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  By  Kelly Garrity SOCIAL INSECURITY —  After launching a Social Security “war room” earlier this week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren is running the numbers on how cuts to the financial assistance program for seniors could impact the Bay State. According to data compiled by Warren’s office  and shared with Playbook, nearly 1.5 million Massachusetts residents rely on Social Security. The numbers, broken down by county, show that Massachusetts takes in more than $2.5 billion in monthly benefits from the program. The largest number of recipients are in Middlesex County,  which includes some of Boston’s suburbs, municipalities along New Hampshire’s border and “gateway cities” like Lowell, Malden and Methuen. More than 258,000 Middlesex residents receive $538,105,000 in monthly Social Security payments, according to the data shared by Warren’s office. “Donald Trump and Elon Musk  are taking a chainsaw to the Social Security Administration and threatening the benefits m...

  When I think of someone who is a righteous fighter, I think of Ayanna Pressley. Ayanna is one of the main leaders who fought to get student debt cancellation over the finish line — and I’m so proud to have partnered with her in this fight. ( You can read more about how Ayanna and I used the stories we heard from our constituents in Massachusetts and years of persistence to get this done here. ) As we kept up the fight for student debt cancellation, we continually heard the same thing over and over. That canceling student debt was never going to happen. That we were never going to get something like this done. My response to that was: You don’t get what you don’t fight for — and it sounds like you haven’t met Ayanna Pressley yet. simply put, this would not have happened without Ayanna — and the members of this movement. If you’re able, will you please split a contribution between Ayanna’s and my’s re-election campaigns so we can continue fighting side by side and achieve more wins...

  It's  O ur  D emocracy! Today’s Action: Get out the vote in the primaries! Today's Top Stories: Al Franken breaks the internet, humiliates Republican who lies to his face The "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them" author caught another Republican liar lying on air, and, well, roll the tape... Take Action:  Tell Facebook to crack down on dangerous Republican lies about the IRS! Anti-vax doc and Trump insurrectionist released from prison gifted ceremonial American flag by top Republican Dr. Simone Gold, who was sentenced to 60 days in prison for taking part in Trump's insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was released two weeks early over the weekend and greeted with open arms by Rep. Louie Gohmert, who presented Gold with an American flag that had recently flown over the very building where she’d committed her crime. Take Action:  Expel the congressmen who tried to get Trump pardons for their role in Jan. 6th! Democrats get huge unexpected news i...