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Instead of honoring the promise of 40 acres and a mule to Black folks after the Civil War, Jim Crow politicians compensated former enslavers. Now MAGA is using the same playbook, stealing money set aside for actual reparations and giving it instead to modern day confederates.

Germany doesn’t celebrate n*zis and our country should not be celebrating the confederate losers who fought for racial hierarchy so the wealthy, white few could hoard wealth and power.

We asked Senator Kevin Cramer about the potential end of birthright citizenship and returning to a time when Black and brown people were second class citizens. He kept saying that it had nothing to do with race despite it being part of the 14th amendment granting Black people citizenship.

Longer video of Ted Cruz calling birthright citizenship "foolish" and arguing that citizenship should be passed down by blood, which would lay the groundwork for the white supremacist faction to limit full citizenship only to those who could trace their bloodline to "European heritage Americans."

We just asked Ted Cruz what he thinks of the Supreme Court potentially overturning birthright citizenship next week. He called birthright citizenship, which granted Black people citizenship during reconstruction as part of the 14th amendment, a "foolish policy."

We asked Senator Josh Hawley how he’d determine which American born constituents would keep their citizenship if SCOTUS were to overturn birthright citizenship next week. Here’s what he said:

With SCOTUS about to determine the fate of birthright citizenship next week, putting the citizenship of thousands of Black and Brown Americans into question, our volunteers went to DC to ask Republican Senators what they think about the impact of this decision. Here's how Sen. John Cornyn responded

Tell Gov Hochul to make Wall Street pay and return what they stole from Native & Black New Yorkers. Act on Black reparations and back the return of Maple Bay to the Onondaga. Add your name here: airtable.com/appdkEQROTfE...

If you live in NYC, sign on to our petition to make Kathy Hochul take our repair mandate pledge to make Wall Street pay & return what they stole from Black, brown, and Indigenous New Yorkers and to back the return Maple Bay to the Onondaga Nation: airtable.com/appdkEQROTfE...

Last week we organized students to walk out from schools all across NYC in solidarity with Minneapolis and to free our city and country from the modern day slave patrol. Tomorrow, we hope to see even more students and workers joining the walk out to kick white supremacy to the curb.

Yesterday, our leaders spoke at the mass walkout in NYC about how this moment isn't just about kicking ICE out; it's about reckoning with the history of white supremacy that created ICE. This moment of reckoning requires us to repair the harm from its roots.

Only by making our country fully reckon with and repair the harm of white supremacy from its foundation will we create a truly free and equal future.

NYC students: time to take up the baton and walkout to free NYC and free America. We refuse to be silenced, we refuse to repeat history. Join the walkout this Friday at 11: bit.ly/nycstudentwalkout

Don't get it twisted: the MAGA decision to make millions go hungry and cut universal programs this November is about entrenching white supremacy.

NYC says Free DC! It's been 30 days since the MAGA regime began occupying DC. Today is the legal deadline for Trump to withdraw all regime forces from the District's neighborhoods. We demand regime forces withdraw from DC now.

We asked Andrew Cuomo whether he would commit to supporting reparations and making equality real for Black New Yorkers. He refused to do so as Governor and refused to give us a clear answer now unlike @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social who has already signed our pledge to back repair.

This morning, Get Free members of our NYC pod kicked off the week by showing solidarity with DC. Raise a DC flag or Free DC sign/banner in your community and call on your Member of Congress to overturn Trump’s authoritarian takeover ➡️ freedcproject.org/allies?sourc... @freedcproject.bsky.social

We are at a major crossroads this 4th of July: Will we allow a powerful few to whitewash our past and lock in inequality for another generation? Or will we take up the baton from our ancestors and repair what’s been broken—together? Take the pledge: actionnetwork.org/forms/take-u...

New Yorkers for Reparations received this video from @bradlander.bsky.social committing to follow through on turning recommendations into action.

Listen up candidates for NYC Mayor: reparations are a priority for voters. Check out what @blakefornyc.bsky.social and @zellnor.bsky.social had to say at the New Yorkers for Reparations coalition’s recent mayoral forum.

Zellnor Myrie spoke about how important it is for Black New Yorkers to get reparations and how he’d fight for it as mayor.

The first candidate to arrive to the forum, @blakefornyc.bsky.social spoke about his specific vision for repair and how it’s an essential part of economic justice.

Though he couldn’t make it, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social sent a statement (read out by the event’s moderator, Ivy) outlining his support of repair, how he would use the role of mayor to move that vision forward, and his commitment to our freedom beacon pledge.