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Sulma Arias

@ariassulma.bsky.social
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Executive Director, People's Action / Institute. Organizer, Immigrant and a Salvadoran-Kansan! Thoughts and messages are my own.

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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
👏 The Supreme Court just upheld all people born in the United States are citizens! Yet our work is far from over: the White House still plans to deport as many as 10m legal residents this year. 👉 Take our pledge at ppls.ac/protect to help keep our democracy alive!
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Take the Pledge: Protect Our Elections
We deserve to live in the country we were promised, where the people choose who is in power. But right now, those in power are trying to pick their voters. And that ain't right. The powerful few prof...
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
@pplsaction.bsky.social and our movement allies are making some big strategic pivots right now to meet the challenges of this moment. Read all about it in my new article for @npquarterly.bsky.social: Together we can, and together we will! 👉 nonprofitquarterly.org/how-communit...
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
🔥 drpenieljoseph.bsky.social makes a powerful case in npquarterly.bsky.social why and howwe must rise to restore dignity for all in a Third Reconstruction of this nation. Read and share, I will share my thoughts in this series later this month! 👉 nonprofitquarterly.org/why-the-stru...
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Why the Struggle for a Third Reconstruction Remains the Struggle for Our Times - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
At a time of racial justice backlash, a call for a full-throated multiracial democracy may seem audacious—it’s also a necessary movement to preserve US democracy at all.
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Denise Collazo motivates us all to support the kind of change we want to see in the world. Read her call to action in this thoughtful article. Thank you, Denise! www.peakgrantmaking.org/insights/embrace-philanthropic-capital/
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To Achieve the Change We Need, We Must Embrace the Full Potential of Philanthropic Capital
Every strategic conversation we have with our community could end with an invitation to invest.
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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 23/07/2025
Sulma Arias: Many people are scared about having their neighbors, family members, even themselves disappeared...This bill gives massive new funding to ICE and other parts of the government involved in Trump's abduction machine as part of their agenda.
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
👉 The grassroots environmental justice movement is building world-changing power. We're proving that the answers lie within our communities. Watch our new video and join us! vimeo.com/1072365583 #GrassrootsPowerNow
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The Fund: Network Collaboration
This is "The Fund: Network Collaboration" by franz barreto on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Honored to be profiled by Ben Gose in chronphilanthropy.bsky.social for People's Action's work to build a stronger movement for social justice through an #organizingrevival. 👉Read at www.philanthropy.com/article/sulm...
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
📢 Every one of us will soon have our own story to tell about a hospital that closed or a loved one who died, fell sick, went hungry, or was forced onto the street to pay for Trump’s tax breaks for billionaires. 👉 Read what we can do together at ourfuture.org/20250706/org...
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Organizing to Confront Cruelty | OurFuture.org by People's Action
Every one of us will soon have our own story to tell about a hospital that closed or a loved one who died, fell sick, went hungry, or was forced onto the street to pay for Trump’s tax breaks for...
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
A budget should reflect our values. This one reflects cruelty. The Senate just passed a budget that: ❌ Slashes Medicaid & food aid ❌ Gives tax breaks to billionaires ❌ Triples immigrant detention funding Tell your reps to #stopthecuts: ppls.ac/stopthecuts
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
😡 The Senate voted to pass Trump's awful budget, which cuts more than $1 trillion from Medicaid to give tax breaks to the ultra-rich. This is wrong. WHAT CAN WE DO? 👉 Tell Congress to DO THE RIGHT THING and VOTE NO on this betrayal of American families. Join us! ppls.ac/pb
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
🔥"WE ARE THE ORGANIZING REVIVAL!" 👏 THANK YOU EVERYONE from @faithinaction.bsky.social @popdemoc.bsky.social @gamalielnetwork.bsky.social @pplsaction.bsky.social @kairoscenter.org @bendthearc.bsky.social @ggjalliance.bsky.social and MORE at our first Faith and Organizing Summit. 👉 TOGETHER WE CAN!
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
📢 Trump's inhumane attacks on immigrants and campaign to destroy our social safety net have the same goal: grant unlimited power and resources to the ultrarich, at everyone else's expense. 👉 Read my latest thoughts on this at couriernewsroom.com/news/sulma-a...
