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Action Alert: Virginians for Responsible Gun Laws
Dear Supporters, Virginians for Responsible Gun Laws would like to offer our sincere thanks to everyone who promoted and attended the Vigil & Advocacy Day at the State Capitol in Richmond on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The event was a huge success and had the...
#Republicans Post Doctored Version Of State Of The Union, Censor Facts On Climate Change
BY EMILY ATKIN The official website for House Republicans has posted on YouTube a doctored version of President Obama’s State of the Union address which cuts out comments where the President was critical of Republican rhetoric on climate change, ThinkProgress has...
Tuition-Free Community College for Responsible Students
In our growing global economy, Americans need to have more knowledge and more skills to compete -- by 2020, an estimated 35 percent of job openings will require at least a bachelor's degree, and 30 percent will require some college or an associate's degree. Students...
12 statements by Martin Luther King Jr. you won’t see conservatives post on Facebook today
SCOTT KAUFMAN As the country celebrates the holiday in his honor, you will likely see the same quotations from Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech shared again and again. To combat the scrubbed and sanitized version of the Civil Rights leader that...
Martin Luther King, Jr.: All Labor Has Dignity
On February 12, 1968—President Lincoln's birthday—as Dr. King traveled from state to state, garnering rousing support for the Poor People's Campaign, more than a thousand sanitation workers in Memphis walked off the job. A month into the strike, on March 18, strikers...
First Week of the 2015 Virginia Legislative Session
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Democratic Legislators Hold Press Conference on Keeping Virginia Communities Safe
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 18, 2015 CONTACT: Morgan Finkelstein, morgan@vademocrats.org RICHMOND -- Democratic legislators will hold a press conference TOMORROW, January 19th, to highlight the need to pass common-sense gun safety proposals outlined by Governor...
Obama’s new tax plan would go straight after Mitt Romney’s money
By Jia Lynn Yang President Obama will unveil a slew of new taxes targeting the wealthiest Americans in his State of the Union address Tuesday. And there's one person in particular who would be hit extra hard if the policies ever became law: Mitt Romney. When...
