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Senate Democrats Preparing "We The People" Legislative Proposals
Senate Democrats are planning to roll out a package of moderately incremental campaign finance reform proposals they call the "We the People" plan.
450-Plus Organizations Ask Congress To Reject TPP Over Climate Concerns
The groups are concerned that the Trans-Pacific Partnership allows fossil fuel companies to sue governments that try to restrict carbon emissions.
Burning Issues: U.S. Corporations Evading Taxes
Hillary Clinton has yet to make herself clear on how she would crack down on corporations using offshore havens to avoid paying taxes, Frank Clemente of Americans for Tax Reform says in this Burning Issues video.
Progressive Breakfast
Sanders Meets With Obama Today Obama hopes to move Sanders towards endorsement. NYT: "President Obama will use an Oval Office meeting with Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont on Thursday morning to delicately nudge the losing Democratic presidential hopeful toward a...
The Fight for $15 Takes On D.C. and the Democratic Platform
Members of the Democratic Party platform committee were greeted by dozens of low-wage workers challenging them to support "$15 and a union" – on the heels of a victory that showed how people power has changed the game.
Wasserman Schultz's Change of Heart Is Too Little, Too Late
The Democratic National Committee chair, in supporting the payday lending industry before changing course, had become a symbol of the failure of Democratic elites to understand that there is an uprising in the land.
National Call-In Day To Get Secret Money Out Of Politics
Concerned progressive groups gathered more than a million signatures asking the president to do this, and so far he has not. So Wednesday, they urged voters to make a call in order to send a message to the White House.
Progressive Breakfast
Sanders Stays In As Clinton Claims Victory Clinton wins CA, NJ, SD and NM, claims nomination. NYT: "Reaching for history, Mrs. Clinton pledged to build on the achievements of pioneers like the 19th-century leaders at Seneca Falls, N.Y., who began the fight for women’s...
Clinton Makes History; For Sanders "The Struggle Continues"
Hillary Clinton established herself as the "presumptive nominee" of the Democratic Party last night, the first woman to capture that honor. Bernie Sanders, in a speech the media burlesqued, promised to continue the struggle.
Burning Issues: Military Trainers in Iraq and Afghanistan
Lt. Col. Daniel Davis questions in this Burning Issues video the strategy of using U.S. troops to train foreign fighters after seeing first hand the failures of this strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan.
