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Why This Price Is Wrong
The next health secretary shouldn’t have a record of benefiting from prescription drug profiteering. Profiteering shouldn’t be at the heart of our health care system — we need less corporate control of our health care, not more.
Progressive Breakfast
TAKE ACTION Tell Your Senators: Say No to Corrupt Tom Price Today, Rep. Tom Price, Donald Trump's pick to run Health and Human Services has his first nomination hearing. But ethics experts are already raising red flags. Over the weekend, CNN reported that a week after...
Millions of Reasons – Plus One Big One – To Block Tom Price's Nomination
People's Action has launched a petition to block the nomination of Tom Price as Health and Human Services secretary, after hearing from hundreds of people who would be harmed by the health care law repeal Price favors.
Speak Loudly and Carry a Big Aluminum Bat
To preserve a vital American manufacturing capability -- aluminum smelting -- against predatory conduct by a foreign power, the administration must speak loudly and carry a big aluminum bat.
Three Reasons John Lewis is Right That Trump Is Illegitimate
Donald Trump is not only morally an illegitimate President, but actually an illegitimate President who would not have won, but for (1) voter suppression, (2) Comey’s letter, and (3) Russian intervention aimed at helping Trump.
Progressive Breakfast
Ethics Cloud Hangs Over Cabinet Noms Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos hearing today, The Hill: "[DeVos will be] face-to-face with liberal stalwarts Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). DeVos’s vocal support of school choice and charter...
Booker and the Big Pharma Dems Have No Excuse. This Vote Proves It.
It’s disappointing when Democrats offer implausible excuses for their votes, as Sen. Cory Booker and twelve other senators did. It’s downright outrageous when those same Democrats claim their votes were driven by drug safety concerns.
A Bold UK Echo of FDR’s Income Cap
The leader of the British Labour Party has just outlined an ambitious set of proposals for shearing the incomes of the ultra rich down to more democratic proportions.
Resisting the Trumpublican Shock Doctrine Blitzkrieg
Trumpublicans are intent on manipulating the shock of Donald Trump's victory to roll back much of the New Deal and Great Society. It’s incumbent upon everyone who cares about democracy and the common good to fight back.
Progressive Breakfast
Resistance Assemblies Sunday President-elect Donald Trump, his agenda, and his toxic cabinet nominees have galvanized unprecedented energy for activism around the country and people are looking for ways to get involved. People’s Action, MoveOn and the Working Families...
