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Standing Together on Trade With China
The trade relationship between China and America is destructive: China’s deliberate trade violations drain America’s strength. Beijing is to America what Delilah was to Samson. Chinese trade officials are in Washington, D.C., this week in high-stakes negotiations....
Progressive Breakfast
States Sue To Stop Trump's Border Wall 16 states sue to stop Trump’s use of emergency powers to build border wall. NYT: "A coalition of 16 states, including California and New York, on Monday challenged President Trump in court over his plan to use emergency powers to...
This Is How Democracy Breaks; This Is How We Fix It
This President’s Day, I stood with two hundred and fifty Idahoans on the steps of our State Capitol in Boise to protest our president’s demand to build a wall between the United States and the the world. We’re in a national emergency, he insists, one that can only be...
Progressive Breakfast
Trump To Declare National Emergency For Wall Trump evokes executive powers, to dismay of Congress. CNN: "Republicans might be resorting a lot more often to prayer -- the new strategy several senators have adopted for dealing with their capricious President -- because...
We Can Save Lives If We Confront Our Opioid Crisis
As a New York State Trooper handcuffed me at our State Capitol, I told him, “I lost my son. This is for him.” Alexis Pleus, founder of TruthPharm, under arrest at the N.Y. State Capitol in Albany Jeff was an amazing kid, a chef, who was 28 when he died of a heroin...
Progressive Breakfast
Congress Races To Avert Shutdown Congress rushes to avert shutdown amid hopeful signs from Trump. Politico: "Congressional negotiators finalized a massive funding package just before midnight Wednesday, confident they'll have enough support to deliver it to President...
Bezos Confronts Pecker, But Is Still a Greedy Di*k
Jeff Bezos deserves props for standing up to blackmail by The National Enquirer’s publisher, David Pecker, who threatened to print sexually explicit pictures and texts of the Amazon founder if he refused to issue a false statement that The Enquirer doesn’t have a...
Progressive Breakfast
Border Deal At Brink Is the border wall deal in danger of falling apart? Politico: "Late last night, we started getting text messages that the border security deal was unraveling a bit as senior aides and lawmakers were drafting it. It seems as if the deal was...
Now’s The Time For The Health Care We All Deserve
Deb Rainey and other Monadnock Progressive Alliance members I would love to wake up in the morning and not worry my siblings are having a health crisis. I would like our family to have the peace of mind we all deserve. I have two siblings with debilitating illnesses....
Progressive Breakfast
Lawmakers Sort Of Agree To Avert Shutdown With shutdown looming, sorder Deal Is Reached ‘in Principle’. NYT: "House and Senate negotiators on Monday night agreed in principle to provide $1.375 billion for fencing and other physical barriers at the Mexican border, part...
