Megan Essaheb
@messaheb.bsky.social
Director of Federal Affairs, People's Action, views are my own
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We gathered 1,000 people outside 17 AT&T stores across Illinois, demanding the telecom giant drop its multi-million-dollar contracts with ICE/DHS/CBP.
Thank you to all who joined us! Tell AT&T you won't buy or upgrade their products this holiday season. https://ow.ly/XSZT50Xt5Q5
Thank you to all who joined us! Tell AT&T you won't buy or upgrade their products this holiday season. https://ow.ly/XSZT50Xt5Q5
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
We gathered 1,000 people outside 17 AT&T stores across Illinois, demanding the telecom giant drop its multi-million-dollar contracts with ICE/DHS/CBP.
Thank you to all who joined us! Tell AT&T you won't buy or upgrade their products this holiday season. https://ow.ly/XSZT50Xt5Q5
Thank you to all who joined us! Tell AT&T you won't buy or upgrade their products this holiday season. https://ow.ly/XSZT50Xt5Q5
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New from our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social. Larry Summers' banishment from positions of influence should be permanent.
Summers said he’s “ashamed” of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and would step back from public life. This time it should be for good.
Don't Let Larry Summers Back Into Polite Society
While Larry Summers’s “association” with Jeffrey Epstein was already known, this newest batch of emails reveals their relationship ran deep.
interc.pt
November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
New from our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social. Larry Summers' banishment from positions of influence should be permanent.
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This is what's at stake.
YouTube video by Senator Jeff Merkley
youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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"The longer you are in an authoritarian state, it becomes more and more entrenched. And so we have to fight it in every possible way."
Thank you @merkley.senate.gov for ringing the alarm bells and calling on us all to unite and fight back to defend our democracy 🔔🔔🔔
Thank you @merkley.senate.gov for ringing the alarm bells and calling on us all to unite and fight back to defend our democracy 🔔🔔🔔
October 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
"The longer you are in an authoritarian state, it becomes more and more entrenched. And so we have to fight it in every possible way."
Thank you @merkley.senate.gov for ringing the alarm bells and calling on us all to unite and fight back to defend our democracy 🔔🔔🔔
Thank you @merkley.senate.gov for ringing the alarm bells and calling on us all to unite and fight back to defend our democracy 🔔🔔🔔
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Vance reacts to the Young Republicans chat leak
October 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Vance reacts to the Young Republicans chat leak
Premium Tax Credits make health care affordable for 20M+ people. If they expire, millions won’t be able to go to the doctor.
Join us in urging Congress to make health care tax credits permanent & repeal the health care cuts they passed earlier this year: commcat.io/467vrRn
#CareNotCuts
Join us in urging Congress to make health care tax credits permanent & repeal the health care cuts they passed earlier this year: commcat.io/467vrRn
#CareNotCuts
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October 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Premium Tax Credits make health care affordable for 20M+ people. If they expire, millions won’t be able to go to the doctor.
Join us in urging Congress to make health care tax credits permanent & repeal the health care cuts they passed earlier this year: commcat.io/467vrRn
#CareNotCuts
Join us in urging Congress to make health care tax credits permanent & repeal the health care cuts they passed earlier this year: commcat.io/467vrRn
#CareNotCuts
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🔥🔥🔥MAGA Mike Johnson is refusing to seat @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social after she won her seat in a landslide last week. Is he afraid she's the 218th vote on the Epstein files? Or just afraid of a powerful progressive Latina? Sign our petition actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Tell Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson - Seat Adelita Grijalva NOW
Climate hawk Adelita Grijalva won a landslide victory in September, beating her nearest challenger by roughly 40 points. So why is House Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson refusing to allow her to take her sea...
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October 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🔥🔥🔥MAGA Mike Johnson is refusing to seat @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social after she won her seat in a landslide last week. Is he afraid she's the 218th vote on the Epstein files? Or just afraid of a powerful progressive Latina? Sign our petition actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
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🔥PLEASE REPOST🔥
🚨If ACA tax credits are NOT extended, premium payments will increase by more than 100% for many of the 24M Americans who buy their own coverage & it's on top of rising food & housing costs among other inflationary pressures that are adding major STRESS.🚨
www.kff.org/from-drew-al...
🚨If ACA tax credits are NOT extended, premium payments will increase by more than 100% for many of the 24M Americans who buy their own coverage & it's on top of rising food & housing costs among other inflationary pressures that are adding major STRESS.🚨
www.kff.org/from-drew-al...
