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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...
Progressive Breakfast
Five States Head To Polls GOP Fears Ohio upset; Trump And Ocasio-Cortez back challengers. NPR: "A critical House special election on Tuesday could provide some of the biggest clues yet about how much trouble Republicans could be in this November. In Ohio, the last...
Hometowns Rise Up To Support Separated Families
All across America, residents of rural communities and small towns are stepping up to stand in solidarity with immigrant families and refuse the intimidation and fear the Trump administration wants to use to keep them apart. “It’s really concerning that in America, we...
Progressive Breakfast
Federal Judge Orders WH To Restart DACA Federal judge orders Trump sdministration to restart DACA in full. NYM: "A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to fully restart the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the fourth district court ruling...
"Portfolio" Boosters Want to Privatize Public Schools
Remember when Democrats, at the urging of their progressive base, defeated an attempt to privatize Social Security by President George W. Bush in 2005? As Bush barnstormed the country to sell his plan to let workers place a portion of their payroll taxes in personal...
Progressive Breakfast
Big Oil Loves EPA Move To Relax Fuel Standards Big Oil cheers Trump moves to ease auto standards. Bloomberg: "The Trump administration’s plan to relax fuel-economy and vehicle pollution standards could be a boon to U.S. oil producers who’ve quietly lobbied for the...
Pandering to Deficit Hawks Is a Losing Strategy
Democratic leadership’s obsession with asserting a “centrist” – that is, fiscally conservative – fiscal ideology threatens to put the party at odds with its base. It endangers the party’s chances of retaking the House, and will make it difficult for Democrats to offer a credible alternative to the failed conservatism of Trump and his party should they win in November.
