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The 99ers Push Back: Will Democrats Step Up? (crooksandliars)

The radically anti-middle class agenda had a very bad day yesterday, as the
people fighting for us 99 percent won some very big battles. Voters in Maine
dumped a right-wing push to cut back on voting rights. Voters in Mississippi
said no to the profoundly radical attempt to give every zygote personhood
rights. Voters in Arizona recalled the author of the anti-immigrant, anti-
Constitutional rights bill allowing police to stop any driver who looked like
they might be an immigrant. Voters in Michigan recalled a far-right state
legislator there. And voters in Ohio decisively stood up for the middle class
and said no to radical anti-unionism. Northeast, Midwest, Deep South,
Southwest: it was a good day to be an American if you value community,
equality, democracy, and the middle class and those working to climb their way
into it.

These were not partisan victories, as big numbers of independents and even a
fair number of Republicans voted the right way in many of these elections. But
they were movement victories that took old fashioned street-level organizing
and great communications and messaging work. They showed what the progressive
movement can do when we stand in solidarity with ...

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