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Charter School Industry's Stunning Loss in CA Primaries
In reviewing the losers in this week's primary elections in eight states, one shouldn't overlook the charter school industry, which took a drubbing in the California governor's race where its preferred candidate former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa drew a...
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Dems Score Primary Wins Dems, women score gains at polls. The Hill: "Voters in seven states cast their ballots Tuesday in what amounts to the most significant primary election of the 2018 season, a Super Tuesday for partisans battling for control of Congress. In...
Making Movement Politics Real in Iowa and Beyond
“Our fight to lift up a million Iowans didn’t end when the polls closed,” said Cathy Glasson last night, when she conceded her race in the Democratic governor’s primary. “We’ve built a bold, progressive movement that will be a force to be reckoned with in Iowa...
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Primary Votes In Eight States What you need to know about Tuesday's primaries. CBS: "There are eight states holding primaries on Tuesday, June 5: Alabama, California, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota. That makes Tuesday one of the...
50 Years After 1968, Can the Young Change Politics? A Striking New Poll Says Yes
Fifty years ago, in the dust and fire of global youth activism, everything seemed possible. The political world was a cloud filled with chaos and opportunity, pain and promise. The young were a powerful force, even a world-changing one. Could they become that force...
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Trump Not Above The Law Trump’s lawyer is dead wrong on obstruction of justice. Just Security: "The Declaration of Independence charged King George III with 'obstruct[ing] the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to the laws for establishing judiciary...
Iowans for Glasson: We Are What Democracy Looks Like
Iowans do things their own way - especially when it comes to politics. I know: I’m born and raised in Cedar Rapids, and am a first-generation freshman at Grinnell College, a liberal arts school in the center of the state whose progressive roots reach back to the...
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U.S. Slaps Allies With Tariffs Angry allies plan to retaliate over U.S. trade tariffs. MarketWatch: "The U.S. will impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Canada, Mexico and the European Union starting on Friday, the Trump administration said, raising the...
Join Us To Keep Families Together
It’s not right. Infants are being taken from their mothers. Families are being separated, and parents charged as criminals for sheltering children from violence. These courageous parents are doing the right thing. They’re protecting their children the only way they...
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How Trump Stacks Courts For Conservative Causes Donald Trump is weaponising the courts for political ends. The Guardian: "It was a startling omission even according to the peculiar moral norms of the Trump era. When Wendy Vitter, one of the US president’s judicial...
