Rep. Aftyn Behn
@AftynBehn
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State Representative TN House District 51. Let’s care loudly for each other. #EndTheGroceryTax 🛒 she/her
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It's time. Let's
#EndTheGroceryTax
🛒.
Should Tennessee permanently remove the sales tax on food?
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our office is closely monitoring the Nazi rally downtown—
these groups once relegated to the dark corners now feel empowered to spew their noxious ideology out in the open due to our state’s leadership REFUSING to condemn their speech and actions.
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happy new year’s from the socially democratic Sweden where…
abortion is legal, women have 390 days of paid maternity leave, & universal healthcare includes free dental care for those under 23
and just to spite
@MarshaBlackburn
, I devoured a socialist double cheeseburger 😈😈😈
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As the TN house members vote to set expulsion vote for Thursday, the citizens in the house gallery shout “Fascists! Fascists! Fascists!”
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so, who’s ready to stop complaining about
@MarshaBlackburn
and make Tennessee a battleground state?
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We need everyone down at the Capitol right now.
Folks in the chamber galleries have been there since 8 AM: we need reinforcements.
ALL HANDS ON DECK. SHOW UP.
@0liviajulianna
@davidhogg111
@TheTNHoller
Tennessee Republicans just expelled Representative Justin Jones for protesting with gun control advocates following a school shooting.
Tennessee has given way to fascism.
The Tennessee Three will not be forgotten. This fight is far from over.
Solidarity
@brotherjones_
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Tennessee has a progressive woman of color running for US Senate for the first time in history.
I’m speechless...
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all right Tennessee Twitter! here’s your local Proud Boy militia members. much shorter in real life.
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🚨🚨CALLING FOLKS TO THE TN CAPITOL TODAY AT 5PM🚨🚨
We've heard that Jones, Johnson & Pearson could be expelled tonight during the House floor session.
PLEASE SHOW UP!
WE CANNOT LET THEM EXPEL OUR LEADERS.
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well,
@soledadobrien
, it’s challenging when they’ve rigged elections, neutered local power, and removed our ability to pass popular ballot measures (h/t
@ash_in_wv
)
Tennessee people. Why do you elect these ignorant people?
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thank you to everyone who showed up, sent pizza, delivered a speech, chanted, bore witness, provided safety, and elevated what happened in Nashville yesterday
organizers from across Tennessee came together to support teachers & students in standing up to fascism
incredible 💞
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oh god "Marsha" is trending... 😩😩😩😩
for everyone outside of Tennessee, please know that we're working our asses off to build network necessary to beat her in 2024.
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Yesterday, TN House Republicans voted to give the biggest corporate giveaway in Tennessee history.
Instead of ending the grocery tax, they voted to give a $1 BILLION handout to the biggest corporations in this state.
Can’t wair to knock on doors & tell voters this election. 😁
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solidarity from Tennessee! 🧡
montana republicans have shaken a bees nest in missoula, montana where hundreds of people have taken to the streets to protest the censure of rep. zooey zephyr
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so many of these Tennessee republicans are getting primaried next year, AND I CAN’T WAIT
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good morning!
did any of the major Tennessee papers cover
@SenatorHagerty
and
@MarshaBlackburn
voting against capping insulin at $35? 🤔
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This is Danville, Kentucky.
Population 17,000.
This rural Kentucky
@IndivisibleTeam
group
@DanvilleIndivi
wanted to show their neighbors
#NoOneIsAboveTheLaw
.
They believe
#POTUS
should be held accountable and
#Impeached
: do you?
#ImpeachNow
#ImpeachAndRemove
#ImpeachTrump
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🗣️🗣️🗣️FOR EVERYONE COMING TO THE CAPITOL TOMORROW🗣️🗣️🗣️
We’ve made this very easy website where we’ll be posting updates to ensure y’all have the info you need.
see y’all bright and early tomorrow!
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see y’all on Thursday!
