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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...
#GOP to Give Elizabeth Warren’s Consumer Protection Agency the Darrell Issa Treatment
By Erika Eichelberger Ever since Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) helped get the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau off the ground in 2010, Republicans have been trying to shut it down. GOPers drafted legislation to weaken the fledgling agency, which was designed to...
The GOP’s Absurd, Hilarious Ploy to Pretend They Care About Poor People
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet Across the #GOP, there’s been an outbreak of claims by party leaders and presidential candidates that Republicans deserve credit for a slow-but-steady economic recovery, and that the GOP is the emerging champion of still-struggling...
GOP launches a direct attack on seniors, disabled Americans and the Social Security trust fund
And yet, on the very first day that the new larger House Republican majority got to work, it made a move that could mean some 11 million people who receive Social Security disability benefits will see their lifeline benefits cut by 20% in 2016—or even cuts to Social...
Silencing you in secret
Time is running out for disclosure. We only have one more day to submit comments to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) as it considers proposing new rules to expose the dark money spenders flooding our airwaves with anonymous political ads in the wake of...
New Jersey Firstish
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