Amar Shergill

Amar Shergill

@amarshergill.com

Dad. Attorney. Sikh. Punjabi. Chair Emeritus of the California Democratic Party Progressive Caucus. Long suffering fan of the Vancouver Canucks and Sacramento Kings. (he/him)

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Shawn Fain, UAW President: “Trump is president because we have candidates in this party who can’t decide who the fuck they want to represent.” Democrats need a real leader of working people setting the agenda for the entire Party. A change is coming...and I am here for it!

When politicians show you who they are, believe them. Matsui has failed the Sikh community and her record in Congress shows it. @maiforus.bsky.social is a fighter and will be a strong advocate for Sikhs and all communities. Vote for Mai Vang because it #MaiTime !!

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Today is the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. What happened was horrific. And then came a second wave: Muslim, Arab, South Asian, and Sikh Americans were targeted for how they looked, dressed, or prayed. I put together this website to share just a few of those stories… post911.org

post911.orgWhat happened the week after 9/11?Documenting hundreds of hate incidents against Muslim, Arab, South Asian, and Sikh Americans in the week after September 11, 2001.

I told CNN the truth. So many big wins for progressive candidates across the country but there are many in DC Dem leadership that are still refusing to support popular candidates because they are taking their orders from AIPAC and corporations.

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🚨🚨MUST READ UPDATE on AIPAC and Rep. Zoe Lofgren dumping cash and smears into the race to replace Eric Swalwell in Congress: 1. Senator Aisha Wahab is the progressive, anti-AIPAC candidate in the race, overwhelmingly endorsed by the Democratic Party and Labor. 🧵

Aisha Wahab is the future of the Democratic Party. Lofgren needs to get on board and dump AIPAC, or resign her position as leader of the California Congressional Delegation. Top notch original reporting from Sarah Ferris @ CNN shedding a light on similar stories from across the nation.

🔊Caught in the mother of all lightning storms on 9/3!! One minute, we are on a leisurely late night stroll around the DC monuments, the next we are fighting against the elements at the Lincoln Memorial! ⛈️⛈️⛈️ #WashingtonDC #DCStorm #LincolnMemorial #WashingtonMonument

LFG!!!! A historic day as @aishabbwahab sworn in as California's newest member of Congress, the first of Afghan descent. My honor to be at the US Capitol for this moment.

More video of confused Matsui (D-AIPAC) in a debate trainwreck! Serious question, though: Did Matsui actually think this response would work to hide the dirty money or is she so lost that she doesn't even remember who she made the dirty deals with? Either way, support @maiforus.bsky.social !

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48 seconds of a very confused Doris Matsui (D-AIPAC) as she (1) gets cross-examined by @maiforus.bsky.social (2) tries to hide her corporate contributions, and (3) gets booed by voters. This debate was a trainwreck for Matsui and a work of art by Mai Vang. It's #MaiTime

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thats how u fucking do it

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48 seconds of a very confused Doris Matsui (D-AIPAC) as she (1) gets cross-examined by @maiforus.bsky.social (2) tries to hide her corporate contributions, and (3) gets booed by voters. This debate was a trainwreck for Matsui and a work of art by Mai Vang. It's #MaiTime

48 seconds of a very confused Doris Matsui (D-AIPAC) as she (1) gets cross-examined by @maiforus.bsky.social (2) tries to hide her corporate contributions, and (3) gets booed by voters. This debate was a trainwreck for Matsui and a work of art by Mai Vang. It's #MaiTime

🚨🚨MUST READ UPDATE on AIPAC and Rep. Zoe Lofgren dumping cash and smears into the race to replace Eric Swalwell in Congress: 1. Senator Aisha Wahab is the progressive, anti-AIPAC candidate in the race, overwhelmingly endorsed by the Democratic Party and Labor. 🧵

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Final voting for the special election is underway. It’s time for every Democrat to get behind Senator Aisha Wahab for Congress. ✊🏼✊🏿✊🏾✊🏻

🚨🚨MUST READ UPDATE on AIPAC and Rep. Zoe Lofgren dumping cash and smears into the race to replace Eric Swalwell in Congress: 1. Senator Aisha Wahab is the progressive, anti-AIPAC candidate in the race, overwhelmingly endorsed by the Democratic Party and Labor. 🧵

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8. Big Oil and Billionaire PACs are also spending big with AIPAC, Lofgren, and DC Corporate Dems to stop Wahab from being an independent voice in Congress.

Let's be clear, Lofgren and AIPAC are on a smear campaign to portray Wahab as anti-American in a desperate attempt to block the people of this district from having a Representative that fights for them.

🚨🚨MUST READ UPDATE on AIPAC and Rep. Zoe Lofgren dumping cash and smears into the race to replace Eric Swalwell in Congress: 1. Senator Aisha Wahab is the progressive, anti-AIPAC candidate in the race, overwhelmingly endorsed by the Democratic Party and Labor. 🧵

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4. Then Lofgren and DC Corporate Dems tried to defeat Wahab in the special election primary; Wahab won by 26 points. 5. The only reason that Wahab is not in Congress right now is that AIPAC, Lofgren, and DC Corporate Dems kept Wahab just below the 50% she needed to go to Congress immediately.

6. Now Lofgren is out with a bullshit video incomprehensibly blaming Wahab for not getting to 50% when Lofgren could have made it happen by helping instead of joining with AIPAC to attack Wahab. 7. AIPAC is spending millions every week against Wahab.

