🚨 Democrats have now cast 1.5x as many ballots as they did during all of 2024 early primary voting. Current total (change from yesterday): 🔵 869,118 (+114,353)

Hey what can we do instead of numbing ourselves to the despair being pushed down from the highest levels of this country? We can build from below, which is what organizers are showing us in the public power movement. Check this out if you need a dose of optimism (backed with real life examples!)

Elana with Rural People's Voice wrote a powerful op-ed in the Wenatchee World about why passing the Millionaires Tax is so important to funding schools for rural kids and the essential services that support hardworking families outside major cities. #WALeg

This is just really encouraging.

President Trump says he wants to stop Wall Street and private equity from buying up homes. Democrats are introducing The American Homeownership Act to get it done - while boosting housing supply and lowering costs. The President and Republicans should join us.

Dr. Tim Mackey, bio professor at community college in Bothell and @aftwa.bsky.social member in support: "Right now, our enrollment is up 7%, yet last year our budgets were cut." "Economic growth does not come from largesse of wealthy, it comes from my students graduating without debt."

This would go a long way to putting housing stock back on the market. Building infinitely isn't the solution when private equity firms can just buy the entire rental market of a city.

UPDATE: I’ve been at the Northwest Detention Facility for over 3 hours and am still being denied my congressional duty to conduct oversight. What are they so afraid of that they won't let me meet with detainees? I will not give up.

I'm never 100% sure something is true until these people deny it.

After a historic victory in the #WALeg Senate, the Millionaires Tax to rebalance our upside-down tax code has its 1st hearing in the House! Sign your name in "PRO" today to show your support for a future where everyone, not just the wealthiest, can thrive in WA: app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifie...

Observing the Day of Remembrance Amid Increased ICE Activity in South Seattle Events in Puyallup and Tacoma connect Executive Order 9066 to current immigrant detention and deportation activity, including ICE flights from Boeing Field.

Seems like we've been told a lot that charitable giving is as good as taxation. Seems like that's not correct.

WA state has one of the worst tax systems in the country. Teachers, nurses, & small business owners pay a higher income tax rate than wealthy folks. Patriotic Millionaire Victoria Hattersly explains why a proposed Millionaires Tax is a first step toward restoring fairness.

If your vote didn't matter, no one would be trying to take it away from you.

An excellent, and moving, article.

Educators in San Francisco are fighting for better health benefits, better wages, improved special education and more. Their fight to get SFUSD to invest in classrooms, educators and students’ futures is all of our fight. Solidarity with United Educators of San Francisco on strike!

If you need a shot of hope, or just like numbers and data, here's some cool info from Crowd Counting Consortium. "Taken together, an overall look at protest patterns in 2026 reinforces the sense of a growing, durable, and disciplined pro-democracy movement increasingly mobilized at the grassroots."

As someone else pointed out, even if this is a straight-up lie, it makes it much easier to win Election Day lawsuits if they do show up at polling places - they've said on the record, then doubled down on it, that they do not need to be there, so why are they there? This is excellent.

Social Security is an EARNED benefit, and we should get every promised penny when it’s time to collect!

It just so strongly highlights how small and petty they are that they can waste money to try to not support the communities they live and work in. Like, how small are you if you can't freaking pay taxes? The meanness of spirt would make Scrooge blush and reconsider.

For the kind of real change we talk about creating and seeing, we need to see new leaders. It can be hard to know where to start; this program has been going for a while. There's also a union-led similar program in Washington State that I believe starts in the spring. Go. Start.

AFT Washington seeks an Administrative Support Specialist to be based in Renton, WA. Details can be found at: unionjobs.com/listing.php?... #1u #UnionStrong @aftwa.bsky.social @aft.org

Your phone shouldn’t be a tracking device for ICE nor should your real time location be up for sale. WA Dems are fighting to ban the sale of precise location data to protect immigrants, patients, and our communities.

If you are for some reason not familiar with Elie Mystal, you are super duper missing out. This is, as usual, an excellent piece that highlights the administration's effort to leverage slavery law and imagery to make white America shut up again.