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Sulma Arias: How Corporate Greed Fuels Trump's Assault on Immigrants and Medicaid
Make no mistake: corporations are calling the shots here.
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
📣 THANK YOU @groundgamela.bsky.social @seiu1021.bsky.social and everyone who is speaking out against the militarized attacks on peaceful protesters in Los Angeles. No human being is illegal. We are strong, and we stand together.
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
🔥 CONGRATULATIONS to Sandra Lobo and everyone at the Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC) on your HISTORIC win! Your vision for the Kingsbridge Armory will be transformative in your community for many years to come.
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
🔥 "We are the people, and this is our planet." THANK YOU to Keviea Guiden and Geneva Jones from Citizen Action of Wisconsin, sunrisemvmt.bsky.social and popdemoc.bsky.social for coming to DC to testify to the harms to our environment Trump's budget will cause. 👉 SAY NO TO CUTS!
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
📣 We have rights in this country because courageous people opened the path for us. So now it is our time to fight to defend and expand these rights! READ MORE from my latest column, in English and EN ESPAÑOL here: 👉 ourfuture.org/20250601/it-...
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It Is Our Time to Fight for Democracy's Promise | OurFuture.org by People's Action
Because courageous ones before us laid a path, we now have rights. It is now our turn to fight to defend and expand them. Nothing fills my heart more than when ordinary people speak up for the ones...
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
🔥 CONGRATULATIONS Amy, Anthony Tony and everyone from @hoosieraction.bsky.social on your BIG WIN as harm reduction becomes law in Indiana! Care Not Cuffs - this law will save lives, thanks to you! 👏
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
🔥 "Solidarity is our strongest weapon." Wise advice from @repsummerlee.bsky.social to@pplsaction.bsky.social @popdemocaction.bsky.social @vocal-us.bsky.social and allies on how we can STOP cuts to Medicaid, housing and food. We are STRONG together! #organizingrevival 👉 READ MORE at ppls.ac/field
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Into the Field: Solidarity Is Our Strongest Weapon - People's Action
Every month People’s Action shares the latest victories,campaigns and events from our member groups I love you, because you show up. You show up for each other, in the rain and in the dark of night, a...
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🔥THANK YOU to all the members of @cvhpower.bsky.social @citizenactionny.bsky.social @vocal-ny.bsky.social and all our friends from @popdemoc.bsky.social and RTTC who came to say HELL NO to housing cuts to fund tax breaks for billionaires! Stay tuned for more good trouble...
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
🔥JOIN ME TOMORROW, 5/8 from 11-12 EDT with @topefolarin.bsky.social from @ips-dc.org with @petercerto.bsky.social to talk about how we can ORGANIZE to defend rural America, right now, and win! 👉 REGISTER NOW: ips-dc.org/event/reachi...
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Effective Strategies to Reach the Heartland - Institute for Policy Studies
A webinar with Sulma Arias, Executive Director of People's Action, and Peter Certo, Communications Director of the Institute for Policy Studies and editor of its op-ed service, OtherWords. Moderated b...
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
📣 Today in 1975, Chicago housewife and @pplsaction.bsky.social cofounder Gale Cincotta testified to Congress about banks' refusal to lend in low-income neighborhoods. This led to two federal laws, #HMDA and #CRA, to end bank redlining. We must protect these laws and our communities - #getthecrooks!
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
📣 It's May Day, when working people everywhere celebrate. This year, we need to show no one will divide us: we will defend our right to create a home with a brighter future for every one of us. You are not alone. Together, we will win. 👉 Visit maydaystrong.org to find an event near you!
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
@rbreich.bsky.social is right: Trump is a disaster for working people. Prices rise while our economy shrinks. Who pays the price? We do. Who can stop this tyrant from driving our country into ruin? We can. 🔗 ppls.ac/pb to lift your voice and join our national team www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxtr...
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100 Days of Chaos and Greed
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
🔥 THANK YOU @citizenactionny.bsky.social and Community Voices Heard for letting U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler know the ways the Trump tax cuts for billionaires he supports will affect every one of our families!