How an ACA Premium Spike Will Affect Family Budgets, and Voters
In his latest column, President and CEO Dr. Drew Altman shows how spiking premiums, which may come if the enhanced ACA tax credits are not extended, will hit people in the context of their family budg...
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September 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🔥PLEASE REPOST🔥
🚨If ACA tax credits are NOT extended, premium payments will increase by more than 100% for many of the 24M Americans who buy their own coverage & it's on top of rising food & housing costs among other inflationary pressures that are adding major STRESS.🚨
www.kff.org/from-drew-al...
🚨If ACA tax credits are NOT extended, premium payments will increase by more than 100% for many of the 24M Americans who buy their own coverage & it's on top of rising food & housing costs among other inflationary pressures that are adding major STRESS.🚨
www.kff.org/from-drew-al...
I'm attending Progressive Maryland's event, “Community Gathering: Rally to Defend Medicaid and Celebrate the 60th Anniversary!” - sign up www.mobilize.us/progressivem...
Community Gathering: Rally to Defend Medicaid and Celebrate the 60th Anniversary! · Progressive Maryland
Tens of thousands of Maryland families, seniors, people with disabilities, and children get their healthcare through the Medicaid program. The new Trump federal budget will bring deep devastating fund...
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September 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I'm attending Progressive Maryland's event, “Community Gathering: Rally to Defend Medicaid and Celebrate the 60th Anniversary!” - sign up www.mobilize.us/progressivem...
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If DHS can violently attack journalists and citizen observers without any consequences, none of us are safe anywhere in the country.
#protest #LAProtests #PressFreedom #ProtectJournalists
#protest #LAProtests #PressFreedom #ProtectJournalists
Freedoms Under Attack: DHS Violence Against Journalists, Observers, and Protesters
YouTube video by The Center for Media and Democracy
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September 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
If DHS can violently attack journalists and citizen observers without any consequences, none of us are safe anywhere in the country.
#protest #LAProtests #PressFreedom #ProtectJournalists
#protest #LAProtests #PressFreedom #ProtectJournalists
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The Administration has undermined the bipartisan 2025 funding deal by withholding funds, using a partisan rescission bill to cancel funding agreed to on a bipartisan basis, and *remarkably* claiming unilateral authority to hold funds & allow them to expire.
September 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The Administration has undermined the bipartisan 2025 funding deal by withholding funds, using a partisan rescission bill to cancel funding agreed to on a bipartisan basis, and *remarkably* claiming unilateral authority to hold funds & allow them to expire.
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In response to a question about how to solve the polarization that is tearing the world apart, Pope Leo raised the problem of the growing gap between CEO and worker pay. Nice to have a new ally on this front!
Full interview: cruxnow.com/vatican/2025...
Full interview: cruxnow.com/vatican/2025...
September 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
In response to a question about how to solve the polarization that is tearing the world apart, Pope Leo raised the problem of the growing gap between CEO and worker pay. Nice to have a new ally on this front!
Full interview: cruxnow.com/vatican/2025...
Full interview: cruxnow.com/vatican/2025...
I'm attending Peoples Action Institute's event, “Deep Canvass Institute: Foundational Skills of Deep Canvassing” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/peoplesactio...
Deep Canvass Institute: Foundational Skills of Deep Canvassing · Peoples Action Institute
**Please note that this is a two-session training. You must be signed up for both sessions to complete the training. Click "Select All (2 times)" at signup**
Just curious about deep canvassing but n...
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September 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I'm attending Peoples Action Institute's event, “Deep Canvass Institute: Foundational Skills of Deep Canvassing” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/peoplesactio...
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After 6+ years of organizing, Chicago rideshare drivers forced Uber to the table—winning a path to union rights for 100K+ drivers across Illinois.
Huge shoutout to @PeoplesLobbyUSA + Chicago Gig Alliance for leading the way.
thenation.com/article/acti...
#WorkerPower #UnionStrong
Huge shoutout to @PeoplesLobbyUSA + Chicago Gig Alliance for leading the way.
thenation.com/article/acti...
#WorkerPower #UnionStrong
In Chicago, a Coalition of Unions, Community Organizers, and Drivers Have Forced Uber to Come to the Table
As the tech industry moves increasingly into alignment with the far right, the issue of worker power has never been more important. The Chicago campaign offers some key lessons.
thenation.com
July 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
After 6+ years of organizing, Chicago rideshare drivers forced Uber to the table—winning a path to union rights for 100K+ drivers across Illinois.
