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What Corporate Democrats Really Mean When They Say ‘Purity Test’
“Purity test”? “Pragmatic progressive”? “Free stuff”? What are these politicians talking about? If you’re confused, you’re not alone. Certain words and phrases are routinely used by “centrist” political candidates. By design, these terms are imprecise, emotionally...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Joy Blackwood How Our Country Talks About The War On Drugs Is Backwards More than sixty members of People’s Action and the Center for Popular Democracy’s Opioid Network gathered with health care experts, providers and advocates for three days in...
How Our Country Talks About The War On Drugs Is Backwards
“How our country talks about the war on drugs is backwards,” said Kassandra Frederique, in her opening remarks to the first-ever convening of the People’s Action Overdose Crisis Cohort in Washington, D.C.“Criminalization of drug use and drug prohibition was no...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Suzette Brooks Masters To Win On Immigration, We Have To Lead With Love A massive wave of immigration has transformed our country over the last fifty years. We’re up to 14 percent foreign-born, which is near a historic high. And immigration now touches...
To Win On Immigration, We Have To Lead With Love
Members of the People's Action Deep Canvass team in rural Michigan The fear of change is a wedge being used to divide Americans, and weaken our pluralistic democracy. That’s the key conclusion Suzette Brooks Masters, a longtime advocate for immigrant justice, reaches...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Sarah Anderson Congress Needs To End War Profiteering Now The prospect of war with Iran is terrifying. Experts predict as many as a million people could die if the current tensions lead to a full-blown war. Millions more would become refugees across...
Congress Needs To End War Profiteering Now
The prospect of war with Iran is terrifying. Experts predict as many as a million people could die if the current tensions lead to a full-blown war. Millions more would become refugees across the Middle East, while working families across the U.S. would bear the brunt...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Miles Mogulescu Wake Up, Democrats. Bomb-‘Em-All Bolton Won’t Help Impeachment Democrats seem thrilled that John Bolton – a leading neoconservative, an advocate of bombing Iran and North Korea, and, briefly, Trump’s National Security advisor – has said...
Wake Up, Democrats. Bomb-‘Em-All Bolton Won't Help Impeachment
Democrats seem thrilled that John Bolton - a leading neoconservative, an advocate of bombing Iran and North Korea, and, briefly, Trump’s National Security advisor - has said he would testify at Senate impeachment hearings, if subpoenaed. They seem to hope Bolton will...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Jeff Bryant Have Democrats Changed Course On Charters? Education has been mostly ignored in previous presidential elections, and the topic had not come up for serious discussion among the candidates in televised debates prior to the Public Education...
