by MCDC | Aug 24, 2013 | Civil Rights, Economy, Events, History, Immigration Reform, Minimum Wage, Racism, Voter Rights
WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands gathered early Saturday on the nation’s “front yard,” the National Mall near the Lincoln Memorial, yearning for a bit of that transcendent sense of racial unity heralded on this spot by the Rev. Martin Luther King 50...
by MCDC | Aug 23, 2013 | Economy, Minimum Wage
Liberals have spent years now agonizing over why it is that many working-class white Americans vote for the party whose policies on taxes, organized labor and much more work against their own economic interests—the “What’s the matter with Kansas”...
by MCDC | Aug 23, 2013 | Economy, Education, Environment, Ethics, Health Care, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
From This Week In Richmond, Senator Ralph Northam offers an in-depth perspective on the issues and challenges facing Virginia. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3pDLiRgaDo&w=640&h=480]
by MCDC | Aug 22, 2013 | Economy, Ethics, Health Care, Virginia
In what has to be the least convincing pitch in modern political memory, House Republican leaders are suggesting to their members that they should forego a government shutdown over Obamacare and instead breach the debt ceiling over Obamacare. Reuters reports that “the...
by MCDC | Aug 10, 2013 | Economy, Issues
A tip-of-the-hat to Ginny from carolinedems.com At a time when employers are cutting workers’ hours simply to avoid having to provide health insurance, one needs to work 88 or more hours a week (in Virginia and 14 other states) just to afford a 2-bedroom...
by MCDC | Jul 24, 2013 | Citizens United, Civil Rights, Economy, Energy, Environment, Ethics, Farm Bill, Filibuster, Global Warming, Gun Reform, Health Care, Immigration Reform, Racism, Sequester, Social Security, Video, Virginia Election 2013, Voter Rights
The history of America is a history of change. The history of Democrats is the history of change that matters for America. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jDhEQE_fAU&w=853&h=480] The reason we won in 2012 was because supporters like you were the most...
