Daily Dems Doing the Work, Making Noise and Fighting Back Day 283
It takes all different ways of fighting back
One of my favorite thing is showing all the different kinds of ways our Dems are fighting, and I think these four are a perfect example of different ways. Every fight adds up, and when we can acknowledge that, maybe people will stop saying Dems are in disarray.
Repping the Rep: Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Signed on to the bipartisan Metastatic Breast Cancer Access to Care Act, which Reps Andrew Garbarino (R-NY-02). Kathy Castor (D-FL-14), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA-01), and Judy Chu (D-CA-28) reintroduced back in March.
The bill would make sure patients get their benefits immediately. As Rep Cuellar put it:
Texans battling a life-threatening illness should not have to wait for the care and security they’ve earned.
Too many patients face long delays before they can access Social Security Disability and Medicare benefits.
This is a great representation of the importance of talking to our electeds and asking them to support something. This bill is over six months old and he just decided he wanted to co-sign it. Maybe he heard from a constituent, or thanks to the House being out of session again, he found something that had been on his desk.
There’s this assumption that if our Dems don’t sign on to something immediately that means they don’t care. Here’s an example of that not being the case.
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Rep Nanette Barragán (CA-44)
Joined YMCA at their food drive. In the video she shows a conversation with a Spanish speaking constituent as she puts the food in her car.
Now I’m sure some people think this is staged, as I saw in her comment section. To that I say, would you have rather not known at all? Or heard about it in a list of things she did this week? We need our Dems to post these kinds of things on social media.
And it’s so important to see that while Republicans are on vacation, while their constituents are literally starving, Dems are literally out there feeding them. It’s such an important contrast to show.
(OH-01)
Did what Rep Landsman does best: a really simplistic breakdown of what’s happening, or not happening in Congress.
He goes through the entire Shutdown in such a way that even the least politically aware person can understand and get very very angry.
I just think everyone needs to follow Rep Landsman if you aren’t already, cause he does this kind of breakdown for so many different subjects, and even I always feel like I have a better understanding after reading or watching them.
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Rep Teresa Leger Fernandez (NM-03)
like many other Dems is asking for her salary to be withheld, but she’s going one step further than others and showing her deposit reciept, which proves that her salary was, in fact, withheld.
I love this, it really shows that she didn’t just say it, she did it. We need more of that.
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So I hope this showed you a few ways Dems are fighting back.
If you made it to the end of this post, comment 🍇 (grapes) because I love seeing our Dems handing out food.
And if you watched or read any of these stories, comment 🧾(receipt) cause more Dems should be showing theirs.
Our voices are our superpower, but only when we use them!
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