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MORNING MESSAGE Leo Gerard The Koch Brothers’ New Look There’s a new Koch organization in town. Instead of trying to buy politicians to do the bidding of billionaires, as Charles and David Koch have historically done, their rebranded network now says they will support...

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MORNING MESSAGE Leo Gerard How To Protect The Right To Organize Workers whose labor makes profits for executives should not live in abject poverty. This is what labor leaders have been saying for two centuries, and it's what Abigail Disney, granddaughter of the...

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MORNING MESSAGE Martha Burk The Most Dangerous Time For Women’s Rights In Decades We’re living in the most perilous time for abortion rights and reproductive freedom since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. Since President Trump succeeded in elevating Brett Kavanaugh —...

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MORNING MESSAGE Jeff Bryant Epic Fail Of Charter Schools In Louisiana Parents in New Orleans are sick of the instability temporary charter schools have brought to their community. Now they are organizing to repeal the state law that legalized charters, calling the...

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MORNING MESSAGE Leo Gerard This Is How Medicare For All Will Save Lives Last month, in a Pittsburgh parking lot following a conference on type one diabetes, three women stood crying. Two of them, mother and teenaged daughter, had just handed a stranger, 25-year-old...

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MORNING MESSAGE KC Vick Alabama Won’t Roll Over To The Rising Tide Of Hate Alabama Governor Kay Ivey just signed the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the country. Once again, the people of Alabama are left to fend for themselves. This should come as no surprise:...

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