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Victims of Workplace Safety Abandoned by OSHA
Last year, on Halloween just before midnight, Frank Leasure left work at American Standard in Salem, Ohio. To get to his car in the employee lot, he had to walk across two sets of Norfolk Southern railroad tracks. He waited in frigid, driving rain for a westbound...
Mitch McConnell Is Democracy's Grim Reaper
Donald Trump has proven himself unfit for the presidency at nearly every twist and turn. The lengths he will go to circumvent the constitution, violate the rule of law, and sink to unthinkable depths of immorality are shamelessly on display. These efforts are only...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Tim Wilkins The #PeoplesWave Is Coming To D.C. It’s time. It’s your time. It’s OUR time. It’s time for the #PeoplesWave. Are you with us? This weekend, over a thousand People’s Action members from all across the country will gather in Washington, D.C....
The #PeoplesWave Is Coming To D.C.
It’s time. It’s your time. It’s OUR time. It’s time for the #PeoplesWave. Are you with us? This weekend, nearly a thousand People’s Action members from all across the country will gather in Washington, D.C. to compare notes, celebrate our victories, and prepare...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE George Goehl, Felicia Wong Pfizer Shareholder Meeting Offers Inside Look At Big Pharma Pfizer’s board of directors will gather in New Jersey on Thursday for the company’s annual shareholders meeting. They will celebrate the enormous success Pfizer had...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Leo Gerard How Big Corporations Take Your Tax Dollars Big corporations claim to hate socialism if it means Medicare for All, but they sure as hell love socialism when it’s welfare for them. Sixty profitable corporations paid no federal taxes in 2018,...
How Big Corporations Take Your Tax Dollars
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Bernie Sanders, castigator of the one percent, is a millionaire now. So are Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren. Big whoop. There’s a crucial difference between these candidates seeking the Democratic presidential nomination and the super wealthy –...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Sen. Warren Just Stepped Up On Free College For All Kat Legier Senator Elizabeth Warren just stepped up to support Free College For All. And it’s not just a pose. How do I know? Because I got to ask her myself – twice. Just after Senator Warren...
Sen. Warren Just Stepped Up On Free College For All
Senator Elizabeth Warren just stepped up to support Free College For All. And it’s not just a pose. How do I know? Because I got to ask her myself – twice. I’m a freshman at the University of New Hampshire, studying sociology and studio art. Moving to the Granite...
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Iowa Farmers Need A Green New Deal Nick Schutt I’m a third-generation farmer from Hardin County, Iowa, and here’s why I support the Green New Deal. Factory farms and corporate agribusiness are bad for our planet, bad for our climate, bad for farmers,...
