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<p style="padding: 0; margin: 0 auto; text-align: center; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.2em;">Bernie Sanders just gave a major speech on the need to break up the big banks.<br /><br /><strong><a style="color: #0099ff;" href="http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/break-up-the-big-banks/?source=rootstrikers2&t=1&akid=3908.2278211.0E1tuW">Tell Congress: Pass the 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act to break up the Too Big To Fail banks! >></a></strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 1em auto;">Agnes,</p>
<p style="margin: 1em auto;">This is big: Bernie Sanders just gave a major speech yesterday on how he’d take on Too Big To Fail banks.</p>
<p style="margin: 1em auto;">There were a lot of details, but here’s the most important part, something many people miss when they talk about Too Big To Fail:</p>
<p style="margin: 1em 1.5em;"><em>“If a bank is too big to fail, it is too big to exist… a handful of huge financial institutions simply have too much economic and <strong>political power</strong> over this country.”</em><br /><em>–Bernie Sanders, Jan. 5, 2016</em></p>
<p style="margin: 1em auto;"><strong>Yes, breaking up the banks is about political power.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 1em auto;">The big banks don’t just have a stranglehold on our economy, their armies of lobbyists have a hold on our politics, too.</p>
<p style="margin: 1em auto;">That’s why it’s so important to pass Elizabeth Warren’s 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act that Sen. Sanders talked about: It breaks up the banks, getting us closer to an economy that works for all of us AND a government where you don't need a lobbyist to be heard.</p>
<p style="margin: 1em auto;"><a style="color: #0099ff;" href="http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/break-up-the-big-banks/?source=rootstrikers2&t=2&akid=3908.2278211.0E1tuW"><strong>Click here to tell Congress: Pass the 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act to break up the Too Big To Fail banks!</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 1em auto;">All of the Democratic candidates have released strong plans to clamp down on wrongdoing and recklessness on Wall Street. There’s a lot of good in all of them.</p>
<p style="margin: 1em auto;">But here’s one thing to keep in mind:<strong> A plan that leaves the biggest banks intact means that there will be enormous corporations lobbying relentlessly to roll back even the strongest Wall Street rules.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 1em auto;">We’re already seeing it today, with Wall Street's attacks on the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill.</p>
<p style="margin: 1em auto;">Like Senator Dick Durbin said, even after the financial crisis, the banks “are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place."</p>
<p style="margin: 1em auto;"><strong>The 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act is a critical part of ending the farce of Too Big To Fail.</strong> It re-establishes a modernized version of the 1933 Glass-Steagall law that for more than 6 decades separated traditional, “boring” banking backed by taxpayer dollars from risky investment banking.</p>
<p style="margin: 1em auto;">Introduced by Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren, and Maria Cantwell, Republican John McCain, and Independent Angus King, the 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act is a rare example of true cross-partisanship in the Senate.</p>
<p style="margin: 1em auto;">The next president absolutely must be ready to take on the big banks, but we can’t wait. <strong>We need our representatives in Congress to work right now to break up Too Big To Fail banks.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 1em auto;"><a style="color: #0099ff;" href="http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/break-up-the-big-banks/?source=rootstrikers2&t=3&akid=3908.2278211.0E1tuW"><strong>Tell Congress: Break up the banks! Pass the 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act.</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 1em auto;">Thanks,</p>
<p style="margin: 1em auto;">Kurt Walters<br />Campaign Manager<br />Rootstrikers</p>
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