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Taking on Trump: Lessons from the Reagan Years
How do Democrats respond to Donald Trump? With his first appointments, Trump has doubled down on the extremes. Democrats might learn from the 1980s, when they won many battles against Reagan, but lost the war.
In The Basket Of Bad Trump Appointees, Jeff Sessions Is Uniquely Awful
People's Action and other groups call for "uncompromising opposition" to Trump's attorney general pick. “Our question for members of the United States Senate is simple: do they support racism, or do they not?"
Cleaning the Corporate Dirt from the GOP Budget
Right-wingers are also using the appropriations process to try to sneak ideological attacks past the American people, such as blocking access to contraception, exclude non-citizens from the Census and let landlords discriminate on race.
Progressive Breakfast
Knives Out For Medicare, Dodd-Frank Trump is going after Medicare, warns NYT's Paul Krugman: "During the campaign, Donald Trump [said,] 'I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid,' ... It was, of...
What Student Protests Tell Us About America Under Trump
In this new era under a Trump regime, student protests are telling us something is very wrong. They're telling us it's time for bold stands, not wait-and-see equivocations, in the face of rising hatred. We should listen to them.
A Timeline of Ford Motor Co. Debunking Trump On Sending Jobs To Mexico
Trump has been lying about Ford for months. Ford and others have been calling him on it every step of the way. What's stunning is that he's still doing it after winning the election.
This Doesn’t Sound Like Our Voice
Donald Trump said he'd speak for the people, but in the days since he's become president-elect, it’s billionaires and bigots who are getting heard. Now it's time for us to use our voice and stand up for each other.
Today’s Broken Trump Promise: “I Won't Cut Medicare”
President-elect Donald Trump made a number of promises to his voters. Here is today’s post about a promise that he has already broken.
Progressive Breakfast
Sanders To Lead Rally Today People's Action to join Our Revolution in Washington, DC rally at 1 PM ET today: "Join Senator U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and broad array of labor, environmental, healthcare, consumer and other advocacy groups in Washington DC Thursday to...
Finally, A Chance to Remake the Democratic Party
For the first time in a quarter-century, we’re about to see a vacuum of political and intellectual leadership in the Democratic Party. The party will have to remake itself. The question is, as what?
