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What’s At Stake When We Vote This Year
A lot is at stake when we go to vote this year. It’s about restoring our faith in our leaders, and in one another. People like us, working together, have the power to remake our institutions. And that is just what is beginning to happen.
Progressive Breakfast
Midwest Primary Voters At Crossroads WI faces a political crossroads Tuesday. Which way will it go? NYT: "Wisconsin’s urgent struggle to define — or redefine — its political direction is part of a larger identity crisis that has rippled across the Upper Midwest since...
WI Governor's Race Puts Education in the Spotlight
The race to be Wisconsin's next governor is a strong indicator of how the education debate in the Democratic party will play out across the nation. GOP incumbent Scott Walker has a horrible record of slashing school funding, undermining teachers, and redirecting taxpayer money to charter and private schools.
Progressive Breakfast
Judge Halts Deportation, Threatens Sessions With Contempt Judge halts deportation of mother and daughter, threatens to hold Sessions in contempt. WaPo: "A federal judge in Washington halted a deportation in progress Thursday and threatened to hold Attorney General...
How to Turn Back a Giant
What’s the best way to push profit-seeking corporations out of the public sphere? Don’t let them take over in the first place. Residents of Lancaster County, Penn. were thrilled to learn this lesson with their recent victory against Geo Group, a giant of the private...
Progressive Breakfast
GOP NY Rep. Collins Arrested For Corruption GOP Rep. Chris Collins charged with securities fraud. Politico: "Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.), the first member of Congress to back President Donald Trump before the 2016 election, was indicted Wednesday by federal...
Pohutsky's Win Gives Voice To Michigan's Real Voters
Voters in Michigan’s 19th district will have an alternative to the career politicians they are used to seeing on ballot in November. Microbiologist Laurie Pohutsky won the Democratic nomination in the Tuesday primary election. She was one of 5 aspiring state...
Measures of Heat in Tuesday’s Primaries
Voters turned out in primary elections across Ohio, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Washington on Tuesday. Any conclusions drawn from primaries three months out from a midterm vote are written in the wind. That does not stop the press from naming “winners and losers,”...
Progressive Breakfast
MO Blocks Right-To-Work Law Missouri blocks right-to-work law. NPR: "Voters in Missouri have overwhelmingly rejected a right-to-work law passed by the state's Republican-controlled legislature that would have banned compulsory union fees — a resounding victory for...
New York's Religious Schools Reveal Hazards of "School Choice"
On a recent trip to New York City, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos visited two schools—not the public schools her agency is charged with overseeing, but two Orthodox Jewish yeshivas. Photo credit: Shutterstock / cc DeVos used the opportunity to advocate for...
