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Join us for breakfast Saturday
Breakfast Meeting at the George James Community Center Saturday, February 8th Please join the Madison County Democratic Committee at our next regular meeting, Saturday, February 8th at the George James Community Center. Come early for the Center's home-cooked "Big...
Virginians will suffer without expanded coverage for the working uninsured
The 2013 Virginia General Assembly chose to not act on Medicaid Expansion that would have provided healthcare coverage for low income families. Instead, the decision of Medicaid Reform and Expansion was delegated to The Medicaid Innovation and Reform Commission (MIRC)...
Behold: A Republican Health Care Plan
In their quest to repeal Obamacare, Republicans have faced two political problems. First, while the Affordable Care Act isn’t a popular law, polls show that the idea of simply going back to the way things were is far less popular. The second is that for the last three...
Equal Pay for Equal Work
For 10 years, Lilly Ledbetter fought to close the gap between women’s and men’s wages, sparring with the Supreme Court, lobbying Capitol Hill in a historic discrimination case against Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. Ledbetter won a jury verdict of more than $3...
Expose Keystone XL
America is being sucker punched. If Keystone XL is approved, the Koch Brothers stand to make $100 billion while the USA is left out in the cold. That's because oil transported by this pipeline would go through our country, only to be exported worldwide. This is a...
LIVE: 2014 State of the Union Address
Live from the Capitol in Washington, D.C., President Obama delivers the 2014 State of the Union address. Learn more about all the ways to engage with the White House around the State of the Union at http://www.whitehouse.gov/sotu...
6 Ways Extreme Income Inequality Is Making Your Life Worse
BY IGOR VOLSKY President Barack Obama will focus on what he has described as “the defining challenge of our time” during the State of the Union address on Tuesday: the nation’s growing gap between the rich and poor. What economists saw as a temporary aberration in the...
Democrats Retake Control of Virginia State Senate
VIRGINIA BEACH — State Del. Lynwood W. Lewis Jr. has won the recount for a Hampton Roads Senate seat, throwing control of the Virginia Senate to Democrats and giving Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s first-year agenda a crucial boost.Lewis’s slim lead over Republican Wayne...
Stop The #TPP
The corporate and political leaders of the Pacific Rim nations are meeting in cities across America such as Chicago, Dallas, San Diego, and Leesburg to turn the Pacific Ocean and its peoples into a giant privatized corporate lake characterized by non-union workers,...
GOP’s 2014 horror strategy: Exploit Americans’ misfortune, drum up fake outrage
Prepare for them to search high and low for people disappointed with Obamacare -- then pretend to share their pain By BRIAN BEUTLER In the least shocking news you’ll hear all year, Republicans lack both the intent and ability to adopt a less combative approach to...
