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Reid Calls for Constitutional Amendment to Reverse Citizens United and McCutcheon
by Joan McCarter http://youtu.be/gLGqS_j8Ogk Thursday morning Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced his support for a constitutional amendment to reverse Citizens United and McCutcheon, the two Supreme Court decisions allowing big money nearly...
Eric Cantor Paid $80,800 to Lobby Against Net Neutrality
“Bad for consumers, bad for the next generation of businesses and bad for democracy.” The proposal “undercuts net neutrality and would favor wealthy corporations by allowing ‘pay to play’ rules to stifle small businesses.” The 28 House members who lobbied the Federal...
Give America a Raise
Even though French economist Thomas Piketty has made an air-tight case that we’re heading toward levels of inequality not seen since the days of the nineteenth-century robber barons, right-wing conservatives haven’t stopped lying about what’s happening and what to do...
Reaganomics Killed America’s Middle Class
This country's fate was sealed when our government slashed taxes on the rich back in 1980 By Thom Hartmann, Alternet There’s nothing “normal” about having a middle class. Having a middle class is a choice that a society has to make, and it’s a choice we need to make...
Virginia Republicans on Cruz Control
A group of recalcitrant Republicans in the Virginia House of Delegates have blocked Medicaid expansion at every opportunity. They are so determined to keep poor people from getting health care that they are preventing passage of a two-year budget for the state for the...
CANCELLED: Call to Caucus—Regular Meeting to Proceed
The Madison County Democratic Committee has cancelled a Call to Caucus to elect Delegates to the Fifth District Democratic Convention. The Madison Democratic caucus originally scheduled for 11 a.m. tomorrow, May 10, at the Madison Presbyterian Church, has been...
Thomas Jefferson On Religious Freedom
“The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves … these clergy, in fact, constitute the real Anti-Christ.” - attributed to...
#Bring Back Our Girls
On the night of 14-15 April 2014, approximately 275 female students were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria. The kidnappings were claimed by Boko Haram, an Islamic Jihadist terrorist organization based in...
Federal Court Strikes GOP’s Voter ID Sham
For the first time, a photo ID law is struck down under section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Here's why that matters. Very big news out of a federal court in Wisconsin, where the state’s polling place Photo ID law (Act 23) has now been struck down as both a violation...
Call to Caucus
MADISON COUNTY DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE CAUCUS TO NOMINATE DELEGATES TO THE 2014 FIFTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT NOMINATING CONVENTION The Madison County Democratic Committee has issued a Call to Caucus to elect Delegates to the Fifth District Democratic Convention. Monday,...
