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We are a progressive grassroots political party building a multiracial, feminist movement of working people to transform America.

Joined September 2008
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
6 months
Move in this moment with urgency and compassion. Keep contacting your representatives and voicing your support for a #CeaseFireNOW . -This tool allows you to email your representative: -Text CEASEFIRE to 30403 to call your reps.
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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Canceling up to $50,000 of student loan debt per borrower would immediately increase the wealth of Black Americans by 40%.
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Jacobin
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Starbucks has spent an estimated $240 million on union busting. It didn’t work.
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Axios
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Senate passes $886 billion defense bill
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Working Families Party 🐺
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Fact.
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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. @AyannaPressley bringing some #JoyToThePolls this morning!
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@WorkingFamilies
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Elon Musk, who just bought Twitter for $44 billion, paid $0 in federal income taxes in 2018, and between 2014 and 2018 had a true tax rate of 3.27%.
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Working Families Party 🐺
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BREAKING: We’re endorsing @BernieSanders for president! WFP supporters nationwide are mobilizing to help Bernie win so we can defeat Trump and build an America that works for the many, not the few. Sign up and let us know you’re in: 1/
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ahem
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@WorkingFamilies
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"If the minimum wage had been raised in pace with productivity growth, like it was until the 1980s, the minimum wage today would be over $24 an hour."
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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Louise Linton, wife of foreclosure bankster @stevenmnuchin1 tagged brands on her Instagram. We tagged how she bought them.
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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Defund the police.
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@WorkingFamilies
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we all deserve more
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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🗣️ WE DID. ABOLISH THE FILIBUSTER.
@dscc
Senate Democrats
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🗣 ELECT DEMOCRATS TO PROTECT ABORTION RIGHTS!
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@WorkingFamilies
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hm
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@GOP
GOP
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62 percent of Americans report living paycheck to paycheck.
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@WorkingFamilies
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The climate crisis is already here.
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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Just a casual FYI, the U.S. loses out on $1,000,000,000,000 (that's one trillion dollars) yearly in unpaid taxes mostly due to tax evasion by the wealthy and corporations. But sure, low income people wanting groceries and healthcare is the problem.
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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@Variety We fixed it.
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@WorkingFamilies
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Ahem.
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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This nomination is illegitimate and must be rejected.
@thehill
The Hill
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JUST IN: Majority in new poll says Supreme Court vacancy should be filled by election winner
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@Newsweek
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What your vacation says about your social class
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Working Families Party 🐺
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"I reject the idea that universal health care is impossible. All of these things are possible. I want a 2020 candidate that says we can do these things, we can be audacious." - @AOC
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@WorkingFamilies
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Voters elected Democrats to deliver more relief, not less.
@AOC
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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If conservative Senate Dems institute a lower income threshold in the next round of checks, that could potentially mean the first round of checks under Trump help more people than the first round under Biden. Do we want to do that? No? Then let’s stop playing & just help people.
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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I think the eclipse is trying to tell us something
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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The Working Families Party is proud to announce our endorsement of @ewarren for president in the Democratic primary. #WFP2020 #WFP4Warren
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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Yes, Fox News. You uncovered our not-secret, very popular agenda: ✴️ $15 minimum wage & millions of new jobs ✴️ Cancel student debt & no bailouts for billionaire CEOs ✴️ Health care & affordable housing for all Sound good to you too? Read more & sign on:
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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The increasing incitement against @IlhanMN by Trump and Republicans is abhorrent and dangerous and should be forcefully opposed and condemned by all. Now is no time for silence. We must fight hate with solidarity. #StandWithIlhan
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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NEW: @AOC on why we need as many New Yorkers as possible to vote for Biden/Harris on the @NYWFP line this year. Learn more and say you'll #VoteWFP at or text PLEDGE to 30403
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
3 years
First, Kyrsten Sinema campaigned for lower drug prices. Then, Big Pharma donated $750,000 to Kyrsten Sinema. Now, Kyrsten Sinema is blocking a bill to lower drug prices. Follow 💸 The 💰 Money 💲
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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Does no one want to work anymore, or does no one want your poverty wage job opening that offers no benefits?
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@WorkingFamilies
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Retweet if you’re okay actually with not having your shows for a while if it means the people who write them get paid a fair wage.
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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. @AOC has won her re-election for Congress. In just two terms, she has become one of the most powerful voices in Congress, leading the charge for the progressive policies necessary to build the future we deserve.
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@WorkingFamilies
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If your business relies on underpaying and exploiting your workers, your business shouldn’t exist.
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"It's not a left or a right thing. It's a worker's thing. It's a worker's issue. The people are the ones that make these corporations go. It's not the other way around." -The president of @amazonlabor speaking before the Senate Budget Committee
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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It's not a worker shortage, it's a wage shortage. It's not a worker shortage, it's a healthcare shortage. It's not a worker shortage, it's a paid sick leave shortage. It's not a worker shortage, it's a child care and elder care shortage.
