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We spent a year polling the American public on transgender rights and acceptance. 34,000 respondents. Six rounds of surveys. Here's what @charlotteeffect and our team learned.

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"Elected leaders and candidates should focus their efforts on how to protect and defend trans people, not using the issue for messaging purposes or purity tests." More from Mara Keisling's memo on our year-long polling of trans rights and acceptance. searchlightinstitute.org/research/the-p…

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Searchlight Institute@SearchlightInst·18h

Trans people don't need another politician introducing a "Trans Bill of Rights." They need leaders who can talk in language everyone understands. Who can build a broad coalition in support of equal treatment for trans people. "We have not come this far to only come this far."

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Searchlight Institute@SearchlightInst·20h

"There is reason for hope." Mara Keisling, senior fellow at Searchlight and founder of the National Center for Transgender Equality, on the future for trans rights. searchlightinst.substack.com/p/on-finding-a…

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Searchlight Institute@SearchlightInst·21h

We just published a year's worth of polling on transgender rights and acceptance in America. Voters across both parties express a consistent preference for equal treatment of trans people in public life and the workplace. We also find broad support for protecting trans people from discrimination and for ensuring that adults have access to the health care they need. That said, Americans hold conservative attitudes where certain policies related to gender identity and trans rights are concerned. The findings reveal the need for a reset in trans advocacy, public education, and policy development. searchlightinstitute.org/research/the-p…

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Spooky Charlotte Swasey@charlotteeffect·23h

There's a full year of thoughtful, detailed polling work behind these recommendations, plus a lifetime of experience from Mara. I think we've achieved something constructive, and I hope you'll take a look.

There's a path forward for transgender rights. Mara Keisling, a senior fellow at Searchlight, has been a leading advocate for trans rights and acceptance for 30 years. She’s seen public opinion shift significantly over that time. Trans Americans today are able to live freer, fuller lives than they would have all those years ago. But the resurgence of anti-trans sentiment in civil society and government should concern all of us. Over the past year, Searchlight has surveyed the American public on the rights and acceptance of trans people. More than 34,000 across six rounds of polling. The results provide Mara and advocates like her with a path forward — starting with a renewed focus on equal treatment and civil rights. Banning discrimination and harassment of trans people in the workplace or housing. Keeping politicians out of deeply personal health care decisions. Emphasizing parents and their role in deciding what’s best for their kids. Leaders should push for equal treatment and civil rights. And they should avoid aimless messaging bills or confusing language that only alienates the public and stokes anti-trans sentiment.

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tré easton@treeaston·23h

I’m so proud of this work. Too often the discourse is limited to “who must get thrown under the bus” and that makes all of this seem so small and trite. I think we’re better than that. There *is* a path forward for trans rights. Despair is not the only option.

There's a path forward for transgender rights. Mara Keisling, a senior fellow at Searchlight, has been a leading advocate for trans rights and acceptance for 30 years. She’s seen public opinion shift significantly over that time. Trans Americans today are able to live freer, fuller lives than they would have all those years ago. But the resurgence of anti-trans sentiment in civil society and government should concern all of us. Over the past year, Searchlight has surveyed the American public on the rights and acceptance of trans people. More than 34,000 across six rounds of polling. The results provide Mara and advocates like her with a path forward — starting with a renewed focus on equal treatment and civil rights. Banning discrimination and harassment of trans people in the workplace or housing. Keeping politicians out of deeply personal health care decisions. Emphasizing parents and their role in deciding what’s best for their kids. Leaders should push for equal treatment and civil rights. And they should avoid aimless messaging bills or confusing language that only alienates the public and stokes anti-trans sentiment.

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Searchlight Institute@SearchlightInst·23h

Read Mara's memo on the path forward for transgender rights in America. searchlightinstitute.org/research/the-p…

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There's a path forward for transgender rights. Mara Keisling, a senior fellow at Searchlight, has been a leading advocate for trans rights and acceptance for 30 years. She’s seen public opinion shift significantly over that time. Trans Americans today are able to live freer, fuller lives than they would have all those years ago. But the resurgence of anti-trans sentiment in civil society and government should concern all of us. Over the past year, Searchlight has surveyed the American public on the rights and acceptance of trans people. More than 34,000 across six rounds of polling. The results provide Mara and advocates like her with a path forward — starting with a renewed focus on equal treatment and civil rights. Banning discrimination and harassment of trans people in the workplace or housing. Keeping politicians out of deeply personal health care decisions. Emphasizing parents and their role in deciding what’s best for their kids. Leaders should push for equal treatment and civil rights. And they should avoid aimless messaging bills or confusing language that only alienates the public and stokes anti-trans sentiment.

