Jake Johnson Posts

"Congress should act to restore taxes on the wealthy and limit further democracy-distorting concentrations of wealth and power."

"Manchin represents a state that is 1/22 the population of California and 92% white, yet he can singlehandedly block policies supported by 70-80% of Americans."

"No matter how many PR statements Big Business puts out, its complicity with the antidemocratic forces that want to make voting harder is clear."

"We have so much to look forward to, so much promise and potential of where we are and so much reason for hope, but right now I'm scared."

"We estimate that 36% of federal income taxes unpaid are owed by the top 1%."

"Surprising advocates, legislators, and voters with a nearly 100-page bill is undemocratic and unacceptable."

Manchin floated a return to the talking filibuster, which would represent a major change to the current "no-show filibuster" that allows obstruction via email.

"When Sen. Johnson voted to cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans, he didn't force staff to read the bill. But now that working people need help, he's forcing a delay."

"Five million Texans are without power tonight and temperatures are below freezing. People will most certainly die tonight because of it. But Gov. Abbott had time to go on Sean Hannity to blame the Green New Deal."

"It says so much about how utterly rigged the system is that it takes a team of lawyers to figure out some hail-mary-pass way to raise the minimum wage."

"This would save over $250 billion, which should be repurposed to help Americans who have lost income due to the pandemic and its economic fallout."

"McConnell is already abusing the filibuster to block the constitution of the new majority. Nuking the filibuster is the appropriate response."

"He shouldn't just be impeached or removed from office. He should be in jail."

"Recurring survival checks, union jobs that pay a living wage, guaranteed healthcare, racial justice, voting rights, immigration reform, climate action, reproductive justice, education, and much more. It can't wait!"

"When you stand up and you say that working class families need some help, 'Oh my god, the world is gonna collapse.'"

"Funny enough, they never take issue with doubling down on corporate bailouts and tax cuts for the wealthy."

"McConnell is making it pretty clear that if Dems don't win the Georgia Senate races, he will cripple the American economy, hoping it will let the GOP win the midterm."

"Constitutional law professor says it doesn't matter what Trump says if the Electoral College votes for Biden."

"We expected Trump and Republicans to try every trick in the book to cling to power. Join the movement to stop a constitutional crisis."

"He's saying it out loud: he wants courts to block legally cast ballots from being counted."