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@JoshKraushaar
Josh Kraushaar
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My latest column: Three members of AOC’s socialist “squad” are facing competitive primaries against more-moderate candidates. It’s another sign that the left’s influence is waning in a Biden-led Democratic Party. (link is FREE)
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@WorkingFamilies
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Forced birth in a country with no paid leave. Forced birth in a country that values guns over children. Forced birth in a country with no free healthcare. Forced birth in a country with high maternal mortality rates. Forced birth in a country with no universal childcare.
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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George Floyd should be alive.
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Working Families Party 🐺
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@conzmoleman hello to this person's employees
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"Our job is to legislate. Our job is to help people. Our job is to do as much as we can." - @AOC today
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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Now legalize weed, expunge all records, end the war on drugs, and invest in the communities harmed by mass incarceration.
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@WorkingFamilies
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If you can't feed a family on minimum wage, it shouldn't be the minimum wage.
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Expel them.
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NEW: @Brandon4Chicago has won his election for mayor of Chicago. This is a win for the history books. Brandon Johnson just defeated a wave of far-right money and misinformation thanks to people power and his positive vision for a safe and thriving Chicago.
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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Congrats @IlhanMN !! Conservative Dems just took swings at three women of color, and went zero for three. #TheSquad and their new transformational brand of leadership is officially here to stay and we are proud to be in this fight alongside them every day.
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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. @MaxwellFrostFL has won his race for Congress, making him the first Gen Z member elected. Maxwell ran on a bold platform of healthcare for all, ending gun violence, creating good green jobs - and working people turned out to make sure he gets it done
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"I'm not running a race that has been shaped by a bunch of consultants. I'm not offering a bunch of proposals carefully designed not to offend big donors. I'm running a race based on a lifetime of fighting for working families." - @ewarren tonight
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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Good news: Michigan has officially become the first state in nearly 60 years to repeal its anti-union right-to-work law.
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"I'm a #Matthew25 Christian, that's what I am: I was hungry and you fed me. I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink… Love your neighbor, and for me that means you don't get rid of your neighbor's healthcare." - @ReverendWarnock #GAsenatedebate
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@WorkingFamilies
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Kids: Our parents can’t afford to feed us. Minnesota: Ok, here’s free lunch for all students. Arkansas GOP:
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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Congratulations to @BernieSanders on his hard-fought popular vote victory in Iowa. With 99% of delegates still to go, this race is just getting started — but it's clear that progressive candidates & ideas have the momentum. We'll be going all out to fight for @ewarren in NH… 1/
@BernieSanders
Bernie Sanders
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I want to thank the people of Iowa for the very strong victory they gave us at the Iowa caucuses on Monday night. Some 6,000 more Iowans came out to support us than any other candidate. With eight strong candidates competing, that is a decisive margin of victory.
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No matter which candidate you support or oppose, there is no place for this type of belittling, dismissive attack on their staff. We hope there will be an apology to @briebriejoy and @ninaturner .
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@WorkingFamilies
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Charles Booker is running for a U.S. Senate seat against Rand Paul. We're endorsing him.
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@WorkingFamilies
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Today and every other day Tax. The. Rich
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@WorkingFamilies
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BREAKING: Capitol Police begins arrests of people peacefully protesting #GOPTaxScam Watch live:
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@WorkingFamilies
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TurboTax spent millions in lobbying to prevent an IRS Free File program and employs deceptive tactics to hide their free program and get people to pay. You don't have to give them your money. The free government program is online at
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@WorkingFamilies
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Reader, he bought this website for $44 billion instead.
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Legalize weed, expunge all prior records, end the war on drugs.
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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Tax billionaires. Pass it on.
@NYGovCuomo
Archive: Governor Andrew Cuomo
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Masks work. Pass it on.
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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Because it’s cool 😌
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If you can't feed a family on minimum wage, it shouldn't be the minimum wage.
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Guess that's a no then
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@AP_Politics
AP Politics
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BREAKING: Summer Lee wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District. #APRaceCall at 9:21 p.m. EDT.
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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Last night, the House passed a $768,000,000,000 defense bill - $24 billion over what was requested and an increase from the previous year despite ending a war. But explain how investments in paid family leave, housing, care work, and education is too much one more time.
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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The House voted for $2,000 checks by a two-thirds, bipartisan majority. With just days left in this Congress, the Senate must act NOW. Call your Senators at (202) 224-3121 and demand they vote on the $2,000 direct payment legislation already passed overwhelmingly by the House.
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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. @BernieSanders has suspended his presidential campaign and endorsed @JoeBiden . But in Ohio and other remaining primary states, we believe a vote for Bernie is still the best way to build progressive power. Here's some of the reasons why:
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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Chart paper mood.
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imagine claiming we don’t have the funds to combat the climate crisis we’re already in while at the same time investing $886 billion in the Pentagon yearly.
