How Progressives Can Go on the Offensive
Last week, I shared our response to the election, echoing Mother Jones’s famous rallying cry to “fight like hell” for a better future. This week, we’re spotlighting how ordinary people can do just that.
As Omar Ocampo reminds us, voters in Massachusetts recently passed a Fair Share Amendment that taxes millionaires to fund education and transportation.
Sarah Anderson adds that in red states as well as blue, voters in the latest election passed more ballot initiatives to tax the rich, fund long term care, and provide paid leave. As Chris Rodrigo Mills tells WORT FM this week, those initiatives are a big part of how progressives can go on the offensive in the next four years.
That’s not just true at the ballot box. Also this week, Khury Petersen-Smith appeared on Rising Up With Sonali to explain how local communities can take the fight against sending weapons to Israel straight to the arms manufacturers themselves.
When we fund community needs instead of militarism and greed, our communities win. That’s why it’s time to change our nation’s lopsided spending priorities.
“For what we’ve spent on wars and the military since 9/11,” Lindsay Koshgarian writes in an op-ed for Inside Sources, “we could have easily decarbonized the entire U.S. electric grid, completely erased student debt, continued the pandemic-era child tax credit (which cut child poverty in half) for another decade, and much more.”
From reining in CEO pay to curbing billionaires’ choke hold on the housing market to reducing military spending, the vast majority of Americans across political lines support bold solutions to reduce inequality while lifting all American communities from the bottom up.
Now that’s worth fighting for. As we laid out last week, we’ll be aggressively pushing those priorities forward in the state and local governments where we have allies — all while resisting the extremism of the next administration. Thank you for being a part of this movement with us.
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