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Searchlight Institute@SearchlightInst·2d

"It is hard to argue that lowering middle-class tax rates is more important than reversing Trump’s Medicaid cuts, ending child poverty, fixing America’s unemployment insurance system, or stabilizing Social Security and Medicare’s finances." vox.com/politics/48255…

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“If you’re going to have a trillion dollars — or maybe a little more — from new taxes on the wealthy, you want to make sure that those funds are addressing America’s biggest problems," @RadWill_ told @EricLevitz. “Shrinking the tax base does not seem like it should be a top priority.” vox.com/politics/48255…

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tré easton@treeaston·2d

As the Senate begins debate about really awful voting legislation, I wrote about how Democrats need to stop borrowing from yesterday’s fights to face today’s challenges.

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Former Senate Democratic aide @treeaston said there’s a viable compromise on voter ID that his party should be open to. “I think Democrats should absolutely embrace a form of voter identification. I get why it’s been such a boogeyman, and the way it’s implemented matters." As one possibility, he floated “a national ID card” tied to Social Security or another federal program, which he said could serve as “a one-stop shop for all your business with the government.” “States would obviously handle individual voter registration, but having a national ID card is not unheard of.” nbcnews.com/politics/congr…

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The grid is aging, transmission is undersized, and the clean firm capacity needed for a reliable system is nowhere near built. It doesn't have to be this way. Leverage AI growth for public benefit and lower costs. searchlightinstitute.org/research/seizi…

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An idea: leverage the data center buildout into funding the modernization of our grid. Start by establishing an American Grid Infrastructure Fund to resolve a decades-long investment deficit in the nation's electricity system.

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Adam Jentleson@AJentleson·5d

A few points here: 1. To a remarkable degree these nutty tax cut plans have triggered a negative reaction across the spectrum, uniting abundance bros and progressives and even some mod conservatives. I’m proud that we @SearchlightInst been vocal but we are far from alone, and in good company. 2. The pushback, such as it is, has been this kind of low-caliber, “well if you don’t support a budget-busting 6T tax cut that shovels massive benefit to the wealthy then you must not support tax cuts.” There’s a million miles of room between sensible tax cuts that help those who really need it and the kind of stuff that’s been proposed over the past few days. 3. Part of the point here is that this new fad guts Democrats’ ability to do *other popular things* like bring down Americans’ health care costs. If you spend all your money on tax cuts for the wealthy you won’t have any money left to do other important and popular things — things which also do not have the side effect of playing into conservatives’ hands by validating their narrative that taxes are the primary burden on the middle class and by narrowing the tax base. At the end of the day conservatives want everybody who pays taxes to feel like a chump and it’s both tactically and strategically dumb for us to help them achieve that mission.

oh. 👀 "searchlight's website espouses tax cuts"

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Brendan Ruberry@brendanruberry·6d

@natalie_12308 @daveweigel Some people are saying this, like @AJentleson

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Searchlight Institute@SearchlightInst·6d

“This is just totally playing on Republicans’ turf," said @AJentleson. Democrats have run for the White House on middle-class tax credits, but not a major tax realignment that would likely take over a future president’s agenda. “It’s accepting that the best way to get benefits to people is to massively cut their taxes.” semafor.com/article/03/11/…

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Jane Flegal@JaneAFlegal·6d

Ahem. searchlightinstitute.org/research/seizi… We could launch a public-private consortium tomorrow. We could make state tax exemptions contingent on hyperscaler transmission investments. We could pass a law requiring large loads pay a fee that goes toward tx (at state or federal levels).

U.S. utilities plan tens of billions in transmission upgrades driven by AI data center demand. Southern Company: $81B over 5 years. PJM just approved $12B at once. ERCOT: $33B in Texas. Trump pledged tech cos will cover data center costs, but transmission cost allocation remains unsettled and difficult to settle. Ratepayers likely to absorb some share regardless.

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How do we protect American households while data centers impact electricity demand and power prices? Start with @JaneAFlegal's proposal to leverage AI growth for modernizing the grid and lowering costs. From the latest episode of @Poli_Climate.

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