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Show of Unity Baseball shooting changes mood on Capitol Hill. CNN: "Five people were shot Wednesday morning, including Majority Whip Steve Scalise, shattering a sense of security on Capitol Hill. But members' response to the shooting came down to one goal: unity. In a...
What They Want to Hide Tells You Who They Are
Trump's Treasury Department wants to take us back in time to before the housing crisis. They want to make it easier for lenders to make fraudulent home loans, foreclose, and then hide the evidence.
Progressive Breakfast
Tell the Senate We Know What They’re Doing: Trading Our Health Care Away in the Dead of Night Senate Republicans are scheming behind closed doors to raise our premiums, cut and cap Medicaid, and hurt people with preexisting conditions. Let’s stop this silent and...
Cuomo Wants to Privatize Penn Station; That's a Bad Republican Idea
New Yorkers face a “summer of hell” as Governors Cuomo and Christie seek to hand over the city's historic Penn Station to private investors. This "hell" is the result of a bipartisan reluctance to invest in the infrastructure we need.
Progressive Breakfast
Russian Intrusion Russians breached 39 state election systems. Bloomberg: "Russia’s cyberattack on the U.S. electoral system before Donald Trump’s election was far more widespread than has been publicly revealed, including incursions into voter databases and software...
How We Can Help, Not Punish, Drug Users
Punishing drug users does not curb drug use; all it does is destabilize the lives of people who use drugs and their families. We should instead embrace strategies that are proven to reduce harm and deaths from infection and overdose.
The Koch Brothers & Trump: The Men Who Sold the World
Trump and his party have been marching in lockstep with the fossil-fuel industry for some time now. That influence can be seen in Trump's appointments, in his deeds and now in his budget.
People's Summit Drives New Wave of Progressive Candidates
Dozens of current and prospective political candidates at the People's Summit in Chicago prepared to build upon the opposition to the Trump administration and drive toward taking real governing power.
Progressive Breakfast
People's Summit Inspired by Sanders, activists in Chicago push Democrats to left — or out of the way. Chicago Tribune: "Nearly one year after effectively conceding the Democratic presidential nomination, (Bernie) Sanders was the star of this year's People's Summit,...
Working Together in a Time of Crisis
We live in a time of crisis. Billionaires and white nationalists have gone from lobbying the White House to living in the White House. Time and again, the One Percent have tried to divide us. Together, we can defeat them.
