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The Game: Pass Tax Cuts, Then Whine About The Resulting Deficits
You're going to be hearing a lot of whining and moaning about the budget deficit going up. The same people who will be whining and moaning about deficits pushed through massive tax cuts last year.
Hate Costs Workers Dearly
The racial and religious hatred purveyed by the GOP didn’t improve the pay of white workers. That’s because separated, workers are weak. Unions have always known that. To secure power, workers must stand together.
Progressive Breakfast
Dem Primary May Not End Quickly Clinton campaign needs to retool for extended campaign season. NYT: "Even though the Clinton team has sought to convey that it has built a national operation, the campaign has invested much of its resources in the Feb. 1 caucuses in...
The Democratic Choice: Change or Continuity
Sunday's Democratic debate put the differences between the two leading candidates in high relief: Hillary Clinton as the candidate of continuity, Bernie Sanders as the candidate of change. The choice is ours.
Wingnut Week In Review: Haley’s Comment
South Carolina governor Nikki Haley easily gave the most successful GOP State of the Union response in years. So, why do so many in her own party seem to hate her for it?
Is The Sanders Campaign "Going Negative"?
The Clinton campaign is accusing the Sanders campaign of "going negative." Is this Clinton accusation just an attempt to "muddy the waters" as Clinton's attacks on Sanders' health care plans backfire?
Six Critical Issues That The Fox Business GOP Debate Missed
We matched our Platform for People and the Planet that the Campaign for America's Future helped release last year and a transcript of the GOP debate. Here's what we found.
Progressive Breakfast
GOP's Hot, Dark Debate "GOP Candidates Try to Scare the Hell Out of America." The National Journal's Ron Fournier. "Taking advantage of laissez-faire moderators in their sixth debate, the GOP’s top seven presidential candidates spouted talking points...
The Republican Debate: Seven Trumped-Up Survivors
Fireworks, muscle flexing, invective – the cage match that was the Republican presidential debate in Charleston, S.C. Thursday night had it all, except any clue about what should be done for the country.
A New Warning Against Taking Black and Brown Votes For Granted
Steve Phillips challenges Democrats and progressives to stop seeing people of color as "nuisances who need to be silenced for fear of alienating White swing voters" and instead as essential to the progressive coalition.
