by Bernie Horn | Nov 10, 2017 | Blog
In the wake of the Las Vegas mass shooting, authorities and interest groups have put on a master class in how to bamboozle the media and whitewash unpleasant truths. It's time to talk about what's really happening with guns and gun violence in our country. As we all...
by Laurel Wales | Nov 9, 2017 | Blog
What a difference a year makes! Waking up after Election Day in 2017 is incredibly different from last November, when we faced the prospect of a misogynist-in-chief in the White House, starring in a four-year reality show of his own creation at our expense. Trump and...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 8, 2017 | Blog
Trumpism was trounced Tuesday night in Virginia, New Jersey and Maine. The rejection of President Trump's agenda that grabbed the most headlines was the surprisingly sound defeat of longtime Republican operative Ed Gillespie in the Virginia governor's race by the...
by Jeff Bryant | Nov 8, 2017 | Blog
Ralph Northam's big win for the Democratic party in the Virginia governor's election is being hailed as a "rebuke of President Trump." But it's also a rebuke of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. The race, which was called a "bellwether" and a "must win" for Democrats,...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 7, 2017 | Blog
The House Republican tax bill has been introduced, packaged beautifully with lies. Now House Republicans will push to pass, in one week, a 500-page bill written in secret that transforms the tax code. Powerful special interests will spend millions for and against....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Nov 6, 2017 | Blog
Americans for Tax Fairness has just published "Nine Terrible Things About the Republican Tax Plan." All are good reasons for you should get on the phone with your member of Congress and tell them to vote against this travesty of a tax bill. The number to call is...
