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Arthur Delaney at HuffPost:

WASHINGTON — Ezra Levin despaired earlier this month when it appeared Democrats on Capitol Hill had no plan to fight Republicans over government funding. To Levin, who co-founded the progressive group Indivisible in 2016 to resist the first Donald Trump administration, it was “baffling” Democrats hadn’t issued any demands. It looked as if they’d roll over just like they did in March. But now that Democrats have insisted Republicans roll back their recently enacted Medicaid cuts and extend soon-to-expire health insurance subsidies, Levin praised them for making a strong play. “We will cheerlead them,” Levin told HuffPost. “We want them to hold strong,”

Indivisible and other influential progressive groups, including MoveOn, Public Citizen and the Service Employees International Union, are backing Democrats in a high-stakes standoff that appears likely to result in a partial shutdown of the federal government next Wednesday. Republicans in Congress ignored Democrats’ health care demands before adjourning last week without having passed a bill to fund the government past the end of month. On Monday, President Donald Trump agreed to meet with Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), the top Democrats in the House and Senate, only to call off the White House meeting the next day.

“What naming those demands has done is to cause Trump to escalate and pull out of the negotiations, which very clearly places the blame on him,” Levin said. “The Republicans are acting as if they’re throwing the steering wheel out of the window during this game of chicken.” In a social media post calling off the encounter, Trump said no meeting with Democrats “could possibly be productive,” adding that Democrats had “totally lost their way.”

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Links via the General Strike US discord server, join here. Several people expressed in the Good Trouble Lives On thread that my post was the first they'd heard of it, so I thought I'd post upcoming nationwide days of action here. People are on the ground protesting every week or in some cases, every day against the fascists in the White House.

7/26 - Families First - On July 26, SEIU members across all 50 states are coming together for the Families First Day of Action—a nationwide call to protect care, education, and dignity for working families. We’re standing up against harmful budget cuts and policies that threaten our communities and the services we rely on.

7/30 - 60th Anniversary of Medicaid & Medicare - Fight for Life & the Future (NYC only) - MARCH & RALLY WITH US IN NYC TO: 1. Celebrate this 60th anniversary milestone of Medicaid & Medicare - our vital public healthcare programs that are a literal lifeline for millions of people. 2. Condemn attacks on Medicaid & Medicare by the current federal administration as they gut healthcare to divert our public money to ICE, concentration camps & more tax cuts for the rich. Condemn our private Medicaid healthcare data being handed over to ICE to terrorize families. And condemn the increasing privatization & commodification of our public programs through Medicare Advantage & managed care schemes.

8/2 - Rage Against the Regime - The big one organized by 50501. Put it on your calendars now, we need this to be twice as big as No Kings. And start promoting now! There are flyer templates at the link.

You can do it! Pick up your Garfield shaped phone and make a call.

By Cheryl LaBash

In Washington, D.C., workers rallied across from the Justice Department on June 9 as part of national protests to end deportation raids and to free arrested California union leader David Huerta.