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Get ready, America. If you liked Richard Nixon, you will love Scott Walker
The video intersperses clips from Wisconsin Governor (and presumed presidential candidate) Scott Walker's recent state of the state speech with video of Walker's State Capitol Police arresting people for observing other people singing folk songs in the Capitol...
Democrats: Build a 50-State Digital Organizers Program
By Dave Leichtman As Colin noted last week, one of the biggest topics of discussion at December’s Rootscamp was how to move the state of the art forward with respect to Digital Organizing. In the Democratic political space, we suffer what can only be described as a...
BREAKING: NORTHAM CASTS TIE BREAKING VOTE TO END EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION
Lieutenant Governor Northam Casts Tiebreaking Vote to End Employment Discrimination in State Government Today Lieutenant Governor Northam cast his first tie-breaking vote of the 2015 General Assembly in support of SB 785. His vote broke a 19-19 tie on the measure,...
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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...