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
👉 The illegal kidnapping of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a crime and a warning to us all. If we allow dictators to deny any person's rights, they will deny them to us all. THANK YOU #vanhollen.senate.gov for traveling to #elsalvador🇸🇻 , we must all do our part to to stop this abuse while we still can!
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
💰 It's Tax Day! Join @citizenactionny.bsky.social as they demand that our tax dollars support our communities, and the ultra-rich pay their fair share. In Peekskill at noon and at 5:30 p.m. in Syracuse. 👉 Get all the details at cit.ac/taxdayactions
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Volunteer Opportunities, Events, and Petitions Near Me · Citizen Action of New York on Mobilize
Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, fundraisers and more with Citizen Action of New York.
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🔥 Jose Vasquez of @commondefense.bsky.social is right: "We are not going to sit by and let two billionaires tell us how our tax dollars are going to get used." Trump and Musk want to fire 83,000 VA staff, which will cut care for millions of veterans like him. 👉 Thank you for your leadership Jose!
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
👏 THANK YOU to all @pplsaction.bsky.social @pplsactioninst.bsky.social members who joined #HandsOff2025 protests across the country! We CAN reclaim our democracy. What will it take to win? Read my thoughts in English Y ESPAÑOL here 👉 ourfuture.org/20250406/que... ourfuture.org/20250406/wha...
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¿Qué hace falta para que gane la resistencia? | OurFuture.org by People's Action
Una ola de resistencia se levanta. ¿Qué hará falta para que ganemos? Dondequiera que miremos, una ola de resistencia se levanta. Mi corazón se llena de alegría cuando pienso en cada uno de ustedes que...
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
🔥Wherever you are this Saturday, find a handsoff2025.com rally to join. They - and we - are everywhere. It's time to make our voices heard that we will never give up our democracy to the greedy few. We've done it before, now LET'S DO IT AGAIN!
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Hands Off!
Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the stre...
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
👉 As Trump raises prices for all Americans with tariffs, let's remember how #FDR defined freedom in 1941. "Freedom from want means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants - everywhere in the world." @socialsecurityworks.org
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
🔥 THANK YOU Citizen Action Wisconsin for strengthening democracy for Wisconsin and the nation with @crawfordforwi.bsky.social. This is a historic victory, yet EVERY day and for many years you work to defend our rights to speak out and vote. You ARE what democracy looks like!
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
🔥THANK YOU @ctcag.bsky.social and ALL the @pplsaction.bsky.social and @pplsactioninst.bsky.social members who let lawmakers know WE WILL NOT let billionaires take over our democracy, and WE WILL hold them to account. Read about our actions all across the country! 👉 peoplesaction.org/into-the-fie...
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Into the Field: Whose House? Our House! - People's Action
Every month People’s Action shares the latest victories,campaigns and events from our member groups  “Whose House? Our House!”  This rallying call may surprise you right now, at a moment when the GOP-...
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
🔥In 1978, Lois Gibbs learned her neighborhood was built on a toxic waste dump. She organized her neighbors and in two years the Superfund Act became law. She is a founding mother of @pplsaction.bsky.social and @pplsactioninst.bsky.social. THANK YOU, Lois and CHEJ! #makepolluterspay #organize
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
THANK YOU Lynn Borton for inviting me to join your @choosetobecurious.bsky.social podcast and Pacifica Radio show - LISTEN NOW to join our conversation! 👉 ppls.ac/curious
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The Transformative Power of Curiosity & Deep Canvassing, with Sulma Arias
Deep canvassing is built on listening, building rapport, staying in conversation -- sharing stories. Sulma Arias, executive director of People's Action and People's Action Institute, joins me to explo...
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
🔥What can YOU do to stop the billionaire takeover of our government? ORGANIZE. Join our weekly phone banks every Thursday to talk with neighbors about what's at stake, and the power we can have together SIGN UP NOW! 👉https://www.mobilize.us/peoplesactioninstitute/event/759686/
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Tax and Budget Fight 2025 Phone bank! · Peoples Action Institute
Congressional leadership are pushing through a massive tax giveaway to billionaires and corporations—while slashing healthcare, housing, and climate investments that working people rely on. We’re not ...
