 For five days representative Cori Bush slept on the steps of the Capitol in an attempt to draw attention to the issue That is the looming eviction crisis that will result Because of the expiration on the moratorium on evictions and members of the Democratic Party leadership Just they didn't take this seriously. They knew that the expiration was approaching But yet they didn't take it seriously So she wanted members of the Democratic Party in Congress to reconvene She wanted Joe Biden to take action and because she was there for so long because she was so persistent and Relentless and got the media to pay attention that set members of the Democratic Party's leadership scrambling because this is a really bad look This is a pure disaster So guess what Cori Bush? She won she got exactly what was necessary She got Joe Biden to unilaterally extend the moratorium on evictions single-handedly so Don't be mistaken about this. This is specifically what happens when you elect progressive members of Congress had Cori Bush Not defeated Lacey Clay in 2020 who knows where we'd be currently because she had the idea being formally unhoused herself To make noise about this and guess what it paid off and this is really really important. She writes via Twitter on Friday night I came to the Capitol with my chair I refused to accept that Congress could leave for vacation while 11 million people faced eviction for five days We've been out here demanding that our government acts to save lives today our movement moved mountains And that is exactly right because as Jeff Stein of the Washington Post points out Biden administration expected to announce new ban Slash limits on evictions details TK But likely more limited than prior national ban follows major pushback from progressive house Democrats so again this reporter Jeff Stein is saying this is specifically The result of progressive house Democrats fighting for it And while Cori Bush remains on the steps of the Capitol or remained on the steps of the Capitol to fight for an extension on the moratorium on evictions AOC has been threatened to torpedo the infrastructure bill and That's really important given that the reconciliation piece is getting watered down by The conservatives in Congress so Basically the point that I want you all to to see me make here is that it is really important To get members of Congress who are progressive Elected Nina Turner could have been another voice here to fight for us and sure there would have been times Maybe we're Nina Turner Does something that I disagree with she makes a political calculation that I don't like or makes me feel uncomfortable Or she isn't there when I need her to be for a particular vote But ultimately at the end of the day having these members of Congress there to fight for what we also want is Really really invaluable so to the naysayers who were shitting on Cori Bush saying that this was all Performative and it's not gonna lead to anything all of you get to eat crow right now because she just proved you wrong Yeah, she actually cares she actually cares and think about what she got Biden to reveal here She got him to implicitly reveal that he was lying because as sam sacks points out This comes after the White House repeatedly said it didn't have the authority to do it They were lying just like they're lying about all the other stuff. They claim they can't do remember when they claim They can't wipe out student loan debt and that's exactly it So she bought millions of Americans more time so the moratorium on evictions was extended and now Congress has to take action necessary to address this legislatively Cory Bush did that so I'm absolutely pleased that she did that now I just want to point out that you know when I talked about this previously I made it abundantly clear that a lot of the issue here was the Democratic Party's incompetence And that's a large part of the picture as well Because they knew that the deadline was coming and they chose not to act and Nancy Pelosi made the decision to allow Congress to go on recess knowing that this crisis was ahead Joe Biden knew that the you know The eviction moratorium was running out and they all chose to not act and now they're blaming each other And of course that is the result of competence But it's not just incompetence and to say that you know incompetence alone was part of the problem here would be You know an oversimplification because another issue is corruption and this headline pretty much says it all So as Julia Conley of common dreams reports Democrats took millions from real estate interests before allowing eviction moratorium to end So it wasn't as if they were surprised the moratorium on evictions suddenly expired They knew that there was a deadline approaching but they chose not to act because they took legalized bribes So for more on this Conley explains as Andrew Perez and Joel Warner reported in the Daily Poster on Tuesday The chairman of both the real estate brokerage firm Marcus and Milch app and the real estate investment trust sx property trust donated 1 million to the house majority pack on June 1st Days after the CDC extended the moratorium until late June chairman George Marcus also donated $263,400 that same month to a committee that benefits the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's campaign and contributed at least 6.5 million to packs that work to elect Democrats to the Senate and the House the Daily Poster suggested that while Marcus and his companies are wealthy With the chairman part of a group of landlords whose personal fortunes increased by nearly 25 billion since the pandemic began both Marcus and Milch app And sx property trust stood to benefit from the eviction moratorium being allowed to expire So corruption is an issue here Which really I think makes what Cory Bush accomplished that much more impressive because she got them to take action That was against what their donors wanted So this is basically a story that really proves the importance of electing more progressives to Congress I get that people from time to time are going to have constructive criticism of members of the squad I do myself I get that from time to time people are going to disagree with elected officials who are there to represent us Seemingly, but overall these are individuals who are new to Congress We're trying to find ways to utilize the power that they have knowing that they are a minority in Congress And yet they're still incredibly effective given the limited scope of their power in Congress, and that's really important That's worth something. It's worth fighting for people like Cory Bush It's worth fighting for people like Nina Turner and let Nina Turner's defeat as well as Cory Bush's success here Serve as a lesson for all of us going forward when we see an opportunity arise For a progressive member of Congress to get elected. Let's not pass it up Well, you know, like let's not just like assume that they're gonna be sellouts and you know K to the establishment and not get involved in that race Let's actually get involved and fight for them because it's worth fighting for people who are going to fight for us Even if at times they disagree with us on strategy Even if at times they make political decisions that we can't necessarily understand or agree with Understand that ultimately they are our allies and it is really important that we send more of individuals that are similar to Cory Bush to Congress I think that should be really clear to people now