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Advocacy affiliate of @rooseveltinstitute.org. We believe that new politics and policymaking—that can equalize power in our society—are possible. www.rooseveltforward.org || Subscribe to our Substack #FiresideStacks 🔥 firesidestacks.com
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When the government can’t act decisively, democracy is at risk.

In #FiresideStacks🔥, Hannah Garden-Monheit shares insights from former Biden-Harris senior officials on how we can build a more responsive government that works for everyone.

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November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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“If the government can’t deliver quickly and visibly for ordinary people, its legitimacy erodes.”

In our inaugural #FiresideStacks🔥 video interview, Hannah Garden-Monheit offers a clear-eyed blueprint for rebuilding public capacity.

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November 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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When students speak, history tells us to listen. They often hold the line on justice while institutions maintain the status quo.

In #FiresideStacks🔥, @katie-kirchner.bsky.social argues that their activism should be the standard.

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Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads "As in generations past, the student left remains “the most reliably correct constituency in America.” Over and over—often at great personal sacrifice—they’ve held the line on what is moral, only to see institutions and leaders catch up. Columbia University is one example: It once worked to crush its 1968 student uprising, and now it markets that same protest as a symbol of its “activist Ivy” legacy."
October 31, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Young progressives aren’t “the future”—they’re the moral compass of the present.

Ignoring them isn’t just shortsighted. It’s a threat to progress.

This week’s #FiresideStacks🔥 is a wake-up call from @katie-kirchner.bsky.social.

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Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads "This time, instead of treating students’ moral conviction as a challenge to pragmatic politics, what if we saw it as the foundation of any civic movement capable of meeting this moment?"
October 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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AI is speeding up health insurance denials, and ERISA makes them nearly impossible to fight.

In this week’s #FiresideStacks🔥, @mirandayaver.bsky.social unpacks the law that prevents 100M Americans from holding insurers accountable.

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Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads “[Employee Retirement Income Security Act] not only discourages patients from suing—shielding insurers from consequences for wrongful denials—but also disproportionately harms lower-income and marginalized workers.”
October 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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A majority of insured workers are on ERISA plans. That means no state oversight, no damages, and little legal recourse.

In #FiresideStacks🔥, @mirandayaver.bsky.social exposes the risks of a system working as designed to protect insurers.

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Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads “With few lawsuits and no real penalty for wrongful denials, insurers face little incentive to change, especially as AI promises faster, cheaper claim reviews at the patients’ expense.”
October 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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AI tools can deny insurance claims in seconds, while appeals can take months.
ERISA ensures there’s no accountability in between.

In this week’s #FiresideStacks🔥, @mirandayaver.bsky.social exposes the true cost of “efficiency” in health care.

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Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads “AI-assisted claims are error-prone: In some cases, up to 90 percent of AI-related denials are reversed on appeal to the insurer— if patients can manage the onerous process to appeal, which many do not.”
October 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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AI claims to make health care more efficient, but it’s making denials faster and appeals harder.

In #FiresideStacks🔥, @mirandayaver.bsky.social shows how ERISA ensures no one is held accountable when AI gets it wrong.

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Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads “Insurers are hardly alone in using AI as a cheap substitute for labor-intensive procedures, but when these tools wrongly deny coverage, patients have little legal recourse. Without the ability to recover damages for pain and suffering, insurers face almost no serious penalty for error—errors that are likely to only increase given such tools’ imperfect track record. And because [Employee Retirement Income Security Act] preempts state law, even the most ambitious state reforms can’t protect most workers.”
October 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Michiganders see through it.

New polling shows that 70% of likely Michigan voters support raising taxes on billionaires to fund healthcare, schools, and public services: 2/3
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Bar graph titled "Support for Raising Taxes on Billionaires," showing levels of support across Congressional Districts +49, +54, and +44. Strong support is represented in dark blue, somewhat support in blue, strongly oppose in dark red, and somewhat oppose in red. The bars are labeled with percentages for each category.
October 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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With the government shutdown halting vital data collection, we’re flying blind in an uneven, fragile economy.

For #FiresideStacks🔥, @mikemadowitz.bsky.social explains the risks without public data and why we must push to restore a foundation of our economy.

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Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads "This data blackout, however, should be a wake-up call. Even under stress, federal economic data remain a crucial piece of our economic foundation and one of the last objective truths in America. Building on the legacy of statistics introduced to monitor the Great Depression and war mobilization, the US has the institutional knowledge and professionalism to expand and improve its open access federal statistics."
October 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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📉 The economic dashboard has gone dark.

With families struggling and inflation rising, shutting down data is reckless leadership.

In this week’s #FiresideStacks🔥, @mikemadowitz.bsky.social unpacks what’s lost when we shut down public data.

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Roosevelt Forward quote graphic reads "It’s not just that private data depends on federal data; it’s that no one—no matter how smart— can match the work of a capable state."
October 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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No jobs data. No inflation report. No roadmap. This isn’t a technical glitch, it’s a threat to democratic governance.

In #FiresideStacks🔥, @mikemadowitz.bsky.social warns how the shutdown has silenced the federal stats that keep our economy functioning.

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Roosevelt Forward quote graphics that reads "With this much volatility, it’s precisely the wrong time to turn off the data tap. And it really is shut off, making the economy harder to read in addition to gumming up the work of straightforward governing."
October 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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YIMBYs are winning reforms that defy political norms, proving community can be a key driver to success.

