Welp, if the world is ending, I’m at least going to put the Jeep top down, blast Goo Goo Dolls and enjoy the 65 degree weather.

This is actually heartbreaking 💔

Dumb as a brick and just elected in TN07

We could have had @aftynbehn.bsky.social

WTF is wrong with you people there?

🎀 TN LEG WEEKLY RECAP 🎀

Christ has risen, but not in the Tennessee Legislature! The House passed a bill that requires state courts to cooperate with DHS 🫠

See the full update 👇🏻

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Rep @aftynbehn.bsky.social calls for public release of Oracle jobs reports after state gifted $65mm for promised jobs

Larry Ellison does not care about creating jobs in Tennessee I doubt he ever intended to. He will keep the money and our republican majority will let him.

Thank you @aftynbehn.bsky.social!

Corporations keep making and breaking promises and Tennessee workers and taxpayers are losing.

Rep. Behn: Oracle promised Tennessee 6,000 jobs. They've delivered 637, and now they're laying off workers. Rep. Behn calls on TNECD to release Oracle's overdue jobs report after mass layoffs.

Something about me?

I’m always going to be a bulldog when it comes how Tennessee tax dollars are spent

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May we all have the courage and moral clarity of these teenage Muslim-Tennesseans. They should be spending their afternoon playing outside and instead they’re at the Tennessee Legislature begging electeds to recognize their humanity. They deserve better. We have to do better.

Just think, we could’ve had @aftynbehn.bsky.social instead of just another Trump sycophant. 😢

Pink Chair Playback & Preview [2026, Episode 7] A segment where Rep. Aftyn Behn records a video from the elusive "pink chair" in her office and provides a playback and preview of her week at the Tennessee General Assembly.

🎀TN WEEKLY LEGISLATIVE PREVIEW🎀

Fell asleep last night before posting this video, but here's what happened last week! This week? I need folks to be VOCAL about HB2526, which would send DCS foster kids to juvenile detention centers.

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Rep. Behn on Passage of HB754: “History shows us what happens when governments start making lists." HB754 mandates a patient surveillance database, imposes punitive penalties on providers, and eliminates local protections for transgender Tennesseans

Yesterday, the Tennessee House passed a bill to create a registry of trans Tennesseans.

History shows us what happens when governments start making list of their citizens. It doesn’t end well.

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This is my State Rep District 51 and she is AWESOME. She is power and she fights for the people.

THE REAL BORDER CRISIS? KENTUCKY'S CHEAP GROCERIES

Today, I'll present our plan to #EndTheGroceryTax by closing corporate loopholes. A recent report shows that Tennessee could recoup $800 million by closing loopholes, enough to end the state sales tax on food.

"The three largest PBMs are on the Fortune 10... They are the largest companies in the country, short of Amazon and Walmart."

AELP Sr. Fellow Benjamin Jolley spoke to @aftynbehn.bsky.social about how corporate middlemen are driving independent pharmacies out of business👇

BUT WAIT... THERE'S MORE!

We're launching the third and final video in our #Pot4Potholes video series as Senator Campbell presents the bill in the Senate Judiciary this week. Call your lawmakers today and tell them "there could be more" with #Pot4Potholes.

The Truth CVS Doesn't Want You To Hear Breaking Up Pharmacy Monopolies, Not Closing Pharmacies

CVS is big mad about a bill that would break up their vertically integrated business model.

Spoke with @benjaminjolley.bsky.social at @econliberties.bsky.social about the efforts to break up #BigMedicine.

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🎀TN WEEKLY LEGISLATIVE RECAP

HB793 passed (but 3 Republicans broke ranks 👀), CVS is texting Tennesseans about monopoly bills, and next week looks like a Waffle House at 2 a.m.—loud, chaotic, and possibly involving flying hash browns. Buckle up.

Screenshot of a stunning website indicating newsletters or Charlene Oliver, Heidi Campbell, and Aftyn Behn

By request, I’ve started including newsletters from Tennessee General Assembly members who represent Nashville on www.nashvillenewsletters.org. For now, they’re not included in the main feed, but you can see them on the “State Legislators” tab. If your rep has a newsletter and it’s not here, plz DM!

🎀TN LEGISLATIVE WEEKLY RECAP

Check out the full #PinkChairPlayback on my Substack!

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@aftynbehn.bsky.social is Leslie Knope with a potty mouth [complimentary]

TN women like @aftynbehn.bsky.social, @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social & @kristiburke.bsky.social

are making me feel like there’s some hope for the state of TN.

📣TOWNHALL SATURDAY 📣

Join us for an East Nashville town hall Saturday morning at Stratford High School from 10-12 PM!

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Undocumented people pay more in taxes than most corporations. But sure, let’s pretend this is about taxes. If it actually were, Lambert wouldn’t have voted to give corporations $1.5 billion in tax breaks and refunds last session.

Yesss!!! TN infrastructure NEEDS this! And the people want it!

She actually means head to @hubnashville.bsky.social and let the pothole king cook and fill that up before you get home from work today.

In Michigan, there were terrible roads for years with a Republican govt. When it was pointed out that the cost of terrible roads was an average $3000 per year in repairs per vehicle (tires, shocks, struts, damaged wheels, car accidents) Democrats were elected - roads got fixed. Damage was reduced

TELL YOUR LAWMAKERS TO SUPPORT #POT4POTHOLES

Today is Cannabis Day on the Hill, which means we're asking Tennesseans to reach out to their legislators and tell them Pot for Potholes just makes sense. Head to pot4potholes.com?utm... and submit your worst pothole for a prize today

So proud of Sen. Oliver and @aftynbehn.bsky.social for passing this great bill.

The Tennessee Legislature is focused on the wrong things. Call your legislators and ask them what they’re doing to make life more affordable for Tennesseans. 💓

#EndTheGroceryTax🛒

Yeah not true — they just want to preserve their monopolistic power