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We Have Not Yet Begun to Fight Tom Price
Let’s protect the Affordable Care Act by doing what Democrats should have done all along: by making the case for a better health care system, and then fighting for it. That means making the case for government itself.
Abortion Rights Advocates Working to Turn the Tide
Over the past two weeks, lawmakers and advocates from 18 states jointly announced that they have, or will, introduce more than 85 abortion rights policies. Here's why and how.
How the Affordable Care Act Turned Me Into a Health Care Activist
Public speaking, you see, makes me sweat. And possibly vomit. Glossophobia, they call it. But in the process of trying to get myself out of this sweat-inducing, stomach-churning public-speaking gig, it hit me: This isn’t about me.
Progressives Lost The Vote On DeVos But Won Something Valuable
Betsy DeVos won her contest in the Senate to become the new U.S. Secretary of Education but likely killed a long-standing political consensus on education. Its death gives progressives a chance to push for something better.
Progressive Breakfast
Sessions Confirmed, Price Next USA Today previews "5 big issues where Sessions may have an immediate impact": "Trump won’t need to worry about having to coax his new attorney general into enforcing his immigration ban ... Civil rights advocates have expressed doubts...
Senator Warren Persists, We Persist
Senate Republicans silenced Elizabeth Warren when she was reading aloud a critical letter from three decades ago about Jeff Sessions during a debate over his confirmation as attorney general. She persisted.
Tribe Says Corps Lacks Authority to Stop DAPL Environmental Review
The showdown over the North Dakota Access Pipeline is is now a test of the federal courts. Will that institution follow the order of the acting secretary, and the president of the United States?
A Vote for Tom Price Is a Vote to Destroy Medicare
If Price is confirmed by all Republican senators, or all but one GOP senator voted for confirmation, it will be clear that the Republican Party wants to destroy Medicare.
Progressive Breakfast
"Nevertheless, She Persisted" Republicans try to silence Warren, fail. W. Post: "...Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) interrupted Warren’s speech ... and said that she had breached Senate rules by reading past statements against [Jeff] Sessions from figures such...
Americans Like the Resistance a Lot More Than They Like Trump
For Donald Trump, this has got to hurt: Less than two weeks after his inauguration, the people who took to the streets to protest his policies have outstripped him in popularity.
