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Chuck Darwin“In <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kamala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kamala</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Harris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Harris</a> we have a chance to elect a president who is for the middle class because she is from the middle class,” progressive Rep <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ocasio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ocasio</a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/Cortez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cortez</a> said in her speech on Monday. “She understands the urgency of rent checks and groceries and prescriptions. She is as committed to our reproductive and civil rights as she is to taking on corporate greed.”Ocasio-Cortez issued a wholehearted endorsement of the new nominee, and she promised that, if elected, Harris would serve as a champion of the middle class. In his own convention speech, Senator <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bernie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bernie</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sanders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sanders</a> pledged that Democrats would use their governing power to “tax the rich”, “take on price gouging” and “expand Medicare”.The possibility of that change has animated progressives. “The energy is electrifying and it’s a lot of young folks,” the congresswoman <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pramila" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pramila</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jayapal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jayapal</a>, chair of the Congressional <a href="https://c.im/tags/Progressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Progressive</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/caucus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#caucus</a>, told the Guardian. “If you have young people, if you have progressives, Black, brown, Indigenous folks, working-class folks, that is actually the base that helps us to win because they are the ones that go door to door. They’re the ones that mobilize voters.”To deliver on the promises that progressives are seeking, Harris may have to distance herself from Biden in certain areas, especially climate and the war on Gaza. During his 2020 campaign, Biden embraced a sweeping climate agenda as he looked to reassure the millions of progressive voters who had not backed him in the primary. While Biden signed the most significant federal climate bill in history, the Inflation Reduction Act, however, failed to follow through on his campaign pledge of “no more drilling on federal lands”.Progressives hope Harris will stick to some of the promises that Biden made as a candidate but then walked back.“We cannot have that happen again,” <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jeff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jeff</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Merkley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Merkley</a>, a senator, told the Guardian. “We, as climate truth-tellers, have to be very present, very loud, very determined to say,❇️ ‘We will back you 1,000%, but you can’t keep expanding the fossil infrastructure.’”❇️ <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/22/progressive-harris-support-policy-expectations?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/22/progressive-harris-support-policy-expectations?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a>

Chuck DarwinThe main driver of wealth gains last year was from the stock market hitting record highs. While wages are increasing for average Americans, the top 1% is gaining wealth at a much faster pace. The wealth of U.S. <a href="https://c.im/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> is currently at $5.5 trillion, 🔸which is up 88% since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.🔸 The nation's rich accruing so much wealth in recent years has renewed calls for a <a href="https://c.im/tags/wealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wealth</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/tax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tax</a>. Sen. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Elizabeth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elizabeth</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Warren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Warren</a> (D-Mass), Rep. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pramila" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pramila</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jayapal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jayapal</a> (D-Wash.), and others are pushing to pass the ♦️Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act♦️, which would put a 2-cent tax on every dollar of wealth over $50 million. Warren referred to U.S. President Joe Biden calling for higher taxes on billionaires during his State of the Union when the bill was reintroduced earlier this month. <a href="https://www.alternet.org/wealth-of-the-top-1-in-us-hits-all-time-high-of-45-trillion/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.alternet.org/wealth-of-the-top-1-in-us-hits-all-time-high-of-45-trillion/</a>

Ramesh #NotGoingBack<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Suicidal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Suicidal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Democrats</a> attack <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Biden</a> over <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Houthi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Houthi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retaliation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retaliation</a> arguing that he violated the Constitution by not seeking congressional approval first 🙄 even though he notified Congress before the attacks"This is an unacceptable violation of the Constitution," <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pramila" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pramila</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jayapal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jayapal</a>, chairwoman of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CongressionalProgressiveCaucus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CongressionalProgressiveCaucus</a>. She wants to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FAFO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FAFO</a> in an election year!And find out she will, what "unacceptable violation of the Constitution" means when <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> is elected 😡<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67959375" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67959375</a>

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