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Final Week For DNC Chair Race CNN to host debate Wednesday: "The debate ... will air at 10 p.m. ET ... CNN has not yet announced which candidates will be attending ... The DNC leadership election will be held on Saturday, February 25." Ellison picks up endorsements....

Keith Ellison's Quest for DNC Chair

Rep. Keith Ellison offers a lifeline to the Democratic Party that is floundering. The question is whether the Democratic National Committee's 447 members will accept it when they choose their new chair on Saturday.

A New Rationalization for Riches

Right-wingers are celebrating a depressing new history of those rare moments when wealth became better distributed as activists are exploring encouraging pathways to a New Economy that sustains our planet and fosters equality.

We Need a Sea Change to See Change

This is nothing more than a basket of gleeful, surgical giveaways to big-dollar Republican donors. We need to expose, at every opportunity, that we’re watching. We need to make it clear that we will remember this in 2018 and 2020.

Progressive Breakfast

Mass Deportation Underway "Mass Deportations Have Begun, Congressman Says" reports International Business Times: "U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro accused President Trump on Thursday of putting a mass deportation program into place, saying it goes beyond anything orchestrated...

The People Fired Puzder

It’s no accident that Puzder bowed out just two days after National Security Adviser Gen. Mike T. Flynn’s resignation. The Trump administration’s confidence is shaken. GOP unanimity is broken.

Resisting Trump Is Not Enough

Trump is in the White House in large part because of the establishment’s failures over the past decades. Progressives need to advance a concrete agenda, and that means taking on Democrats-in-Name-Only.

Progressive Breakfast

Resistance Builds Progressives to storm congressional town halls next week. CNN: "Target your local lawmakers. Tell them personal stories about how the Affordable Care Act affects you and your family. Take videos ... That's what Organizing for Action -- the group that...

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