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From Racine to Rhinelander, everyone in Wisconsin deserves the freedom to make a good living and care for our families. However, the tax plan proposed by Republican legislative leadership---and likely being voted on 🚨TODAY🚨 in the Assembly--- would further rig the rules in favor of the wealthiest and make Wisconsin’s glaring racial disparities even worse. The four proposals leave everyday families even further behind because none of these tax proposals effectively target families who are struggling to make ends meet. Giving most of the nearly $2 billion per year to the wealthy makes it harder to invest in the critical resources low and middle-income families need: infrastructure, child care, health care, and schools. Read the statement we sent to the Governor and legislature here: https://ow.ly/Thil50QAF0o Read our community explainer on the issue here: https://ow.ly/Spu850QAF0q

Looking at this graph, I wonder if my 2014 plan to save the party could have stopped this downward trend when I ran for U.S. Senate.   In 2000, the Republican party was at its historical peak political power in Colorado. Today, it is at its lowest. State house, state senate, state executive branch, and federal seats are all held in the majority by anti-freedom and anti-common-sense politicians. With this much power, they can dictate their agenda unopposed.   In 2018, Proposition 112 was rejected by a vote of 55% to 45%. In 2019, despite its failure, newly elected Governor Jared Polis overrode the will of the people and signed into law SB 181. In 2023, the people spoke again in defeating Proposition HH, 59% to 41%. Undeterred, the legislature is again working to override the vote of the people.   The point is, to change the narrative we need to win elections. State house, state senate, governorship. Holding one of these seats is the key to maintaining a level of normalcy in the state. When we look at the problems surrounding government spending, illegal immigration, energy independence, education, parental rights, homelessness, crime, and drugs, we need to stop and change how we look at elections. We need to elect a candidate that will not only serve his constituents in D.C., but one that has a plan to impact local elections in reversing the downward trend of the party in the state.   Ten years ago, the political power in the state was even. Today, our party has zero power as we continue our infighting for scraps left by the opposing political party. I will share my plan on how, as a U.S. Congressman, I can use this influence in changing the political landscape in Colorado. A plan from ten years ago when I ran for U.S. Senate in 2014.   To do this, I need your help. I am challenging everyone, including employees of my oil and gas industry, to donate just $100 to my campaign. According to API, there are over 11 million U.S. based employees in the industry with supporters exceeding 50 million. Support of just 1% of the industry will allow me to implement my plan of representing my constituents in Colorado Congressional District 04, save Colorado, and educate the nation on the importance of what we do as an industry.   Please log on to the link below and donate just $100. After donation, please share with others that know the importance of what our industry does for this nation. Floyd Trujillo https://lnkd.in/gNqQ6E9t  

Looking at this graph, I wonder if my 2014 plan to save the party could have stopped this downward trend when I ran for U.S. Senate.   In 2000, the Republican party was at its historical peak political power in Colorado. Today, it is at its lowest. State house, state senate, state executive branch, and federal seats are all held in the majority by anti-freedom and anti-common-sense politicians. With this much power, they can dictate their agenda unopposed.   In 2018, Proposition 112 was rejected by a vote of 55% to 45%. In 2019, despite its failure, newly elected Governor Jared Polis overrode the will of the people and signed into law SB 181. In 2023, the people spoke again in defeating Proposition HH, 59% to 41%. Undeterred, the legislature is again working to override the vote of the people.   The point is, to change the narrative we need to win elections. State house, state senate, governorship. Holding one of these seats is the key to maintaining a level of normalcy in the state. When we look at the problems surrounding government spending, illegal immigration, energy independence, education, parental rights, homelessness, crime, and drugs, we need to stop and change how we look at elections. We need to elect a candidate that will not only serve his constituents in D.C., but one that has a plan to impact local elections in reversing the downward trend of the party in the state.   Ten years ago, the political power in the state was even. Today, our party has zero power as we continue our infighting for scraps left by the opposing political party. I will share my plan on how, as a U.S. Congressman, I can use this influence in changing the political landscape in Colorado. A plan from ten years ago when I ran for U.S. Senate in 2014.   To do this, I need your help. I am challenging everyone, including employees of my oil and gas industry, to donate just $100 to my campaign. According to API, there are over 11 million U.S. based employees in the industry with supporters exceeding 50 million. Support of just 1% of the industry will allow me to implement my plan of representing my constituents in Colorado Congressional District 04, save Colorado, and educate the nation on the importance of what we do as an industry.   Please log on to the link below and donate just $100. After donation, please share with others that know the importance of what our industry does for this nation. Floyd Trujillo  

