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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.
This Isn't Just Trump. This Is Who the Republicans Are.
It's not just Trump. The Republican Party is using him to engage in a general assault on protections from corruption, pollution, corporate fraud and financial scams. This is who they are.
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...
Five GOP Health Care Buzz Phrases You Need to Inoculate Yourself Against
When you are at an event or meeting with your member of Congress, protect yourself against misinformation spouted by right-wingers who feel compelled to pretend they care about making sure that Americans get the health care we need.
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...