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Progressive Breakfast
Establishment Upended in NH Establishment candidates rejected in NH. Politico: "If the country’s fatigue with the prospect of a Clinton-Bush presidential matchup has hovered above this 2016 race like a latent current of electricity, Tuesday’s New Hampshire results...
New Hampshire: Populist Uprising
New Hampshire voters turned out in large numbers and sent a message to both parties: it is time for change. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump won; the establishment candidates lost. The message could not have been clearer.
The Blowback Against 'Gerrymandering On Steroids'
A court ruling concerning North Carolina's congressional districts is a striking echo of the rising call for political reforms from presidential candidates and popular movements across the country.
Clipping America’s Hedge Funds
Getting the names and faces of hedge fund billionaires before the public can help us tell a vivid story of what’s gone wrong with our economy and our politics — and help us build a movement to slice away at that billionaire power.
Jeb Bush Really Said This About Climate Change
"If we don't adapt to the reality of a changing climate there could be serious repercussions ... I think the climate is changing. It is inconceivable to me that 5 billion people living on this planet don't have an impact on that."
TPP Would Further Emasculate America
As America’s tool makers and freight car builders are furloughed, their factories shuttered and offshored, America is wasting. Ill-conceived free trade deals, like the proposed TPP, are reducing it to a nation of stooped shoulders.
Progressive Breakfast
NH Votes Politico lays out where the votes are for NH Dems: "About 30 percent of the potential voters in the state are different people than in 2008," ... explained Andrew Smith, director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center ... Voter-rich and filled with...
Why Hillary Clinton's Five Words On Social Security Matter
Her most declarative statement to date on the issue of where she would stand on various proposals to "reform" Social Security and ensure its long-term solvency comes in the context of a disconcerting history.
Why We Must Try
Instead of “Yes we can,” many Democrats have adopted a new slogan this election year: “We shouldn’t even try.” I understand their defeatism. But here’s the problem. There’s no way to reform the system without rocking the boat.
Political Poison
The Flint lead disaster exposed the callousness of people like Michigan’s governor, who blame the poor for all of their misfortune.
