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500th Starbucks Location Votes to Unionize

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     Today is a historic day for American labor. Less than three years after employees at Starbucks locations in Buffalo, New York, became the first in the nation to vote to unionize, the location at Bellingham, Washington, has become the 500th to be unionized.       Starbucks Workers United now represents some 12,000 employees in 43 states. SBWU only recently celebrated the 10,000 employee mark, and nearly 2,000 more have been added in just a few weeks. This is just the beginning. We need to unionize Starbucks locations in every state around the country. We need to push the number of unionized employees to 19,000, which represents five percent of all Starbucks employees nationwide. We need to win elections at 1,000 locations nationwide. After that, we need to push until every possible Starbucks employee wins a fair wage and comfortable living around the world.      This is an opportunity to remind all folks who belong to a union or support the right to organize that one of the key rea
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Trump Previously Praised and Promoted Harris and Walz. Now He Claims They're Dangerous.

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     One month ago today, as crazy as it seems that it has already been so long, Vice President Kamala Harris made the right decision and chose Tim Walz as her running mate. Two months from now, the 47th president of the United States will have been elected.      This cannot come as a total surprise for Kamala Harris. Way back in 2008 and 2009, black female figures like Gwen Ifill and Oprah Winfrey were comparing Kamala Harris to Barack Obama. When Harris ran for attorney general of California in 2010, Karl Rove pulled out all the stops to try to stop her election not because he cared so much about the state of California, but because he saw Kamala Harris as a rising national figure in the Democratic Party, and he wanted to kneecap her.      They were far from the only people to notice Kamala Harris long before she became the vice president of the United States. In 2011 and 2013, Donald Trump donated a combined total of $6,000 to Harris, which she, in turn, donated to advocate for civi
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Wisconsin Radio Host Who Mocked Gus Walz Says Doug Emhoff Is A Gay Mental Patient

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     Let me start off by saying that people like Jay Weber do NOT represent Wisconsin. Since 2018, we've elected and re-elected Governor Tony Evers, helped President Biden win the White House in 2020, and flipped the Wisconsin Supreme Court liberal for the first time in over 15 years. This last point, in turn, has led to Wisconsin's heavily-gerrymandered legislative maps being overturned, meaning the races for the state and national legislatures will be the first truly competitive ones in over a decade. Every single state-level officeholder in Wisconsin is a Democrat.      Jay Weber is still technically a host at 1130 WISN, a Milwaukee-area radio station. Milwaukee is the most liberal area of Wisconsin next to Madison. However, his success in Milwaukee is simple math. With a population of 600,000 people, if only one in four people agree with your disgusting stances, that's still 150,000 people who agree with you. He could set up shop in a rural county where four in five peo
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Help Kamala Harris Hit 500,000 YouTube Subscribers

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     Six weeks ago today, Vice President Harris launched her campaign for president. At the time, she had 175,000 subscribers on YouTube. Since then, she has managed to gain hundreds of thousands of additional subscribers. Today, she passed 450,000, meaning she is likely to hit 500,000 subscribers by the end of the month: if we all do our part.      This comes as Kamalomentum shows no signs of slowing down. To give everyone an idea of just how quick six weeks is, six weeks from today is October 12th. The election is just over nine weeks from today. We have to vote, make a plan to vote, get others to vote, and much more to defeat Donald Trump once and for all and restore hope to America.      To support Vice President Harris, please subscribe to her YouTube channel here , donate here , buy merch here , and spread the word. Every election is a choice, a choice about what kind of future we as Americans want to have. This election is about whether we want to have any kind of future at all.
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TWO YEARS ON: The Landmark CHIPS and Science Act

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     The CHIPS and Science Act took years, but it has been a bigger win for the United States than I, or just about anyone else, ever could have imagined. Americans love to talk about how the good old days of the post-World War II era are gone. One of the reasons I am such a fan of President Biden is because he recognizes why that is: America used to invest in its science, manufacturing, infrastructure, and other critical aspects of being a leader in areas aside from its military, but it has failed to do so for decades. In November 2021, he signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a historic $1.2 trillion investment in infrastructure ranging from  universal broadband to clean water that will create two million jobs and help America compete in the modern era.      Then came the CHIPS and Science Act. Introduced in 2019, the bill was a priority for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer: he ordered committee chairs to get to work on the Endless Frontier Act in February 2021, fir
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Kamala HQ Earns 3 Million TikTok Followers In 10 Days

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       The past few weeks have been the largest political earthquake the United States has experienced in decades. After President Biden dropped out of the race and focused on securing crucial victories like the largest hostage deal since the Cold War and proposing Supreme Court reform, Vice President Harris's presidential campaign got off to a running start.      On August 2nd, Harris officially clinched the delegates necessary to receive the Democratic nomination for president. The same day, Harris announced her campaign raised $310 million in the month of July, with nearly all of that coming in the last 10 days of the month. 60 percent of her donors are women, and the number of Gen-Z and Millennial donors was multiplied by nearly ten. Two-thirds of these donations were new grassroots donors. Harris tripled President Biden's following on Twitter, launched her first campaign ads, held a series of large events in swing states like Texas and Georgia, and scared Trump into chicke
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Americans Should Rally to Stop A Vice President Vance

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     Sarah Palin is breathing a huge sigh of relief right now, because her legacy as the worst VP pick of the 21st century is fading by the hour. Donald Trump picked JD Vance with the goal of shoring up his MAGA base under the assumption that he would win easily against President Biden in November. When President Biden dropped out of the race earlier this month, the political world was altered dramatically, and the Democratic rally in support of Vice President Harris only served to bring more attention to JD Vance, who, as Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has said, is simply weird.      Vance's problems began in earnest two weeks ago, when Vance became the subject of rumors that he described having intercourse with a couch. Whether it's true or not is irrelevant in situations like this: the fact that it is so believable is enough to keep it going. AP fact-checked the claim before removing the fact check, because, as people have pointed out, it is impossible to prove a negative, name
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