These narratives hearken back to well-worn efforts to demonize families with low incomes, many of whom are headed by single women, and take away benefits that could help them make ends meet. But if people recognize them for what they are, we can make different—and better—choices. Our latest on the Child Tax Credit in Reckon. https://lnkd.in/eRyFvWTA

Plutocrats with Pitchforks: The Distinctive Politics of Right-Wing Populism in the United States - PDF: https://lnkd.in/g2JN7Wkc Right-Wing Populism is an international phenomenon, visible from England to Hungary, from Poland to Italy. But it is turning out to look very different in the United States—the one rich democracy where it has succeeded in gaining single-party majority power. To be sure, Trump’s nativist rhetoric and core constituency are not so different from that of right-wing populists abroad. His priorities in office, however, look very different. In other rich nations, animus toward non-white immigrants is typically paired with fervent defense of social benefits for white citizens. By contrast, the most consequential policy moves of Trump’s presidency have proved much less “populist” than “plutocratic”—fixated on helping the wealthiest Americans and, indeed, designed in ways that would have particularly dire effects for Trump’s most loyal working-class voters. Consider the two biggest Republican policy drives of Trump’s first year in office: the failed attempt to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act and the hugely regressive tax-cut bill designed to slash corporate taxes and open up lucrative new opportunities for the affluent to shield business and capital income from taxation. The former was barely defeated; the latter passed late in 2017 (Hacker and Pierson 2018). Both were radically inegalitarian: highly favorable toward corporate interests and super-wealthy donors and distinctly unfavorable toward non-urban white voters with modest incomes.  America’s peculiar marriage of populism and plutocracy defies a personalistic explanation. Yes, Trump is a billionaire, but his rhetoric and campaign priorities tilt much more toward standard right-wing populist themes: restriction on immigration and globalization, defense of the welfare state for white citizens, and claims of singular representation of “the people.” Trump’s inclinations are certainly part of the story—and his actions even more so—but Trump’s own policy priorities matter less than journalistic accounts would lead one to believe. Less misdirected but still incomplete are accounts that focus on the “Civil War” within the Republican Party—an alleged struggle between a tax-cutting, pro-business old guard and an anti-immigrant, rabble-rousing new guard, with Trump leading the upstarts (Alberta 2019). If the GOP is engaged in a war for the soul of the party, it is a strange sort of war in which both sides are advancing at once (Hertel-Fernandez et al. 2018; Skocpol and Tervo forthcoming).

I wanted to take the time today to encourage others to register to vote at https://vote.gov/. Rather than stating a myriad of reasons one should vote, I will focus only on one. The government controls so many aspects of our life, and voting is one of the very few times we can control the government. We can make a decision that is solely ours; we can control our own destiny. Whether you care deeply about reproductive rights or border security, voting is best way to create direct change. I understand that many people are not content with the two major presidential candidates. However, choosing not to vote in this election can have similar effects to voting for the other candidate, and this is truly one of the most elections of our lifetimes. Additionally, the vast majority of direct change on your life comes through statewide and local elections. These elections are just as important as, if not even more important than, national elections. 𝗪𝗲 are the employers, and 𝗪𝗲 get to choose who we want to hire. Register now, and choose who to hire for the most important job in the nation! If anyone wants to become better informed on the two major presidential candidates, below are some resources that go in-depth into their policies. Kamala Harris: https://lnkd.in/gXiDrWmS https://lnkd.in/gpi9HkKY https://lnkd.in/gSqv4ZrV Donald Trump: https://lnkd.in/gwMri6wf https://lnkd.in/ghYbU-i6 https://lnkd.in/gxPbRz3i

