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MORNING MESSAGE Marsha Cole The People’s Housing Platform Moves Us Towards Housing Justice I’ve been to Washington, D.C. three times in my life. The first was in 1963, as a young girl, to hear Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak at the March on Washington. The second...

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MORNING MESSAGE Michael McKinley We Don’t Need Another Liar-In-Chief: Biden Must Tell The Truth About Medicare For All I’m an Iowan, a father, and a voter. And I’m just plain tired of the lies too many candidates tell us about health care. They say we don’t need...

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MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway Trump Gets An F From Workers Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed “great negotiator” and author of “The Art of the Deal,” promised to use his bargaining skills to help the American worker. Trump vowed to rewrite trade deals, stanch the...

Trump Gets An F From Workers

Trump Gets An F From Workers

Photo credit: White House / Shealah Craighead / cc Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed “great negotiator” and author of “The Art of the Deal,” promised to use his bargaining skills to help the American worker. Trump vowed to rewrite trade deals, stanch the offshoring of...

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MORNING MESSAGE Alex Lawson Joe Biden Has Tried To Cut Social Security For 40 Years When Washington politicians talk about Social Security cuts, they almost always use coded language, saying that they want to “change,” “adjust,” or even “save” the program. That’s...

Joe Biden Has Tried To Cut Social Security For 40 Years

Joe Biden Has Tried To Cut Social Security For 40 Years

Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc Recently, a newsletter from the Bernie Sanders campaign laid out Joe Biden’s long record of supporting cuts to Social Security. The website PolitiFact weighed in on one part of that record, a speech Biden gave in 2018 in which...

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MORNING MESSAGE Tobita Chow We Need A Real Trade Deal With China, Not Just A Truce Trump crows that the “Phase One” trade agreement with China is a “promise kept” to supporters to rebalance trade between the two nations. But it is really just a temporary truce in his...

We Need A Real Trade Deal With China, Not Just A Truce

We Need A Real Trade Deal With China, Not Just A Truce

Trump crows the “Phase One” trade agreement with China is a "promise kept" to his supporters to rebalance trade between the two nations. But it is really just a temporary truce in his trade war. This truce may not last long or deliver anything close to the outcomes he...

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