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What happens when the gov’t shuts down? What does it mean for families, workers, and communities? Our new Unrig the Rules explainer breaks it down—fast, clear, no jargon. Read now ➡️ bit.ly/unrig-the-ru...

1/ 🚨 Big news! Today we officially launched the Public Renewables Project -- a new climate org calling for publicly financed, publicly developed renewable energy. I’m honored to serve as Executive Director. 🌞⚡️

Public Renewables Project It’s time for publicly financed, publicly developed renewable energy.

📣 Launching the Public Renewables Project! 📣
1/ We’re a new climate organization advancing publicly financed, publicly developed clean energy to accelerate the renewables transition, lower costs, and increase worker power.
🔗 www.publicrenewables.org

Introduction to AI and Worker Power: Understanding Key Issues and Impacts for Workers — Congressional Progressive Caucus Center

AI is transforming work—from hiring to surveillance to wages. Without safeguards, it risks eroding worker rights. With worker voice & strong policy, it can protect & uplift.

Read our new explainer on AI + worker power: www.progressivecaucuscenter.org/explainer-20...

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Unrig the Rules - September 2, 2025: Big September Deadlines to Know — Congressional Progressive Caucus Center

🚨 Congress is back with BIG September deadlines:

🗓️ Sept 10: Will the DC “crime emergency” takeover be extended?

🗓️ Sept 30: Gov’t funding runs out + key programs at risk.

Stay informed with Unrig the Rules: bit.ly/unrig-the-ru...

For more on how the bloated military budget impacts our communities here at home, check out CPC Center's Militarism at Home project: bit.ly/militarism-at-home

YouTube video by Congressional Progressive Caucus Center How the Bloated Pentagon Budget Militarizes Immigration Enforcement - Netroots Nation 2025 #NN25

📌 The bloated Pentagon budget is not abstract—it fuels the daily harm immigrant communities face.

Let’s keep organizing to shift resources and rewrite priorities.

Watch the full panel here: youtu.be/PVs8cpHWezU

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Thanks to everyone who joined our #nn25 panel on Pentagon spending + immigration enforcement!

Foreign Affairs — Congressional Progressive Caucus Center The CPC Center partners with progressive policy experts and organizers to challenge militarism, expose the true costs of U.S. foreign policy, and advance a vision rooted in human rights, diplomacy, an...

For more on how the bloated military budget impacts our communities here at home, check out CPC Center's Militarism at Home project: bit.ly/militarism-at-home

Thanks to everyone who joined our #nn25 panel on Pentagon spending + immigration enforcement.

Military gear doesn’t belong in our communities—or in ICE’s hands.

Let’s keep organizing to demilitarize and defend.

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We don’t merely imagine a just future—we organize toward it. The CPC Center unites frontline communities, policy experts, and movement leaders to fight for racial, economic, climate, and gender justice.

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Approaching Trade and Tariffs from a Progressive, Pro-Worker Point of View — Congressional Progressive Caucus Center

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📘 Our new explainer lays out a roadmap for fair, just, pro-worker trade that centers communities—not corporations.

Read and share:
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Progressives must lead on trade.

This isn’t just economic policy—it’s a racial, gender, and climate justice issue. A better future for workers means rewriting the rules and rejecting corporate capture.

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Trump’s trade agenda isn’t pro-worker—it’s a con.
Behind closed-door deals and empty rhetoric, his policies serve the wealthy, not working people. We need transparency, accountability, and worker voices at the table.

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Unions built the American middle class.
Progressive trade policy must go hand-in-hand with strengthening workers’ rights:
✅ Fund the NLRB
✅ Repeal anti-union executive orders
✅ Pass the PRO Act
✅ Enforce labor standards across borders

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Building a strong manufacturing economy requires more than tariffs.

We need public investment, workforce development, and policies that reward union labor—like the CHIPS Act and Inflation Reduction Act.

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Tariffs aren’t inherently good or bad. Like taxes, they’re a tool.

But Trump wields them like a weapon—rewarding cronies, hurting workers.

We need strategic, targeted tariffs that support labor rights, climate action, and domestic manufacturing.

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For decades, corporate-led trade deals like NAFTA and the USMCA have gutted U.S. jobs, suppressed wages, and undermined communities.

Meanwhile, Trump’s erratic tariffs create more chaos than solutions.

We need a new approach.

Approaching Trade and Tariffs from a Progressive, Pro-Worker Point of View — Congressional Progressive Caucus Center

🧵 THREAD: What does progressive, pro-worker trade policy actually look like? It’s not Trump’s chaos tariffs — it’s strategic, transparent, and rooted in justice. Let’s break it down. 👇🏽

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YouTube video by Congressional Progressive Caucus Center 7.10.25 Due Process Denied: How the Trump Admin's Immigration Policies Threaten Our Civil Rights

Neha Desai, Managing Director of Children’s Human Rights & Dignity at NCYL, joined @webuildprogress.bsky.social panel to speak on the Trump admin’s anti-immigrant agenda, its threat to civil rights, and its lasting harm to children.

🎥 Watch the full clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEH4...

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CPC Center’s very own Mariam Malik is speaking at #nn25 in New Orleans, Aug 7–9!

Join our panel on how the bloated Pentagon budget fuels ICE + militarized immigration.

🕒 Thurs 8/7, 3:45 CT

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Stay tuned for more updates from tomorrow’s sessions!

And we heard incredible success stories like the Heights with Commissioner Mai Chong Xiong, parents and unions winning green schools in St. Paul, SolarNeighbors’ innovative low income solar model, Mnpls Friends Meetings, and solar builds across MN with Robert Blake of Solar Bear

Can capital help build justice and #sovereignty? We learned how with Joe McNeil Jr., CEO of Sage Development Authority, a 100% native-led renewable energy org chartered by the Standing Rock Sioux and Christina Hollenback, CEO of JusticeCapital

We need a #cleanenergyfuture that centers #racialjustice, #communitypower, and #workersrights - We shared models that heal past harms, build wealth, and strengthen #Indigenoussovereignty with giniwcollective, MN_350, UnidosMN and epni_urbanfarm

Minnesota is a trailblazer in the fight for clean energy and climate resilience. We learned about state programs from PeteWyckoff, Deputy Commissioner of Energy Resources at MN Dept. of Commerce, Aurora Vautrin of 100PercentMN and peterebnet of FundGreater

Unrig The Rules — Progressive Caucus Center

P.S. if you want to know the latest on #reconciliation, make sure you sign up for our #unrigtherules updates at bit.ly/unrig-the-rules

We dove into #reconciliation as #Congress threatens to end crucial energy tax credits. TheOtherMandela, lawyers4goodgov, EnviroProtNet, and KtreeThomas broke down what’s in the bill and what it could mean for clean energy projects in our backyards