First Amendment rights, worker’s rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, reproductive rights... This is just some of what we’re at risk of losing if an authoritarian president takes office and enacts the plans in Project 2025.
"We are sleepwalking towards theocracy."
There are dangerous ideas being tested at the state level. The far-right extremists behind Project 2025 want to take them nationwide.
State Rep.
@JamesTalarico
is sounding the alarm 🚨
.
@Fred_Guttenberg
lost his daughter, Jaime, at the tragic school shooting in Parkland, FL.
5 years later, we remember her life and demand gun control.
Now.
Doug Jones’ victory tonight shows that even in deep red Alabama, Americans across the country are rejecting Trump’s agenda, including his attacks on women, reproductive rights, immigrants, and the LGBT community.
"We must not only overturn Citizens United, and end voter suppression, and extreme gerrymandering, but we must move towards automatic voter registration" -
@SenSanders
#CAPIdeas
Daniel was 15 when he was killed in the Columbine High School shooting, after two students were able to purchase firearms through the “gun show loophole.”
25 years later, his father continues to honor Daniel's memory by fighting for gun reform:
The
#TrumpShutdown
by the numbers:
420,000 federal workers forced to work without pay
380,000 federal workers will be sent home without pay
80% of all federal employees live outside of DC/Maryland/Virginia
Yesterday, the president declared the coronavirus a national emergency, invoking the Stafford Act. Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.
"We must have the courage to confront the oligarchy, to break up the oligarchy, to restore the power to the many and not the few" -
@SenSanders
#CAPIdeas
The consequences of a run-in with the law can persist for decades after a sentence has been served. People with records face major barriers to employment, housing and education, effectively condemning them to second-class citizenship.
Enter
#CleanSlate
.
"The simple fact is that in the US today, at a time of unprecedented income and wealth inequality, we have a very small number of people...who have extraordinary power over our economic, political, and social life" -
@SenSanders
#CAPIdeas
The average SNAP benefit amounts to $1.40 per meal, per person. But with their latest proposed cut, the Trump administration has made it clear they think that’s too much.
Go to to tell them any cut to SNAP is unacceptable.
#HandsOffSNAP
The Israeli army entered Gaza’s southern city of Rafah this morning after having ordered roughly 100,000 Palestinians to evacuate yesterday.
In response,
@PatrickGaspard
, president and CEO of CAP, issued the following statement:
Trump and the Department of Justice are trying to seize private land across South Texas to build his pointless wall — all while failing to protect the country from the pandemic.
@RickyAGarza
with
@TXCivilRights
explains how South Texans are fighting back:
The Ukraine extortion scheme doesn’t just implicate President Trump.
It also implicates Guiliani, Pence, Barr, Pompeo, Mulvaney, Mnuchin, Perry, and Vought.
We have questions 👇
Breaking news from the American Bar Association: The Equal Rights Amendment is the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and gender equality is the law of the land.
The ERA should be implemented immediately.
Resolution number 601, urging governments to support implementation of the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution in accordance with Article V of the Constitution, is adopted. Full text here:
#ABAAnnual
.
@SenatorTester
: “The truth is rural America’s values are things like accessible healthcare and good paying jobs and affordable education. Those are our values, and quite frankly, they are progressive values. And they are exactly the values we all need to fight for.”
#CAPideas
Today,
@SenSchumer
and 34 co-sponsors introduced the No Kings Act, which would reaffirm that presidents do not have immunity for actions that violate federal criminal law and clarify that Congress, not the Supreme Court, decides how to apply federal criminal laws.
"If [people] are not seen and not heard, then the policies that are passed do not reflect their needs.”
@StaceyAbrams
breaks down the devastating impacts of voter suppression at
#CAPideas
:
Today, Democrats in the House and Senate proposed bold anti-corruption legislation to ban lobbyists from fundraising for politicians. Hear how this will make Congress more responsive and accountable to people:
"I'm used to being the only person like me in the room. I'm used to being the only woman in the room sometimes, the only Native woman, the only LGBTQ person."
—
@RepDavids
discusses the importance of diversity and representation at
#CAPideas
People with records face major barriers to employment, housing and education.
#CleanSlate
clears certain records for those people who have remained crime-free, and gives them a fresh start.
On any given day, children are detained at the border in cages without soap, blankets, or even toothbrushes. Here are some of their stories, in their own words.
It is time to close the camps and protect children.
These allegations against Alito, if true, would be a damning indictment on an institution that portrays itself as being beyond politics.
There is an urgent need for a binding and enforceable code of ethics.
Wow, moderators just asked the first question about people with disabilities at a
#DemDebate
.
Here are 10 disability policy questions every presidential candidate should answer:
Today, President-elect Joe Biden unveiled his first legislative package — the American Rescue Plan — to get control of the coronavirus pandemic and provide critical financial relief to the American people, states and localities, and small businesses.
Even as the lives they've built in America are at stake, Dreamers continue to be hopeful and strive to make an impact in their communities. Tell Congress to pass a
#DreamActNow
and
#ProtectDreamers
.
@RepJoeKennedy
is truly reminding the room of the very real consequences of our broken health care system on the public, from children to veterans.
#CAPIdeas
No one should be condemned to a life of poverty. That's why
@MalcolmJenkins
supports
#CleanSlate
legislation that will eliminate barriers to employment, housing & opportunity for people restarting their lives.
Making progress is great.
Seeing progress in your community is even better.
You can track the real-time impacts made possible by President Joe Biden's landmark legislation with the Biden Administration Investment Tracker:
It’s been 232 years since the Supreme Court was first assembled, and 115 justices later, we are now celebrating the confirmation of the first-ever Black woman to grace the bench, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Watch
@PatrickGaspard
on this historic moment:
NEW: U.S. Census Bureau finds that public investments passed by Congress and the Biden administration kept millions of people out of poverty in 2021.
More here:
Jesus Contreras, a Houston-area paramedic, has felt called to service since he was young. Without DACA, he never would have been able to serve his country.
Hear, in Jesus's own words, why we need a Dream Act now.
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Everybody votes for a reason. What’s yours?
In an economic crisis like
#COVID19
, for every $1 spent, SNAP puts as much as $1.80 back into the economy.
But Congress hasn’t increased it. That has to change.
#SNAPMatters
We’re thrilled to welcome
@PatrickGaspard
as President and CEO of the Center for American Progress. Together, we will push through a progressive agenda now and develop the next progressive agenda for the years ahead.
Oscar Ramos is a second grade teacher in California who has been fighting to ban a pesticide that causes brain damage in children. Today, a federal court officially ordered the ban.
Donald Trump’s expanded public charge rule would put green cards at risk for immigrant families like
@neeratanden
’s, who turned to programs like Medicaid and SNAP.
There are only weeks left to submit comments opposing this rule. Act now.
"This has never been about life. This has always been about controlling women."
State Rep.
@JamesTalarico
on the consequences Texas women have been forced to endure since Roe v. Wade was overturned: