by Tim Wilkins | Jul 30, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Ahniah Selene We Demand Medicare For All Now I’m Ahniah Selene, and I live in Boise, Idaho. I’m also a proud board member of United Vision for Idaho, part of the People’s Action family of grassroots groups. On this day 54 years ago we won Medicare,...
by Tim Wilkins | Jul 29, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Lyn Carver The High Price Of Insulin Is Killing Me I have diabetes. If I don’t have insulin, I die. This should be a no-brainer: Nothing that someone’s life depends on should be for profit. But my life hangs in the balance every day, because of greedy...
by Tim Wilkins | Jul 26, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) Real Change Takes Voices And Votes As highly engaged citizens, you know that we live in a time of great inequality and injustice. The White House and Fox News want to sow fear in each of us and divide us because of the color...
by Tim Wilkins | Jul 25, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Andy Spears To Save Rural Hospitals, Pass Medicare For All Medicare for All is a popular idea — 70 percent of Americans say they support it, including 52 percent of Republicans. Why? Because in red and blue states alike, they see the costs of a...
by Tim Wilkins | Jul 23, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Sam Pizzigati Opioid CEOs Are Our Nation’s Real Druglords Mexican druglord Joaquín Guzmán Loera was just sentenced to life in prison. The drug cartel he ruled, a jury determined this past February, dumped “hundreds of tons of drugs to the United...
by Tim Wilkins | Jul 3, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Liz Watson This Fourth Of July, We Need To Talk About Family Separation My family – like many of yours – is preparing for a holiday weekend spent celebrating our nation’s birthday with friends. The awful truth is that while we’re celebrating, thousands...