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This Is Your Future Without Public Schools

What if some communities no longer have public schools? That question, once unthinkable in America, may now be something policy leaders and lawmakers in at least one state may want to consider. In Michigan – home state to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos whose...

Progressive Breakfast

More U.S. Cities Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day Across the US, more cities ditch Columbus Day to honor those who really discovered America. CNN: "By now, you probably know Christopher Columbus didn't discover America. He wasn't even the first European to do it....

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....

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...

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...

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