Huge shoutout to @PeoplesLobbyUSA + Chicago Gig Alliance for leading the way.
thenation.com/article/acti...
#WorkerPower #UnionStrong
Huge shoutout to @PeoplesLobbyUSA + Chicago Gig Alliance for leading the way.
thenation.com/article/acti...
#WorkerPower #UnionStrong
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JD Vance has always been the long-term plan for right-wing tech billionaires to cement a dictatorship in America.
“Vance has been anointed by Thiel and the rest of the anti-democracy movement as the post-Trump president, tasked with replacing the US establishment with an authoritarian regime.”
“Vance has been anointed by Thiel and the rest of the anti-democracy movement as the post-Trump president, tasked with replacing the US establishment with an authoritarian regime.”
JD Vance is the handpicked leader of the antidemocracy movement in America | Robert Reich
Rightwing tech lords are betting that Vance will be the Republican presidential pick in 2028. They’re probably right
www.theguardian.com
July 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
JD Vance has always been the long-term plan for right-wing tech billionaires to cement a dictatorship in America.
“Vance has been anointed by Thiel and the rest of the anti-democracy movement as the post-Trump president, tasked with replacing the US establishment with an authoritarian regime.”
“Vance has been anointed by Thiel and the rest of the anti-democracy movement as the post-Trump president, tasked with replacing the US establishment with an authoritarian regime.”
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Dems make believe message that "works," defined again as approval/disapproval, in captive setting translates to real world, where Job #1 is get people to stop scrolling long enough to hear you at all. Reps test for what garners attention and makes salient what they need folks to believe.
May 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Dems make believe message that "works," defined again as approval/disapproval, in captive setting translates to real world, where Job #1 is get people to stop scrolling long enough to hear you at all. Reps test for what garners attention and makes salient what they need folks to believe.
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Dems use message testing to *take*temp - to figure out where people (in captive setting, consciously aware responses are sought) "are." Reps use it as a flame thrower - to understand how to *change* the temp, by looking NOT at overall "approval" response but rather at what their base would repeat.
May 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Dems use message testing to *take*temp - to figure out where people (in captive setting, consciously aware responses are sought) "are." Reps use it as a flame thrower - to understand how to *change* the temp, by looking NOT at overall "approval" response but rather at what their base would repeat.
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“Currently, there is no plan for where everyone is sleeping tonight,” the source said, adding that there was an urgent need to find more portable bathrooms and dumpsters for garbage.
June 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
“Currently, there is no plan for where everyone is sleeping tonight,” the source said, adding that there was an urgent need to find more portable bathrooms and dumpsters for garbage.
Check out People's Action Institute's free online “FUNDAMENTALS OF ORGANIZING Training” - sign up here! #HANDSOFF www.mobilize.us/peoplesactio...
FUNDAMENTALS OF ORGANIZING · People's Action
People’s Action Institute has launched an ‘Organizing Revival’ to engage hundreds of thousands of people in our movement. A deep investment in the Fundamentals of Organizing is the cornerstone of the...
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May 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Check out People's Action Institute's free online “FUNDAMENTALS OF ORGANIZING Training” - sign up here! #HANDSOFF www.mobilize.us/peoplesactio...
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Health care keeps our communities going. Don’t take away what helps us feel human to give tax breaks to billionaires.
Tell your Member of Congress to #StopTheCuts: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
#PeopleOverProfit
Tell your Member of Congress to #StopTheCuts: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
#PeopleOverProfit
May 18, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Health care keeps our communities going. Don’t take away what helps us feel human to give tax breaks to billionaires.
Tell your Member of Congress to #StopTheCuts: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
#PeopleOverProfit
Tell your Member of Congress to #StopTheCuts: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
#PeopleOverProfit
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The bullies and the billionaires are pushing a budget that will let people get sick, go hungry, and die...just so the ultra-rich can get more money.
Tell your representatives to put #peopleoverprofit and #stopthecuts: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell your representatives to put #peopleoverprofit and #stopthecuts: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
May 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The bullies and the billionaires are pushing a budget that will let people get sick, go hungry, and die...just so the ultra-rich can get more money.
Tell your representatives to put #peopleoverprofit and #stopthecuts: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell your representatives to put #peopleoverprofit and #stopthecuts: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...