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Here are the Republican alternatives to Obamacare
The Republican strategy to offset demographic change
via Egberto Willies “We in the US have a growing minority population, a younger minority population that will over time convert the number of white Americans into a minority of the population,” Chris Matthews said. “If you are a Republican how do you deal with that...
Making Science History
We’ve all seen those touchy-feely TV ads with baby deer, butterflies, and sylvan streams — claiming that some big corporate polluter is nature’s best friend. There’s a word for such hokum: greenwashing. Leave it to the Koch brothers, however, to invent a whole new...
Tell Congress: America’s public lands are not for sale
Republicans didn’t campaign on getting rid of America’s public lands and national monuments in the last election, but they sure are acting like it. First they attempted to pass a bill that would abolish the Antiquities Act, a hundred year old executive privilege that...
Save the Date! Annual Founders Dinner May 14th, 2015
The Madison County Democratic Committee Cordially invites you to join us for our 9th annual Founders Dinner with keynote speaker The Honorable Levar M. Stoney, Secretary of the Commonwealth Our Values In Action Held at Antioch Baptist Church Celebrating 150 years of...
Taking on the man who would be Virginia’s Scott Walker
https://youtu.be/DQiyA45-hkM https://www.facebook.com/MadisonDemocrats/posts/839962306079522
Democrat Ericke Cage to Challenge Robert Hurt for for Virginia’s 5th District Seat
https://www.facebook.com/MadisonDemocrats/posts/839278346147918
Getting Started
https://youtu.be/0uY7gLZDmn4 In a campaign video released today, the former Secretary of State has officially declared her intention to run in 2016. The announcement confirms rumors that have been floating around for more than a year and kicks off the Democratic...
O’Reilly: “More white than Black Americans are killed by police”
Bill O’Reilly spares no opportunity to disseminate mistruths that undermine the experiences and threaten the lives of Black communities. On the April 8th edition of The O’Reilly Factor, he was at it again, using debunked statistics to claim more white than Black...
Republicans Are Saying Environmentalists Caused California’s Drought. Here’s Why They’re Wrong
Californian artist Ross Dickinson dramatized his home state’s eternal confrontation of nature and man by exaggerating the steep slopes of the hills and the harsh contrast between the dry red wilderness and the green cultivated land (1934). CREDIT: FLICKR/ CLIFF Any...
