We can’t let that happen. Senator Ron Johnson’s staff delivered a fake slate of electors to former Vice President Pence so that Pence could overturn President Biden’s victory, a former White House aide alleged last week. If the allegations prove to be true, Sen. Johnson took an active role to overturn the election, potentially overthrowing democracy in America. He must be held accountable. Congress must investigate Sen. Ron Johnson for his active role in overturning the 2020 election! We already knew the Wisconsin senator was doing Trump’s dirty work at the expense of our democracy. Just weeks before the January 6th insurrection, Johnson held a congressional hearing on election fraud, perpetuating the right-wing conspiracy that the election had been stolen.Then, Johnson joined nine other senators in calling for an ​​“an emergency 10-day audit of the election.” But we didn’t know just how far Ron Johnson was willing to go to undermine the US electoral apparatus. Now that there is reason to believe Johnson delivered fake electors to Pence, Congress needs to conduct an investigation. Otherwise, the message to the far-right will be clear: there are no consequences for trying to subvert free and fair elections.
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  • End corporate tax loopholes!
    Tesla will pay $0 in federal taxes this year despite recording a record profit of $5.5 billion in 2021 thanks to existing corporate tax loopholes and the company’s “creative” accounting. That’s unacceptable. Tesla is headquartered in the United States and its 2021 profits secured CEO Elon Musk’s title as the world’s richest man. Yet the corporation will avoid all US corporate taxes because its enormous profits were recorded outside the US, while inside the US, the company reported a loss. For at least three years running, Tesla has avoided contributing to funding the social services and infrastructure that the US desperately needs. Congress must act now to make sure Tesla and other big corporations pay their fair share! Sign the petition to close the tax loopholes for the rich and powerful!
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  • Sign the petition: Tell Congress to pass the No Facial Recognition at the IRS bill!
    This year, it’s the IRS that made a mistake. When the IRS announced that they wanted taxpayers to submit to facial recognition technology just to access their tax information, the backlash from the public and politicians in both parties was swift! As a result, the IRS suspended it’s contract with ID.me, their facial recognition vendor. But that’s not enough. They could quietly reinstate that contract, or another one like it, anytime they’d like. That’s why Senators Roy Blunt and Jeff Merkley introduced the No Facial Recognition at the IRS bill – and in a deadlocked, divided Congress, it’s already got bipartisan support. We need to speak out now to help it become law. Sign the petition: Tell your member of Congress to pass the No Facial Recognition at the IRS bill! Facial recognition isn’t just creepy and invasive, it’s been well documented to have racial and gender biases – meaning that women and people of color have a harder time being accurately recognized by the software. No American taxpayer should have to jump through this unnecessary high-tech hoop just to access their tax information online. Especially when the technology itself has trouble telling women and people of color apart from each other. It’s telling that the No Facial Recognition bill already has bipartisan support in a bitterly divided Congress. The message is clear: emerging technologies, like facial recognition, are a Wild West, and without regulation could lead to dystopian consequences. Together, activists caused an uproar over the IRS’s use of facial recognition earlier this year. Now we must build on this momentum and make sure the IRS can’t do anything like this in the future. Sign the petition: Tell your member of Congress to pass the No Facial Recognition at the IRS bill!
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  • Expand the Supreme Court!
    Even if Democrats nominate and confirm the progressive Black woman Supreme Court justice this country needs, the far right will retain its supermajority on the court… and continue trumping the public interest and eroding our basic rights in the years to come. But the situation isn’t futile. Congress can pass legislation to rebalance the Supreme Court now, before Republicans have the chance to secure a Congressional majority in the midterms. It’s constitutional, it’s happened before, and it’s the only way to disrupt the dangerous path we’re on. Unless Congress acts now, before Republicans have the chance to secure a congressional majority in the midterms, the Supreme Court will keep handing down pro-business decisions for years to come.
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  • No new drilling! Use renewable energy to address gas prices.
    Oil and gas lobbyists are using Russia's invasion of Ukraine to push for a massive expansion of oil drilling here in the U.S. Pressure is building on the Biden Administration to ban oil imports from Russia. If that happens, gas prices may rise further. And that is leading Joe Manchin and the fossil fuel industry to use this crisis as a justification to massively expand fracking, offshore oil drilling, and other reckless practices at the expense of the climate. Yet it won't even produce enough oil to make a dent in rising costs. Our addiction to oil helped fund Vladimir Putin's war machine while also causing devastation here at home in the form of floods, fires, and scorching heat waves. The answer isn't to drill more oil. Instead we must finally start moving this country away from dependence on fossil fuels and taking bold action to address the climate crisis. Will you speak out now in this urgent moment?
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  • Tax billionaires now!
    By taxing just 0.01% of American households, experts estimate the tax will raise around $360 billion over the next decade. That’s federal money that can go towards public programs that help us all, including education, healthcare, childcare, climate resiliency, and more. A billionaire’s tax is the only way to rein in the American oligarchy, and reallocate funds to where we sorely need them: healthcare, housing, the Child Tax Credit, and government initiatives to counter the runaway corporate power that enriches billionaires in the first place. It’s the ideal time to slap a tax on Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and the rest of the billionaires. Congress needs to hear from you — President Biden’s new billionaire’s tax proposal must pass! Sign the petition: Congress must approve President Biden’s new billionaire’s tax!
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