"We need an economy that reflects the realities of 2026, not one stuck over a decade ago," said the newly sworn-in Rep. Analilia Mejía, who helped lead the campaign to raise wages in her home state of New Jersey.
There’re soft power advantages even for a Bill with an expected 1% chance of passing (GovTrack):
It widens the Overton Window, challenging the neoliberal status quo.
It organizes the 100+ organizations supporting it into a coalition.
It forces Republicans to vote against a bill popular with Democrats, young people, and minority voters.
I’d rather have Democrats doing this type of strategy over sitting on their hands while they have no power. When it fails loudly in a hostile Congress it may accomplish more than a watered-down bill that quietly passes.
Obama promised to codify Roe into law and didn’t do so even though he had a supermajority.
Dems may not say it, but they love that abortion’s an issue that they can fundraise off of, and they have no intention of making it explicitly legal nationwide.
It’s not going to pass; and they’re future faking (again!) to get people to vote for genocide.
There’re soft power advantages even for a Bill with an expected 1% chance of passing (GovTrack):
I’d rather have Democrats doing this type of strategy over sitting on their hands while they have no power. When it fails loudly in a hostile Congress it may accomplish more than a watered-down bill that quietly passes.
The right wing in America kept trying to pass anti-abortion laws for decades even though they were obviously unconstitutional, and here we are…
Obama promised to codify Roe into law and didn’t do so even though he had a supermajority.
Dems may not say it, but they love that abortion’s an issue that they can fundraise off of, and they have no intention of making it explicitly legal nationwide.
Why is that? How many times could Dems have codified RvW, since SCOTUS ruled on it? Why didn’t they?
Yup.