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From Kavanaugh to November
The fight over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court revealed truths that often stay unspoken in American life. The first is how many of us are touched by sexual violence. A second is the deep fear that a loss of privilege strikes in the hearts of some....
Georgia Voters Must Check TODAY If They Have Been Purged From Voting Rolls
RED ALERT! Georgia has purged nearly ten percent of its registered voters – nearly 750,000 people -from the voting rolls without their ever knowing. Now these voters have just one more day to reregister. IF YOU VOTE IN GEORGIA, OR KNOW ANYONE WHO DOES, BE SURE TO...
Progressive Breakfast
Protesters Rally To Stop Kavanaugh 'We Believe Survivors': Demonstrators Throng Capitol Hill To Protest Kavanaugh. NPR: "With Judge Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination speeding toward a Senate confirmation vote, demonstrators descended on Washington, D.C., to...
West Virginia Survivors Say NO To Kavanaugh
It was 5:00 a.m. when West Virginia Citizen Action members and coalition activists boarded a bus to cross the Allegheny Mountains as we headed towards Washington, D.C. We had one goal in mind: keep Brett Kavanaugh off the Supreme Court. Along the way, we stopped in...
Progressive Breakfast
GOP Senate Pushes Kavanaugh Vote Senators prepare to review FBI report on Kavanaugh after early morning arrival. WaPo: "Senators prepared to view the FBI’s completed report on Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh, which the Judiciary Committee announced it had...
Charter School Corruption Is Changing Education Policy and Politics
After years of credible reporting on the rampant corruption in the charter school industry, the schools are now drawing more scrutiny from state lawmakers and regulators, and political candidates are making negative stories about charters a contentious issue in the...
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Broke Tax Laws To Shield Dad's Millions Trump engaged in suspect tax schemes as he reaped riches from his father. NYT: "President Trump participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, that greatly increased the...
Why We Shut Down The EPA’s Dirty Energy Hearings
My name is Reverend Tony Pierce, and I am co-senior pastor of Heaven’s View Christian Fellowship in Peoria, Illinois and Board President of Illinois People’s Action. On Monday, together with forty grassroots leaders from across Illinois, we shut down the morning...
Progressive Breakfast
U.S., Canada, Mexico Agree to 'NAFTA 2.0' Revised Nafta sets up a showdown with China. NYT: "A jubilant Mr. Trump celebrated the new Nafta agreement as the fulfillment of a bedrock campaign promise. He claimed it was a vindication of his aggressive use of tariffs and...
Share the Wealth? We Can Start Now - Here's How
Redistribution via the tax code, progressives on both sides of the Atlantic are realizing, only takes us so far. We need to start limiting inequality before it can dig in. The UK Labour Party has just unveiled a fascinating proposal that moves us exactly in that direction.
