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Inside the Koch Brothers’ Toxic Empire
By Tim Dickinson The enormity of the Koch fortune is no mystery. Brothers Charles and David are each worth more than $40 billion. The electoral influence of the Koch brothers is similarly well-chronicled. The Kochs are our homegrown oligarchs; they've cornered the...
Your Tobacco Settlement Dollars at Work
The Virginia Way continues to tarnish the state’s image. In another example of activity that might not be illegal, but which is certainly dubious, the state’s tobacco commission has been handing out grants to its chairman’s kinfolk. That chairman would be Terry...
The Art of the Gerrymander
If you’ve been following the 2014 midterm elections, you know there’s very little chance that the U.S. House of Representatives will go blue this year. One reason is gerrymandering, where congressional districts are redrawn to either pack opposing voters into...
Fact-Checking Perry’s Spin Machine
Spin 1: A partisan witch hunt produced Perry’s criminal charges. NOT TRUE. Over 36 years the Travis Co. Public Integrity Unit prosecuted 21 officials: 6 Republicans and 15 Democrats. At the time of Perry’s $7.5 million veto, the vast majority of that unit’s case load...
Gaughan for Congress Meetup in C’Ville Tomorrow
Please email suzannelongfarm@gmail.com if you'd like to carpool from Madison. We'll be rolling out at about 10:30in the morning.
Voting rights trampled in Virginia
If you have problems at the polls on November 4, please call the election protection hotline at 1-866-687-8683 (OUR-VOTE) right away. The recent, confusing development in Virginia’s photo identification requirements for voters carries even more serious implications...
Voter Fraud Farce
About 300,000 Virginia voters lack an ID issued by the state Department of Motor Vehicles. Voters can obtain a free photo ID from any local registrar's office. More information can be obtained by visiting www.GotIDVirginia.org or by calling the election protection...
Democrats push for details on Medicaid session
The Daily Press "Not only do we not have a plan, we don't even have a process." The General Assembly is to convene next month to talk about Medicaid expansion, but there's still no firm word on the scope of what they'll tackle – or even what kind of legislation, if...
Eleven questions that expose Libertarians contradictions and faulty logic
Libertarians have a problem. Their political philosophy all but died out in the mid- to late-20th century, but was revived by billionaires and corporations that found them politically useful. And yet libertarianism retains the qualities that led to its disappearance...
