by MCDC | Mar 28, 2016 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Citizens United, Civil Rights, Equal Rights, Income Inequality, News, Voter Rights
A first-of-its-kind gathering in our nation’s capital is putting We the People back in charge of OUR democracy. Democracy Awakening — organized by Public Citizen, the NAACP, the Communications Workers of America, Greenpeace USA, People For the American Way, the...
by MCDC | Aug 12, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Citizens United, Income Inequality, News
Billionaire industrialist Charles Koch on Sunday compared the efforts of his political network to the fight for civil rights and other “freedom movements,” part of a growing effort by the organization to emphasize its commitment to the plight of the disenfranchised....
by MCDC | Jun 2, 2015 | 2015 General Election, 2016 General Election, Citizens United, Issues, News
Virginia legislative members of ALEC include David Albo, R, Virginia House of Delegates[28] Kathy Byron, R, Virginia House of Delegates[36] Benjamin Cline, R, Virginia House of Delegates[28] Mark Cole, R, Virginia House of Delegates[36] John A. Cosgrove, Jr., R,...
by MCDC | May 6, 2015 | 2016 General Election, Action Alerts, Citizens United
Professors Martin Gilens (Princeton University) and Benjamin I. Page (Northwestern University) looked at more than 20 years worth of data to answer a pretty simple question: Does the government represent the people? Their study took data from nearly 2000 public...
by MCDC | May 2, 2015 | 2015 General Election, 2016 General Election, 2017 General Election, Action Alerts, Citizens United, Civil Rights, Income Inequality, Issues, Minimum Wage, Opinion, Virginia
From a 4/26/15 lecture in Sperryville, Virginia, by Vernon Gras, Professor emeritus, English and Cultural Studies, Geroge Mason...
by MCDC | Mar 22, 2015 | Citizens United, Economy, Income Inequality, Issues
Subsidies considered excessive, unwarranted, wasteful, unfair, inefficient, or bought by lobbying are often called corporate welfare.[1] The label of corporate welfare is often used to decry projects advertised as benefiting the general welfare that spend a...
