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'America First' Budget Is Unworthy of Our Nation

With typical bombast, Donald Trump calls his 2018 draft budget America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again. No, it won’t make America great again. It reflects a hardness of the heart and a sickness of the spirit unworthy of the American people....

White House Propaganda, Graft: This Is Not Normal

Early in this millennium, Mississippi's Trent Lott was the Senate's Majority Leader. Then it was disclosed that he had done something outside the bounds of what most Americans considered "normal" and acceptable. Lott had spoken favorably about Strom Thurmond's 1948...

What DeVos Means When She Says 'Public Schools'

Betsy DeVos once called public schools a "dead end." But now that she's U.S. Secretary of Education, she's suddenly all for them. At least that's what she claims now. During her nomination process, numerous reporters noted DeVos's obvious bias against public schools....

Nashville Says "No!" to Trump's Health Care Con

President Trump came to Nashville to peddle the Republicans’ disastrous plan to cut health care for millions of Americans. Tennesseans responded to this con with a resounding, "No!" More than 2,500 of us – organized by a coalition including Tennessee Citizen Action...

Wisconsin to Ryan: Let Us Live “A Life of Dignity”

Winter gusts could not keep hundreds from converging on the Racine offices of Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan to deliver a simple message. “I want to live a life of dignity,” said Reggie Griffin, a retiree in his seventies who traveled from Chicago to join the...

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