While ending the war and bringing our troops home is an important first step, it is just one step of many that needs to be taken. The debt we owe to the Afghan people is vast.
The decision by the conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court to allow Texas’ barbaric abortion ban to take effect will be catastrophic for reproductive healthcare in Texas and beyond.
We will continue to fight alongside progressives to make sure the Senate passes the reconciliation bill before final passage of a smaller infrastructure package.
We need the John Lewis Voting Rights Act signed into law, along with the For the People Act, as soon as is humanly possible -- without these bills, there will be no end to the GOP’s march towards authoritarianism.
The primary threat to the Supreme Court as an institution isn’t a mystery: it's the manipulation of the Court by partisan actors and external, dark-money organizations, including the theft of two seats in the last five years, to install six conservative justices who care more about Republican political outcomes than they do about upholding the law.
It is absolutely unacceptable that in the face of mass unemployment, racial injustice, a pandemic, a broken health care system, and the climate crisis these members are refusing to provide desperately needed recovery to people.