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Today Western Union publicly announced it is abandoning its proposed merger with Intermex. The split follows a review by Secretary @ChopraUSA and @CaliforniaDFPI, who imposed conditions on the deal requiring the firms to prevent fraud and preserve competitive access. Rather than agree to these conditions, Western Union walked away. It's a good reminder that many state laws give state regulators the responsibility to review, block, or condition mergers, especially in sectors like financial services, insurance, and utilities. In New York, for example, @NYDFS is charged with assessing whether certain proposed mergers are contrary to the public interest. As newly elected state officials take the helm in coming months, they will have significant opportunity to use and activate all their tools to halt corporate abuse and make life better for working people. dfpi.ca.gov/press_release/ca…

If progressives put even 10% of the energy into state legislatures that we put into Congress, the movement would be in far better shape. Several states now have new Democratic trifectas. Trump can veto whatever comes out of Washington. Those legislatures can deliver real wins right now. They can also act as laboratories, testing new progressive policy at the state level so it's proven and ready when we win a national trifecta. The math is good too. Legislative races cost a fraction of a congressional race, and every one we win builds the bench: leaders with governing experience, a track record, and name recognition who will be much stronger congressional candidates down the road.

Exactly

DSA is NOT the Democratic Base. Black people are. Take that POC bullshit out of here.

I get that, but his post is about the scale of the Dem majority -- all people who did not campaign on this bill and don't support it. That's my objection.

WaPo: Democratic Socialists Will Hold Dozens of Elected Offices The Democratic Socialists of America, a growing force in progressive politics that has also emerged as a political lightning rod, secured eight seats in the House. Democratic socialists will serve as mayor of the country’s capital and its two largest cities. And come January, the movement’s explosive growth will also stretch much further: At least 54 DSA-endorsed state lawmakers will serve across 19 states washingtonpost.com/politics/…

The Democrat Caucus this morning is shook folks….. they honestly thought we’d check out after Tuesday and they could go back to business as usual! Keep holding them accountable and stay engaged, read every bill and do not accept any form of gaslighting! Keep track of any democrat that even looks like they want to play footsie with the right!

well THAT explains why DAC REFUSED to vote to IMPEACH PETE HEGSETH 🤬 WE NEED TO VOTE THESE DO-NOTHING DEMONS OUT OF OUR PARTY‼️🔥🔥

Notice how Dems are getting scorched for missing the vote. Not a cult.

Bernie 👏🏾Sanders👏🏾is 👏🏾NOT 👏🏾A 👏🏾MUTHAFUCKIN 👏🏾DEMOCRAT HE 👏🏾DOESNT 👏🏾GET 👏🏾A👏🏾 VOTE

200 yards and 2 TDs vs a team with there entire roster on IR How impressive

Y’all do know that yesterday’s vote was NOT a vote to impeach Pete Hegseth, right? It was a procedural vote on whether to REFER the articles of impeachment to the Judiciary Committee. A YES vote meant sending the articles to committee rather than proceeding immediately with impeachment. A NO vote meant rejecting that procedural maneuver so the impeachment effort could potentially move forward. Nobody voted on whether to actually impeach Pete Hegseth yesterday. And yes, I understand why some of y’all are upset that several Democrats got stuck in traffic and missed the vote. The vote was reportedly open for approximately 23 minutes, and some members arrived after it closed. But even if those Democrats had made it and defeated the referral motion, that STILL would not have meant Pete Hegseth was impeached. The House would have needed to vote on the actual articles. We can discuss accountability without misrepresenting what happened. The misinformation on this app is dangerous, especially when people are repeating things they clearly do not understand. Learn the difference between a procedural vote and a substantive vote before telling everybody what Congress did.

Hi Matt. I’m more than a little confused by this critique. Even folks who just had a passing knowledge of @AbdulElSayed’s campaign know that his slogan was about 3 things: Money out of politics, money in your pocket & Medicare for all. Whether you (or other Democrat Senators or anyone, really) disagree with that is irrelevant to the facts that those were the things he explicitly campaigned on. Do you truly believe that given the above facts, he should simply pretend that is not what he campaigned on? Or, alternatively, that he should acknowledge that despite campaigning on those ideals, he’s abandoning them days after the election because he won by 7 and other Democratic candidates won by 9? Lastly, I understand you always seem to be focused on maximizing electability and far less focused on maximizing enacting actual reforms, but given your (and others) focus on electability concerns, isn’t right now—literally the furthest out from the next election we possibly could be—the best possible time to raise these issues?

This is coming from a guy who was an army vet in Baghdad + taking a seat in Congress Jan 3 & believing you can bring a regime to the table is right on script.