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MORNING MESSAGE Chelsea Hoglen Building Power And Raising Voices Of Rural Women In rural areas of North Carolina, people get sicker, die sooner, and have less access to what they need to thrive than their counterparts in the rest of the state. Women in rural...

Building Power And Raising Voices Of Rural Women

Building Power And Raising Voices Of Rural Women

Here in North Carolina, like many other rural areas around the country, reactionary forces have used trends like the decline of jobs, infrastructure, and public services to consolidate power, advance racist and misogynist narratives, and erode public confidence in the...

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MORNING MESSAGE Megan Day Ilhan Omar Is The Fighter The Tenants’ Movement Needs "I’m excited to introduce the Homes for All Act,” said Rep. Ilhan Omar, “which will fulfill the promise of a homes guarantee by building 12 million new public housing and private,...

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MORNING MESSAGE Lindsay Koshgarian Medicare For All, Or Endless War? It’s Our Choice If you’re following the presidential race, you’ve heard plenty of sniping about Medicare for All and whether we can afford it. But when it comes to endless war or endless profits for...

Medicare For All, Or Endless War? It's Our Choice

Medicare For All, Or Endless War? It's Our Choice

Photo credit: Markeith Horace/MCoE PAO / cc If you’re following the presidential race, you’ve heard plenty of sniping about Medicare for All and whether we can afford it. But when it comes to endless war or endless profits for Pentagon contractors, we’re told we...

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MORNING MESSAGE Connie Huynh How We Can Take On Powerful Interests To Win Medicare for All Achieving Medicare for All in the United States would mean replacing our current broken patchwork of a healthcare system with one where everyone could access comprehensive,...

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MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway Trump’s EPA Is Selling Out Safety In January 2017, the EPA issued the Chemical Disaster Rule, which provided sweeping new safeguards for workers, first responders and communities where dangerous plants are located. It would have forced...

Trump's EPA Is Selling Out Safety

Trump's EPA Is Selling Out Safety

Photo credit: CSB.gov / cc The March 2005 fire and explosions at BP’s Texas City, Texas, oil refinery killed 15 contractors and injured 180 other workers in ways that will haunt them forever. Some lost limbs. Others suffered horrific burns, head injuries or wounds...

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MORNING MESSAGE Anat Shenker-Osorio Progressive Ideas Are Popular, They Win – Here’s How Like many of us, after the Trump election I looked around and saw that whatever it was we were doing, as hard as we were working, it either wasn’t enough, or wasn’t the right...

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