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🔥 THANK YOU Citizen Action of Wisconsin @sensmithwi.bsky.social @repfrancescahong.bsky.social for stepping up to defend working people in Wisconsin and everywhere with the Economic Justice Bill of Rights! 👉
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Democrats and Social Justice organizations reintroduce Economic Bill of Rights resolution
Democrats and Social Justice organizations gathered at the Wisconsin State Capitol gathered on Thursday to reintroduce the Economic Bill of Rights.
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
👉 Elon Musk takes home $8 million A DAY from government contracts, while Congressional Republicans want to cut $880 billion from health care. That Ain't Right! #savemedicaid
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
"When we organize, we can change the world." THANK YOU @hboothgo.bsky.social for all the positive change you have created, from Freedom Summer to founding C/LEC, Midwest Academy and Citizen Action, to laying the foundations for @pplsaction.bsky.social and @pplsactioninst.bsky.social !
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
🔥 THANK YOU West Virginia Citizen Action Group for telling Sen. Capito and Rep. Riley Moore that West Virginians' lives matter more than tax breaks for billionaires! NO CUTS to #Medicaid and essential care. 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5sj...
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Protestors rally in Morgantown against potential Medicaid cuts
YouTube video by WBOY 12 News
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
🔥 THANK YOU @hoosieraction.bsky.social for stepping up to defend #Medicaid in #Indiana! Your organizing is what the country needs right now to protect our health and the services we all need!
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
📢"What can I do?" to stop the billionaire takeover of our rights and democracy? Step up, and speak out, TOGETHER - join the @pplsactioninst.bsky.social volunteer team to help stop cuts to Medicaid and tax breaks for the rich! 👉 www.mobilize.us/peoplesactio...
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
👉 "Our fight to defend democracy is not about who you voted for - it's about who gets to live with dignity." Read my latest thoughts on what we need to do now, in English y EN ESPAÑOL, at ourfuture.org/20250316/bui...!
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Building the Resistance | OurFuture.org by People's Action
Our fight for democracy is not about who you voted for - it's about who gets to live with dignity. Right now, greedy oligarchs think our destiny is in their hands: democracy is just another toy their....
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
👉 Remembering Gale Cincotta, the legendary fighter who led the national fight against redlining and created the Chicago neighborhood group that ultimately became pplsaction.bsky.social with Shel Trapp in 1967. Her last words? "Get the Crooks!" True then, true now...
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Shoutout to CVH Power for taking real New Yorkers to Albany, day in and day out, to speak up for working people! #RightToCounsel #InvestInOurNY #CashForAll #GI4NY
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
LIVE NOW: @popdemoc.bsky.social March to Save Our Healthcare in DC with @sanders.senate.gov, @rashidatlaibfree.bsky.social, Reps. Pramila Jayapal, Nancy Pelosi and more. NO CUTS to health to make billionaires richer! www.facebook.com/share/v/1DAD...
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
🔥 THANK YOU VOCAL FAMILY @vocal-ny.bsky.social for sounding this alarm. ARPA investments must reach the communities that need them - not billionaires. #Congress keep your word to We The People! x.com/VOCAL_US/sta...
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🔥THANK YOU @planevada.bsky.social for standing up to say all Nevadans deserve safe homes! #AB223 #nvleg #housingfirst
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
When Trump lies, Americans die. If we let him give massive tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations, every family will hurt. Don't believe his lies! 👉 peoplesaction.org/america-to-t...
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Trump has demonstrated once again a brazen willingness to advance distortions, conspiracy theories & outright lies. His blame-the-victim revisionism over Ukraine might be one of the most striking examples. But again this doesn't help you or your family. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...
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In Trump’s Alternate Reality, Lies and Distortions Drive Change
Condoms for Gaza? Ukraine started the war with Russia? The president’s manipulations of the truth lay the groundwork for radical change.
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Sulma Arias @ariassulma.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Trump conflating cancer – a disease that kills thousands – w/ naturally occurring human neurodiversity is offensive. Autistic Americans have full & equal rights & deserve dignity & respect. Impugning the existence of our neurodiverse family, friends & neighbors is unforgivable.
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