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Defend America Action @defendamericaaction.org · 4h

Nearly 70% of Americans say the economy’s on the wrong track—and they’re right.

Trump’s tariffs, instability, and inflationary pressure have made it harder to buy a home, save money, or plan for the future.

Defend America Action @defendamericaaction.org · 1d

Housing. Groceries. Electricity. Everything costs more — and Republicans want to add higher health care bills on top of it.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries says what we’re all thinking: Enough is enough.

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 1d

Schumer: If you’re a 55-year-old couple making $80,000 a year, you know how much you’ll have to pay for insurance? $25,000.

How is the average American family supposed to sit around the kitchen table on a Friday night and figure out how to pay the bills?

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CAP Action @americanprogressaction.org · 2d

Republicans are holding our government hostage so billionaires can get a tax break while you pay double for your health insurance.

A political graphic featuring a red-tinted, inverted image of the U.S. Capitol building against a black background. Large, bold white text is superimposed below the inverted image, reading: "Republicans shutdown the government because Democrats refused to defund your health insurance."

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Defend America Action @defendamericaaction.org · 2d

American farmers are paying the price for Trump’s trade war.

📈 Farm production costs are up $12 billion in a year.
📈 Bankruptcies at their highest since 2021.

This isn’t “America First.” It’s America’s farmers last.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

My message to Kristi Noem is clear: Get out of Chicago.

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Defend America Action @defendamericaaction.org · 2d

Woodhouse: There’s a health care crisis in this country. Republicans could fix it — but in this funding process, they won’t even talk about it. They’re trying to jam through a partisan, backroom bill. They want to shove it down the throats of the American people.

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Defend America Action @defendamericaaction.org · 5d

Trump and MAGA Republicans shut down the government—and now they’re panicking. Why? Because Americans know exactly who’s to blame for the skyrocketing health care crisis: Trump and the GOP.

Defend America Action @defendamericaaction.org · 5d

Poll after poll shows Americans know who’s responsible for the shutdown—and they’re frustrated that Republicans in Congress are on vacation instead of fixing the health care crisis families are facing.

Defend America Action @defendamericaaction.org · 6d

🚨 Trump’s economy just lost 32,000 jobs in one month. Economists predicted gains. Instead? Pain for working families. Welcome to stagflation.

The Trump Effect: Republicans Driving U.S. Economy Towards Stagflation — Defend America Action

This week has been a chaotic mess for Donald Trump’s economy, as stagnant growth and price increases drive us closer and closer to America’s first period of stagflation in fifty...

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Defend America Action @defendamericaaction.org · 6d

Murphy: If we provide the votes for a budget without any protections against the lawlessness, then the lawlessness will just increase and expedite—and it will look as if Democrats have given a bipartisan endorsement of the lawlessness. I'm not going to be bullied into voting for an immoral budget.

Defend America Action @defendamericaaction.org · 6d

Rep. Greg Casar: The message is just health care over billionaires. I feel like every day of the week we can stand behind making sure folks have their health care while these guys try to give tax breaks to their best friends.

Defend America Action @defendamericaaction.org · 6d

Sen. Chris Murphy: The more that Donald Trump acts illegally, the more that he shuts off money only for Democratic states, the more that he threatens to illegally fire federal workers, the stiffer our spine should become.

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Defend America Action @defendamericaaction.org · 7d

BREAKING: The number of jobs created in August has been revised from 54,000 down to -3,000.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Jeffries: "We're headed into the meeting [with Trump] to have a good faith negotiation about landing the plane in a way that avoids a government shutdown but does not continue the Republican assault on the healthcare of the American people."

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Defend America Action @defendamericaaction.org · 9d

Small businesses are the backbone of our economy. Trump's tariffs are crushing them—raising costs, cutting jobs, and forcing owners to make impossible choices. America’s policies should defend local shops, not suffocate them.

Small Businesses Wither Under Trump’s Tariffs: ‘It’s Hard to Breathe’

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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 9d

"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and most inhuman."

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1966

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Defend America Action @defendamericaaction.org · 12d

“When you stand up to a bully, you win.”

Rep. Jasmine Crockett reminds us: democracy survives only if we refuse to bend to threats.

That’s the America worth defending.

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Defend America Action @defendamericaaction.org · 14d

Gavin Newsom: “Masked men jumping out of unmarked cars. People disappearing. No due process. No oversight. Zero accountability. Happening in the United States of America today.”

This is Trump’s America. We can’t let it be our future

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Defend America Action @defendamericaaction.org · 15d

“Imagine me at a public meeting: I will talk, and you may not. Criticize me, and I’ll shut you down.”

Mitch Landrieu reminds us: freedom means reading what you want, speaking your mind, and holding leaders accountable. When those freedoms are threatened, every American has a stake.

Defend America Action @defendamericaaction.org · 16d

Rep. Becca Balint: I think Tom Homan should absolutely be held accountable for being caught with $50,000 cash in a bag—I think he should resign. He is a disgrace to this government.

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Defend America Action @defendamericaaction.org · 19d

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries is right: what we’re seeing is a pay-to-play scheme. Bullying companies into silence isn’t democracy—it’s corruption.

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Defend America Action @defendamericaaction.org · 21d

Senator Schumer: We have seen the enormous damage done to the American people by some of things that have been passed by Trump and the Republican Congress. We see it with health care. We see it with tariffs. We see it with energy costs. The American people are demanding that we help.

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Defend America Action @defendamericaaction.org · 21d

New numbers show inflation climbed in August as Americans are noticing Trump’s terrible, unpopular tariff policy is failing them as costs rise on everyday goods, including groceries and energy, while housing starts fell to lowest since May.

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Defend America Action @defendamericaaction.org · 22d

Farmers are going broke. Costs up, markets lost, bankruptcies rising. And Trump’s answer? More empty promises. Rural America deserves better.

Farmers are being squeezed - it's testing their loyalty to Trump

Why so many corn belt Americans continue to back Trump, even while feeling economic pressure driven partly by his trade policy

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