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GOP Wants Health Vote ASAP Senate Republicans face key week as more lawmakers waver in support for health-care bill. WaPo: "At least five Republicans have already come out against their party’s bill — which can only afford to lose two votes — and over the weekend,...
Stop the Senate Republican Health Care Obscenity This Week
This is it. Senate Republicans want to vote this week to close hospitals, shutter nursing homes, abandon babies at birth, force older workers off care, and leave the disabled without services.. We can stop them, if we act now.
Charter Schools Do Bad Stuff Because They Can
Local news reports from all across the country drip, drip a constant stream of stories of charter schools doing bad stuff that our tax dollars fund. Why do both Democrats and Republicans still fetishize them?
WV Voters in DC Ask Senators to Save Health Care
It was dawn in Charleston as sleepy but excited voters got on a bus to ride six hours over the Allegheny Mountains to Washington, DC so they could ask their senators to save health care for West Virginians before it's too late.
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Senate Health Bill Unveiled Obama Rips The Senate GOP Health Care Bill. HuffPost: "'The Senate bill, unveiled today, is not a health care bill,' the former president wrote in a Facebook post. 'It’s a massive transfer of wealth from middle-class and poor families to...
GOP “Health” Bill: Death, Disaster and Gilded Age Greed
Give them less and make them think it’s more: that’s the GOP’s goal with “Trumpcare.” Why? To give tax cuts to the wealthiest among us, when we already have inequality not seen since the Gilded Age. It's time to say we've had enough.
Mainers Angry Over Health Care Repeal Find Rep. Poliquin in Boston
Maine Rep. Bruce Poliquin has mostly been avoiding public appearances since his vote in favor of the Republican health care repeal bill, but several dozen of his constituents managed to find him to deliver a message.
The Lessons We Learned From Jon Ossoff’s Defeat
The efforts to build an independent capacity to recruit, train, and support populist candidates up and down the ticket should be redoubled. The push to crystallize a bold agenda for change and debate it across the country is vital.
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Health Care Repeal Senate GOP set to release details of health care repeal. CNN: "Senate Republican leaders plan to release their health care plan Thursday, the first time the public - and their fellow GOP senators - will get to see what they have been working on...
Colorado Calls Out Sen. Gardner to Defend Health Care
Colorado Senator Cory Gardner says the GOP "should be more open" about their plan to repeal health care. We agree. But Gardner's dismay doesn't take away his own responsibility to vote to defend health care in his state.
