by MCDC | Mar 13, 2014 | Civil Rights, Economy, Education, Employment, Ethics, Income Inequality, Racism
Adapted from an article by DAVID SIROTA Code words are politicians’ stock in trade. As Republican strategist Lee Atwater famously admitted, that’s especially true when it comes to racially coded rhetoric about economics. Terms like “welfare queen” are obvious...
by MCDC | Mar 6, 2014 | Citizens United, Economy, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Ethics, Global Warming, Health Care, Income Inequality, Minimum Wage, Social Security, Video, Voter Rights
Senate majority leader Harry Reid gave a hell of a speech in Congress about the agenda of the billionaire Koch brothers, carbon barons who are the prime beneficiaries of Citizens United, the Supreme Court case that ruled that corporate persons had the free speech...
by MCDC | Feb 14, 2014 | Citizens United, Ethics, Events, News, Video
Inspired by Doris “Granny D” Haddock, whom at the age of 88 walked across America to bring attention to this critical issue, the New Hampshire Rebellion set out to traverse 185 miles and inspire people in the Granite State to ask all presidential candidates just one...
by MCDC | Feb 5, 2014 | Action Alerts, Citizens United, Ethics, Video, Voter Rights
Our message: You shouldn’t have to buy access to your own government. That’s why we’re building a movement big enough to force our leaders to stop answering to special-interest cronies and start answering to the people. http://youtu.be/bFtVCBNFgeo America’s...
by MCDC | Jan 21, 2014 | Ethics, Virginia
Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, were indicted today by a federal grand jury on 14 counts stemming from the first couple’s acceptance and solicitation of thousands in gifts and loans from a wealthy businessman during McDonnell’s term. The...
by MCDC | Jan 21, 2014 | Action Alerts, Citizens United, Employment, Environment, Ethics, Global Warming, Immigration Reform, Minimum Wage, Privacy
For decades, one shadowy right-wing group has helped powerful corporations introduce and pass legislation quietly in nearly every state. They write entire bills from start to finish in a massive coordinated effort to push their conservative agenda at the state level....
