by Joshua Ferrer | Jun 24, 2015 | Blog
Sen. Bernie Sanders has taken some heat as a presidential candidate for seeming to not be a strong progressive ally on immigration reform. Last week, Sanders moved to clear the air. Sanders (I-Vt.) pledged his support for comprehensive immigration reform this past...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 24, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Fast track passes. Our Congress - the supposed representatives of We the People - voted to cut themselves and us out of the process of deciding what "the rules" for doing business "in the 21st Century" will be. How do the plutocrats and oligarchs and their giant...
by Terrance Heath | Jun 23, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
Days after 21-year-old Dylann Roof shot and killed nine people during a Bible study at Charleston, South Carolina’s historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the discovery of his online manifesto shed more light on his motives. It also reveals the...
by Joshua Ferrer | Jun 23, 2015 | Blog, Democracy
The state of North Carolina is finally about to face a federal judge over its passage of what has been deemed the harshest voter suppression law in the nation – one of nearly 30 voter suppression laws passed since the Supreme Court eviscerated the Voting Rights Act in...
by Leo Gerard | Jun 23, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
In a close vote last week, a majority in the U.S. House chose to continue glomming onto the same tired old broken-down trade tactics that have closed American factories, cost American jobs and caused massive trade deficits. The majority voted to sustain for the next...
by Bill Scher | Jun 22, 2015 | Blog
Eight years ago, when Campaign for America's Future and Media Matters for America issued the report "Progressive Majority: Why a Conservative America Is a Myth," George W. Bush was still president, Barack Obama was trailing by 15 points in the Democratic primary and...
