Kaliko Castille

Congresswoman Janelle Bynum's lack of leadership in her first term couldn't have been a better example that she is unable + unwilling to meet this historic moment.

Here are just a handful of issues Bynum Is A Bummer is highlighting.

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Housing is a human right according to Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — but you’d never know it by looking at any major city in the U.S.

We’ve sold generations on the idea that owning a home is the only path to stability, while gutting unions, defunding public housing, and letting private equity buy entire zip codes.

This crisis isn’t just the result of “not building enough.” It’s the product of deliberate choices: deregulation, austerity, and a political class — including many Democrats — that treats housing like a commodity instead of a public good.

If you’re an elected official and only clinging to market-based half-measures, you’re not serious about solving this.

We don’t just need more incentives for developers.

We need rent control.

We need social housing.

We need to unrig the system — and put people over profit.

The question isn’t whether we can afford it.

The question is who our leaders are willing to fight for.

“There’s class war all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war—and we’re winning.”
– Warren Buffett

Today, just one day shy of our 249th birthday as a union, Republicans in the House voted to pass a tax bill so extreme it will literally cost tens of thousands of lives.

It passed by a single vote in a chamber of 435. Earlier this week, the Senate passed it too—with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote.

Let’s be clear:

This isn’t just a tax bill.

It’s a death sentence for poor and working-class Americans.

Over 17 million people—including hundreds of thousands in Oregon—will lose Medicaid (Oregon Health Plan). One estimate says this bill will cause 51,000 unnecessary deaths per year.

All of this… to fund tax cuts for billionaires.

And those cuts? They’ll add another $4 trillion to the national debt—on top of the $8 trillion added during Trump’s first term.

This from the same crowd that claimed DOGE would eliminate “wasteful spending.”

We’re told we can’t afford to house the poor, feed the hungry, or help every kid go to college.

But somehow, Trump and the GOP have found a way to light $20 trillion on fire in just 1.1 terms.

If you’re not angry yet, you’re not paying attention.

This is class war.

We’ve been here before.

From Occupy Wall Street to the Bernie Sanders’ campaigns, we’ve seen what it looks like when working people stand up and demand a government that works for us, not billionaires.

That same spirit is still alive today—in movements and leaders like Zohran Mamdani, who isn’t afraid to say the quiet part out loud:

This is a class war—and we’re organizing to win it.

If we’re serious about restoring power to the people, we need a pro-worker agenda bold enough to meet the moment:

✅ Raise the federal minimum wage to $25/hour
✅ Guarantee Medicare for All
✅ Paid family leave
✅ Universal Basic Income funded by a tax on AI companies
✅ Eliminating student debt and making college tuition free
✅ Lowering tax rate on 1099 work

These are just some of the policies we could pass if we had leaders brave enough to be class warriors for the 99% rather than hand maidens for the rich.