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you know what they say: when you’ve lost hot Christian moms from west nashville, it’s over
@tnhousegop
“We can’t send our kids to school knowing that it might be the last time we see them.”
Mary Joyce, a Covenant School mother, believes our children deserve a
#SaferTN
to grow up in. Join her in imploring common sense gun safety measures for our state:
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today was yet another brutal day at the
#TNLeg
, but I was incredibly excited to see so many new faces at Cordell Hull like this
@MomsDemand
group from Chattanooga!
Keep showing up, keep being loud, and when you feel discouraged, remember November 2024 is coming!
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So what we’re not going to do is destroy our public education system so we can funnel tax dollars into religious private schools…
It’s a hard no for me and the teachers, students and school administrators I represent.
.
@CSexton25
,
@ltgovmcnally
announce they're forming a joint working committee to study "the impact federal education funding has in and out of the classroom" and if "the state can provide similar services without taking federal dollars."
@NC5
Sexton floated the idea in February
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grateful for everyone who helped me get here, including
@Kanew
and the
@TheTNHoller
❤️
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I’ll probably be trolled for this, but as a leftie, I’ve grown to like Biden.
his policies aren’t as radical as I’d like, and he’s still advised by neoliberal relics, but he’s able to laugh at himself and has done a lot for distressed and exploited communities since elected
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Boy math is thinking that rejecting $1.9 billion dollars in federal education funding will not increase property taxes in Tennessee
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Today I'm launching my campaign for TN House District 51! 😍 I was on the ground supporting the
#TennesseeThree
, and now I'm asking you to send me to the State House so I can make change alongside them.
#TN4Aftyn
@NashvilleScene
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Good morning! ☀️
Grateful for the opportunity to represent
#HD51
and honored to join the
@TNDemocrats
next session!
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italian national televison just reached out to interview the
#TennesseeThree
:
Tennessee is going INTERNATIONAL. 😍😭
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the Tennessee GOP has radicalized an entire generation of young women who are now coming for their seats
You love to see it.
I’m a mom, former teacher, and gun violence prevention advocate who is ready to fight for our kids.
Join the movement today. Donate and sign up to get involved at
Let��s move forward together.
#AlisonBforTN
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🚨 IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO PROTEST TODAY AND LIVE IN TENNESSEE 🚨
Remember the TN leg and Gov. Lee signed an anti-protest bill making most protest actions a felony.
PLEASE READ THIS EXPLAINER from Knoxville lawyer Chris Martin! Share with your friends!!
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Tennessee has the most regressive sales tax in the country but OKKKKKK
Parents will spend an average of $890 on back-to-school shopping — over $100 more than when Biden took office.
Bidenomics is a disaster.
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GROCERY TAX BILL FILED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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Sen.
@CharlaneOliver
and I working hard for the
#PeoplesAgenda
by providing universal pre-K and eliminating the grocery tax while making corporations pay what they owe in taxes. 🛒📚👏🏼
1 bill filed, 1 to go! 😍
#PeoplesSenator
#LegislativeBarbie
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is someone going to tell the GOP next year is an election year????
enjoy losing every competitive house seat due to this wildly unpopular scam 😎
At a Nashville press conference Tuesday afternoon, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders called the voucher push "an absolute conservative education revolution."
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Louisville, memphis and nashville would like a word
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at the laundromat mat and it’s $11.00 to wash a load of laundry
minimum wage in Tennessee is $7.25
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I’ve never seen anything like this. Almost 1,000 Kentucky teachers waiting outside the chambers, where the
#KYGOP
is hiding from them.
Tennessee, we need more disruption and more discomfort, or nothing will ever change.
#kyga19
#RedForEd
#120Strong
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picking up the formula for a neighbor: the entire aisle is under lock and key.
this country is so broken.
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chaser:
Obviously race is and racism is front and center in the events in the Tennessee, but another axis of conflict is the accelerating rural / metro divide, and the degree to which Republicans view growing, thriving metro areas as a threat.
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what non-Tennesseans don’t understand is that there are no checks & balances to the GOP’s state power which is why they don’t think expelling current electeds is a big deal
they can act with impunity because the only consequence (and remedy we have) are protracted lawsuits
Amid the chaos, House Speaker Cameron Sexton, R-Crossville, called for the vote, and the resolution passed with overwhelming support from the Republican supermajority.
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she’d like to speak to the manager of Google please
Sen. Marsha Blackburn today asked if a Google engineer who has criticized her still has a job.
“He has had very unkind things to say about me and I was just wondering if you all had still kept him working there," she said
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I look forward to Leader
@WilliamLamberth
being the first co-sponsor on my imminent resolution condemning today’s Nazi march through downtown Nashville
Go away Nazi thugs. This is Tennessee and you are NOT welcome here. Btw, why not show your faces so we can all see who you are? I would be willing to bet that none of you are from anywhere near here.
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cannot believe these republicans are about to vote down a bill clarifying that IVF isn’t affected by the abortion ban 🤯
Tennesseans deserve clarity. we should be able to access birth control and fertility care without fear of investigation and arrest!!!!!!!!!!
#TNLeg
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growing up in East TN and organizing across the state, this is the first year that it’s felt suffocating to live here.
the influx of QAnon/anti-mask mandate expatriates, the heavy, oppressive laws regulating our bodies & preventing our cities from passing pro-family policies…
CNBC is now calling Tennessee one of the worst states to live in.
What do you think?
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I didn't think it was this bad, but Tennessee is dead last when it comes to female representation in the state legislature per this new post from Sabato's. 😵💫🥴
@TheTNHoller
@VoteGloriaJ
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good morning to all the organizers who’ve sacrificed sleepless nights for Tennessee to finally recieve the attention it deserves
Tennessee has become a new front in the battle for the future of American democracy after Republicans expelled two Black lawmakers from the state Legislature for their part in a protest urging passage of gun-control measures.
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whatever happens next week, I successfully convinced my parents not to vote in the Republican primary
if you grew up in Tennessee, this one’s for you
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When I moved back to TN, I found my calling with a rural grassroots group dedicated to making their internet local and affordable.
Today, I attended a
@WhiteHouse
event representing
@RuralOrganizing
where
@POTUS
announced making internet affordable for rural communities. 😍
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reminder: Tennessee Republicans have removed any ability for voters to add popular ballot measures to a statewide ballot 😃
BREAKING NEWS: It's official — recreational marijuana will be on the Ohio ballot this November.
This means both abortion rights and weed will be voted on in just two months.
⬇️
@WEWS
@WCPO
@OhioCapJournal
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nothing like attending a burlesque show in Tennessee where they point out the exits and security in case “anything happens”.
this is America.
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🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
For those coming to Nashville or traveling to Tennessee, we’ve updated the website to include
#TenneseeThree
solidarity events across the state.
We’ll continue to update this website as events are planned!
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I’m sick to my stomach thinking about the billons, that’s right, $16.7 BILLION, spent on elections this cycle
imagine the # of meals, affordable housing units, renovated parks, libraries, healthcare coverage…
and, instead it’s spent electing people like Majorie Taylor Greene
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It’s the end of the month, and almost 60% of Tennesseans are at risk of eviction.
Are we ready to put our bodies on the line for our neighbors?
Demonstrators protesting evictions have blocked off both enteranxes to first city court, which handles evictions on the east bank for rents less than $3000 (most New Orleans evictions)
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one day they won't have a supermajority, and we'll remember how they treated us
Republicans have been testing chamber loopholes to kill bills backed by Democrats.
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very emotional this morning thinking about the people I love in tennessee…
canvassing, eating, marching, celebrating, commiserating, scheming, fighting for a better state…
we show up for each other, so please show up today for
@VoteGloriaJ
,
@Justinjpearson
&
@brotherjones_
❤️
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My Republican colleagues think that the Tennessee voters elected a Republican supermajority.
But in reality, they’ve created a rigged system that codifies the will of the minority.
🛑 gerrymandering
🛑 voter suppression
🛑 state preemption
🛑 statewide ballot referendums
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welp instead of giving Tennesseans a six month grocery tax break,
@tnhousegop
just voted to give a handout to the biggest corporations in our state
here’s the vote count! November is coming!
#TNLeg
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We’re a high tax state for families and a low tax state for big corporations.
It’s time to pass legislation that forces corporations to pay what they owe in taxes so we can eliminate the grocery tax.
‘It gets down to pennies’: Bill filed to eliminate TN grocery tax, increase corporate taxes
@WKRN
@AftynBehn
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so I’ve replaced three Biden “I did that” stickers on gas pumps with these bad boys in Bedford County, TN.
#AbortionIsEssential
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It’s been a WILD two weeks in Tenneseee.
We’re grateful for y’all showing up to
#TakeBackTennessee
from fascism, corporate control and white supremacy.
We hope you’ll continue to show up for our movements as our liberation is bound together.
👉🏼EVENTS:
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incremental change in rural Kentucky counties and massive
#GOTV
efforts in Louisville and Lexington.
Change can happen, but you’ve got to do the work. And they did.
💕💕💕💕
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every time nashville wins against the state, I stop whatever I’m doing and do a happy dance
💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼
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wouldn’t be here without my organizing mentors, community and, of course, the best House District in Tennessee 💖
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*hopefully to be filed on Monday*
😊😊😊😊
TN State Representative
@AftynBehn
proposes a bill to eliminate Tennessee's Grocery Tax, a huge burden for working people in the State.
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Tennessee voters: please pass gun safety legislation
TN House Republicans: nah…
We passed legislation to make ivermectin available over the counter in Tennessee.
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The TN General Assembly should put weed and abortion on the ballot
RT if you agree
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My parents driving a 6 ft wooden coffin from East Tennessee to Louisville over Valentine’s for a anti-McConnell rally is peak 2020 resistance.
not all heroes wear capes.
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line wrapped around the building:
YOU LOVE TO SEE IT!
#TNLeg23
🚨🚨CALLING FOLKS TO THE TN CAPITOL TODAY AT 5PM🚨🚨
We've heard that Jones, Johnson & Pearson could be expelled tonight during the House floor session.
PLEASE SHOW UP!
WE CANNOT LET THEM EXPEL OUR LEADERS.
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Tennessee republicans are going to bankrupt this state
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Looking forward to all the outraged Tennessee Twitter users showing up for phonebanks, canvasses, fundraisers, and organizing their neighborhoods in 2022 to oust Lee and the state legislature 😁
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watching the Tennessee republican celebratory circle-jerk is hilarious once you realize they've made it impossible to win races due to voter suppression, gerrymandering, state preemption, etc.
it's like Kim Jong-un holding elections and winning every time by even greater margins
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We don’t have to live like this.
There’s still time to show up and put pressure on the
#TNLeg
.
Many of the gun reform bills will be heard on Tuesday at 12 PM in committee— hope to see y’all there.
BREAKING NEWS: Shooting at coffee shop on Garfield Street in Germantown leaves one dead, four injured. FOX 17 News is on the scene and will bring you the latest details as they become available.
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Rep. Gloria Johnson was the first person I met with when I decided to get involved in Tennessee politics. This endorsement means so much to me!
Deeply grateful
@VoteGloriaJ
. 🥹
We’re in the final stretch, so please consider donating today!
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This morning, the TN Senate will vote on SB1971/HB1895,
which would criminalize supporting young people who are considering or seeking abortion with mandatory jail time and the possibility of an over $1 million lawsuit.
Should this bill pass, I welcome arrest.
#TNLeg
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‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
THE
#TennesseeThree
HAVE BEEN KICKED OFF their committees and their BADGES DEACTIVATED.
SEE YOU AT THE CAPITOL
@TheTNHoller
I’m with
@VoteGloriaJ
, who says she’s been kicked off her committees for the afternoon and she no longer has badge access. I’m hearing it’s the same for
@brotherjones_
and Justin Pearson. Johnson got a letter informing her of the decision just a bit ago.
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the problem many dem candidates in red states is they think they can outsmart their opponent with common sense
in an anti-intellectual political landscape, what they need to do is fixate on one vulnerability, exploit it, troll them unmercifully like Fetterman has with Dr. Oz
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those of us who have organized in Tennessee know nothing will change:
petitions, calls, emails, showing up to the Capitol, elections, organizing marches with thousands of people, we have literally done it all.
until these politicians fear for their lives like we do every day…
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I cannot believe, in an election year, the TN House Republicans are defending the biggest corporate giveaway in Tennessee history
the mailers write themselves.
can't wait for
@TNDemocrats
to run on ending on the grocery tax, making corporations pay what they owe… 😍
#TNLeg
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💖💖💖💖
I've seen enough: Andy Beshear (D) wins reelection in
#KYGOV
, defeating Daniel Cameron (R).
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nothing like your attorney general and governor being SKETCHY with BILLIONS of your tax dollars
Not only will Skrmetti and
@GovBillLee
not share the names of the 80 corporations to whom they want to gift a tax refund and for whom they want to rewrite the tax code to the tune of billions of dollars in tax breaks, they won’t even share their legal argument for doing so. 🤔
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no one:
literally no one:
Gov. Bill Lee: MORE TAX CUTS FOR CORPORATIONS
PSA:
@GovBillLee
keeps saying we’re the lowest taxed state… but that’s only when you group the rich in with the poor.
If anything Tennessee has gotten MORE regressive since this 👇🏽 (meaning lower income folks pay a higher % of their income in taxes)
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@jhollymc
@mattgaetz
@jhollymc
want to drop the name of the bar? I’m downtown and ready to make someone very uncomfortable
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EXPAND 👏🏼 MEDICAID 👏🏼 NOW
More than 147,000 Tennesseans have lost TennCare coverage since April, as the state insurance provider nears the halfway point of a yearlong unwinding process.
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My statement on
@VUMChealth
’s actions in releasing medical information of trans patients to
@AGTennessee
@TheTNHoller
🏳️⚧️ INBOX: We’re being told Vanderbilt
@VUMChealth
has sent emails👇🏽that they “regret” to inform people they’re being required to release records of any trans person on a state-sponsored insurance plan to the attorney general
@AGTennessee
“in response to a civil investigation”
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Everyone:
Nashville is so beautiful! So fun! So alive!
Me:
WE CANT PAY OUR TEACHERS OUR CHERRY TREES ARE GONE BACHELORETTES ARE EVERYWHERE AND I HATE KID ROCK
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is it too early to unfurl the “RESIGN CASADA” 16 foot banner in my closet and make some quick edits,
@CSexton25
?
⚡️NEW LEAKED AUDIO: TN House Republicans infighting over
#TennesseeThree
votes.
CEPICKY: “You gotta do what’s right even when you think it might be wrong.”🤔
Leadership says Barrett made them look racist, Cepicky says they're at "war", etc. must-listen.
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I hear that some folks are stunned by the Tennessee results: if you've ever organized or ran races here, you knew it would be double digits.
There are many reasons, but what we're not going to do is blame black party and caucus leadership ----
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Grateful to all of the moms, teachers, students, activists, organizers, dads and gun reform advocates here today who are bearing witness to this disastrous bill.
♥️🖤♥️🖤♥️🖤♥️
Here we go — the Arming Teachers bill is now being debated on the House floor.
Galleries are full of those against this idea.
(A reminder, it’s a voluntary program and teachers have to be approved and clear several hurdles.)
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There is no room for antisemitism — not in our communities, not in our hearts and not on interstate 65.
We as Tennesseans must stand against Jewish hate like this hate message painted by a white supremacist organization whose views are antithetical to an open society.
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