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How You Can Help Small Businesses Thrive
Banks are trying to score another victory over hardworking Americans by refusing to lend to minorities, women, and rural residents who own and run small businesses. We can help them, by ensuring they have fair access to capital.
Progressive Breakfast
Tell Lawmakers To Vote NO! On Health Care Repeal Health care repeal is moving again in the Senate! Stop the GOP's new plan to end health care for millions before it's too late. Call your senators NOW at 888-981-9704. Tell them to vote NO! on Cassidy-Graham. GOP Makes...
New Health Repeal Shows GOP's Reckless Disregard for Our Lives
GOP leaders want to defund, break and eliminate as much of our health care system as they can before the tide turns. They’re worried that in the long run, we will win, and we will. But to win, we have to keep fighting.
Progressive Breakfast
St. Louis Protests After Officer Acquitted of Murder More than 80 arrested in third night of St. Louis protests. CNN: "Protesters angry over the acquittal of St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley, a white cop acquitted of murder in the shooting death of a black man,...
How to Sustain the Resistance to Trump and Win
We are in the midst of one of the largest social movements of our time. The Resistance is powerful, but how do we keep it going? Here are three important ways we can sustain this historic movement and win.
Beware Back-to-School Stories Celebrating Online Education
This Back-to-School season is filled with feel-good news stories about students attending internet-based schools. What the news outlets don't tell you is that these schools mostly get terrible results and often rip off taxpayers.
New Data on Tax Havens and Income Reveal America's Great Divide
New figures on incomes and tax havens reveal a United States pulling ever further apart. Wages are going nowhere, and huge chunks of grand American fortunes are hiding overseas.
Betsy DeVos's Back-To-School Message At Odds With What Parents Want
Betsy DeVos tours the U.S. telling school children their schools are "a mundane malaise," but three out of four of parents say their public school is excellent or good, and only 7 percent say their school is not so good or poor.
Progressive Breakfast
Dallas Removes Statue of Robert E. Lee Dallas removes Robert E. Lee's statue from city park. U.S. News & World Report: "Workers in Dallas removed a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a park on Thursday, with police on hand to provide protection after the...
'Medicare For All' Would Fully Fund Indian Health for First Time
If Sanders’ proposal for universal care were enacted, every one of the 2.2 million patients in the Indian health system would have funding from insurance. That is what a Treaty Right fulfilled looks like. Finally.