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100 Days of Deconstruction
100 Days of Deconstruction At CPAC, Steve Bannon declared that key members of Trump’s Cabinet were “selected for a reason.” In the first 100 days of Trump’s presidency, that reason has become clear. Donald Trump may be a racist, misogynist, sexual predator, liar and...
30th District Call to Convention
Whereas it is the duty of the Culpeper County Democratic Committee to issue the Call to Caucus for the purpose of electing delegates to the 2017 30th District (Orange, Madison and Part of Culpeper) House of Delegates District Democratic Convention which will be held...
Rice-a-Baloney
By Clay Jones tRump's #RussiaGate I’m really getting tired of people deflecting, distracting, and using false equivalence about subjects they’re incapable of understanding. It’s especially infuriating when those people hold elected office in the United States Senate....
When Labor Fought for Civil Rights
When Labor Fought for Civil Rights The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order—memorialized in the classic anthology of that title edited by Gary Gerstle and Steve Fraser in 1989—might be history, but it never gets old. Eighty-plus years after FDR was inaugurated, the New...
The Media Have Finally Figured Out How to Cover Trump’s Lies
Not just falsehood by falsehood, but as the defining feature of his presidency. Donald Trump is not on the cover of Time this week, and that must gall him. The president is the subject of the magazine’s cover story, the promise of which apparently persuaded him to...
The evidence connecting Trump and Russia
Via ThinkProgress When news began trickling out, months ago, that Russia may have tried to influence the American election, the actual news in the U.S. quickly became something akin to a Cold-war era spy novel. There’s now a vast web of circumstantial evidence and...
Protest and persist: why giving up hope is not an option
Protest and persist: why giving up hope is not an option The true impact of activism may not be felt for a generation. That alone is reason to fight, rather than surrender to despair Hope is a belief that what we do might matter, an understanding that the future is...
Turning Democracy On Its Head
Every decade, with recent results of the census in hand, legislative districts are drawn. Redrawing political lines is a powerful tool that determines who wins an election, controls the legislature, and ultimately which laws pass. In Virginia, legislators create the...
Republicans: Men shouldn’t have to pay for prenatal care, but women should have to pay for men’s Viagra prescriptions
In the 27 hours the House Energy and Commerce Committee spent debating Republicans’ Obamacare revision plan, a handful of moments stand out. This is one of them. So, as a middle-aged childless man you resent having to pay for maternity care or kids’ dental care....
ACTION ALERT: 5th District Town Hall
On Sunday, Feb. 26, more than 1,200 people attended the People’s Town Hall at the MLK Performing Arts Center. Our moderators, Saad and Kibiriti, did an incredible job. Dozens of you shared powerful stories and important questions, and we raised more than $3,000 for...
