There's a key point in @AOC's first response that we need to make:

She admits that @jimmy_dore's plan to #ForceTheVote on Medicare for all would work — and how it would play out.

1. Threaten Pelosi
2. Hold the vote on #M4A
3. Lose

Then what she asks? Then we vote them out. https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1337619367857713154
In other words, @AOC's objections to the plan are not that it wouldn't succeed in forcing a vote on Medicare for all. But that the sponsorship list already tells us who supports it and that the leverage is best used for things like committee assignments and #PAYGO waivers.
. @AOC's admission that the plan would work is all the more reason to do it.

So we need the #Squad to go back to Pelosi and tell her:

"Here's the deal. You're going to give us everything we already negotiated AND you're going to give us a floor vote on Medicare for all."
"And for each day that you fail to agree, we are going to add a new demand on this schedule:

Day 1. A stimulus check
Day 2. Basic income vote
Day 3. Removing committee chairs opposed to #M4A
Day 4. Pelosi's whipping support for #M4A

So you better hurry up and take the deal."
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