In #FiresideStacks🔥, @resnikoff.bsky.social explores lessons from the housing policy movement that prioritizes connection.

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Roosevelt Forward quote graphic which reads "While local conditions can explain some of the wins, a consistent theme is that YIMBY groups have a knack for hosting fun social gatherings where they can, and often do, persuade skeptics and convert sympathizers into activists."
October 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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A key lesson from YIMBYtown: movements thrive on meaning and momentum.

In #FiresideStacks🔥, @resnikoff.bsky.social highlights how joy, scrappiness, and social bonds have been overlooked in the infrastructure of democracy.

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October 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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“Shutdowns may start as political gambits, but they end as human harm.”

Stalled factories = lost jobs
Frozen disability checks
A health coverage cliff impacting millions

In #FiresideStacks🔥, Rey Fuentes highlights the need to end shutdown politics.
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Roosevelt Forward quote image stating: 'Each new standoff reinforces a sense that the government is unstable, which serves the agenda of those eager to discredit public power.' - Reynaldo Fuentes, from 'Shutdown by Design: How State-Capacity Sabotage Stalls Industrial Renewal, Shreds Public Trust, and Hurts Families.'
October 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Shutdowns used to be rare. Now, they frequently block progress—hitting public services & industrial renewal policy projects hard.

In #FiresideStacks🔥, @reyfuentes.bsky.social discusses shutdowns as a tool for dismantling the government itself and public trust.
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Quote “For the people waiting—a disabled worker, a small business owner, a family navigating Social Security—these aren’t abstractions. They are weeks of anxiety, bills delayed, or opportunities foregone.” highlighted in an orange box, attributed to Reynaldo Fuentes from Roosevelt Forward.
September 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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3.2M Americans could be lifted out of poverty. Its cost is less than a single tax break in Trump’s budget bill.

We can afford to do it.

In #FiresideStacks🔥, @socio-steve.bsky.social explores why it’s the perfect time to fix what’s broken in Social Security. www.firesidestacks.com/p/ssi-reform...
September 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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When billionaires like Elon Musk stroll the Oval Office, it’s a reminder: corporations will bend government to their own interests.

In #FiresideStacks🔥, Brad Lipton explores why leaders must act boldly so government truly works for the people. www.firesidestacks.com/p/corporatio...
U.S. President Donald Trump standing in the Oval Office, with a bold caption about corporations and government overlaid on the photo.
September 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Work requirements don’t create jobs. They just kick people off food + health care, saddle states with costs, and strain already fragile hospitals.

Our new #FiresideStacks 🔥 explores why targeting “ABAWDs” hurts not just them—but everyone. www.firesidestacks.com/p/the-cruelt...
Image of a group of individuals in a meeting room. Overlay text reads: 'Cruelty Is the Point: Work Requirements Don't Lift People Up—They Drag Us All Down. www.firesidestacks.com'.
September 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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“ABAWDs,” aren’t the lazy caricature politicians make them out to be.

They’re caregivers, neighbors, and workers trying to get by.

The latest #FiresideStacks 🔥 from @socio-steve.bsky.social and Noa Rosinplotz unveils the truth behind the rhetoric: www.firesidestacks.com/p/abawds-are...
Two individuals, one appearing elderly, look at a laptop in a kitchen, with text overlay emphasizing that ABAWDs are workers, caregivers, and neighbors, not political punching bags.
September 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Universal childcare isn’t just a policy fix; it’s a foundation for strong families, thriving communities & a healthier democracy.

@lbilik.bsky.social talks with @ehaspel.bsky.social about building the movement to make universal childcare real. #FiresideStacks www.firesidestacks.com/p/raising-a-...
September 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Stagnant wages. Rising costs. Broken trust.

The market-first consensus has collapsed.

In Democracy Journal, @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social lays out the path to a democratic economy—one built with people, not just for them. democracyjournal.org/magazine/78/...
Graphic on the 4 pillars for a democratic economy
September 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Childcare holds families, communities, and our economy together.

In the latest #FiresideStacks 🔥, @lbilik.bsky.social sat down with @ehaspel.bsky.social, who makes a compelling case for universal childcare as a central tenet of the American Dream. www.firesidestacks.com/p/raising-a-...
No matter where one comes from, whether or not one has kids, whether or not one is particularly comfortable with the idea of young children being cared for outside the home, there is a way into this idea that childcare undergirds everything we care about as Americans. And unless we start explaining that, and making that case on that emotional, values-laden level, I think we’re going to be stuck on a very slow, choppy path toward the system that we need.
August 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Social Security isn’t broken; it’s under attack.

Trump’s budget will exhaust funds by 2032 & risky Wall Street schemes won’t fix it.

@justinbloesch.bsky.social explores real solutions like raising the cap on taxable income for the wealthy, in #FiresideStacks🔥 www.firesidestacks.com/p/the-social...
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August 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Social Security is America’s most trusted social program.

On its 90th anniversary, Jim Roosevelt, grandson of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, urges the importance of defending it and building a stronger, more inclusive safety net in #FiresideStacks🔥
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An informational graphic from Roosevelt Forward, featuring a quote "My grandfather spoke of Social Security as a moral compact that binds generations together through mutual obligation. He knew then what we must remember now—that economic security is a prerequisite for democracy," by Jim Roosevelt, discussing its importance to democracy and its role as a moral compact, titled "Social Security at 90: Protect the Promise."
August 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM