🚨 Public Feedback on accessibility of Long distance trains! As you may remember, the disability community was not provided this opportunity with the intercity trainsets and so we ended up with Amtrak purchasing trains with aisles that were not wide enough for full access.

Unions and strikes are so popular right now that in every labor dispute a clear and overwhelming percentage of the American people side with workers, not the bosses. And that’s just the beginning. Thread.

Arkansas For The People The Outrun Coalition We have to remember that the people that we recruit by November to run are the only thing standing between us and another two years of legislative sessions like the last one.

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Please join us, Arkansas For The People , Arkansas Progressive Democrats Caucus, panelist such as st state rep elect @AftynBehn and Vice Mayor Jade Harris as well as reps from RuralOrganizing.org next Thursday at 6pm est for Outrun Arkansas! Register here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Join Arkansas for the People, Arkansas Progressive Democrats Caucus, and The Outrun Coalition tomorrow evening at 6:00pm CST for a virtual Diversity & Rural Organizing Training! Hear directly from elected officials about their experiences campaigning in rural communities. Sign up 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Tonight!

Thank you to Arkansas For The People, Arkansas Progressive Democrats Caucus, and the more than a dozen counties represented in our The Outrun Coalition training . We are going to rebuild the Democratic Party across rural America in every single state.

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” — Angela Davis

Please stop by Cabot public library and drop a donation off to help Lonoke County Safe Haven support domestic abuse survivors.

The federal minimum wage in the US is $7.25 an hour. This is already a poverty wage. But did you know companies can and do pay disabled workers HALF that poverty wage? And it’s totally legal. Thread.

TIME TO VOTE matters! EASY ACCESS TO THE BALLOT matters. It should not be difficult for college students to vote. Look what happened in Virginia! It should not be difficult for any eligible person to vote. #Arkansas #LetsDoBetter

I’m going to drop off some sleeping bags for The Van later this morning with my dude @ARfromAR. If you want to pitch in for some warmth, shoot me a DM or reply here and we’ll help some folks today.

LITTLE ROCK EXTREME COLD WEATHER RESOURCES: The City of Little Rock, in partnership with The Van, has worked to provide a warm and safe space for unsheltered residents. @ARfromAR Starting Saturday, January 13 at 6 PM, East Little Rock Community Center will extend services

The Institute for Taxation & Economic Policy has released a report that assesses the progressivity & regressivity of state tax systems by measuring effective state & local tax rates paid by all income groups. Arkansas ranks 9th most regressive state & local tax system in the US.