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Trickle Down Election Economics: How Big Money Can Affect Small Races
Massive amounts of outside, mostly untraceable money will likely be brought to bear in this election, to sway the outcome of "down-ballot" races for the US Congress and state legislatures.
Rock Against TPP Drawing Large Crowds
Awareness of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) drives opposition, and Rock Against the TPP is doing its part to drive awareness.
Progressive Breakfast
Trump And The Alt-Right Clinton to target Trump’s ‘alt-right’ embrace in Thursday speech. Politico: “Campaigning in Reno, Nevada, on Thursday, Hillary Clinton will address Donald Trump’s recent campaign hires and what her campaign termed in an announcement as ‘his...
Talking Necessary Trouble with Sarah Jaffe
Sarah Jaffe has spent years traversing the country, covering protest movements in the wake of the financial crisis. In her new book, "Necessary Trouble," Jaffe distills what’s she’s learned.
Obama’s New Campaign for the TPP Could Drag Down Democrats
How much is President Obama willing to harm the Democratic Party in order to win approval for the deeply unpopular Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) “trade” agreement? We may soon find out.
Postal Workers To Rally Against TPP Tuesday
The TPP “trade” agreement could prohibit us from deciding we want things like postal banking, “Buy America” policies in the use of tax dollars, and other things We the People might want to do for ourselves.
Progressive Breakfast
Sanders To Launch Our Revolution, Wed, Aug. 24 Join Bernie Sanders Wed, Aug. 24 – to launch Our Revolution – at more than 2,000 organizing meetings nationwide. Find a house meeting in your area. Or, if you can’t host or get to a house, meeting, you can find the live...
The Populist Uprising Isn't Over; It's Only Just Begun
Tom Frank says populism may be permanently discredited by Trump's bigotry. Clinton's decisive victory will be the triumph of the establishment center, the Davos elites. But this election won't end a struggle that has only just begun.
The New Normal: Organizing to Break the Cycle of Climate Disaster
The record-breaking floods in Louisiana are the latest example of what many working people already know all too well: Climate change has already begun – and it is wrecking our communities.
Wingnut Week In Review: Trump Takes “Alt” Out of “Alt-Right”
Donald Trump’s campaign shake-up completes the process of bringing white supremacists and white nationalists from the extreme fringe into the mainstream of American conservatism and the GOP.