TRUMP ALLIES’ 920 PAGE PLAN TO GIVE TRUMP MORE POWER OVER YOUR DAILY LIFE, GUT DEMOCRATIC CHECKS AND BALANCES, AND CONSOLIDATE POWER IN THE OVAL OFFICE. Project 2025 is the plan by Donald Trump’s MAGA Republican allies to give Trump more power over your daily life, gut democratic checks and balances, and consolidate power in the Oval Office if he wins. Trump’s campaign advisors and close allies wrote it – and are doing everything they can to elect him so he can execute their playbook immediately. Here is a taste of Trump’s Project 2025: Takes Away Reproductive Freedom Nationwide Uses the Presidency for Revenge on Trump’s Political and Personal Enemies Consolidates Power in the Oval Office Guts Democratic Checks and Balances on Presidential Power Gives Handouts to the Ultra Wealthy Paid for by Working Families And Much, Much, Much More Where did Project 2025 come from? The highest levels of the MAGA Trump elite wrote Project 2025 as a blueprint for Trump to implement if he wins a second term. This same group of advisors and allies got Trump to adopt most of their agenda in 2017, but this time their Project 2025 agenda is even more extreme and dives into almost every aspect of Americans’ daily life. And they’ll be able to accomplish it by firing civil servants and installing loyalists into the federal government to do their bidding. Fortunately, we have access to it in time to warn America and stop their power grab. Don’t believe us? Check out the 920-page Project 2025 report on their website and read it in their own words. To break it down for you, here are some of the ways in which Donald Trump is planning to reach into your daily life and how his extreme MAGA allies are planning to consolidate power and steamroll democratic checks and balances to get it done. CONSOLIDATE PRESIDENTIAL POWER FOR TRUMP’S OWN REVENGE AND RETRIBUTION GUT GOVERNMENTAL CHECKS AND BALANCES TAKE AWAY YOUR ABILITY TO MAKE YOUR OWN HEALTH CARE DECISIONS BY RIPPING AWAY REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FROM EVERY AMERICAN, EVERYWHERE MORE TAX HANDOUTS TO THE ULTRA WEALTHY WHILE RAISING YOUR TAXES, TERMINATING YOUR HEALTHCARE AND CUTTING YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY AND MUCH, MUCH MORE. PAID FOR BY BIDEN FOR PRESIDENT

""We saw just how willing #Republicans are to sell out American families in order to continue giving trillions in tax cuts to price gouging corporations and the ultrarich," Boyle said. "And we saw just how hellbent they are on gutting critical programs—raising the cost of living and pushing the middle class out of reach for hardworking families."..."The commission is designed to slash vital earned benefits through a fast-track, closed-door process, intended to allow Republicans to avoid political accountability,"" #SocialSecurity #Medicare https://lnkd.in/exY4p-t2

I joined the Biden Administration in order to advance and implement badly needed investments in affordable housing and supportive services to solve the homelessness crisis, fulfill the rights of people with disabilities to fully live in the community, to help low-income older adults live as independently as possible and age in their homes (like my own 할머니 had the chance to do thanks to HUD-assisted housing), and redress the systemic inequities that face Black and Brown Americans in so many ways. We made significant progress with advancing those goals through temporary programs in the President’s American Rescue Plan. But sadly, when it came time to make some of those the longer term programs and proposals permanent, so many of our ideas were left on the cutting room floor due to, well, politics. President Biden’s FY 2025 Budget request to Congress is a demonstration that, even though Congress chose not to enact investments in affordable housing and home and community based services and so much more in what became the Inflation Reduction Act, the President and the Administration is not giving up on the belief that every American deserves a stable place to call home, that older Americans deserve to retire and age with dignity and maximum independence, that Americans with disabilities deserve to live without restraint and fully integrated, and that Americans who have faced a legacy of systemic injustice and racism should finally and truly have a fair chance to succeed. I encourage you to read through the Budget request and the fact sheets that explain these historic proposals: https://lnkd.in/eV6eYnmt

Sen. Crapo of Idaho is holding onto a piece of bipartisan legislation that is set to "nudge thousands of Idaho kids above the poverty line while spurring economic growth..." through the expansion of the child tax credit. Despite meetings from advocacy groups and bipartisan attempts at collaboration, offers which still stand today, Sen. Crapo continues to prevent this bill from seeing the Senate floor - 15 weeks after receiving the bill passed in the house by 357 votes. Regardless of what political game is being played in D.C., Idaho continues to experience growth and other challenges which are severely impacting Idaho families. While we do our best at the state level to help Idaho communities navigate these changes, we need our Senators and Representatives doing the same at the federal level. We urge fellow Idahoans to reach out to Sen. Crapo's office and let him know, as Idahoans, Idaho needs the continued support and improvements contained in the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act. https://lnkd.in/d7hnMVAb https://lnkd.in/dyfNYBrN