Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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2/ It already has, and will continue to if left uncorrected, begun to shrink the political base of progressivism. It is a serious surrender of moral authority, and a surrender of moral authority almost inevitably leads to a loss of political authority.
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1/ Treating people of faith as though their consideration of issues is too unsophisticated to be taken seriously has had a deeply deleterious effect on American politics:
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4/ ...Blacks make up 12% of the population but control 2% of the districts, and Asians make up 5% of the population but control 0% of the districts.
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3/ Voting rights expert Ari Berman explains that the new maps mean that whites make up 40% of the population but control 60% of the districts, Latinos make up 39% of the population but control 20% of the districts...
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2/ Ninety-five percent of Texas’s population growth in the past decade has come from Black, Latino, and Asian people, but the new maps dilute their voting power and strengthen that of white voters.
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1/ From Heather Cox Richardson's newsletter today: "The Department of Justice today sued the state of Texas for violating the Voting Rights Act, saying its aggressively gerrymandered new districts discriminate against minority voters.
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Way too simple. It’s not about being in or being out. It’s about taking responsibility for the horrors we perpetrated while we were there.
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Will be reading this…
"Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us" by @RoKhanna - Coming February 2022
More: spr.ly/6013JqVyF
A revolutionary roadmap to facing America’s digital divide, offering greater economic prosperity to all in an era in which technology shapes our lives.
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And some still don’t understand why people are so angry.
Starbucks workers' median pay: $12,113
Starbucks CEO compensation: $14.7 MILLION
If Starbucks can afford to pay its CEO over 1,200x what it pays its median workers, then yeah, I think they can afford to negotiate in good faith with workers organizing to join a union.
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