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MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway A Star-Spangled Knockoff America’s manufacturing sector has been decimated, and NAFTA and China’s unfair trade practices are major culprits. NAFTA encouraged greedy American corporations to move U.S. manufacturing and jobs to Mexico: many...
A Star-Spangled Knockoff
Photo credit: futureatlas.com / flickr / cc An American flag made in China is not an American flag. It’s a knockoff. New York Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara wants a guarantee that flags flown at New York events and on New York poles are made in America. He has...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Tim Wilkins Sanders Rallies The 99 Percent In New Hampshire “The one percent in this country is very powerful – no ifs, ands or maybes. But you know what? The 99 percent, when we stand together, is even more powerful. With these words, Sen. Bernie...
Sanders Rallies The 99 Percent In New Hampshire
“The one percent in this country is very powerful - no ifs, ands or maybes. But you know what? The 99 percent, when we stand together, is even more powerful.” With these words, Sen. Bernie Sanders issued a rallying cry for a broad social movement - one centered on...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Gloria Oladipo Don’t Call The Police, Call Your Neighbors Here is a hard truth: Police do not keep communities safe. This year alone has produced numerous stories of officers causing distress, damage, or death in communities they’re sworn to protect....
Don't Call The Police, Call Your Neighbors
Here is a hard truth: Police do not keep communities safe. This year alone has produced numerous stories of officers causing distress, damage, or death in communities they’re sworn to protect. As this epidemic worsens, communities need to find new ways to handle...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE George Goehl If Progressives Don’t Try to Win Over Rural Areas, Guess Who Will While Congress advances an impeachment inquiry into possible high crimes by the president, I believe his most destructive acts are his fanning the flames of racism and...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway NAFTA Is An Accomplice To Murder Oscar Hernández Romero’s friends searched for him in garbage dumps, ravines and all the other places that could hide what they feared to find—the bullet-riddled body of a Mexican labor activist. But they’ve...
NAFTA Is An Accomplice To Murder
Oscar Hernández Romero’s friends searched for him in garbage dumps, ravines and all the other places that could hide what they feared to find—the bullet-riddled body of a Mexican labor activist. But they’ve turned up no trace of Oscar, who disappeared near the...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Jeff Bryant Wait, It Gets Worse: Eli Broad's School Corruption Legacy Billionaire charter-school boosters like Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Eli Broad and have turned school leadership into a cartel system focused on advancing careers and...
