The FBI's gambit to label school board protestors "domestic terrorists" has backfired. Parents all over the country are doubling-down—the federal suppression campaign has given them new inspiration.

My most recent preoccupation has been with little-known Western New York mavericks defending their own, they are the flies in the ointment.

Bernie Sanders says Medicare expansion must be included in Dems’ bill: “This to me is not negotiable.” Pramila Jayapal says House progressive caucus agrees

As the mega-bill shrinks, @RepJayapal says the CPC still sees it as linked to infra. "It's really important that we understand the thin margins in the House and Senate do mean that all of us have to be on board. That is still our position: the two move together…

Jayapal on the $3.5 trillion social safety net package: “If we have to cut the numbers slightly, then we would reduce the number of years because the universality of benefits, and the immediacy of benefits, are absolutely critical”

.@RepJayapal says liberals were "happy" to see Pelosi support scaling back the number of years for programs before cutting priorities outright to address the price tag. She adds that they are willing to shorten years on child care & community college to make…

In response to a question from @sahilkapur, @SenSanders says excluding dental, vision and hearing coverage from the Medicare portion of the human infra bill is "non negotiable". @RepJayapal says this is also the position of @USProgressives.

Jayapal reiterating that progressives won't support Senate infrastructure bill unless it moves with reconciliation: "The two move together or not at all" (Short-term highway bill goes through end of the month)

BIF and BBB still linked, per Jayapal: "We have been clear since June that there can't be an infrastructure bill without an agreement on the reconciliation bill...The two move together or not at all."

.@RepJayapal says progressives are willing to support investments of less than 10 yrs because the "universality" and "immediacy" of benefits are "absolutely critical." "That, frankly, is more important to us than having it for the entire 10 years," she says

the overwhelming message from progressives is that the idea mentioned in Pelosi's note last night -- cutting programs entirely, rather than scaling all of them back -- ain't gonna fly. "We’re not going to put child care against climate change," Jayapal says…

.@RepJayapal on reconciliation cuts: "A majority of our members have made clear that they support the idea of keeping our five priority areas ... but if we need to cut some of them back to a fewer number of years, we would be willing to do that."

>@BernieSanders says in press call "the time is long overdue" for Manchin and Sinema to lay out their policy priorities, adding "we are prepared to negotiate" @RepJayapal: "We still don't have a counterproposal" from Manchin + Sinema

On a call with reporters, CPC Chair @RepJayapal says progressives still don't have a counter proposal to their $3.5 trillion human infrastructure framework.

The story is behind a paywall because this story is so shocking that it could only be told through a 5,000 word long, resource-intensive magazine-style piece, but I think it's worth subscribing to @realDailyWire for. Here is more of the top of the story.

Just got 4 mail-in ballots for myself & each of my kids. One's lived in CA for 10+ years and the other 2 are registered at their own addresses AND received a ballot there. I'd tell Stephen Richer he's doing a f'd up job with MC voter registration, but he's…