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Trump's Reelection Strategy: Pit Us Against Each Other

Trump's Reelection Strategy: Pit Us Against Each Other

You would think after a white nationalist murdered 22 people and injured dozens more in El Paso, Donald Trump would lay off the hate, even just for a moment. Apparently he’s not capable. Or not willing. Whether it’s immigration raids, cutbacks on legal immigration, or...

Progressive Breakfast

MORNING MESSAGE Sam Pizzigati We Need What Canada Has: Economic Security South of the border, here in the United States, we Americans tend not to pay much attention to our northern neighbors. Entire election cycles can come and go without anyone running for national...

Progressive Breakfast

MORNING MESSAGE Connie Huynh It’s Time to Put #PeopleOverPharma From Connecticut to Washington, New York and West Virginia, People’s Action members rallied across the nation this Tuesday to demand Congress and Trump put #PeopleOverPharma profits. “They’re jacking up...

It’s Time to Put #PeopleOverPharma

It’s Time to Put #PeopleOverPharma

From Connecticut to Washington, New York and West Virginia, People's Action members rallied across the nation this Tuesday to demand that Congress and Trump put #PeopleOverPharma profits. Twelve People’s Action member groups participated in the events, which were part...

Progressive Breakfast

MORNING MESSAGE State Rep. Mari Cordes (D-VT) Organizing From The Inside In Vermont, we’re a citizen legislature, so we are full of community members for whom being in the General Assembly is not their primary job. Some folks are retired; I’m a registered nurse. I was...

Organizing From The Inside

Organizing From The Inside

We all want a new President – but at People’s Action, we know it will take a lot more than one candidate at the top to turn this country around. That’s why we’re recruiting and training more than 500 grassroots community leaders to run for elected office at every...

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MORNING MESSAGE James Mumm All Is Not Lost Reeling from reports on our climate catastrophe, I took a break to recharge my own batteries and see if today’s best speculative fiction writers could imagine us into a better future. There is a growing genre of climate...

All Is Not Lost To Climate Catastrophe

All Is Not Lost To Climate Catastrophe

Reeling from grim news about climate change, I took a break this summer to recharge my own batteries and see if today’s best speculative fiction writers could imagine us into a better future. There is a growing genre of climate science fiction, or “cli-fi,” which...

Progressive Breakfast

MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway ‘New’ NAFTA Fails Workers On Both Sides Of Border When an American corporation, GM or Nabisco or Carrier, builds a factory in Mexico, NAFTA protects the company from tariffs when it imports the Mexican-made cars or Oreos or furnaces back...

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