by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 20, 2012 | Blog
If enough of us demand it, we can get the White House to answer a simple question: Will you or will you not stand with underwater homeowners and push for principal reductions—even if it means pushing aside the agency chief who is opposing that remedy? We're asking our...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 20, 2012 | Blog
Key voices on Capitol Hill today echoed the message that underwater homeowners need the principal on their mortgages reduced, and that the government official responsible for keeping that from happening should either change his position or step down from his post....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 19, 2012 | Blog
The House of Representatives this afternoon scheduled a vote on a three-month, stopgap transportation funding bill, as conservatives struggle to decide what sort of long-term transportation plan it is willing to put on the House floor for a vote. The alternative that...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 18, 2012 | Blog, Financial Reform
House Republicans can call their budget a "Path to Prosperity" all they want, but as far as the American Majority is concerned, it's a path to political defeat for the politicians who support it—if progressives make the right arguments in favor of an alternative that...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 16, 2012 | Blog
This past weekend, tens of thousands of people participated in what amounted to the largest effort to train progressives in nonviolent direct action in recent history. But for those who missed out in the wave of "99% Spring" training sessions, organizers today...
