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Trump Offers Cold Comfort to Immigrants
While Trump didn’t follow his dictatorial instincts in his State of the Union speech to declare an “emergency” on the U.S.-Mexico border - yet - we know what the real emergency is: the thousands of children who have been ripped from their families. There are so many,...
Trump Invokes Compassion to Justify Violence
During President Trump’s State of the Union address, I was enraged by his racism, his rampant lies, his narrow self-interest and his twisted and cruel vision for our country. None of that is new in Trump’s America. In fact, his speech was all too familiar. Not...
Progressive Breakfast
Dems Troll Trump At SOTU Democrats are trolling Trump with their State of the Union invites. WaPo: "The powder-keg partisanship that drove Capitol Hill into the longest government shutdown in U.S. history is not likely to cool by Tuesday’s State of the Union address....
Egalitarians Gain Ground in Washington
If you worry about inequality, and if you want an end to grand — and dangerous — concentrations of income and wealth, pinch yourself. We have entered a new political moment. Egalitarians have suddenly seized the policy momentum. They have forced onto the nation’s...
Progressive Breakfast
DOJ Rolls Back Anti-Discrimination Rules Trump Justice Dept. reversing Obama-era positions on discrimination policies. CNN: "Recent Trump administration moves on civil rights bring into sharper focus its efforts to reverse the Obama era and curtail decades-old laws...
Get Ready for 100% Just
VIRGINIA — People and Planet First leaders gathered to build a long term strategy to grow their base of low-income people and communities of color in the fight for climate justice. Since its founding, People’s Action Institute has been organizing to address the...
Progressive Breakfast
House Takes On Voting Rights After years of Republican rule, the House takes on voting rights. Truthout: " The bill before the judiciary committee is known as the For the People Act, and its proposed reforms would address virtually every high-profile electoral...
More Billionaire Presidential Candidates: A Bitter Pill
Billionaires are pretty damn sure they know what’s best for you. No more taxes on the rich and none of that Medicare-for-all is what’s best for you, according to two billionaires toying with seeking the presidency. Or, maybe, that’s what’s best for them. One of those...
Progressive Breakfast
Foxconn Nixes WI Factory After Receiving Subsidies Foxconn's change of plans in Wisconsin undercuts Trump's promises on manufacturing. CNN: "President Donald Trump went quiet on Wednesday as a deal that would have delivered thousands of new US manufacturing jobs --...
For Iowa's Sake, Steve King Must Resign
Communities like mine are dying. Steve King, the congressman who supposedly represents us in the Fourth District of Iowa, should be fighting for us in Washington. Yet he stays mostly silent about this crisis. Instead, King spouts racist rants about immigrants (whom he...
