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Down-Ballot Revolutionaries
Amanda Weaver, executive director of Reclaim Chicago, speaks about "Down Ballot Revolutionaries" at the People’s Summit in Chicago, Illinois, with Khalid Kamau, Laurel Wales and other progressive organizers.
Progressive Breakfast
Health Care Tussle Senate health bill cuts Medicaid funding by 35 percent. NYT: "Projected Medicaid spending under a Senate Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act would be 35 percent lower after two decades, the Congressional Budget Office said on Thursday...
We Know What Society's Sickness Is, and We Are the Cure
While my family is suffering, I am truly optimistic, because it has never been clearer: this is no longer left versus right, it's the bottom versus the top. I'm proud to stand down here with my boys and about 300 million friends.
Trump Is Vulnerable On Education. Do Democrats Care?
After a string of special election defeats, Democrats are retooling their messages about the economy and healthcare. They should update their message on education, too; there's evidence voters would welcome a change.
Taking the Resistance to Another Level
Trump is breaking a lot of the rules, and norms of the office of the president. I think that a kind of resistance will have to move to another level: it will come out of local communities and local strategies, then take off like wildfire.
Progressive Breakfast
GOP Scrambles for Health Votes Republicans scramble to revise health bill in 48 hours. Politico: "Senate GOP leaders are scrambling to put together a revised Obamacare repeal bill in the next 48 hours, even as some Republicans question whether they can bridge a huge...
A Vicious Cycle of Poison and Poverty
America takes our most vulnerable families - poor or working poor - and houses them next to polluting industries, poisons their children and now wants to take away their access to health care. Let's fight back to end this vicious cycle.
What Happened to America’s Wealth? The Rich Hid It
There's actually trillions that could be used to fix our roads and schools: the wealthy just don't want you to know where it is. It's time to stop the hiding of wealth in offshore accounts and complicated trusts.
All of Donald Trump’s Lies
The New York Times printed every lie Donald Trump has told since taking office. The effort deserves the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. We also hope that once they finished the task, they rushed right home to a long and cleansing shower.
Progressive Breakfast
Health Vote Delayed Senate GOP leaders push off health care vote until after July 4th. NPR: "With their health care bill facing a perilous path, Senate Republican leaders have decided to push off a vote until after Congress returns from next week's July Fourth...
