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Eileen Swirsky's avatar

Sit-ins should be done in every state Capital. Shut the country down in protest!!

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Mary's avatar

For sure

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Sharyn  Lowenkamp's avatar

I agree more sit ins. If I lived closer to DC I would have gotten in my car and joined them.

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Joanne's avatar

I saw this covered on TV! I’m from Jersey and I watch Cory Booker every chance I get. He’s always done right by us! It was especially interesting with the participants outside on the steps. I didn’t know what I stumbled on (missed the beginning) so this post is appreciated!

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Laurie Stricks's avatar

What Jeffries and Booker did today was very important. We need to make sure that the real Americans impacted by these proposed draconian cuts are real to us all. They are not just numbers. They are our families and our neighbors.

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Margaret Orr's avatar

Yay! So well done! One of my daughters had complex medical needs. We had private insurance, but MassHealth (Medicaid) was the wrap around that covered what private insurance didnʻt. The difference it made was enormous. Thank you to the Little Lobbyists! Everyone in Congress and the Senate should be with you to fight for Medicaid. 💜

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TJ's avatar

I am a Special Education teacher. I have worked with wonderful children like Claire who just want to go to the prom like their peers. Honestly, it’s heartbreaking but also life affirming to be with these kids. The for-profit health insurance industry in the U.S. is designed to make money for its shareholders. That is why we need Medicaid. When oligarchs have more wealth than many small nations, they don’t need tax cuts. The cruelty of this administration must be stopped even though I know many Republicans are loving it.

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Sonia's avatar

This is being pro- life!

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Independent Thought's avatar

Thanks for reporting on this. I hope we continue to see more Democrats stepping up right now.

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Janice Dignum's avatar

A good old sit-in. Yay! The 60*s were something. I was too young to participate (and in another country), but I used to watch some of the news on TV with my parents. I stopped watching the news for years after the assassinations Came back years later when PMStephenHarper was CanadianPM - re #NorteLongTermDisabled. Started paying way more attention to US news when Trump got in. Been obsessively on Social Media ever since - to help bring the facts & fight the robber barons / fascists.

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MyNanaJan's avatar

We’re just preaching to the choir. People have been educated. Let’s fight at the front lines.

Challenge every Democratic legislator to glue themselves to a Republican legislator everyday and bombard them with questions as to why they are allowing this administration to destroy our country. Ask them the hard questions. Attend press conferences. Record and post every time they do this.  Then I will believe you care.

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Jackie's avatar

Went didn't Moore people know about this.

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Dorothy Lewis's avatar

This is it folks. United WE Stand. Divided…you know the outcome

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Heather Alison Cook's avatar

Thank you!

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Leslie's avatar
3dEdited

Heinous individuals who shout, “We are done with “WOKENESS.” Jesus was woke. He was inclusive, compassionate, respectful, kind, and a supporter of the widows, the poor, and disabled. He would go to the senate and overturn tables with how this regime is so corrupt and greedy. These monsters must be punished. I am woke. It means we have a soul.

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April Almelia's avatar

Let’s get our geriatric leaders out of power. They’re stuck 60+ years in the past.

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April Almelia's avatar

Corey Booker gives me the best vibes at a chance. AOC also but I know how the Democratic Party did Bernie 😢. I’m needing there to be non maga people running our house and senate. Start from the bottom up as scotus gave DT a pass for anything. They crowned him king so … we gotta start small.

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Tim Voigt's avatar

Booker - You go girl!!!

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