by MCDC | Feb 4, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Civil Rights, News, Video
The video intersperses clips from Wisconsin Governor (and presumed presidential candidate) Scott Walker’s recent state of the state speech with video of Walker’s State Capitol Police arresting people for observing other people singing folk songs in the...
by MCDC | Jan 18, 2015 | 2016 General Election, News, Taxes
By Jia Lynn Yang President Obama will unveil a slew of new taxes targeting the wealthiest Americans in his State of the Union address Tuesday. And there’s one person in particular who would be hit extra hard if the policies ever became law: Mitt Romney. When...
by MCDC | Jan 15, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Economy, GOP Shutdown, Issues
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet Across the #GOP, there’s been an outbreak of claims by party leaders and presidential candidates that Republicans deserve credit for a slow-but-steady economic recovery, and that the GOP is the emerging champion of still-struggling...
by MCDC | Jan 15, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, History, News, Social Security
And yet, on the very first day that the new larger House Republican majority got to work, it made a move that could mean some 11 million people who receive Social Security disability benefits will see their lifeline benefits cut by 20% in 2016—or even cuts to Social...
by MCDC | Jan 14, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Economy, Video
by MCDC | Jan 13, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Economy, Employment, Health Care, Income Inequality, News
Why do half of his state’s residents want to leave? Strip away his antics, and there’s a devastating economic story By Robert Hennelly Late last year a Monmouth University/ Asbury Park Press poll found that half of the New Jersey residents surveyed wanted...