🚨🚨MUST READ UPDATE on AIPAC and Rep. Zoe Lofgren dumping cash and smears into the race to replace Eric Swalwell in Congress: 1. Senator Aisha Wahab is the progressive, anti-AIPAC candidate in the race, overwhelmingly endorsed by the Democratic Party and Labor. 🧵

2. Melissa Hernandez is the AIPAC and corporate candidate. 3. DC Corporate Democrats led by Zoe Lofgren did everything they could do defeat Wahab in the regular primary; Wahab won by 21 points.

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We disrupted Xavier Becerra. Again. This time with Youth Climate Strike LA and Climate Hawks Vote at his 'Fighting for the California Dream' tour stop in Oxnard, in the middle of farmworker country — where the heat literally kills human beings in the fields every summer.

Trust Nurses. If the California Nurses Association felt this race was so important they needed to spend $300k on ads letting folks know that Mai Vang was their candidate and that Matsui had failed us, well, then you know this is the real deal. Vote Mai Vang for Congress! Let's get this done! ✊🏻✊🏿✊🏽

He actually said this last night, "I need Chevron." Becerra spoke from his chest in full defense of Chevron and the max contribution. Zero words about Chevron airdropping cash to stop us from having clean water and air. We cannot let this guy be our Governor. We deserve better.

Some folks are going to be disillusioned with Becerra after this. Remember, it's not their fault. He's very good at this. Just a shame that he chose the corporate path when he could have been a fighter for all of us.

Which side are you on? @tomsteyer.bsky.social @katieporterca.bsky.social

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🚨Hey, California! Let's pick a Governor! 🚨 We updated the graphic! Added a ban on fossil fuel money, a ban on corporate money, and ending the Prop 13 commercial tax loophole. The results speak for themselves!✅❌

🚨Hey, California! Let's pick a Governor! 🚨 We updated the graphic! Added a ban on fossil fuel money, a ban on corporate money, and ending the Prop 13 commercial tax loophole. The results speak for themselves!✅❌

It's not a purity test, it's basic morality in governance. Support for fossil fuel money devotees and CalCare opponents puts us closer and closer to a MAGA Top two. A lot of folks seem to care more about lifting up their favorite corporate Democrat than electing ANY Democrat. It's insanity.

The main stuff you need to know about the California Governor's race. AIPAC, Medicare For All, ICE, etc. (Swalwell is in this race for now but it's just a matter of time before some more news breaks; his time is almost over...tick, tock) @trackaipac.com

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Monstrous: link between California's long overdue wildfire aid and a bill to fund Trump's depraved war of aggression. Congressional Repubs are talking about linking wildfire aid to a bill to pay for Trump's war, in order to attract Dem votes. Tell them: HELL NO. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

actionnetwork.orgTell Congress: You cannot fund your War funding with wildfire aidThe Trump administration needs another $50 billion to fund its illegal, open-ended war with Iran - And Congress doesn't want to pay. So Republicans are shopping a dirty deal to trade wildfire aid and ...

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I'm sorry that we're in "first they came for" territory, I really am. But we are.

Elad Nehorai@eladn.bsky.social

The concentration camps will not only be for immigrants, documented or otherwise. They already aren't. They won't only be for brown and Black people. The targets will keep expanding. It will not end. The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.

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Agreed. Magnifique!

Denise Wheeler@denisedwheeler.bsky.social

Not only did the cybercrime unit in Paris raid the X offices. They rubbed it in and posted on X that the X offices have been raided. Then retired their Twitter account, so their final post is that they are raiding Musk. Absolute legend. Magnifique! 🇫🇷

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Bovino needs to go. Noem needs to go. Miller needs to go. But firing or impeaching any of these people will not unilaterally change what’s happening in Minnesota. That’s why Congress needs to exert some muscle over DHS/ICE funding.

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The purpose of any messaging is to move people toward what we need them to believe & do. We need people to see ICE accurately - as the gestapo, a criminal enterprise destroying us from within. That's why any reference to "reform" or "train" goes against our material & narrative goal.

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How embarrassing for Chuck Schumer, Kirstin Gillibrand, Cory Booker, & NY Reps Grace Meng, Dan Goldman, Ritchie Torres, Greg Meeks, Tom Suozzi, & Laura Gillen, that even Donald Trump endorsed Zohran Mamdani before they did.😐 Corporate Democrats just love snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

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The nation’s biggest private prison company — accused of human trafficking — is asking the Supreme Court to make it immune from lawsuits. Their argument? Corporations should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.

The Lever@levernews.com

The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims. If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.

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RIP U.S. innovation. Between gutting the H-1B program, purging US scientists from civil service, slashing research grants, and disappearing international students off the streets, our government has made a conscious decision to kill America's roll as a global leader in science and innovation.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social

Hey remember last fall, when members of the press credulously reported that Trump would increase high-skilled immigration? This will end it pretty much entirely. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Verified in the scholarship on reducing recidivism. Universal basic income makes sense and acts as a deterrence for the least financially able to avoid crime.

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Ravi ton Chenab puchda, ki haal e Satluj da. ਰਵੀ ਤੋਂ ਚਿਨਾਬ ਪੁਛਦਾ, ਕੀ ਹਾਲ ਏ ਸਤਿਲੁਜ ਦਾ। 😢

Most scholars agree that about 1 million people died during the 1947 British partition of India due to communal violence and chaos during the mass migration of around 15 million people. The violence was especially severe in Punjab and Bengal. www.bbc.com/news/uk-scot...