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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
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,...
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, equitable care whenever and wherever they need it. The path to winning Medicare Care for All...
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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
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...
Progressive Ideas Are Popular, They Win - Here’s How
How do we build a bigger “we”? Anat Shenker-Osorio says we do this when we talk about race and class in a way that welcomes everybody in, and leaves nobody out. This “Race-Class Narrative Strategy,” which she and UC Berkeley law professor Ian Haney López developed in...
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MORNING MESSAGE Miles Mogulescu Is Pete Buttigieg A Shill For The Donor Class? Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old Maltese-American mayor of South Bend, the fourth-largest town in Indiana, is the shiny new object in the race to become the Democrats’ candidate for...
