Progressive Politics

Yesterday, Congress passed a bill that is so immoral, so corrupt, so plainly colonial, that it should end political careers. And it only passed because Democrats made it pass.

Let me say that again: Republicans did not have the votes to do this by themselves. It took Democratic votes — 153 Democrats — to drag this across the finish line.

And one of those “yes” votes belongs to a woman who has become a national darling, a rising star, a Democratic celebrity: Rep. Jasmine Crockett.

The House passed H.R. 7006 — a bill that, in plain English, does two things at once:

It rushes billions of dollars in weapons money to Israel (in addition to the hundreds of billions of OUR MONEY already sent there) and then it punishes Palestinians and blocks accountability for Israel’s crimes.

That’s not “balance.” That’s not “security.” That’s not “peace.” That’s complicity.

The roll call is public. The vote was 341–79.

Republicans voted 188 yes and 22 no.

Democrats voted 153 yes and 57 no.

That means Democrats didn’t just “help.” They supplied the margin. They made it pass. They made it law.