by Alex Lawson | Jan 24, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Health
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore / flickr / cc Recently, a newsletter from the Bernie Sanders campaign laid out Joe Biden’s long record of supporting cuts to Social Security. The website PolitiFact weighed in on one part of that record, a speech Biden gave in 2018 in which...
by Mike Tipping | Jan 16, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Featured, Health, Opioid Crisis
In a conversation with a constituent last week, U.S. Senator Susan Collins at first flatly denied she had accepted money from both the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharmaceuticals, and drug company giant Eli Lilly. The Sacklers have admitted to misleadingly...
by Suzette Brooks Masters | Jan 10, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Featured, Immigration
Members of the People's Action Deep Canvass team in rural Michigan The fear of change is a wedge being used to divide Americans, and weaken our pluralistic democracy. That’s the key conclusion Suzette Brooks Masters, a longtime advocate for immigrant justice, reaches...
by Thom Hartmann | Dec 18, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Economy, Election, Featured
FDR signs the Banking Act of 1935. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Many grassroots Democrats separated from their party in the 1990s, and the 2020 election may be the last chance to save the marriage. While the GOP has been trying to establish a semi-permanent ruling...
by Tim Wilkins | Dec 17, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
Trump’s America feels more and more like the 1850s, when our country’s violent anti-immigrant movement was born. Anti-Catholic mobs, alarmed by a rapid influx of poor immigrants from Germany, Ireland and Italy, burned churches and killed Catholics in Philadelphia and...
by Rev. Susan K. Williams Smith | Dec 16, 2019 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured
As President Trump’s impeachment unspools, news coverage is buzzing about conspiracy theories and geopolitical rivalries. But at the root of Trump’s effort to extort Ukraine was a simple motive: Trump hoped to influence our elections to preserve his power and that of...
