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Nixon, Reagan Paved Way for GOP's Race-Charged Health Agenda
After an election filled with racist rhetoric, Republicans have proposed an agenda that will harm many black, brown, and poor Americans while helping the white and wealthy. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan pioneered this divisive strategy.
Should We Pay the Rich to Build Infrastructure, Then Pay Them to Use It?
President Trump's plan to privatize infrastructure means We the People won't own our roads, dams and bridges, a few rich people will. We'll then have to pay if we want to use them.
Forget Building Our Own Tea Party. The Left Can Win So Much More
Set your sights higher than primary challenges. Together, we can forge a new American majority and achieve progressive change far greater than we could have imagined just a few years ago.
Progressive Breakfast
CBO Torches ACA Repeal CBO exposes Republican health care plan. NYT: "The House Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act would increase the number of people without health insurance by 24 million by 2026 ... The budget office estimated that 52 million people...
Wisconsin and Illinois Activists Challenge House Speaker Paul Ryan
Hundreds of Wisconsin and Illinois activists will brave snowstorms Tuesday to converge on House Speaker Paul Ryan’s office in Racine, Wisconsin, to challenge the GOP's bid to take health care away from millions of Americans.
Trump's China Trademarks Violate the Constitution
During the campaign Donald Trump pledged that "on day one" as president, he would label China a currency manipulator. Then he didn't. Then China granted Trump's businesses lucrative trademarks he has been seeking. Coincidence?
Progressive Breakfast
Republicans Skittish Over Health Care GOP Sen . Tom Cotton warns House Republicans against approving health care bill as is, on ABC's This Week: "I would say to my friends in the House of Representatives with whom I serve, 'Do not walk the plank and vote for a bill...
GOP Plan Kicks Grandma to the Curb or Kicks Mama Off Health Care
Medicaid block grants proposed by Republicans will force states to either kick old folks out of nursing homes, or kick poor folks off health insurance. Is this really what Trump voters were hoping for?
The GOP Health Bill Is an Assault on People of Color
The Republicans' plan to overhaul health care cuts programs that help black and brown people to pay for giveaways to the wealthy. People ask if this is accidental or deliberate. Does it matter?
Finding New Solutions for Foreign Policy
Trump’s first weeks in office have been horrifyingly erratic. But the bipartisan foreign-policy establishment's conventional wisdom is, in many ways, even more disconnected from reality than the president’s tweets.
