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“Forward together, not one step back!”
“A MOVEMENT, not a Moment!” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAbeTp44NTY&list=UUeBaVCo1Abl6J-g5E1x080w&feature=share If you believe that an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, if you understand that what happens in North Carolina has...
The Lies The USTR Is Spreading About Fast Track Authority To Push TPP Through Congress
The Lies The USTR Is Spreading About Fast Track Authority To Push TPP Through Congress (via Techdirt) With the introduction of fast track authority (also known as "trade promotion authority") in Congress, by which Congress abdicates its constitutionally-granted sole...
The $17 Trillion Delusion
The Absurdity of Cutting Social Security to Reduce the Debt By Marty Wolfson Shortly after the ceiling on federal debt was raised on October 17, 2013, the conservative Heritage Foundation notified its readers that the outstanding debt of the United States had...
Deeds set to introduce mental health bills
Explains how system failed his son, Gus By Anne Adams HOT SPRINGS — The loss is crushing. A 24-year-old with everything to gain thanks to his multiple talents, Gus Deeds was cherished by his friends and family; he touched everyone around him. “He could have written...
Why TPP — “NAFTA on Steroids” — Must Be Stopped
by Joshua Holland The post-NAFTA era has been marked by growing inequality, declining job security and new leverage for corporations to attack government regulations enacted in the public interest. But it wasn’t supposed to be that way. Back in 1986, when the leaders...
Jennifer Wexton for State Senate
Jobs & the Economy: The legislature needs to spend more time focused on improving our economy and less time on ideological pursuits and divisive social issues. We need to...
A Place at the Table
‘If Another Country Was Doing This To Our Kids, We’d Be At War.’ http://youtu.be/DKOiT1vY7v0 50 Million Americans—1 in 4 children—don’t know where their next meal is coming from. A Place at the Table tells the powerful stories of three such Americans, who maintain...
House Memo: How To Simulate Caring About The Unemployed
By Susie Madrak House Republican leaders sent a memo this week to the entire GOP conference with talking points designed to help rank-and-file Republicans show compassion for the unemployed and explain the Republican position on unemployment benefits. In the memo,...
Racism, Sexism, And The 50-Year Campaign To Undermine The War On Poverty
BY IGOR VOLSKY It has been 50 years since Lyndon Johnson first declared that the nation could, “for the first time in our history,” conquer and win a war on poverty, pledging a “total commitment by this President, and this Congress, and this nation, to pursue victory...
DLCC Statement on Virginia Special Election Victories
Democrat wins first of two special elections to decide Senate chamber control WASHINGTON-Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC) Executive Director Michael Sargeant released the following statement on tonight's Democratic victories in the special elections...