AFT's immigration enforcement webinar this week shared important tips and resources for educators, healthcare professionals and community members in the face of ICE's intensified operations. We've compiled them all in a new post here ⤵️ www.aft.org/news/all-res...

It's the step that a lot of the "General Strike Now" ppl miss. At this point, a nationwide general strike will take years of organizing to actually have numbers and be effective. It's a goal, don't get me wrong! Workers need to send the message that WE have the power. But it takes work, not posts.

Curious to see what happens with that against the backdrop of looming bad polling for the GOP and the midterms coming up quick.

This is a five-alarm fire not just for Texas A&M but for higher education and the country more generally. And it’s old news to say it, but this resides in a different universe of consequentiality than any of the perceived transgressions that triggered the Harper’s letter.

Forgive the Friday maudlins, but at the end of it all, all we have is each other. The situation in Minnesota is dire and the actions of the federal government are evil, but seeing people stand together like this ... a lot of people counted on our division but Minnesota is showing us our strength.

The simple answer is "because asking the wealthy to pay their share isn't radical - it's right."

We'll be there! Join us!

🧵 If you aren't already connected to a local network, "when ICE comes to MY city" will be too late to get started. Start now. Look for trainings now. Look for solidarity opportunities now. Connect with your local chapter of Indivisible, immigrant solidarity groups, some unions - start now.

Once we get closer to the primaries, AFT Washington will be including best practices for voting both via drop box and via post office, as well as our options for in-person voting (they do exist! Our voting system is really cool!) We expect that ICE may try to "monitor" the drop boxes.

He can't cancel the elections, because the power resides in the states and the fact that terms end means that red states aren't motivated to cancel either. This is a credible list of what he CAN do that we need to be ready to prevent. I would add "use the board of USPS to control mail delivery".

please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota. people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.

A worthwhile thread.

As we continue to watch ICE's invasion of Minneapolis with horror, I want to remind folks that if you haven't already, you should be considering what you personally will do if an ICE invasion arrives where you live. Don't put it off.

Iconic.

People want to have their basic needs met. They want to be paid a living wage. They want to stop being nickle and dimed by powerful corporations who control so much of our lives. They do not want Venezuela. They do not want Greenland. They do not want masked thugs terrorizing our communities.

7 democrats made this bill pass. If they all voted “no” it would’ve failed 213-214.

This is actively offensive. Let's subject thousands of children to invasive genital exams because maybe as many as five trans kids play on team sports and some parents in the state can't cope with the science that shows absolutely zero physical advantage for trans athletes.

Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman's veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn't been one since. That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.

Tomorrow @aft.org members across the country will show our unity and support for our @educationmn.bsky.social union siblings as they peacefully demonstrate in response to ICE's assault on their communities. Wear blue and post in solidarity. #ICEOUT #ICEOutSchools bsky.app/profile/educ...

Great news! This administration really doesn't stick to its principles, does it?

Another great conversation w/@momsrising.org @rowefinkbeiner.bsky.social about why care is central to the economic measurements we currently count (ie. GDP) and the ones we should count (ie. family wellbeing). Read more here by @tcfdotorg.bsky.social and @caringacross.org tcf.org/content/repo...

It is my genuine hope that we remember how much more effective resisting the agendas of fascists and billionaires (and, of course, fascist billionaires) has been than anyone thought it would in Jan. All across the country, people are pushing back. We may not always win, but the solidarity matters.

"The horns and whistles work..." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

If you’re doing some last-minute holiday shopping, union-made gifts and union carriers like USPS or UPS are a great way to support the workers who keep the holidays moving!

It's usually not the good guys who speak in absolutes, as Star Wars reminds us. Black and white thinking like this is harmful to everyone.

Oh my god, I am in TEARS. Is AI the new opposite-land UBI? "We aren't sure it doesn't work yet, let's test it more." The benefit of UBI, of course, is that it actually does work, we just study it a lot because no one in power wants to believe giving people money helps.