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Join Me To Take Back The American Dream

I have an invitation for you. I want you come to Washington, D.C. with me for the first-ever national gathering of the American Dream movement: the Take Back the American Dream conference. Join me in Washington, from Oct. 3 to 5, to "Take Back the American Dream!"...

Republicans Battling Windmills Instead of Budgeting

The question that everyone should be asking is: Why is the House GOP only proposing a short-term continuing resolution? This should be the moment when either individual appropriations or a full-year CR at the start of the year is not just easy to do but actually gets...

The End of the Middle Class

The following was originally published in Politico. Finally, Washington has turned its attention back to jobs. With President Barack Obama’s demand that Congress pass his American Jobs Act and his call on the supercommittee to push hard on 10-year deficit reduction, a...

Stealing the Redistricting Process

Late last month, four men chosen by the Mecklenburg County Commissioners (North Carolina) to serve on a bi-partisan panel to study and recommend new voting district boundaries decided instead to undermine the process of which they’d agreed to be a part. Without notice...

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