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There’s No Turning Back New York’s Wave Of Justice

There’s No Turning Back New York’s Wave Of Justice

A blue wave surged across New York State last November, as voters went to the ballot box to demand true progressives represent them in Albany. This unprecedented voter turnout helped create an undeniable Democratic majority in our state legislature for the first time...

Progressive Breakfast

MORNING MESSAGE Mehrdad Azemun Continuing our series of wins for grassroots people power, People’s Action celebrated another milestone for movement politics in Denver last week. Colorado People’s Action’s (CPA) endorsed candidate Candi CdeBaca ran an insurgent...

Throwing Down To Fight Gentrification In Denver

Throwing Down To Fight Gentrification In Denver

In a continued series of wins for grassroots people power, People’s Action celebrated another milestone for movement politics in Denver last week. Colorado People’s Action’s (CPA) endorsed candidate Candi CdeBaca ran an insurgent campaign for a City Council seat in...

Progressive Breakfast

MORNING MESSAGE Jerad Halcott I’m Living Proof The CARE Act Will Save Lives To save lives from our opioid epidemic, we have to meet drug users where they are. I know: I’m living proof. My name is Jerad Walcott, and I live on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. At ten, I...

I’m Living Proof The CARE Act Will Save Lives

I’m Living Proof The CARE Act Will Save Lives

To save lives from our opioid epidemic, we have to meet drug users where they are. I know: I’m living proof. My name is Jerad Halcott, and I live on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. At ten, I was huffing prescription drugs, then I moved on to stronger stuff. At fifteen,...

Progressive Breakfast

MORNING MESSAGE Reggie Griffin Why I Chose To Die In Front Of The AMA I never expected to “die” in front of a roomful of doctors. Much less in front of the annual meeting of the American Medical Association, in my hometown of Chicago. But that’s where I found myself,...

Why I Chose To Die In Front Of The AMA

Why I Chose To Die In Front Of The AMA

I never expected to "die" in front of a roomful of doctors. Much less in front of the annual meeting of the American Medical Association, in my hometown of Chicago. But that’s where I found myself, along with thirty fellow members of the Jane Addams Senior Caucus,...

Progressive Breakfast

MORNING MESSAGE Jeff Bryant Pennsylvania Charter Schools Are A Dumpster Fire Few if any presidential candidates seem willing to acknowledge providing families with an option to choose charter schools comes with crushing costs to everyone else in the community. In...

Pennsylvania Charter Schools Are A Dumpster Fire

Pennsylvania Charter Schools Are A Dumpster Fire

Charter schools have finally broken into the national political dialogue, with presidential candidates in the Democratic Party proclaiming their stances on these schools. But a national debate about charters and “school choice” will be an exercise in empty rhetoric...

Progressive Breakfast

MORNING MESSAGE Sam Pizzigati A Nation Where Only The Rich Have Homes? San Francisco, recent research shows, now has more billionaires per capita than any other city in the world. By one reckoning, San Francisco also has the highest cost of living in the world, as all...

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