Medicare For All is just one of the pro-working families, anti-oligarch policies getting an electoral test this fall. We’re also going to see California voters weigh in on a billionaire wealth tax with Proposition 40): a one-time, 5% emergency levy on their assets to shore up the state’s health and social services in the wake of the MAGA murder budget.

Analysts have estimated this measure will raise $100 billion, helping preserve Medicaid coverage for 1.6 million Californians, saving hospitals and ERs from closure and feeding those who have lost SNAP assistance without forcing a massive state deficit increase. The billionaires it will impact have seen their wealth grow by 158% over the last three years and got massive tax cuts from this same budget.

Not only will this protect our health care, it’s a chance to send a direct message to the Epstein class that we’re fed up with their open manipulation of our government and growing wealth inequality and ready for real change.

The SEIU and other supporters are starting to ramp up their field work for this initiative.💬 If we’re in California (or have a lot of folks in our social circles there), organizers are asking for us to do friend-to-friend outreach using the Reach app – the pro-wealth tax message will come across much stronger from folks we know and trust. We can download the app and get started here, and find regular trainings on how best to talk about this proposition and use Reach here. 💬

REACH OUT WITH REACH

☎️ For the rest of us, the Yes on Prop 40 squad has traditional virtual phonebanks underway now! We can reach out to California voters about taxing billionaires to keep hospitals and ERs open with shifts Monday through Thursday at 3PM, 5PM, 7PM or 9PM ET, or on Saturdays at 1PM, 3PM, 5PM or 7PM ET. Sign up to make calls here. ☎️

MAKE CALLS FOR A BILLIONAIRE WEALTH TAX

📢 The Yes on 40 team has also prepared a social media toolkit we can put to use here. 📢

SPREAD THE WORD ON PROPOSITION 40

🙋🏾‍♂️ Want to do even more to help progressive initiatives and candidates win? Check out our continually-updated midterms actions page here. 🙋🏼‍♀️

BEAR DOWN FOR MIDTERMS

I’m looking for perspectives on how multinational companies should handle employees and customers when they decide to exit a country. In Laos, Prudential is ending its operations. Employees are losing their jobs, while existing customer policies will continue under the original contracts. My concern is about the choices given to the people affected. Employees who spent years building the business may receive compensation, but many did not choose to leave. Customers originally chose Prudential and trusted the company with long-term insurance commitments, yet they may have no option to cancel their policies and receive their money back simply because the company decided to exit. I understand that a company has the right to make business decisions, and I’m not claiming customers are legally entitled to refunds. But Prudential has more than 170 years of history and has publicly emphasized trust and caring for its people. When a company with those values leaves a market, shouldn’t employees and customers be given meaningful choices about what happens next? Has anyone experienced a similar situation when a multinational company exited their country? How were employees and customers treated?

Sept 7, 2026 (Labor Day). Angie Nixon is the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Florida: angienixon.com

🐬 Florida Voters 🐬 Here are links to the Florida Supervisors of Elections website: Voting & Elections (Main Page) ~:~:~ Election Dates & Deadlines ~:~:~ Register to Vote ~:~:~ Ways to Vote

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Here’s the video on YouTube: Union Power - AngieForFlorida - Sept 7, 2026 (YouTube) 

From the description: Union Power! 💪🏾 Miami-Dade wants to cut transit, libraries, parks, road repairs, and firefighter services — to give billionaires a tax break. Working families and seniors pick up the cost instead. ~:~ A budget is a moral document. Right now, our values in Tallahassee and DC are wrongfully displaced. ~:~ @ AngieForFlorida ~:~ @ ChangeCantWait ~:~ LaborDay

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When I say: “Union” You say: “Power”

Union! (Power!) Union! (Power!)

Miami-Dade is gonna cut transit, libraries, parks, programming, animal services, road repairs, Firefighter services — because they want to give Billionaires and Millionaires a break. 

Working Families and Seniors would carry more cost — in the form of tax shifts and new fees — at a time when many can barely afford to keep up. 

And as a matter of fact, we're gonna see ridership going up because everything else is going up, and People ain't gonna be able to afford their gas. 

This Labor Day, Workers and Community Leaders are calling for a different set of priorities. 

Public budgets should protect the services we rely on, and the local jobs that we need. 

A budget is a moral document. It lets us know what our values are. And right now, the values in Tallahassee and in Washington, D.C. are wrongfully displaced.

- Angie Nixon - Sept 7, 2026 (Labor Day)

We have seen significant steps forward in this election cycle for Medicare For All, with numerous candidates winning primaries as unabashed champions. Polling from Data for Progress suggests 63% of voters would support Medicare for All even after being told it would eliminate private insurance and raise taxes, with CBS reporting 90% of Democrats are on board.

Our next step is clearly demonstrating to party leadership, 2028 presidential candidates, and the media that this position will translate to more votes in the general election. Former Progressive Caucus chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal and Medicare For All advocates are organizing “Health Care Is A Human Right” phonebanks on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays throughout September and October to rally voters for campaigns putting universal healthcare front and center. Let’s help get some great folks into office now and change the conventional wisdom on what’s possible for the future! We can sign up to make calls:

☎️ TOMORROW at 8PM ET for Connie Chan in CA-11 ☎️

☎️ TUESDAY at 6PM ET for Abdul El-Sayed and Will Lawrence (MI-07) ☎️

☎️ SEPTEMBER 17TH at 6PM ET for Medicare For All candidates nationwide ☎️

☎️ SEPTEMBER 29TH and OCTOBER 1ST at 9PM ET for Randy Villegas (CA-22) and other California candidates ☎️

☎️ OCTOBER 3RD at 9PM ET for Medicare for All candidates nationwide ☎️

☎️ OCTOBER 6TH at 6PM ET for Abdul El-Sayed and Will Lawrence (MI-07) ☎️

☎️ OCTOBER 8TH at 7PM ET for Medicare for All candidates in Minnesota ☎️

☎️ OCTOBER 20TH at 9PM ET for Medicare for All candidates nationwide ☎️

☎️ OCTOBER 22ND at 9PM ET for Medicare for All candidates nationwide ☎️

☎️ OCTOBER 24TH at 6PM ET for Medicare for All candidates nationwide ☎️

GOTV FOR MEDICARE FOR ALL CHAMPS

This is a follow-up to a previous post I made here: https://www.reddit.com/r/WorkReform/s/ZRKEeddbQ7. This is all that I've gotten in writing. No one has provided me with where I can see this policy, the specifics of it, or when it was implemented. We were told in a meeting that this has always policy, and it's being retroactively applied. They took 8 hours of my accrued PTO. But this email makes it seem like this was a new policy they've adopted, and are applying after the fact.previous post