{"id":1765,"date":"2026-04-20T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/sessions-over-how-much-rubble-how-much-accomplished-its-news-you-can-use\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:56:00","slug":"sessions-over-how-much-rubble-how-much-accomplished-its-news-you-can-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/sessions-over-how-much-rubble-how-much-accomplished-its-news-you-can-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Session's over: how much rubble, how much accomplished? It's News You Can Use"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"News_You_Can_Use_graphic_(2).png\"Maryland is characterized as a Blue state, but getting people-centered laws through our General Assembly, with supermajorities of Democrats in both chambers, can be a years-long grind. As Progressive Maryland’s recap of the session (see more below) observes, “Although we cracked the Senate for immigration protections and secured a few additional wins, the fact remains that the state’s political landscape remains hostile towards people-centered policies. It should not have taken the Maryland General Assembly so long to enact these immigrant protection policies and in this current climate, defined by a worsening crisis of affordability, rollback of civil rights, and white ethnonationalist sentiments, we need elected majorities that will act swiftly and in favor of working people, not <\/em>corporate actors\u2026 A legislature that continues its legacy of stalling on people-centered policies or a legislature should be replaced by one that is responsive to the needs of everyday Marylanders.”<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s an election year. There is a countable, name-able number of Assembly members who are shirking their duties to their constituents and instead listening too closely to well-paid, and well-paying, lobbyists. Find out who they are and replace them.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
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