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Corporations Are Not People, People!
PUT CITIZENS UNITED IN THE DUMPSTER OF BAD IDEAS "Money isn't speech and corporations aren't people" Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010), a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the First...
Mitch McConnell actually said this:
Friend -- Mitch McConnell just showed us the Republican Party's true colors. He actually told a crowd that Hillary Clinton looks like she's from "a rerun of the 'Golden Girls.'" It's unclear why McConnell and his fellow Republicans think it's OK to engage in sexist...
We Petition the Obama Administration to:
Require Congressmen & Senators to wear logos of their financial backers on their clothing, much like NASCAR drivers do. And yes, Democrats, this means you too. Since most politicians' campaigns are largely funded by wealthy companies and individuals, it would give...
EXCLUSIVE: State Dept. Hid Contractor’s Ties to Keystone XL Pipeline Company
A top expert who helped write the government's latest Keystone report previously consulted on three different TransCanada projects—a fact the State Department tried to hide. —By Andy Kroll | Thu Mar. 21, 2013 3:00 AM PDT Late on a Friday afternoon in early March, the...
New Hampshire State House Votes To Tell Congress To Overturn Citizens United
New Hampshire State House Votes To Tell Congress To Overturn Citizens United Late yesterday, the New Hampshire state house took a bipartisan 189-139 vote to ask the U.S. Congress to overturn the disastrous Citizens United decision by amending the U.S. Constitution....
Action Alert: Stop Sneaky Biotech Rider from Passing in House!
"I don’t know who authored this provision, maybe somebody in Washington knows but no one is willing to put their name on it and that’s a shame.." Unfortunately, the Senate passed the Continuing Resolution with the biotech rider today. Now we need to raise our voices...
The Town That Fought Fracking (And Is Winning…) – Earthjustice
Mary Ann Sumner is Town Supervisor for the Town of Dryden (population 14,500) in upstate New York. She loves Dryden, and she takes her job very seriously. That's why she is in New York State Supreme Court today, fighting a lawsuit brought against her and Dryden by an...
Flies, Maggots, Rats, and Lots of Poop: What Big Ag Doesn’t Want You To See
What's it like inside a factory farm? If the livestock and meat industries have their way, what little view we have inside the walls of these animal-reviewing facilities may soon be obscured. For the second year in a row, the industry is backing bills in various...
Judge Scalia, in “Legislative Soul Search!”
Quote of the Day
"I believe that the only way to fix this Republic is through cross-partisan reform. We must, I believe, find a way to work with people we don't agree with to make this Republic work again. People who think differently from how we do about a wide range of substantive...
