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Prisoners Strike To Protest 'Modern-Day Slavery' Prisoners nationwide go on strike to protest 'modern-day slavery'. USA Today: "Prison inmates nationwide plan to put pressure on the country's penal system by going on a two-week strike beginning Tuesday. The strike is...
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WH Says We Don't Need To Save Energy Reversing decades of US policy, the Trump administration says conserving oil is no longer an economic imperative. AP: "Conserving oil is no longer an economic imperative for the US, the Trump administration declares in a major new...
Turning Back the Tide of Hate In Iowa and Beyond
There’s a phrase we use here in Iowa to say how people should treat one another: “Iowa Nice.” We think of ourselves as kind, generous, family friendly and closely-knit, and with a knack for finding common-sense solutions together. But “Iowa Nice” takes on a different...
Progressive Breakfast
Sessions Fast-Tracks Deportations U.S. attorney general issues order to speed up immigrant deportations. Reuters: "U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday sought to speed up the deportation of illegal immigrants, telling immigration judges they should only...
How to Win Elections from the Ground Up
Tuesday's primaries are proof that populist progressives are slowly remaking the Democratic Party. They are running to win at the state and local level, building momentum for reform and a deep bench for change in the future.
Progressive Breakfast
Coast-To-Coast Editorials Rebuke Trump Hundreds of newspapers denounce Trump's attacks on media in coordinated editorials. NPR: "More than 300 news publications across the country are joining together to defend the role of a free press and denounce President Trump's...
The Constitution's Case for Impeachment
The authors of a newly released book make a powerful case that Donald Trump has committed numerous impeachable offenses, individually and in the aggregate, and that failure to act endangers the future of American democracy. If our political leaders will not take up this call, then it must come from the people.
Progressive Breakfast
Diversity Wins In Tuesday's Primaries Diverse candidates rule the night and other takeaways from Tuesday's primaries. CNN: "The nation's first transgender governor, its first Somali-American woman in Congress and its first black woman in Connecticut's congressional...
Progressives Win Big in Wisconsin Primary
Citizen Action Wisconsin members who just won primary races by wide margins are proof the blue wave Democrats hope will crest in November continues to rise. They are the tip of a progressive iceberg, which is getting ready to crash the GOP’s “unsinkable” ship of gerrymandering and dark money and send it straight to the bottom of Lake Superior.
Progresive Breakfast
Primary Votes In Four States What To Watch In Tuesday's primaries: WI, MN, CT, VT. NPR: "Primary voters in four more states — Connecticut, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Vermont — go to the polls on Tuesday. This year's been dominated by talk of Democratic gains, but today...
