Amidst the escalating crises of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic collapse, and active sabotage of the United States Postal Service, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell adjourned the Senate until Labor Day.
The historic selection will make Harris the first Black and Indian-American woman nominated for Vice President by a major political party, and only the third woman in American political history.
As John Lewis said: ‘Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its part…’ President Obama is right that the filibuster is a ‘Jim Crow relic’ that stands between us and the future John Lewis called us to continue working for.
With less than one hundred days to go before Election Day, Indivisible announced the launch of a dynamic, multi-faceted electoral program powered by their nationwide grassroots network to defeat Trump, flip the Senate, and hold the House in November.
A dozen of the country’s largest progressive organizations, including American Federation of Teachers, Color of Change, Greenpeace, SEIU, MoveOn, Indivisible and United We Dream, released a letter to Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi with priorities for inclusion in the next economic aid package.