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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.
The Anti-Job-Creation Party Wants Welfare Recipients To Work
The principle that every person who wants to work should have a job is one that progressives and conservatives could unite around – if conservatives believed that government had a role to play in helping to create jobs.
Good News For The Climate: Obama Wins Big Pledge From India
Naysayers on the right complained that Democrats were letting China and India off the hook. Now that Obama has forged climate deals with both China and India, the naysayers have been proven wrong.
Progressive Breakfast
Sanders Still In It To Win It Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says don't "rush to judgment" as primary polls open in six states. "The spokesman, Michael Briggs, said Clinton hasn't secured the nomination because superdelegates, party leaders who can...
The Buck Never Stops at Donald Trump
Donald Trump told veterans on national TV that he raised $6 million for them. Then he refused to account for where the money went. Trump believes he should always be praised and never held liable, no matter what he does.
Social Security’s Enemies Are Down – But They’re Not Out
Things have changed. An idea that was widely dismissed when Sen. Bernie Sanders proposed it in Congress is now the Democratic position. The anti-Social Security army seems to be in ragged retreat. But this isn't over.
American Culture Is Threatened by Hate Speech
If we allow Donald Trump to radically alter our national culture, to make the unacceptable acceptable, it will be nearly impossible to change it back. Crudeness and bigotry will become mainstream—the new normal.
