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Fire Ants Killed the TPP
Thousands of civil society groups coalesced to combat the TPP. The battle engaged slowly with objections to the secret negotiations. Protests grew exponentially. It was the concerted action of many, like the fire ant, that killed the TPP.
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Previews First 100 Days Trump lays out initial agenda. Roll Call: "On the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, the president-elect said he’d issue a 'a notification of intent to withdraw' from the agreement. He also plans to 'cancel' what he called 'job-killing...
"Financial Elder Abuse Charges" Against Trump. Business As Usual in DC.
Americans must learn to distinguish the ways Trump is uniquely terrible from the ways in which he is not so terribly unique — except as a matter of degree. Consider the charges of "financial elder abuse" made against him.
Trump's Infrastructure 'Plan' Is Really Just A Privatization Scam
Trump's plan does not call for public investment in public infrastructure, nor does it call for hiring local construction companies using American suppliers and creating jobs for American union workers.
Why We Need to Worry about Wilbur
America’s next secretary of commerce may be a private equity kingpin who owes his ample fortune to a career of manipulating the misfortune of America’s workers.
Progressive Breakfast
Some Warn Against Cooperating With Trump On Infrastructure Former VP Biden aide Ronald Klain tells Democrats Trump's infrastructure plan is "a trap": "...Trump’s plan is not really an infrastructure plan. It’s a tax-cut plan for utility-industry and...
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...
