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I’m Joe Mangino, and I live with my family in the Jersey Shore town of Beach Haven West. Hurricane Sandy destroyed my home, but it taught us we're stronger when we stand together. Who can find and fight for solutions? We can.

To pay for their red-ribbon wrapped gift box for the uber-wealthy, Republicans are smashing and burning $5 trillion in programs cherished by workers, including Medicare and Medicaid. This is not tax reform; it's tax deform.

GOP lawmakers think their budget means tax cuts for the rich are finally within reach, if they can hold on a little longer. But they're wrong; we' re going to stop them. We won't let this stinker slide through.

The Center for American Progress's recent 'progressive case' for charter schools is flawed and unconvincing in multiple ways. What's most obvious is CAP hasn't spent much time seriously considering what charter school skeptics say.

Lawmakers ought to make improving Social Security, not enriching the rich, the goal of tax reform. What the White House calls “tax reform” favors the rich so much, the rest of us ought to call it an outrage.

No ideology in modern American history has failed as consistently or for as long as the Wall Street-friendly "Democratic centrism." Its practitioners are undeterred by the losing streak that has brought their party to its knees.

Some argue Democrats need to forget our progressive past if we want to win. They're dead wrong. We are descended from activists who made America truly great by refusing to bow to the powerful and instead fought to extend and deepen freedom.