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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As @JohnLeguizamo says: Tell your cousins, your uncle, tu tía, tu abuela, to vote on November 6th! #GentePrimero
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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Duvan Tomas Perez, killed working in a poultry plant. Michael Schuls, killed working at a logging company. Will Hampton, killed working at a landfill. This is why child labor laws exist. Companies can't be allowed to turn to kids when adults refuse to work for poverty wages.
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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On the first day of Women’s History Month, let us just be clear: trans women are women. Trans leaders like Marsha P. Johnson and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy should be honored as women activists this month just as much as white suffragettes like Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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Working Families Party 🐺
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❤️ Philly
@EllieRushing
Ellie Rushing
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West Philly reacts to Biden’s lead in Pennsylvania by dancing in the street, of course
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Working Families Party 🐺
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There is no labor shortage.
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oh my god he admit it
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@WorkingFamilies
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It's beautiful to see 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
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Fixed it.
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ahem................CANCEL STUDENT DEBT.
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Things you can thank a union for: -Weekends -Breaks at work -Paid vacation -Minimum wage -An 8-hour workday -Overtime pay -Child labor laws -Sick leave -Employer-based health coverage Happy Labor Day.
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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do you guys ever think about how the U.S. loses out on $1,000,000,000,000 (that's one trillion) yearly in unpaid taxes mostly due to tax evasion by the wealthy and corporations and how that could be invested in public services that allow people who aren’t rich to live well
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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Resignation is not accountability.
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As more evidence emerges, a short list of some of those who have been identified as participants in the white supremacist insurrection at the United States Capitol on January 6th (thread): 1/
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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No war with Iran
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Working Families Party 🐺
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"I am proudly voting for the Biden-Harris ticket on the @NYWFP line." - @AOC #VoteWFP
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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If Republicans honestly believed this they would not be preaching austerity, blocking aid to states and cities, and ensuring that we lose millions more jobs. They took care of billionaires and they want the rest of us to suffer.
@Jim_Jordan
Rep. Jim Jordan
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The best stimulus? A job.
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If you can't feed a family on minimum wage, it shouldn't be the minimum wage.
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@WorkingFamilies
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We stand with @IlhanMN
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“Unskilled” labor is a myth created to justify paying people poverty wages. Low wage workers are not unskilled, they’re just underpaid.
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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Thank you @RashidaTlaib @IlhanMN @CoriBush @AOC @AyannaPressley @JamaalBowmanNY for continuing to #HoldTheLine for what Black, brown, indigenous and working class people across this country need and deserve.
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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Tomorrow, Jeff Bezos is using his mass amount of wealth to launch himself into space from a base in Van Horn, Texas. Van Horn, where 29.5% of people are living below the poverty line. Tomorrow in Van Horn, many families will struggle to put food on the table. Tax the rich.
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@WorkingFamilies
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We’re excited to work for working families with you too, @ewarren !
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"We need to rework our criminal justice system. But we cannot just say that criminal justice is the only time we want to talk about race." - @ewarren #DemDebate
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Working Families Party 🐺
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Ohio: let's bring it home for @ninaturner .
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BREAKING: @Brandon4chicago advances to the runoff for Mayor of Chicago! A teacher, organizer, and commissioner, Brandon Johnson is a battle-tested leader who is committed to advancing economic justice, championing working families, and building a stronger, more equitable city.
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Working Families Party 🐺
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BREAKING: @RashidaTlaib has won her primary election for Congress in Michigan.
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@shannonrwatts
Shannon Watts
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. @RepBoebert as the mob of domestic terrorists descended on the Capitol: “Madam Speaker, I have *constituents* outside this building right now. I promised my voters to be their voice."
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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We are proud to endorse the #Cville2DC march
@womensmarch
Women's March
7 years
Women's March is proud to be part of a coalition marching 100+ miles from Charlottesville to DC. Join us! #Cville2DC
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Working Families Party 🐺
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OHIO! We're getting @ninaturner elected tomorrow. What's your voting plan?
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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. @RashidaTlaib was right.
@RashidaTlaib
Rashida Tlaib
6 years
Why am I running? Because this is about electing the jury to impeach @POTUS and I will make a heck of juror.
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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BREAKING: @kendraforPhilly WINS City Council At-Large seat, becoming the first third party — WORKING FAMILIES PARTY — candidate to win a seat on Philadelphia City Council! #WFPnotGOP
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@WorkingFamilies
Working Families Party 🐺
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. @AOC is spot on. In Democratic primaries, @AIPAC uses Republican dollars to attack candidates who believe in Medicare for All, universal childcare, tuition-free college, and so much more. In general elections, it backs extremist insurrectionists who undermine our democracy.
@AOC
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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AIPAC endorsed scores of Jan 6th insurrectionists. They are no friend to American democracy. They are one of the more racist and bigoted PACs in Congress as well, who disproportionately target members of color. They are an extremist organization that destabilizes US democracy.
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If you think poverty isn't a policy choice then why has the minimum wage been at the same level for 12 years?
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