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#PeoplesWave Rises Up For #MedicareForAll

#PeoplesWave Rises Up For #MedicareForAll

We just took a huge step towards Medicare For All: the House Ways and Means Committee has announced they will hold, for the first time, hearings on the Medicare For All Act Of 2019, introduced this spring by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (WA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT). Ways...

Progressive Breakfast

MORNING MESSAGE Leo Gerard Victims of Workplace Safety Abandoned by OSHA Last year, on Halloween just before midnight, Frank Leasure - Army veteran, husband, father and grandfather -left work at American Standard in Salem, Ohio. To get to his car in the employee lot,...

Victims of Workplace Safety Abandoned by OSHA

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

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.

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

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...

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